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Lets say you live in a world where the world government has decided people are getting too addicted to the internet and ordered the internet to be shut down for 5 years. The 100 GB of storage is all you have (excluding essential system files for your Operating System). You have 24 hours before the internet is getting shut down. What do you download?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I would buy a ton of storage devices as secretly as possible and hide them, hoping the government doesn't notice. Then I'd use the drives to make a sneakernet type situation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

A bunch of e-books and all the SNES roms I can grab.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Wikipedia, music, cool videos.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Offline wikipedia, original Finnish “Hobitit” as the movie cut, both seasons of the original Polish “Wiedzmin”, latest versions of the usual rust crates, especially everything bevy related, so that I have plenty to do for years even without internet. Probably some sort of copy of stack overflow too, or sections of it, if possible. Offline version for docs.rs, also offline documentation for lua, react, dotnet etc, that I could foresee maybe needing during those 5 years. Reaper DAW with some of my most trusted plugins. No heavyweight synths or vsti though, have to trust people getting more into actual instruments without internet and me being able to record them. Latest Krita, Blender and Obsidian. The most essential plugins, brushes, scripts etc for those too. Starting to close in on the 100gb I guess, so the rest Id dedicate on extremely compressed (but not horrible) versions of my most listened playlists of music; a few of my favorite movies and/or series; and as big of an archive of ebooks (as in fiction) I could muster in a day. If I have space left, my audiobook library, or at least a segment of it, too. I could live without porn, I suppose, as long as the other areas of entertainment and escapism are covered.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I have already more than 100GB, why would I rip out my drives when the internet is going down?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh you don't have to rip them out. The benevolent world government will do that for you. Do not resist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I have almost a TB of of private photos, they are not related to the internet.

I take about a hundred GB of photos every year.

100GB of free space is an insult.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

The fascist government doesn't care that you are inconvienenced by the 100gb limit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I already have 30GB of math textbooks, I guess I'll just download another 70GB of textbooks on various subjects and sell them to students. Y'all gonna return after 5 years to a new Elsevier.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Lots of anime. Some cherished games. I feel like i don't need a while lot of porn. Maybe those 5-6 vids that I currently frequent. That will probably get me through. Other than that; House; maybe all of Stargate but prob would never get to it; HBO watchmen series is totally rewatchable and would probably grab the movie too; bunch of misc horror films; all of law and order. Probably missed some stuff but the biggest loss would be all the new stuff that won't be released.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

The 4K Blu-ray remux of Andor Season 1 is 230 GB. This new government might be shutting down the internet, but I doubt that they're monsters, and so surely wouldn't expect me to re-watch it in any lower quality. Fortunately, I've worked out that the Aldanhi arc and the last 2 episodes are 102 GB, so it should be manageable if some recaps are cut.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I’ve been meaning to download the Beats In Space Radio mixes from their archive so I’ll just add that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

For myself? A midi-file library for music (1gb is easily tens of thousands of songs), some audio porn (video takes too much space), a whole bunch of E-Books (tabletop rpg, science, literature etc.), compilers for C, a bunch of core python packages etc.

Meanwhile I'd also head over to my university to warn staff of the impending doom such that they can spread the word to other institutions and start rescuing as much data as possible to non-digital formats.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Wikipedia is around 100gb

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wasn't there a Uni project a few years back trying to summarize key civilization building concepts - like basic agriculture, tool making, shelter making, that sort of thing. Because whatever society described by OP is going to have serious problems.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Well I mean, one could argue our world is already too addicted to the internet. The only difference is we don't have an authoritarian world government that wants to do something about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Stock up on crypto memes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

100 GB is some rookie numbers. I've had 8tb for years, I'm only half full and the drives are starting to age out. I've already replaced one with a 4tb drive, once the rest are replaced, it'll be 16tb total.

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