Comment by rtpg

By living off grid they are stress testing things so that when things are tougher (perhaps temporarily!) things have a higher chance of chugging along

And obviously, like, they go to places and talk to people and buy equipment etc.

There’s a whole gamut of failure modes for tech from “total civilizational collapse” down to “cell tower is down”, and time periods from “forever” down to “a couple of days”

People doing this sort of lifestyle but sharing findings and ideas and ultimately maybe pointing out how more can be done with less is part of us building up knowledge together isn’t it?

These people aren’t completely offline even! They blog and post online!