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I’m already doing this, but: - All of Wikipedia English - Download as many LLM models and the latest version of Ollama.app and all its dependencies. - Make a
by runjake 2y ago
I’m already doing this, but:
- All of Wikipedia English
- Download as many LLM models and the latest version of Ollama.app and all its dependencies.
- Make a list of my favorite music artists and torrent every album I can.
- Open my podcast app and download every starred episode (I have a ton of those that I listen to repeatedly).
- Torrent and libgen every tech book I value. Then, grab large collections of fiction EPUBs.
- Download every US Army field manual I can get my hands on, especially the Special Operations Medic manual, which is gold for civilian use in tough times.
- Download every radio frequency list I can for my area of the country.
- Download digital copies of The Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emory, Where There Is No Doctor, and Where There Us No Dentist.
I already have paper versions of almost all of these but it’s handy to have easily-reproducible and far more portable digital copies.
- nachox999 2y ago"Download every US Army field manual", never thought of that, seems useful
- digdugdirk 2y agoHow much space does this take? Both digitally and physically, for the stuff you have in print form?
- runjake 2y ago<1 TB. I try to keep the entirety of my important files in under 1tb and so far, I have succeeded. Somehow I've managed to do this even with my photo/video iCloud Photo library. I am not counting large hoards like my ISO and movie collections. I'm not really sure of exact sizes, but books and PDFs don't take up much space at all. I'd guess a few hundred megabytes? Wikipedia is ~20gb, IIRC. Physically, I have paper copies of books stashed all over the place. It consumes a decent amount of space all together (~ 4 feet by 9 feet ~18 inches in volume)
- deivid 2y agoIs this the libgen fiction mirror or some other large collection?
- nickpinkston 2y agoThank you for your service - that list is awesome.
- Loughla 2y agoJust note with the encyclopedia of country living, much of the advice is outdated and all of it is very much depending on where you live. For example, the saying where I live is an acre and a half for a cow and a calf. Where my folks live you need closer to 10 acres for the two animals. The USDA has hyper local guides for native and garden plants and native and farmed animals. Mostly in PDF so they can be easily printed.
- runjake 2y agoGood to know. I'm trying to dig up direct links to those USDA guides. I mostly value the Encyclopedia of Country Living for it's old world skills (canning, food preservation, etc), but I'm fortunate also to live in a rural area with a lot of farmers and I have ready access to relatives and friends who are well-versed in those old world skills and they've been happy to teach them to me.
- Loughla 2y agoBest resource are the people who lived it. My grandfather was 102 when he passed and (when I could get him to stop talking about world war 2 for five minutes) filled in a lot of blanks for me in old time food storage. My number one piece of advice for people learning this stuff: Nursing home activity staff know who the residents are who grew up on farms and in the country and are DESPERATE for volunteers. Go to a home and ask to spend time with those residents. That's what I do. It's how I learned most of the wild craft skills I have. The residents love it, it helps the community, and you learn.
- dsr_ 2y agoIn the US, "County Extension" is usually the phrase you want.
- Loughla 2y agoCorrect. "Indigenous plants/animal [insert state] USDA" brings up good listings on Google, too. Your county extension probably has all the guides in print form for you, generally for free. The farm animal and plant guides are in the resources for new farmers. They're buried and I can't find them back, but they're there.
- thorum 2y agoIt’s pretty amazing that we’re almost at the point where a single laptop computer with no internet connection can contain (1) most of humanity’s recorded knowledge and (2) an intelligence that can explain it to you.
- dsr_ 2y ago(2) assumes technology not in evidence, unless you have a really low threshold of "explain it to you". Like, "explains it as well as a person who doesn't know anything about it but is reading the wikipedia page". Like, "explains it but lies, and when you catch them at it, insists that they weren't lying". Like, "can't actually do math, but has had heard lots of math problems so they guess and hope you don't check on them". A sleazy marketer's idea of "explains it to you".
- dingaling 2y ago> (1) most of humanity’s recorded knowledge A lot of historical information on the Internet only scrape the top 50% of the knowledge on niche subjects, if even that. So often I see forum requests along the lines of "can someone scan page 242 of book X please".
- kvark 2y agoThat’s a great business idea: sell a laptop survival kit for tough times.
- infomaniac 2y agoCan you elaborate on how you're storing this data?
- runjake 2y agoFiles and folders on my MacBook and backed up to multiple places (3-2-1). My data store isn't more than 1tb (this doesn't count commercial movies, which sit on a NAS and I could take or leave those).
- runjake 2y agoAlso: - PDFs of the Black and Deck Guides to Home (repair/plumbing/carpentry/etc). Available for purchase/torrenting. Available on torrent sites. Not always up to code or best practice, but good enough to get you going and explain how the parts of your house's systems work.
- thepasswordis 2y agoSF Medical Manual link: https://irp.fas.org/doddir/milmed/sfhandbook.pdf https://irp.fas.org/doddir/milmed/sfhandbook.pdf
- runjake 2y agoMy only caveat here is that people should obtain the 2014 or newer Special Operations Medic version, which is the successor to this older 1982 guide. It’s almost like going for a programming book from 1982 vs now. The state of the medical art has changed substantially for the better since 1982. The newer post-2004-ish guides include substantial updates to field medical care techniques (especially WRT blood loss, eg gunshot wounds). There are PDFs of the newer SOC guide on the net. I’ll try to find some good links when I get back near a computer.
- InkAndBanner 2y agook. waiting for you links
- BrandoElFollito 2y agoIt's been 15 hours now. has the apocalypse started and I do not know?
- GTP 2y agoThe apocalypse started, look for a link yourself and download it before it's too late ;)
- tarruda 2y ago> Download as many LLM models and the latest version of Ollama.app and all its dependencies. I recently purchased a Mac Studio with 128gb RAM for the sole purpose of being able to run 70b models at 8-bit quantization
- 867-5309 2y agowell done, good for you!
- FloatArtifact 2y agoM4?
- mikestew 2y agoMac Studios don't have the M4 yet. With that much RAM, GP must have the M2 Ultra.
- cirrus3 2y agoIf you need the Special Operations Medic manual, the podcasts and LLMs might not be so relevant ;)
- pajko 2y agoAdd some maps, like OpenStreetMap data, with a client: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Software/Desktop https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Software/Desktop
- astennumero 2y agoIf you don't mind me asking, where do you torrent your music albums from?
- Gerard0 2y agoyandex (search engine) is pretty good to find stuff. Just search for "band/film + torrent" and it almost always works for me. It's my way to go for lesser known works.
- worthless-trash 2y agoYandex has not been routable for me for some time, when was the last time you used it ?
- timeon 2y agoSoulseek?
- 1899-12-30 2y agorutracker
- ClikeX 2y agoDo you have some references for those army field manuals? Would love to look into them.
- lm28469 2y ago> especially the Special Operations Medic manual, which is gold for civilian use in tough times. idk if it applies to you, but single week of training will be worth 10 000 pages of pdf, when shtf you won't have time to read much
- kouru225 2y agoDon’t forget local maps too. Gotta have your local maps downloaded