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I've been doing this for a while. You should find a cheap whole stack, computer, os, source code, solar cell, battery, and seal them in a galvanized trashcan wi
by ohiovr 5y ago
I've been doing this for a while. You should find a cheap whole stack, computer, os, source code, solar cell, battery, and seal them in a galvanized trashcan with metallic HVAC tape around the lid. This will protect it from high frequency EMP bursts in the upper atmosphere from multimegaton infastructure disruption weapons. Other things you may want to add is a soeks dosimeter..
Laptop computers with a core 2 duo are quite cheap and often come with enough memory to be considerble computers. Take all your home movies and run them through ffmpeg to make them run smooth on old hardware. Find a bunch of videos about making food, soap, how to make a gassifier, grain mill.. think creatively. It is almost time. You know it. That is why you are posting this.
- LinuxBender 5y agoAs a backup to the computer one could also print out important documents and photos then vacuum seal them. There are sites that discuss how to preserve documents for a very long time. Data backups with parity data and parity .par volumes can be written to DVD.
- ohiovr 5y agoI just pulled out a pc from a barrel that was non functional because of a dead button cell. Laptops shouldn't have that issue.
- BizarroLand 5y agoIf your laptop battery isn't removable, it may be unable to boot if the battery cell has died, even when connected to AC. Plus, laptops very much do have internal button cells and typically will either throw an error when booting or require a complete reinstall of the OS if something happened to the encryption key system along the way. Might want to have a linux install media (DVD + USB stick) available just in case.
- ohiovr 5y agoOne last thing, radioactivity destroys electronics fast. Radioactivity will destroy all those things anyway if you are near a primary target or downwind from one. I don't recommend burying a trashcan but having it in a basement might help.
- angrais 5y agoAn curious: _why_ are you doing this?
- wetmore 5y ago> It is almost time. You know it. That is why you are posting this.
- angrais 5y agoTime for what? That's my point of the above question: why?
- ohiovr 5y agoJust some bearded guy running his mouth off probably.
- AussieWog93 5y agoHe believes that some catastrophic event will happen soon that wipes out civilisation (e.g. nuclear war or pandemic 1000x as lethal as COVID). Google "prepper". There's a whole community out there of people who prepared for the absolute worst.
- gregjor 5y agoOr watch the NatGeo series Doomsday Preppers and learn how families who will perish within days because of diabetes spend tens of thousands on “tactical” gear and then run out of breath walking up a flight of stairs.
- LinuxBender 5y agoThere are for sure some disconnected preppers. The rest of us focus on our bodies first and foremost. One of my goals for the last decade has been to stock up and be able to create things that society depends on. Reverse engineering RX has been the hardest part for me. It has been a fun learning exercise. I witness a funny side effect of focusing on the body almost daily. I live in snow country. The locals here are bundled up in layers of sweaters, jackets, scarfs, hats. I am just wearing a t-shirt and they look at me like I'm an alien.