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Maximum survival time without Internet?
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday May 10 2024, @01:18AM
Same.
Personally, I have a digital books, video, music, and games library with multiple backups and modes of us that can support my off-work lifestyle very well indeed for a completely indefinite period of time. If the web were destroyed but I had power I'd be just fine... and as long as my car is running I can recharge all my devices that matter to me. I don't let streaming services own me (even though I'm subscribed to some).
(Aside... I also have a large enough physical library of books and games as well, including my professional reference library.)
In my working life... well.... my employer would be totally boned because we absolutely depend on the Internet for both data management and to allow those of us in the field to make updates in the field. Without that we would require at least a dozen more computers and probably at least a half dozen more employees to cover all the downtime traveling back to base would necessitate. Although we can sync and get a database update, do work in the field, then resync when convenient if we're beyond signal coverage. But that is measured in hours and a very few visits... maybe a day... before requiring sync-up. And sometimes critical situations demand that we be able to resync ASAP. Genuine downtime emergencies for us have to be measured in hours for us.
This sig for rent.