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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
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    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Wikipedia is the only piece of the internet I would save from apocalipse. Like, seriously.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, I have Wikipedia saved to a portable hard drive... Just in case

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't know if you're making fun of me, but, seriously, for me Wikipedia is an enormously valuable resource, much more than, for instance, YouTube (which I use, maybe, twice per year).

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There is a lot of People with a copy of Wikipedia, it only takes 8GB. Just for the case something happens. I dont think he is making fun of you.

Edit: this 8 GB was 10 years ago. From another article from 2022 it says 150Gb.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Some folks enjoy reading articles. Some folks enjoy to watch, listen and read (captions) at the same time. Some folks rather ask around and learn through conversations.

I've understood that it's generally easier to learn new things when you use many different channels (audio, imagery etc). To many people but not to all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wasn't making fun of you, just agreeing with you and telling you my fix

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I remember in the mid-aughts my brother hacked his iPod — the wheel kind, this was pre-iPhone — to hold the entirety of the text of English Wikipedia at the time.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's less than 90 gig to do a full backup. I can have the sum total of human knowledge on a 1TB external SDD, and still have room for Skyrim and my modlist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there an easy way of doing a full backup?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

ah I see, ty lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's interesting

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's only the text without any media. If you wanted to save all media on Wikimedia Commons, that would be about 420tb.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You get the images, just not audio or video files.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What if you need to remember how to procreate? I hear there are a number of informative videos about how to out there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

But there aren't on YouTube :-P

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It would also be nice to have a p2p service still up in the internet apocalypse to share all the things we have left.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Could work like the underground networks in Cuba (I say underground but apparently there's wires everywhere?)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I bought an app by Wikimedia CH that allows to download the whole thing. It’s called Kiwix.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you "bought" kiwix? AFAIK it's free

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There is a paid version on the Mac AppStore to support the project