Yeah, but won't you need enough electricity to power a monitor, keyboard, and mouse for this to work?
this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2025
689 points (97.5% liked)
Technology
69891 readers
2715 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
That doesn't take much power, a solar panel or two should be more than sufficient, or you can rig something up w/ a defunct ebike (just run the motor backwards to generate electricity).
load more comments
(17 replies)
A single rooftop solar panel can do that, and charge a battery for a little after dark use while you're at it.
A true prepper will get an eInk monitor and resist the urge to scroll until they read all the way to the bottom of the page, but even a normal monitor uses a small fraction of a solar panel. Keyboard? Near zero. Mouse? Near zero x10 but still near zero when compared with 200W. RasPi? less than a normal monitor.
It sounds like you can connect with your phone, which reduces the energy footprint quite a bit.
Looks super cool wish there was a version with more storage. 256/512gb is on the low side for end of the world
It seems that they are working on a premium version of the PrepperDisk with up to 1TB of storage space. They will also be bundling that with an AI LLM implementation trained with the data present on the PrepperDisk.
Okay it's conceivable that there'd be enough power to read through and search a drive, but LLMs might be the worst and least efficient use of electricity Icould possibly imagine in a doomsday scenario.
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(2 replies)
I was hoping it would be one of those drives built to last hundreds of years. Oh well.
What kind of storage do they use? Because SSDs left unpowered will lose data.
load more comments
(3 replies)
My doomsday kit is just a bottle of SoCo and a camping chair.
Not sure if this is allowed, but I had to see if this was true, and also if it was expensive- it isn’t!
(I do not work for, or with anything involved in this)
I just purchased 18 TB of surplus disks for 200 CAD, the price there doesn't seem that good to me.
I feel like the $190 they want for the Pi 4/microSD version would've been a reasonable price for the Pi 5/NVME version.
load more comments
(3 replies)
I have HDDs that have been with me for almost 10 years. I need to replace one with one that I can use as a backup for all of them AND have some to spare.
load more comments
(2 replies)
It should at least be in a (sorta-)Raid1. What good does it do if it implodes?
It's should be a 3 drive raid 5 parity but you can only buy 1. Then when the world ends you must find the people that have the other two.
load more comments
(2 replies)
It's a raspberry pi, the operating system microsd will be long dead before any of the data is corrupted. ;-)
(And probably before you'll ever need this thing.)
load more comments
(5 replies)