Just want to be clear…. It’s a battery operated hard drive with data on it. It’s not an internet for off-grid communication purposes. That would require a Sat Phone or Starlink. Good to have regardless.
Satellites are hardly off-grid in the sense that this video is suggesting. It survive a natural disaster but not a government shutdown. Any 2 radios and laptops can make a network though. I think the right term is something like a peer-to-peer or mesh network.
@JSDV9999 Starlink could survive a government shutdown, for a while at least. SpaceX is a private company and as long as they don't killswitch all the sats, they can continue to operate for a long time without additional launches.
@@mrandersen6872 So is every internet service provider. If the government shuts down the internet they'll probably be doing so on behalf of these sorts of companies.
The thing to understand is that starlink does not contain the internet. What a lot of folks don't understand is every website is just someone else's computer with a CPU, a hard drive, ram just like every other computer. Internet is a computer connection protocol. So if starlink is up and the server that hosts the specific website you're interested is up then yes starlink or any other satellite internet will likely survive an EMP etc but that requires that your computer is up, their computer is up, starlink is up and every relay in between is up. Internet is designed to reroute if there is a valid path, think like a detour while driving
@@mrandersen6872 Starlink already cooperates with foreign governments to prevent their stellites from being used to avoid censors. If there were a shutdown in the US it's as likely as anything else that these sorts of companies would be initiating it. All other ISPs are also private companies.
I have 93 Terabytes of Movies, TV shows, Survival guides, Medical guides, Maps of America, 10000+ music files, DIY videos, Classic books, Comic books, Cartoons, Anime, American History books, Mathematics books SciFi books, Legal books, Science books, Family photos and more all in a compact tower I can easily grab and run with and yes, I have every movie,TV show, Cartoon, Anime, and music cd in three closets , I've been collecting since 1995.
@@apophisi It's a NAS that I put together. You need a NAS device with at least 8 bays and in them you place server quality 15 Terabyte hard drives, mine has 24 Terabyte HDDs. I don't have mine set up as a raid so I have a ten bay with every other drive set up as a back-up for the drive before it. In other words bay 1 is the main and bay 2 is the back-up for bay 1. Western Digital has a 24TB hard drive on sale for $650. This is a data center HDD but will be more adequate for most usage. The reason for using server quality HDDs is because unlike regular HDDs where you are always changing data the server style are the type you put the data on it and from that point you only read it unless you decide to delete something all together.
@@apophisi No, I've just been working with computers since 1978. I use TH-cam to get ideas for things I want to do. I started my system over 5 years ago and upgraded as my HDDs began to get full. Next time I will need to update to 3oTb HDDs.Linus has a great channel to learn from. th-cam.com/users/LinusTechTips
i purchased a wifi hub in 2018 along with a 2- portable solar panels (28w and 125w) and 3 portable power banks. I have about 300 pdf books I downloaded during the pandemic on primitive shelters, bushcraft, first aid, farming, hunting trapping and dressing animals, homesteading, 4G ware fare and military tactics. I have an air-gapped older iPad and I keep them all in a homemade faraday bag I made in 2022. Unfortunately I believe it will come in in handy soon.
Why yes, I do think giving the government more power over what I can and cannot buy is a good idea, and I mean, regulation has never been shown to simply entrench the strongest and most corrupt companies without actually curbing their bad behaviour while stomping out their competition, so how could it go wrong? I know I at least feel much better buying an iPhone that I can pay more to repair myself (in 2-5 business days after the specialty equipment ships of course) than it'd cost to have someone else repair it overnight than buying a fairphone! Or, here me out, you just take responsibility for your purchases and buy according to what you care about. If you care about durability, buy a rugged phone. If you care about privacy, buy a librem or a cheap pixel you can degoogle. (Two very large extremes on the price scale, but there are obviously more middling options) If you care about repairability, buy a fairphone. And, if you just care about convenience, buy an iPhone or Samsung, and accept that your voluntarily weighting convenience & luxury (be it real or percieved) over repairability. Your refusal to buy according to your values does not justify my right to buy what I want being taken away anymore than Sir Chonkster "butterblood" Greasant the third dying due to a heart attack at 28 and 2000 pounds justifies banning "dangerously greasy bacon" or "irresponsibly cheesy cheese". Your choices are your own, your a big girl, they're your respobsibility.
@@felixjohnson3874 Right to Repair doesn't take away any of your right to purchase whatever you want. It simply holds companies accountable to the fundamental principle that once a customer purchases something, they own that copy. Also, not everybody has the capability to repair stuff themselves like you, Right to Repair helps them too by allowing independent shops to repair stuff. Nothing about Right to Repair is anti business or anti choice.
@@xc8487 interesting theory; I wanna buy an unrepairable 'closed ecosystem'/'walled garden' product because I think that the added cost in repairs/replacements is less valuable to lose than the value I can gain from it since I am careful with my devices and rarely if-ever need repairs anyway therefor I'm not actually paying for that added cost personally yet I'm still getting a product that, on-average, costs more and as a result has more features and capabilities than it should for what I personally anticipate ever paying for. Oh, whats that? The law is forcing companies to be more repairable? Well then I can't buy what I want. You are FORCING me to buy products with repairability as a feature, even if it's not a feature I care about and would be perfectly happy sacrificing. Its not your place to decide what people want, its not politicians' place to decide what people want, it is *_their_* place to decide what *_they_* want. If you think they are making a poor choice then you can use your words like a grown ass adult and convince them, but you simply thinking they're wrong doesn't give you the right to force them to do what you want instead. The only time you'd *_need_* to force people to do what you want is if you *_can't_* convince them in open discourse, in which case you have no right to force them to do it anyway since you can't even prove your right to them and they are the one being personally affected if they make a sub-par choice. Sir Greaseblood not being able to count past 2000 does not give you the excuse to decide I can't eat bacon anymore. If you think I *_shouldn't_* eat bacon, you can try to convince me, but you don't have the right to force your will onto others because a few idiots can't look after themselves and their own interests. If you are old enough to have the right to drive a car on public roads and the right to order alcohol then you're old enough to make your own fucking choice on what computers you should buy. There is no "right to repair", there is a right to buy products which are repairable, which you already can. (Until of course governments leverage RtR precedents to legislate things like DRM chips) I cannot steal your car and drive to vegas because "I have a right to drive!". If I want to drive a car, I can get my own. And if I then decide to buy a motorcycle instead, I don't have any place to complain about not being able to drive a car. I got what a bought, and if that ain't what I wanted then tough shit, I should pay more attention next time.
None of any of this matters if you dont have the right to repair your own stuff. Corporate monopoly America is a liar, a serial killer, a thief, it's out to murder YOU.
Cute comment but this is also days (more then likely months) of organizing and vetting. And if you're only adding up cost. It's a pretty big oversight to not include storage cost where assuming by this it's at least a terabyte which is close to 100 bucks by it's self. Seems like a hell of a deal when you look at it outside of self inflated rose glasses
I'd say 200 is still pricey when there are a few dozen people who have already downloaded and organized these for you. You can do a search and you'll get all the same info all organized to download for free
@@twistyx808 can you provide a link to anything? i'm slowly building my own mini-internet but i can't find anything easyish for downloading wikipedia or anything, or field manuals
While the Gridbase is cool, you should keep in mind that SD cards kinda suck at long term data retention and one day you could power it on and nothing be working because the SD card died. Make backups of the SD card and have a method of creating copies of SD cards if you want to keep this data for the long term
BalenaEtcher is very good at doing amazing things with SD cards even making clones and or hidden sectors to hide files and have them appear empty when they are not.
You can easily download DIY videos, books, music, all kinds of entire websites...all to a USB stick and mSD card yourself. Start today! (And make copies kept in faraday cage with an inexpensive Amazon Fire tablet or 2 or 3...)
I think the perk of this specific box is; preloaded content, and the built in WiFi that allows you to connect via your phone and not needing a laptop/computer. More of an "On-the-go" solution. That being said; you can make this with a Raspberry Pi.
@@Rev-X-Films I agree, not everyone knows what they need to "know" so having a starting point is fine and if a patriot putting this information together gets a profit for providing a service and resources im about it. I would want to know if it can be expanded with custom folders before Id pull the trigger on buying one
Notes for printing any of the books: Include a laser printer in your SHTF plans. Toner doesn't 'dry out' like inkjets do. The cheaper ones will be black and white only. If you must use an inkjet, keep fresh cartridges in their packaging, and keep the printer stored without any ink installed. Best is a brand new printer in box that's never printed anything before that's 'unprimed'. Once an ink printer has been primed, there will be ink in the lines that can dry out and clog.
