Off Grid Internet for the Common Man | Decentralized Information

We trust tech giants and government to protect our data and make it only one click away, but what would happen if we suddenly lost access to the Internet? We chat about digital and non-digital solutions for creating your own decentralized information cache that is beyond the reach of government and bad actors.
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00:00 What If?
02:06 Decentralized Information
06:22 Gridbase Pocket
18:56 Backup Power
20:02 Digital Solutions
24:18 Non-Digital Solutions
27:15 Closing Thoughts

[@SeanMurphy00]

i purchased a wifi hub in 2018 along with a 2- portable solar panels (28w and 125w) and 3 portable power banks. I have about 300 pdf books I downloaded during the pandemic on primitive shelters, bushcraft, first aid, farming, hunting trapping and dressing animals, homesteading, 4G ware fare and military tactics. I have an air-gapped older iPad and I keep them all in a homemade faraday bag I made in 2022. Unfortunately I believe it will come in in handy soon.

[@dirty-civilian]

Awesome plan!

[@We-are-at-war-cw1zj]

it definitely will! your ahead of 95% of people

[@Spicydeluxecombo]

Ive been adapting my steamdeck for such scenarios. Running Linux natively is a huge plus

[@melissasmess2773]

I have printed books, probably won't survive the lasers. Maybe get a blue roof. 🤔

[@randlecarr3257]

Printed books. And printed penicillin making instructions. Radio is faraday protected!

[@Zoofactory]

Just want to be clear…. It’s a battery operated hard drive with data on it. It’s not an internet for off-grid communication purposes. That would require a Sat Phone or Starlink. Good to have regardless.

[@JSDV9999]

Satellites are hardly off-grid in the sense that this video is suggesting. It survive a natural disaster but not a government shutdown. Any 2 radios and laptops can make a network though. I think the right term is something like a peer-to-peer or mesh network.

[@mrandersen6872]

​@JSDV9999 Starlink could survive a government shutdown, for a while at least. SpaceX is a private company and as long as they don't killswitch all the sats, they can continue to operate for a long time without additional launches.

[@JSDV9999]

@@mrandersen6872 So is every internet service provider. If the government shuts down the internet they'll probably be doing so on behalf of these sorts of companies.

[@davidpritchett855]

The thing to understand is that starlink does not contain the internet. What a lot of folks don't understand is every website is just someone else's computer with a CPU, a hard drive, ram just like every other computer. Internet is a computer connection protocol. So if starlink is up and the server that hosts the specific website you're interested is up then yes starlink or any other satellite internet will likely survive an EMP etc but that requires that your computer is up, their computer is up, starlink is up and every relay in between is up. Internet is designed to reroute if there is a valid path, think like a detour while driving

[@JSDV9999]

@@mrandersen6872 Starlink already cooperates with foreign governments to prevent their stellites from being used to avoid censors. If there were a shutdown in the US it's as likely as anything else that these sorts of companies would be initiating it. All other ISPs are also private companies.

[@WesSites]

250 bucks for a $12 Pi Pico with a battery and a case is a bit pricey... but this is pretty neat.

[@lavenderlilacproductions]

And the time to download and organize the content. 24 hours work at 10 bux an hour?

[@godividarr]

Zero W, not a Pico

[@SilentKnight600]

Cute comment but this is also days (more then likely months) of organizing and vetting. And if you're only adding up cost. It's a pretty big oversight to not include storage cost where assuming by this it's at least a terabyte which is close to 100 bucks by it's self. Seems like a hell of a deal when you look at it outside of self inflated rose glasses

[@twistyx808]

I'd say 200 is still pricey when there are a few dozen people who have already downloaded and organized these for you. You can do a search and you'll get all the same info all organized to download for free

[@skymish533]

@@twistyx808 can you provide a link to anything? i'm slowly building my own mini-internet but i can't find anything easyish for downloading wikipedia or anything, or field manuals

[@xc8487]

A related movement that everyone should support is the Right To Repair / ownership of what you purchase.

[@willwade1101]

I have 93 Terabytes of Movies, TV shows, Survival guides, Medical guides, Maps of America, 10000+ music files, DIY videos, Classic books, Comic books, Cartoons, Anime, American History books, Mathematics books SciFi books, Legal books, Science books, Family photos and more all in a compact tower I can easily grab and run with and yes, I have every movie,TV show, Cartoon, Anime, and music cd in three closets , I've been collecting since 1995.

[@shturmovik3033]

Interested in making some money off this? My group is looking for an archive…

[@apophisi]

Daaaaamn. I need that 😫 super dope.

[@willwade1101]

@@apophisi It's a NAS that I put together. You need a NAS device with at least 8 bays and in them you place server quality 15 Terabyte hard drives, mine has 24 Terabyte HDDs. I don't have mine set up as a raid so I have a ten bay with every other drive set up as a back-up for the drive before it. In other words bay 1 is the main and bay 2 is the back-up for bay 1. Western Digital has a 24TB hard drive on sale for $650. This is a data center HDD but will be more adequate for most usage. The reason for using server quality HDDs is because unlike regular HDDs where you are always changing data the server style are the type you put the data on it and from that point you only read it unless you decide to delete something all together.

