Yeah, been using Linux as my only OS since late 2000s

People should stop doing that

Not true. Some sell games from their own sites too. Like Vintage Story and Factorio.

Mine is invested in the UK with a focus towards sustainability and green energy, so I am safe. Plus I don’t really care much if it doesn’t go negative. Just want to pay off my mortgage and then stop working much.

Why would it go up? In the next few years they will be even more years behind on the Mars mission they were going to be launching almost a decade ago at this point.

There is some inefficiency in charging a battery but not that much. Main losses would be that the solar panel isn’t actually outputting 30w as you won’t be getting ideal conditions all day.

But it doesn’t necessarily matter either. 65w to charge a battery but you only need it once a week for an hour can easily be managed by 5w all day for a week.

Though planning for an apocalypse is kinda pointless anyway. Preparing for a disaster is more reasonable, such as a storm knocking out power for a while.

30w is plenty to run a few small lights and phone chargers. You can cook over a wood fire if necessary, or store food that doesn’t need cooking.

Kinda curious now what the back to reasonable normality for essential needs time is for most disasters. Don’t need to stockpile enough to last until completely rebuilt, if food supplies are going to be restored fairly quickly but housing takes a year you don’t need the full years food supply.

My strimmer battery charger takes 65w. So 8 hours of 30w to charge a battery is almost 4 hours charging the strimmer battery which would probably fill it’s small battery a few times over. If you are not depleting the strimmer battery multiple times a day, that is more than enough power.

You of course do need a battery to store it so many hours of solar are used in several minute short time loads.

See that is where I find they ca get more useful. When you have a non emergency use for them as well.

I haven’t had a powercut for more than 5 minutes in my entire life. Have wondered if power at my allotment shed is worth setting up but not super keen on spending many hundreds/thousands it would take for any garden power tools and a generator would probably be a better option.

Lower power things might not be so bad. Though I really hate how modern powertools use proprietary batteries and each brand uses a different one. A powertool battery charger could be a modest size solar/battery setup.

Factorio GPU demands are fairly low, CPU will be maxed out by late game though…

Natural disaster, or even just illness and you can’t go to the shops for a few days.

I have heard of people that routinely don’t have even enough food for a weekend in their house.

Vast majority of people do not own enough land to grow even close to all their own food.

I focus on the higher valued things instead. Mostly anyway. Along with experimenting with what I can get to thrive in my area.

Full apocalypse is silly to prepare for.

But interruptions are totally a valid thing. Power outage for a week following a storm for example.

In that case I would probably end up cooking over a wood fire if I am still hungry after devouring the entire content of my freezer. Not letting the ice cream go to waste!

I kinda want to get some solar for USB power, largely phones/tablets. But it doesn’t really make much sense to for me currently. Just getting another battery is a better choice and something I actually use. Solar would only make sense if I planned to need to keep recharging for an extended duration.

But at the same time solar is pretty cool… What else can I power to make use of it. Of course full home solar makes sense. But small portable stuff seems cool and affordable. Just don’t really seem like it makes sense.

Could setup a solar powered desalination plant to water your garden too

Can it charge up enough batteries to run a typical Factorio session? So until sunrise where you can start charging the accumulators again.

So I will admit I have absolutely no knowledge of this film. But why is a female perspective bad?

Oh yeah, its the very long life ones I was thinking of that cost a lot. If there are more regular ones at lower prices with still a moderate lifespan then that probably makes more sense.

I can already see them rusting down by the harbour. Meanwhile people still find bits of ceramics left from ages last on the beaches.

So if you bury your clay tablets in a treasure chest it should be good.

Plus you can store more games on each one. Don’t they cost quite a bit per disc though?