Thermal portable printers may be even better… no ink, works on a battery (the one I have does), and the thermal paper, currently easy to find, is the only renewable need.`
As far as i know, so mayby wrong, microwaves are tuned to block its own frequency. Others go right through. Someone did a vid showing a mobile still working inside
@@devilsknight the hole size determines the max. frequency that can be blocked, so it'll block everything under 2.4GHz aka 2400Mhz. That phone probably used something like 5 GHz wifi to connect
The other things you didn’t mention is clothing for growing kids and off season clothes. Fabrics, sewing machines. Wool, knitting needles for craft and clothing. Market place and thrift stores also have these things. Learning these skills too.
1:24 - Hurricane Katrina is actually an example given during the lectures about internet resilience. What happened - the network traffic was actually re-routed around New Orleans. Don't forget - DARPA built it for a conventional battlefield, where nodes after nodes are taken down by the enemy actions.
Darpa (arpa in those days) was also obsessed with creating a 'network of battlefield sensors' like they did on the Ho Chi Minh Trail but in all possible future theaters of war... after which they created the internet in a totally different project which definitely does not constitute the modern fruition of that same exact idea at all (adjusts tinfoil beanie & pops another Male Vitality pill)😵💫🤪
They're still called comic books. Graphic novels, on the other hand, have two categories: 1) a collection of comic books that puts the entire story arc into a single book for convenience and 2) a comic book story that is simply too big to put into a traditional comic book so it goes into a trade paperback or hardback book.
You know atrazine in agricultural wastewater is an actual ecological problem and only because of AJ the story disappeared from the real media overnight
Great video guys! I''ve been running the Pocket for several months now, and it's very, very cool. The note about physical photos is 1,000% solid advice. Good stuff.
That device does just use KIWIX which you can download and install on just about any device including a tablet or phone or PC. Depending on what your doing it might just be better to put it on a laptop or dedicated mini PC or old laptop and use eathernet to reduce your radio signature.
Looks like a raspberry pie 0 with a battery pack and a decent amount of downloaded videos and documents for survival. Not bad. You can diy it but it takes some experience to get together.
There's a free project called Kiwix that does it, but it's best on a pi3 or pi4, or on a laptop. Several preppers and people going into the African/Asian bush country use these.
@@damonaniton [ EDIT: YT removed em they don't like you saying how to make tech products in comments that's my bad, but this can be done so much cheaper explore it on your own!]
@@jeffero1074 Its probably not DC deleting comments, youtube auto deletes/hides comments if they include certain words. Its in the YT community guidelines (but of course they never tell exactly what words). It's happened to me a lot on many different channels.
Its called Kiwix and it's free. You can even use an android if you don't have a raspberry pi. Just need atleast 500 GB of storage if you want all of wikipedia.
Canadian prep is awesome. From his “news” updates, which are impartial and I can trust, to his how to videos. All of his content being on there alone just sold this to me!
Designed a stand in way back in 2007. Full internet and telecoms system. Still got most of the hardware. Can handle 250,000 calls. Can support thousands or users, but it maybe a little slower, or faster than what some people have today :) took the world 10 years to catch up. I lived before the web. I'll live after, you'll be surprised how many years before
I'm happy to see someone out there making these available to buy ready to go. Some may see the price and think that's a little steep, and I myself was in that boat. But when I look at my own that I've been making and the amount of time I've spent getting data downloaded and everything set up, I think it's worth the cost. Especially for someone that's not tech savvy.
i created something like this, using different torrents and other files, written on HDD. i named it "The code". This code is all about how to be useful and worthy for yourself and people around you. The code consists of 3 parts: input, output, storage, secret files (passwords etc. - not supposed to be known about).
Ok, the sudden Alex Jones ad read was freaking awesome! "They are turning the frogs gay" line had me absolutely rolling!😂🤣😂 I freaking love this channel! Always pushing into new things, no 2 videos are alike, always fresh, exciting and keeps me engaged. Great job guys!
You know that a significant amount of well respected biologists confirmed that all the medical junk which ends up in the water is having profound effects on wildlife? That's another 1$ in the "Alex was right" jar for all of us.
even though I know this is just a cheap device with valuable content, but the profoundness you conveyed is so profound that makes me watch all the way through. great video, great content.
I appreciate the emphasis on preserving arts & culture - to "color up" our lives. Such an important point that doesn't get enough attention. "Man does not live on bread alone." There's a reason why art and culture is so prominent in our lives. Once our food/water/shelter is taken care of (biological needs), we then also need to cultivate our emotional/psychological health. That's what art and culture does for us. Great video. Super informative and contextual.
You can actually make this yourself, its just a raspberry pi with some form of custom os that runs a kiwix service on it, that being said you can just run a normal run of the mill os and install a kiwix service on it and accomplish the same thing. This product seems to be using just a microsd card which likely wont last long but a raspberry pi 5 now supports nvme drives which would be a much more ideal way to go, I have done the same thing with a pi 4 and an ssd over usb, and the advantage of doing it with a normal os means the pi can still have a normal desktop with all sorts of other functionalities, there are guides for this and if you are tech savvy then do that instead of buying this unit, and if you're not tech savvy then this unit is more for you
Spot on. That's the problem though - barrier to entry to all of that is pretty high for people who don't understand it. We really like things that get people started down a rabbit hole that leads to them building their own solutions.
@@scottedwards3403 Gridbase has a google doc for free of everything on the pocket, which is just copied from Kiwix (free to download). I don't have a need for wifi compatibility so I'm simply downloading all the info from Kiwix to an external SSD and downloading the free Kiwix app to all my devices (works with mac, andriod, windows, etc). Same thing but $50 w/o wifi.... All in all, downloading the files from Kiwix to the SSD should be done in a day. I'll probably keep a dedicated & cheap amazon tablet to use with it in a faraday bag.
When the ones and zeros stop flowing, I have a vast book collection and digital movie collection when I feel the need to entertain myself during a major technology failure or shtf event. . Prepare for the worst case scenario now. Even with spaced based communication, the ground stations must still function in order for that flow of information worldwide. . Love this presentation.
Canadian here, I think the Canadian restrictions you mentioned are only for news on FB & other social media, I never run into it but i do use Brave browser so that might have something to do with it. That said, information definitely disappears over the years so backups are always a good idea. A ton of videos, PDFs & so on that used to be widely available online have vanished in the last decade, keeping hard copies is underrated.
A fellow Canadian here too, and ya Google is soo bad, have to use other browsers often too, or use a VPN. And definitely agree, will be hitting over 800 book in my personal home library soon. Don't know what the Hell happened to this Country, BUT Canada has truly fallen. Don't even get me started with our legal firearm owner, being bombarded with new laws and bans.😂
@@theunknownprivate I occasionally use google maps for directions but other than that, their political censorship has rendered them utterly useless as a search engine. The last time I remember using them to search a few years ago I got that crazy 'these results are rapidly changing' message meaning 'we refuse to give you any information at all on this topic.' Madness. Couldn't agree with you more about the state of the country/government & it's increasingly insane laws but at the same time, I was extremely proud of (a minority of) our countrymen for leading the way in defying that global 'health' dystopia for a minute there. Probably the first time in my 4+ decades of life that I've ever truly felt proud of that flag tbh. I don't put much faith in politicians but you never know, maybe PP will get elected & stop at least some of the bleeding here, 1 can only hope. He ain't Max Bernier but at least he ain't Justin.
Long time watcher. Very good information. Just my two cents, but I hope you have a better data management/backup plan then just a bunch of external SSDs/HDs. Data does go bad overtime. Now I'm not saying you need a mini datacenter (I have my personal one I built in my office... Loud and warm.... Not portable at all but i'm working on that.). I personally have about 50TB of data I manage and self host for family/friends, including plenty of information about survival and sustainment. If you want some more information please let me know. Great work as always you guys.
@@dirty-civilian I've picked up a few old military hardened server rack cases and working on a more portable and power efficient server setup that one could theoretically throw in the back of a car and run off something like a solar generator. I'm not very committed to it because my preps revolve around bunkering down and staying put.
On the emp thing. You can store some of this stuff in a metal trash can with its lid. You can electrically ground the can, and it should protect most things that are off from an emp.
What you can invest today is a NAS (network attached storage). Buy a ton of storage space and just go download happy. Sail the seven seas while you're at it because who cares when the internet no workie. Also, if you have physical media, you can rip your media and have a back up of it.