[@apophisi]

@@willwade1101 are you in IT?

[@willwade1101]

@@apophisi No, I've just been working with computers since 1978. I use KZbin to get ideas for things I want to do. I started my system over 5 years ago and upgraded as my HDDs began to get full. Next time I will need to update to 3oTb HDDs.Linus has a great channel to learn from. kzbin.info

[@rc54]

You can easily download DIY videos, books, music, all kinds of entire websites...all to a USB stick and mSD card yourself. Start today! (And make copies kept in faraday cage with an inexpensive Amazon Fire tablet or 2 or 3...)

[@spr00sem00se]

You can download wikipedia , I have done that , i think that would be a valuble source of info........ In the end though, books are king

[@Rev-X-Films]

I think the perk of this specific box is; preloaded content, and the built in WiFi that allows you to connect via your phone and not needing a laptop/computer. More of an "On-the-go" solution. That being said; you can make this with a Raspberry Pi.

[@Alex-lo3gx]

​@@spr00sem00sewikipedia kinda sucks tho, but you got a good idea

[@Scotty86doo]

@@Rev-X-Films I agree, not everyone knows what they need to "know" so having a starting point is fine and if a patriot putting this information together gets a profit for providing a service and resources im about it. I would want to know if it can be expanded with custom folders before Id pull the trigger on buying one

[@wpnmstrmk4484]

@@spr00sem00se wikipedia is controlled info. by gov.

[@jolt06]

Looks like a raspberry pie 0 with a battery pack and a decent amount of downloaded videos and documents for survival. Not bad. You can diy it but it takes some experience to get together.

[@TEAMPHY6]

There's a free project called Kiwix that does it, but it's best on a pi3 or pi4, or on a laptop. Several preppers and people going into the African/Asian bush country use these.

[@damonaniton]

that is literally all this is

[@jeffero1074]

@@damonaniton [ EDIT: YT removed em they don't like you saying how to make tech products in comments that's my bad, but this can be done so much cheaper explore it on your own!]

[@rocksolidhope]

@@jeffero1074 Its probably not DC deleting comments, youtube auto deletes/hides comments if they include certain words. Its in the YT community guidelines (but of course they never tell exactly what words). It's happened to me a lot on many different channels.

[@GR3YHOODCrypto]

Its called Kiwix and it's free. You can even use an android if you don't have a raspberry pi. Just need atleast 500 GB of storage if you want all of wikipedia.

[@tangodown2721]

The gay frog alarm killed me lol

[@frankthetank6558]

To early🤣, poor bud

[@amelliamendel2227]

You know atrazine in agricultural wastewater is an actual ecological problem and only because of AJ the story disappeared from the real media overnight

[@Vickah]

Gay fish alarm

[@amelliamendel2227]

Atrazine is very real and it's really in agricultural runoff

[@tangodown2721]

@amelliamendel2227 I know it's real that's why it's funny he was right the whole time

[@biblotecamarianna]

While the Gridbase is cool, you should keep in mind that SD cards kinda suck at long term data retention and one day you could power it on and nothing be working because the SD card died. Make backups of the SD card and have a method of creating copies of SD cards if you want to keep this data for the long term

[@techbiotic8831]

Optical media still the best IMO… for the average consumer.. 10-15 yr. w/ tape in a bunker 50-100 yrs est?

[@confuseslogi913]

Great point! All this is susceptible to sd technology. 😮

[@whatitdodracula]

BalenaEtcher is very good at doing amazing things with SD cards even making clones and or hidden sectors to hide files and have them appear empty when they are not.

[@Brett_S_420]

​@@whatitdodracula The FBI is on to you, dude.

[@whatitdodracula]

@@Brett_S_420 I am just the messenger. 🤣

[@olandelarca2083]

The worst part about a new dirty civilian video is now I gotta wait a week for a new dirty civilian video

[@cameroncoates7357]

I know the gun content is probably more popular but I really like the non-gun related content too

[@nonactive3654]

As the guntube viewer age. This will become the next big thing.

[@peterstone7901]

I beat Al Gore's rhythm after watching this.

[@dirty-civilian]

Goteem!

[@qwertyomen]

Notes for printing any of the books: Include a laser printer in your SHTF plans. Toner doesn't 'dry out' like inkjets do. The cheaper ones will be black and white only. If you must use an inkjet, keep fresh cartridges in their packaging, and keep the printer stored without any ink installed. Best is a brand new printer in box that's never printed anything before that's 'unprimed'. Once an ink printer has been primed, there will be ink in the lines that can dry out and clog.

[@mrbojangles4155]

Why would you print things in SHTF

[@deneballantine6816]

Thermal portable printers may be even better… no ink, works on a battery (the one I have does), and the thermal paper, currently easy to find, is the only renewable need.`

[@jan_harald]

it's 300 bucks for something that's just a little battery with a 15 buck raspberry zero, and a 512gb sd card....

[@diversie509]

an SD card that you cant even add your own info to. Also its wild to me that it uses an SD card considering the tiny amount of reads and writes it has before failing. But this whole thing looks like a money grab.

