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> It would be feasible at the time to isolate the battery and directly power the rest of the device Or take a portable solar charger with you. > but... then w
by jolmg 7y ago
> It would be feasible at the time to isolate the battery and directly power the rest of the device
Or take a portable solar charger with you.
> but... then what? No internet, no wireless, no mechanism for input or output... it wouldn't be quite useless, but it's not all that useful.
It can hold a gigantic amount of invaluable information.
English Wikipedia as an HTML dump seems to be just 15GB[1]. I think that includes images. All OSM planetary map data seems to be storable in 45GB[2].
If only all knowledge was as accessible.
[1] https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/static_html_dumps/current/en/ https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/static_html_dumps/current/...
[2] https://planet.openstreetmap.org/ https://planet.openstreetmap.org/
- jerf 7y ago"It can hold a gigantic amount of invaluable information." Which can only be extracted by somebody hand-copying it down. Possibly we can work up some sort of photograph-based system to just graphically copy it to a book or something, though. Which is also the only hope you have of extracting the map data, too. This is the sort of thing I mean; things you take for granted as being valuable have huge chunks of their value chain hacked away. Audio content would be the easiest to deal with; cell phones would output master-quality recordings of whatever music you may have, because 1960 cables are still bigger than your phone's little jack, but at least they can fabricate a smaller one, electrically compatible with what they already have.