It's a deep, and dark rabbit hole once you start that path..... First you're browsing r/synology, then you're on to r/homelab, and before long, you're 200 posts deep in r/datahoarder comparing serial numbers and models on buying 200 HDDs to store your media collection! 🤣. I kid, I kid, but it's a subject that can go as deep or as shallow as you desire. As a hint for someone new, if you're getting serious about a NAS or server, look into TrueNAS Scale as a good foundation Linux distro to build on, and work out from there. ZFS is probably my recommendation for most people, but there are other avenues and paths as you explore the subject. Good luck!
if i was prepping for off grid tech, i’d install a local version of a open source large language model like chat gpt. the knowledge stored in even a 4 or 8gb model, is vastly more than what you’d get out of 8gb of text files. it read everything on the internet and can explain any of it back to you, it’s insane how vast the knowledge is in such a small package.
So hes 100% right about having some form of entertainment. I stayed in the woods in a swiss military command tent for about 9 months while i was looking to purchase my current home. It was my bosses land and i was clear cutting it by hand just me and my german shepard and some nights my buddies would come over, we would grill and have drinks and a fire and it was fun but when its just you and a dog its nice to have some other form of entertainment. I had a portable dvd player and a nintendo switch lite. I had a 650w solar generator with a 120w solar panel and that combo for the most part kept all my electronics charged up and allowed me to run a chest fridge/freezer to keep things like milk and raw meat for cooking. If i had a few days of rain i took my generator to a friends house and charged it up in like 3 hours and it took about 1.5-2 days to run the battery down to empty when the cooler was running on it. Without the cooler it would charge my devices up for a week.
@Gotprivacy-noyoudont just because you enjoy those things doesn't mean I do. And I actually did have a tablet with books on it I forgot to mention that. Other than reading I couldn't care less to write, make art or play an instrument. Especially after doing manual labor all day long. By the time it was dark all I'd want to do is sit in my chair and play some nintendo or watch a favorite movie or read a little before bed.
Super cool to see Gridbase's stuff getting shared to a larger audience. I've been following his projects for a while now. Great ideas for protecting valuable information.
Unfortunately, so much of the "behind the scenes" stuff that makes the world go round is tied to the internet. All the control systems, SCADA etc. No Internet means no centralized water purification & delivery for cities and small towns, no SCADA means anything & everything that goes by rail or pipeline stops dead in its track. No refining, no food processing etc
Losing access to all that information, accessible at a moments notice, would suck. Us young folk probably were never taught/learned some survival skills, and ya'll ol' heads may not have had to use some of those skills in potentially decades. Ya'll maybe rusty or have forgotten. Having at least a copy of good references books would be better than not for everyone involved. Nothing can replace training, but I'd rather have access to an ebook/book rather than be caught completely lacking. Then once society is starting to rebuild after a SHTF situation, having some ebooks people can access maybe a good barter resource. I'd trade a can of beans or 2 for a copy of a book with medical information
This is a reason why I have a power station and a power bank or two just in case. We had internet shut down and power shut downs in Poland a few times, once even on my shift back when I was doing security job, I had to somehow turn on the power in entire block cuz people were panicking and I did thankfully knew what box to turn, what switch to flip... But still, the people get easily panicked, confused. Glad I made these purchases. They serve me well as I charge them and use them to cut down on power cost.
Well man seriously as a lifelong survivalist gun enthusiast and believer and most of what you guys talk about on the channel, and also a career musician, thank you for what you say about what separates humans from animals. You're absolutely right, I've personally been saying this for years now, and it's 100% backed up by science. We potentially had music before we even had speech and certainly had it before we had written word. It's one of the main indicators of intelligence, interest in the arts and music and interesting things other than just survival. Which is why it is just absolutely insane to me that people try to say things like music isn't in Porten and not worth paying for. Have you ever done literally anything in life without musi go to a restaurant any restaurant guarantee they're playing music of some sort. Every store you walk into is playing music of some sort while you're on the phone there's music for holding while you're watching videos there's music playing in the background. We are surrounded by it every single day. You would think that in the schools will actually want to invest more into it but instead they're doing the opposite. But then again, public education is really meant to get people ready to work at places like Walmart anyways and not be individual thinkers there have been plenty of studies on there, including one pretty famous one by one of the presidents of Harvard University.
Been investing in physical media forever, never really stopped. Bought a house in years ago and every time I have to work on something be it electric, plumbing or repairing the chicken coop the kids are there hopefully learning. Love the offline internet device!
@@alexiO21100 ok . Cool story bro . Maybe if you don't have any food ,water,self defense or skills. That dude has poison info for anyone who knows what they are doing. Just seal up your freeze dried food the way he suggests youll see . Some of us have been doing this long enough to know he don't know shit.
I know I'm a little late to the game here, but one thing that I highly recommend that wasn't really touched on was having extra copies of info stored in different locations. For example, I've been downloading lots of guntuber informational videos ever since YT started pulling certain peoples content off the internet. I have a copy on a USB that I keep in my bag for work, on an encrypted hard drive that I have stored at home, and on a home server that I can access from the internet. Two is one and one is none!!!
Beware of devices and software that will stop functioning without an update . Also , content downloaded from some services , even if stored locally , often will not play without an active Internet connection . Just some things to be aware of before you start making personal SHTF data caches .
good you are getting this out there. Its basically important information on a harddrive that can be distributed more easily. I have made my own for decades as you are correct about not wanting to carry around books. I used to have a binder with printouts inside it but it was cumbersome and could be damaged even with plastic sleeves. Best thing really is to get a tough book, one of those armored laptops and store info on that and put it with your bugout kit.
This is where web scraping skills would come in handy to custom build something like this. I already have a bunch of e-books scattered over 3 hard drives. Just not a lot of time to organize it.
Damn take my money, please !! I ordered mine. I dont think people understand how hard that would be to do that, not to mention the organization efforts needed . Btw great work you guys are doing !
The death of the Internet would force children outdoors again. It might even force people to speak with other family members. This would be an unimaginable disaster.
Lol. I remember we had a very intense lake effect blizzard a few years ago. Several of my neighbors were outside shoveling, we made comments about how intense the snow was, and mentioned different tools and things we had to prepare for it. It was the first time I had ever spoken to 2 of them. I lived there for years already at the time. But just that small sense of disaster was enough for the boys to start thinking in tribal ways.
This TH-cam channel is a CIA shill. Just look at the countries he targets. As if his own country did not go through a coup where Trump was removed and replaced by a dementor.
@@jeffhuntley2921 If I was a fed I'd do America a favor and Control/Alt Delete myself. And even if I was a fed do you think just because you asked me I'd tell you the truth?
@@jeffhuntley2921 I know it man. They chat and type among us. And yeah assuming everyone on YTube even some big name creators work for the feds or are feds. Thanks for the sub my brother! Godspeed! 🤙🏼
If we were to live in a post internet age, we should know how to get the internet going again. That's my opinion. Learn the low level software programming, Learn the wireless communication protocols. Don't forget that it goes exponentially. It looks hard at first, but when you have the building blocks, it is actually super easy. If you have a team that knows how to build the chips, electromagnetism and radiowaves, wireless communication and how to program the chips, you're there. I've done all these things in the past and work for a long time now in designing the systems that build the core of the chips (lithography).
All of us that deployed from 2001 to 2015 (internet started showing up in 2016) are looking at our stacks of hard drives because deployments were just a giant Lan party where we didn't have personal internet and you traded moral drives with all you could imagine.
Man, when we got to go see other parts of the unit it was like Christmas cuz we could swap movies and such from hard drive to hard drive. So many hard drives😂😂
I have seen a lot of comments saying how this would be super cheap to DIY and I agree that it would, but just think of the hours of downloading you would have to do. I Like this as a good start but this video made me think about my offline media and what specific areas I might need to think about. Great work DC and keep up the great work! ps. I loved the Alex Jones style advertisements!
My mom gave me the Foxfire book series back in the 70s. There are a few more volumes now! And who knows when we might need to know how to build a banjo from scratch. Much handier to have it all on a thumb drive, eh 🙂
an SD card that you cant even add your own info to. Also its wild to me that it uses an SD card considering the tiny amount of reads and writes it has before failing. But this whole thing looks like a money grab.
