> Remember, the title here is "Off-Grid" not "Post cataclysmic disaster". There's lots of quotidian off-grid experiences people experience all the time. That's

> Remember, the title here is "Off-Grid" not "Post cataclysmic disaster". There's lots of quotidian off-grid experiences people experience all the time. That's what the title says, but he's also trying to EMP shield it, so he's definitely thinking about "post cataclysmic disaster" cases. If the bombs fall, I don't think PC will be very useful, and putting effort into making sure you have one actually seems like it could do more harm than good. My sense is there might be fallacy underlying this of computer-people assuming the tool they're most skilled with will always remain important and useful to them.