[@MuseaBear]

straight up. if they want this to take off they will need to reduce the price. 300 is way too much

[@JimmyDistheMan]

Is there a DIY project to make your own?

[@jan_harald]

@@diversie509 btw sd card has no problem with reads flash media, like sd cards, usb sticks, emmc, etc, just have a limited digital lifespan, unlike hard drives you can't recover the failed data but they can do unlimited reads, more or less, or at least enough reads that nobody's ever had issues being limited by that so as long as it doesn't keep writing stuff to the card all the time, it'd actually be fine

[@jan_harald]

@@JimmyDistheMan pretty sure it's taking like 80-90% of content just from Kiwix, which is more or less doing the same thing software-wise, you'd need to figure out the battery situation yourself, but kiwix gives you an app with which you can download a lot of offline stuff, wikipedia pages, ted talks, , and you can then read locally or serve it as a hotspot

[@Dscottff127]

Backwoods home magazine has a USB with 10 years of anthologies, 2500 articles for $45.

[@ifyoudontfailyouarenoteven6210]

1:24 - Hurricane Katrina is actually an example given during the lectures about internet resilience. What happened - the network traffic was actually re-routed around New Orleans. Don't forget - DARPA built it for a conventional battlefield, where nodes after nodes are taken down by the enemy actions.

[@johnnyshanksalot8358]

Darpa (arpa in those days) was also obsessed with creating a 'network of battlefield sensors' like they did on the Ho Chi Minh Trail but in all possible future theaters of war... after which they created the internet in a totally different project which definitely does not constitute the modern fruition of that same exact idea at all (adjusts tinfoil beanie & pops another Male Vitality pill)😵‍💫🤪

[@ifyoudontfailyouarenoteven6210]

@@johnnyshanksalot8358 Sorry bud, I don't have any pills to pop to follow you.

[@Ender1king]

The gov. also took the chance to take away Firearms during Katrina.

[@Mawyman2316]

@@johnnyshanksalot8358it doesn’t though

[@doesnotexist578]

You can actually make this yourself, its just a raspberry pi with some form of custom os that runs a kiwix service on it, that being said you can just run a normal run of the mill os and install a kiwix service on it and accomplish the same thing. This product seems to be using just a microsd card which likely wont last long but a raspberry pi 5 now supports nvme drives which would be a much more ideal way to go, I have done the same thing with a pi 4 and an ssd over usb, and the advantage of doing it with a normal os means the pi can still have a normal desktop with all sorts of other functionalities, there are guides for this and if you are tech savvy then do that instead of buying this unit, and if you're not tech savvy then this unit is more for you

[@dirty-civilian]

Spot on. That's the problem though - barrier to entry to all of that is pretty high for people who don't understand it. We really like things that get people started down a rabbit hole that leads to them building their own solutions.

[@ireilly2000]

I appreciate you taking the time to write this. 5 minutes on Google and I can make one myself.

[@scottedwards3403]

Can you recommend a channel that has the know how to build this?

[@ireilly2000]

​@@scottedwards3403jeff geerling

[@willmckayguiding]

@@scottedwards3403 Gridbase has a google doc for free of everything on the pocket, which is just copied from Kiwix (free to download). I don't have a need for wifi compatibility so I'm simply downloading all the info from Kiwix to an external SSD and downloading the free Kiwix app to all my devices (works with mac, andriod, windows, etc). Same thing but $50 w/o wifi.... All in all, downloading the files from Kiwix to the SSD should be done in a day. I'll probably keep a dedicated & cheap amazon tablet to use with it in a faraday bag.

[@odstunsc9543]

glorified hard drive

[@mo-s-]

true like the internet is the people, not just the information

[@Loqua888]

DC++ with webpage.

[@nietzschebietzsche]

I wouldn't want to archive all that info though

[@ShamanWillYT]

my internet provider won’t like what i’m gonna do

[@naturespond]

Canadian prep is awesome. From his “news” updates, which are impartial and I can trust, to his how to videos. All of his content being on there alone just sold this to me!

[@hindsight2022]

Oh god . Cp is gonna be the teacher of the last people . What a world .

[@JC-ll8xs]

Right? 😂 what a freakin' nightmare that would be

[@iamsmashy]

I had the same thought lmao

[@wesmongold8703]

That pretty much turned me off as soon as I heard that. I'll just get it from someone else that doesn't have CP's videos on it.

[@alexiO21100]

The actual information that comes of his videos is that amount worth in gold. If you have any clue of preparedness

[@hindsight2022]

@@alexiO21100 ok . Cool story bro . Maybe if you don't have any food ,water,self defense or skills. That dude has poison info for anyone who knows what they are doing. Just seal up your freeze dried food the way he suggests youll see . Some of us have been doing this long enough to know he don't know shit.

[@17cmmittlererminenwerfer81]

The death of the Internet would force children outdoors again. It might even force people to speak with other family members. This would be an unimaginable disaster.

[@blackhawk_1317]

@@davidmecham9676exactly

[@SubvertTheState]

Lol. I remember we had a very intense lake effect blizzard a few years ago. Several of my neighbors were outside shoveling, we made comments about how intense the snow was, and mentioned different tools and things we had to prepare for it. It was the first time I had ever spoken to 2 of them. I lived there for years already at the time. But just that small sense of disaster was enough for the boys to start thinking in tribal ways.

