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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 best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (31 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (12 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

According to my app, the whole English Wikipedia with pictures weighs 102.62GB, down to 60,06GB without.

There’s also a mini version that weighs 58,29GB but I don’t know what it contains

Wikipedia 1m Top Articles weighs 43,53GB

kiwix

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Any idea how the 8gb from another comment might be achieved?

Edit: I guess zipping it should work pretty well

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

TBH I have no idea

I just took a look at what my app is saying, but I didn’t dig into it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's probably only the text. Images and videos weigh a lot more than text.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

According to my app, the whole English Wikipedia with pictures weighs 102.62GB, down to 60,06GB without.

60GB is still more than 8GB

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The other comment checked a 10 year reddit link but didnt notice the date untill it went to search for it again because of this thread. Dumbass!

Source: it was I, the guy that did the comment.

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