I always carry a USB stick in my backpack in case I need to install Linux.
Eh, I have a Yoda-looking USB stick with Slackware 14.1 written to it in times immemorial, as in high school.
I thought I lost it or someone stole it (looks nice), until I found it mutilated by mice (the rodent kind, not the input device kind) in one place I rarely visit.
I don’t generally carry it with me, though. But when I did, it was the same.
I use Arch, how about you?
I too use Arch BTW
Unemployment. Like many others, I keep an emergency fund with high yield that can keep food on the table for the fam while looking for a new job. Replenish as soon as I get a new job.
The death of ROMsites
I have been telling myself it is coming since 2006. So I have full sets for every console I can find.
I have a variety of blankets near my bed, of varying weight, warmth and texture. It’s mostly because of autism related sensory preferences that vary across situations, but it’s also great when hosting guests.
I fiddle with batteries and very small scale solar. My inverter should be able to handle running my fridge for a few hours.
I think I could survive a Prohibition for quite some time, and even homebrew and sell it or run a speakeasy.
Vaccines. I got my mpox shots because it works across a broad spectrum of pox viruses. The mpox vaccine is actually just the modern smallpox vaccine! Not terribly common, but in the past decade or so, someone found a frozen vial of smallpox in a university lab freezer.
While unlikely that mpox or smallpox will ever completely blow up into a huge pandemic, it is good to have.
I keep a few things (museli bars, water, blankets first aid kit) in the car in case of getting stuck somewhere or needing basics suddenly.
At home I keep ‘minimum levels’ of things we use often, in case of a power outage or just so if anything were to happen we could get by for a couple of weeks. We are limited by space and try to keep organised.
I got a solar panel and battery in case of power loss. Won’t do much for heating, but as long as 4G stays up, it’ll allow me to communicate. Or I could probably get around 30min of PC time out of it if necessary.
I have one plastic bag that is full of other, crumpled plastic bags.
You would not believe how many more bags you can fit in that one bag if you fold them, rather than crumple them!
Folding plastic bags seems annoying though.
Might you be Arab by any chance? If not you can probably get citizenship somewhere.
I there a ethnic group around the world that does not do that ?
I have no idea.
Havin a baeg of baegs is just one of those things you do in the Midwest. Donchya know
Had to upvote for the ideal midwest pronunciation of “bag”
I feel like that was a universal experience back in the days of bags
My kitchen has a tiny “cabinet” near the sink that’s about 5 inches wide and was put there just so the dimensions of the countertops would work. It’s still the full depth of the under sink cabinet, just really skinny.
It is absolutely stuffed with bags.
I occasionally use them as trash bags for the bathroom when I remember, and can be bothered to go and get one.
Terfs
I have a trans pride flag and a baseball bat next to my front door
Remember to keep your bat dressed with a long sock, so if someone grabs it, their hold will just slip away along with the sock
Also it might make sense to have a baseball/softball glove nearby for plausible deniability reasons.
That’s what the barbed wire and nails are for!
Good point, time to order some trans pride programming socks
dress the bat in a series of pride socks so it cycles through them all if they keep grabbing the bat
I don’t think a game of baseball will solve anything. :P
Well, it’s a good thing OP is willing to try an innocent sports game, and not anything premeditated
There’s a chance it could bore the attacker into leaving.
8 tb media back up. Most non essential shit ever lol.
Figure if we’re without water I’m dead anyway.
FWIW storing a few extra gallons of water is a very easy prep
i wonder if theres a market for a residential water battery… it would refresh itself as you use your house.
Like… a water tank?
Fellow media collector here. I get it! :D
If the world was to end tomorrow, I am prepared to end with it. 👉😎👉
I’m prepared to homestead if I could afford it, or live in town.
Nothing in between.
Well, I live 5 meters under sea level. The most realistic disaster to happen to me would involve a giant crushing wave of water, and there’s not much you can do to get out of that.
But since I like backpack hiking, and buying in bulk is cheap, I have something like a month of food, some lifestraws, some water, extra cooking gear, etc.
