Lets say you live in a world where the world government has decided people are getting too addicted to the internet and ordered the internet to be shut down for 5 years. The 100 GB of storage is all you have (excluding essential system files for your Operating System). You have 24 hours before the internet is getting shut down. What do you download?
As much of pornhub that will fit.
This guy will be rich in the post apocalypse
Nothing, because the rest of the world is trying to do the same thing and the internet is now essentially DDoSed into oblivion 24 hours early.
Wasn’t there a Uni project a few years back trying to summarize key civilization building concepts - like basic agriculture, tool making, shelter making, that sort of thing. Because whatever society described by OP is going to have serious problems.
Well I mean, one could argue our world is already too addicted to the internet. The only difference is we don’t have an authoritarian world government that wants to do something about it.
Well, I’d be down like 60TB, so getting to keep 100GB of that isn’t much different than losing it all, might as well not bother with it and just wait out the 5 years and start over.
It’s a lot of books
I do paper books.
The internet is going down for 5 years? Books and video instructions about farming prolly, I’ll probably be unemployed if there’s no Internet.
Download factorio and dwarf fortress
A few years ago I was living in fear of local government turning internet into intranet north korea-style (dont ask). So - no joke - I’ve had factorio archived with latest versions of seablock, space exploration and nullius. Figured it’ll keep me going for a decade or so.
Best answer. The other 90GB is irrelevant.
Add Rimworld to this list
And Crusader Kings 3
With the stipulation that it’s 100GB total and not on top of what I already have, then the question is not what I would download, but rather which of my family photos/videos I’m okay with losing.
Stellarium Gardening and Plant ID recognition software Mesh Networking Tools Obscure recipe and craft books File Sharing Tools Encryption Software Clonezilla 7-zip A Linux distro
Is file compression allowed?
E.g: 100 GB compressed, or uncompressed?
you have 100GB available. if you pack it full, you cannot unpack
What about dynamic in (system) memory decompression though?
Allowed. It would be more complicated to define what “compressed not allowed” means. A png file uses compression. Most videogames include compressed assets. Uncompressed video is basically unheard of.
So you’re saying it would be my last chance to download a car?
Lol why do you assume this is a capitalistic world government, maybe its a socialist world government that gives out free cars, who knows 🤷♂️. Also you are being liberated from the internet, do not resist. 😉
(Resistance is deal with by 💥🔫)
The 4K Blu-ray remux of Andor Season 1 is 230 GB. This new government might be shutting down the internet, but I doubt that they’re monsters, and so surely wouldn’t expect me to re-watch it in any lower quality. Fortunately, I’ve worked out that the Aldanhi arc and the last 2 episodes are 102 GB, so it should be manageable if some recaps are cut.
Offline wikipedia, original Finnish “Hobitit” as the movie cut, both seasons of the original Polish “Wiedzmin”, latest versions of the usual rust crates, especially everything bevy related, so that I have plenty to do for years even without internet. Probably some sort of copy of stack overflow too, or sections of it, if possible. Offline version for docs.rs, also offline documentation for lua, react, dotnet etc, that I could foresee maybe needing during those 5 years. Reaper DAW with some of my most trusted plugins. No heavyweight synths or vsti though, have to trust people getting more into actual instruments without internet and me being able to record them. Latest Krita, Blender and Obsidian. The most essential plugins, brushes, scripts etc for those too. Starting to close in on the 100gb I guess, so the rest Id dedicate on extremely compressed (but not horrible) versions of my most listened playlists of music; a few of my favorite movies and/or series; and as big of an archive of ebooks (as in fiction) I could muster in a day. If I have space left, my audiobook library, or at least a segment of it, too. I could live without porn, I suppose, as long as the other areas of entertainment and escapism are covered.
- personnal files that are stored in the Cloud
- Wikipedia
- Linux and Raspberry ISO, and some libs/tools packages, sources and docs
- sandbox games and rogue likes
- wiki for these games
- as much porn as I can download with the remaining storage available
Unless it’s a fascist government, I don’t care about ebooks, mp3, movies or TV show. I’ll use books, vinyls and DVD.
DVDs are digital storage though, so wouldn’t they count for the 100 GB limit? I mean otherwise I could just burn a ton of media to bluray discs and be golden
I wasn’t thinking of writable DVDs, but factory pressed ones. They are digital, but their use is comparable to vinyl or books.
I already have 30GB of math textbooks, I guess I’ll just download another 70GB of textbooks on various subjects and sell them to students. Y’all gonna return after 5 years to a new Elsevier.
Since it hasn’t been mentioned yet:
Project Gutenberg.
It’s pretty much all copyright-less (?) books. About 40GB.
I’d probably also torrent a shitton of less-than-legal books. Mostly because they’re copyrighted, not because the books themselves are illegal. I would survive the rest of my life on books. Maybe a few GB of music - I’d need some background noise if I were to study.
Some free OS’ like Debian and FreeBSD, and their manual. Maybe some magazine about both?