@@diversie509 btw sd card has no problem with reads flash media, like sd cards, usb sticks, emmc, etc, just have a limited digital lifespan, unlike hard drives you can't recover the failed data but they can do unlimited reads, more or less, or at least enough reads that nobody's ever had issues being limited by that so as long as it doesn't keep writing stuff to the card all the time, it'd actually be fine
@@JimmyDistheMan pretty sure it's taking like 80-90% of content just from Kiwix, which is more or less doing the same thing software-wise, you'd need to figure out the battery situation yourself, but kiwix gives you an app with which you can download a lot of offline stuff, wikipedia pages, ted talks, , and you can then read locally or serve it as a hotspot
Interesting - it seems to be a Raspberry Pi Zero W (or Pi Zero 2 W) with a battery attached, SD Card of some size and a charging board. The bundling of this with a software package and software AP makes this workable, has perhaps something like XowA to serve the offline Wikipedia mega-archives (those can be downloaded independently, they're about 95 gig). That they've put this all together as a homogenised product I do appreciate, good bit of work there. One thing I'd want to do - make sure this is locked away in a suitably protective Faraday cage/enclosure along with all equipment you intend to use for charging, the tablet/phone/kindle you want to read it with, etc. Make sure that's all locked away with proper protection to reduce the risk of an EMP taking it out. I'd probably want to have spare hardware for it too - in case it suffers damage or other issues.
I would consider this more of an off grid intranet not an internet as a computer engineer, but hey, all power to ya. I think it’s important people keep things like this.
Hey I saw all the comments about the build...awesome build and awesome product guys! Was just starting my own build but would love to get my hands on that data....
Just as much as a phone connected to another phone is The Internet… it’s not the hardware, but the contents. I reverse engineered the fuel injection system of my 1992 Honda Civic to support tuning for completely different engine swaps, created traction control, full-throttle shifting, automatic nitrous injection, turbo boost control, etc, all without any outboard hardware changes - all in assembly language on the original ECU. If you can do that, good for you. For those that didn’t have those skills, I sold these features, and people were happy to pay. If creating a fully curated and organized offline abridged offline Internet as provided by Pocket is easy for you, go build it and then let us know how long it took you… we’ll wait 🤣
You can do all this plus more with your phone and a sdcard slot/adapter. It has hotspot, and nearby share. You can create a mesh network to chat or send things to nearby people. Wikipedia is available in text or text and pictures and you can add any TH-cam video, ebook/whatever.
After watching a few of your videos this was the one that made me decide to subscribe. I see that you are a like minded guy that I could crack open a case of cold brews not that I ever really do that. These are the kinds of conversations and things people need to be having, we are living in dangerous times best to educate, fortify, and prep for the worst. Even if that day never comes atleast you'll be far better off than everyone else. Semper Fi 🤜🤛
I'd be shocked if you couldn't, as it's likely just a Linux distro running some relatively straightforward software. As as the old geek joke goes, everything is "open source" if you have physical access 🤣
“We depend on devices too much!” “Here’s another device to rely on.” You can do this for FAR cheaper than that price. That’s approaching predatory for such a cheap device and free information. This video is about trying to scare people into panicking and buying an extremely overpriced device.
Agree. I mean its comftable for its size, but a nas with the same fils and maybe different software or apps can do the same and you can do more with it
This was a very thought provoking video. I actually have an older tablet that I use for auto repair, with factory repair manuals for all my vehicles as well as some books on electronics ect on it. I never thought about doing that fpr other things though. The pocket device looks cool, but i would probably come up with my own alternative, but very good info!! First time viewer, subbed
I love how you made the MOST CINEMATICALLY INCREDIBLE YET TERRIFYING intro to the idea of societal collapse, For a viewer (me) who already clicked on a video titled “off grid decentralised internet”, like I needed anymore convincing 😂😂😂
So, maybe this is controversial, but I feel like most 8b LLM’s kind of are like a more effectively compressed form of this info. Of course you don’t have explicit videos and it is prone to hallucination, but it could also be a great addition to this!
Technology is very crucial in a modern world. Which is why I always recommend that any one who is a prepper or wants to be prepared needs to learn Linux. Most home PCs run Microshaft Windows yes but like DC says if the grid and network gets attacked then you can't update or fix your OS since MS has all the source code that only they have access too. Linux however is open source and anyone can see the source code and even create their own OS from scratch if they wanted. Learning about and supporting open source software is so important and I have always pushed for using it in the prepper community. In fact, part of my prepper stash are flash drives and external drives that have various Linux distros on them as well as digitizing books and storing them in an EMP proof safe box with a spare laptop and SBCs.
How.much is a rasberry and where do u get it..everyone keeps saying this but can someone make a video on how to make a raspberry like this for a fraction of the cost
I love how you made a full documentary out of a raspberry pi zero NAS... you have skills man or no clue what you are holding xD either way loved the story 💥💥
$300 for something that can be built with a raspberry pi pico and a usb Wi-Fi dongle in less than $50. Even the information is something not really proprietary.
I like this as buying books to compare none to.. LOL this is Great to have, this Info at your fingertips. Yes It IS NOT INTERNET but has internet qualities such as INFORMATION retrieval. 🥰😍🤩
Just want to be clear…. It’s a battery operated hard drive with data on it. It’s not an internet for off-grid communication purposes. That would require a Sat Phone or Starlink. Good to have regardless.
Satellites are hardly off-grid in the sense that this video is suggesting. It survive a natural disaster but not a government shutdown. Any 2 radios and laptops can make a network though. I think the right term is something like a peer-to-peer or mesh network.
@JSDV9999 Starlink could survive a government shutdown, for a while at least. SpaceX is a private company and as long as they don't killswitch all the sats, they can continue to operate for a long time without additional launches.
@@mrandersen6872 So is every internet service provider. If the government shuts down the internet they'll probably be doing so on behalf of these sorts of companies.
The thing to understand is that starlink does not contain the internet. What a lot of folks don't understand is every website is just someone else's computer with a CPU, a hard drive, ram just like every other computer. Internet is a computer connection protocol. So if starlink is up and the server that hosts the specific website you're interested is up then yes starlink or any other satellite internet will likely survive an EMP etc but that requires that your computer is up, their computer is up, starlink is up and every relay in between is up. Internet is designed to reroute if there is a valid path, think like a detour while driving
@@mrandersen6872 Starlink already cooperates with foreign governments to prevent their stellites from being used to avoid censors. If there were a shutdown in the US it's as likely as anything else that these sorts of companies would be initiating it. All other ISPs are also private companies.
I have 93 Terabytes of Movies, TV shows, Survival guides, Medical guides, Maps of America, 10000+ music files, DIY videos, Classic books, Comic books, Cartoons, Anime, American History books, Mathematics books SciFi books, Legal books, Science books, Family photos and more all in a compact tower I can easily grab and run with and yes, I have every movie,TV show, Cartoon, Anime, and music cd in three closets , I've been collecting since 1995.
Interested in making some money off this? My group is looking for an archive…
Daaaaamn. I need that 😫 super dope.
@@apophisi It's a NAS that I put together. You need a NAS device with at least 8 bays and in them you place server quality 15 Terabyte hard drives, mine has 24 Terabyte HDDs. I don't have mine set up as a raid so I have a ten bay with every other drive set up as a back-up for the drive before it. In other words bay 1 is the main and bay 2 is the back-up for bay 1. Western Digital has a 24TB hard drive on sale for $650. This is a data center HDD but will be more adequate for most usage. The reason for using server quality HDDs is because unlike regular HDDs where you are always changing data the server style are the type you put the data on it and from that point you only read it unless you decide to delete something all together.
@@willwade1101 are you in IT?
@@apophisi No, I've just been working with computers since 1978. I use TH-cam to get ideas for things I want to do. I started my system over 5 years ago and upgraded as my HDDs began to get full. Next time I will need to update to 3oTb HDDs.Linus has a great channel to learn from. th-cam.com/users/LinusTechTips
i purchased a wifi hub in 2018 along with a 2- portable solar panels (28w and 125w) and 3 portable power banks. I have about 300 pdf books I downloaded during the pandemic on primitive shelters, bushcraft, first aid, farming, hunting trapping and dressing animals, homesteading, 4G ware fare and military tactics. I have an air-gapped older iPad and I keep them all in a homemade faraday bag I made in 2022. Unfortunately I believe it will come in in handy soon.
Awesome plan!
it definitely will! your ahead of 95% of people
Ive been adapting my steamdeck for such scenarios. Running Linux natively is a huge plus
I have printed books, probably won't survive the lasers. Maybe get a blue roof. 🤔
Printed books. And printed penicillin making instructions. Radio is faraday protected!
A related movement that everyone should support is the Right To Repair / ownership of what you purchase.
