Ask HN: If you could bring 500 gigs to a deserted island, what would you bring? Say you were going to a deserted island with electricity but no internet connection. What 500 gigabytes worth of data/programs/etc would you bring? Assume you’d have a computer available to you with a functioning OS of some sort |
Boat Building for Dummies
Survival on Desert Islands
The SAS Survival Manual
US Army Rangers Survival Manual
9005 Fire Starting Techniques
The entire electronic back archive of American Survival Guide magazine
And, of course, every episode of Gilligan's Island.
The rest of the space would probably go to music. Mostly metal, some hip hop, some synthwave, a little classical, and like 2 country songs for those really rare occasions when I actually want to hear country music.
If there's space, also a few games. I don't know what I'd do about reading material for relaxation, though, kinda depends on how long I'm gonna be there.
Things get squirrely if we're talking about a permanent move, restarting civilization after a catastrophe, or travel in time or space.