Prepper survival disk

[audi321]

Hi all, I guess it falls under stuff but given the world we re facing at the moment I saw this on social media today and I thought it was a decent idea. Until I saw the price and the Raspberry pi bit.

Www.prepperdisk.com

Surely this kind of information is just downloadable for free anyways?

But where would one start?

Edited by audi321 on Sunday 8th March 11:37

[frisbee]

Power sockets and a working phone or tablet? Also doesn't look very robust.

Surely you would have a ludicrously rugged box with solar panels, a hand crank, built in screen etc.? Plus bottle and tin opener attachments!

[WH16]

Just buy books? Fully EMP resistant, un-hackable, and if you pay cash at a flea market or charity shop, untraceable.

[audi321]

Books??? I’m thinking of a full download of Wikipedia and google maps! If we ever lost internet for any length of time it would be handy to have an offline version of things like that.

Not bothered about power going off, I have solar panels.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not thinking doomsday is coming and stockpiling water and canned food!

[Captain_Morgan]

Chatgbt gives some details on setting it up, it doesn’t look so hard.

[wildoliver]

If civilisation ends tomorrow that will be about useless. You'll be worrying about shelter, food and safety, not how to forge high quality steel, write a good android app or cook up lobster thermidor.

We all like the idea of being prepared for anything but being your areas local walking encyclopedia is less important than still being walking and 99% of that's going to be pot luck.

Spend your £200 on learning some kind of skill, that will be worth more and will probably be a lot more fun than some ewaste.

[jimmyjimjim]

Raspberry Pi in a case with a 512Gb card. Which appears to have a curated version of wikipedia and project gutenberg loaded, among other things. DIY would be cheaper.