[@Aryan-nv9kd]

This KZbin channel is a CIA shill. Just look at the countries he targets. As if his own country did not go through a coup where Trump was removed and replaced by a dementor.

[@paulascott451]

😱

[@honzaled]

It would also end the society as we know it. Apocalypse just like from the movies

[@southpawluke]

Great video guys! I''ve been running the Pocket for several months now, and it's very, very cool. The note about physical photos is 1,000% solid advice. Good stuff.

[@dirty-civilian]

Thanks dude!

[@Clockwork0nions]

Faraday bags? Hit up estate sales or pawn shops for cheap microwaves. They’re basically huge faraday cages; they’re hardsided and stackable.

[@MatthewAvey]

They're still called comic books. Graphic novels, on the other hand, have two categories: 1) a collection of comic books that puts the entire story arc into a single book for convenience and 2) a comic book story that is simply too big to put into a traditional comic book so it goes into a trade paperback or hardback book.

[@alexandervinckenbos]

I was like ..."cool! Need that shit!" . Then i saw Canadian prepper and i went to:"Ffs! Hell no! I'll buy a bunch of USB's and put in the work myself.

[@AmericanHistoryXX1]

So hes 100% right about having some form of entertainment. I stayed in the woods in a swiss military command tent for about 9 months while i was looking to purchase my current home. It was my bosses land and i was clear cutting it by hand just me and my german shepard and some nights my buddies would come over, we would grill and have drinks and a fire and it was fun but when its just you and a dog its nice to have some other form of entertainment. I had a portable dvd player and a nintendo switch lite. I had a 650w solar generator with a 120w solar panel and that combo for the most part kept all my electronics charged up and allowed me to run a chest fridge/freezer to keep things like milk and raw meat for cooking. If i had a few days of rain i took my generator to a friends house and charged it up in like 3 hours and it took about 1.5-2 days to run the battery down to empty when the cooler was running on it. Without the cooler it would charge my devices up for a week.

[@Gotprivacy-noyoudont]

Play an instrument. Read. Make art. Write…

[@AmericanHistoryXX1]

@Gotprivacy-noyoudont just because you enjoy those things doesn't mean I do. And I actually did have a tablet with books on it I forgot to mention that. Other than reading I couldn't care less to write, make art or play an instrument. Especially after doing manual labor all day long. By the time it was dark all I'd want to do is sit in my chair and play some nintendo or watch a favorite movie or read a little before bed.

[@treecrabwill]

Isn't that just a raspberry pi with a battery and a mini wifi modem?

[@BigBraGad]

I was looking at that too. Its crazy that they want $300 for it...

[@treecrabwill]

@@BigBraGad you could probably make it for 1/3 of the price

[@fiveangle]

Just as much as a phone connected to another phone is The Internet… it’s not the hardware, but the contents. I reverse engineered the fuel injection system of my 1992 Honda Civic to support tuning for completely different engine swaps, created traction control, full-throttle shifting, automatic nitrous injection, turbo boost control, etc, all without any outboard hardware changes - all in assembly language on the original ECU. If you can do that, good for you. For those that didn’t have those skills, I sold these features, and people were happy to pay. If creating a fully curated and organized offline abridged offline Internet as provided by Pocket is easy for you, go build it and then let us know how long it took you… we’ll wait 🤣

[@treecrabwill]

@@fiveangle yes definitely

[@mo-s-]

A scam for preppers, pretty cringe imho

[@noblebullshark]

Long time watcher. Very good information. Just my two cents, but I hope you have a better data management/backup plan then just a bunch of external SSDs/HDs. Data does go bad overtime. Now I'm not saying you need a mini datacenter (I have my personal one I built in my office... Loud and warm.... Not portable at all but i'm working on that.). I personally have about 50TB of data I manage and self host for family/friends, including plenty of information about survival and sustainment. If you want some more information please let me know. Great work as always you guys.

[@LordNotlek]

Man I’d like more info.

[@noblebullshark]

@@LordNotlek What information do you seek?

[@elierwin7340]

what is a mini data center in layman’s terms?

[@dirty-civilian]

One of us owns a server, but again - so cumbersome it's not really ideal for transporting.

[@noblebullshark]

@@dirty-civilian I've picked up a few old military hardened server rack cases and working on a more portable and power efficient server setup that one could theoretically throw in the back of a car and run off something like a solar generator. I'm not very committed to it because my preps revolve around bunkering down and staying put.

[@recondo886]

some of us grew up without the internet. we'll be just fine and probably better off.

[@Gotprivacy-noyoudont]

As long as we don’t have to worry about the effect of loosing all that on society doesn’t impact us.

