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I recently decided to create my own offline content library on my computer. Who else is doing this and do you have any tips? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I collected about 10 gigabytes of what I like, but I got tired of it so to speak, there were no download buttons, so I had to steal the old-fashioned way without tricks.

In fact, I've been trying to put together a compact portable library that I can carry around on flash drives, because I have a really bad feeling about the near future.

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[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One piece of advice, backup that flash drive. Flash drives are not reliable storage.

Beyond that, I'm doing much the same thing for much the same reason. I'm a couple of terabytes ahead of you, though.

I wound up putting everything on a NAS and setting up remote access through Tailscale.

[–] SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, I heard flash drives are crap. I'm thinking of using them as disposables to transfer data from one device to another in the face of trackers and stuff, and then destroying the flash drive. I'm not sure if that's a good practice though.

[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 week ago

An irrelevant practice perhaps. Once you have the media and have stripped any DRM trackers aren’t generally a worry anymore, at least not from the media files. Other software on your system may be another question entirely.

Might ask around in !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com as to best practices, as they are generally pretty privacy oriented by necessity.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 1 week ago

Passive data cannot track you. Even if you have a program with a nefarious virus on the drive. As long as you're not executing it it cannot harm you.