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.
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.
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.
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 🙂
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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....
I'm a professional data hoarder. I REFUSE the "you will own nothing and you will be happy" thing. I have an HP Proliant server running unRAID with over 56TB of storage and have backed up all my movies, music, my entire google presence, Facebook presence, even all of my Audible books...pretty much everything I can think of. Working on getting all my Kindle books now but it's proving to be tricky. Fucking DRM. If anyone has questions about how to get all setup, lemme know! Happy to help!
$299.99 for a Raspberry Pi Zero, a battery, a 512GB card, and a case? Not today! (any "If it's so easy and inexpensive, do it yourself" reply will be summarily crushed with facts.)
We did this in Iraq during certain events during my time. I used a cellphone when I was there and shut off during events. It was when I was in the military.
Everyone reading this needs to back up anything that matters onto the archival DVD and Blu-Ray. Optical disks are the only truly safe way to back up digital information. You can take a stack of disks and put them in a box and put them on a shelf. They will last safely for 10-30+ years. Purchase disks in bulk. Every 10 years you can run them with a data checker and if they are not corrupted you can just run with a duplicator and are good for another 10+ years. Do this until Crystal disks are mainstream. According to technology cycles should be in about 15-20 years. Then you can use a crystal burner and replace all your optical disks on them. All current technologies are short-term and are easily corrupted. HDD, SSD regardless of which technology the SSD uses are easy to destroy physically and remotely. Once your data is gone. It is as if you never existed... remember that.
Loved this video! I’ve been wanting to start a home server (and raid backup) of all our photos, music, movies for a long time. This is another great reminder how important that may come to be. Solar and battery backups are also on the list, though it’s reeeally expensive. I like the tip to find a lot of the other stuff cheaply or free from thrift stores etc.
Pre internet information source - Analog radio. It should be kept alive. It cant be edited, broadcasts are available to everyone all over the world. It is almost completely phased out, sadly.
I have my own library also get books and such when I go to thrift stores, the main problems are storage, as I don't have enough storage. was gonna move house and designed my house to have a library in the tower(tower had many different reasons, as this house was designed with many things and also used many acient and modern techologies to basically do anything without relying on anything. the stairway up the tower(and the slide down as fun is also important and slides are faster if I ever need to get down fast)) where mostly just to get up and down, the tower itself mostly was designed as one big library and general storage, as well as to be able to be used like a air channel/chimney since the room of the tower had a liftable section which allowed to cool the house in hot days(ofcource it also had a underground section which was designed to be the primary living part as it had everything needed to live, the above ground spaces aso had such things but where more for the luxury and storage and guests and to have more space when usable since the underground area was designed very compact, so it had all but was mostly aimed to deal with things like super high or super low temperatures. even though note that it wasn't directly aimed as a falout shelter or bomb shelter or such since the front side was designed to get in outside light and allow looking outside like a hobbit house essentially. to use it as a shelter would require closing those off and adding a extra door just to have a double door in front of it to make sure the main door doesn't get damage and stuck or destroyed since the house also had some strict price limitations(as in less than what many people these days pay for a somewhat "cheap" camper van, but it also invoved making a lot of my own parts and using recycled ones as well as making and reenforcing things using my own methods which would work well and make it much more durable but where relatively cheap and easy to do myelf with more primitive tools(many things where designed for a floating ocean city/island, which actually had all the info and data ready but was not realized in the end due to the usa marine and other countries also just attacking any vessel in non national waters.) the house itself sadly also was never build since around a day before we would get the confirmation that we got the land(bought it) we got a message that some random person overbid the property with more than €100K without ever having visited it even, and note this wasn't one of those insanely expensive properties, so overbidding it with €100k is insane, even more so without even going to look there. also next to that the local government was problematic surround that despite the house actually being quite small/compact that it just looked to good/to much like a castle, the main thing was that the property had a very big old house/building/half house half shed/farm on it, and a secondairy smaller building was allowed with certain size limits, next to that the sizes where allowed to be bigger if the original was made smaller, but the original house had to stay the main house. (needed more houses since it was meant for multiple households since ground and houses are insanely expensive here, I don't need the house to be as big and instead more need special features in it as well as tons of storage optimally, so I would get in the back with that house and potentially also use some containers for extra storage if this house ever filled up, but it had a lot especially when also counting in the secrtet tunnels and rooms I hid in the design(my personal designs, the public designs had that covered up) my house actually held itself well to the size restrictions and was a lot smaller than the limit, especially due to the way I had designed it with a lot underground, but I had designed it well and also with a well designed garden around it with the right forms of water, forrest, etc. so the local government got mad since despite it being legal acoarding to the law the house just looked much better than the main house and the entire neighbourhood/street(a long street with some houses to the side of it with a lot of land behind them). so the thing was that because my house looked a lot better it would generally be seen as the main house by people. but local governments have also litterally made problems out of people using compost as heating source, since the local governments here have a huge hatred against offgrid. so much that at some places they litterally make you pay if you use "to little" electricity.
