Everyone's Dream

I legit almost had that dream. Used to live on the KY/TN border. Had 50 acres, half mile off the road and no neighbors. Right as I determined I was moving the local power company started their own fiber ISP. Brought fiber right up to the house.

Dpending on your definition of 'fast', you can pull this off with those newfangled 5G base station/routers.

Just gotta find a place near enough to a city, not too far into the boonies.

Cheaper than Starlink.

Fast enough to game to game on, unless there's some kind of serious servicd outage or massive weather storm of some kind.

Sometimes I get the vague sense that I've already seen a post in my /all view, but I don't think i've ever seen them back to back like this. Not even the title is different

Cross-posting as part of ongoing boycotting/protest efforts against .ml
- Sure, but:
  That doesn't excuse not even attempting a first-blush attempt at authoring even just the title yourself
  and
  Constantly reposing duplicates en-mass makes the experience way worse for those of us who don't have a personal vendetta against particular target lemmy instances and who haven't defederated with them out of spite or distaste
  do what you want but this is basically just petty vandalism

We all just want to be left alone, in some form or other. Ironically, in order to be left alone, we need to ban together.

You are absolutely right. Our world is imbalanced.
We are a social creature, we are such a social creature shaped by millions of years of cooperative survival, that we literally fall apart and die without social identity. We have "loneliness epidemics" while being more connected to each other than we could have ever imagined.
We desperately need social support, not just from friends and family but from communities. The whole "single family home" is a brand new concept in human society, we used to all live in villages where we knew each other, before that, huge tents and dugouts where we piled together and talked and cooked on fires together and shagged like animals day and night. We raised our kids as a community and nobody ever felt alone or adrift, and in fact being expelled from your community was one of the harshest punishments anyone could do to you.
So why are we all retreating to discord chats and AI text predictors? Why do we want to avoid our neighbors so desperately that we want to remove ourselves even further from our societies?
We are sad because we are alone, and we are alone because we are sad, and we have massive corporate machines pouring every placating, dopamine-numbing distraction down our gullets so we don't actually start hanging out and socializing and forming communities again. If we did that, we might start sharing ideas and motivations and we might start changing systems... can't have that! So best to keep reinforcing isolation. Show big, empty minimalist homes with huge TV screens as your "peak" goal in life, having isolated cabins in the woods with all the amenities as a measure of success. We run from people who think different instead of trying to convince them to be better and we argue with people ostensibly on our side and we get so stressed by it all that we do everything we can to turn off actual conscious, narrative thought.

So, the exurbs?

Well that and food. Might need food to survive.

Theres food in the forest, I'll need a oversized soaking tub.
- You gotta pick a fuckton of berries and hunt a lot of squirrels unless you have both the acres and knowledge to actually farm and homestead.

Running water would be nice

Find a stream, dig a well, set up a rain collection system, have a cistern / pump / filter.
Yep, its difficult, but not impossible.
People have been doing that for tens of thousands of years... though I will grant you this is increasingly, unrealistically difficult for an average person to pull off these days, even if you basically learn how to properly do all of it yourself, lots more legal restrictions, and construction/materials are costly.
And solar panels and a big battery for electricity. And a good sceptic system so i don't have to crap in a hole in the ground outdoors 500 feet away from my house. And a good general store in easy driving distance. And a powerful 4x4 vehicle that can get down to the main road even when the giant driveway path is very muddy or covered in 5 feet of snow. And a decent medical facility not too far away so when a health problem arises i don't lose a limb that could've been saved. And a post office not too far away so i can get packages delivered. And and and ...
- I'd rather have a store within biking / fat biking / skiing / hiking distance to be less reliant on a car. Maybe some electric mobility option like an e-skidoo / ebike.
- A poo bucket is not nearly as bad as it sounds. (Saw dust and distance keep the smell down.)
  Otherwise, great list.
- Sounds like Jackson Hole would be perfect! Hope you're a billionaire...
And a sewer system
- In the winter you freeze your ass while in the summer the smell will floor you.
- Which only exists in a city
I think that comes from the roof.
(water incursion is a huge source of anxiety; this place is NOT for me)
- That roof looks very modern though. I don't think there's any more of a risk of water incursion from the roof than any other house
and air conditioning

Whenever this get posted people comment about ACKTUALLY this is bad because no food/water/electricity or whatever but I think we're missing the point. If you magically woke up one day and had rightful ownership of this land and this house, presumably getting out of paying housing costs or rent, well, if that happened to me that would be the highest point of my life so far. Solving the problems of all the other stuff you wouldn't have is still a more realistically solvable problem than trying to make a sustainable income in the face of rigged housing costs in this absolute clown show of a society we live in.

