Say ww3 kicks off and power goes off - how are you keeping your servers up? Solar panels and batteries?

What if there’s a biblical flood and you dont have the means to build an arc? All your servers are destroyed beyond repair?

What if you heard the Feds are coming to cart you and your servers away cos they suspect you of bad mouthing Emperor Tromp? (you’re on the run or subject to months of torture and yeah, you’re never getting your kit back)

What if theres a war and Luxembourg (you know, the enemy) let’s of an EMP pulse that kills your servers and all the infrastructure (power, internet…). How do you access all those cherished pics on Immich?

I’m not suggesting any of this will/can happen, its all just for lols, but have you made any contingency plans? Big binders full of printouts, bug-out bags, those flower-type solar things that track the sun, Faraday cages…

  • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    There’s a street not too far from me. This street has, I shit you not, at least thirteen baptist churches. I think I’d go burn them all down. No particular reason.

  • Pika@hikki.teamEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    Step 1. Get a lot of money

    Step 2. Ignore the laws and get myself a super comfy RTG-powered hidden bunker with a Faraday cage

    Step 3. Put my servers in there, take drives full of everything from the outside

    Step 4. Live comfortably ever after

    • jobbies@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      Better get a shift on then, Tromp could drop the nukes on Iran any day now…

  • ContactClosure@lemmus.orgEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    Servers are going to be the last thing I think about. I’ll be busy trying to survive and help my loved ones. I suggest reevaluating your priorities immediately.

  • zebidiah@lemmy.caEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    I’m planning on running towards the bright flash and hoping I end up part of the first wave of mass casualties…

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      14 hours ago

      You wouldn’t have the time for that

      When the bright light comes, it kills you or it won’t, but by the time it’s there there is little.rinning to be done

      • eleitl@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        12 hours ago

        The radioactivity at ground zero can easily kill you within the first hours to days. Puking you guts out and ankle deep in bloody diarrhea, what a great way to go.

  • 🦄🦄🦄@feddit.orgEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    I would immediately try to set up mutual aid and start building small local communities. If there ever is a chance for true anarchism to take root, it’s during a period where people will value mutual aid more than anything. This doesn’t just include necessities like food and water but also entertainment.

  • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    Kill a relative or two as a final favour. Check if the wife still wants to live, check if I can be bothered to carry on. If so I’d either head into the mountains or down to the coast (get a boat) and try and get away from population centres for a year.

    Edit: Sorry, just seen “selfhosted”. I’ve got about a terabyte of stuff on sd cards - super packable. Those, a handset, a wind-up radio and solar phone charger.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    What’s your contingency plan for the apocalypse?

    this

    I will be one of the first to die. thought about moving, but honestly I would rather die than survive exist on this shithole after a nuclear war.

  • zybir@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I’ll go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for it all to blow over.

  • PetteriPano@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    If power is down for good, then getting water is the main priority. If the pumpa don’t run the water tower is losing pressure fast. I have 40 litres jugged up in the basement at all times for the first few days.

    When that dries out my neighbour has a well that we’ve hooked up to five properties. Mostly for gardening, but it is potable. The pump needs power, though, so I’d pull an extension cord over to my caravan.

    My caravan has 400W of solar, 300Ah LiFePO4 and a 1.5kW inverter. Also a meshtastic node with an antenna on the roof. That’ll keep the food cold, and laptops charged. It can run a microwave or hotplate, too. I’ve got 20kg of propane if I need to conserve power.

    • jobbies@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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      1 day ago

      If the pumpa don’t run the water tower is losing pressure fast

      Yeah, hadn’t really considered water supply. Thankfully it falls from the sky in abundance here (Scotland) 😅

      a meshtastic node

      Surprised I haven’t seen meshtastic mentioned more. Pretty cool for comms if theres no power.

      Nice plan with the caravan too. If you need to head out in a hurry you’ve got everything you need on wheels.

      • PetteriPano@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 day ago

        I don’t power all of it at once, and not direcly off of solar. I could maybe fit another 200W worth of panel on that roof, but for 4000W I’d need seven caravan roofs. That battery is the buffer and it’s a beast. At 300Ah I have 4kWh to pull at 1C.

        The fridge sips a nice 30W. Panels put in ~2kWh on a sunny day. So thats a 1.7kWh surplus for running heavy loads - enough to max out that inverter for an hour a day. That’s plenty for microwaving or pumping water.

        • papagaya@feddit.orgEnglish
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          22 hours ago

          Sounds like a nice setup. I’m jealous :D

          But shouldn’t that only be a 1.3kWh surplus with the fridge drawing 30W*24h=720Wh?

          • PetteriPano@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            12 hours ago

            You’re right.

            Well, still enough juice to pump all the water we need and heat our meals.

            We’ll just have to limit hot showers to once a fortnight. Needs about 800Wh to heat the hot water tank.