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Why yes, I do think giving the government more power over what I can and cannot buy is a good idea, and I mean, regulation has never been shown to simply entrench the strongest and most corrupt companies without actually curbing their bad behaviour while stomping out their competition, so how could it go wrong? I know I at least feel much better buying an iPhone that I can pay more to repair myself (in 2-5 business days after the specialty equipment ships of course) than it'd cost to have someone else repair it overnight than buying a fairphone!
Or, here me out, you just take responsibility for your purchases and buy according to what you care about. If you care about durability, buy a rugged phone. If you care about privacy, buy a librem or a cheap pixel you can degoogle. (Two very large extremes on the price scale, but there are obviously more middling options) If you care about repairability, buy a fairphone. And, if you just care about convenience, buy an iPhone or Samsung, and accept that your voluntarily weighting convenience & luxury (be it real or percieved) over repairability. Your refusal to buy according to your values does not justify my right to buy what I want being taken away anymore than Sir Chonkster "butterblood" Greasant the third dying due to a heart attack at 28 and 2000 pounds justifies banning "dangerously greasy bacon" or "irresponsibly cheesy cheese". Your choices are your own, your a big girl, they're your respobsibility.
@@felixjohnson3874 Right to Repair doesn't take away any of your right to purchase whatever you want. It simply holds companies accountable to the fundamental principle that once a customer purchases something, they own that copy. Also, not everybody has the capability to repair stuff themselves like you, Right to Repair helps them too by allowing independent shops to repair stuff. Nothing about Right to Repair is anti business or anti choice.
@@xc8487 interesting theory; I wanna buy an unrepairable 'closed ecosystem'/'walled garden' product because I think that the added cost in repairs/replacements is less valuable to lose than the value I can gain from it since I am careful with my devices and rarely if-ever need repairs anyway therefor I'm not actually paying for that added cost personally yet I'm still getting a product that, on-average, costs more and as a result has more features and capabilities than it should for what I personally anticipate ever paying for.
Oh, whats that? The law is forcing companies to be more repairable? Well then I can't buy what I want. You are FORCING me to buy products with repairability as a feature, even if it's not a feature I care about and would be perfectly happy sacrificing. Its not your place to decide what people want, its not politicians' place to decide what people want, it is *_their_* place to decide what *_they_* want. If you think they are making a poor choice then you can use your words like a grown ass adult and convince them, but you simply thinking they're wrong doesn't give you the right to force them to do what you want instead. The only time you'd *_need_* to force people to do what you want is if you *_can't_* convince them in open discourse, in which case you have no right to force them to do it anyway since you can't even prove your right to them and they are the one being personally affected if they make a sub-par choice.
Sir Greaseblood not being able to count past 2000 does not give you the excuse to decide I can't eat bacon anymore. If you think I *_shouldn't_* eat bacon, you can try to convince me, but you don't have the right to force your will onto others because a few idiots can't look after themselves and their own interests. If you are old enough to have the right to drive a car on public roads and the right to order alcohol then you're old enough to make your own fucking choice on what computers you should buy.
There is no "right to repair", there is a right to buy products which are repairable, which you already can. (Until of course governments leverage RtR precedents to legislate things like DRM chips) I cannot steal your car and drive to vegas because "I have a right to drive!". If I want to drive a car, I can get my own. And if I then decide to buy a motorcycle instead, I don't have any place to complain about not being able to drive a car. I got what a bought, and if that ain't what I wanted then tough shit, I should pay more attention next time.
None of any of this matters if you dont have the right to repair your own stuff.
Corporate monopoly America is a liar, a serial killer, a thief, it's out to murder YOU.
250 bucks for a $12 Pi Pico with a battery and a case is a bit pricey... but this is pretty neat.
And the time to download and organize the content. 24 hours work at 10 bux an hour?
Zero W, not a Pico
Cute comment but this is also days (more then likely months) of organizing and vetting. And if you're only adding up cost. It's a pretty big oversight to not include storage cost where assuming by this it's at least a terabyte which is close to 100 bucks by it's self. Seems like a hell of a deal when you look at it outside of self inflated rose glasses
I'd say 200 is still pricey when there are a few dozen people who have already downloaded and organized these for you. You can do a search and you'll get all the same info all organized to download for free
@@twistyx808 can you provide a link to anything? i'm slowly building my own mini-internet but i can't find anything easyish for downloading wikipedia or anything, or field manuals
While the Gridbase is cool, you should keep in mind that SD cards kinda suck at long term data retention and one day you could power it on and nothing be working because the SD card died. Make backups of the SD card and have a method of creating copies of SD cards if you want to keep this data for the long term
Optical media still the best IMO… for the average consumer.. 10-15 yr. w/ tape in a bunker 50-100 yrs est?
Great point! All this is susceptible to sd technology. 😮
BalenaEtcher is very good at doing amazing things with SD cards even making clones and or hidden sectors to hide files and have them appear empty when they are not.
@@whatitdodracula
The FBI is on to you, dude.
@@Brett_S_420 I am just the messenger. 🤣
You can easily download DIY videos, books, music, all kinds of entire websites...all to a USB stick and mSD card yourself. Start today! (And make copies kept in faraday cage with an inexpensive Amazon Fire tablet or 2 or 3...)
You can download wikipedia , I have done that , i think that would be a valuble source of info........ In the end though, books are king
I think the perk of this specific box is; preloaded content, and the built in WiFi that allows you to connect via your phone and not needing a laptop/computer.
More of an "On-the-go" solution.
That being said; you can make this with a Raspberry Pi.
@@spr00sem00sewikipedia kinda sucks tho, but you got a good idea
@@Rev-X-Films I agree, not everyone knows what they need to "know" so having a starting point is fine and if a patriot putting this information together gets a profit for providing a service and resources im about it. I would want to know if it can be expanded with custom folders before Id pull the trigger on buying one
@@spr00sem00se wikipedia is controlled info. by gov.
Notes for printing any of the books:
Include a laser printer in your SHTF plans. Toner doesn't 'dry out' like inkjets do. The cheaper ones will be black and white only.
If you must use an inkjet, keep fresh cartridges in their packaging, and keep the printer stored without any ink installed. Best is a brand new printer in box that's never printed anything before that's 'unprimed'. Once an ink printer has been primed, there will be ink in the lines that can dry out and clog.
Why would you print things in SHTF
Thermal portable printers may be even better… no ink, works on a battery (the one I have does), and the thermal paper, currently easy to find, is the only renewable need.`
I know the gun content is probably more popular but I really like the non-gun related content too
As the guntube viewer age. This will become the next big thing.
Faraday bags? Hit up estate sales or pawn shops for cheap microwaves. They’re basically huge faraday cages; they’re hardsided and stackable.
As far as i know, so mayby wrong, microwaves are tuned to block its own frequency. Others go right through. Someone did a vid showing a mobile still working inside
@@devilsknight the hole size determines the max. frequency that can be blocked, so it'll block everything under 2.4GHz aka 2400Mhz. That phone probably used something like 5 GHz wifi to connect
The worst part about a new dirty civilian video is now I gotta wait a week for a new dirty civilian video
The other things you didn’t mention is clothing for growing kids and off season clothes. Fabrics, sewing machines. Wool, knitting needles for craft and clothing. Market place and thrift stores also have these things. Learning these skills too.
1:24 - Hurricane Katrina is actually an example given during the lectures about internet resilience. What happened - the network traffic was actually re-routed around New Orleans. Don't forget - DARPA built it for a conventional battlefield, where nodes after nodes are taken down by the enemy actions.
Darpa (arpa in those days) was also obsessed with creating a 'network of battlefield sensors' like they did on the Ho Chi Minh Trail but in all possible future theaters of war... after which they created the internet in a totally different project which definitely does not constitute the modern fruition of that same exact idea at all (adjusts tinfoil beanie & pops another Male Vitality pill)😵💫🤪
@@johnnyshanksalot8358 Sorry bud, I don't have any pills to pop to follow you.
The gov. also took the chance to take away Firearms during Katrina.
@@johnnyshanksalot8358it doesn’t though
They're still called comic books. Graphic novels, on the other hand, have two categories: 1) a collection of comic books that puts the entire story arc into a single book for convenience and 2) a comic book story that is simply too big to put into a traditional comic book so it goes into a trade paperback or hardback book.
The gay frog alarm killed me lol
To early🤣, poor bud
You know atrazine in agricultural wastewater is an actual ecological problem and only because of AJ the story disappeared from the real media overnight
Gay fish alarm
Atrazine is very real and it's really in agricultural runoff
@amelliamendel2227 I know it's real that's why it's funny he was right the whole time
I can't tell you how happy it made me to see the Optimus prime DVD case at the end, I genuinely thought nobody else had even heard of them
I beat Al Gore's rhythm after watching this.
