Title is a little sensational but this is a cool project for non-technical folks who may need a mini-internet or data archive for a wide variety of reasons:

“PrepperDisk is a mini internet box that comes preloaded with offline backups of Wikipedia, street maps, survivalist information, 90,000 WikiHow guides, iFixit repair guides, government website backups (including FEMA guides and National Institutes of Health backups), TED Talks about farming and survivalism, 60,000 ebooks and various other content. It’s part external hard drive, part local hotspot antenna—the box runs on a Raspberry Pi that allows up to 20 devices to connect to it over wifi or wired connections, and can store and run additional content that users store on it. It doesn’t store a lot of content (either 256GB or 512GB), but what makes it different from buying any external hard drive is that it comes preloaded with content for the apocalypse.”

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    8 days ago

    Yeah okay, carry that amount of information in your go bag via physical books.

    Hope you have a microscope.

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      16 days ago

      Tape drives are pretty good too. I worked at a few places where they still used them in case of disaster.

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        8 days ago

        Explain how this fits in a go bag:

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        What’s relevant to the army for office use isn’t necessarily relevant for a shit hits the fan scenario go-bag.

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          28 days ago

          it’s called a loupe.

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          holy shit…am I at the point in life where I’m old enough to understand why we call it “dialing” a number or a “dial tone”?

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            28 days ago

            I’d say no but I also know what a hunt group is so I’m probably the wrong whipper snapper to ask.