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[+] 41 points 11 months ago (23 children)
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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Well, shit. Got 2 tebibytes to transfer, guess I’d better start now, hey?

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  • [–] 34 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    Good thing transferring 2 tebibytes is no slower than 2 kibibytes

    Just attach two of these bad boys

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  • [–] 38 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    On your other Arch laptop, obviously. You need multiple pre-owned ThinkPads loaded with Arch at any given time to maintain workable redundancy, just like you need several clean pairs of programming socks.

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  • [–] 29 points 11 months ago (6 children)
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    Going to save this link just in case the Internet goes down one day.

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  • [–] 20 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    I saved the comment so I can download the wiki if I ever lose internet.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    I downloaded all your comments so I could read them in case the Internet stops existing.

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago

    Another option that's available is hosting your own Kiwix instance and downloading the Arch Wiki .zim file.

    I have a few other .zim's from the Kiwix library including Alpine Wiki, Stack Overflow, Man pages and a full copy of Wikipedia. There's a lot available at that Kiwix library which can make for a good offline digital library.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Whenever I have a Linux box without Internet I just USB tether an Android phone---if the phone is on WiFi then it uses that (not cell), so it's basically just a WiFi adapter that's almost universally supported. (I think it NATs, so in some circumstances won't work, but good enough for most emergency use cases.)

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I've never tried that. I do the wifi hotspot but what do I need to do USB tether?

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    The wifi hotspot uses mobile data and requires an active wifi reciever on the computer while the usb tether can use mobile or wifi data and only requires a working usb on the computer.

    You basically only plug a usb data cord between the computer and phone, and then activate usb tether in the phones connection settings

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