Goteem!
Backwoods home magazine has a USB with 10 years of anthologies, 2500 articles for $45.
Great video guys! I''ve been running the Pocket for several months now, and it's very, very cool. The note about physical photos is 1,000% solid advice. Good stuff.
Thanks dude!
That device does just use KIWIX which you can download and install on just about any device including a tablet or phone or PC.
Depending on what your doing it might just be better to put it on a laptop or dedicated mini PC or old laptop and use eathernet to reduce your radio signature.
Looks like a raspberry pie 0 with a battery pack and a decent amount of downloaded videos and documents for survival. Not bad. You can diy it but it takes some experience to get together.
There's a free project called Kiwix that does it, but it's best on a pi3 or pi4, or on a laptop. Several preppers and people going into the African/Asian bush country use these.
that is literally all this is
@@damonaniton [ EDIT: YT removed em they don't like you saying how to make tech products in comments that's my bad, but this can be done so much cheaper explore it on your own!]
@@jeffero1074 Its probably not DC deleting comments, youtube auto deletes/hides comments if they include certain words. Its in the YT community guidelines (but of course they never tell exactly what words). It's happened to me a lot on many different channels.
Its called Kiwix and it's free. You can even use an android if you don't have a raspberry pi. Just need atleast 500 GB of storage if you want all of wikipedia.
Canadian prep is awesome. From his “news” updates, which are impartial and I can trust, to his how to videos. All of his content being on there alone just sold this to me!
The sponsor segment was much better in this video than your last. Thanks!
Designed a stand in way back in 2007.
Full internet and telecoms system.
Still got most of the hardware. Can handle 250,000 calls. Can support thousands or users, but it maybe a little slower, or faster than what some people have today :) took the world 10 years to catch up.
I lived before the web. I'll live after, you'll be surprised how many years before
I'm happy to see someone out there making these available to buy ready to go. Some may see the price and think that's a little steep, and I myself was in that boat. But when I look at my own that I've been making and the amount of time I've spent getting data downloaded and everything set up, I think it's worth the cost. Especially for someone that's not tech savvy.
Your sponsorship section was beautiful. That’s how you get people to actually watch the sponsorship plugs, bravo dirty civ
I’m liking this channel more and more. I appreciate your efforts. Thanks for keeping us ahead of the curve and covering topics other channels don’t.
Much appreciated!
@@dirty-civilian I ❤ this! Are there any older non medicated people in your circle?
i created something like this, using different torrents and other files, written on HDD. i named it "The code". This code is all about how to be useful and worthy for yourself and people around you. The code consists of 3 parts: input, output, storage, secret files (passwords etc. - not supposed to be known about).
Ok, the sudden Alex Jones ad read was freaking awesome!
"They are turning the frogs gay" line had me absolutely rolling!😂🤣😂
I freaking love this channel!
Always pushing into new things, no 2 videos are alike, always fresh, exciting and keeps me engaged. Great job guys!
"Ah've bin studyin' the globalists for 30 years..."
You know that a significant amount of well respected biologists confirmed that all the medical junk which ends up in the water is having profound effects on wildlife?
That's another 1$ in the "Alex was right" jar for all of us.
even though I know this is just a cheap device with valuable content, but the profoundness you conveyed is so profound that makes me watch all the way through. great video, great content.
All time best ad. Actually watched and laughed.
I appreciate the emphasis on preserving arts & culture - to "color up" our lives. Such an important point that doesn't get enough attention.
"Man does not live on bread alone." There's a reason why art and culture is so prominent in our lives. Once our food/water/shelter is taken care of (biological needs), we then also need to cultivate our emotional/psychological health. That's what art and culture does for us.
Great video. Super informative and contextual.
You can actually make this yourself, its just a raspberry pi with some form of custom os that runs a kiwix service on it, that being said you can just run a normal run of the mill os and install a kiwix service on it and accomplish the same thing. This product seems to be using just a microsd card which likely wont last long but a raspberry pi 5 now supports nvme drives which would be a much more ideal way to go, I have done the same thing with a pi 4 and an ssd over usb, and the advantage of doing it with a normal os means the pi can still have a normal desktop with all sorts of other functionalities, there are guides for this and if you are tech savvy then do that instead of buying this unit, and if you're not tech savvy then this unit is more for you
Spot on. That's the problem though - barrier to entry to all of that is pretty high for people who don't understand it. We really like things that get people started down a rabbit hole that leads to them building their own solutions.
I appreciate you taking the time to write this. 5 minutes on Google and I can make one myself.
Can you recommend a channel that has the know how to build this?
@@scottedwards3403jeff geerling
@@scottedwards3403 Gridbase has a google doc for free of everything on the pocket, which is just copied from Kiwix (free to download). I don't have a need for wifi compatibility so I'm simply downloading all the info from Kiwix to an external SSD and downloading the free Kiwix app to all my devices (works with mac, andriod, windows, etc). Same thing but $50 w/o wifi.... All in all, downloading the files from Kiwix to the SSD should be done in a day.
I'll probably keep a dedicated & cheap amazon tablet to use with it in a faraday bag.
When the ones and zeros stop flowing, I have a vast book collection and digital movie collection when I feel the need to entertain myself during a major technology failure or shtf event.
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Prepare for the worst case scenario now. Even with spaced based communication, the ground stations must still function in order for that flow of information worldwide. .
Love this presentation.
Canadian here, I think the Canadian restrictions you mentioned are only for news on FB & other social media, I never run into it but i do use Brave browser so that might have something to do with it. That said, information definitely disappears over the years so backups are always a good idea. A ton of videos, PDFs & so on that used to be widely available online have vanished in the last decade, keeping hard copies is underrated.
A fellow Canadian here too, and ya Google is soo bad, have to use other browsers often too, or use a VPN. And definitely agree, will be hitting over 800 book in my personal home library soon.
Don't know what the Hell happened to this Country, BUT
Canada has truly fallen.
Don't even get me started with our legal firearm owner, being bombarded with new laws and bans.😂
@@theunknownprivate I occasionally use google maps for directions but other than that, their political censorship has rendered them utterly useless as a search engine. The last time I remember using them to search a few years ago I got that crazy 'these results are rapidly changing' message meaning 'we refuse to give you any information at all on this topic.' Madness.
Couldn't agree with you more about the state of the country/government & it's increasingly insane laws but at the same time, I was extremely proud of (a minority of) our countrymen for leading the way in defying that global 'health' dystopia for a minute there. Probably the first time in my 4+ decades of life that I've ever truly felt proud of that flag tbh.
I don't put much faith in politicians but you never know, maybe PP will get elected & stop at least some of the bleeding here, 1 can only hope. He ain't Max Bernier but at least he ain't Justin.
@@theunknownprivate I can't believe I'm only just now hearing about this.
5:48 THE BEST ADVERTISER TRANSITION IN TH-cam HISTORY!!!
Long time watcher. Very good information. Just my two cents, but I hope you have a better data management/backup plan then just a bunch of external SSDs/HDs. Data does go bad overtime. Now I'm not saying you need a mini datacenter (I have my personal one I built in my office... Loud and warm.... Not portable at all but i'm working on that.). I personally have about 50TB of data I manage and self host for family/friends, including plenty of information about survival and sustainment. If you want some more information please let me know. Great work as always you guys.
Man I’d like more info.
@@LordNotlek What information do you seek?
what is a mini data center in layman’s terms?
One of us owns a server, but again - so cumbersome it's not really ideal for transporting.
@@dirty-civilian I've picked up a few old military hardened server rack cases and working on a more portable and power efficient server setup that one could theoretically throw in the back of a car and run off something like a solar generator. I'm not very committed to it because my preps revolve around bunkering down and staying put.
On the emp thing. You can store some of this stuff in a metal trash can with its lid. You can electrically ground the can, and it should protect most things that are off from an emp.
What you can invest today is a NAS (network attached storage). Buy a ton of storage space and just go download happy. Sail the seven seas while you're at it because who cares when the internet no workie. Also, if you have physical media, you can rip your media and have a back up of it.
It's a deep, and dark rabbit hole once you start that path..... First you're browsing r/synology, then you're on to r/homelab, and before long, you're 200 posts deep in r/datahoarder comparing serial numbers and models on buying 200 HDDs to store your media collection! 🤣. I kid, I kid, but it's a subject that can go as deep or as shallow as you desire.
