The ULTIMATE Computer for The Apocalypse - A Cyberdeck Review.

I don't know how much that hardware costs, but it doesn't seem that expensive, and that software is pretty much all free I mean it's cool that someone sells this, but it just seems waaaaay too expensive, and I've seen much similar devices with more features built for much cheaper.

I'll be building this atop a SFF Dell Optiplex soon. My thinking is: By using a machine that was mass-produced and can be found in a myriad of offices, spare parts will be in no shortage. Maintainability is just as important as the information inside, because if you can't maintain the machine, the information is at constant risk of loss or damage. I'm basically sacrificing light weight and small size vs your design, in exchange for longevity.

DevTerm Kit RPI-CM4 Lite is going to be my doomsday cyberdeck. Runs off replaceable 18650 lithium-ion batteries. At $279, it's a great deal.

To me nothing I've seen on youtube is really a cyberdeck. I always imagined a cyberdeck as a keyboard, 75% keyboard sized with a small screen. You take it with you and instead of using a screen you use trodes and your conscioussness goes into cyberspace. But for our modern purposes a powerful mini PC built into a 75% keyboard case. That works with a type of VR glasses would be perfect

Good review! I kinda like the DIY versions a lil bit more for the tech savy! Hope yah make your own survivor cyber deck.

Doesn't look hardened against EMP. All the main documents could be stored on a series of solid state SD cards as backup and the primary on a solid state SSD. The whole thing could be done with a debian build on a low-power config, perhaps with LORAWan networking gear available for post-apocalypse networking.

Love the video man truly underrated

Make sure you reinvent pen and paper first, because in 20 years, those capacitors will start failing.

niceeee. u motivated me to build somthing similar out of my new pi 5

You could definitely sell this to nature reserve guards, independent journalists going to warzones (or just people in war-prone areas), and geeks like me

Well played, sir.

All well and good until you actually have to recharge this thing. In an actual apocalypse scenario, I won't expect us to have a lot of access to electricity - so this becomes unusable in a couple days. A better design would be, to have foldable solar panels built in with adequate power output that can recharge it full in a couple hours. And another good addition would be some access to receive radio signals.

This is cool. If one has to be portable this is a nice solution. I meet this need with a small library of books. The books aren't that portable, but I'm living where I can stay and don't need to travel.

Please correct me if I'm wrong but KIWIX is not an OS, the raspberry pi 4 should be running its own Raspberry PI OS, formerly known as Raspbian OS, KIWIX on the other hand is an application. Maybe the developers made the configuration on the OS to boot directly into KIWIX sort of like a KIOSK mode but those things could easily be changed and make full use of the OS. Has the SD Card been soldered to the Raspberry PI? You could easily replace the SD card with your own build. All in all, I find the construction of the unit top notch, the simplicity and minimalism of it looks gorgeous. The ABS plates laser cut, the 10 inch touchscreen display, the high quality buttons. Please help me out here in determining what the issue with the device that impedes using the full capability of the OS, thank you.

Wouldn't it be possibe to just build one instead?

The real value in this product is the stored data. Not the OS, not the computer and not the packaging. It's an interesting idea worth exploring further: I imagine a FOSS project that will bootstrap a basic OS for you and pull all data from the web. And on top of that the user should be able to define their own sources. And it should run on any PC. That way it's more flexible and detached from any hardware. I am a firm believer in the Unix philosophy: do one thing and one thing well. For example a user could buy a Panasonic ToughBook, a Jackery PowerBank along with solar panels and some external SSDs for back up and would have a more flexible, powerful system that's devoid of a single point of failure.

I would definitely recommend you try and build your own, with all of the missing functionality you mentioned. Also look into local AI LLMs like llama2 or gemma. It would be a great learning experience and make for a great video!

So does the “nothing can be added” include thumb drives/ usb sticks?

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where can i download all of the information and articles that he has on this?