[@willbass2869]

Unfortunately, so much of the "behind the scenes" stuff that makes the world go round is tied to the internet. All the control systems, SCADA etc. No Internet means no centralized water purification & delivery for cities and small towns, no SCADA means anything & everything that goes by rail or pipeline stops dead in its track. No refining, no food processing etc

[@paulmc8030]

Born in the “60’s”I agree with your statement!👍

[@Paperbatvgchampion]

Losing access to all that information, accessible at a moments notice, would suck. Us young folk probably were never taught/learned some survival skills, and ya'll ol' heads may not have had to use some of those skills in potentially decades. Ya'll maybe rusty or have forgotten. Having at least a copy of good references books would be better than not for everyone involved. Nothing can replace training, but I'd rather have access to an ebook/book rather than be caught completely lacking. Then once society is starting to rebuild after a SHTF situation, having some ebooks people can access maybe a good barter resource. I'd trade a can of beans or 2 for a copy of a book with medical information

[@sharriceowens913]

He doesn't mean just the lost of internet he means if society was to collapse with the internet THEN u would need something like this

[@washingtoncommandcenter5541]

The Foxfire series would be nice too

[@TpoJioJio47]

i created something like this, using different torrents and other files, written on HDD. i named it "The code". This code is all about how to be useful and worthy for yourself and people around you. The code consists of 3 parts: input, output, storage, secret files (passwords etc. - not supposed to be known about).

[@triggercrysisjames142]

Ok, the sudden Alex Jones ad read was freaking awesome! "They are turning the frogs gay" line had me absolutely rolling!😂🤣😂 I freaking love this channel! Always pushing into new things, no 2 videos are alike, always fresh, exciting and keeps me engaged. Great job guys!

[@arcadia1081]

"Ah've bin studyin' the globalists for 30 years..."

[@digitalradiohacker]

You know that a significant amount of well respected biologists confirmed that all the medical junk which ends up in the water is having profound effects on wildlife? That's another 1$ in the "Alex was right" jar for all of us.

[@matthewstockle]

The sponsor segment was much better in this video than your last. Thanks!

[@chuckcribbs3398]

I’m liking this channel more and more. I appreciate your efforts. Thanks for keeping us ahead of the curve and covering topics other channels don’t.

[@dirty-civilian]

Much appreciated!

[@chrismeister2554]

Love what you all are doing, thank you!

[@itshamwings9570]

I can't tell you how happy it made me to see the Optimus prime DVD case at the end, I genuinely thought nobody else had even heard of them

[@KamikazeMedias]

This is a reason why I have a power station and a power bank or two just in case. We had internet shut down and power shut downs in Poland a few times, once even on my shift back when I was doing security job, I had to somehow turn on the power in entire block cuz people were panicking and I did thankfully knew what box to turn, what switch to flip... But still, the people get easily panicked, confused. Glad I made these purchases. They serve me well as I charge them and use them to cut down on power cost.

[@YouTubeDoxedMyRealName]

That device does just use KIWIX which you can download and install on just about any device including a tablet or phone or PC. Depending on what your doing it might just be better to put it on a laptop or dedicated mini PC or old laptop and use eathernet to reduce your radio signature.

[@blindanddeaf]

What you can invest today is a NAS (network attached storage). Buy a ton of storage space and just go download happy. Sail the seven seas while you're at it because who cares when the internet no workie. Also, if you have physical media, you can rip your media and have a back up of it.

[@ChristopherGoggans]

It's a deep, and dark rabbit hole once you start that path..... First you're browsing r/synology, then you're on to r/homelab, and before long, you're 200 posts deep in r/datahoarder comparing serial numbers and models on buying 200 HDDs to store your media collection! 🤣. I kid, I kid, but it's a subject that can go as deep or as shallow as you desire. As a hint for someone new, if you're getting serious about a NAS or server, look into TrueNAS Scale as a good foundation Linux distro to build on, and work out from there. ZFS is probably my recommendation for most people, but there are other avenues and paths as you explore the subject. Good luck!

[@johnnyshanksalot8358]

Canadian here, I think the Canadian restrictions you mentioned are only for news on FB & other social media, I never run into it but i do use Brave browser so that might have something to do with it. That said, information definitely disappears over the years so backups are always a good idea. A ton of videos, PDFs & so on that used to be widely available online have vanished in the last decade, keeping hard copies is underrated.

[@theunknownprivate]

A fellow Canadian here too, and ya Google is soo bad, have to use other browsers often too, or use a VPN. And definitely agree, will be hitting over 800 book in my personal home library soon. Don't know what the Hell happened to this Country, BUT Canada has truly fallen. Don't even get me started with our legal firearm owner, being bombarded with new laws and bans.😂

[@johnnyshanksalot8358]

@@theunknownprivate I occasionally use google maps for directions but other than that, their political censorship has rendered them utterly useless as a search engine. The last time I remember using them to search a few years ago I got that crazy 'these results are rapidly changing' message meaning 'we refuse to give you any information at all on this topic.' Madness. Couldn't agree with you more about the state of the country/government & it's increasingly insane laws but at the same time, I was extremely proud of (a minority of) our countrymen for leading the way in defying that global 'health' dystopia for a minute there. Probably the first time in my 4+ decades of life that I've ever truly felt proud of that flag tbh. I don't put much faith in politicians but you never know, maybe PP will get elected & stop at least some of the bleeding here, 1 can only hope. He ain't Max Bernier but at least he ain't Justin.

