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Lots of good things already mentioned. So I'll say Shareboxx

My home servers time to shine

Everyone shitting on me for having a nas with ~ 200tb of storage and tape backups would finally have to eat shit because I’d have the only streaming service in town

I got enough anime to make crunchy roll blush, I have something like 3,000 series of manga and like 8,000 books in my komga server, I got non weeb shit. I archive tons of webpages and youtube channels, terabytes of music, etc.

In a situation like this I could even throw a lemmy instance on it or something. I don’t do that now but I could

Also all my anime has dubs stripped out to save space and the majority of my manga is in Japanese. 英語しか話せない奴らはクソくらえ

So I eschew your 1tb limitation. I have seen this scenario coming. I planned for it. I’m ready for it. There are others like me on lemmy in the home server page, plus if you look on the truenas, proxmox, unraid, etc forums you’ll find even more

All Debian and its packages. Probably a bunch of Meshtastic stuff. And a copy of Wikipedia.

I'd download my entire GOG library of games. The offline installer versions they offer without GOG Galaxy client.

Though I’m sure that person exists here on Lemmy somewhere :D

I feel seen!

In all honesty, I've been doing something somewhat similar for the last 2 decades or so. Originally I was building my archives because I was often away from internet access. Now, though, it's just become habit.

I started with basic first aid and medical texts and whatever other books and reference texts I found interesting. To that I also archive proprietary software and the source code and releases for the open source software I find useful. Add to that ISOs of the distributions I tend to use and I'm at roughly 3TB. I could probably cut that to 2TB if I remove the older Ubuntu and NixOS releases. I'm over 30TB if you include CD and DVD rips.

About the only thing I am missing from my current archives would be a clone of the Ubuntu and NixOS repositories for all of the "glue" dependencies that no one ever thinks of. After that you would just need the hardware to build out the network.

Probably guides on how to make a mesh-net and the appropriate hardware to do so. No idea how that's done.

I shall open a pub 🍺🍺🍺

My first move would be to download the whole Debian software repo

My first thought was debian installer plus everything on a debian mirror. You could get "all" plus "amd64" in 998gb.

However, the majority of that wouldn't be very useful. While a bunch of the stuff on the selfhosted awesome list certainly would be.

The problem is, because this hypothetical scenario is so broad, IDK which things would actually be appropriate.

emulators, keep gaming alive

As a base: The Linux kernel source, GNU software sources and compiler binaries so I can - in theory - write missing software myself. For convenience probably some stable, offline-installable, ready to use distros.

I would probably also archive sources and binaries of day-to-day software like web-browsers (I might still have an intranet to use), office tools, photo management software, audio/video players and all the codecs, etc.

I think that's a solid starting point but im sure I'm missing something important :D