I'd recommend the Survival Manual app. Your phone means nothing when the weather kills the internet. Survival Manual works offline...
this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2023
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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.
Kiwix
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.
Ah, damn. Then the phone OS preference is the next selector for human genes.
Make sure to double check the comments here, a number of other useful links are coming up...
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.
SAS Survival Handbook, Revised Edition: For Any Climate, in Any Situation https://a.co/d/bNaDO6v
How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times https://a.co/d/gifxvOr
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.
Article seems to be behind a paywall.
Emergency disaster response step 1: Buy a subscription to the Wall Street Journal.
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.
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.
Books are important and very useful. But I don't carry them all with me like I do with a phone.
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.
pay wall wtf
I thought i pasted the archived version but the link goes to the original. weird. anyway, here's the archived version
And archive: https://archive.fo/
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.)