For me it would be a full copy of wikipedia, an offline copy of some maps of where I live, some linux ISO’s, and a lot of entertainment media.

  • chaosCruiser@futurology.todayEnglish
    18·
    4 days ago

    All the Debian ISO images and all of the documentation on everything.

    This way. I should have all the stable software I could wish for and the instructions on how to use them.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    54·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • balsoft@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 days ago

      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.

      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, we’re 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.

  • ewigkaiwelo@lemmy.world
    56·
    4 days ago

    If you’d download the whole wikipedia be sure to download the whole commets section for each article to have a perspective on discussions on conflicting reasons for edits. Also include all the wiki media materials for all of the public domain literature, project gutenberg, entire archive.org, a good offline OS to be able to consume all of the information and you’re golden

      • ewigkaiwelo@lemmy.world
        151·
        4 days ago

        You mean electricity bills for powering the storage? I guess buying 100pb worth of storage disks would be pretty expensive enough but since it’s an archive there is no need to keep it powered 24/7, just turn them on only when you need to. It’s just a hypothetical situation anyway, it’s a thing I wish to have access to; only an experienced sysadmin can actually maintain such great archive or its copy/backup

      • ralakus@lemmy.world
        5·
        4 days ago

        Let’s assume you have all hard drives and in a setup with absolutely zero redundancy in case a drive fails.

        We’re using the Seagate Exos X24 (24TB) drive which is roughly $700 each brand new.

        You’ll need 4167 of them to store 100PB. Which puts you at $2,916,900 just for the drives.

        Let’s assume you already have the enclosures, racks, and servers for a small datacenter ready to go.

        A drive can use 4-9w of power when spinning so assuming all drives are active (to ensure quick data access and data repair) that’ll be roughly 27086w for all the drives at 6.5w per drive. Every month (30 days), that is 19502kWh of electricity used. 40 years is roughly 349,680 hours so that comes out to around 9,471,433kWh used.

        Assuming you get some damn good electricity rates at $0.12USD per kWh, it’ll cost $1,136,572 to run just the drives.

        So in total, assuming you already have a datacenter with the capacity to install all the drives that runs on absolutely zero power, you’ll spend roughly $4,053,472 over the course of 40 years.

        • ralakus@lemmy.world
          8·
          4 days ago

          There is a much cheaper way that doesn’t use hard drives. It uses magnetic tapes, LTO-9 tapes specifically.

          Each LTO-9 tape cassette can hold up to 45TB of data (compression is used to store it on the raw 18TB).

          An LTO-9 tape drive can cost $10,000. Assuming you get the full 45TB per tape, you’ll need 2223 LTO-9 tape cassettes to store 100PB. Assuming you buy in bulk, you can get each tape cassette for $150 which puts you at $333,450 for the tapes.

          Since the tapes don’t use power when not in use, this concludes the total cost. None of this accounts for storing all 2223 tapes or maintenance to ensure data is still intact on them but this comes out to $343,450 in total to store 100PB using magnetic tapes. While the cost is much cheaper, it’s much harder to access the data as it’s not immediately available since you have to fish out the drive you need and plop it into the tape drive then wait for it to read.

  • matto@lemm.ee
    52·
    4 days ago

    A full copy of Stack Overflow. Otherwise, we would not know how to get the Internet working again.

      • Bilb!@lem.monsterEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        The arch linux wiki, where you will be instructed to install various dependencies from the AUR

          • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            1·
            3 days ago

            Depends on how up-to-date your install image is. If you downloaded the ISO 6 months ago, chances are, the build you downloaded is out of date (doubly so if it’s Arch). Most installers have an online option that will download the updates and install the newest version, but if you don’t have access to the internet, then all you have is the data included in the ISO that you got 6 months ago.

    • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 days ago

      does that apply to the rest of Linux? I saw it in Kiwix but haven’t delved into it

      I did grab the ifixit zim though. pretty cool at only ~7gb

  • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org
    19·
    4 days ago

    I’ve made sure I’m good to go, as I always thought the day might come that I can’t afford internet anyway.

    I have my entire gog and itch library downloaded (if I have any steam games not on gog, I’ve pirated them if I can find it). I have my nas full of movies and tv. I listen to all my favourite music on records. Every couple of years I go through and update my rom library to make sure I have the most to to date best known roms.

    Even as much as possible I keep latest version of the Linux iso I might want, and if there is an appimage of my most used programs, it’s there too.

    I’m pretty much ready for my life to become leaner when it comes to internet.

  • qyron@sopuli.xyz
    15·
    4 days ago

    Assuming the web would go completely bust, I’d go back to a much simpler life.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    14·
    3 days ago

    All the images I have bookmarked on multiple devices from e621, any game I’ve been even possibly hesitating on pirating, all my Steam games (I don’t trust Inwouldnhe able to get in and install them if I could even get into my account to begin with at that point), and downloading every single song I have saved on yt and Newpipe because I’d never see them again.

    A whole slew of things.

  • Legendsofanus@lemmy.ml
    14·
    4 days ago

    Man I have never thought about it because of feeling so at ease with the digital video game stores and just downloading what I want whenever I want without keeping a physical library that would take up space. Same with books.

    If the internet died tomorrow, I would have the stuff I’m playing or reading or watching downloaded but I would be out of luck for anything else until it came back. Maybe it’s time to start a backup, get a big HDD or something