Say you were going to a deserted island with electricity but no internet connection. What 500 gigabytes worth of data/programs/etc would you bring?<p>Assume you’d have a computer available to you with a functioning OS of some sort
PDF'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'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.
It kinda depends on whether I need to plot an escape from this desert island or I'm just taking a year off! In the latter case, Python and maybe C dev tools & libraries, and some good development books. I feel like I'd want to reserve half the space for data I'd like to process, mostly big social media/forum archives of various sorts.<p>If there's space, also a few games. I don't know what I'd do about reading material for relaxation, though, kinda depends on how long I'm gonna be there.
Assuming a visit, not a move, everything currently on my laptop, maybe a movie or two. I've got compilers, git, Wikipad, GIMP, space for some photos, Hugin for stitching panoramas. I'd bring an empty spare drive for backups.<p>Things get squirrely if we're talking about a permanent move, restarting civilization after a catastrophe, or travel in time or space.
a Debian build mirror. some David Bowie & 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 & twitter.