super video, makes us all think. You ate absolutely right about paper maps, of countries, counties, regions, towns, etc... the world. also subway maps. NYC, Marseille. I'm born in N.Y. U.S., but I totally agree with you. I am extremely good with Geography. Also weather radios, are very important. The Weather Channel. GOD BLESS YOU SIR.
Looks like we all needed a bigger storage technology for survivalizm in that state. Every one survivalist have wikipedia in their superpuper storage bible, but not used the wikipedia in everyday life.
I see your micro static backup and raise you to: 1. A multi wan router with Starlink as one of the links. 2. A meshtastic node + app and established relationships with a few users around your city. This gives you at worst the ability to have comms that the conspiracy powers can’t control and is encrypted but at best, a backup path to the real (live) internet bypassing your states control.
Life was better before the Internet. We managed to have little free parties on common land through out the summers before the criminal justice bill. F**k the Internet.
I've been downloading hundreds of my favorite videos, movies, shows and books plus all my family photos on micro SD cards and SSD's then I copy them on multiple other micro SD's and SSD's then put them in labeled water resistant cases *Tip if anyone else does this. Download shows and movies you've never seen that way there will be plenty of new stuff for you to get into.
Internet In A Box - Opensource project - Can run on a Raspberry Pi 3 with no issue - Been running it for years. It is an AP with DHCP and also can be setup as a firewall. Mine updates nightly with version control so I can rewind incase something changes to much. Very low power.
Beware for anyone using valuable data on sd cards. If you are only reading from it the chance of data corruption is small. However if your writing to sd cards frequently the chance of data corruption gets alot higher.
Now I kinda wonder what games he's got on his personal external drives 😂 Always highly recommend having some pen and paper games or even miniature games too. Great ways to occupy without electricity.
The main value I see with the Grid Based Pocket, is it comes preinstalled with a tremendous amount of data. That alone makes it of value, as it would take me some forty forevers to find and assemble. I see it as not bad option to consider getting.
Another advantage of physical media like DVDs is that people can't change them when or if they become politically incorrect. The best example of this is in the first Star Wars movie when they make Han shoot 2nd
Thank you so much!. I have been looking for reliable quality ways of ripping youtube videos for a while now, because i cant count how many times ive loved a video only to have it unlisted later. And I expect a lot of youtube to be memory holed before we know it. Now if only I can find a way to rip Vimeo videos
Questions: If an EMP hits the USA and internet goes down together with all electronics, then what use is there for any electronics that uses wifi if all the grid and internet are down? Unless there is a massive Faraday cage protecting the internet and electronic systems inside our grid and we have faraday cages as well for our devices!
Start a fire w plastic bag or bottle. Use like a magnifying glass on dry clothing fibers, leaves, scraped tree fibers.. mount large (3 ft/ 1 meter) clear plastic on a square frame of wood or whatever. Support it maybe 4-5 feet off the ground. Fill with water. 3-4 inch water magnifying glass. This Will melt rocks so be careful. Focal point will Cook food. Start fires.
Can the PocketBase be Upgraded with Information you want to add to it? When the Grid is Down I might want some Warhammer Rulebooks or Demolition Ranch Videos lol
That device is basically a glorified portable ssd, nothing new. As an Satellite Communications Expert and Custom PC Builder/Overclocker, that technology is not anything new. People can make a tiny library of information. From portable ssd's to usb/micro sd cards, the concept of private information permanently offline is nothing new. This is a good product for people who are not tech savvy if you don't wanna do the work and archive your prepper information you want.
