How are you guys solving the grid-down information & comms gap?
Posted by CL_Engineer@reddit | preppers | View on Reddit | 1 comments
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You created a post yesterday, which was removed by the moderators. You then created another identical post. This is not friendly behavior. It does not demonstrate respect for r/preppers or for the cause of this subreddit.
I suggest that you stop trying to push your post through; otherwise, you may be banned from this subreddit.
Your post appears to be a pretext for hidden advertising. It seems like you are describing a device, and then someone with a different username will magically appear to offer that device.
You are not living on a movie set. Rugged, rustic-looking devices do not provide any real advantage in real life.
The device you are describing is preposterous. It does not meaningfully contribute to emergency preparedness. You can ask ChatGPT to estimate the probability of survival in two scenarios: one where you spend your money on such a device, and another where you spend the same amount on physical emergency preparedness items such as a smoke alarm, a carbon monoxide alarm, a fire ladder, and a 72-hour kit. By the way, these items are recommended by government agencies responsible for your safety.
ChatGPT can be incorrect at times, but in this case it will clearly indicate that your chances of survival are higher when investing in practical preparedness items rather than a ChatGPT device.
I'm an iPad user myself. The battery lasts through a full day of work. At night, I charge the iPad using batteries that are charged from solar panels during the day. It works perfectly well. All of these items are commercially available in a regular department store: solar panels, a battery, and an iPad. There is no need to invent anything new or invest in complex systems. There is limited room here to demonstrate your ingenuity. The problem you are trying to solve does not exist.
Kiwix works for me to some extent; however, it has drawbacks. I have not been able to find a ZIM file that is truly useful for my needs. Wikipedia dumps are either too small, missing much of the content, or too large to store and maintain realistically for emergency use. I no longer use Kiwix. It is more practical to retain information mentally and rely on books, including those focused on emergency survival.
Regular Google Maps includes an offline feature. You can download maps of your surrounding area, and it works well. A standard Android phone is sufficient, and no additional devices are required.
The device you are describing is not useful in a real disaster scenario. It feels more like treating emergency preparedness as a live-action role-playing exercise. To me, your suggestion comes across as making light of genuine preparedness.
At work, I deal with HP NonStop architecture. Each CPU has three cores, and approximately every hundred milliseconds, the cores compare their states. If one core fails, the others continue operating. There are other, more cost-effective failover mechanisms, but they require time to detect and recover from failures. NonStop architecture enables near-continuous operation, with hardware failures detected and handled within a few milliseconds.
At home, I use a Dell Rugged PC. It costs $3,000 more for a rugged version comparing to regular PC with the same specs. DELL Rugged PC survives falls from the height of 3 meters.
The organization I work for spends billions of dollars on computer hardware specifically designed to withstand all emergency events.
If you believe that organizations and government agencies are uninformed or careless in their spending, stop thinking that way. They are not. At an organizational level, risks are studied, and both the probability and potential impact of those risks are assessed. Multiple stakeholders can propose and evaluate different scenarios. As a result, organizations are not limited to a narrow set of risks the way an individual might be.
I need you to stop rejecting the instructions that government agencies provide. They give specific guidance on how to survive. They know what they are doing. You do not have the same level of expertise. The device you are envisioning is impractical and will not help with your survival. You cannot distance yourself from the problem and accurately evaluate the risks. Government agencies can, and do, perform that kind of assessment.