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I am specifically asking about software and needed libraries, not stuff like Wikipedia or the writings of Ernest Hemmingway.

To keep people from archiving all of github on thousands of shucked external hard drives cobbled together all Frankenstein-y to create a postapocalyptic data center assume a ~1TB storage limitation. Though I'm sure that person exists here on Lemmy somewhere :D

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

I always see a lot of great and diverse solutions for maintaining information and even being self sufficient in the face of some sort of societal collapse and loss of infrastructure. I never see plans mentioned for what to do afterwards. The point being, there seems to be an assumption of either permanence to things like storage and alternative energy sources, or perhaps an implied having to just last a decade or so and things will be rebuilt.

So hypothetical, something happens and things go away, but someone in your community has set up a center of preservation of knowledge that can be tapped into through a mesh network, and everyone has a minimal power setup to use some things to do this and other electronic based work. Now what? Is asking this question too vague since there can be so many scenarios possible and we just have to figure it out from there?

TL;DR - what happens to a post-collapse tech center in the long run since we see all the time that there are limits to even the best storage media and parts wear out even in non-moving solar panels. Mass replacements and salvage are a given, but even that has limits and problems.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

All Debian and its packages. Probably a bunch of Meshtastic stuff. And a copy of Wikipedia.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

My first move would be to download the whole Debian software repo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Jellyfin collection and lots of cracked games.

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

I'd just go back to living without it.

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

I'd raid a Google data center and work on rebuilding the Internet with whatever remains of their infrastructure. Wait is this us talking about our apocalypse plans or...?

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

If apocalypse is another word for thursday...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The most up-to-date information I can get on self hosting virtually anything, along with all major Linux distro’s and drivers I may need.

Yeah there will come a day where machines can’t support it, but I would then try to spend my time taking care of whatever I have on hand and future proofing as best I can, crossing my fingers and hoping that in 10 to 15 years there will be something else I can do

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