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Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump (www.404media.co)
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Title is a little sensational but this is a cool project for non-technical folks who may need a mini-internet or data archive for a wide variety of reasons:

"PrepperDisk is a mini internet box that comes preloaded with offline backups of Wikipedia, street maps, survivalist information, 90,000 WikiHow guides, iFixit repair guides, government website backups (including FEMA guides and National Institutes of Health backups), TED Talks about farming and survivalism, 60,000 ebooks and various other content. It’s part external hard drive, part local hotspot antenna—the box runs on a Raspberry Pi that allows up to 20 devices to connect to it over wifi or wired connections, and can store and run additional content that users store on it. It doesn't store a lot of content (either 256GB or 512GB), but what makes it different from buying any external hard drive is that it comes preloaded with content for the apocalypse."

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[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 1 points 10 hours ago

you as an individual shouldn’t waste your time making an asteroid detection and diversion system

This is where modern society is falling apart. A bunch of individuals with the "feeling" that an asteroid diversion system is "a waste of THEIR money" and that the detection system is a bigger waste still... Then we have preppers like Musk thinking about personally setting up a Mars colony, so he needs massive tax advantages and other government grift to fulfill his THC fueled visions.

About the black hole prep thing... it's not necessarily all that expensive, you just need Musk's Mars colony, or maybe more realistically one of Niven's iron asteroids melted by solar power, inflated and spun to be a big hollow shell with atmosphere and gravity inside. Setup a process to make one of those every 500 years or so and string 'em out in nicely varied orbits to spread the risk. Send a few out on fusion powered slow trips to other stars...