Right now, a Heltec 3. Better antenna though, mounted on a pole. I have an even better antenna coming soon with a cable so I can move the unit inside and have it on one of my solar batteries, since the little 3000mah one is good, but won’t last long.

There’s another prepping community here also. There’s a bit of an overlap, sure. I think one is more about just news events, the other actually prepping.

Either way, answer is yes 🤣

Combined with measles fucking up immune systems, the next few years are going to be oh-so-interesting for us here.

Just a matter of time before the world puts a travel advisory on the US, like with other countries with disease outbreaks and terrorist groups.

Noted, and added. Headline was pulled from the URL, I didn’t want to editorialize, but this is a good point.

Huh. Well, that’s a nice feature Reddit doesn’t have. Ability to correct post headlines.

The problem is the orange man with tiny hands has a tiny penis complex, and needs to take it out on the world.

I don’t think people have an issue with the reasoning. The problem is that this is the 3rd or 4th time in, what, 5 weeks, that Trump has threatened tariffs? And we’ve seen the damage that is flooding to the markets.

As an example, we don’t have tariffs on wood right now, but because of the constant back and forth on it, suppliers have just gone ahead and kept their prices high to reflect the uncertainty of future sales. A 2x4, 10’, has nearly doubled since the beginning of February until now, even though tariffs on wood imports never officially happened. Just the constant threats are fucking things up.

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I totally forgot about that sun-bathing of the taint stuff

Yeah, our untainted cow milk may be cut off, but on the upside, we are swimming in the production of bull shit

Do you mod the Reddit intelprepper sub also? Have you reached out to other mods there to take some of the burden off your shoulders?

Don’t we still have the person in charge of higher education with a job for abusing his p card? 😕

One thing to consider, especially for long-term planning, is those power banks are NOT user maintable. If the screen dies, the ON button fails, or the inverter craps out, that’s it. It’s a brick. With DIY setups, if a single component fails, you can replace that single component.

And also, you can make a portable DIY battery bank! I made one using a secondhand rolling tool case I bought in Facebook for $15!

Yeah, there may be things in it that are… Perhaps not meant for distribution. I’m conflicted, because as much as I’m not all “yay, piracy” (at least when said property is readily available for a reasonable cost), if there’s a situation where things do collapse, schools and education is still going to be important. Not just K-12, but more advanced higher education. Libraries may end up being raided and having their contents burnt by morons looking to stay warm in the winter, and I don’t have nearly enough physical space to hold even a tiny portion of the digitized books.

You remember VERY correctly. Since then, we’ve brought back at least some PPE manufacturing to be domestic, but it likely won’t be enough for the initial consumer run to empty the shelves and scalp them for $10 a mask.

Just like facts.

Have you considered dropping down to a chest freezer and mini fridge when needed? The two combined can pull as little as 50-60W (each about 25-30W on average). A full size fridge draws a lot more since they’re a lot less efficient. The chest freezer especially is beneficial since worst case, when properly filled, can go 3 days or so without power and still remaining ice cold.

Hegseth seen nodding in agreement

one of those better be a new Stargate

Advocate for antivax bullshit that kills people? Sure! Encourage politicians to stop live-saving cancer research, gut the VA, and reduce safety standards that will have more people suffering? Cool beans!

Oh, you don’t like that and want to voice your opinion? GFY

Fucking scary shit. Now, it is simply “liking” content Reddit doesn’t like. Soon, it will be upvoting things that the government doesn’t want you to see, or paints them in a bad light.

Once I have everything a bit more organized, I’ll do a full writeup including parts used. I need to sort of redo… well, everything! My new greenhouse build is taking place on a different part of the property that will let me take better advantage of the space, and I need to move it all to accommodate. But, it will be a lot more organized as a result as well. I have a data rack that I repurposed that can hold 1,500lbs. It’s wheeled so I can move it if need be, but to be safe, I’m going to put enough pieces of reclaimed pallet wood underneath the frame to sort of take the pressure off the wheels themselves. The rack will also make it easier to expand battery capacity, since each shelf can hold either 2x 24v 100AH batteries, or 3x 12V 100AH batteries.

I’m very excited to start the greenhouse up, especially it will be a self-contained, automated, solar powered dream. 4x IBC totes totaling 1100 gallons with UV disinfecting lights, fed by a well with a filter and the tap located inside the greenhouse (to avoid freezing in the winter), with the well having both an automatic pump to draw water as well as a manual one if needed. Hydroponics set to keep the plants hydrated, with the capability to have a wood stove to keep it warm for winter growing (which will also heat the water in the totes via copper pipe around the stove pipe with a 12v pump cycling water, a double plus since water is a great thermal battery!). All managed by my Home Assistant server, but I can always manually turn things on/off as well with 12v timers and switches.