As a hint for someone new, if you're getting serious about a NAS or server, look into TrueNAS Scale as a good foundation Linux distro to build on, and work out from there. ZFS is probably my recommendation for most people, but there are other avenues and paths as you explore the subject. Good luck!
if i was prepping for off grid tech, i’d install a local version of a open source large language model like chat gpt. the knowledge stored in even a 4 or 8gb model, is vastly more than what you’d get out of 8gb of text files. it read everything on the internet and can explain any of it back to you, it’s insane how vast the knowledge is in such a small package.
Good luck hogging a gaming laptop
@@haxboi5492 they aint even that big or heavy...
So hes 100% right about having some form of entertainment. I stayed in the woods in a swiss military command tent for about 9 months while i was looking to purchase my current home. It was my bosses land and i was clear cutting it by hand just me and my german shepard and some nights my buddies would come over, we would grill and have drinks and a fire and it was fun but when its just you and a dog its nice to have some other form of entertainment. I had a portable dvd player and a nintendo switch lite. I had a 650w solar generator with a 120w solar panel and that combo for the most part kept all my electronics charged up and allowed me to run a chest fridge/freezer to keep things like milk and raw meat for cooking. If i had a few days of rain i took my generator to a friends house and charged it up in like 3 hours and it took about 1.5-2 days to run the battery down to empty when the cooler was running on it. Without the cooler it would charge my devices up for a week.
Play an instrument. Read. Make art. Write…
@Gotprivacy-noyoudont just because you enjoy those things doesn't mean I do. And I actually did have a tablet with books on it I forgot to mention that. Other than reading I couldn't care less to write, make art or play an instrument. Especially after doing manual labor all day long. By the time it was dark all I'd want to do is sit in my chair and play some nintendo or watch a favorite movie or read a little before bed.
Super cool to see Gridbase's stuff getting shared to a larger audience. I've been following his projects for a while now. Great ideas for protecting valuable information.
some of us grew up without the internet.
we'll be just fine and probably better off.
As long as we don’t have to worry about the effect of loosing all that on society doesn’t impact us.
Unfortunately, so much of the "behind the scenes" stuff that makes the world go round is tied to the internet. All the control systems, SCADA etc.
No Internet means no centralized water purification & delivery for cities and small towns, no SCADA means anything & everything that goes by rail or pipeline stops dead in its track. No refining, no food processing etc
Born in the “60’s”I agree with your statement!👍
Losing access to all that information, accessible at a moments notice, would suck. Us young folk probably were never taught/learned some survival skills, and ya'll ol' heads may not have had to use some of those skills in potentially decades. Ya'll maybe rusty or have forgotten. Having at least a copy of good references books would be better than not for everyone involved. Nothing can replace training, but I'd rather have access to an ebook/book rather than be caught completely lacking.
Then once society is starting to rebuild after a SHTF situation, having some ebooks people can access maybe a good barter resource. I'd trade a can of beans or 2 for a copy of a book with medical information
He doesn't mean just the lost of internet he means if society was to collapse with the internet THEN u would need something like this
I was like ..."cool! Need that shit!" . Then i saw Canadian prepper and i went to:"Ffs! Hell no! I'll buy a bunch of USB's and put in the work myself.
This is a reason why I have a power station and a power bank or two just in case. We had internet shut down and power shut downs in Poland a few times, once even on my shift back when I was doing security job, I had to somehow turn on the power in entire block cuz people were panicking and I did thankfully knew what box to turn, what switch to flip... But still, the people get easily panicked, confused.
Glad I made these purchases. They serve me well as I charge them and use them to cut down on power cost.
I can honestly say this is one of the most important videos I have ever watched. Thanks for the waking up and guidance 🙏
Well man seriously as a lifelong survivalist gun enthusiast and believer and most of what you guys talk about on the channel, and also a career musician, thank you for what you say about what separates humans from animals. You're absolutely right, I've personally been saying this for years now, and it's 100% backed up by science. We potentially had music before we even had speech and certainly had it before we had written word. It's one of the main indicators of intelligence, interest in the arts and music and interesting things other than just survival. Which is why it is just absolutely insane to me that people try to say things like music isn't in Porten and not worth paying for. Have you ever done literally anything in life without musi go to a restaurant any restaurant guarantee they're playing music of some sort. Every store you walk into is playing music of some sort while you're on the phone there's music for holding while you're watching videos there's music playing in the background. We are surrounded by it every single day. You would think that in the schools will actually want to invest more into it but instead they're doing the opposite. But then again, public education is really meant to get people ready to work at places like Walmart anyways and not be individual thinkers there have been plenty of studies on there, including one pretty famous one by one of the presidents of Harvard University.
Been investing in physical media forever, never really stopped. Bought a house in years ago and every time I have to work on something be it electric, plumbing or repairing the chicken coop the kids are there hopefully learning. Love the offline internet device!
Oh god . Cp is gonna be the teacher of the last people . What a world .
Right? 😂 what a freakin' nightmare that would be
I had the same thought lmao
That pretty much turned me off as soon as I heard that. I'll just get it from someone else that doesn't have CP's videos on it.
The actual information that comes of his videos is that amount worth in gold. If you have any clue of preparedness
@@alexiO21100 ok . Cool story bro . Maybe if you don't have any food ,water,self defense or skills. That dude has poison info for anyone who knows what they are doing. Just seal up your freeze dried food the way he suggests youll see . Some of us have been doing this long enough to know he don't know shit.
You got my sub just for this video, particularly the part from 4:19 onward. We are human because we can be entertained.
The Foxfire series would be nice too
How long until the FUDs realize you can do this yourself with old tech you probably already have or ~$50 and a weekend?
I know I'm a little late to the game here, but one thing that I highly recommend that wasn't really touched on was having extra copies of info stored in different locations. For example, I've been downloading lots of guntuber informational videos ever since YT started pulling certain peoples content off the internet. I have a copy on a USB that I keep in my bag for work, on an encrypted hard drive that I have stored at home, and on a home server that I can access from the internet. Two is one and one is none!!!
Beware of devices and software that will stop functioning without an update .
Also , content downloaded from some services , even if stored locally , often will not play without an active Internet connection .
Just some things to be aware of before you start making personal SHTF data caches .
good you are getting this out there. Its basically important information on a harddrive that can be distributed more easily. I have made my own for decades as you are correct about not wanting to carry around books. I used to have a binder with printouts inside it but it was cumbersome and could be damaged even with plastic sleeves. Best thing really is to get a tough book, one of those armored laptops and store info on that and put it with your bugout kit.
This is where web scraping skills would come in handy to custom build something like this. I already have a bunch of e-books scattered over 3 hard drives. Just not a lot of time to organize it.
Damn take my money, please !! I ordered mine. I dont think people understand how hard that would be to do that, not to mention the organization efforts needed . Btw great work you guys are doing !
The death of the Internet would force children outdoors again. It might even force people to speak with other family members. This would be an unimaginable disaster.
@@davidmecham9676exactly
Lol. I remember we had a very intense lake effect blizzard a few years ago.
Several of my neighbors were outside shoveling, we made comments about how intense the snow was, and mentioned different tools and things we had to prepare for it. It was the first time I had ever spoken to 2 of them. I lived there for years already at the time. But just that small sense of disaster was enough for the boys to start thinking in tribal ways.
This TH-cam channel is a CIA shill.
Just look at the countries he targets. As if his own country did not go through a coup where Trump was removed and replaced by a dementor.
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It would also end the society as we know it. Apocalypse just like from the movies
Glad you've discovered Canadian Prepper. I really like his blue band content. The red band content is kind of overwhelming.
Man! I was wondering where my dose of DC was this weekend! 🤙🏼🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Ytube asked me to rate your comment? You know the smiley faces. Weird. First time I’ve seen it on a comment. You a fed?
@@jeffhuntley2921 If I was a fed I'd do America a favor and Control/Alt Delete myself. And even if I was a fed do you think just because you asked me I'd tell you the truth?
@@threat2demoracy5454 I assume everyone is a fed on ytube. What’s one more:) subbed your channel. Had me at Christ is king!
@@jeffhuntley2921 I know it man. They chat and type among us. And yeah assuming everyone on YTube even some big name creators work for the feds or are feds. Thanks for the sub my brother! Godspeed! 🤙🏼
Thanks!
Ssd is no good for long term storage . Static charged storage will fail quickly when unpowered for long. Use hdds and cd or DVDs.
If we were to live in a post internet age, we should know how to get the internet going again. That's my opinion. Learn the low level software programming, Learn the wireless communication protocols. Don't forget that it goes exponentially. It looks hard at first, but when you have the building blocks, it is actually super easy. If you have a team that knows how to build the chips, electromagnetism and radiowaves, wireless communication and how to program the chips, you're there. I've done all these things in the past and work for a long time now in designing the systems that build the core of the chips (lithography).
