Say ww3 kicks off and power goes off - how are you keeping your servers up? Solar panels and batteries?
What if there’s a biblical flood and you dont have the means to build an arc? All your servers are destroyed beyond repair?
What if you heard the Feds are coming to cart you and your servers away cos they suspect you of bad mouthing Emperor Tromp? (you’re on the run or subject to months of torture and yeah, you’re never getting your kit back)
What if theres a war and Luxembourg (you know, the enemy) let’s of an EMP pulse that kills your servers and all the infrastructure (power, internet…). How do you access all those cherished pics on Immich?
I’m not suggesting any of this will/can happen, its all just for lols, but have you made any contingency plans? Big binders full of printouts, bug-out bags, those flower-type solar things that track the sun, Faraday cages…
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I’ll go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for it all to blow over.
Pack a towel.
It’s a pub, it’s safe !
“Today, the Apocalypse happened. All that we love and hold dear came to an end. Blood in the streets worldwide, panic, hunger, devastation reigns supreme.”
“What about my database server? Is it still up?”
I have a UPS that allows the server to survive an apocalypse of 15 minutes or less.
Step 1, Raid Bestbuy
Servers are going to be the last thing I think about. I’ll be busy trying to survive and help my loved ones. I suggest reevaluating your priorities immediately.
Die
I’ll figure out where the nuke is going to hit and stand right there.
More seriously though I have Meshtastic. I can just ask the public channel for anything I need
Fair. Its the only realistic option.
I’m planning on running towards the bright flash and hoping I end up part of the first wave of mass casualties…
You wouldn’t have the time for that
When the bright light comes, it kills you or it won’t, but by the time it’s there there is little.rinning to be done
The radioactivity at ground zero can easily kill you within the first hours to days. Puking you guts out and ankle deep in bloody diarrhea, what a great way to go.
Lucky that you live somewhere that you may see the bright light. I do not live in the middle of bum fuck no where but I can see it from here. If I did not already have the plan of downing a lot of narcotics and just falling asleep I would suffer from so much radiation poisoning it would not be fun.
What’s your contingency plan for the apocalypse?
I will be one of the first to die. thought about moving, but honestly I would rather die than
surviveexist on this shithole after a nuclear war.
Dude, my computer operating is literally the least of my worries.
I’ll probably die like everyone else, and if it’s not immediate, will shortly follow as a post-apocalyptic world is certainly not one I want to be alive in.
Think you missed the ‘just for lols’ part
Ha, you may be underestimating your survival instinct. Look at historical events like sieges. Resource shortage, dangerous environment, social collapse - all that can be expected in post-apocalyptic world. And people did survive. Eating whatever they can find or catch, leaving in cold, and filth, getting sick, witnessing death and other horrors… People survived.
Unless you get killed, or shoot yourself, you would wish you came prepared for that kind of times…
I’m in the US, so getting shot is a pretty high probability in the apocalypse.
Abut 35+ years ago, I stuck a finger up and didn’t like the way the wind was blowing. I decided to do something about it. While I am a prepper, I do not prep for EOTW scenarios. If we start dropping nukes, point me towards the blast cloud and let this universe recycle the energy it takes to keep this meat bag alive, into something else.
I do, however, prep for inclement weather, shortages, civil unrest, pandemics, etc. I have solar and whole house generators. I grow my own food, raise my own livestock, can and freeze my vegetables, meats, and such. During the pandemic, I rarely ventured off the compound as there was no real need to. I’ve long since turned my dining room into a pantry and it is well stocked and rotated. I stock medicinal supplies, things that would be needed in a disaster scenario, not gadetry. I have taught myself the skill of making very good alcohol, which can be used medicinally, and for barter. I stock a lot of staples, things that can be turned into multiple meals; flours, sugar, corn meal, etc.
I would say that my servers would be a minor issue or concern in a disaster scenario. I would most likely depend on Ham radio and CB communications, vs the internet. We would be back to living like say mine, or your, grandparents did. Very lean and close to the bone, relying on what we could scratch together to survive, such as Victory Gardens, etc.
We live in a world of convenience, and while that’s great and all, we get used to the notion that we will always be able to go to the grocery to pick up food supplies, and that is a false comfort. For anyone interested, I’d start with extending your pantry. Make wise purchases. Don’t fall for all the gizmos and gadgetry surrounding prepping. They’ll sell you a sack full of crap you’ll probably never use, or be useless when the time comes.
I have taught myself the skill of making very good alcohol, which can be used medicinally, and for barter.
It occurs to me that coffee/caffeine will also be highly valuable for barter in any scenario involving disruption of supply chains. I should put some with my emergency kit.
…maybe a kilo of your favorite strain too.
Some good skills worth learning there. Always fancied growing my own food but never got round to it.
I have taught myself the skill of making very good alcohol
Nice! Im a techie but I barber as a side hustle. Between us we could have a nice wee apocolypse 😅
Have you heard of reticulum? You might be into it. Seen mention of using things like ham and lora as carriers.
Have you heard of reticulum?
Never, but I will spool up on it.
Always fancied growing my own food
Even in a small yard, one can grow enough food to offset buying at the local grocery. Container gardening. Maybe using some areas of your landscaping for a small grow. I’ll tell you that there is nothing like home grown food. It tastes much different than what you find in most groceries. For instance, I look forward in much anticipation to tomato season. I grow all kinds of varieties. Store bought tomatoes are usually picked green, flooded with Ethylene, and shipped. That will never compare to a sliced tomato, ripe off the vine with some mayo, salt and pepper, between two slices of bread.
Step 1. Get a lot of money
Step 2. Ignore the laws and get myself a super comfy RTG-powered hidden bunker with a Faraday cage
Step 3. Put my servers in there, take drives full of everything from the outside
Step 4. Live comfortably ever after
Better get a shift on then, Tromp could drop the nukes on Iran any day now…
I actually wrote a blog about this a few months back. It was after a 12 day war (Israel+USA attacking Iran) and 40 day internet blackout, and then we got into another war (Israel+USA attacking Iran) and a 90-100 day(lost track) internet blackout.
It isn’t exactly “how to survive the apocalypse” guide but it was a really helpful guide for myself and my friends and helped me keep working in those blackout days.
It’s isn’t focused on hardware, just software, since I’m a software engineer.
Great share, thank you!
@somegeek @jobbies This is a good read. I was rather amused by your “TODO: How to use Git offline? Offline merge requests?” section, though. Git was written by people who literally email each other patches. It’s offline-first, with online stuff tacked on there. You can copy a cloned git repo to a usb stick and give it to someone, and now they have the entire history. Of course merge requests and bug tracking are separate (I understand what you meant w/ the TODO), but git itself is already there.
I would immediately try to set up mutual aid and start building small local communities. If there ever is a chance for true anarchism to take root, it’s during a period where people will value mutual aid more than anything. This doesn’t just include necessities like food and water but also entertainment.
I like this idea but as soon as one nuke is launched so are all the other ones. As much as I would love to join you in doing this I do not want to suffer from the radiation poisoning.
Kinda just planning on dying in a ditch…
It’s always good to have a plan…
