Re: living without fridge or food preparation

Jill McQuown wrote:

On 3/30/2025 5:57 PM, Carol wrote:

Paul Edwards wrote:
 

"Carol" <cshenk@virginia-beach.com> wrote in message
news:vsc0g8$22630$1@dont-email.me...
 

Paul, look up Jackery units, minimum the 500w with the panels.
Portable but will cover laptop and charging cell phones.

 
Hi Carol.
 
Thanks for your reply, but that's not the direction I am
trying to go with minimalism. This is what I have:
 
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09H6GGK55
 
and it will fit in my backpack.
 
I am trying to organize things so that I can travel with just
a backpack.
 
While other people may attempt to "live off the land" by
hunting animals or whatever, as a computer programmer
I am trying to "live off the Sun".
 
I don't know if you're familiar with MSDOS, but I spent
a lot of effort to reproduce the equivalent of that on a
Smartphone. You can see it here:
 
 

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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cod5.pdos_pdandro&hl=en-US

 
(Robert is another person involved)
 
So I am attempting to adjust my "lifestyle" to conform to
the solar in my backpack, rather than organizing sufficient
solar to cater to my lifestyle.
 
You can add an external keyboard to a smartphone/tablet
so that you can touchtype.
 
While in the Philippines I spent 1-2 months living purely
off solar for my computing. But I had a 100W solar at the
time - portable via hand-carry, not backpack. And I used
an ARM-based laptop, the Pinebook Pro:
 
https://pine64.com/
 
with screen brightness turned way down. I had the brightness
very low on my smartphone too. And I can do other things
like restrict my computing to night time if necessary.
 
But I may be able to achieve the same thing with x64 which
has significant advantages for me. I have to run experiments.
 
Thanks for the pemmican suggestion too.
 
BFN. Paul.

 
Good luck!  What's the plan for the laptop?  Trying to fill a
powerbank of any size at 40w will be painful.

 
It's an odd wish considering food is the least consideration.  One
can live without computers but one cannot live without food.
 
Jill

I suspect he'll be at home and wandering maybe a week fairly nearby. 

Like I've contemplated renting a coach RV for a mini-staycation up at
First Landing about 15 miles from me.  Maybe travel down sandbrige
area.  Nothing long or hard.