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I am specifically asking about software and needed libraries, not stuff like Wikipedia or the writings of Ernest Hemmingway.

To keep people from archiving all of github on thousands of shucked external hard drives cobbled together all Frankenstein-y to create a postapocalyptic data center assume a ~1TB storage limitation. Though I'm sure that person exists here on Lemmy somewhere :D

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[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Keeping the electricity on long enough to enjoy games or movies is gonna be difficult if you rely on the grid right now.

So maybe archive the electronics stack exchange, and solar/battery installation guides so you can steal it if the neighbors roof.

[-] minoscopede@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Open source collaboration will be difficult on mesh, so my contribution would be jailbreaks and cracked versions of softwares. My local government will need it since all their systems run on licensed software 🥲

I'd also get my hands on a bunch of iphone and android jailbreaks, because phone OSes might just stop working in 9 months if they're left unmodified.

[-] silasmariner@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'd be fucked because I work on and use OSS multiple times a day, and have no idea what a distributed maven central looks like

[-] M33@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

I shall open a pub 🍺🍺🍺

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I'll be at the Winchester, having a nice cold pint and waiting for this all to blow over.

[-] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Besides the basics (operating systems, compilers, office, CAD, database, etc software):

  • A copy of open street map together with the linked Wikipedia articles, along with the software to view and edit them. I know you said no wikipedia, (since that's pretty much a given), but this is basically the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.

  • A copy of Godot's editor so people can still make games.

  • As many games as I could fit in the remaining space, concentrating on the ones that give you the most bang for your buck in terms of space.

[-] nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

what are you looking at in terms of bang for buck games?

just hours per MB so all retro?

[-] idriss@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago
  1. Fire Zeal and Fetch every API documentation listed there
  2. Pull latest deepseek models
  3. Clone entire debian current repo
  4. Clone Firefox, Linux and the gnu coreutils
  5. Clone Litecoin and Litewallet
  6. Download the most recent dump of Wikipedia
  7. Download all the maps and data available today in OSM

That should do for me

[-] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

My home servers time to shine

Everyone shitting on me for having a nas with ~ 200tb of storage and tape backups would finally have to eat shit because I’d have the only streaming service in town

I got enough anime to make crunchy roll blush, I have something like 3,000 series of manga and like 8,000 books in my komga server, I got non weeb shit. I archive tons of webpages and youtube channels, terabytes of music, etc.

In a situation like this I could even throw a lemmy instance on it or something. I don’t do that now but I could

Also all my anime has dubs stripped out to save space and the majority of my manga is in Japanese. 英語しか話せない奴らはクソくらえ

So I eschew your 1tb limitation. I have seen this scenario coming. I planned for it. I’m ready for it. There are others like me on lemmy in the home server page, plus if you look on the truenas, proxmox, unraid, etc forums you’ll find even more

[-] zo0@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago

That's bonkers! How much physical space does your setup take? A room? A house?

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I have 90tb and it sits on a shelf 6' up in my laundry room (4x in server router/4x in external nas usb-c enclosure)

[-] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 1 points 1 week ago

I recently bought a 2U nas with 12 bays. 6x20T disks at the moment, but with 12 disks it could be configured as a single 200T array.

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

20TB hard drives are around $300/each. 12 gets you there with excellent redundancy built in.

Toss them in one of these and you have 200TB, with redundancy and room to grow.

Not cheap to do, but the above would only run about 5-6k.

[-] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Mine is similar to this except it’s a rack mount case with bays that holds 15 drives (using 14 right now, 252tb -36tb for parity). All of my drives are 18tb and were bought refurbished in the 160-200 range depending on where prices were at.

To anyone looking to do this I strongly suggest reading about raidz expansion. You do not need to just go out and buy 15 drives, you can do what I did and get 2-3 drives many years ago then just keep popping in another every time it gets full and/or one dies

I’m at 80% utilization. Next project: disk shelf to add more drives

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

Probably guides on how to make a mesh-net and the appropriate hardware to do so. No idea how that's done.

[-] thepenismightier@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Maps would be the most valuable data.

[-] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

My first thought was debian installer plus everything on a debian mirror. You could get "all" plus "amd64" in 998gb.

However, the majority of that wouldn't be very useful. While a bunch of the stuff on the selfhosted awesome list certainly would be.

The problem is, because this hypothetical scenario is so broad, IDK which things would actually be appropriate.

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