Honestly, I'd be ecstatic with owning any property right now....
The fact that I'm not only not alone in this, but the sentiment is held by a statistically significant percentage of people.... That is the problem.

Just don't touch the book or listen to the audio tape you find in the cellar.

Okay, I'm drawing a line in the fucking sand, here. Do not read the Latin.
- Do not read the Latin.
I absolutely recommend touching the book. The flesh binding and esoteric runes are metal AF and look good on the coffee table.
- Just remember that you must say these words exactly when removing the book from its cradle: Klaatu barada nikto.
Don't tell me what to do! 😤

Nah, I still want to live in a community. Just not the fake community we have now.

Also, log cabin homes are bad. The one pictured has the internal space of an efficiency apartment, but uses far more logs of wood to get a much draftier result. You could get a lot of 2x4s out of this thing.

Drafty? You know they put isolation between the logs right?
By not opening the logs, you don't invite moisture to the wood either. If you made them into 2x4's and didn't treat them, you'd have rot within a few years. It's not exactly a coincidence that log cabins where the norm where you had enough wood to support them.
Yea but if a tree falls on it, its going to survive the impact. Which is kind of important in the woods.
- Tree falls on your log cabin — now you just have more house.
  Mitch Hedberg
- Native Americans came up with plenty of dwellings using the same materials in the same environment. Most of those were far less wasteful. Trees falling are not that common.

Pass, I like being able to walk to the store and concerts and stuff. Maybe with the hydroponics and aeroponics boom everybody can just live in a city and leave nature alone?

In theory cities are more efficient, than living off-grid, I agree.
In reality though if you're really careful and know what you're doing (and are really disciplined and have educated yourself), you can live a true carbon neutral life.
All the infrastructure in cities and everything around modern life is just destructive in so many ways unfortunately...
And unfortunately the mass of people don't care enough, to initiate the necessary systemic changes to make cities truly sustainable...
- Reminds me of that guy from the Good Place who ran a snail rehab.

too many spiders

Nah, this and a laptop with 16TB.

Ans offline backups for different wikis and game roms for many gens of consoles and handhelds.

Absolutely not. I was doing Spanish learning on an app and laughed at the guy who moved from "una casa oscura en las afueras" to "un apartmento soleado en el centro" (from the dark and gloomy house in the outskirts to the sunny apartment in the center of town) and raised his spirits because that is also the way I feel about living.

dont doxx my mind pls

I guess starlink is your only choice then? Or some other ISP that can extort you, since its your only option in the countryside?

Could meshtastic reach 56K?
I live in the city and still only have one option that extorts me. Yeehaw.

Nah, fuck this. This isolationist mentality from larpers is what lead us to this fucking mess. This is fucking terrible, and people shouldn't be living in this shit, and 99% of those who tried know it.

😂 poor little guy. What would you even do without DoorDash?!
There's no way you could hack it, so there's absolutely no way many, (MANY) other people could!
Counterpoint: I tried and I want to leave this broken society even more now (especially since societal enshitification seems to even accelerate).
Though you still need social contacts (that you really like) to avoid loneliness, so in case you have that, it's a wonderful, peaceful and healthy way to live more in harmony with nature, but it's a lot of work nonetheless.
Damn. God forbid people romanticize having some peace and quiet.
- I mean yeah... cities aren't loud, cars are loud.
  I live in a village but between semi-trucks, loud motorcycles, and trucks with mufflers modified to be louder that you can hear from miles as they motor away... it's too loud for how much nowhere there is here, particularly during midday.

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So you can watch the world turn to fascism in 4k, and have your daily dose of ads and propaganda, while isolated in the woods.

Was more thinking for cartoons and porn. Ill observe the fascism in podcast form.
- I have a hard drive filled with this, no need to have a constant internet connection. Streaming is just being a slave to corporations.
  Maybe I'm just old, but I lived in the era of dial-up where downloading MP3s at 4.5 kb/s was common, and you didn't want to have to download it again, so you kept it safe in a folder. Well, multiple decades later, I have multiple folders filled with multimedia.
- Ad-cartoons and facism-porn?