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fathermarz • yesterday at 10:56 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

Emergencies = No Internet

What about no power? You gonna run your generator for your local model? What are we doing here? Have we lost our way completely?


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tartoran • today at 2:13 AM

Yeah, we forgot information on paper it seems. Flawed as it is I like the idea though..

rpdillon • yesterday at 11:02 PM

I'm conflicted here -- on the one hand, you make a good point. Things we take for granted normally are luxuries in a survival sitation. On the flip side, running a generator for a bit to get an LLM to generate schedules, guides, step-by-step that can be edited/followed on a much lower-powered device seems reasonable.

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MithrilTuxedo • yesterday at 11:09 PM

Generators require the infrastructure that supplies fuel, and you need to have a generator you might not need.

Solar panels and batteries are great for emergencies, and they're useful besides.

mindcrime • today at 1:38 AM

> What about no power?

Solar panels? You can go down to Harbor Freight right now and pick up a setup that will run a laptop or tablet for a while, for a couple of hundred dollars. One wouldn't have to spend a ton more to get a setup that can run a decent PC with a GPU for at least a little while.

I mean, you're probably not going to run it all day, especially not in the part of year with fewer daylight hours, but anything's better than nothing. Plus the same solar setup can be used to power other useful things.