[numpad0]

What the war in Ukraine and protests in China have showed the world is, democracy in desperate times survive on Wi-Fi, AirDrop’d screenshots, and dozens of single port phone chargers hanging off power strips.

They don’t even bother to use multi-port chargers, let alone DC to DC converters, or cars rigged for power generation. Not to mention open-source encrypted software-defined self healing mesh network microwave radio protocols.

Maybe wartime is not the best to introduce alternative infrastructure that are inherently new; maybe only what’s there peacetime works.

And if that is the case, what we would need might be such items as, sideloadable resilient mesh apps for teenagers, appliance-fied server for game sessions in University dorms, and parallel chargers for camping.

[nine_k]

You assume the presence of electric power.

My acquaintances in Ukraine report using various batteries, and converting UPS devices to run on larger batteries, car batteries, etc. Electric power is now intermittent there, even in the capital, because Russian strikes are especially targeted to destroy the electric infrastructure.

[datameta]

I think GP was referring to the photos that circulated of liberated Kherson with rows and rows of fully populated power strips charging peoples' phones as many of them use them. This was prior to the concentrated energy infrastructure strikes.

[TheGhostOfBoris]

> democracy in desperate times survive on Wi-Fi, AirDrop’d screenshots, and dozens of single port phone chargers

Democracy is utterly dependant on a well informed population.

If the fair and balanced media fails (or access to it fails), then democracy is in peril.