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.
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
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
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 know atrazine in agricultural wastewater is an actual ecological problem and only because of AJ the story disappeared from the real media overnight
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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)😵💫🤪
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 🤣
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.
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.
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
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.`
$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.
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
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 .
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!
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.
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.
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.
The worst part about a new dirty civilian video is now I gotta wait a week for a new dirty civilian video
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.
All time best ad. Actually watched and laughed.
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
for $300 it should have solar charging capability included
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.
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 🙂
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.
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.
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.
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.
Love what you all are doing, thank you!
BLADE RUNNER MENTIONED!!!!🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥
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!
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....
I can honestly say this is one of the most important videos I have ever watched. Thanks for the waking up and guidance 🙏
Video starts at 2:03
Thanks
Buy a encyclopedia set like I did it is older but it has the way it was information in it and vaccine is correct as well as man and woman thats it!
Oh my gosh, I am so glad I am not the only one who thinks like this. This is a relief. Great video.
Looks like it can be DIY'd seeing it's being run on a Pi. Could be useful to integrate with additional battery power and possibly some portable solar.
You got my sub just for this video, particularly the part from 4:19 onward. We are human because we can be entertained.
I'm a professional data hoarder. I REFUSE the "you will own nothing and you will be happy" thing. I have an HP Proliant server running unRAID with over 56TB of storage and have backed up all my movies, music, my entire google presence, Facebook presence, even all of my Audible books...pretty much everything I can think of. Working on getting all my Kindle books now but it's proving to be tricky. Fucking DRM. If anyone has questions about how to get all setup, lemme know! Happy to help!
More important than this is owning your hardware, only few gaints control internet
$299.99 for a Raspberry Pi Zero, a battery, a 512GB card, and a case? Not today!
(any "If it's so easy and inexpensive, do it yourself" reply will be summarily crushed with facts.)
We did this in Iraq during certain events during my time. I used a cellphone when I was there and shut off during events. It was when I was in the military.
Everyone reading this needs to back up anything that matters onto the archival DVD and Blu-Ray. Optical disks are the only truly safe way to back up digital information. You can take a stack of disks and put them in a box and put them on a shelf. They will last safely for 10-30+ years. Purchase disks in bulk. Every 10 years you can run them with a data checker and if they are not corrupted you can just run with a duplicator and are good for another 10+ years. Do this until Crystal disks are mainstream. According to technology cycles should be in about 15-20 years. Then you can use a crystal burner and replace all your optical disks on them. All current technologies are short-term and are easily corrupted. HDD, SSD regardless of which technology the SSD uses are easy to destroy physically and remotely. Once your data is gone. It is as if you never existed... remember that.
This can be done for like a tenth of the price by watching a video on TH-cam. It’s using a raspberry pi zero. No ones gonna pay $300 for that.
Loved this video! I’ve been wanting to start a home server (and raid backup) of all our photos, music, movies for a long time. This is another great reminder how important that may come to be. Solar and battery backups are also on the list, though it’s reeeally expensive. I like the tip to find a lot of the other stuff cheaply or free from thrift stores etc.
Pre internet information source - Analog radio. It should be kept alive. It cant be edited, broadcasts are available to everyone all over the world. It is almost completely phased out, sadly.
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😮
I have my own library also get books and such when I go to thrift stores, the main problems are storage, as I don't have enough storage.
was gonna move house and designed my house to have a library in the tower(tower had many different reasons, as this house was designed with many things and also used many acient and modern techologies to basically do anything without relying on anything.
