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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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[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago

As much of pornhub that will fit.

[-] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

This guy will be rich in the post apocalypse

[-] Klnsfw@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 2 days ago
  • personnal files that are stored in the Cloud
  • Wikipedia
  • Linux and Raspberry ISO, and some libs/tools packages, sources and docs
  • sandbox games and rogue likes
  • wiki for these games
  • as much porn as I can download with the remaining storage available

Unless it's a fascist government, I don't care about ebooks, mp3, movies or TV show. I'll use books, vinyls and DVD.

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[-] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

A collection of older and therefore smaller games. A bunch of music in mp3 (or maybe something like AAC or OPUS). A bunch of ebooks. A handful of my favorite TV shows and/or movies heavily recompressed, like maybe 720p.

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[-] Minnels@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago

Sounds like a good chance to catch up with my backlog of games.

I would check so I can play everything I want offline then just get as much as I can.

[-] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Sorry, but i feel like i have been preparing for this for the last 15 years now. I won't answer the question because I already have 40tb worth of content on my personal NAS. From movies, TV shows, music, and video games, I think I will be good for some time living off of just that. I also have all my docs, and personal pics as well.

Since I live in an area where power goes out a lot and internet can go down once or twice a year (not long but maybe up to 6 hours, worst case) it's already been a great solution that I was able to try out during those events.

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago
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[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago

With the stipulation that it's 100GB total and not on top of what I already have, then the question is not what I would download, but rather which of my family photos/videos I'm okay with losing.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Books. Small games (ROMs or not). Ubuntu (Debian doesn't come with a working desktop). Compress my music collection to AAC192. Stuff like that.

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

Personal medias, Wikipedia, LLM models, good for searching without net innacurate but better than nothing. Instruction how to setup alternative to internet, good chance there is going to be an underground version. Sms contact list of all your friends/families, did not say sms no longer available. Games, eBooks like electrical, health, laws and programming.

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

Lots of tools and games that are open ended and not contrived as well as the obligatory Wikipedia download.

[-] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 14 points 2 days ago

I have a library card and they have plenty bluerays and audiobooks there. I think I'd download all Debian packages and maybe some pornography? Because that seems to be missing in the city library for some reason.

[-] Draghetta@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

Petition to have Debian packages back in city libraries

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Petition to have pornography back in city libraries

[-] Luci@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago

ROMs

A 100GB of ROMs

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

An LLM pointed at a local copy of Wikipedia, and every book I can get my hands on. I already have hundreds of music CDs, and a couple dozen vinyl records, so I'm good for music.

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

music CDs

Those would count towards the 100gb limit, right? They are digital

[-] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days 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.

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 12 points 2 days ago

SneakerNet will still exist, so your friends can download different stuff each and transfer it over a local network, or a flash drive. Different people might connect their own local networks to facilitate ease of communication, and boom, you have an internet again. By its very nature of being decentralised, the internet is very difficult to shut down completely.

[-] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Lines of "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" in any format that can fill up 100GB.

My ISP recently gave us notice of an extended period of planned downtime so I already gave this some thought.

yt-dlp is a godsend, especially if you reduce the quality. I just set it going on an old playlist for some YouTubers I enjoy. You can find a lot of old comedy on YouTube too which tends to be in playlists.

Other than that, none of classic Doctor Who is HD so doesn't take up too much space. BBC iPlayer works with yt-dlp too with the right settings.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 points 2 days ago

Only 100GB? Shit I'm gonna have to decide what porn not to keep...

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[-] ErrorCode@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

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.

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.

[-] JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

Ultra high-fidelity version of « Sandstorm » and the same copy of the Vern Troyer porn movie with virus that nuked my gf’s computer.

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