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 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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WD-42 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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HeatrayEnjoyer 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It's 2026 though.

	▲	ezst an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Even less likely to work in 2026. The only reason why the west-aligned world does the bidding of Walt Disney & friends, and doesn't instead shrug at DMCA and other extraterritorial IP laws, is to stay in good trading terms with the US. Now consider how much of that incentive remains when you are on the receiving end of illegal and arbitrary tariffs.

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dylan604 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.