In a power outage scenario, you're gonna be saving your mobile battery for more necessary requirements. The geeks can wait a few days for their new kernel version.

That doesn't sound like Linus Torvalds.

Are you thinking of Stallman? He's the one that's always on his laptop: https://rms.sexy/ (not nsfw)

Cell towers need power too.

In India, a mobile operator was/is second highest diesel buyer.

Ok: How do you charge your device?

A generator is the obvious answer.

Or a battery. It's weird that everyone that replied forgot about batteries.

How do you recharge your batteries?

With bigger batteries.

In terms of complete house power - Batteries are fantastic for a small size use case, but economically difficult in large size. I have 42kwh of battery storage (Enphase), plus 20kw of Solar generation, but that combined is not enough to cover a complete power outage longer than 24-36 hours in stormy weather. The cost of that system is well more than 10 times the cost to get a generator that can do the entire house (22kw Generac for example).

Beyond just the charging (lol), whatever happened to allowing inclement weather to slow life down for a few days? Snow days are the universe forcing you to take a break.

What's funny? You charge with batteries. Everyone has batteries these days.

> Everyone has batteries these days

No. And definitely not ones that charge a laptop as those can cost 10x as much.

How many batteries you need for a week?

It uses power like everything else.

Torvalds can't afford a battery? An M process can probably last for several days with an external battery.

You think he does Linux builds on a Mac?

I naturally think he should use what allows him to develop -- in the winter.

He does a lot of builds during the merge process on some Threadripper machine.

Spotted my manager right here.

How would he procure a 4G/5G laptop, batteries, a generator, and gasoline if he doesn't have any, can't drive, and has no internet?