[@upnorthof60]

What a great resource.Well done!

[@denniskielton2447]

Well man seriously as a lifelong survivalist gun enthusiast and believer and most of what you guys talk about on the channel, and also a career musician, thank you for what you say about what separates humans from animals. You're absolutely right, I've personally been saying this for years now, and it's 100% backed up by science. We potentially had music before we even had speech and certainly had it before we had written word. It's one of the main indicators of intelligence, interest in the arts and music and interesting things other than just survival. Which is why it is just absolutely insane to me that people try to say things like music isn't in Porten and not worth paying for. Have you ever done literally anything in life without musi go to a restaurant any restaurant guarantee they're playing music of some sort. Every store you walk into is playing music of some sort while you're on the phone there's music for holding while you're watching videos there's music playing in the background. We are surrounded by it every single day. You would think that in the schools will actually want to invest more into it but instead they're doing the opposite. But then again, public education is really meant to get people ready to work at places like Walmart anyways and not be individual thinkers there have been plenty of studies on there, including one pretty famous one by one of the presidents of Harvard University.

[@JB-ym6sy]

We appreciate you guys... not just for your content, but for the way your message comes across like you care for my family. Look forward to you all starting "Field days", when you bring viewers/extended family out to the woods and work/learn together as survival teams, with a paid ticket of course. God bless.

[@logician44]

Ssd is no good for long term storage . Static charged storage will fail quickly when unpowered for long. Use hdds and cd or DVDs.

[@cdhrtsc]

All time best ad. Actually watched and laughed.

[@timgleason2910]

Love this KZbin channel. Thanks guys. Always great info, well done too

[@TantissTheEmperor]

Personally I went the full blown server rack with TBs of data and all I can and want to keep from internet.

[@kaboom4679]

Beware of devices and software that will stop functioning without an update . Also , content downloaded from some services , even if stored locally , often will not play without an active Internet connection . Just some things to be aware of before you start making personal SHTF data caches .

[@tsol438]

This is where web scraping skills would come in handy to custom build something like this. I already have a bunch of e-books scattered over 3 hard drives. Just not a lot of time to organize it.

[@davocc2405]

Interesting - it seems to be a Raspberry Pi Zero W (or Pi Zero 2 W) with a battery attached, SD Card of some size and a charging board. The bundling of this with a software package and software AP makes this workable, has perhaps something like XowA to serve the offline Wikipedia mega-archives (those can be downloaded independently, they're about 95 gig). That they've put this all together as a homogenised product I do appreciate, good bit of work there. One thing I'd want to do - make sure this is locked away in a suitably protective Faraday cage/enclosure along with all equipment you intend to use for charging, the tablet/phone/kindle you want to read it with, etc. Make sure that's all locked away with proper protection to reduce the risk of an EMP taking it out. I'd probably want to have spare hardware for it too - in case it suffers damage or other issues.

[@CPurdiePlays]

I'm happy to see someone out there making these available to buy ready to go. Some may see the price and think that's a little steep, and I myself was in that boat. But when I look at my own that I've been making and the amount of time I've spent getting data downloaded and everything set up, I think it's worth the cost. Especially for someone that's not tech savvy.

[@silnce01]

Initially I was not fond of the price but took a step back and had to understand that you are paying for expertise here and time which I respect. Someone may not have the knowledge on how to build this let alone the time to organize and prep the content. Plenty of options to build your own if you want to do this (PirateBox, Librarybox, and others using a TPLink TL-MR3040). I went a little different in my approach - protectli hardware, 2TB SSD, proxmox and added full blown OS types (linux, Windows, Mac) along with various other utilities. In other words, allows you to adapt the box for various needs rather than just serving content. I myself have been ripping media from various sources to make my own library, how to's, and entertainment and storing them. Specially since this platform continues to change policies and approach based on the political aspect. In some ways, it's no longer a place to educate people but turning into a platform to indoctrinate people into certain things.

[@BlakeJoy]

"in the arms of an angel" that got me good

[@swainsongable]

My mom gave me the Foxfire book series back in the 70s. There are a few more volumes now! And who knows when we might need to know how to build a banjo from scratch. Much handier to have it all on a thumb drive, eh 🙂

[@FarmerRiddick]

The main value I see with the Grid Based Pocket, is it comes preinstalled with a tremendous amount of data. That alone makes it of value, as it would take me some forty forevers to find and assemble. I see it as not bad option to consider getting.

[@neighborlyairsoft7180]

Your sponsorship section was beautiful. That’s how you get people to actually watch the sponsorship plugs, bravo dirty civ

[@silnce01]

How is this updated? Any support provided by the vendor or does a user have the ability to update the content?

[@shelleyboom5594]

"Freedom is suppressed" in 'the land of the free', as well.

[@Ztram2]

Super cool to see Gridbase's stuff getting shared to a larger audience. I've been following his projects for a while now. Great ideas for protecting valuable information.

[@justinfluegel8502]

All of us that deployed from 2001 to 2015 (internet started showing up in 2016) are looking at our stacks of hard drives because deployments were just a giant Lan party where we didn't have personal internet and you traded moral drives with all you could imagine.

