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If you are an American, how are you preparing for the upcoming tariffs and possible trade war? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 weeks ago by kinttach@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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What impact do you think it will have on you?

Are there critical items to purchase now that will be too expensive to afford next year?

Are you changing your savings or investments?

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[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 34 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I bought two 16TB hard drives that I intend to fill with the content I generally pull down as I need it. Game roms, books, videos, a backup of Wikipedia(real). I'm already about 80% of the way there with preserving what I want to preserve. The other 16TB drive will be a copy. I can keep it in or around my toolbox at work just in case anything happens at the house, fire or flood, whatever.

I don't seriously consider content being harder to acquire in the Trump presidency considering that's mostly the Middle East, India and Romania if SoulSeek is anything to go by, but it gives me peace of mind.

As for spending.... what spending?

I'm poor, but I already only spend on utility and literally nothing else. It's helpful, really. I don't buy crap and always have money for what I need, but I know I'm the minority, here. I'm always willing to suffer if it means I have headroom, to my family's constant worry.

I cook constantly. I bake about two loaves of bread a week. My house generates baked goods on a constant basis for everyone around it, and I sell here and there. Flour is cheap, making variety is easy and everyone loves it.

You wanna survive this shit?

quit streaming anything, pirate everything
effort is money
you don't need it
only pay bills that can't be garnished or risk repossession
name brand means poison
see an ad? Never buy the product. Fuck em.

Run as close to the grain as possible. Don't buy their shit. Don't buy anything they're associated with and if they try to control something, starve yourself of it. Fuck em. Don't let the bastards win.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I grabbed a four-bay RAID and some drives for the same reason. I highly recommend you also get a UPS if you can so that random power outages (which are more likely) don't crash your drives.

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I already have a setup at the house. This 16TB is basically the master cold storage for everything(~12GB of content and personal files) and gives me peace of mind. I can restore the server apps in twenty minutes with its local backups, but... the Jellyfin content, my books, roms, etc, need some parity.

A few months later I might get another and make another copy. I usually buy refurb drives and test them out a bit before running them. I have pretty good luck with them. Most of the time, I'm writing the entire drive on first use so if there's a problem, I'm gonna find it.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Have you actually accessed the wikipedia content locally?

I downloaded a backup once but just figured post apocalypse I’d have infinite time to fuck with linux and I’d figure out how to read it eventually.

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

I poked around and haven't found a blank link yet. I only spent about an hour with it. I'll use it in place of real wikipedia for a while and see if I hit a blank spot.