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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Provided you knew what you were doing, indefinitely. Or until you died of old age or managed to contract a deadly disease/cancer/manage to injure yourself in a life threatening way that you can’t treat yourself.

You might not be happy about it. But growing basic crops, storing away dried grains for the winter, hunting and dressing animals, making a fire to cook them, etc. should be well within the reach of anyone capable of reading this. Neanderthals could do it, so can you.

If you didn’t know what you were doing, well, until you ran out of easily scavengable canned goods and/or died of botulism from eating one of them that wasn’t as canned as you thought.

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captainjaneway@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yeah my plan (dream) has always been like this:

Use the internet while I have it (assuming people just all disappear suddenly) to download survival guides, solar panel repair/installation PDFs, maps, etc. Anything I can think of, I’ll download

Gas only lasts so long. I can use chemicals that extend it, but it’s definitely limited. I’d start with a gas powered truck and eventually move into electric vehicles. Batteries aren’t forever either… But I’d try.

I’d move to a warm, temperate climate

I’d find a building that claims it is powered by solar panels most of the year. I’d use that as my home

I’d immediately begin trying to farm. I have a black thumb so this would take me some years to get done correctly. But I’d hopefully have some potatoes and grain growing by the end of a year

In the meantime, I might find things to occupy my time such as: finding videogames to play, raising chickens, fishing, collecting guns/ammo, collecting books to preserve, storing solar panels, backup equipment, etc.

My end goal would be to survive as long as I’m happy. I’m pretty introverted so that would last a while. I’d use animals to keep me company. I believe nature would take us over pretty quickly. It would be hard to maintain the house, solar, etc. forever. But if I could, I would.

My wife and I already do a lot of foraging in our area and we have several guides for edible food. We also do some canning and prepping for disasters.

I don’t think a disaster would be a picnic. People are the problem. But if they disappeared suddenly, I think it would be pretty livable.
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- A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Use the internet while I have it (assuming people just all disappear suddenly) to download survival guides, solar panel repair/installation PDFs, maps, etc. Anything I can think of, I’ll download
  
  AI would be really useful in this scenario. Have a whole internet’s worth of information at your disposal with a fraction of the storage costs.
  
  Probably still want the actual manuals and guides for the important stuff tho…
  
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  - mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Have a whole internet’s worth of information at your disposal with a fraction of the storage costs.
    
    without humans to keep it going the internet’s going bye bye quickly.
    
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    A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I mean like, a local model. Hence the benefit of having the info at a fraction of the storage cost.
    
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agent_flounder@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Neanderthals (and humans for that matter) did indeed but they did it in groups, usually. Being alone really stacks the odds against you I think.

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- dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Well, you’re going to have a much harder time taking down wooly mammoths, that’s for sure.
  
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CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

etc. should be well within the reach of anyone capable of reading this. Neanderthals could do it, so can you.

Oh you greatly overrate us internet people… 🧌

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