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> I love how he has a link to "what is it for?" but never answers the question. As far as I can tell this is the technoblogger equivalent of end-of-society prepping?

> In the event of something so catastrophic happening that the internet stops functioning for an extended period of time, you're not going to be hauling this enormous brick around with you. It's absurd.

Yeah, I've always thought these kinds of things were more of a LARP gizmo than any kind of actual "prepping." The priorities are all wrong. IMHO, if society collapses, the things you need will drastically change from your needs now. You don't need an offline Wikipedia or Youtube, even if you use them all the time today, you need something a lot more compact and practical.

IMHO, a real post-apocalyptic "recovery kit" is a cubic meter of K12 textbooks, plus university-level ones on farming, engineering, and medicine locked a away in a time-capsule for a century post-event.

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> LARP gizmo

This - I think it's really just a Fallout-aesthetic prop and bunch of text making pretend arguments that it's useful for anything.