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

[zephorah@lemm.ee]

All the extension office university data on plants, agriculture, etc. It’s invaluable info for anyone who grows their own food and deals with bees in relation to that food growth.

[jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org]

Right after Wikipedia, it would be the Arch Linux wiki.

[chaoscruiser@futurology.today]

All the Debian ISO images and all of the documentation on everything.

This way. I should have all the stable software I could wish for and the instructions on how to use them.

[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