100rabbits busts down your door and proclaims, `society will end in ~72hrs`. you look at them both like their insane, but you see them sweating and it's not from soybeans.
they open the back of a 1980s ford pinto and offer you a solution to your komputing needs post-collapse.
you are given many choices, much more than the modeling attached. what is your optimal deck.
you have no limit on budget, however you have 72hrs to build, bootstrap, and stabilise your system preparing for the coming of gozer.
@ins0mniak@dcc@sjw@m0xEE@mia@p@sysrq@jeff@meso this is the end, fren. assume you’re fvcked for internet(s) until some of us in this thread deploy the mesh. until then, put on cuban sneakers, because we’re moving drives around!
comms are hard down. at best you'll have to ring up mia, myself or someone else with high power radio gear to transmit anything.
northrop grumman can't even get their edge sats up.
so you must continue to kompute in such a way that either you're 100% offline, or locked and loaded to batch transmit when you have los with some form of satcom or a blimp with interconnectivity.
Know what I mean? like Truck stops, McDonalds yeah thats open but most normies name their access points like....simple shit. password1 or something. Should take all of a few minutes to snarf a signal.
but lets say komrade threat is ~400km away and you know where he is. you trek the mighty forests for what seems like years. and he's sitting there with this.
Asshole edition: "What kind of deck is this? It looks like...like a 50-gallon barrel of whiskey with several ammo crates riveted to the sides."
Limit on peripherals? Because a stack of microSD cards being available or not changes how much ARM I want to do. I'm gonna assume that I can get microSD cards by the pound with this unlimited budget, plus as many 18650s as I can eat. (Let's say a soldering kit and a solar panel, too.) Assuming we're talking portables only.
Unimaginitively, I think "Pelican case luggable" is a decent form factor.
For the post-apocalypse, redundancy and durability are going to matter a great deal. The MSG has a nice design: https://cyberdeck.cafe/mix/msg . He basically crammed a Pi and a mini-x86 (Core i7 NUC) into the same box. Probably, though, I'd just forego the x86 and emulate it if I run into an x86 emergency, and grab a Turing Pi 2, fill all the CPU slots with Pis, plug some spinning rust into the SATA ports for archival storage, fill up the NVMe slots, leave most of the boards powered off and underclocked most of the time.
The third image up there, "Patchbox OS", the ultra-wide screen? I haven't seen this machine but I have seen this panel: it's an 8.8" Waveshare 1920x480(!!) panel, and I love those. So cram one of those onto the parts manifest, tack on an extra e-ink display. Mount a mechanical HHKB and a three-button trackball, get one that doesn't protrude much: Thinkpad mouse device would be great, but the rubber clits wear out periodically and there is no Fry's after the apocalypse. (There is no Fry's now. We're in the post-apocalypse.)
If I can fit a radio transceiver in there somewhere and some suitable antennas, that would be nearly essential. If we're capped at 72 hours, I think it'd take maybe six, eight hours to transfer my venti arenas, my /home, and my /usr/src onto one of the disks, say I do that in parallel with grabbing all the shit from the CRUX ports repos and slackbuilds. When the dremel gets too hot to continue operating it or I'm waiting for some epoxy or resin to set or I have a minute for whatever reason, slurp source code and docs and datasheets for all the chips on all the boards in the thing, and docs for hardware that is likely to survive the apocalypse (because it was either durable or plentiful). It'll take five minutes to get all of Plan 9 copied over, but pulling down the aarch64 binaries and source for everything, that'll take a minute or two.
All that would be nice, but I'm more or less happy with the DevTerm, so if we're talking "the computer that you take to the desert island" (where the problem is "What's a nice cyberdeck?") instead of "the last computer you will own, maybe the last one you will see" (where the problem is getting as close to luggable supercomputer as possible), I'll just grab a DevTerm. No hinges, that's very nice, low power, lots of connectors. Maybe tack on some accessories: a USB enclosure for a few SSDs, one of those fold-out solar panel/battery combos they sell to hikers, and if I can make a HHKB and external Waveshare panel (IT IS SO WIDE IT IS MESMERIZING) work, then probably throw those in.
@threat@dcc@sjw@m0xEE@ins0mniak@mia@p@sysrq@jeff@meso I would spend those 3 days using the unlimited budget to stack as much food and ammo as possible, all the while wishing I'd done more burpees instead of sitting on my flabby arse and wondering what the hell I thought I'd be doing with a computer post-collapse.
> possible, all the while wishing I'd done more burpees instead of sitting on my flabby arse and wondering what the hell I thought I'd be doing with a computer post-collapse.
The wignat dogfucker decides to argue on the internet about whether other people should be discussing computers on the internet. The irony is lost on him.
Kill yourself, you wignat dogfucker. Every time you tag me, it's you showing up in a thread where you weren't tagged to REEEEE about something unrelated. I don't know what, if anything, you do for a living, but people that work with computers like to talk about computers.
@IsraelDelendaEst@dcc@threat@sjw@m0xEE@ins0mniak@mia@sysrq@jeff@meso The internet tough guy believes he has made a cutting remark: "That'll show those computer nerds that computers are a waste of time!" he types on a computer to send his words across other computers to arrive on their computers, passing through, in part, the computers that have been assigned the names "poa.st" and "freespeechextremist.com", both of which I have root on. "They should stop touching the computer!" he says to himself, not thinking for a moment that the implication is he'd not be able to communicate using the computer if that happened, and that if this is how he really thinks things should be, he is free to turn off his computer and toss it into the ocean.
there's always a shvt-eating humper waiting to bedazzle us with wisdom and the elusive smell of gunpowder.
they're the same sort of shvt-disturber that has to ask the price of a sale item. what tops the cake for me is how aggro/edgelord they get, yet if you saw them face to face it would the opposite of their internet badbitch routine.
> How much of your infrastructure is self-hosted @p?
For FSE, almost all of it. For everything else in my life, I mean, I am connected to the city's water system, the power grid, I don't drill my own oil. I figure I could do my computing fine with a solar panel, some of the machines I have just use a trickle, but computing would be a recreational activity if electricity got scarce.
> You'd be kind of fucked without the infrastructure.
You're grasping.
Society collapses, I'll be fine, but we're nowhere near each other so it won't matter to you either way. My profession goes away: fine, I'm sad about that, but presumably dollars also go away. On the other hand, I'll be amazed if a bellicose asshole like you survives the transition period. You know that, which is why you are so invested in arguing about it on the internet.
Arguing about it on the internet is a completely pointless activity on the surface. What are you going to do? All the planes fall out of the sky and the power goes out and we don't ever talk to each other again (thank god) and what? You've somehow improved your odds of survival by telling someone thousands of miles away that they're fucked? There is no reason, except in the case of agitprop (maybe you're a fed) or you're a wignat LARPer and your ego is tied up in it: you want to look impressive to people that you can only talk to because civilization has *not* collapsed, people whose existence would be completely irrelevant to you if society were to collapse tomorrow.
I would like for you to stop bothering to me: in neither the "wignat dogfucker" case nor the "federal agent" case do I want to hear what you have to say and I have nothing to say to you. Thank you. enjoyaids.jpg
How much of your infrastructure is self-hosted @p? You strike me as the sort of guy who would've been fine in an apocalypse as you would've had all your stuff setup and configured by hand locally.
I'm at my goal weight, I'm just aware enough to recognize the huge advantage automation has on our world, especially with things like crops. Those watering pivots need a controller, they have limit switches, try to think beyond just ordering MREs, those also won't be made anymore.