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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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[-] recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago

How to self-host/become your own ISP

[-] ErrorCode@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days 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.

[-] Naz@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Is file compression allowed?

E.g: 100 GB compressed, or uncompressed?

[-] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Allowed. It would be more complicated to define what “compressed not allowed” means. A png file uses compression. Most videogames include compressed assets. Uncompressed video is basically unheard of.

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

I still have to work right?

This reminds me, there were a lot of sd shows that were around 60megs a pop.

That’s a lot of shows. Just sayin

Well you are only getting one chance of downloading stuff for the next 5 years, so you might wanna call out from work. Or you know, just set it to download automatically and go to work, and hope your computer doesn't crash or windows try to update itself.

[-] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Not very much with my slow connection.

RIP

But on the bright side, you get to touch more grass 😅

[-] Intergalactic@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

All my movies and TV and wikipedia.

[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

I watched a 87gb rip of Godzilla Minus One last night... I might need to bring down my bitrate standards if I want to fit all my movies

[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 6 points 3 days ago

Contact info for all my bills. Everything else is ephemeral so may as well wean off it now.

[-] remon@ani.social 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Well, I'd be down like 60TB, so getting to keep 100GB of that isn't much different than losing it all, might as well not bother with it and just wait out the 5 years and start over.

[-] ziggurat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago
[-] remon@ani.social 2 points 2 days ago

I do paper books.

[-] Beacon@fedia.io 6 points 3 days ago

Download a zillion movies and whole tv series (in highly compressed versions), a zillion music albums and playlists, the 25 GB downloadable version of Wikipedia, a ton of emulators and game roms, and a bunch of apps covering everything i might wanna do like music creation software.

Stellarium Gardening and Plant ID recognition software Mesh Networking Tools Obscure recipe and craft books File Sharing Tools Encryption Software Clonezilla 7-zip A Linux distro

[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago

A bunch of e-books and all the SNES roms I can grab.

[-] orgrinrt@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Offline wikipedia, original Finnish “Hobitit” as the movie cut, both seasons of the original Polish “Wiedzmin”, latest versions of the usual rust crates, especially everything bevy related, so that I have plenty to do for years even without internet. Probably some sort of copy of stack overflow too, or sections of it, if possible. Offline version for docs.rs, also offline documentation for lua, react, dotnet etc, that I could foresee maybe needing during those 5 years. Reaper DAW with some of my most trusted plugins. No heavyweight synths or vsti though, have to trust people getting more into actual instruments without internet and me being able to record them. Latest Krita, Blender and Obsidian. The most essential plugins, brushes, scripts etc for those too. Starting to close in on the 100gb I guess, so the rest Id dedicate on extremely compressed (but not horrible) versions of my most listened playlists of music; a few of my favorite movies and/or series; and as big of an archive of ebooks (as in fiction) I could muster in a day. If I have space left, my audiobook library, or at least a segment of it, too. I could live without porn, I suppose, as long as the other areas of entertainment and escapism are covered.

[-] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

A couple ROMs, some banger songs and one hyrule warriors legends.
(Had about 700 or so hours I'm the original over a couple of years l).
The internet goomg down is not gonna be as bad as one thinks, at least not for the individual.

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Wikipedia, music, cool videos.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

I have already more than 100GB, why would I rip out my drives when the internet is going down?

Oh you don't have to rip them out. The benevolent world government will do that for you. Do not resist.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

I have almost a TB of of private photos, they are not related to the internet.

I take about a hundred GB of photos every year.

100GB of free space is an insult.

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

The fascist government doesn't care that you are inconvienenced by the 100gb limit

[-] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

100 GB is some rookie numbers. I've had 8tb for years, I'm only half full and the drives are starting to age out. I've already replaced one with a 4tb drive, once the rest are replaced, it'll be 16tb total.

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[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

*Redbox throws hands up in frustration

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