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
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
I guess you’re the guy OP was referring to
It’s not even going to this - publishers are pulling games, tv series and movies for various reasons.
This is an argument I regularly make
I have several shows in objectively better quality than streaming. We can argue about bitrate (mine definitely has more) but putting that aside, my anime has better subtitles almost always, many of my movies combine physical releases for best quality (eg video from release a with audio from release b)
But more so than anything my library doesn’t have to deal with stupid licensing and reactionary bullshit. My library has Daria but with the original music spliced back in, not the bullshit version you get on streaming now that has all the licensed music stripped out. My library has beavis and butthead with the original music videos and all the parts they had censored. My library has the dungeons and dragons episode of community. Etc.
emulators, keep gaming alive
I keep a raspberry pi dedicated just to have NES/SNES/etc emulators via the “retropie” distro. I have thousands of ROMs that I can plug into any TV with HDMI and SNES/NES USB controllers for it. $100 for a full raspi kit to have full access to anything just by copying some files over to a microsd card. Can’t remember controller cost but that’s kind of a given requirement.
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.
Hey thanks for that second link. I didn’t know about that project and it’s amazing!
Yeah it is very useful, just be aware that it’s not an exhaustive list and not necessarily the most awesome.
It’s a good starting point but it’s always a good idea to check alternativeto.net
Another good resource is linuxserver.io they provide docker containers but rather than just having everything they tend to only have the best of whatever thing.
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.
If internet shuts down you’ll have trouble keeping your life long enough to enjoy this.
I know it’s a fun hypothetical but without internet wed be falling into an immediate collapse which we might recover from but many wouldn’t make it.
Maps would be the most valuable data.
Printed maps exist already though
FreeBSD ports with distfiles for things really necessary, with dependencies. I guess that would fit in 1TB and leave some for ebooks and music.
Also software RAID is not Frankensteiny at all, neither are storage clusters of Ceph or alternatives.
What those things necessary would encompass, I don’t know. I suppose similar to Slackware full installation.
It would all make little sense without the Internet. You’d suddenly find that a year 1995 machine, one year older than me, and a few friendly BBSes are not as unrealistically small as they seem now.
- Fire Zeal and Fetch every API documentation listed there
- Pull latest deepseek models
- Clone entire debian current repo
- Clone Firefox, Linux and the gnu coreutils
- Clone Litecoin and Litewallet
- Download the most recent dump of Wikipedia
- Download all the maps and data available today in OSM
That should do for me
Lots of good things already mentioned. So I’ll say Shareboxx
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.
Wikipedia
Probably just clone and host a pornhub
Pornhub, but it’s just your cul-de-sac
Raspberry pi os , it can also be run on non raspberry pis*. all the recommended packages in its menu (libre office?) that should get you a nice os.
Some torrenting software to ensure you can help share it around.
I recently heard of something called a ‘Pirate box’ which is a WiFi router without a password and storage attached for people to upload and download stuff to / from .
I wouldn’t do it myself, but if it was a country town, it could be something similar to a virtual notice board in the pub.
- Might as well get Debian and Ubuntu too.
I’d download my entire GOG library of games. The offline installer versions they offer without GOG Galaxy client.
As much as I dislike Microsoft, the world runs on Excel, so it’s got to be near the top of the list.
For myself… calibre and my ebook collection and all the games I can manage.
All Debian and its packages. Probably a bunch of Meshtastic stuff. And a copy of Wikipedia.
