As suggested at a previous post it might be good to have some offline data stowed away.
May it be in form of a prepared mobile device, a pen drive or a hard disk. Some even suggest Raspberry Pi setups , which make it easy to serve/share data in a hotspot WiFi — aiming more at TEOTWAWKI situations.
One thing is for sure: having a (encrypted) pen drive with essential proof (IDs, licenses certificates, etc.) should be the bare minimum.
The topic and different approaches were often discussed at reddit and I’ll try to give an overview and animate people to also post good digital reading materials and sources.
We already mentioned the offline wikipedia with KiWix and ZIM-archived, browsable data:
- https://www.openzim.org/wiki/Build_your_ZIM_file
- https://youzim.it
- https://archive.org/details/zimarchive
- https://archive.org/download/kiwix_zimsets_201403
- Wikipedia Full http://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia_en_all_maxi.zim ~83GB
- Wikipedia No pictures http://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia_en_all_nopic.zim ~40GB
- Wikipedia Mini http://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia_en_all_mini.zim ~10GB
Coming from https://www.reddit.com/r/preppers/comments/oxbna2/prepper_hard_drive/ someone posted the http://survivorlibrary.com as good starting point, and an article shtfblog.com discusses a bug out library on SD/USB drives.
I will edit this post when I find the other sources in my archives and would be glad to incorporate your suggestions.