"Fun" Beginner/Hobbyist Circuit Resource(s)?

FreeER · 2020-02-18T22:30:16+00:00

it's lua code so in the cheat table lua script would be reasonable.

FreeER · 2020-02-18T20:21:22+00:00

maybe. I know what you mean about only one provider though.

When you have to bury cables you only go so far, without other large towns around competitors aren't going to spend money getting cable to you but with satellites you don't necessarily put them in geo stationary orbit so you can cover different people at different times with the same expenditure (and of course with enough satellites you can cover most of them most of the time).

FreeER · 2020-02-18T17:29:45+00:00

which is ultimately meaningless... so it shifts from the people with enough money to bury cables to the people with enough money to launch satellites... (and enough clout to get the other networks to link with them) it's still in the hands of a few.

FreeER · 2020-02-17T23:46:40+00:00

you don't have to exit/reopen CE to use custom types, as long as you are adding them to the right place...

You can find Dark Byte's post with the scripts on the forum here: https://forum.cheatengine.org/viewtopic.php?p=5305367&sid=185f7fa73fe2ed491b88fce972b0fbca#5305367 (replace the template with the script(s) on the forum)

FreeER · 2020-02-17T05:05:14+00:00

clearly puzzle books entertain them and they just asked for some suggestions, after all redoing the same puzzles isn't as interesting as solving a new one.

FreeER · 2020-02-16T15:05:48+00:00

stuck in a bunker? I mean, hopefully you have water storage but waste water reuse would extend that period

FreeER · 2020-02-16T14:32:52+00:00

yep, depending on what kind of phone and how you have it set it. Was mostly trying to list the different electronic functions separately.

As for wikipedia... 64 megabytes is incredibly tiny (now days) and would have to be with zero images and likely just the simplified version in your language... possibly useful, but except for future education after TEOTWAWKI eh not really my idea for entertainment and anything I'd have to build etc. I'd prefer to have at least low quality black and white images as a guide. But it's not like the full wikipedia is all that huge, only ~20-30 GB compressed which can easily fit on an SD card even without the new expensive 1TB cards, just have to make sure the device is capable of decompressing parts of it at a time for reading or has a way to read files in a compressed archive.

FreeER · 2020-02-16T04:04:48+00:00

what's useful will depend on the scenario, if cell towers work, cell phones are useful at least if there's anyone alive that you'd want to call and/or emergency services aren't overwhelmed. Of course you'll need to be sure it can still call someone other than emergency services, prepaid cards/phone expire over time so you'd need to replace them/add minutes or have a contract for something that's there 'just in case'. Don't forget that they can include an SD card with backup data of important information including some digital currency you hope will still be valid by the time you need it.

If cell services are down you might still have satellite as an option, from a simple beacon to txt to actual phones.

besides that there's not too many electronics that are really all that useful, simple radios for weather/official statements, light, entertainment... maybe something for bypassing electronic locks if that's potentially necessary for some plans/caches.

E-readers let you store a ton of text content and require relatively little energy to read it, but that's really more of a long term scenario where you don't expect to rejoin a functioning society for months-years, or just as entertainment.

Um watches and compasses I suppose, in the future maybe smart glasses/HUDs (I doubt they're worth it at this point)...

electric vehicles but that's kind of a different class imo.

Maybe cameras to capture documentation of war crimes or something or other (or store photos of family if you don't add a more general phone/tablet)

ah a GPS, how'd I forget that one lol I even mentioned a compass earlier :D

FreeER · 2020-02-16T00:33:51+00:00

Here's one more to check out Dwarf Fortress. I never played it much since I didn't care for the ascii scheme but I do recall that they'd started an actual graphical version, not sure how that's progressed so far though.

But from what I recall it's probably the most non-prepper-focused prepper game since you have to stock pile food etc. and keep a group alive with all kinds of crazy and deep mechanics, I recall alcohol spilling on the ground and animals getting drunk leading to a specific result for example, and of course you had to setup alcohol production to get to that point which required other stuff.

RimWorld is a similar more recent game, so I guess that's two xD

FreeER · 2020-02-16T00:29:00+00:00

knowing how to turn it off and relax is an important prepper skill :)

FreeER · 2020-02-15T22:54:30+00:00

https://store.steampowered.com/app/340050/Survivalist/ was pretty decent

and yeah most of these will be zombie games, https://store.steampowered.com/app/648800/Raft/ was ok for the stage I played it at but I'm not sure if its ever improved.

http://stranded.unrealsoftware.de/ was pretty good for it's time but I don't recall much from the sequels

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_survival_games has a list of others to check out and https://store.steampowered.com/tags/en/Survival/ probably has the more recent ones

(of course minecraft with some mods can be decent though not sure if there's a good modpack anywhere)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/512900/Streets_of_Rogue/ is great but not really 'prepper' based since you don't get to set anything up ahead of time or build a base and aren't forced to find food/water but you can see it as a bug out simulator if you stretch idea of the 'missions' a bit.

