New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to keep tech running in the apocalypse?
Ask HN: How to keep tech running in the apocalypse?
15 by armagon | 13 comments on Hacker News.
The gist of this question is, "how does one prep to keep technology operable?" Imagine a disaster causes widespread collapse, where resources are no longer easily available, power and internet access is erratic or non-existent, and then things calm down enough to where the necessities of life are available and society tries to resume functioning. Now, suppose you'd like to make computers work. What sort of things would you need?Power, obviously, or a way to charge batteries. What else? What if you wanted to have communication with other people, or perhaps data communication? Would you want packet radio? HAM gear? What if you want to repair equipment? I don't know if the computers in cars "break", for example [not that I imagine fuel being available]. I wonder about what sort of needs there might be to repurpose gear. What if you need to keep an application running? Maybe you have a mesh network and people want a web app for some purpose. But, without documentation, it'd be incredibly tedious. I can't help but think I've seen a linux distro designed for this scenario, where you have binaries, and all the code, and all the toolchains, and all the documentation. The right answer might be "don't bother", but I'm still curious.
15 by armagon | 13 comments on Hacker News.
The gist of this question is, "how does one prep to keep technology operable?" Imagine a disaster causes widespread collapse, where resources are no longer easily available, power and internet access is erratic or non-existent, and then things calm down enough to where the necessities of life are available and society tries to resume functioning. Now, suppose you'd like to make computers work. What sort of things would you need?Power, obviously, or a way to charge batteries. What else? What if you wanted to have communication with other people, or perhaps data communication? Would you want packet radio? HAM gear? What if you want to repair equipment? I don't know if the computers in cars "break", for example [not that I imagine fuel being available]. I wonder about what sort of needs there might be to repurpose gear. What if you need to keep an application running? Maybe you have a mesh network and people want a web app for some purpose. But, without documentation, it'd be incredibly tedious. I can't help but think I've seen a linux distro designed for this scenario, where you have binaries, and all the code, and all the toolchains, and all the documentation. The right answer might be "don't bother", but I'm still curious.
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