the stairway up the tower(and the slide down as fun is also important and slides are faster if I ever need to get down fast)) where mostly just to get up and down, the tower itself mostly was designed as one big library and general storage, as well as to be able to be used like a air channel/chimney since the room of the tower had a liftable section which allowed to cool the house in hot days(ofcource it also had a underground section which was designed to be the primary living part as it had everything needed to live, the above ground spaces aso had such things but where more for the luxury and storage and guests and to have more space when usable since the underground area was designed very compact, so it had all but was mostly aimed to deal with things like super high or super low temperatures. even though note that it wasn't directly aimed as a falout shelter or bomb shelter or such since the front side was designed to get in outside light and allow looking outside like a hobbit house essentially. to use it as a shelter would require closing those off and adding a extra door just to have a double door in front of it to make sure the main door doesn't get damage and stuck or destroyed since the house also had some strict price limitations(as in less than what many people these days pay for a somewhat "cheap" camper van, but it also invoved making a lot of my own parts and using recycled ones as well as making and reenforcing things using my own methods which would work well and make it much more durable but where relatively cheap and easy to do myelf with more primitive tools(many things where designed for a floating ocean city/island, which actually had all the info and data ready but was not realized in the end due to the usa marine and other countries also just attacking any vessel in non national waters.)
the house itself sadly also was never build since around a day before we would get the confirmation that we got the land(bought it) we got a message that some random person overbid the property with more than €100K without ever having visited it even, and note this wasn't one of those insanely expensive properties, so overbidding it with €100k is insane, even more so without even going to look there.
also next to that the local government was problematic surround that despite the house actually being quite small/compact that it just looked to good/to much like a castle, the main thing was that the property had a very big old house/building/half house half shed/farm on it, and a secondairy smaller building was allowed with certain size limits, next to that the sizes where allowed to be bigger if the original was made smaller, but the original house had to stay the main house. (needed more houses since it was meant for multiple households since ground and houses are insanely expensive here, I don't need the house to be as big and instead more need special features in it as well as tons of storage optimally, so I would get in the back with that house and potentially also use some containers for extra storage if this house ever filled up, but it had a lot especially when also counting in the secrtet tunnels and rooms I hid in the design(my personal designs, the public designs had that covered up)
my house actually held itself well to the size restrictions and was a lot smaller than the limit, especially due to the way I had designed it with a lot underground, but I had designed it well and also with a well designed garden around it with the right forms of water, forrest, etc. so the local government got mad since despite it being legal acoarding to the law the house just looked much better than the main house and the entire neighbourhood/street(a long street with some houses to the side of it with a lot of land behind them). so the thing was that because my house looked a lot better it would generally be seen as the main house by people.
but local governments have also litterally made problems out of people using compost as heating source, since the local governments here have a huge hatred against offgrid.
so much that at some places they litterally make you pay if you use "to little" electricity.
Jackery is overpriced and don't deliver the best product
If the internet gets shut off I'll consider it a blessing, mankind is better off without it.
super video, makes us all think. You ate absolutely right about paper maps, of countries, counties, regions, towns, etc... the world. also subway maps. NYC, Marseille. I'm born in N.Y. U.S., but I totally agree with you. I am extremely good with Geography. Also weather radios, are very important. The Weather Channel. GOD BLESS YOU SIR.
I’m downloading the whole Dirty Civilian channel lmao
Looks like we all needed a bigger storage technology for survivalizm in that state. Every one survivalist have wikipedia in their superpuper storage bible, but not used the wikipedia in everyday life.
I see your micro static backup and raise you to:
1. A multi wan router with Starlink as one of the links.
2. A meshtastic node + app and established relationships with a few users around your city.
This gives you at worst the ability to have comms that the conspiracy powers can’t control and is encrypted but at best, a backup path to the real (live) internet bypassing your states control.
Life was better before the Internet. We managed to have little free parties on common land through out the summers before the criminal justice bill. F**k the Internet.
You should do a video on archival M-Disc (Millennial Disc) type CDs, probably the best way to store information.
I've been downloading hundreds of my favorite videos, movies, shows and books plus all my family photos on micro SD cards and SSD's then I copy them on multiple other micro SD's and SSD's then put them in labeled water resistant cases *Tip if anyone else does this. Download shows and movies you've never seen that way there will be plenty of new stuff for you to get into.
Internet In A Box - Opensource project - Can run on a Raspberry Pi 3 with no issue - Been running it for years. It is an AP with DHCP and also can be setup as a firewall. Mine updates nightly with version control so I can rewind incase something changes to much. Very low power.
