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As someone with continual power outages (PR) I could offer advice. but it depends on how much money you have. The itch to code is nonexistant, its basically off

by nmz 4y ago

As someone with continual power outages (PR) I could offer advice. but it depends on how much money you have. The itch to code is nonexistant, its basically off grid living. keep everything offline (r/datahoarder r/opendirectories) every byte counts, Yes, Every single byte (No mp3's, its all opus) opus with a bitrate of 16 for audiobook/podcast (thank god for those, I can have an entire library of a podcast and its less than a gigabyte. Stick to less than 720p for videos. its good enough. You're going to be using the tablet a lot for movie viewing, 1080p is overkill. if you happen to have small power generation, dlna is usable on most devices. keep a fullstack language, there's only 2 solutions here I can think of luapower, and factor. (though factor is x86 only, which is pretty bad). Power generation is tricky, if you can afford solar, do so. a gas powered generator is tricky, the smaller ones are better since they use less gas. and you want to save as much gas as possible. its amazing how ba generators are, here, you could smell it in the air like inhaling poison.

the_og_umar 4y ago
It seems you live in a place a survivalist would be preparing for, it would be interesting to know where this is from?
- cfeduke 4y ago
  They mention Puerto Rico in their post.
  - OJFord 4y ago
    That's (from 'PR') probably not obvious to a lot of people - I thought 'People's Republic'.
yamtaddle 4y ago
> Yes, Every single byte (No mp3's, its all opus) opus with a bitrate of 16 for audiobook/podcast (thank god for those, I can have an entire library of a podcast and its less than a gigabyte. Stick to less than 720p for videos. If you're... ahem... sailing the seas, it can be easier to find 1080p h.265 copies at 1.5-2.5GB/each than it can be to find 720p or lower compressed with a high-efficiency, high-quality codec like that. The 480p or 720p rips available may well be larger than the 1080p version. The quality on those h.265 rips isn't even terrible. Better than Netflix's 1080p streams (which is damning with faint praise, since those are WTF bad, but still, it's pretty incredible how decent they can be in such a small file size).

by nmz 4y ago

the_og_umar 4y ago

It seems you live in a place a survivalist would be preparing for, it would be interesting to know where this is from?

cfeduke 4y ago
They mention Puerto Rico in their post.
- OJFord 4y ago
  That's (from 'PR') probably not obvious to a lot of people - I thought 'People's Republic'.

yamtaddle 4y ago

> Yes, Every single byte (No mp3's, its all opus) opus with a bitrate of 16 for audiobook/podcast (thank god for those, I can have an entire library of a podcast and its less than a gigabyte. Stick to less than 720p for videos. If you're... ahem... sailing the seas, it can be easier to find 1080p h.265 copies at 1.5-2.5GB/each than it can be to find 720p or lower compressed with a high-efficiency, high-quality codec like that. The 480p or 720p rips available may well be larger than the 1080p version. The quality on those h.265 rips isn't even terrible. Better than Netflix's 1080p streams (which is damning with faint praise, since those are WTF bad, but still, it's pretty incredible how decent they can be in such a small file size).