For me it would be a full copy of wikipedia, an offline copy of some maps of where I live, some linux ISO’s, and a lot of entertainment media.

  • ewigkaiwelo@lemmy.world
    20·
    2 months ago

    If you’d download the whole wikipedia be sure to download the whole commets section for each article to have a perspective on discussions on conflicting reasons for edits. Also include all the wiki media materials for all of the public domain literature, project gutenberg, entire archive.org, a good offline OS to be able to consume all of the information and you’re golden

    • Bilb!@lem.monsterEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Not one, but two references to e621 in this thread. And neither are from users on the furry instances. Much to think about.

      • kuneho@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        okay, you caught me, my .world profile was supposed to be my non-furry lemmy account.

  • Legendsofanus@lemmy.ml
    9·
    2 months ago

    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

  • tobogganablaze@lemmus.orgEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    I do have a copy of wikipedia and I should be good on entertainment media. I guess I should expand the emergency porn stash.

    • alaphic@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      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

      • tobogganablaze@lemmus.orgEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I went with a Synology NAS (I know, the foss crowd will probably crucify me) which really keeps the setup effort to a minimum. You put in the HDDs, setup your pool/volume, install Plex (or jellyfin), upload your media and you’re basically good to go.

      • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        For the Wikipedia part, it’s surprisingly simple. I just used Kiwix and grabbed a copy, it’s only about 100gb or so. You can also use it to get offline copies of other stuff, like Project Gutenberg.

      • Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        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.

  • OmegaLemmy@discuss.online
    4·
    2 months ago

    Definitely entertainment, but beyond that, Networking classes so that I can hack together a intranet for my household and the neighbourhood

  • balsoft@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 months ago

    Honestly, I think I’m mostly set already (as I often go backpacking and there’s no internet there). I have offline maps for the country I’m in and neighboring regions downloaded in OsmAnd and mapy.cz (two sources just in case), Wikipedia in Kiwix, and my custom NixOS setup as a bootable ISO on a flashdrive. I’ll probably miss being able to watch science/maths edutainment on YouTube, but it’s not something I’d download.

    • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Nothing, I never said any such thing. In your case your answer to my question would be “I would not have to wish, because I already downloaded everything I want”. This makes you wise.

        • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Haha, I have an ok amount of data tucked away on disks as well, but I have a huge appreciation for people who do collect data as a hobby. In the contemporary, I fully believe that having people who take it upon themselves to do this is more important than ever, even thought it is often a thankless thing to do.

          So in this case, I would throw a thank you your way for doing that!