When internet outages like this happen, I have the sudden urge to go solar/cypher punk. 

Self host everything, all solar powered.
Own hard copies of all your entertainment. 
Grow your own food, build robots and use AI to help. 
P2P and E2EE everything

DX Engineer | DevRel at OpenZeppelin | Building orbiter.host & bhvr.dev | opinions are my own

im maybe halfway way there, it takes years to cultivate this lifestyle but i find the peace of mind very rewarding. me and my selfhost/smarthome would probably survive 2-4wks fully off grid with proper power rationing, long term target is 2-3mo.

i selfhost a modest rack in my closet, dozens of inhouse services, solar backup battery still WIP but i could keep the fridge cold and a single node running

4tb of video in jellyfin serves about 60% of the media i watch, adding 40tb disks WIP, plus an "apocalypse folder" with wikipedia, survival, medical texts

growing significant quantities of food is really hard and takes a lot of learned experience, but my hydroponic garden is a WIP research space and ill be ready to scale it up 20-40x in a few years

i don't have a p2p lora mesh or anything yet but im keeping an eye on the space.

im also working to fully integrate my campervan as an external site; van will run it's own solar, k8s, wifi, home assistant, iot, cctv, and jellyfin

the ladies and the gentlemen (and the rapidly deteriorating lawn)

Full-stack digital product consultant @ BoundCorp.net

fantastic questions!

1) it's kind of none of those insofar as they are popularly known - really i consider it my duty as a builder, SRE and DevSecOps is part of the vocation, uptime and observability is a *way of life* all the way down to your refrigerator - my calling is to build reliable services and that means selfhosting my IOT/CCTV instead of installing a Ring camera. i couldn't take myself seriously if my home security depended on Jeff Bezos. i think few people have the skills to fully liberate themselves, so it's important that i set an example.

2) community is everything! man imagine post-apoc me alone on my suburban block in my underwear with my handgun and a disk array full of 30 Rock - very bleak. sharing this with my community is a hard problem tho - 99% of people don't care, and for the rest, the docs and sauce are already OSS and available. i think the most important thing i can do is raise visibility, show up when builders talk about this, and say YES WE CAN!

Would you classify your efforts as more prepper, self-reliant, or something else? An individual like yourself with the right knowledge and motivation can make your own home self sustaining to some extent, but where does community come in? How do we make a more society-wide movement to build towards a future where our focus is more on people and nature vs consumption and gain?