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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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[-] notastatist@feddit.org 1 points 4 hours ago

Wikipedia is around 100gb

[-] xia 1 points 1 day ago

Probably all the top huggingface weights, as they are basically the sweetened condensed internet.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 15 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

So you're saying it would be my last chance to download a car?

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[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Download factorio and dwarf fortress

[-] Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] TheCannonball@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago
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[-] frank@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[-] TeraByteMarx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Wait, the kids are alright potentially

[-] solidgrue@lemmy.world 94 points 3 days ago

Wikipedia, kernel sources and some LLM models

[-] _edge@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 3 days ago

I'd replace kernel sources with a full Linux distribution (unless this is already part of "essential system files")

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[-] anothermember@lemmy.zip 77 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Is it 100 GB in addition to what I already have saved or 100 GB of total storage? Because if it's 100 GB of total storage then I wouldn't be thinking about downloading, I'll be thinking about what I want to keep.

[-] aard@kyu.de 45 points 3 days ago

100GB is ridiculously low nowadays. I don't think I have a single device in regular use (including my phone) with such small storage.

Just my picture archive (that is, pictures I took since I got mit first digital camera) is about 400GB.

But without such a low storage limit, this wouldn't be a fun question. The point is to really think about what files we cherish and what are we okay with losing access to (for at least 5 years).

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Total storage. If you have more, government agents might randonly burst in and confiscate excess storage. 😉

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[-] Cypher@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

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.

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[-] pachrist@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

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.

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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 2 days ago

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

[-] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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 ~~her~~ our basement!

[-] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

MUUUUUUUUMMMMMMM the router is downnnnnn plz call the internet people

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[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] Jourei@lemm.ee 11 points 2 days ago

Oh, I'll get Call of Du... Ah shit it's download didn't finish

[-] TehBamski@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

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.

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[-] NostraDavid@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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?

[-] ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

You should make this a writing prompt

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[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

100 GB

looks at my nas, already stuffed with several TB of content, chuckling

Some panic, while others were ready since the dawn of time. I'll add that extra 100 gigs to my drive collection though...

(it's lots of games, media, and yiff. And yeah, it is enough to hold me over for 5 years. No, you can't see it. :p)

[-] brlemworld@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

You didn't read the post. You're going to be spending all of your time deleting your content because you only have 100 GB's total.

[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago

Can I assume that things like movies, TV, and games will still be available in physical form? If so, the Wikipedia backup is the obvious answer

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[-] LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works 35 points 3 days ago

Guides how to create my own little internet with other people, 7zip and 99GB of RAM.

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[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 days ago

100GB?? I'd be more worried about WTF will happen to the rest of my 100TB of storage

Confiscated by order of the benevolent United Nations world government.

You are being liberated from the Internet Opium, do not resist.

[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

I'd download as much 480p TV, movies, etc as possible as quickly as possible.

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago

I have a 100% remote job a few hundred km away. Even if you made the exception for remote work, my job would basically be pointless because our company operates entirely in the online world.

I also wouldn't be able to Skype or even email my aging family back in the US.

Also, in very rural Japan, online shopping is a huge saver of time and money. I'd also have to watch OTA Japanese tv which mostly sucks.

I was thinking just various learning materials, but I think you can just shoot me instead sometime before the bank repo's my house

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[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 days ago

Math, science, chemistry, carpentry, gardening, and mechanical/engineering texts.

And repair manuals /guides for everything i own.

All the music on my playlists.

Porn.

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[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 7 points 2 days ago

Hah, I've been collecting all my needs offline for a while now. Because companies keep turning to subscriptions and other ##. I'm pretty sure my archive of apps is under 100GB

[-] simple@lemm.ee 27 points 3 days ago

I wouldn't be too worried. If the internet stops being a thing, we'll just go back to physical media. I imagine there will be huge data storages that sell USBs and DVDs containing specific data people are looking for, so any time I'd want to watch a movie or something I would go to my network of friends and start copying.

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[-] tetris11@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago
  • general info
    • A large LLM with many parameters
  • specific info
    • Wikipedia, WikiHow, TVTropes, various survival Guides, HAM radio operation
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[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

1/10th of a Call of Duty game.

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[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago

As much of pornhub that will fit.

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[-] aramis87@fedia.io 23 points 3 days ago

Email/PM everyone I'm in contact with online and ask them for their current phone numbers and addresses, and send them mine. Subscribe to 2-3 local and regional newspapers, and one good national or international one.

Offline contact info for every place I do business with online, and scrape a list of all businesses within 20 miles of home or work. Offline contact info for all the government agencies I or family or friends may need to contact for the next five years. Offline contact info for every local, state, or federal official who supposedly represents me, my family or friends.

A full listing of all my online accounts, with full transaction histories. Copies of all Terms of Service and privacy policies, copies of all warranty, repair and refund policies.

Phone numbers of my favorite restaurants and copies of their current menus. Phone numbers, addresses, visitor information, prices and (where applicable) attraction information for all museums, parks and other attractions in my area.

All my archived email or stored files that's still on a server somewhere. Copies of every single bookmark on every device I have. And copies of every story on AO3.

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

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