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There is a certain kind of boomer who ended up retiring to a little hobby farm with a couple chickens and maybe a pig or a few sheep...
We are all going to end up with hobby server farms, with a localized coy of Wikipedia backed up, and a file and image server, maybe some email...
Already working on it. Evergrowing collection of media of all sorts. But I've been working on that for decades by now.
They will put a stop to this by jacking up prices of hdds insanely high. You will have no choice. Hdds dont last long, and they are being made with worse quality every year.
I guess we can figure out how to chain together 40+ 500gb hdds somehow...