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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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[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

I have something like that on my iPhone, except it's like 150GB of media (it's a 512GB phone).

I have a lot more on my Plex server. But, sometimes I'm without Internet and it's nice to be able to queue up a favorite video or movie without worrying about my network connection.

If you only have 10GB, any phone should work. A newer one will have faster data rates than a flash drive. iPhones are guaranteed to. Good Android phones use UFS 3.0 or better which is only slower than what's in an iPhone on paper. In real usage you won't really see a difference. Plus, you have a screen on it so you can watch whenever. I mean the cheap phones now start at like 64GB, iPhones and probably Android flagships start at 128GB, even from a few years ago. So it's plenty of space and it's also emulators and books and whatever else you wanna throw on it. Oh yeah, music too.