Always a tradoff

I don’t have a tower to put the poppy drive in. I’d rather make sure that these end up in a good home.

A poor musician always blames their instrument.

These came out in 98 And 99 so odds are they paid retail

You are correct. Sorry about that everything after 8-inch floppy is a blur.

I had that happen too. Couldn’t find something with DDG. Hopped over to Google and was shocked at how completely unusable it was.

I’m only going to focus on one part because it shows the disconnect between you and I.

If you have a working printer, toner, paper…

Who said anything about a printer? I said hard copy. Not printout. Write it down. Carve it into rock or shape it in clay. 3000 cycles and you keep limiting yourself. That 200 pounds of copper wire could be pounded flat and marked with a sharp tool to create a long lasting hard copy. So many options for a hard copy and you defaulted to the one option we can’t even get to work when everything is working.

90% of people would die within the first three months because they don’t know how to cook and we have a three day supply rule in stores relying on just-in-time delivery.

If you make it past the first 90 you probably have seeds in the ground to get you to the next 90. We don’t just inherit the environment, we shape it. We can start growing our own food within weeks, not reliant on ancestors

But let’s get back to the topic. 3000 charge cycles, your number, is a lot. All that time can be used to make hard copies of essential information. You can learn how to salvage wire and build new energy sources. An average 2100²ft empty house has almost 200 pounds of copper wire in the walls. 3000 cycles to learn.

But thanks for telling me who I am and what skills I already have.

The average hunter gatherer only worked for about 3-6 hours a day. They had more free time than we do.

Point is that 3000 cycles is more than enough time to find or make a replacement even if society doesn’t rebuild.

That’s… a lot of cycles. That’s almost a decade. Plenty of time to build an electric generator from scratch by traveling on foot to a copper mine and smelting the wire yourself. Unless you manage to pull an alternator from a car that can’t find gasoline and save yourself the trip. From that you could make a gravity battery or any number of other options.

The average laptop is 65W. So the 40 amp solar battery station I built with a 100w panel could run a laptop 7 hours a day without any issues at all. Plenty of time to get actionable information out of it.

The Amish are not self-sufficient. They are self-reliant. And it takes a minimum of 50 families for them to have a functioning community. What you’re describing is more of a frontiersman.

I have never lost a bet that depends on my fellow Americans being disappointed because they failed to understand something.

Region locking can be dodged of you plan to buy region locked games, use a VPN.

How many of those orders are Americans trying to get around import restrictions and tariffs?

McDonald’s quality control is actually pretty tight. Other than the onion issue recently it’s been some time since their last outbreak. They are one of the few companies that could afford cti test every single product coming in if the FDA stopped all testing and the hit to profits of an outbreak is big enough to justify the testing.

It’s your mom and pops that are the real risk. And Trump doesn’t eat at those.

Corporate sponsorship of luxury foods for people that can already afford to buy them.

Note for those reading this years from now. Eggs were the reproductive cells of birds. They would be eaten as a source of cheap protein and used in baked goods.

Probably going to be the first episode where they will need to beep out a swear word

This has a CVE score of 10. The next Security Now podcast episode is going to be lit.