Ask HN: I won't have Internet access for months, How could I use my time?

If you have free time, you could try to build an (offline) app that you or someone near you might need. It is good fun to find a user and build features for them.

Other comments have great pointers for downloading docs/books/resources offline. Also textbooks are underrated.

You could apply for funding from a charity to get a copy of the Internet Archive. The IA is making incomplete copies including search function available in form of a container containing several 19" racks called the Petabox: https://archive.org/web/petabox.php

This is still useful after the conflict is over, as rebuilding infrastructure can take decades, and the container could be beneficial if hosted e.g. by a school.

You could create a mesh network that links local organisations to the Petabox without being initially connected to "the" Internet.

In any case, I wish you personally well and peace to your country!

So if one can't find bread, one should go for cake.

I spent about a month without internet. I will be honest the last thing I touched was the learning resources. I downloaded youtube videos using ytdl and kept watching them on repeat. I would see a tv series every now and then, but nothing beat YouTube videos. You can request your entire liked videos information from Google. Moreover, it is very difficult learn programming without actually doing it and you can't realistically do programming without Google these days.

I don't think not having internet doesn’t suddenly make you 10x productive or 10x focused. You are the same person with and without internet. Just admit that upfront.

So, prep for it and try to replicate what your habits are with having internet.

You can download a few learning resources but please don't go overboard. Focus on one thing you want to finish completely. Don't go on a downloading spree.

Given your skill level, I would recommend working through the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs in Racket, which has a nice self-contained development environment.