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Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump (www.404media.co)
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Title is a little sensational but this is a cool project for non-technical folks who may need a mini-internet or data archive for a wide variety of reasons:

"PrepperDisk is a mini internet box that comes preloaded with offline backups of Wikipedia, street maps, survivalist information, 90,000 WikiHow guides, iFixit repair guides, government website backups (including FEMA guides and National Institutes of Health backups), TED Talks about farming and survivalism, 60,000 ebooks and various other content. It’s part external hard drive, part local hotspot antenna—the box runs on a Raspberry Pi that allows up to 20 devices to connect to it over wifi or wired connections, and can store and run additional content that users store on it. It doesn't store a lot of content (either 256GB or 512GB), but what makes it different from buying any external hard drive is that it comes preloaded with content for the apocalypse."

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fear = Profit!

Would you like to know more?

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah but if society collapses or there's some long power outage (sup Texas) then this thing could be worth its weight in gold. More than its weight in gold.

Assuming you have a generator.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

If society collapses, the time until people forget enough to make whatever's on the hard drive a rare information repository worth its weight in gold will be a lot longer than the working lifespan of a typical hard drive.