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michael@piefed.chrisco.me ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I think a good test is to shut off your house internet and see what things you still need. Like actually disconnect the router and only go off your own infa. What can you get done, what things do you still need?

For me I found out:

All my software development packages, linux isos, etc…. are ALL online. If I was unable to get on certain websites, I would be SOL in doing most of my software development. Even simple stuff like installing via apt would be VERY hard.
While I have OSM (open street maps), I dont have address info saved anywhere.
Most of my mesh stuff (meshtastic) has online tools for all the builds and deploys. Meaning if the website goes down im SOL getting new nodes out in the wild.
Entertainment is pretty much covered, since we dont have anything streaming anyways.
Radio still works, so news isnt really a big deal.
I need to get a backup of some encyclopedias and/or get wikipedia somewhere hosted. That would be fun and informative.

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kumi@feddit.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
On 1: Autoseeding ISOs over bittorrent is pretty easy, helps strengthening the commumity distribution, and makes sure you already have the latest stable locally when you need it.

While a bit more resource intensive, running a full distribution package mirror is very nice if you can justify it. No more waiting for registry sync and package downloads on installs and upgrades. apt-mirror if you are curious. While not as resilient there is also apt-cacher-ng to at least get a seamless shared package cache on the local network.

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- michael@piefed.chrisco.me ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I used to do a ton of seeding on isos but it really took its tool on the old harddrive I did it on. I kinda stopped for a long time. I used to do it for the origonal Ubuntu isos like 8.04 or something like that. And puppy linux :)…
  
  Ive never heard of apt-mirror, thats interesting. Ill have to take a look. thanks!
  
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  - kumi@feddit.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    There’s some spam and griefing happening to Debian and Arch trackers and DHT.
    
    PeerBanHelper is like a spam filter for torrent clients.
    
    https://github.com/PBH-BTN/PeerBanHelper/blob/dev/README.EN.md
    
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irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I need to get a backup of some encyclopedias and/or get wikipedia somewhere hosted. That would be fun and informative.

I selfhost the full Wikipedia in Kiwix, plus a decent amount of IT, Political, History reading material in my Calibre library. I’m not much for fiction, novels, or movies.

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- michael@piefed.chrisco.me ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Im having a heck of a time finding material. Any recommendations?
  
  Im downloading this version of wikipedia: https://browse.library.kiwix.org/viewer#wikipedia_en_all_mini_2025-12
  
  I only have about 100GB left-ish so I dont want to get a huge amount. I might just get ebooks and throw those on there.
  
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  - irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The Kiwix Library is chock full of options: library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng
    
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- michael@piefed.chrisco.me ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Oh neat, its on yuno https://apps.yunohost.org/app/kiwix
  
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