All of us that deployed from 2001 to 2015 (internet started showing up in 2016) are looking at our stacks of hard drives because deployments were just a giant Lan party where we didn't have personal internet and you traded moral drives with all you could imagine.
Man, when we got to go see other parts of the unit it was like Christmas cuz we could swap movies and such from hard drive to hard drive. So many hard drives😂😂
I have seen a lot of comments saying how this would be super cheap to DIY and I agree that it would, but just think of the hours of downloading you would have to do. I Like this as a good start but this video made me think about my offline media and what specific areas I might need to think about. Great work DC and keep up the great work!
ps. I loved the Alex Jones style advertisements!
My mom gave me the Foxfire book series back in the 70s. There are a few more volumes now! And who knows when we might need to know how to build a banjo from scratch. Much handier to have it all on a thumb drive, eh 🙂
Thanks
"in the arms of an angel" that got me good
it's 300 bucks for something that's just a little battery with a 15 buck raspberry zero, and a 512gb sd card....
an SD card that you cant even add your own info to. Also its wild to me that it uses an SD card considering the tiny amount of reads and writes it has before failing. But this whole thing looks like a money grab.
straight up. if they want this to take off they will need to reduce the price. 300 is way too much
Is there a DIY project to make your own?
@@diversie509 btw sd card has no problem with reads
flash media, like sd cards, usb sticks, emmc, etc, just have a limited digital lifespan, unlike hard drives you can't recover the failed data
but they can do unlimited reads, more or less, or at least enough reads that nobody's ever had issues being limited by that
so as long as it doesn't keep writing stuff to the card all the time, it'd actually be fine
@@JimmyDistheMan pretty sure it's taking like 80-90% of content just from Kiwix, which is more or less doing the same thing software-wise, you'd need to figure out the battery situation yourself, but kiwix gives you an app with which you can download a lot of offline stuff, wikipedia pages, ted talks, , and you can then read locally or serve it as a hotspot
Interesting - it seems to be a Raspberry Pi Zero W (or Pi Zero 2 W) with a battery attached, SD Card of some size and a charging board. The bundling of this with a software package and software AP makes this workable, has perhaps something like XowA to serve the offline Wikipedia mega-archives (those can be downloaded independently, they're about 95 gig).
That they've put this all together as a homogenised product I do appreciate, good bit of work there.
One thing I'd want to do - make sure this is locked away in a suitably protective Faraday cage/enclosure along with all equipment you intend to use for charging, the tablet/phone/kindle you want to read it with, etc. Make sure that's all locked away with proper protection to reduce the risk of an EMP taking it out.
I'd probably want to have spare hardware for it too - in case it suffers damage or other issues.
I would consider this more of an off grid intranet not an internet as a computer engineer, but hey, all power to ya. I think it’s important people keep things like this.
BLADE RUNNER MENTIONED!!!!🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥
Oh my gosh, I am so glad I am not the only one who thinks like this. This is a relief. Great video.
Personally I went the full blown server rack with TBs of data and all I can and want to keep from internet.
Hey I saw all the comments about the build...awesome build and awesome product guys! Was just starting my own build but would love to get my hands on that data....
"Freedom is suppressed" in 'the land of the free', as well.
То есть подходит для ситуаций, когда ты:
- Находишься в бегах
- Попал на необитаемый остров
- Чилишь в Тайге
В принципе даже можно по порядку
Typical Russian comment when you're on vacation in Taiga
How is this updated? Any support provided by the vendor or does a user have the ability to update the content?
This has been one of DC's most informative videos yet. Thanks, time to get to work on this.
Isn't that just a raspberry pi with a battery and a mini wifi modem?
I was looking at that too. Its crazy that they want $300 for it...
@@BigBraGad you could probably make it for 1/3 of the price
Just as much as a phone connected to another phone is The Internet… it’s not the hardware, but the contents.
I reverse engineered the fuel injection system of my 1992 Honda Civic to support tuning for completely different engine swaps, created traction control, full-throttle shifting, automatic nitrous injection, turbo boost control, etc, all without any outboard hardware changes - all in assembly language on the original ECU. If you can do that, good for you. For those that didn’t have those skills, I sold these features, and people were happy to pay.
If creating a fully curated and organized offline abridged offline Internet as provided by Pocket is easy for you, go build it and then let us know how long it took you… we’ll wait 🤣
@@fiveangle yes definitely
A scam for preppers, pretty cringe imho
You can do all this plus more with your phone and a sdcard slot/adapter. It has hotspot, and nearby share. You can create a mesh network to chat or send things to nearby people. Wikipedia is available in text or text and pictures and you can add any TH-cam video, ebook/whatever.
That little bible is perfect for when you run out of rolling papers!
And you won't need a light bc of the hellfire.
After watching a few of your videos this was the one that made me decide to subscribe. I see that you are a like minded guy that I could crack open a case of cold brews not that I ever really do that. These are the kinds of conversations and things people need to be having, we are living in dangerous times best to educate, fortify, and prep for the worst. Even if that day never comes atleast you'll be far better off than everyone else. Semper Fi 🤜🤛
can you edit/add/remove content from the pocket device?
Solid question. I’d like to know too.
I'd be shocked if you couldn't, as it's likely just a Linux distro running some relatively straightforward software. As as the old geek joke goes, everything is "open source" if you have physical access 🤣
the first in video ad i never skipped ever dude!!
“We depend on devices too much!” “Here’s another device to rely on.” You can do this for FAR cheaper than that price. That’s approaching predatory for such a cheap device and free information. This video is about trying to scare people into panicking and buying an extremely overpriced device.
Agree. I mean its comftable for its size, but a nas with the same fils and maybe different software or apps can do the same and you can do more with it
This was a very thought provoking video. I actually have an older tablet that I use for auto repair, with factory repair manuals for all my vehicles as well as some books on electronics ect on it. I never thought about doing that fpr other things though. The pocket device looks cool, but i would probably come up with my own alternative, but very good info!! First time viewer, subbed
You can easily live without the internet. Don't panic.
I love how you made the MOST CINEMATICALLY INCREDIBLE YET TERRIFYING intro to the idea of societal collapse,
For a viewer (me) who already clicked on a video titled “off grid decentralised internet”, like I needed anymore convincing 😂😂😂
glorified hard drive
true like the internet is the people, not just the information
DC++ with webpage.
I wouldn't want to archive all that info though
my internet provider won’t like what i’m gonna do
Move your DNS to Cloudfare and your ISP won't see shit. Get to it brother @ShamanWillYT
So, maybe this is controversial, but I feel like most 8b LLM’s kind of are like a more effectively compressed form of this info. Of course you don’t have explicit videos and it is prone to hallucination, but it could also be a great addition to this!
for $300 it should have solar charging capability included
Technology is very crucial in a modern world. Which is why I always recommend that any one who is a prepper or wants to be prepared needs to learn Linux. Most home PCs run Microshaft Windows yes but like DC says if the grid and network gets attacked then you can't update or fix your OS since MS has all the source code that only they have access too. Linux however is open source and anyone can see the source code and even create their own OS from scratch if they wanted. Learning about and supporting open source software is so important and I have always pushed for using it in the prepper community. In fact, part of my prepper stash are flash drives and external drives that have various Linux distros on them as well as digitizing books and storing them in an EMP proof safe box with a spare laptop and SBCs.
Cool concept, but I just can't stomach a $300 price tag for what's basically a raspberry Pi web server...80 bucks of parts
How.much is a rasberry and where do u get it..everyone keeps saying this but can someone make a video on how to make a raspberry like this for a fraction of the cost
I love how you made a full documentary out of a raspberry pi zero NAS... you have skills man or no clue what you are holding xD either way loved the story 💥💥
This is not Off Grid Internet this is a super compressed and compiled data base there is no updates or anything without outside data connection
This is very cool. You're mostly paying for the effort that's been put in to compile the content on the device.
$300 for something that can be built with a raspberry pi pico and a usb Wi-Fi dongle in less than $50. Even the information is something not really proprietary.
I like this as buying books to compare none to.. LOL this is Great to have, this Info at your fingertips. Yes It IS NOT INTERNET but has internet qualities such as INFORMATION retrieval. 🥰😍🤩
Yes, information is power 🎉
Boom!
So are depleted uranium bullets 😊
Yes@@dirty-civilian
@@m.k.nielsen5822 You can say UNdepleted uranium in bomb form is even more so😮