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 got a generator, a rifle and a lawn chair.
I would organize a group of bandits to raid small local communities.
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’ll go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for it all to blow over.
It’s a pub, it’s safe !
Pack a towel.
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.Kill a relative or two as a final favour. Check if the wife still wants to live, check if I can be bothered to carry on. If so I’d either head into the mountains or down to the coast (get a boat) and try and get away from population centres for a year.
Edit: Sorry, just seen “selfhosted”. I’ve got about a terabyte of stuff on sd cards - super packable. Those, a handset, a wind-up radio and solar phone charger.
More seriously though I have Meshtastic. I can just ask the public channel for anything I need
Fair. Its the only realistic option.
Kinda just planning on dying in a ditch…
It’s always good to have a plan…
If power is down for good, then getting water is the main priority. If the pumpa don’t run the water tower is losing pressure fast. I have 40 litres jugged up in the basement at all times for the first few days.
When that dries out my neighbour has a well that we’ve hooked up to five properties. Mostly for gardening, but it is potable. The pump needs power, though, so I’d pull an extension cord over to my caravan.
My caravan has 400W of solar, 300Ah LiFePO4 and a 1.5kW inverter. Also a meshtastic node with an antenna on the roof. That’ll keep the food cold, and laptops charged. It can run a microwave or hotplate, too. I’ve got 20kg of propane if I need to conserve power.
If the pumpa don’t run the water tower is losing pressure fast
Yeah, hadn’t really considered water supply. Thankfully it falls from the sky in abundance here (Scotland) 😅
a meshtastic node
Surprised I haven’t seen meshtastic mentioned more. Pretty cool for comms if theres no power.
Nice plan with the caravan too. If you need to head out in a hurry you’ve got everything you need on wheels.
Did you mean to say 4000w? 400w isn’t enough for all that equipment.
I don’t power all of it at once, and not direcly off of solar. I could maybe fit another 200W worth of panel on that roof, but for 4000W I’d need seven caravan roofs. That battery is the buffer and it’s a beast. At 300Ah I have 4kWh to pull at 1C.
The fridge sips a nice 30W. Panels put in ~2kWh on a sunny day. So thats a 1.7kWh surplus for running heavy loads - enough to max out that inverter for an hour a day. That’s plenty for microwaving or pumping water.
Sounds like a nice setup. I’m jealous :D
But shouldn’t that only be a 1.3kWh surplus with the fridge drawing 30W*24h=720Wh?
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.
At first I was going to say, the 3 2 1 Backup rule won’t stop the planet from being destroyed by a meteor. But then I remembered the data on Voyager1.
Man we need another one filled with Wikipedia, and project Gutenberg dumps, and a few other things.
And cat pics. Lots of cat pics.
I have a drawer full of old cables.
Scsi, printers, scart, modem, I’m set!CGA? RS233?
I can sell them to you for some petrol for my generator…
Cook them up like a weird spaghetti
“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?”
Die
I’ll figure out where the nuke is going to hit and stand right there.
As someone who lives within the nuclear blast radius of a military complex, I just hope it will be quick.
