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?
Probably all the top huggingface weights, as they are basically the sweetened condensed internet.
The internet is going down for 5 years? Books and video instructions about farming prolly, I’ll probably be unemployed if there’s no Internet.
Nothing, because the rest of the world is trying to do the same thing and the internet is now essentially DDoSed into oblivion 24 hours early.
So you’re saying it would be my last chance to download a car?
Lol why do you assume this is a capitalistic world government, maybe its a socialist world government that gives out free cars, who knows 🤷♂️. Also you are being liberated from the internet, do not resist. 😉
(Resistance is deal with by 💥🔫)
Start running wires and make a intranet with my neighbors. WiFi would be easier, but would the internet police be looking for signals?
Would Netflix go back to mailing physical disks? Would I have to go buy albums? Weird. You could buy of borrow the physical media and add it to your intranet.
I’d probably download a couple TV series and some music. I’d also get software to make sure I can copy and store everything.
Wait, the kids are alright potentially
Download factorio and dwarf fortress
A few years ago I was living in fear of local government turning internet into intranet north korea-style (dont ask). So - no joke - I’ve had factorio archived with latest versions of seablock, space exploration and nullius. Figured it’ll keep me going for a decade or so.
Add Rimworld to this list
And Crusader Kings 3
Best answer. The other 90GB is irrelevant.
5 years? Hm, time to get some stuff from the 90s, when the internet was a timed luxury, so plenty of emulators and roms, they won’t take much space. Videos are out, some porn will have to be static pics, some as gifs.
Also, gotta have Factorio, Palworld, dwarf fortress
There used to be a way you could download all of the Wikipedia text as a PDF. I’d pop that bad boy on a Kindle and have my own Hitchhiker’s Guide.
Not a .pdf but a .zim that requires its own software to read. And not “it used to”, its still possible now, and new versionnare constantly being added.
Google “Kiwix”. You have to download the reader software, then the .zim file. It’s also cross-platform, available on many platforms, you can even have it on your phone.
Its actually used by various non-profit organizations to spread knowledge in developing/undeveloped countries. The latest version of the entire English wikipedia is like 100GB with photos and audio files, its 50GB with text only.
still is a way to dl the whole db. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
Since it hasn’t been mentioned yet:
Project Gutenberg.
It’s pretty much all copyright-less (?) books. About 40GB.
I’d probably also torrent a shitton of less-than-legal books. Mostly because they’re copyrighted, not because the books themselves are illegal. I would survive the rest of my life on books. Maybe a few GB of music - I’d need some background noise if I were to study.
Some free OS’ like Debian and FreeBSD, and their manual. Maybe some magazine about both?
In this thread: dorks using it as an opportunity to brag about their large storage epeens.
But then what happened to my 120 petabyte network attached storage, host to every episode of Inuyasha in multiple releases, languages, and resolutions?! My mother would surely notice having space again in
herour basement!MUUUUUUUUMMMMMMM the router is downnnnnn plz call the internet people
Hard drives is the new [male genitalia] measuring contest? 🤔
This thread suggests that some people certainly think so. I suspect the rest of us disagree.
Well obviously I’d download 100 GBs of more RAM.
But uh, for serious?
DL everything I’d need to build Debian from bare metal… probably some select material from the IA, basic survival stuff, info on how to set up a solar power system… and all the I2P software and source code i can find.
If the Net goes down, but the physical hardware still exists, cables, radios, wifi cards… build your own Net.
Godot, Blender, Gimp, latest tutorial series for all three, Wikipedia (which I already have), music, fill the rest with art assets.
If I can’t download games I will simply make them.
Aside from the fact that playing something youve created is an entirely different experience to discovering something unexpected that someone else has created, you would need space to store your created games still.
I mean, just because the Internet is down doesn’t mean you can’t go buy another hard drive in a brick and mortar store later.
I’d download as much 480p TV, movies, etc as possible as quickly as possible.
Oh, I’ll get Call of Du… Ah shit it’s download didn’t finish
The bigger joke is that (IIRC) all of the latest CoD games require a consistent internet connection to verify that you actually purchased the rights to the video game. Even if you’re playing offline.
Wikipedia and a lot of games. A bunch of programming tools and libraries. My Spotify playlist. Video is the least efficient so you’d have to limit that a lot.
I don’t think Spotify works without Internet for long. You’ll have to login at some point.
they said their spotify playlist, so i’d assume its downloading it with something like lucida.to
