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clockwork

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Stop waiting and start downloading everything onto sets of microSD cards.... so that when the Internet and grid disappears you can still use solar/hand crank to power your smartphone and access the data on those microSD cards.

Personally I already have offline copy of wikipedia, the entire piratebay index/torrent/magnets, entire blockchain bitcoin full node data, all the survival manual pdfs, medicine pdfs, offline dictionaries and language dictionaries, the latest katago AI neural network, street/maps of entire planet opensource, basically things that have taken millions of man hours to compile and build etc
How many TB is that? Lol
 

9dashline

Captain
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How many TB is that? Lol
Its not as much as you might think, most of my microSD cards are 512GB. I use multipar to pad a percentage for parity/recovery data to account for bitrot and things like flip the bit via cosmic ray or whatever... for long term storage I burn everything to sets of M-Disc blurays that basically use 'stone' as an etch layer and rated to last 1000 years... but for everyday use of course microSD is the way to go for access

Currently

English wikipedia is 95Gigs
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Blockchain is 420gigs
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Entire world map is 118gigs
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I prefer Google maps though, because it has all the interesting POI info such as store hours, store phone numbers, etc... but Google maps only lets you cache their maps data for month at a time... workaround I found is to use an android emulator like bluestack5 then cache all the maps I need and I control the system clock of my host/physical machine so the maps will always work forever...
 

horse

Colonel
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I know she is extremely cute, exactly my type, and a comrade on top of that, but can we move any tweet involving her to funny thread instead, this has nothing to do with breaking news right? I am at the edge of my seat here waiting for potential ww3 now lol

Look at it this way. It is like reality TV.

We are watching the show, then it is time for a commercial break.

Here's a cigarette commercial from another era.


That is why people consider the marketing department is evil, like that Bart character from Sesame Street.

:mad:o_O
 

Helius

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What does someone as powerful as Xi need money for? To play Monopoly?
That reminds me of the leaked CIA profile on Xi back in the day where they assessed him to be "incorruptible" and didn't care about money at all, except "power" -

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If there's a sliver of accuracy in the CIA assessment, Xi has already got all that he'd ever wanted by being the most powerful man in China. No amount of material wealth would faze a man like him... And that's not even me saying it, the Americans were saying it.
 

supersnoop

Major
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Stop waiting and start downloading everything onto sets of microSD cards.... so that when the Internet and grid disappears you can still use solar/hand crank to power your smartphone and access the data on those microSD cards.

Personally I already have offline copy of wikipedia, the entire piratebay index/torrent/magnets, entire blockchain bitcoin full node data, all the survival manual pdfs, medicine pdfs, offline dictionaries and language dictionaries, the latest katago AI neural network, street/maps of entire planet opensource, basically things that have taken millions of man hours to compile and build etc

But the real question, how much porn?
 

henrik

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Its not as much as you might think, most of my microSD cards are 512GB. I use multipar to pad a percentage for parity/recovery data to account for bitrot and things like flip the bit via cosmic ray or whatever... for long term storage I burn everything to sets of M-Disc blurays that basically use 'stone' as an etch layer and rated to last 1000 years... but for everyday use of course microSD is the way to go for access

Currently

English wikipedia is 95Gigs
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Blockchain is 420gigs
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Entire world map is 118gigs
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I prefer Google maps though, because it has all the interesting POI info such as store hours, store phone numbers, etc... but Google maps only lets you cache their maps data for month at a time... workaround I found is to use an android emulator like bluestack5 then cache all the maps I need and I control the system clock of my host/physical machine so the maps will always work forever...
What type of computer do you use for doing such backup stuff? Do you stock up tons of food and household supplies just in case?
 

Biscuits

Major
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To pay for Hunter Biden's prostitutes?
Does he even pay for them or are they just slaves?

Honestly, I'm not joking, one of the most disgusting photo I've ever seen (discourtesy of a telegram account that usually posts Ukraine war updates) of girls that look like they're 12 yrs old fondling Hunter Biden. I strongly doubt said girls are consensual sex workers.
 

wang chilin

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Two days ago, Europe said that air conditioners are "Putin's friends" and therefore European airports will not be cooled in the summer.

France, on the other hand, came to the conclusion that even "weather is Putin's friend", because due to the extreme heat, several nuclear power plants had to stop working temporarily due to problems with water cooling.

Everything and everyone is a "Putin's friends", only idiocy is a friend of Europe.

I'm already ashamed to be European. :oops:

Putin can really die now, but from loud laughter...

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Stop Wearing Ties to Save Energy, Spanish Premier Sanchez Says

'Look, no tie': Spanish PM urges casual wear to stay cool, save energy.

“I’d like you all to note that I am not wearing a tie,” Sanchez told a news conference. “This means we can all save from an energy point of view.”

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