Create Your Own Digital Library

Internet providers, cloud storage options, and social media algorithms are constantly changing, but now information itself is also in flux. Companies come and go, servers are offlined, even the world's biggest encyclopedia changes every second. Here is how you can develop your own digital library that is more stable and resilient.

Let us know in the comments what you would include in your personal digital library.

[texasranger]

My digital library is completely owned by the NSA. So nice of them, making a backup of all my data...

[hoorayimhelping]

For everyone wondering why the movie titles don't match the clips: a large portion of the video is dedicated to explaining that you can't trust information that other people have control of, and that you need to verify the information you're given because it could be wrong.

[Katana_Gryphon]

3:00 “fortunately I’m already used to the idea of not owning any Ubisoft games” underrated sick burn lmao

[Jtitor]

Forget Gridbase pocket. I just bought my own Raspberry Pi Zero with a case for $40 and configured it myself with Kiwix. Connected a 4tb external hard drive to store countless important files, movies, documentaries, pdfs, photos and music. Encrypted it. Bought a small used Pelican case for $15 on FB Marketplace, and EMP proofed it.

[Cyber-fe]

Decentralization is a choice...until its not. Excellent video as always.

[rmps]

This is exactly why I have an HP Proliant server running unRAID with over 56TB of storage. I noticed this coming and I'm quite a data hoarder so I built this out and have been backing up everything I can. All my movies, music, entire backups of my entire Google presence, Facebook presence, even all my Audible books. Currently working on getting all my Kindle books...it's proving to be tricky but I refuse to accept "you will own nothing and you will be happy". Flat-out refuse. If anyone would like more info on doing the same, I'm happy to help! 👍

[Cooliofamily]

As a cybersecurity professional, homelab enthusiast, and ‘personal cloud operator’, I really enjoy these videos and the creation of this channel generally. Keep it up.

[luciuschappell]

Saving a massive library of "how to" YouTube repair videos would be invaluable and an incalculable loss if the cloud went down.

[johnmarston]

14:07

What a fantastic little hidden Easter Egg. This absolutely unforgettable scene from Blade Runner mislabeled as Logan’s Run, as a nod to the theme of the video regarding the rewriting of history and passing off falsehoods as truth. I see you guys, you guys are funny.

[ebnd]

The best part of this episode, and the most subtle part that really drive the point home is the wrong movie titles. It brings the topic together

[viewatyourownrisk]

I'm glad you acknowledged the movie clip inaccuracies. I was more than slightly confused by it...until I realized the only accurate naming was 1984. Clever

[SuperMIKevin]

I am immensely grateful that so many are working on creating libraries.

It's not something we can do alone, it may seem easy, as i used to think 10 years ago when i started a library using hard drives, thinking i would have time to transfer it to other types of media, i was wrong, i failed, i lost everything.

Life happens, it gets in the way.

You will probably fail also if you are doing it alone, unless this is the most important project of your life and you care about nothing else.

So thank you all for your hard work.

[DPolk]

CS Lewis said his best way of helping people to Christ was the catch them unaware. You do the same thing through small, inoffensive truths. Absolutely love you guys

[reza]

as an Iranian, I grew up learning that you can not take a lot of things as granted, I'm working my way out of the cloud (someone else's computer), its much more common to us to loose internet access (thanks to the tyrannical government) and this video gave me a really usefool ideas to what to do for when such thing happens.

thank you Isaac and thank you t-rex arms

[dasiksupahuman]

I been using the same hard drive for 20 years to watch my movies and store my books. I was today years old when I found out that it wont last. Thank you for teaching me something.

[mydakotablue]

Ever since YouTube started taking down a bunch of guntuber videos a couple years ago, I've started downloading all the informational videos I can from many different sources and adding them into multiple libraries, both online and offline. I love data hoarding!

[SuperBlooper]

Soldier of Fortune is a very apt example of being able to debunk modern lies with old truth. These days, if you say that the Glock 17 is so-named because of it's 17-round capacity, people will tell you that "ackshully, it's because it was Gaston Glock's 17th patent." However, if you look on the Austria patent's office website, you'll find that there's multiple Glock patents, all of which predate his 17th patent, which only occurred years after the first gen Glock 17 was released. But if you were to look on page 39 in the October 1984 issue of Soldier of Fortune, you will find some of the earliest press coverage of the pistol, which recounts Peter Kokalis's experience with it at Glock's headquarters in Austria, where he writes:
"At 21.175 oz., empty, the Glock 17 (referring to its magazine capacity) compares favorably to the competition."

[johndunbar]

I've collected hundreds of .pdf books and manuals, from a source years ago, that had to do with survival, preparedness, and the like. I just keep it on a few different hard drives, but I need to revisit that and get that more in order and add to it.

I'm glad y'all made this channel. I'm not a super tech guy, but Isaac is doing his best to turn me into one. Thanks T-Rex Labs team.

[MrJayBee]

So wild that this pops up on my feed from you guys as im researching how to build my own home server and media library. good timing boys we need it now more than ever!

[FreeThinkingWisdom]

Pretty sure your independence day clip was actually the day after tomorrow.

Future me here: I see the point you're making and it's a good one.