Werid that guy is carrying around an actual flashlight. Modern people just use their phones.

Ive said it before: do you want to be the grumpy, antisocial prepper that eats beans in his (yes, almost exclusively his) bunker until radiation poisoning finally gets him?

Or do you want to be the hero of the neighbourhood, who has a solar-powered stove to heat up the baby milk for cute single mother next door?

Can we bring this kind of energy to Lemmy? Pretty please?

People with hobbies are cool

As a Kyiv resident: no, you don't want power outages. It's less fun after the 10th time in a week.

I got the Olight Ark Pro ultra in limited edition Zombie color as my edc light. I absolutely love that thing. Gets more use than my pocket knife. It's just the best.

My wife thought it was dumb when I picked up a lockpick set to play around with. Didn't think it was so stupid when we accidentally locked our keys inside when house sitting and I actually managed to pick the lock.

I built what is basically a smart plug, but it uses 4G connectivity instead of my standard WiFi. The idea is that if my home network screws up and I need to reboot my router and modem, I can still do that remotely. There have been 2 times in my life that I really wished I had this set up because my Plex server was down while I was traveling. The ideal scenario is that I never have to use the thing, but whenever I see this flashlight post, it reminds me that I kinda do want to need it just once.

I get it. This summer I bought a battery bank and portable solar panels so I can a) take some load off a circuit that is overtaxed in the summer and b) be able to very slowly charge the car in the event of an emergency.

A month after getting it, we got a notice on our door that they were working on poles and our power would be out for 8 hours. I kept my whole homelab, and refrigerator running the whole time and the entertainment center running most of the time. Any thought that I spent too much, given the probable utility, immediately disappeared. I wouldn't call it pride in my decision, but it came damn close.

I wish r/fleshlight was this wholesome.

MFW the roofers came to inspect a leak a couple of weeks ago and the kid turned on his phone's light before climbing into the attic.

Me after lending the kid my 3000 lumens pocket flashlight.

I got to make use of my Swiss army knife at work. With the fucking awl! I and I alone knew what it was capable of.

These guys are going to love the apocalypse.