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We expect there to be thematic overlaps with outdoor, survival, general preparedness, self-sufficient living and resilience... also gear talk is welcomed wholeheartedly.

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The term prepping can be applied on several levels and means a different thing to different people. From an US American context with broader landscapes, sparse population and fragile delivery routes, to Europan countries with dense population where help seems to be nearby in hours.

Each individual needs to assess their situation and the personal risks for themselves. As a result of that risk assessment people should come up with plans and prepare their techniques and environment accordingly. 
Always having in mind that these topics can lead to a rabbit hole everyone has to decide about the sane and proper level of preparedness. Some might be fine with a bottle of water and a blanket in their car, others might want to prep a whole Get Home Bag to make it through more challenging terrain.

In this post we try to collect some information on where to get started.

If you have noteworthy sources, feel free to share them. The post will be updated over time.

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[–] ryan_e3p@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (11 children)

I have an absolute ton of ebooks I'd love to make available, but it's nearing 600GB just for books and PDFs alone. It used to be linked on the Prepper subreddit, but unfortunately it looks like the owner took it down. I'd host a torrent, but my ISP is already giving me the side eye for how much I've pulled the last couple months.

Any ideas on how to host this, outside of the US? I'd rather not put it behind some paywall, and this is a huge amount of data, but man.... I'd hate to see it be gone from availability. I might be able to set aside one of my family Outlook accounts since it has 1TB allocated, but I'm concerned it would break everything off into 2GB chunks randomly. Maybe if I use 7zip to zip everything into 2GB chunks?

Any ideas or suggestions?

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 1 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Is your torrent application behind a vpn? If so there should be no issue!

You should find if they’re accessible on libgen and MAM. If they’re there I think it isn’t necessary for you to share them yourself.

[–] ryan_e3p@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It isn't so much that I'm using a torrent. It is the sheer size of everything!

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You would only share that much if people chose to download it all.

[–] ryan_e3p@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Which is my hope, hence the reason why I want to have it back up. It's a great resource to add to an offline database.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Your ISP gives you a bandwidth limit?

[–] ryan_e3p@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes. 1.2TB.

Just uploading it not even 2 1/2 times would put me back on their list of shame

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 points 2 days ago

Oh geez, sorry!

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