I am specifically asking about software and needed libraries, not stuff like Wikipedia or the writings of Ernest Hemmingway.

To keep people from archiving all of github on thousands of shucked external hard drives cobbled together all Frankenstein-y to create a postapocalyptic data center assume a ~1TB storage limitation. Though I’m sure that person exists here on Lemmy somewhere :D

  • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 month ago

    The most up-to-date information I can get on self hosting virtually anything, along with all major Linux distro’s and drivers I may need.

    Yeah there will come a day where machines can’t support it, but I would then try to spend my time taking care of whatever I have on hand and future proofing as best I can, crossing my fingers and hoping that in 10 to 15 years there will be something else I can do

  • silasmariner@programming.dev
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    1 month ago

    I’d be fucked because I work on and use OSS multiple times a day, and have no idea what a distributed maven central looks like

  • RejZoR@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’d download my entire GOG library of games. The offline installer versions they offer without GOG Galaxy client.

  • knightmare1147@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I’d raid a Google data center and work on rebuilding the Internet with whatever remains of their infrastructure. Wait is this us talking about our apocalypse plans or…?

  • AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Raspberry pi os , it can also be run on non raspberry pis*. all the recommended packages in its menu (libre office?) that should get you a nice os.

    Some torrenting software to ensure you can help share it around.

    I recently heard of something called a ‘Pirate box’ which is a WiFi router without a password and storage attached for people to upload and download stuff to / from .

    I wouldn’t do it myself, but if it was a country town, it could be something similar to a virtual notice board in the pub.

    • Might as well get Debian and Ubuntu too.
  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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    1 month ago

    I always see a lot of great and diverse solutions for maintaining information and even being self sufficient in the face of some sort of societal collapse and loss of infrastructure. I never see plans mentioned for what to do afterwards. The point being, there seems to be an assumption of either permanence to things like storage and alternative energy sources, or perhaps an implied having to just last a decade or so and things will be rebuilt.

    So hypothetical, something happens and things go away, but someone in your community has set up a center of preservation of knowledge that can be tapped into through a mesh network, and everyone has a minimal power setup to use some things to do this and other electronic based work. Now what? Is asking this question too vague since there can be so many scenarios possible and we just have to figure it out from there?

    TL;DR - what happens to a post-collapse tech center in the long run since we see all the time that there are limits to even the best storage media and parts wear out even in non-moving solar panels. Mass replacements and salvage are a given, but even that has limits and problems.

  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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    FreeBSD ports with distfiles for things really necessary, with dependencies. I guess that would fit in 1TB and leave some for ebooks and music.

    Also software RAID is not Frankensteiny at all, neither are storage clusters of Ceph or alternatives.

    What those things necessary would encompass, I don’t know. I suppose similar to Slackware full installation.

    It would all make little sense without the Internet. You’d suddenly find that a year 1995 machine, one year older than me, and a few friendly BBSes are not as unrealistically small as they seem now.