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In a post apocalyptic world, aside 1st necessity goods (food, drinkable water, medicines, knowledge on how to build/repair things), there will be a lack of ener

In a post apocalyptic world, aside 1st necessity goods (food, drinkable water, medicines, knowledge on how to build/repair things), there will be a lack of energy; be prepared to keep armed watch of your roof if you have solar panels there. I wouldn't even try to keep powerful computers around if I couldn't supply them (and their peripherals) with what I have at hand, which could well be no more than a couple solar panels and some stepper motors converted to wind generators connected to a scavenged truck battery. So if the end of civilization occurs, Before anyone realizes that they're going to become doorstops, I will happily trade all my fastest computers for more important stuff as I already have in the junk boxes what would count as an IT lab of the apocalypse to build useful stuff usable in energy scarcity situations: a couple of very low powered netbooks, a few arduinos and similar low powered boards, b/w LCDs, sensors, relays, steppers and other electronics parts (all tht), gas and battery operated solder irons and a few solar panels. All stuff, however, that could turn 100% useless should I lose or break my glasses (Wasn't there a old Twilight Zone episode about that eventuality?) or deplete my heart medicines. If shit hits the fan, no matter how hard one prepares for the worst, the lack of a single small thing whose availability we take for granted in normal life could screw everything.

akprasad 4y ago
> Wasn't there a old Twilight Zone episode about that eventuality? Indeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_at_Last https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_at_Last Adapted from this short story: https://gutenberg.org/files/32633/32633-h/32633-h.htm https://gutenberg.org/files/32633/32633-h/32633-h.htm
- branon 4y ago
  That's not fair. That's not fair at all. There was time now. There was all the time I needed...
eternityforest 4y ago
I wish more preppers would focus on rebuilding the modern supply chain as fast as possible. As long as there's a chip fab, a car factory, a lab that makes medicine, the priority should be to get it running and defend it. There will be people who want to loot or destroy it. Ecofascist primitivists could even be one of the major groups involves. But in a lot of disaster scenarios it should be possible to get a modern farm and the most critical labs running at least for a while, and start working on sustainable supplies. In some scenarios there might not really be any physical disruption at all besides the economy, starvation, or war not leaving time to keep tech running. I almost get the feeling a lot of preppers don't even want the modern world to exist though. They'd rather have privacy and hard work that see everyone sheltered in office jobs again.

akprasad 4y ago

> Wasn't there a old Twilight Zone episode about that eventuality? Indeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_at_Last https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_at_Last Adapted from this short story: https://gutenberg.org/files/32633/32633-h/32633-h.htm https://gutenberg.org/files/32633/32633-h/32633-h.htm

branon 4y ago
That's not fair. That's not fair at all. There was time now. There was all the time I needed...

eternityforest 4y ago

I wish more preppers would focus on rebuilding the modern supply chain as fast as possible. As long as there's a chip fab, a car factory, a lab that makes medicine, the priority should be to get it running and defend it. There will be people who want to loot or destroy it. Ecofascist primitivists could even be one of the major groups involves. But in a lot of disaster scenarios it should be possible to get a modern farm and the most critical labs running at least for a while, and start working on sustainable supplies. In some scenarios there might not really be any physical disruption at all besides the economy, starvation, or war not leaving time to keep tech running. I almost get the feeling a lot of preppers don't even want the modern world to exist though. They'd rather have privacy and hard work that see everyone sheltered in office jobs again.