Unplug everything before the shutdown. Disconnect from the Internet for the entire day beforehand.
Don't let them force install anything.
Buy some metal pipe - a connector with two male ends and a couple end-caps. Put a flash drive with the most important info and red-pills you have in it and bury it 4 feet under. Don't seal with anything but metal, the thicker the better. (Faraday Cage).
All you really need to do is connect it to your house's grounding wire (or some houses will use the water line) or you can simply drive a 2' steel rod into the ground and attach a wire to it. Boom, grounded.
A "true" faraday cage, I believe, is charged constantly to prevent any signals from going in/out of it, but I figure the biggest real risk is an EMP burst, which grounding the metal casing should protect against
How long should we leave everything unplugged though? I mean I understand turning off internet etc, but at some point we will need to turn stuff back on?
Yeah, not how that works anyways. If anything an update would happen on reboot anyways. TV receivers download updates and install them on reboot, for the most part.
As for phones, turn off automatic updates. Turning off your stuff doesn’t do anything
The unplug is to avoid a power surge. They may try to burn out all devices. Even an ethernet cable caries a charge, and can fry some components if they prime it.
Anything can happen, like in a thunderstorm. Better safe than sorry.
Unplug everything before the shutdown. Disconnect from the Internet for the entire day beforehand.
Don't let them force install anything.
Buy some metal pipe - a connector with two male ends and a couple end-caps. Put a flash drive with the most important info and red-pills you have in it and bury it 4 feet under. Don't seal with anything but metal, the thicker the better. (Faraday Cage).
Microwave
You don't even need to bury it if you ground the pipe.
How does one go about grounding something like that?
Yell at it really loudly.
Works on my kids.
All you really need to do is connect it to your house's grounding wire (or some houses will use the water line) or you can simply drive a 2' steel rod into the ground and attach a wire to it. Boom, grounded.
A "true" faraday cage, I believe, is charged constantly to prevent any signals from going in/out of it, but I figure the biggest real risk is an EMP burst, which grounding the metal casing should protect against
How long should we leave everything unplugged though? I mean I understand turning off internet etc, but at some point we will need to turn stuff back on?
Yeah, not how that works anyways. If anything an update would happen on reboot anyways. TV receivers download updates and install them on reboot, for the most part.
As for phones, turn off automatic updates. Turning off your stuff doesn’t do anything
Yea after reading this thread I'm gonna unplug my TV and computer. Is it time to put on my tin foil hat yet?
The unplug is to avoid a power surge. They may try to burn out all devices. Even an ethernet cable caries a charge, and can fry some components if they prime it.
Anything can happen, like in a thunderstorm. Better safe than sorry.
Incredibly unlikely for a surge through an Ethernet cable to be capable of killing anything.
More likely if your gateway or router is POE (power over Ethernet) capable, I guess.
i have had my on board ethernet adapter burn out from a lighning strike more than once , for some reason it never happens to the plug in cards.