Honestly I'd probably just give up on technology entirely. Become a hermit carpenter or something
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I do have a copy of wikipedia and I should be good on entertainment media. I guess I should expand the emergency porn stash.
Just out of curiosity, how much space/effort was that to set up? (Yes, I know I can probably google up like a bajillion resources on this exact thing, but I'm a weirdo and am attempting to bring the (non-toxic/shitty) social back to social media)
I've been considering setting myself up a little NAS server since I finally dumped Spotify and am considering doing the same with video streaming too (besides Tubi, anyway), but having one just for mp3/light video streaming seems like a bit of a waste and having local repos of useful sites might be a fun side project to help justify it to myself lol
For the Wikipedia part, it's surprisingly simple. I just used Kiwix and grabbed a copy, it's only about 100gb or so. You can also use it to get offline copies of other stuff, like Project Gutenberg.
I went with a Synology NAS (I know, the foss crowd will probably crucify me) which really keeps the setup effort to a minimum. You put in the HDDs, setup your pool/volume, install Plex (or jellyfin), upload your media and you're basically good to go.
I'm using emby for music, audiobooks, tv, and movies. You can also do picture backup/sync if you want. I am running it in a docker on my unraid server.
I guess a lot of music and movies from a pirate site. I'd spend more time at the library listening to my music.
Youtube videos. I used to use youtube-dl exclusively, and then that stopped working, and I've gradually been sucked back into just using the website. But there's a text file with a list of URLs I've been meaning to grab for posterity... and it's getting kinda fat.
Perhaps instead of using youtube-dl or yt-dlp, you may enjoy some client such as freetube more, as it has a lot of the benefits of those tools, but without ads, and with sponsorblock/thumbnail correction, and other nice customizations. It also enables you to create playlists and whatnot.
You can hit a button to download directly from a video's page as well, though I think that feature needs some love from the developers (you don't get a loading bar on download).
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All of kurzgesagt, minute physics, vsauce, Steve mould, matt parker, and veritasium. I think they're invaluable education resources and it would be useful to be able to distribute them, or just have them for my own sake.
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Latest llama version and instructions for setting it up
I already did.
BBS software. Nerds always find a way. I guess if I have to be a sysop nowβ¦
Probably forums I use to solve problems (stackoverflow and all the stack exchange ones), offline games, guides (for programming, sysadmin, building tables, cooking, travel and repair onesβ¦), documentation for every software and tool I use or might use. Wikipedia is also a must, music too. I have a media server for my music but keeping it up to date with every release is hard work that I havenβt started (yet).
More pirated TV
I could honestly just re-watch most of my shows until the end of time.
I will literally never get tired of Bee and Puppycat.
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Grab the whole world, not just where you live, it's not too much space
All of seriouseats.com
A decent chunk of that is in The Food Lab cookbook.
All the extension office university data on plants, agriculture, etc. Itβs invaluable info for anyone who grows their own food and deals with bees in relation to that food growth.
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Netflix.
I'd want to pirate every drawing program I never got a chance to try, plus the fancier writing software. Gonna have a lot of time to learn both.
I've seen shockingly few movies and TV shows so maybe all the media I can get my hands on, too.
Ableton Live
All Jetbrains products
Nothing.
If the Internet went away, we'd have a little time before batteries were not viable even if replaceable, as distributing those batteries would get problematic.
We would have had no time to withdraw cash as cash, an important thing since banks will fall over at least enough to trigger an economic collapse.
No, we're all gonna need to learn how to fight, and live without hospitals and drugs and probably electricity.
We have bigger problems than ensuring we can look up the capital of Rwanda on this cached Wikipedia while we listen to The Cure.
If the Internet went away, weβd have a little time before batteries were not viable even if replaceable, as distributing those batteries would get problematic.
Good thing portable solar panels & lead-acid batteries exist that can easily power a couple of laptops even if their internal batteries are cooked. Solar panels last for a very long time if cared for, and lead-acid batteries can be (somewhat) useful almost indefinitely if you replace the electrolyte.
No, weβre all gonna need to learn how to fight, and live without hospitals and drugs and probably electricity.
So it would be really handy to have instructions for maintaining or even building weaponry, medical/medicinal literature to find useful herbs or other remedies, and engineering literature/textbooks/software to help us rebuild the electrical grid and then the Internet.
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