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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.