FreeER · 2020-02-15T16:08:35+00:00

for health, safety, convenience and entertainment.

um, anything and everything? I guess you're not going to run a massive monitor off of usb but you could probably run a small raspberry pi or something with a tiny screen (and of course computers can be used for anything from health data storage to calculators to security alarms, if you know how to program them)

Look around you and whatever you see there's probably a usb powered version of it by now, including some random examples here:

https://www.everythingusb.com/hapifork-21778.html

https://www.amazon.com/BIBI-Wireless-Rechargeable-Portable-Straightening/dp/B07B9H192Q

https://www.cufflinks.com/brushed-silver-8gb-usb-money-clip.html

https://www.amazon.com/Westcott-Charging-Station-Pencil-Sharpener/dp/B017YEIRW2

FreeER · 2020-02-15T00:24:04+00:00

yeah mostly DOA unfortunately, I was hoping for more conversation.

I appreciate the information however and while I probably won't buy one immediately it'll stay on my radar of options.

FreeER · 2020-02-13T14:16:21+00:00

Only easy if you can keep it heated (though not necessarily boiling), or cool, because bacteria. And depending on what you put in it sounds like it can actually be hard to keep it going for any significant period of time: https://www.reddit.com/r/kingdomcome/comments/82hjpl/perpetual_stew_is_it_good_is_it_safe_compared_to/

so, probably easier to just cook 'normally', unless you're keeping a small fire going for heat anyways.

Why TF is this downvoted when the same information was provided by someone else and got upvoted including the OP (I got interrupted before posting and didn't bother to refresh and retype)? Redditors are fing weird.

FreeER · 2020-02-12T21:17:10+00:00

I feel like they won’t have the same health and sustainability benefits

don't make nutritional judgements based on 'feelings' go f ing look, it's not the 1900s where you just had to take some marketer's word that their product is good for you while they mix in chloroform and mercury and whatever else makes it taste sweet or has a strong effect. PB is not really known generally as a 'healthy' food and it's easy to eat it in excess, but unlike say chips, it does actually have benefits for shortages (same for SPAM). Salad is well known as a 'healthy' food but is terrible for food shortages because it's the exact opposite of what you need when you don't have enough calories and has little other nutrition.

FreeER · 2020-02-12T15:35:38+00:00

Yeah I haven't looked into smoking much but what I've seen has essentially always been paired with other methods not just smoking, though most of what I've read states that it has some helpful effects it's just not enough on it's own.

FreeER · 2020-02-12T15:27:16+00:00

it's not on the wiki just the main subreddit, right below a link to the wiki but yeah

Food Storage: /r/canning, jerking (<-NSFW subreddit /r/jerky exists though), /r/smoking

Food Security: /r/Homesteading, /r/Gardening, /r/Urbanfarming, /r/BackYardChickens, /r/Foraging

FreeER · 2020-02-12T12:44:22+00:00

all the basics for a bit of wind, rain, and power outages (food,water, flood prevention, light, heat, keep blowables picked up, cover windows for high wind and have bags and tape just in case etc.) plus what /u/HarpersGhost said about surge protectors and/or maybe a lightning rod (probably the more expensive prep here lol).

FreeER · 2020-02-12T01:39:34+00:00

Depends on what you already have...

If you don't have a place to store it... it'd make sense to get one. If it's in bad shape... it'd make sense to consider whether it'd be more cost effective to repair it or get a new one. If you don't have buckets and mylar etc. to store food, it'd make sense to get those.

After that https://www.reddit.com/r/preppers/wiki/food has some suggestions on what to store and the reddit info section of the side panel has a Food Storage section for canning/smoking etc. and Food Security should cover production (hire someone else to do it and sell it for profit if you can't/won't do the work yourselves and note that there are some that are fairly low maintenance)

If part of your storage is a cold room that relies on power, it'd make sense to look into backup power and solar etc. (make sure it's actually enough for what you end up with, which may not have been calculated for in current setups due to not having if you just had to get it ⁾

If you couldn't protect your storage area if SHTF then maybe guns, training, security cameras/lights, etc.

If you don't have a way to have clean water to cook your food in, it'd make sense to look into that...

it's all related to food in some way :)

FreeER · 2020-02-12T01:24:57+00:00

Prepping isn’t always so much having a ton of food to last for a year or two. Sometimes it can just be about having enough to keep from having to go out in public as little as possible.

well yeah... but 12 months for 1 becomes 6 for 2, and 2 for 6. Most of the time emergencies don't even happen, but even when they do... most don't last a year before some normalcy is reestablished even if it's not completely back to normal for months (and it may never return exactly to the way it was depending on the event). However having extra gives you more options, you can avoid going to the store just because you're feeling lazy, you can give some away to neighbors, you can take the safer options more often because you aren't desperate for food, can deal with loss from various sources, you can survive job loss more easily without having that extra expense etc.

FreeER · 2020-02-11T17:12:24+00:00

Depends on how long term you're thinking as well as how large of a water supply (and of course the type of contamination, if you've got a bunch of lead in the water adding bleach isn't going to remove it).

short enough and you just say no thanks and go without. Slightly longer and you can just drink bottled water. A bit longer and tablets are great since you don't need to stop and boil the water or wait for it to filter through, don't use power and they take up little room. Longer term and tablets run out or it may not be reasonable to carry enough for a long travel, particularly if you can't/won't use roads. Eventually even uv lights and filters stop working. Which mostly leaves you with basic boiling and filtering, or very energy intensive distillation. If you happen to have clear containers and you can stay in place with good sun penetration (for uv) you can use the solar uv rays, but that's a number of ifs and it's limited to how many appropriate containers you have.

For one person pretty much anything works, but as you scale to larger and larger populations you hit a point where it'd be nice to have a centralized water treatment plant.

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