[badsectoracula]

Yeah, that is normal for me too. If i find any article that i think is interesting i use SingleFile to download a local copy and ytdlp to download any video i find interesting/informational (e.g tutorials/howtos/etc). I avoid cloud-based stuff, preferring to use local/desktop software instead (and 99.9% of it is open source). And when it comes to AI i use local models only - with inference engines written in C++ (to avoid the dependency hell that is Python - which for some reason seems 100x worse when it comes to AI projects too).

And yeah, i have downloaded Wikipedia (in ZIM format) :-P

It isn't really for some doomsday preparation reason, it is just that sometimes the internet doesn't work (it doesn't happen often but it does happen) or i do not have internet access for whatever reason or stuff simply disappears/changes.

In fact just yesterday night i wanted to lookup how something is done in Bash and after trying to search for it, i noticed my Internet wasn't working (it took ~1h to resume, it was quite late in the night). So i just started a local LLM and asked that instead :-P (i do have the info manuals for bash - and other stuff - installed but they are a PITA to search if you don't know exactly what you're looking for).

One thing that annoys me though is that it is basically impossible to have an offline copy of a modern Linux distro. Sometime during the late 2000s i bought the full set of Debian DVDs, but Debian stopped providing ISOs years ago. Of course with how big distros are nowadays you'd probably need something like 100 DVDs :-P. At least there is Slackware.

[anthk]

9front a good bunch offline software repos from shithub can fit under a 4GB pendrive or DVD.

Not very usable to run current day stuff, but you have both netsurf, a video player, audio players, a PS/EPUB/PDF/image viewer, doc/xls readers to TXT (and converters) and Unix tools and games among 8/16 bit emulators.

With a bit of thinkering it can do a lot, look at the plan9 desktop page with 9front.

There's a Golang port too, and the AWK guide can be a godsend.

This is not for anuclear winter but maybe for an internet outage, which can be a real threat.

[canpan]

For your linux distro needs, debian still provides the base iso and you can make a second disk with packages you need and apt-offline.

[badsectoracula]

Well the point of this is to have a distro that contains "everything" (or at least a large number of stuff) since i can't know ahead of time what i'd need.

I think it is still possible to use jigdo to make Bluray disks, but i do not have a bluray drive :-P