[@mydakotablue]

I know I'm a little late to the game here, but one thing that I highly recommend that wasn't really touched on was having extra copies of info stored in different locations. For example, I've been downloading lots of guntuber informational videos ever since YT started pulling certain peoples content off the internet. I have a copy on a USB that I keep in my bag for work, on an encrypted hard drive that I have stored at home, and on a home server that I can access from the internet. Two is one and one is none!!!

[@nib6383]

can you edit/add/remove content from the pocket device?

[@jakerichards2931]

Solid question. I’d like to know too.

[@ChristopherGoggans]

I'd be shocked if you couldn't, as it's likely just a Linux distro running some relatively straightforward software. As as the old geek joke goes, everything is "open source" if you have physical access 🤣

[@Acoustic_Operator]

This has been one of DC's most informative videos yet. Thanks, time to get to work on this.

[@PrecisionRifleNetwork]

This sounds great. Might have to pick one up.

[@reeseraymond8886]

BLADE RUNNER MENTIONED!!!!🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥

[@threat2demoracy5454]

Man! I was wondering where my dose of DC was this weekend! 🤙🏼🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@jeffhuntley2921]

Ytube asked me to rate your comment? You know the smiley faces. Weird. First time I’ve seen it on a comment. You a fed?

[@threat2demoracy5454]

@@jeffhuntley2921 If I was a fed I'd do America a favor and Control/Alt Delete myself. And even if I was a fed do you think just because you asked me I'd tell you the truth?

[@jeffhuntley2921]

@@threat2demoracy5454 I assume everyone is a fed on ytube. What’s one more:) subbed your channel. Had me at Christ is king!

[@threat2demoracy5454]

@@jeffhuntley2921 I know it man. They chat and type among us. And yeah assuming everyone on YTube even some big name creators work for the feds or are feds. Thanks for the sub my brother! Godspeed! 🤙🏼

[@lhc6340]

even though I know this is just a cheap device with valuable content, but the profoundness you conveyed is so profound that makes me watch all the way through. great video, great content.

[@scanadaze]

As a Gen X. 1970. My life growing up was with zero technology. Not even TV. My small farm town didn't get cable until the month I graduated. What is was like with zero any technology. Amazing. 100% amazing. We didn't even know that Government even existed. No Government control. No nothing. We just lived. We did what we wanted to and when we wanted to do it. I loved the 70s and 80s with zero technology. Government back then. Who or was that. We had no clue. We lived with ture freedom.

[@MeritBiz]

What country were you then?

[@scanadaze]

@@MeritBiz America. I grew up in Nebraska.

[@joshuarediske1188]

I need a copy of your music library 😂 you hit the punk rock category on point!

[@nukezat]

Cool concept, but I just can't stomach a $300 price tag for what's basically a raspberry Pi web server...80 bucks of parts

[@sharriceowens913]

How.much is a rasberry and where do u get it..everyone keeps saying this but can someone make a video on how to make a raspberry like this for a fraction of the cost

[@LandonWest]

Loved this video! I’ve been wanting to start a home server (and raid backup) of all our photos, music, movies for a long time. This is another great reminder how important that may come to be. Solar and battery backups are also on the list, though it’s reeeally expensive. I like the tip to find a lot of the other stuff cheaply or free from thrift stores etc.

[@theantil7]

I swear this is my last infinity stone I need. Granted, I've collected none, but this will be the last one I need 😂

[@sendittozach]

“We depend on devices too much!” “Here’s another device to rely on.” You can do this for FAR cheaper than that price. That’s approaching predatory for such a cheap device and free information. This video is about trying to scare people into panicking and buying an extremely overpriced device.

[@raphisteve]

Agree. I mean its comftable for its size, but a nas with the same fils and maybe different software or apps can do the same and you can do more with it

[@ES-dn7td]

Very cool, Thanks for sharing

[@dirty-civilian]

Thanks for watching!

[@user-se2xg7tq5u]

The introduction of this video is still great and brings awareness to a cool product and idea. I love how he makes it clear that you can do this yourself. If we are really adopting a decentralized mindset, you SHOULD learn how to do this yourself. Know that people wont always make cool shit for you and have it all assembled at your doorstep.

[@TacticalTimmyGoldandSilver]

I have seen a lot of comments saying how this would be super cheap to DIY and I agree that it would, but just think of the hours of downloading you would have to do. I Like this as a good start but this video made me think about my offline media and what specific areas I might need to think about. Great work DC and keep up the great work! ps. I loved the Alex Jones style advertisements!

[@PBOperator]

As someone who has built something very similar for a lot cheaper I'm just a little opposed to paying $300 for a library of opensource information that I could download myself, Hardware of this can be built for under $50 so $250 for a cherrypicked list of the internet kind of hurts me. this may inspire me to make my own library and put it out for free. I think it really comes down to how much is your time searching and downloading worth. I'm willing to spend time to build out my own library but I definitely don't blame anyone for being willing to pay to save time.

