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Last weekend I was looking at some car ads.Like the article stated,the license was blacked out.
Then they listed the address,sellers name,e-mail address,and phone number.Still puzzeld over that.?????????
My buddy was telling me about the Google Home speaker his daughter had bought. So I said” So you say hey google whats the temperature?”My phone was on the table, it lit up and told me the temperature at our location. I NEVER EVEN HAD GIVEN IT A THOUGHT! THEY CAN AND DO LISTEN TO EVERYTHING!
We are lucky to have under ground utilities.When the power is out our 1960s Princess phone gets plugged in to the wall jack.I have seen them at thrift/second hand stores
reasonably priced.They are available on line if you don’t mind getting gouged on the price.
Ref the Western Rifle Shooters Association/Andy Ngo link: I saw the statement below their
header and was surprised to learn that there are whole organizations of cop haters.
Perhaps someone of authority that we all listen to could comment on this.
The PGE outages were a great demonstration on the lack of planning on many organizations.
My cell tower went down with the power outage, no surprise there. 4 hours later, my land line phone went out as Frontier didn’t bring in a generator to keep the lines up and their backup battery finally died. (Why am I paying for a land line?)
Even more interesting, the local Police Departments repeater in my valley (a small sliver of their jurisdiction) also went dead after about 4 hours.
My phone is always off, I really like that, no wrong calls, no sales calls. If power goes out I have some small solar lights that sit on the windowsill that I can use. I have a wood stove that can heat my house even in the coldest weather. I can also cook on my stove and inside my stove.
Sounds good. What brand of stove do you have?
It is a Vermont Casting Aspen model.
You may be asking about the stove because I stated I cook in it. I have cooked baked potatoes and steaks inside the stove. The stove is clearly not set up to do that but you just let the wood burn to coals and put the food on the coals. I have a small grill screen that I put the steak on and set that directly on the coals. Obviously cooking on the top is more straight forward. I cook rice, vegetables, bacon and eggs and other things on the top. This particular stove doesn’t get as hot on the top as some wood stoves but the only effect that has is that it takes a little longer.
We, too, kept a 9 dollar plug in phone back in the days when we had a land line. It would continue to work when the phone company’s electrically charged land line was energized and the public utility power went off.
But now in many areas the land lines connect somewhere to a communications tower which radios the traffic to another tower. That now can become a disconnection point in disaster areas, and in high crime regions like ours.
Communication points frequently have their copper wiring ripped off and stolen along with the backup batteries. Thieves don’t care that they are only getting pennies per pound. They take it anyway, and your comms are down.
If anyone out there is interested in setting up independent telecom and radio traffic capability business, there is clearly a business opportunity in the Redoubt.
We use radio. We do not rely on repeaters. Most of the Amateur radio repeaters do not have adequate back up power. I’ve talk to the guys to motivate them to put at least one repeater totally on solar, but they do not see the need.
We also had cell phones go down for most of one day. Never happened before. All these recent events may have motivated a local utility to once again install radios in their vehicles. I may take the job.
Thank you. I was thinking of the Woodstock Progess Hybrid soapstone stove that you can cook on but not in.
Pictures taken with a (non-phone) digital camera and stored on an off-grid computer can’t be hacked by SkyNet and used against you.
To preserve our most important liberties, its best not to feed the beast by uploading ANYTHING to the internet. – Of course, I’m violating my own advice by uploading this comment 🙁
I’m 60 and I lived the first two thirds of my life quite happily without the internet. I’m working at getting back to that level of simplicity and personal privacy. How quickly we gave it all up to the Grid. Very sad.
HikerSkip … me, too. What is really getting difficult is securing products and services locally. I needed some fabric for an important home project, and I had two options: JoAnn Fabrics and Walmart. I had previously purchased it at Walmart (though generally I do not shop there). It was at neither place this time, so now I’m stuck with less-favorable options, including buying online, which I also rarely do.
I still contend that we are prepping as a hedge against invasive technologies, even more than natural or man-made disaster.
Hikerskip,,your not alone in your thinking. I wake up at night thinking about how much better life was with out the web ,going dark is allways in the back of my thoughts. The computer is ok , but the web is a curse ,what if ,what if ,i know that there is life behind the white wall ,
Who is John Galt ?what can we learn from that saying ?
There can be many questions and interpretations from Ashley Auzenne’s violence. Ponder this one. If someone who believes and recognizes that guns can be dangerous can’t safely manage her gun, who can, and how can it be done? It’s better for everyone if this never happens. It would also be better if gun owners figured out how to reduce the occurrences vs people who don’t own guns.
16 yrs ago my family moved from Miami to the foothills of Sierra Nevada el dorado county. I had a whole house generator installed and the electrician said I was nuts. “There is no need for a generator we don’t lose power in California like Florida after a hurricane”. I told him I lived through hurricane andrew with no electric for weeks and to keep digging. Needless to say our electric went out last week [intentionally by] {PG&E) four days and it saved our 150 lbs of grass feed beef in two freezers. Point. Don’t get discouraged by others when your gut …and prayers tell you to do something else.