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?
In this thread: dorks using it as an opportunity to brag about their large storage epeens.
But then what happened to my 120 petabyte network attached storage, host to every episode of Inuyasha in multiple languages and resolutions?! My mother would surely notice having space again in
herour basement!Hard drives is the new [male genitalia] measuring contest? 🤔
This thread suggests that some people certainly think so. I suspect the rest of us disagree.
MUUUUUUUUMMMMMMM the router is downnnnnn plz call the internet people
As much of pornhub that will fit.
This guy will be rich in the post apocalypse
Wikipedia, kernel sources and some LLM models
I still have my old Ubuntu CDs no need to worry.
I’d replace kernel sources with a full Linux distribution (unless this is already part of “essential system files”)
And some Stallman memes for good measure
Guides how to create my own little internet with other people, 7zip and 99GB of RAM.
Lol bootleg internet?
I think I head about some place where people actually have a bootleg internet due to government censorship. Forgot where I heard about it.
There is big offline network of sharing data on usb drives in Cuba.
Viva la sneakernet
Sounds like a cyberpunk trope.
I wouldn’t be too worried. If the internet stops being a thing, we’ll just go back to physical media. I imagine there will be huge data storages that sell USBs and DVDs containing specific data people are looking for, so any time I’d want to watch a movie or something I would go to my network of friends and start copying.
Also known as the 90s
Dear OP’s world government, chop chop
I have a library card and they have plenty bluerays and audiobooks there. I think I’d download all Debian packages and maybe some pornography? Because that seems to be missing in the city library for some reason.
Petition to have Debian packages back in city libraries
Petition to have pornography back in city libraries
All my movies and TV and wikipedia.
I watched a 87gb rip of Godzilla Minus One last night… I might need to bring down my bitrate standards if I want to fit all my movies
Books and music. The more the merrier
Is it 100 GB in addition to what I already have saved or 100 GB of total storage left? Because if it’s 100 GB of total storage then I wouldn’t be thinking about downloading, I’ll be thinking about what I want to keep.
100GB is ridiculously low nowadays. I don’t think I have a single device in regular use (including my phone) with such small storage.
Just my picture archive (that is, pictures I took since I got mit first digital camera) is about 400GB.
But without such a low storage limit, this wouldn’t be a fun question. The point is to really think about what files we cherish and what are we okay with losing access to (for at least 5 years).
Can my current drives be placed into storage and returned 5 years later, or do they have to be destroyed? That makes a big difference.
All confiscated by the all powerful and #benevolent world government. Who knows what happens after 5 years, maybe you’ll get them, maybe not. But one way or another this internet addiction has gotta stop. Its for your own good, you know the government never lies, right? You are being liberated. Do Not Resist. 😉
I disagree there - I think it makes the question pointless as that changes the actual question to “what is the single computing device I decide to keep, after downgrading its storage”. Which in many cases will not even be possible.
You’re overthinking it. It’s 100GB that can be saved to, nothing saying that it’s 100GB on a single device and you can’t pick anything else
See other comments from OP where he’s stating that it’d be 100GB total, and anything else would be confiscated if found out.
I’m interpreting it as him coming up with a way to guard against people saying they’ll have 100 copies of 100gb drives with different stuff.
Just think about what 100gb of data you’d save from the internet, including any you have already downloaded prior. So you can’t just be like “I have 5tb of tv shows already so Im good on that front”
He stated “100GB only” in reply to my comment that I have a 400GB picture library - all own creation, completely unrelated to anything internet.
Total storage. If you have more, government agents might randonly burst in and confiscate excess storage. 😉
First thing would be to seriously look into data compression, and live with heavily lossy-compressed media (my music collection would be ring-fenced though). Throw out backups of physical media (take the chance on disc-rot); I guess any backups wouldn’t be possible in this universe anyway so it will all be left to chance. And then see what’s left.
I mean… if we’re optimizing for covert physical presence… you can hide these fuckers in tons of interesting places.
Kids these days don’t understand how mind-blowing that card is. 1 TB on a little micro-SD card? For real?
Tell me about it… my 8mb compact flash card broke my mind back in the day.
Yeah 1.4mb floppies (not just AOL diskettes) we’re still everywhere when CF cameras came out.
SneakerNet will still exist, so your friends can download different stuff each and transfer it over a local network, or a flash drive. Different people might connect their own local networks to facilitate ease of communication, and boom, you have an internet again. By its very nature of being decentralised, the internet is very difficult to shut down completely.
Not very much with my slow connection.
RIP
But on the bright side, you get to touch more grass 😅
Download a zillion movies and whole tv series (in highly compressed versions), a zillion music albums and playlists, the 25 GB downloadable version of Wikipedia, a ton of emulators and game roms, and a bunch of apps covering everything i might wanna do like music creation software.
Email/PM everyone I’m in contact with online and ask them for their current phone numbers and addresses, and send them mine. Subscribe to 2-3 local and regional newspapers, and one good national or international one.
Offline contact info for every place I do business with online, and scrape a list of all businesses within 20 miles of home or work. Offline contact info for all the government agencies I or family or friends may need to contact for the next five years. Offline contact info for every local, state, or federal official who supposedly represents me, my family or friends.
A full listing of all my online accounts, with full transaction histories. Copies of all Terms of Service and privacy policies, copies of all warranty, repair and refund policies.
Phone numbers of my favorite restaurants and copies of their current menus. Phone numbers, addresses, visitor information, prices and (where applicable) attraction information for all museums, parks and other attractions in my area.
All my archived email or stored files that’s still on a server somewhere. Copies of every single bookmark on every device I have. And copies of every story on AO3.
Only 100GB? Shit I’m gonna have to decide what porn not to keep…
Sort by date last viewed, delete everything older than a month ago. You’re welcome.
But what about those days were you’re really in the mood for a particular video from 3 years back?
Or to keep things fresh, only keep the oldest 100gb.
How to self-host/become your own ISP
