YSK How to Prepare Your Phone and Other Tech for a Natural Disaster

imapuppetlookaway@lemmy.world to You Should Know@lemmy.world – 141 points – How to Prepare Your Phone and Other Tech for a Natural Disaster
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Because it's not totally intuitive how to prep and use tech in an emergency. Archived version: https://archive.fo/wk3fE

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I'd recommend the Survival Manual app. Your phone means nothing when the weather kills the internet. Survival Manual works offline...

https://survivalmanual.github.io/

The entirety of Wikipedia is only like 50GB. You can literally carry it with you on a thumb drive.

It’d be hell to actually view since that’s only counting the raw text info, but you could conceivably do it. If you include things like XML and edit history, that climbs to something like 20TB. A lot, but still technically possible. Especially if you compress it (which drops it down to like 200GB) and only decompress it when you need it.

The entirety of Wikipedia is only like 50GB

For what it's worth, this metric is based on only the text, itself (no media), and after it's been compressed. Wikipedia actually has an article about this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size\_of\_Wikipedia

As of 2 July 2023, the size of the current version of all articles compressed is about 22.14 GB without media.

Kiwix is an app that allows you to easily download and read the whole archive of wikipedia offline.

Know if there is an iOS equivalent? Seems like a great thing to have but my search just pulled up paid or subscription based apps

Not according to the site unfortunately. ☹️

It's based on official military survival guides plus other updates and resources. Maybe you could try finding a downloadable Survival Guide PDF that you could hopefully use offline.

I'm not sure, not very familiar with Apple/iPhone ecosystem.

Thank you for sharing this. this looks incredibly useful and although I hope I never have to use it having it installed puts my mind slightly at ease, yknow, just in case.

I install it on all my devices. Agreed, hope I never have to use it though..

There also great Apps for knost, that I have on my phone and use offline. Useful Knots is what I use.

Also, you can share apps that you have on your phone to others even without an active internet connection.

It works with the Google Play store and with F-Droid.

So if you have the survival manual on your phone you can share it with neighbor and friends after a disaster.

What you are looking for is called a book. It does not need power or internet, just light to read. The SAS Survival Handbook is good for all around advice.

Books are important and very useful. But I don't carry them all with me like I do with a phone.

Wow the SAS survival handbook has built in GPS and a map of my local area? Damn, books have gotten fancy lately.

Its your local area, why do you need a gps map?

Well, the most likely natural disaster here will involve my immediate local area being under about 5 meter of water, so either I'm elsewhere and in need of a map, or... well, not in need of a map.

You are in need of a nautical map of your local area then.

That's great for an emergency kit but you never know when something will happen and if you'll be in a position to get back to your kit. Seems pretty worth.

OsmAnd for detailed maps, and Kiwix for offline wikipedia (and other wikis).

I got OsmAnd for GPS in case mobile data is down.

I couldn't get past the Captcha, so I guess I'm fuckt. I tried a dozen times - does a tiny corner of a wheel count as "bicycles" or not? Is that a car or a van? OK, I will definitely pass this one.... nope.

Yeah i agree. For what it's worth, here are 2 ways i use to bypass captchas: Use this site: https://archive.fo/ Use a vpn and set the server site to a location that nixes the captchas (Denmark, Taiwan, etc.)

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