Ask HN: Offline resources during internet outages?

		Ask HN: Offline resources during internet outages?
	18 points by beefield 1 hour ago \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 14 comments
	I have a feeling that the risk for different infrastructure problems has increased here in Europe. Assuming internet outage for somewhat extended time, what would be good resources/tools to keep locally just in case? Some that I can think quickly from the top of my head might be: - offline wikipedia - offline stackoverflow - youtube-dl - libgen (are there tools to download e.g. only some genres?)

A tool like Dash/Zeal to have a searchable local copy of dev documentation.

I use it even when online because it's simply much quicker and a coherent UI across many languages.

Save webpages offline as HTML (resources inlined, even things like iframes and web components) https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

Good tips in this thread, I have relied on books for offline periods but some other documentation can't be a bad thing to add to my library.

- Offline email client (eg. Thunderbird, Outlook) with claendar sync

- Offline contacts (I print mine out on paper every 6 months)

- Google offline maps

- Decent calculator

- QR & barcode scanner

- copy of legislation

- phone book

What do you mean by a copy of legislation? Why would it be useful?

I use SingleFileZ to store web pages for future reference, and have Recoll scan them to search through them.

raspberry pi (some low energy home computer) serving nextcloud, offline wikipedia and OSM.

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