Comment by a2128

Comment by a2128 11 days ago

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A few years ago I was concerned of this being a genuine possibility (at least for a few months) due to regional conflicts, so I prepared the following on some SD cards and flash drives:

* Offline copies of Wikipedia, Stack Overflow and some others using Kiwix

* Arch Linux iso and mirror of some packages for installing a new system

* Godot Engine along with game assets shamefully stolen from hl2, so I can have some creative outlet, or make training sims if things got so bad

* Hours of videos and songs I like

Today I would probably include Llama or other LLMs.

It's unfortunate to see big companies pushing for an online-only world. Windows 11 requiring Internet access to install, YouTube restricting yt-dlp and YouTube Premium downloaded videos only being playable if the app was able to ping YouTube servers in the past few days. It really feels like technology is regressing, we are creating new problems for ourselves for no good reason. But I guess it's fine when all of the company offices are in rich Western countries with fast and stable internet access.

can16358p 10 days ago

I agree with you, and it's not only about rich and Western countries: you might be rich and have a stable Internet connection, but would like to stay totally offline too, which is very hard (if you just want to watch YT videos on something when offline etc) nowadays.

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eacnamn 11 days ago

Does your Wikipedia mirror include media? Text-only wiki seems a bit bleak to me, but including all media would devour so much storage, I just haven't been able to justify using that much of my limited storage space

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  • rightbyte 10 days ago

    It would be nice if there was some 'horribly compressed media' dump. Like, I can live with '96 pic resolutions for an offline copy.

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