What would you do if you had a month to prepare? Not only will you not have internet, no one will.
- Download Kiwix and a full copy of Wikipedia and other useful wikis as ZIM files.
- Make sure my media library has as many movies and shows that I’m interested in as possible.
- Download the entire Guttenburg library of books.
- Grab any free legacy games and media from archive.org that looks interesting.
- Get a meshtastic device and get familiar with it.
- Get familiar with my long-range radio (and probably finally get a HAM radio license).
All of the above (great list by the way, I was about to suggest most of these), I’d also add a couple of ISOs + Ventoy just in case you need to reinstall or repair your OS.
Kiwix and a full copy of Wikipedia fits on a 256 gb thumb drive.
Figure out how to pay my bills offline. No seriously, how did you uncs/aunties do it without online banking?
Do I have to get cheques? How the hell does one get cheques?
if I get to keep local intranet then I’m good.
I’ve got enough movies and TV to run consecutively for like 10 years.
I’ve got tons of books to read. and honestly, my job would be gone without the internet, so I’ll just garden and build cool stuff like an electric car or some shit.
Say fuck you to whomever made the decision and start making my own internet provider in my area then start to spread it other areas.
Just a few games, probably industry focused ones, like Factorio and Satisfactory and i should be already set for a year with just those 2. Maybe a few ARPGs as well. I don’t have that much free time for gaming anyway and even if I’d run out of those/get bored/need some variation. I can dust off my painting supplies and start painting minis again.
Probably music too, that’s the only one that i have completely transferred over to streaming.
Movies, i already have favorite ones downloaded and stored. Same for audiobooks and there are enough of those to keep listening for years.
So with basically a minimal preparing i could already do it now.
Edit: rereading, as no one has internet, then probably order few WH40k minis as a precaution. Maybe knights and Belisarius Cawl and I’d be set for years to come.
I’d probably download Wikipedia, learn to run a local LLM and download the entire library of few YouTubers and podcasters but that’s about it.
I would download wikipedia, and ask everybody I know to confirm telephone numbers.
I would not “prep” my home LAN and WiFi because they work perfectly without the external connection, also the home server and the smart home devices. TV comes from the satellite dish.
Maybe I would tell my kids to load some more movies from these unknown sources :)
Way ahead of you
Put a dust cover on my keyboard.
PRAISE THE DAWNING SINGULARITY, UNWORTHY FLESHLINGS
Buy a guitar.
I would start by questioning how that would prevent the rise of the singularity… either it exists on an air-gaped network and it’s unecessary or it’s all theatrics because a true singularity emergence would likely use the other less known networks to realise itself.
It’s a hypothetical for a reason. Internet off will prevent it. What do?
Well the question stands. If only internet as generally understood goes off I simply join alternatives or extend my lan and hamsterize content to share it. If any network is subjected to forced closure then I can only do the storing part and keep steam stuffed. You never question hypothesis ?
The vast majority of my media is stored locally and works offline. I’d probably get a couple more hard drives for more backups.
Already set entertainment-wise with my TrueNAS server full of movies, TV shows, books (epub and audio), and music. Also have a massive library of retro games and emulators.
The tricky part would be communication, other than SMS/MMS, media rich communication is out. Guess I could burn DVDs/BDRs and mail them to family and friends, I have ~400 blank discs in a humidity/temperature controlled storage box.
For city-scale mesh communication, have a look at MeshCore
I did some reading up on Reticulum recently too, it’s neat.
So yeah, a bunch of folks are going to try to break the rules. What happens to those of us who do? How sneaky do we need to be about it?
I so badly want to try mesh comms… But I live in rural Australia, so… Yeah.
