AI6YR BenHmm, getting the high-inflation itch to buy stuff, lol. Even though I generally don't buy anything. #inflation
As in "hmm, maybe I should buy that XYZ I have been thinking about for a couple of years because the price keeps going up"
EllenIn Edmonton@ai6yr
There's something to that if an item has been on your list for a while.
There's something to that if an item has been on your list for a while.
me_valentijn@ai6yr
That's your stockpiling instinct getting tickled 😲
That's your stockpiling instinct getting tickled 😲
Jonathan@ai6yr We should all buy hard drives before they replace gold as a publically traded store of value
John@jmcrookston @ai6yr I was just thinking about this yesterday. It's probably just because I'm continuing forward old patterns of use but I wonder what would happen if I couldn't buy disk drives or optical media. It would mean no cold storage.
Imagine a society where all knowledge was on solid state devices that would fade some years after power failure.
I guess redundant SSD raids are fairly safe 😞
Sam Levine@ai6yr I'm feeling that, but about consumables I use regularly but don't always keep spares around (looking with some heavy side eye at my bike tires, which might need to be replaced on this bike in a couple of months).
ShawnT 🔧🐀
Diane@ai6yr I'm using the potential for global manufacturing disruption to get me to stop procrastinating and buy replacements for my partially broken kitchen appliances.
Desert Square GardenerCurse myself for not cleaning my garage enough to have a battery installed?
As for advice for people without solar panels on their roof, a little while ago I found a video of a Ukrainian talking about what he'd done to survive the daily rolling blackouts in Ukraine.
@alienghic @desertsquare Excellent, this kind of thing is very useful.
bk@alienghic @desertsquare @ai6yr
Solar + batteries is an amazingly effective hedge against blackouts…
Solar + batteries is an amazingly effective hedge against blackouts…
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