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Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump (www.404media.co)
submitted 23 hours ago by j4p@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 19 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe I should just use these and cancel my internet

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 27 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I remember when offline backups that were unaffected by EMP were everywhere.

They called them books.

[–] magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

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

Hope you have a microscope.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

microfilm is a real thing btw.

it was used for army intel for decades.

[–] magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Explain how this fits in a go bag:

1000023666

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

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

it's called a loupe.

1000001463

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"?

[–] magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 50 minutes ago

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

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 23 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

"And this here is my Wikipedia room."

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 25 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

And over there is my pornography stadium

[–] quack@lemmy.zip 37 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I prefer to call it the masterbatorium.

[–] Acid_Burn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 12 hours ago

It's a little off the beaten path.