Does lemmy have any communities dedicated to archiving/hoarding data?
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2025
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This is just minor datahoarding. I do it, on an extreme level.
Or, in this post fact era just generate a wiki with a hallucinating AI instead.
https://github.com/XanderStrike/endless-wiki
Honestly this project looks like a lot of fun.
Wait why keep Debian? What happened to Debian?
Nothing, it's probably an attempt to have something stable and unchanging, so that aging doesn't show much.
The meme doesn't seem to be about Debian becoming bad, more like data hoarding.
I would also add Openstreetmap to the list
So I actually have a dockerized Debian/Ubuntu mirror I think is like 2 versions ob Debian and the latest Ubuntu and still less then 1tb in total size. The English wikipedia is 50gb so overall not that much and very doable. However pretty unnecessary
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Official numbers here https://www.debian.org/mirror/size
About 4.4TB, but that's all architectures and (I believe?) all distributions (stable, testing...).
If you only want source+all+amd64+arm64, and only want stable, it will be smaller of course.
Not nothing, but at $10/TB or so, it's not much.
And if you're following 3-2-1, I'm pretty sure the "1" is already handled for you :)
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Okay so where do I find some cheap hard drives? Europe if possible :-)
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Be smart and keep it all on thumb drives.