Create Your Own Digital Library 

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

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

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! 👍

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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."

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.

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

One miscredited clip, two miscredited cli- . . . . ohhhhh.

Just a heads-up, MicroSD cards have insanely high failure rates. You should think of them as disposable storage. The most economical mass storage for unchanging data is to write to spinning HDD's (2 or more drives with the same data is even better), unplug them and store in cool, dry (separate) places far from magnets. Nothing is fool-proof, but if you're on a super tight budget and can't afford redundant storage arrays, magnetic drives in cold storage that you boot up as needed or every 3-5 years and make new copies are the way to go. Great video, btw! I didn't catch the movie clip titles until saving private ryan. You definitely earned my sub.

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.

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!

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.

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die." Bladerunner (1982)

It s kind of interesting that there are multiple Videos from TREX Labs where some hours before it releases i have the exact same topic in mind. Bought a second SSD today to backup my primary external one… best regards from Germany

That labeling from select clips was entertaining. :)

Someone smarter than I said "the cloud is just somebody else's computer."

This reminds me of a class I took two semesters ago on Digital History. He is absolutely right on everything he is saying.

I grew up watching Sean Kennedy of RantMedia and because of him I became a data hoarder. I've filled multiple hard drives, CDs, Printouts, ect of stuff. I even make backups of internet bookmarks which has been really useful.

I see we are slowly heading towards setting up NAS's (network attached storage) (make sure you connect them to a UPS / uninterrupted power supply). Aside from the usual business / enterprise use cases, they can be your own personal cloud and streaming service. You can easily rip movie files from DVDs and blurays that you own, and place them on a NAS instead of having to rely on netflix, amazon prime, disney plus, ect. It will also protect media from going down the "memory hole", I believe it was WB a couple years ago that was deleting all sorts of old media in order to write it off. As for backing up data, follow the 3-2-1 principle, 3 copies of your data, on two different types of storage media, with one copy being offsite. Blu-ray are a decent pick for more long term back ups. Blu-ray disks can easily hold 15-50gb depending on manufacturer, and can be data safe for anywhere from 15 to 100 years (allegedly), depending on manufacturer.

I have never trusted the cloud (period). I love movies, TV series , music, video games, etc. I have a 50TB media server with almost 7,000 movies, almost 1,700 TV series, countless music, MAME/console emulator ROMS and PC games. As far as games go, if I can't install and play without the Internet, I just don't get into or hooked on them. My entire media library is backed up twice onto both 2.5" portable drives and NVME drives. I can literally hold my entire collection in the palm of my hands and access from my cell phone, tablet or PC. Obviously we can't store everything. I think each of us should archive what we care about to ensure it survives.

There is a project called protomaps. The project provides the entire current (weekly updates) OpenStreetMap of Earth in a single 120Gb file, and a map tile server. So should be able to run a map tile server locally and add it as a custom map source to ATAK EUDs. Haven't gotten around to trying it but should work if ATAK supports Mapbox Vector Tiles (MVT) directly.

I knew something was off when I searched "Logans Run 1982" and nothing existed for that year - I understand the point, especially having looked at other comments. I will say though, I do enjoy the clips being accurately labeled - there has been a few movies I've watched because of this channel. Would be cool if someone had a comment with all the clips and their actual movie titles, lol.

LTT has put out a ton of content over the years on building and setting up your own NAS. Any old or extra PC can be converted to your own local server accessible to all devices on your LAN. Make it a Plex media server while you’re at it and cut your dependence on streaming services.

Good rule of thumb for backups that has stood the test of time: 3 copies, 2 formats (storage mediums), 1 of them offline

It's so weird, literally yesterday I just bought a hard copy encyclopedia at my local thrift store before watching this video. It was a world book to boot!

The scene from Blade Runner being attributed to Logan's Run is the BEST example of how data can be corrupted 😅😅😅 Well done!

Love to see branching out to help people consider a full spectrum defense of liberty

go go mesh decentralization. Assemble private clouds, control your devices, abolish using OPC (other people's computers)

Hey Lucas, my name is Bob Carter and I absolutely love how much attention to detail was given to properly citing the various clips used throughout this video. That said, I’d like to direct your attention to 10:45 in which the film Animal Farm (1999) was improperly labeled as 1984 (1984). Please take this critique constructively; I have much respect for the entire DYNO LABS team and hope you keep up all the great work you’re doing to make sure “they, the people” are staying informed. “We, the system” owe you a great debt for your efforts… Thanks again! - Bill Chapel

Clip labels were solid gold.

Great content, on a forgotten topic. It's so relevant in this digital age, and we forget got important it is to not let them "change history".

I'm a bit of a data hoarder. This is why I have gotten into building my own home servers. I plan on vastly expanding my home hosting and archiving ability this year, great timing on this video. Gives me ideas on how to archive things like Wikipedia.

TREX and PSA are so awesome. Love their philosophies.

Wow, I’m so excited about this video. What a great topic. I’m a new subscriber thank you so much. Can’t wait to watch all your videos.

Great topic 👍. Waiting for the end to see if there’s a punchline to why several of the movie clips don’t match the titles, lol.

