YSK How to Prepare Your Phone and Other Tech for a Natural Disaster

Cow_says_moo , 10 months ago

Article seems to be behind a paywall.

AbouBenAdhem , 10 months ago

Emergency disaster response step 1: Buy a subscription to the Wall Street Journal.

athos77 , 10 months ago

Here you go.

over_clox , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I’d recommend the Survival Manual app. Your phone means nothing when the weather kills the internet. Survival Manual works offline…

survivalmanual.github.io

Sharp312 , 10 months ago

Thank you for sharing this. this looks incredibly useful and although I hope I never have to use it having it installed puts my mind slightly at ease, yknow, just in case.

over_clox , 10 months ago

I install it on all my devices. Agreed, hope I never have to use it though…

Mic_Check_One_Two , 10 months ago

The entirety of Wikipedia is only like 50GB. You can literally carry it with you on a thumb drive.

It’d be hell to actually view since that’s only counting the raw text info, but you could conceivably do it. If you include things like XML and edit history, that climbs to something like 20TB. A lot, but still technically possible. Especially if you compress it (which drops it down to like 200GB) and only decompress it when you need it.

Chozo , 10 months ago

The entirety of Wikipedia is only like 50GB

For what it's worth, this metric is based on only the text, itself (no media), and after it's been compressed. Wikipedia actually has an article about this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia

As of 2 July 2023, the size of the current version of all articles compressed is about 22.14 GB without media.

BastingChemina , 10 months ago

Kiwix is an app that allows you to easily download and read the whole archive of wikipedia offline.

untrainedtribble , 10 months ago

Know if there is an iOS equivalent? Seems like a great thing to have but my search just pulled up paid or subscription based apps

over_clox , 10 months ago

Not according to the site unfortunately. ☹️

It’s based on official military survival guides plus other updates and resources. Maybe you could try finding a downloadable Survival Guide PDF that you could hopefully use offline.

I’m not sure, not very familiar with Apple/iPhone ecosystem.

redballooon , 10 months ago

Ah, damn. Then the phone OS preference is the next selector for human genes.

over_clox , 10 months ago

Make sure to double check the comments here, a number of other useful links are coming up…

lemm.ee/comment/2622425

Pete90 , 10 months ago

There also great Apps for knost, that I have on my phone and use offline. Useful Knots is what I use.

Master , 10 months ago

SAS Survival Handbook, Revised Edition: For Any Climate, in Any Situation a.co/d/bNaDO6v

How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times a.co/d/gifxvOr

BastingChemina , 10 months ago

Also, you can share apps that you have on your phone to others even without an active internet connection.

It works with the Google Play store and with F-Droid.

So if you have the survival manual on your phone you can share it with neighbor and friends after a disaster.

SpeedLimit55 , 10 months ago

What you are looking for is called a book. It does not need power or internet, just light to read. The SAS Survival Handbook is good for all around advice.

TheOneCurly , 10 months ago

That’s great for an emergency kit but you never know when something will happen and if you’ll be in a position to get back to your kit. Seems pretty worth.

SomeAmateur , 10 months ago

Books are important and very useful. But I don’t carry them all with me like I do with a phone.

Tar_alcaran , 10 months ago

Wow the SAS survival handbook has built in GPS and a map of my local area? Damn, books have gotten fancy lately.

SpeedLimit55 , 10 months ago

Its your local area, why do you need a gps map?

Tar_alcaran , 10 months ago

Well, the most likely natural disaster here will involve my immediate local area being under about 5 meter of water, so either I’m elsewhere and in need of a map, or… well, not in need of a map.

redballooon , 10 months ago

You are in need of a nautical map of your local area then.

NightOwl , 10 months ago

I got OsmAnd for GPS in case mobile data is down.

dcat , 10 months ago

OsmAnd for detailed maps, and Kiwix for offline wikipedia (and other wikis).

set_secret , 10 months ago

pay wall wtf

imapuppetlookaway OP , 10 months ago

I thought i pasted the archived version but the link goes to the original. weird. anyway, here’s the archived version

archive.fo/wk3fE

And archive: archive.fo

MrsDoyle , 10 months ago

I couldn’t get past the Captcha, so I guess I’m fuckt. I tried a dozen times - does a tiny corner of a wheel count as “bicycles” or not? Is that a car or a van? OK, I will definitely pass this one… nope.

imapuppetlookaway OP , 9 months ago

Yeah i agree. For what it’s worth, here are 2 ways i use to bypass captchas: Use this site: archive.foUse a vpn and set the server site to a location that nixes the captchas (Denmark, Taiwan, etc.)