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.

[morkcallingorson]

Honestly not much cheaper to do yourself seeing what sd cards,a pi, and a case go for. what's your time worth?

[ATG]

Why not just download it to a ruggedized mobile phone? Sticking it on a headless raspberry pi that you then have to access from a browser on another device ... like a phone ... is retarded.

[shtu]

It's cheaper and a lot smaller than buying the equivalent on paper, but I doubt it's really anything more than a novelty item. The odds of it surviving long is pretty slim, let alone all the other devices you need to connect to it to actually use the content.

[richhead]

by the time you have got that thing working, someone will have stabbed you and stolen all your food and water.
Dont forget if the sxxt hits the fan there will most likely be no electricity
Be better learning some survival skills.

[fooman]

Pretty sure it'll be against the terms of service for wiki ifixit to scrape their sites to make a commercial product. Copyright laws still apply until society collapses.

[bloomen]

Stick the same info, and stuff more relevant to you, on a few small mechanical hard disks or multiple sd cards, chuck in a travel laptop or two that can power the HDD via USB, a solar charger for the laptop and bury it in an EMP proof box.

There's definitely a mass of information worth having and preserving even if a bunch of bodybuilders wearing antlers show up and have away your carefully curated kitchen garden.

[audi321]

richhead said:

Dont forget if the sxxt hits the fan there will most likely be no electricity
Be better learning some survival skills.

Solar panels and a battery?

[InitialDave]

If we hit the point of the proposed use case for this being relevant, it won't be.