Also a good repository of information for a project like this is the Survivor Library. You can buy a copy, download the files individually for free, or you can write a script to download them for you. I’m not sure how this differs from Project Gutenberg, but either way, it’s another resource worth being aware of.

The not owning games comment was hilarious and underrated.

I hope that this becomes a regular series with updates. Thanks for the info.

I've had similar feelings about reading the first volume of Gargantuan Gunsite Gossip as you describe about the reporting in Solider of Fortune. Great to hear directly from someone who was there at the time.

Ive had this in mind for a long time; preserving certain information to protect it from a dark age. It's a noble and honorable thing to do. Thats why The Brotherhood of Steel does it. Who knows. Mayne we will have an equivalent to them in the coming future. I think we already know who's gonna become the Enclave. Seems we already have the Enclave actually.

@T.REXLabs a faraday bag SHOULD be a part of ALLLLLLL our hard drive storage BECAUSE of the solar flares release small ( tiny) particals that SHOOT THROUGH our drives and take out sectors, slowly corrupting little tiny parts which can become big parts depending on the way your dice fall.

2:57 lol burn. So am I.Thank you for everything, yall are doing the Lords work.

This might not be your most popular content, but it is the content I enjoy the most

You mislabeled at least 3 movie clips (probably more, maybe all of them? Will have to rewatch to be sure.). Watching the end of the video explains why you did it. I just figured your editor messed up.

I have been doing this the 80's, of course this was necessary before the internet and cloud as we know it. I have everything on a few terabyte drives. I do not trust cloud backup. They can look at anything they want and deny access anytime.

I could see saving any kind of medical journals as a good idea. Anything explaining what antibiotics to use for a specific illness, how to diagnose illnesses, how to suture, etc.

The great thing with modern tech is how much more reliable drives are and how small text files are capacity wise.

I highly recommend everyone who cares about their data who has even just a little experience with computers to have a NAS. I recommend models from WD or Synology. Keep a mirrored storage medium with backups of your documents you can pack into a backpack on a moments notice. Synology NAS drives also encrypt all of the data on the drives (if desired) and only YOU are able to decrypt it. Data security is incredibly important.

That movie clip was from Band of Brothers, not Saving Private Ryan. I noticed that right as soon as it was played.

I'm very glad you mentioned that the cloud is just someone else's computer. I only wish you hadn't waited until the very end as some my have tuned out by then. Too many people look at the "cloud" as some magical place where data, including theirs, lives. It is not. It is just someone else's computer.

Already am. *Self hosting* and *NAS* is superb.

What if you create a home server rack and home network ? Setting up your own firewall, storage, and setup pi hole, the sky is the limit once you setup a home lab.

I also believe switching to Linux is a must for any serious open source advocate. Start with Linux mint and go from there, windows is not your friend.

Old Dell Poweredge R720 with 36TB of drives running off 600w worth of solar panels with Starlink. I'm all set.

SOF had great reporting on the wars in Angola and Mozambique in the 70s and 80s.

I wish I have the money to buy storage to archive the data. I have the entire survivors library offline. My drive is old and not sure how long it will last. Hopefully I can get a new one in the future. Excellent video. FYI my WD external hardr dive is over 8 years old. More reliable that ssd.

Wow. A lot of good stuff here. My opinion has a good helping of confirmation bias, but I like where you seem to be going with this.

And here I was thinking I had finally gone bonkers, lol. Because I knew that some of those labels for the movies were off.

Kiwix on the phone kinda sucks NGL, but on linux, it's an absolutely wonderful experience.

Ah yes, SOF magazine. That brings back the memories... Hopefully I can set up such a device in the very near future. Great video. Also, I would love to still have the various articles by Mel Tappan...although even then I did not always agree with him.

Trex Arms meeting r/selfhosted might be my new favorite crossover

I've wanted my own NAS for a long time but finally took action on that desire at the first of this year. I've also owned a Linux machine that doesn't play well with the Internet so the only way I get data on to it is via sneaker net. It's getting old and I really should back it up before the 1993 hard drive decides to give up on me. This is the first video I've seen from this channel and as soon as the video was over, I subscribed. I'm curious what other gems are on this channel.

Independence Day? I seem to remember Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith having a greater regard for tax law. I'm sure I will remember what movie that was actually from Tomorrow- or perhaps The Day After that...

Sync / formerly BTSync is a peer to peer file syncing program. your stuff travels over your local network in house or internet to authorized computers, encrypted, set to share files or directories point to point. Not cloud. you can then move these folders to a flash drive and throw them in your safe. download as many books as you can. You can get into Faraday cages too. Buys Vinyl records and CDs please! Books physical

wait a second, I'd like to see that documentary on the NZ film industry. My family was heavily involved in the old South African film industry, I still remember cataloging all the old film reels that were later digitized and subsequently sold off or destroyed. Old documentary's, film from different era's dating back to when film was first made here in Africa.. many of the old timers who had immigrated in the 90's would of gone to NZ and Australia, perhaps influencing their film or pulling out of the industry entirely.. as socialism(communism) took over the colonies. Who could doubt that it does not have a foothold today, more like a stronghold.

