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Ask HN: If you could bring 500 gigs to a deserted island, what would you bring?

4 pointsby dasmithiialmost 4 years ago
Say you were going to a deserted island with electricity but no internet connection. What 500 gigabytes worth of data&#x2F;programs&#x2F;etc would you bring?<p>Assume you’d have a computer available to you with a functioning OS of some sort

6 comments

mindcrimealmost 4 years ago
PDF&#x27;s of books like<p><i>Boat Building for Dummies</i><p><i>Survival on Desert Islands</i><p><i>The SAS Survival Manual</i><p><i>US Army Rangers Survival Manual</i><p><i>9005 Fire Starting Techniques</i><p>The entire electronic back archive of <i>American Survival Guide</i> magazine<p>And, of course, every episode of Gilligan&#x27;s Island.<p>The rest of the space would probably go to music. Mostly metal, some hip hop, some synthwave, a little classical, and like 2 country songs for those <i>really</i> rare occasions when I actually want to hear country music.
speedgoosealmost 4 years ago
A Wikipedia dump, a large illegal collection of ebooks, a few favourite software and video games, and porn.
anigbrowlalmost 4 years ago
It kinda depends on whether I need to plot an escape from this desert island or I&#x27;m just taking a year off! In the latter case, Python and maybe C dev tools &amp; libraries, and some good development books. I feel like I&#x27;d want to reserve half the space for data I&#x27;d like to process, mostly big social media&#x2F;forum archives of various sorts.<p>If there&#x27;s space, also a few games. I don&#x27;t know what I&#x27;d do about reading material for relaxation, though, kinda depends on how long I&#x27;m gonna be there.
mikewarotalmost 4 years ago
Assuming a visit, not a move, everything currently on my laptop, maybe a movie or two. I&#x27;ve got compilers, git, Wikipad, GIMP, space for some photos, Hugin for stitching panoramas. I&#x27;d bring an empty spare drive for backups.<p>Things get squirrely if we&#x27;re talking about a permanent move, restarting civilization after a catastrophe, or travel in time or space.
rektidealmost 4 years ago
a Debian build mirror. some David Bowie &amp; porno for pyros. total annihilation, empire of the fading sun, and star renegades. deno, nodejs, ceph, kubernetes, my helm charts. my sources. vim. data exports from Google &amp; twitter.
joshxyzalmost 4 years ago
Definitely &quot;How To Get Out Of Deserted Island ASAP for Dummies&quot;.