Does lemmy have any communities dedicated to archiving/hoarding data?
Wait, isn't there an offline copy of a part of Wikipedia? The article Just by yourself a nice printer with enough ink and do it yourself ;)
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Last year I bought a hard copy of my favorite webcomic in case the website goes down.
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we need all repos to be stored offline, and documentations to troubleshoot.
the 1st i have no idea how much space we will need. Most linux packages are prerry light, no? But there is A LOT of them...
the 2nd is easy. Heard someone say the entire of wikipedia is 200GB, should be doable. Dont forget the technical wikis too: Debian, Gentoo, Arch.
Can't remember who it was (b3ta? popbitch? penny-arcade?), but I recently saw a comment by someone who's been running a website since the turn of the millennium, and they said that fully 99% of the links they posted two decades ago were no longer valid.
To really put that into perspective, you have to remember that for most sites to get linked to from a popular site like that, meant that it was usually something of value that would have had a lot of work put into it, and that people found interesting or useful.
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Years ago I bought a physical encyclopedia. I remember having one as a kid and using it for school reports. Also just looking through it can be cool. Learning about something you never knew existed is just a unique experience and doing it through a physical book just deepens the whole experience.
I also learned the practice of printing a physical encyclopedia is going out of fashion. I think there is only one company the still prints a yearly encyclopedia and it's not Encyclopedia Britannica of all things. Might have change since I bought my copy but go give some physical media some love if you can.
Get out of my mind.
I would add in some rom collections and book repositories as well. The whole library of Nintendo games is under a gig and would go a long way for entertaining people.
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I would love to have a small Wikipedia browser that can survive the apocalypse.
E-ink display, mini keyboard and touchpad, multiple ways/ports to transfer info, All wrapped up in a heavy duty equipment case that's able to survive a building collapses and burns in an earthquake, that's shielded from EMP.
You mean like the wiki reader:
I used it as an ebook reader until the screen gave out.
Sounds like the beginning of a proper Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
Actually having something telling me Don't Panic is big friendly letters would help my mental health...
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I keep a wiki copy as well as Reddit pre-fuckuspez. A Debian archive copy sounds like a good idea.
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This is just minor datahoarding. I do it, on an extreme level.
Or, in this post fact era just generate a wiki with a hallucinating AI instead.
https://github.com/XanderStrike/endless-wiki
Honestly this project looks like a lot of fun.
So I actually have a dockerized Debian/Ubuntu mirror I think is like 2 versions ob Debian and the latest Ubuntu and still less then 1tb in total size. The English wikipedia is 50gb so overall not that much and very doable. However pretty unnecessary
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Official numbers here https://www.debian.org/mirror/size
About 4.4TB, but that's all architectures and (I believe?) all distributions (stable, testing...).
If you only want source+all+amd64+arm64, and only want stable, it will be smaller of course.
Not nothing, but at $10/TB or so, it's not much.
And if you're following 3-2-1, I'm pretty sure the "1" is already handled for you :)
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