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

I’d just go back to living without it.

TrashRobot. So i can crate a simple local wireless network and share data with people

Probably guides on how to make a mesh-net and the appropriate hardware to do so. No idea how that’s done.

As a base: The Linux kernel source, GNU software sources and compiler binaries so I can - in theory - write missing software myself. For convenience probably some stable, offline-installable, ready to use distros.

I would probably also archive sources and binaries of day-to-day software like web-browsers (I might still have an intranet to use), office tools, photo management software, audio/video players and all the codecs, etc.

I think that’s a solid starting point but im sure I’m missing something important :D

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.

To start, I’d download nixpkgs. That would cover pretty much anything I could want.

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.

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

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.

Maps would be the most valuable data.

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

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…?

Wikipedia

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.