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Re: Prepper Disk

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I think I’d rather have as much of this information as possible in a laminated, ring-bound book with the holes in the pages reinforced. Also the content could be tightly edited and laid out to maximize the amount of information in the book. Of course that would actually be a lot of work to both write and manufacture, so better to just get something that will be useless the first time it gets wet or power runs out.

Getting something useless on purpose sounds like an odd thing to do

Re: Prepper Disk

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post #2

It’s an interesting thought but I think there are better ways to do this than having some external disk. You could download all of WikiPedia, medical articles, etc to a laptop to the same effect. A survivalist book is probably even better since it won’t rely on power. The product offering of an AI chatbot for when the power goes out made me laugh out loud.

An ai chatbot might be a more accessible way to access information. Also, batteries and solar exist

Exactly what you want during a disaster - a chatbot confidently hallucinating nonsense answers to your questions when you can't verify them.

Re: Prepper Disk

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post #13

Is there a public list of shtf type materials like this if someone wanted to collect or edit their own material?

There are a number of various things you can find, depending on what you're looking for.

Years ago I found a torrent called "The Ark" which is a collection of various other torrents from different sources, and includes all sorts of random data that could be quite useful in a shtf scenario.

At 238GB it's not that large.

Re: Prepper Disk

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post #12

Cute. I have a local instance of kiwix (mostly to avoid distractions) and can see how this would be useful.

I used to lose Internet access every spring when the snow would melt - a good time to see what I could still do without it.

Answer is usually: Jellyfin, iTunes (local music), and various PDFs and kiwix.

Surprisingly large amounts of software and even the OS slow to a crawl if they can't contact the Internet (but think they should be able to). Annoying.

Re: Prepper Disk

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170€ for a "Raspberry Pi 4B with 2GB of RAM and a 512GB premium SD memory card".

Any bets how long that SD card is gonna last?

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