You need to buy a printer

Not just internet gossip, y'all.

Get a printer and print out absolutely everything important that you think you can just go online and look up.

Unless you own the site where it's hosted, it can go away in a blink.

Ancestry stuff? Owners manuals? Instructions and recipes? Addresses and phone numbers of businesses you use? PRINT IT ALL.

Get some photo paper and print pictures you don't want to lose.

Something's brewing. The internet is forever...until it isn't.
 
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At the very least, if you're too lazy to print everything, keep a local copy of documents, videos, even relevant webpages with static content on your computer or external hard drive. Obviously it's not useful if power goes out when SHTF, but it's at least worth it in case sites start going down or you lose internet.
 
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Agent Abe Caprine said:
Supposedly it's because of all the moving parts. I believe it's all intentional.
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My printer broke during the lockdown and I needed one ASAP so I went to Walmart and bought one where the black and color ink cartridges ended up being more expensive than the printer, so, for the next 3 months I bought walmart printers for the ink cartridges alone because the cartridges/printer have anti-tamper technology so you can't drill, refill and re-use them, otherwise you get an "ERROR".
I even tried buying a couple GUARANTEED TO WORK off-brand non-HP cartridges from Ebay and my jewish printer wouldn't recognize them as "authentic HP cartridges".

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences, HP printers and printer cartridges, have been a disaster for the human race.
 
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I can imagine kiwis schizophrenically hoarding their papers "Hold on guys, I know I have the recipe for burn cream somewhere in here, let me sort through my 80,000 papers I have lying around for everything important I ever encountered online. Could you stop him from screaming? It's really distracting".

Idk what you're getting at, we're apparently going to be living in a very hyper-specific post fall landscape where you still have access to all the ingredients and shit you normally would, the entire landscape is the same, but the internet has been zapped from existence.

Everything you use, including most of the ingredients and how they wind up from where they were made to where you are, is built upon such a delicate system that if suddenly everything fell apart your recipes and fact sheets would be virtually meaningless because they wouldn't be tailored to your specific form of availability.

You're better off just getting treated for your autism and going outside and doing shit with your hands so you get used to figuring things out without the help of the internet. One guy with a good memory and a sense of intuition is worth about 10 people with the best google-fu available, and the former has the advantage of adaptability.
 
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Uberpenguin said:
You're better off just getting treated for your autism and going outside and doing shit with your hands so you get used to figuring things out without the help of the internet.
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OUTSIDE? Are you nuts? There's grass out there! It might touch me! Gross!

But yeah, keep your printed materials organized, duh. There might not be a back-to-the-stone-age event but if the internet or just parts of it go away it could be damned annoying.
 
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this thread brought to you by (((HP))) and (((Brother))). You should already have local electronic back-ups. Besides, if society got that fucked up, I don't really think anyone is going to give a fuck about anything that's on this site.

I have physical copies of survival shit and blueprints, but that's about it. I just get my SERE manuals printed at Kinko's with my credit card (it's fake money!)
 
Uberpenguin said:
I can imagine kiwis schizophrenically hoarding their papers "Hold on guys, I know I have the recipe for burn cream somewhere in here, let me sort through my 80,000 papers I have lying around for everything important I ever encountered online. Could you stop him from screaming? It's really distracting".
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Imagine thinking a Schizo Kiwi printing all this out and not having the autism level to label everything and organize it properly.
 
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Uberpenguin said:
I can imagine kiwis schizophrenically hoarding their papers "Hold on guys, I know I have the recipe for burn cream somewhere in here, let me sort through my 80,000 papers I have lying around for everything important I ever encountered online. Could you stop him from screaming? It's really distracting".

Idk what you're getting at, we're apparently going to be living in a very hyper-specific post fall landscape where you still have access to all the ingredients and shit you normally would, the entire landscape is the same, but the internet has been zapped from existence.

Everything you use, including most of the ingredients and how they wind up from where they were made to where you are, is built upon such a delicate system that if suddenly everything fell apart your recipes and fact sheets would be virtually meaningless because they wouldn't be tailored to your specific form of availability.

You're better off just getting treated for your autism and going outside and doing shit with your hands so you get used to figuring things out without the help of the internet. One guy with a good memory and a sense of intuition is worth about 10 people with the best google-fu available, and the former has the advantage of adaptability.
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Better yet just get a physical copy of TM-31 210 and go trick-or-treating with boomers.
 
Why stop at 2D/paper printers? Go to the 3rd dimension and get a 3D printer. The supply chain is just as volatile as @Uberpenguin said above, so become your own manufacturer of cheap plastic crap.

(That was mostly a joke, but being able to make your own stuff is a worthwhile hobby I want to pursue).
 
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