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?

  • remon@ani.social
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    21 days ago

    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.

  • StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    20 days ago

    My ISP recently gave us notice of an extended period of planned downtime so I already gave this some thought.

    yt-dlp is a godsend, especially if you reduce the quality. I just set it going on an old playlist for some YouTubers I enjoy. You can find a lot of old comedy on YouTube too which tends to be in playlists.

    Other than that, none of classic Doctor Who is HD so doesn’t take up too much space. BBC iPlayer works with yt-dlp too with the right settings.

  • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
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    22 days ago

    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.

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
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    22 days ago

    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.

    • mommykink@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      22 days ago

      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

  • Cypher@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    Godot, Blender, Gimp, latest tutorial series for all three, Wikipedia (which I already have), music, fill the rest with art assets.

    If I can’t download games I will simply make them.

    • emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de
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      21 days ago

      Aside from the fact that playing something youve created is an entirely different experience to discovering something unexpected that someone else has created, you would need space to store your created games still.

  • tetris11@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago
    • general info
      • A large LLM with many parameters
    • specific info
      • Wikipedia, WikiHow, TVTropes, various survival Guides, HAM radio operation
  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    21 days ago

    100 GB

    looks at my nas, already stuffed with several TB of content, chuckling

    Some panic, while others were ready since the dawn of time. I’ll add that extra 100 gigs to my drive collection though…

    (it’s lots of games, media, and yiff. And yeah, it is enough to hold me over for 5 years. No, you can’t see it. :p)

    • brlemworld@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      You didn’t read the post. You’re going to be spending all of your time deleting your content because you only have 100 GB’s total.

  • frank@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Start running wires and make a intranet with my neighbors. WiFi would be easier, but would the internet police be looking for signals?

    Would Netflix go back to mailing physical disks? Would I have to go buy albums? Weird. You could buy of borrow the physical media and add it to your intranet.

    I’d probably download a couple TV series and some music. I’d also get software to make sure I can copy and store everything.