Been following Canadian Prepper for EVER! I wonder if he knows his videos are on this system? Really awesome.
Its a Rasberry Pi zero W with a lipo pack hat. I could legit build one of these for $30. Same exact parts nonetheless (literally same brand).
8 seconds into first video, saw the channel name and IMMEDIATELY smash that subscribe button 😂
First time the sponsor part made me subscribe to a channel haha
Beware for anyone using valuable data on sd cards. If you are only reading from it the chance of data corruption is small. However if your writing to sd cards frequently the chance of data corruption gets alot higher.
Now I kinda wonder what games he's got on his personal external drives 😂 Always highly recommend having some pen and paper games or even miniature games too. Great ways to occupy without electricity.
👍 👌 👍 👌 ur videos kick ass learong Romany new way to look at the world thank u
What you need to do is download local LLM's so you have an offline AI wherever you want
The main value I see with the Grid Based Pocket, is it comes preinstalled with a tremendous amount of data. That alone makes it of value, as it would take me some forty forevers to find and assemble.
I see it as not bad option to consider getting.
Another advantage of physical media like DVDs is that people can't change them when or if they become politically incorrect. The best example of this is in the first Star Wars movie when they make Han shoot 2nd
The difference between animals and humans
Is reasoning intelligence, A.i. It's just recorded decisions, reasoning intelligence from humans.
And remember to include the Bitcoin white paper in that library.😉
Thank you so much!. I have been looking for reliable quality ways of ripping youtube videos for a while now, because i cant count how many times ive loved a video only to have it unlisted later. And I expect a lot of youtube to be memory holed before we know it. Now if only I can find a way to rip Vimeo videos
Now you can add Bangladesh to the list of internet shut downs, straight out of Indias handbook
Could you guys do a video like a step-by-step on how to do the forms to purchase a suppressor?
Questions: If an EMP hits the USA and internet goes down together with all electronics, then what use is there for any electronics that uses wifi if all the grid and internet are down? Unless there is a massive Faraday cage protecting the internet and electronic systems inside our grid and we have faraday cages as well for our devices!
A solide build data base with good structured info would be a nice thing to have.
Start a fire w plastic bag or bottle. Use like a magnifying glass on dry clothing fibers, leaves, scraped tree fibers.. mount large (3 ft/ 1 meter) clear plastic on a square frame of wood or whatever. Support it maybe 4-5 feet off the ground. Fill with water. 3-4 inch water magnifying glass. This Will melt rocks so be careful. Focal point will Cook food. Start fires.
Can the PocketBase be Upgraded with Information you want to add to it? When the Grid is Down I might want some Warhammer Rulebooks or Demolition Ranch Videos lol
great video. going to do my own research on this device but essentially its a portable web server with a battery and a wifi module. based.
That device is basically a glorified portable ssd, nothing new. As an Satellite Communications Expert and Custom PC Builder/Overclocker, that technology is not anything new. People can make a tiny library of information. From portable ssd's to usb/micro sd cards, the concept of private information permanently offline is nothing new.
This is a good product for people who are not tech savvy if you don't wanna do the work and archive your prepper information you want.
You can also just download a LLM to use with something like Ollama.
If you could switch out that CP shtuff for a Bear Independent library, i could see it being worth it.
A mirror video of one that Trex-Labs (Trex Arms) just released over on his channel.
It is an informative video but I would have been more willing to buy a kit or the instructions to put this together with a price premium like this.
Raspberry pi can have a wiki offline backup , good for a portable off grid device
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!
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
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.
I beat Al Gore's rhythm after watching this.
Goteem!
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. 🤣
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 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Backwoods home magazine has a USB with 10 years of anthologies, 2500 articles for $45.
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.
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.
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
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
How long until the FUDs realize you can do this yourself with old tech you probably already have or ~$50 and a weekend?
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
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...
$300...? It's a Raspberry Pi Zero W with an SD card lol
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!
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
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.`
$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.
Ssd is no good for long term storage . Static charged storage will fail quickly when unpowered for long. Use hdds and cd or DVDs.
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
The Foxfire series would be nice too
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 .
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!
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.
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.