You are going away, to some place isolated… in space, of course. You will only be around one other person. You can take an allotment if 1GB of personal media with you (text, video, music, games, pics, etc.) that you will be able to access in your free time indefinitely at will.

The other person will also take 1GB with them, but you won’t be able to talk to them until you’re on the journey.

You will have access to any knowledge resources to perform your function and keep you alive. You will never return to a point where you can get new external media. Any additional media you ever access would have to be created by you and or your travel partner with what you have access to.

You will also not know the sex of your partner, but they have willingly taken the same risks to embark on the journey as yourself, and will have a similar mission.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.ml
    21·
    2 months ago

    When you take file sizes into account, EBooks are the most high-density entertainment you can bring. Followed by old-school games, then music, then video.

  • zod000@lemmy.ml
    17·
    2 months ago

    Since size is paramount, I’d probably fill about half of this space with NES, GB, and SNES roms and the emulators to play them as well as a few highly replayable classic PC games (CIv, SIm City, X-Com, Warcraft 2, Doom) and some small programs to edit/create images, and a small compiler and text editing tool (maybe Pascal based as another commenter suggested). The rest would be filled with a tremendous amount text books in a compressed archive, both fiction and non-fiction.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Your comment made me think of that scene from The Matrix. Idk if that was intentional or not, but I liked it enough to ask an AI to make the image above.

  • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
    15·
    2 months ago

    Tons of epubs of books and TTRPGs, with dice rolling software. Classic SNES, NES, N64, GB, GBC, and GBA games, romhacks, and emulators. Storage-efficient MP3s of a few albums like Drukqs that get better with repeated listening, and classical, impressionist, and other such music. A photo of my fiancé.

  • ripcord@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 months ago

    One of those compressed Wikipedia dumps, and a whole bunch of retro games. And several MB of text-only ebooks. Compressed of course.

  • bacon_pdp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    well; if I start with this: https://www.hvsc.c64.org/downloads Which is 58K songs in 80MB (which is enough to last several lifetimes)

    Or I could get a mod tracker and some files from ftp://ftp.modland.com/pub/playlists/ and I would have the ability in a few 100 MB to make the type of music I enjoy (It would take 150GB to get every sample of every sound used in the entire world)

    Hit up https://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php if you want a bunch of awesome demos ranging from 32 bytes all the way up to 32KB per

    unxz.c is 60KB of code and everything you need to build it from source (with literally nothing but hex) only takes up 1.4MB of space https://github.com/oriansj/stage0-posix/

    and with unxz, untar and ungz basically Text compresses extremely well and you’ll have a hundred lifetimes of books thanks to https://gutenberg.org/

    But movies like S1m0ne (2002), Sneakers (1992) and Colossus - The Forbin Project (1970) could also fit too.

  • VelvetStorm@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 months ago

    As many digital books as possible and an emulator with as many old school games as possible assuming I have access to a way to play them.

  • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    50% books maximum compression 25% music 128kb or maybe 96kb 25% video, cartoons compress the best, very low quality audio, very low resolution, very low framerate. Probably my favorite episodes from Futurama, Bluey.

    I’d rather have loads of shitty quality content than a few choice pristine copies of high quality stuff.

    I might also consider reducing each of those by half and including One of the smaller 250-500mb LLM and have it draft out ideas for stories and sit around writing code to make it generate content.

  • Sequentialsilence@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 months ago

    Random name, npc, map generators for tabletop roleplaying. It’s just text and lookup tables. You can fit a lot of that in 1gb.