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

  • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    7 days ago

    Keeping the electricity on long enough to enjoy games or movies is gonna be difficult if you rely on the grid right now.

    So maybe archive the electronics stack exchange, and solar/battery installation guides so you can steal it if the neighbors roof.

  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
    8·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • idriss@lemm.ee
    81·
    7 days ago
    1. Fire Zeal and Fetch every API documentation listed there
    2. Pull latest deepseek models
    3. Clone entire debian current repo
    4. Clone Firefox, Linux and the gnu coreutils
    5. Clone Litecoin and Litewallet
    6. Download the most recent dump of Wikipedia
    7. Download all the maps and data available today in OSM

    That should do for me

  • minoscopede@lemmy.world
    6·
    7 days ago

    Open source collaboration will be difficult on mesh, so my contribution would be jailbreaks and cracked versions of softwares. My local government will need it since all their systems run on licensed software 🥲

    I’d also get my hands on a bunch of iphone and android jailbreaks, because phone OSes might just stop working in 9 months if they’re left unmodified.

  • AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    7 days 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.
  • silasmariner@programming.dev
    3·
    7 days 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

  • Libra00@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    7 days ago

    As much as I dislike Microsoft, the world runs on Excel, so it’s got to be near the top of the list.

    For myself… calibre and my ebook collection and all the games I can manage.

  • knightmare1147@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 days 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…?

  • Tattorack@lemmy.world
    21·
    7 days ago

    I don’t use Web apps/software to begin with, explicitly because I don’t live under the illusion that everything will somehow exists forever, exactly the way it is.

    I’ve been homeless, so I know how it is to be an artist without being online all the time. If the tool you use needs to be always online for some reason (and it’s not specifically related to the Internet), it’s a bad and useless tool.

    It’s the reason I’m not jumping on the Photopea train until they release a proper installable program.