Note: This is fun and all, but beware of taking the “Post-apocalyptic” premise too seriously. Down that road lies only hard drive hoarding and becoming a prepper.
But those simple Chips are certainly easier to wrap your head around for programming. In the event of apocalypse the most abundant computing platform would be old Android phones however.
There's hardly any difference than prepping and camping, you just take your gear with you every now and then, practice with your gear, use your rations and replace.
Prepping is usually pretty ecological as well, it leads to coops, greenhouses, chicken coops, water recycling, composting, solar, repairing skills etc.
On the hard drive thing, I bought box sets of all of my shows and ripped them so I don't pay for the 10 streaming services they get passed around on.
All of my episodes are there forever and won't be edited/censored or removed.
I can even take them all camping with me, the core shows fit on a single flash drive.
TBH prepping is just optimizing your life and mitigating the negative effects of an abrupt change (like loss of power, natural disaster, pandemic, etc.)
You (should) create fail safes in software, do the same for your livelihood.
If you stock too much food or water it will expire, you have to rotate it, so you eat it and restock.
If you stock too many non-perishables of something you don't need you won't have enough room for more useful things.
Prepping and looking crazy aren't coupled. Prepared people can be normal, it's not just what you see on TV.
Generally the fun is seeing how long you can prepare for, most likely you won't need to last past a month, but certain natural disasters like a hurricane can hit that easily.
I'd definitely recommend everyone have at least a 1 week supply and plan for emergencies (usually specific to your area).
Those same people who judge get helped in those emergencies by those who are prepared.
It's just getting groceries like normal once you have everything setup.
Camping is a fun hobby, I do it a couple times of year anyway so my extra stays ready and gets use.
I do like the peace of mind knowing the family will have supplies during storms and other events like lockdowns.
Some people prefer the head in the sand strategy or to wing it when something happens, or to depend on more prepared people, that would stress me out and be unbearable.
You don't do anything to prepare for emergencies?
https://hbr.org/2018/07/if-you-say-something-is-likely-how-l...
This recent paper from Japan estimates the following likelihood for what it calls "extremely large solar flares":
> for 30-, 50-, and 100-year periods to be 0.70−0.76, 0.87−0.91, and 0.98−0.99, respectively
I find much more value in numerical expression when it comes to topics about future events than the fuzzy and loaded English terms we tend to use in casual conversation. I had the wrong impression about your previous message based on my own preconceived notions, and numbers reduce all that.
Estimates in the linked article expect had it been facing Earth at the time the recovery would have taken 4-10 years.
These ideas are mostly held alive by people who want to be important and relevant. People with too many guns at home want them and their guns to be important, and readily imagine an apocalypse fitting that dream. People with old computers and old programming skills likewise dream of being important, and start things like CollapseOS. People who live in the countryside and have horses imagine themselves to be cowboys in a car-less world. It’s all based on what kind of apocalypse would make a person important and respected again, not on any real sense of what kind of disaster would actually be statistically likely.
I mean, you could be worried about political changes, and act accordingly. You could be worried about the surveillance state to grow steadily, and prepare for that. And various state agencies are always telling people to be prepared for hurricanes, flodding, and other extreme weather events, depending on your region. These would, I believe, be reasonable precautions to take.
Actual prepping would involve a ton of community networking, trying to be in good terms with your neighbours, creating lasting and decentralized infrastructure for a d with them etc.
The prepping most preppers do is just trying to be less fucked than others when the shit hits the fan. Living the ultimate rugged individualist delusion: that you somehow can survive alone if you just buy the right gear to make it through the first week and that you will have to shoot the looters who were too stupid to prepare.
The problem with all of this is typically that those rugged individuals have to depend on the work and expertise of other people in some way or another. I mean you might need electrical engineering, a doctor, someone who is good with plants and animals, whatever. Unless you are already live 100% self sustained whatever you are doing is not going to cut it without other people also getting through this.
I am neither a Christian nor a conservative. But I think understanding why Christian conservatives are the way they are, rather than declaring them an enemy to be fought or diagnosing them in absentia with mental illness, without a license, would be good for urban liberals like me. Our side has done too little in terms of understanding and addressing the needs of these people, and it's had real costs on our society (like Trump).
E.g. it is a very important skill in an rural environment to know how to shut up and not say what you are thinking. This is why the recent vreferendum on abortion in Kansas went the way it did. People on the countryside tend to be more comservative, sure. But they also hate being told what they are allowed to do.