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As the title states, Hoping for some suggested 'work' books of circuits to go through and test/understand and/or websites with circuits for an absolute beginner that doesn't require too many specific/special parts. I don't want to sit down and take some bore-this-into-my-brain EE course, I want some hands on practice that I can preferably share with my kids (9-15) but won't be outdated in 2 weeks (eg. most of the learner circuit kits I've seen) or require me to constantly turn around and buy more stuff I don't have (obviously running out of common components if I'm destroying or not reusing is a separate matter). No I don't play guitar or anything so the oft mentioned audio fx (pre)amplifier

I'm aware that there are dozens of beginner courses but... I already have a few years of amateur programming experience via Harvard's CS50 (primarily C), Factorio's lua modding, answering noob questions in a C++ (11+) discord, and messing around with Cheat Engine some time ago (both reversing and lua scripting), just very little with Kotlin and Android. I've followed a couple tutorials and made a basic dice roller with a timer so it "rolls" and slows to a stop, expanded for dnd dice rather than just 6 sided, a very basic snake game with compose, and am currently following some google maps compose tut.

Considering my prior experience and comfort with several languages, many of the courses I'

So I saw a chart on the discord of standard win chances for n dice per CL and someone asked about advantage/disadvantage chances so I recreated it on google spreadsheets using the builtin BINOMDIST function (thanks smart people who made all that stuff for me!)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tFR0XoPl_6CyHKMlV87fbFTcE71sdWs3O6R33_IVlyY/edit#gid=0

screenshot of advantage https://i.imgur.com/Jw2hD7P.png note the dropdown arrow on A1 with the 0.66, click it and you can switch between disadvantage (0.33), standard (0.5), and advantage (0.66).

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ultralight/comments/f6tiak/my_so_and_i_created_a_table_of_1000_common/

so, here's apparently a thousand examples of food you could take when bugging out even if by foot ie. hiking.

So, just came across this https://youtu.be/4HH6t9sRFTw?t=309 originally from Shad's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfu6SgwilIk

hm, the original instant legolas video appears to be about 2 years old so it's quite possible people have seen this before, oh well new to me so almost certainly new to someone else as well :)

at least it's not another flu/mask post lol admittedly maybe that'll help new people start preparing and making their lives better

So I read an article about Force on Force training and ended up watching some videos from Gun Talk Media on YT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8ceOaoF1cw&list=PLscB-49EdZctpGF_ke3araysRXrhUnH86&index=13

The above in particular had, idk whoever the main guy who critiques people is, talking about having a flashlight and then dropping it on the ground to pull out his weapon. Now obviously for a flashlight you'll be able to see it on the ground to pick it up again when it's safe to do so, and you can of course mount lights on your weapon as well. However in this scenario the guy is sitting at a bench waiting on his wife, he could have just gotten a phone call, in several earlier scena

https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/the-atoms-at-ces-2020-is-a-personal-air-filter-that-straps-to-your-face/

https://whatsnew2day.com/atmos-faceware-makes-clean-air-an-expensive-accessory/

At $350 it's definitely on the expensive side, but as with anything you can expect price drops and knock offs after a few years.

Obviously 'better' is in quotes because everything has tradeoffs, without power this is probably nearly useless and with a 5 hour battery life that's not a huge time, but it's not terrible either for many events. The pros are

The company had its own research conducted, which showed that the mask offered better protection against particles than standard air filter mas

As the title says it's a blog post from SurvivalBlog about management by objectives (and touches on ICS) somewhat geared towards TEOTWAWKI considering it's example of inevitably taking in more people over time.

https://survivalblog.com/management-objective-teotwawki-planning-part-1-3ad-scout/

https://youtu.be/l-J_albLqO4

Seems relevant :)

https://course.hamradioprep.com/

So, got shown an ad for this on youtube and figured I'd share it since it seems cheap enough that someone might be interested.

Still I will say that I've watched some yt videos and taken some practice tests and while I haven't actually taken the test yet I feel confident I/you can absolutely get at least the technical exam passed entirely for free. Quite probably the general exam as well, though it is a bit harder from what I've studied already.

I have not taken this course myself, so I can't actually say it's "good" but if you're one of those who like a more gui

https://youtu.be/F2dcJ_cl34E

Well, IF I had known this was coming I'd have skipped the filtration video they just did, this one is far more interesting and probably more practical for prepping as opposed to SHTF gotta use whatever's around :)

Probably a bit less well known compared to sand-gravel filtration as well.

This seems to cover a number of possible food production woes, particularly insightful perhaps for those who are thinking they'll be able to wait until after SHTF to get started on such endeavors and that simply because they have a plan that means they have it well covered.

https://survivalblog.com/food-production-remote-home-mrs-alaska/

https://youtu.be/y9oRgfEJs8Y

I imagine pretty much everyone's seen, well perhaps not this particular video but one of the others that show layers of charcoal, sand, and gravel in a bottle to filter water + some iodine tablets, still /shrug why not share it.

What would be projects that require a number of different skills to encourage you to learn some basics?

was watching something and realized a printing press probably requires a fair bit of different skills from wood working and could easily use some basic metal working, actually printing books would of course require you to grow/harvest materials for paper, a cover, glue or string to bind it with, and of course some form of ink.

And most of it could probably be done in small steps instead of all at once and still be usable on their own. Paper can be hand written and used to start fires, ink... well if it was colored could maybe dye clothes I guess maybe not too many more uses except to thr