“You will own nothing, and you will be happy”

I did not expect this to turn into a love letter to Soldier of Fortune magazine, lol. Of course, I also have an archive of SoF so lol.

just started the video, so I might be putting the cart before the horse here by commenting already. I've taken this a step further and built completely local versions of Chat GPT (Llama 3) that can live in a Farday bag. Granted you'll need a power source to use it for longer than a laptop charge. I see this as the future of privacy, oddly enough.

how to make microfilm/microfiche? I think this, like celluloid film, will outlast digital storage.

Always a good video from the Labs

As the data gets more, and more centralized by a few it becomes easier to manipulate available information from the past in an effort to manipulate the current or the future.

I recommend saving your information and data to at least three different platforms. You can use hard drives, a cloud storage solution, and something like dvds or archives grade flash drives. I would also suggest having multiples of each of those for extremely important files. Storage is relatively cheap these days across many different formats. Saving your files in an EMP proof container is also very easy and cheap. And don’t keep all of your backup storage in one location such as your home or office. What if there’s a fire or tornado or some other natural disaster or theft. So at least three different types of storage and multiples of them and at least two different physical locations is the best.

If you are a technically competent computer user, there are cheap server hdds on RU-vid for mass storage. Most have plenty of life in them, and 10 to 20 tbs is ALOT of data when you can get that at 15 to 30 bucks. I personally have at home a petabox I self built which has an insane amount of saved videos from youtube on repair,tactics etc. Never needed cloud again and very soon I suspect every person will have to have an offline server (from the internet, not your network) to preserve certain information...Very cool video.

Glad to know when the year 2000 gets here, the world loses all its technological advances and we go back to the stone age Trex Arms will still be producing content. Keep up the energy yall, the world is what we make it.

I have a whole Playlist called "learn" with every youtube video I've found and thought I would need to reference. This video is now in it

I remember a few times iTunes would delete all my music files. It was a big pain in the ass but I had most of it backed up on a separate drive. When it happened again I realized it would be better to back up everything. There's really no such thing as "a cloud" , it's all someone else's computer (I guess Hillary Clinton and Anthony wiener didn't realize this, lol.) I remember reading solder of fortune magazine as a kid, one issues I still have was on spetznaz operator in Afghanistan and WHO was training the Afghan groups, it was VERY eye opening in light of what has happened in the decades since the Russians left Afghanistan it all checked out. Our worst enemy has always been our own government.

Remember -- if you save a backup of Wikipedia, you also save a backup of all the changes that have ever been made to it -- as well as all the Talk pages discussing those changes.

It is amazing how information is transitory. information may disappear at anytime.

SOF lost me when Chuck Taylor said that real men prefer full auto M-14s! As one who has fired one not on a flat range, that was an instant credibility killer.

The clip about book burning is from the day after tomorrow

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I was wondering if you would bring up gridbase. I put in an order a couple months ago for the base station. Hoping it ships this fall

A book that everyone needs to read today is Little Brother by Corey Doctorow. It's basically the sequel to 1984 except set in 2004 in San Francisco. The book is free under the creative commons license.

Nice work....top notch 👍

14:12 Is this a sarcastic take on the alterations to true historic information?! 😂 Well played! Something seemed fishy all of the sudden. My alarms went crazy! 😄

Trex, if you sold these storage devices pre-loaded with essential library (such as a static copy of Wikipedia) I would definitely buy one!

is there a reason all the movie credits are wrong?

I'm glad to have stumbled upon this channel. I have watched T-Rex stuff over the years, but this crossover into "techie" stuff is a bit of a nice surprise. I will admit I almost skipped it, but I am glad I did not. Thanks and Cheers!

You know what’s underrated? Having physical hard copies of important documents, pictures or even books and games. The cloud revolution was an over correction to declutter and secure our important information from physical destruction. Everything is a balance.

Cloud assets are backed up in a minimum of three locations. Those locations can be geographically separated, but that costs more.

All valuable data should be permanent. Permanence gives data maximum security by eliminating the risk of censorship. Irys guarantees that data on it will function exactly as intended, forever.

Yeah this dude is speaking wisdom here. We might have different political ideas but we live in the same world. That micro server is epic cool!

Remember. The cloud is just someone else's computer. If you stream it. You don't own it or can expect to be able to access it later. 14:09 - Miss labelling Blade Runner Logan's Run (1976) with Blade Runner (1982) is an incredibly meta level demonstration of how data is corrupted over time. See also CGP Grey 'Someone dead ruined my life again' . Academics have been battling this problem for hundreds (and thousands) of years. The information age and AI generated content will only make things a million times worse. Especially with AI suggesting people eat rocks and glue... Another note. History deserves to preserved. Even books in which you find abhorrent and objectional deserve to be preserved for future generations to study. Because if we don't learn from the mistakes of the past. We will be doomed to repeat them. Sanitising old media to make it acceptable to current audiences is not only disrespectful to those who were wronged. But its trying to pretend those things never happened which honestly is even worse...

I loved the original idea of Google books. They were trying to make Babylon's library, digitalizing every piece of printed media, in every language, and make it available for everyone. But sadly, greedy publishers made sure it wouldn't happen.