If the internet went away indefinitely, what things would you wish you had downloaded before it happened?
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i already download all my favs from e6 and FA lul
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True but he's got a point. If the internet suddenly went away, there are likely bigger problems to deal with.
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The Gutenberg Project, as well as those free online classes for things.
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Similar to "if the government can't cash your check, we're all fucked"
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DownThemAll, Double Click Image Downloader, Gallery Swallower userscript.
The games you can probably get via sneakernet.
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Youtube videos. I used to use youtube-dl exclusively, and then that stopped working, and I've gradually been sucked back into just using the website. But there's a text file with a list of URLs I've been meaning to grab for posterity... and it's getting kinda fat.
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yt-dlp still works!
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Can't believe I'm the first to say this, but... porn.
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Perhaps instead of using youtube-dl or yt-dlp, you may enjoy some client such as freetube more, as it has a lot of the benefits of those tools, but without ads, and with sponsorblock/thumbnail correction, and other nice customizations. It also enables you to create playlists and whatnot.
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The arch linux wiki, where you will be instructed to install various dependencies from the AUR
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Why doesn't the OS install those for you
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Not one, but two references to e621 in this thread. And neither are from users on the furry instances. Much to think about.
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I've got a couple of 10TB HDDs. Is that enough?
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I already did.
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okay, you caught me, my .world profile was supposed to be my non-furry lemmy account.
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Today I learned I'm unintentionally preparing for the Internet apocalypse.
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Honestly, while fun, those videos don't provide too much value per GB - and I say that as someone who's watched almost all of them. Their main actual benefit besides entertainment is (IMHO) getting people interested in the relevant field so they study more thoroughly. They often explain simple yet dazzling concepts which get you hooked but don't provide much value on their own, and don't directly enable you to solve real-life problems. Even more involved videos like those by 3blue1brown are still edutainment at their core, as acknowledged by the author. In an apocalypse (which, let's face it, is the most likely reason the internet would indefinitely go down in a developed country) you would be much better off with engineering (mechanical, electrical, etc) literature and textbooks, maybe a couple science textbooks for good measure (I have a drawer full of the Feynman lectures in case something like this happens).