[@Me-eb3wv]

Like you said, the tech itself is fairly cheap, but what you’re really paying for is for the man hours it took to download all of those PDFs. It’s fairly plug and play, ideal for those that don’t really know much about computers or those that don’t really want to spend hours upon hours downloading a bunch of PDFs

[@PROAmateur01]

“What happens when the grid goes down? No communication, no contact?” The world becomes a better place.

[@utubepunk]

Haha. No.

[@austinmcwilliams3412]

Excellent food for thought. This is definitely a topic that is overlooked often, but knowledge is crucial.

[@DIYARMORY]

I am a member of triple A and there is a paper map for each state and multiple city and regions available for free.

[@joshuahale8621]

Its just a raspberry pi.

[@kekwkekw5117]

This can be done for like a tenth of the price by watching a video on KZbin. It’s using a raspberry pi zero. No ones gonna pay $300 for that.

[@Cowboys-garage]

This video was awesome! On the topic of information and communication, I would love to see a video on large/long range ham radios, keep up the great work-cowboy

[@jimmystikx]

On the emp thing. You can store some of this stuff in a metal trash can with its lid. You can electrically ground the can, and it should protect most things that are off from an emp.

[@redrighthand9122]

Wow! A raspberry pi zero with a case for only $250! WHAT A STEAL!

[@pyeitme508]

Yes, information is power 🎉

[@dirty-civilian]

Boom!

[@m.k.nielsen5822]

So are depleted uranium bullets 😊

[@pyeitme508]

Yes​@@dirty-civilian

[@willbass2869]

​@@m.k.nielsen5822 You can say UNdepleted uranium in bomb form is even more so😮

[@dorego3658]

pocket library well worth the money for those less tech inclined or even just as a backup, i should know since i have some of the books listed, good job man

[@TheFlea1987]

I bought a Crucial X10 external HDD and a hard case for it. Something small I can throw in my bag that is formatted in ExFAT32 which can be connected to handheld devices. It can be encrypted but then it wouldn't work with my handheld devices. Putting a collection of books and movies/shows on it. No Wi-Fi but it works well and can be attached via velcro to the back on a tablet or phone when it is connected. Just another idea to throw out there that was worked for me. Also really nice to have when on an overnight hike or camping trip.

[@1991trailmix]

Jackery is overpriced and don't deliver the best product

[@Savageactual5393]

First!

[@dirty-civilian]

If ya ain't first, you're last.

[@user-ki3dj9pu9y]

This was a very thought provoking video. I actually have an older tablet that I use for auto repair, with factory repair manuals for all my vehicles as well as some books on electronics ect on it. I never thought about doing that fpr other things though. The pocket device looks cool, but i would probably come up with my own alternative, but very good info!! First time viewer, subbed

[@urbexch7940]

Can I add personal information such as family photos, book etc to the poket, or is it a one-way-system?

[@backhandcrane9197]

You are insane if you think that a single memory card and a phone battery is worth 250 dollars. You can just get a couple of hard disc storage devices and keep them in your faraday and it wont cost you 200, you will get information you know is good (wiki is public access and editing, and often wrong in someway or another) and you will know where it is. You also do not need to have running wifi or any smart devices, just a cheap laptop brick that can also be left in the faraday 24/7. Also, the tissue paper Bible is a bit of a gimmick, yeah? Dont get fooled into buying a $50 item for 5x that. You even mentioned manuals and documents. You can get free pdf versions and download them, sort them, and then they are searchable forever.

[@dirty-civilian]

You should probably watch the whole video, you know, where we mention all of that numerous times, before commenting. But, thank you sincerely for the algorithm bump. 🤙

[@We-are-at-war-cw1zj]

🔥ALEX JONES WAS RIGHT🔥ALEX JONES WILL GO DOWN AS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MEN IN AMERICAN HISTORY

[@mattmurphy7030]

Lol

[@devopsphilosopher]

I can honestly say this is one of the most important videos I have ever watched. Thanks for the waking up and guidance 🙏

[@ericfrommer3073]

Glad you've discovered Canadian Prepper. I really like his blue band content. The red band content is kind of overwhelming.

[@keptleroymg6877]

This is stupid. I am tired of prep people being ignorant of their tech. The internet isn’t just a bunch of data in a ruggedized case. If you want to backup a bunch of data you don’t need to shill a product. If you really want decentralized internet we must use radios. The protocols for ip over radio are abundant. But before looking at these things you should learn how to use the internet we have now in a more decentralized way.

[@dirty-civilian]

This gets non-techies, you know, 99.99% of the population, from zero to step one. If you’re so far beyond the basics, that’s awesome! Good for you man. 😂

[@mack0the0knife]

@@dirty-civilian fair point, but $200+ premium on a pi zero w/ kiwix seems a bit excessive.

[@keptleroymg6877]

@dirty-civilian buying products is not a productive way to learn. Make a video on using torrents or setting up a local file storage server or settimg up encypted email. I'm sure there are free tools to create archives from the information you want. you could seed a torrent of information curated by your brand.

[@Agent_Clark]

Better be some Paul Harrell vids on there

[@imagitu6409]

is that a midi version of vision thing playing in the background???

[@OCCULTPREPPER78]

Dear lod thank you for what is in my opinion the best youtube video of the year