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Say ww3 kicks off and power goes off - how are you keeping your servers up? Solar panels and batteries?

What if there's a biblical flood and you dont have the means to build an arc? All your servers are destroyed beyond repair?

What if you heard the Feds are coming to cart you and your servers away cos they suspect you of bad mouthing Emperor Tromp? (you're on the run or subject to months of torture and yeah, you're never getting your kit back)

What if theres a war and Luxembourg (you know, the enemy) let's of an EMP pulse that kills your servers and all the infrastructure (power, internet...). How do you access all those cherished pics on Immich?

I'm not suggesting any of this will/can happen, its all just for lols, but have you made any contingency plans? Big binders full of printouts, bug-out bags, those flower-type solar things that track the sun, Faraday cages....

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[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

You can’t. Ww3 will break the supply chain for advanced transistors since it takes 1000’s of diverse inputs to make them. They will simply stop existing. Prices will skyrocket.

A few years later, as age takes out what we have running and things like planes and farm equipment stop working we’ll need to rely on whatever we can source locally.

Sadly this won’t take ww3 to happen as anything can kick off supply chain disruption. The leading cause will be population decline leading to the inability to defend your own boarders. It’s going to be China first. Don’t believe me? look at population trends.

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

There's a street not too far from me. This street has, I shit you not, at least thirteen baptist churches. I think I'd go burn them all down. No particular reason.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Anything personally important data wise has a backup stored in a container that won't sustain liquid damage (and also acts as a faraday cage).

However, anything that is super-critical should the infrastructure around power, etc fail is just printed out as a physical copy on paper (first aid manuals, food cultivation/preparation techniques, how to construct and maintain water purification systems).

I'd argue that's one of the least overkill ways to handle potential media restictions and geopolitical/climate disasters in our age, since all you need is a printer and maybe one or two secure cases for backup storage drives.

[–] EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

My plan is "I'll probably be dead" but if not, I have enough parts to cobble together a solar charging station, and keep my laptop running for a few days between needing to let everything charge back up.

I have one off-site backup on an hdd inside a faraday bag and waterproof case that I back up once a week(ish) and after every project. I have local backups daily, one in a faraday box.

I have never once needed any of them and honestly if shit hit the fan hard enough, I will likely never be in a position where having backups for digital information will matter again. I'll probably at most have my old phone/battery/solar charger combo that's in a case in the garage, I keep a ton of survival references, maps, and things like that on it.

[–] mech@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My workplace has field-tested contingency plans to keep the business running when literally all IT systems and the office building are inaccessible. Which is kinda impressive for a local newspaper.
The goal is mostly to prepare for a ransomware attack, but parts of it were recently needed when the power to the building went out and the cooling system for the servers failed at the same time.

For my private life, I don't care. My IT stuff is only recreationaI.
I still have a radio, a DVD player, and books.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I would organize a group of bandits to raid small local communities.

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