• kambusha@sh.itjust.works
    28·
    vor 2 Tagen

    1: I’m an engineer

    2: Thank god! We’ve been searching forever! Here are the parts we have, can you make use of them?

    1: I guess. Do you guys have a working LLM I can prompt?

  • MohamedMoney@feddit.orgEnglish
    521·
    vor 2 Tagen

    I feel like this joke has to be as old as the first invention of something not inherently practical like acting or philosophy.

  • whelk@retrolemmy.com
    16·
    vor 2 Tagen

    I don’t have internet followers, but I do worry about my computer centric skillset in pretty much the same way. Post Apocalypse, I call dibs on firewood gatherer

    • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
      19·
      vor 2 Tagen

      Full-on computers and network systems might be impractical to maintain, but the post-apocalyptic wasteland will have many uses for someone who knows basic electronics, someone who can build and repair simple circuits from salvaged scrap.

      Being able to cobble together a few working radios will make your band of cannibal raiders way more effective than the other bands, giving you an edge for survival.

      • Rubanski
        4·
        vor 2 Tagen

        I was actually thinking about to learn how to make a radio out of basically scrap, but I REALLY depends on the quality of scrap you have. A crystal radio might be possible but that ear piece is probably hard to get/build

        • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
          2·
          vor 2 Tagen

          You basically just need to be able to make tunable oscillators and amplifiers. You need to find inductors, capacitors, and transistors. The hardest part would probably be finding manually adjustable inductors or capacitors these days. I guess maybe you could make your own tunable inductor by coiling the wires around a core yourself, then stripping off bits of the outside edge of the wire and selectively shorting it out. Adjustability is imperative, to make your radio’s frequency tunable, so you can get them all on the same frequency. Oh, and you’ll also need some buttons/switches, speakers, microphones, and batteries. All of those should be easy to find, except maybe the batteries as time goes on.

          But, really, a radio is fundamentally a very simple device. It shouldn’t be that hard if you know what you’re doing. And there will be literal mountains of scrap machinery that’s full of electronic components you can salvage.

    • FatVegan@leminal.space
      3·
      vor 2 Tagen

      I’m super handy, there isn’t much i haven’t done or built. But if you take away my power tools, i might as well go gather wood.