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xattt • today at 2:07 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

I have a feeling the next step will be media megacorps pressuring nations to create legislation to clamp down on software/hardware enabling anonymous Linux ISO downloads and the viewing of said Linux ISOs via Plex/Jellyfin.


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ppchain • today at 3:59 PM

I have about 100TB of Linux ISO's for precisely this reason. I think of it like the doomsday prepping of storing canned goods for the collapse. Instead I store media on hard drives so if the landscape of the internet changes in 10 years at least I can rewatch Frasier for the rest of my life.

I'm mildly short on HDD space right now due to hardware prices, but I want to hoard some local LLM models as well, again not for a current need, but just in case something changes.

WD-42 • today at 3:06 PM

They already did that in the 2000s, it didn’t work.

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dylan604 • today at 2:59 PM

It is amazing the number of variations of Linux distros that people are willing to try for such a short amount of time before switching to the next.