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512GB for the bargain price of $189?? Why are we shilling what we can download via torrent for free?
If you are asking this question, this product is probably not for you.
It's for the non-technical prepper type, the guy who has 10,000 rounds of ammo and dried food for 10 years but still uses AOL.
The idea is just get this thing, plug it into a solar power bank, and then you can get information you might need to survive which wouldn't be available online if there is no more internet. You could absolutely put the same thing together yourself without a problem. If you have the skill and the wherewithal to do that, you don't need this. If you don't have that skill, then you are the target market of this product.
I mean, I could make tacos at home. Or I could pay a bit more to go pick them up somewhere. I could change my own oil, or I could have someone else do it.
I could spend time downloading all this data and uploading it to a hard drive I purchase. I know how to do it all. But for the price they're charging for the drive AND Raspberry Pi and the service of gathering and uploading the data, it's not that bad of a deal. Especially if you work a full time job and want to use your free time to not do a chore like this. I mean I'm pretty sure there's torrents for Wikipedia. Not so sure about WikiHow.
If the price was higher I'd be complaining. It's pretty reasonable. It's a peace of mind thing without hassle for anyone with even a little extra cash lying around.
Yeah exactly. And from what I understand of this thing, it has a fairly easy to use auto update system. So every couple months just plug it into your router and hit the update button. I don't think it's a ripoff.
You really should change your own oil and filter. Its stupidly easy, and the shit I've seen happen at lube shops makes me wake up in cold sweat.
Nobody touches my vehicle unless I absolutely cannot accomplish the job myself.
Tbf someone is gonna put it all together and organize it and put it on a drive, that’s a service and it’s reasonable to charge for it
I mean, 189 for an external drive loaded with data, attached to a raspberry pi that also allows Wi-Fi connection to access said hard drive content. Really not too bad if it works well. I wonder if it has DNS entries that point to it's locally hosted content, so once you're connected you just type wikipedia.com etc in your browser and go.
Not to shabby if it actually works.
Yeah and it's also probably pretty small runs, so that'd make it even more expensive. I feel like it's a fair price for what it is, would never buy it myself tho.