I have an off site backup that runs every 24 hours with rustic, for my important documents I archive with paperless. That's about it. If there is no energy anymore I give a shit on my Jellyfin collection but see how I can cook food. If I need to flee I may take an HDD with me, but only the important stuff.
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I would organize a group of bandits to raid small local communities.
You can’t. Ww3 will break the supply chain for advanced transistors since it takes 1000’s of diverse inputs to make them. They will simply stop existing. Prices will skyrocket.
A few years later, as age takes out what we have running and things like planes and farm equipment stop working we’ll need to rely on whatever we can source locally.
Sadly this won’t take ww3 to happen as anything can kick off supply chain disruption. The leading cause will be population decline leading to the inability to defend your own boarders. It’s going to be China first. Don’t believe me? look at population trends.
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Anything personally important data wise has a backup stored in a container that won't sustain liquid damage (and also acts as a faraday cage).
However, anything that is super-critical should the infrastructure around power, etc fail is just printed out as a physical copy on paper (first aid manuals, food cultivation/preparation techniques, how to construct and maintain water purification systems).
I'd argue that's one of the least overkill ways to handle potential media restictions and geopolitical/climate disasters in our age, since all you need is a printer and maybe one or two secure cases for backup storage drives.
My workplace has field-tested contingency plans to keep the business running when literally all IT systems and the office building are inaccessible. Which is kinda impressive for a local newspaper.
The goal is mostly to prepare for a ransomware attack, but parts of it were recently needed when the power to the building went out and the cooling system for the servers failed at the same time.
For my private life, I don't care. My IT stuff is only recreationaI.
I still have a radio, a DVD player, and books.