If the internet went away indefinitely, what things would you wish you had downloaded before it happened?

[alaphic@lemmy.world]

Just out of curiosity, how much space/effort was that to set up? (Yes, I know I can probably google up like a bajillion resources on this exact thing, but I'm a weirdo and am attempting to bring the (non-toxic/shitty) social back to social media)

I've been considering setting myself up a little NAS server since I finally dumped Spotify and am considering doing the same with video streaming too (besides Tubi, anyway), but having one just for mp3/light video streaming seems like a bit of a waste and having local repos of useful sites might be a fun side project to help justify it to myself lol

[nitefox@sh.itjust.works]

archive.org, which contains wikipedia too. Checkmate!

[mukt@lemmy.ml]

Somethings are better when done from scratch.

[apotheotic@beehaw.org]

All of kurzgesagt, minute physics, vsauce, Steve mould, matt parker, and veritasium. I think they're invaluable education resources and it would be useful to be able to distribute them, or just have them for my own sake.

[tankietanuki@hexbear.net]

I'm a data hoarder so I already have done that.

[carbonscored@hexbear.net]

Already got all my favourite games downloaded or on DVD. All my Youtube favourites and the full catalogues of some old channels would be great. No JonGrumps and no 00's meme videos make me something something.

[karashta@piefed.social]

Is there an archive of this kind of data anywhere? I'd love to store this. I've already got a few wikis, including Wikipedia itself, but I'd love more

[armoredthirteen@lemmy.zip]

Honestly I'd probably just give up on technology entirely. Become a hermit carpenter or something

[qyron@sopuli.xyz]

Assuming the web would go completely bust, I'd go back to a much simpler life.

[zephorah@lemm.ee]

It’s individual universities.

[alice@beehaw.org]

I'd want to pirate every drawing program I never got a chance to try, plus the fancier writing software. Gonna have a lot of time to learn both.

I've seen shockingly few movies and TV shows so maybe all the media I can get my hands on, too.

[bluesquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org]

I’ve made sure I’m good to go, as I always thought the day might come that I can’t afford internet anyway.

I have my entire gog library downloaded. I have my nas full of movies and tv. I listen to all my favourite music on records.
Every couple of years I go through and update my rom library to make sure I have the most to to date best known roms.

Even as much as possible I keep latest version of the Linux iso I might want, and if there is an appimage of my most used programs, it’s there too.

I’m pretty much ready for my life to become leaner when it comes to internet.

[know_not_scotty_does@lemmy.world]

I'm using emby for music, audiobooks, tv, and movies. You can also do picture backup/sync if you want. I am running it in a docker on my unraid server.

[know_not_scotty_does@lemmy.world]

A decent chunk of that is in The Food Lab cookbook.

[sidewayshighways@lemmy.world]

I wanna be your friend lol

[sidewayshighways@lemmy.world]

does that apply to the rest of Linux? I saw it in Kiwix but haven't delved into it

[shimmeringkoi@hexbear.net]

All of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, JK I've got that shit on lock already

[couldbealeotard@lemmy.world]

What's the file size on that?

[legendsofanus@lemmy.ml]

Man I have never thought about it because of feeling so at ease with the digital video game stores and just downloading what I want whenever I want without keeping a physical library that would take up space. Same with books.

If the internet died tomorrow, I would have the stuff I'm playing or reading or watching downloaded but I would be out of luck for anything else until it came back. Maybe it's time to start a backup, get a big HDD or something

[ralakus@lemmy.world]

Let's assume you have all hard drives and in a setup with absolutely zero redundancy in case a drive fails.

We're using the Seagate Exos X24 (24TB) drive which is roughly $700 each brand new.

You'll need 4167 of them to store 100PB. Which puts you at $2,916,900 just for the drives.

Let's assume you already have the enclosures, racks, and servers for a small datacenter ready to go.

A drive can use 4-9w of power when spinning so assuming all drives are active (to ensure quick data access and data repair) that'll be roughly 27086w for all the drives at 6.5w per drive. Every month (30 days), that is 19502kWh of electricity used. 40 years is roughly 349,680 hours so that comes out to around 9,471,433kWh used.

Assuming you get some damn good electricity rates at $0.12USD per kWh, it'll cost $1,136,572 to run just the drives.

So in total, assuming you already have a datacenter with the capacity to install all the drives that runs on absolutely zero power, you'll spend roughly $4,053,472 over the course of 40 years.