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Bo7a, to lemmyshitpost in Be amazed by the uses of Tech...

You might be bumfuck-nowhere-adjacent. But if you have DSL, fiber, or cable, you are not in bumfuck nowhere.

-Sent through my solar powered starlink connection from actual bumfuck nowhere. Where power lines don’t even exist.

Bo7a, (edited ) to memes in Would it be weird to light my entire home like this aisle?

Well then. Settle in. This story gets longer every time I type it.

Historically - my work has moved my wife and I around 2-3 times per year. Not just to different cities, but countries and even continents. At last tally we had lived in 8 cities in 3 countries across 2 continents, in ten years…

Then we got ‘stuck’ in Switzerland for 11 months due to covid lockdowns, on what was meant to be a three week trip, and I told myself I would never move again.

So when we got back to Canada I started looking in earnest for some cheap land to buy and just settle in. As it turned out, cheap land didn’t really exist anywhere with civilization, so we bought 6 acres of forest in the province of Quebec with a creek dividing it in half at the far end of a logging road 5km from any services.

When I say any services… I mean it. Our piece of land didn’t even have a driveway. So we started clearing small trees (we have a rule that any tree over 6-8inches in diameter earned their place, and we have to work around them) and got our travel trailer settled in.

We built some DIY solar to keep the lights on and phones/laptop charged. And I drove to the closest town each morning to check in with work and commit any changes I had made the night before and attend any meetings that couldn’t be converted into an email.

We then carved a few paths to get water from the creek, and dug an outhouse.

Over time we went from hauling buckets up from the creek and boiling them on the propane stove to do dishes and showered using bags hanging from a tree behind the trailer - to eventually having a gas pump and some garden hoses that we could fill the trailer’s tanks with.

Once we had the basics of cooking, heat, and waste taken care of I focused on building up the solar system to allow us to have actual internet service from Xplorenet satellite internet so that I could work from home instead of driving to town every day.

Then the work really started… Clearing land and building a small amish style shed (12ft X 28ft with a 4 ft screened in porch) and getting it insulated. We got the insulation done, and the woodstove installed just in time for the first big snow and moved into the tiny house from the trailer.

We then dug and installed our own septic system and built a 10x12 addition to act as a bathroom and put in an old clawfoot tub that we bought from an old guy on the side of the highway. I then set up a 12v PEX-based water system and propane camping water heater to service the bathtub and a kitchen sink.

It is primitive, and involves some prep every time we need hot water. But it is getting improved all the time.

At this point the hoses from the creek would freeze rapidly, so we replaced the system with two 1000litre IBC totes that live up against the house so we could fill them both up and put the hoses away instead of having to pump water daily.

After about 16 months of this weird 1880s lifestyle with internet access the power company finally agreed to come hook us up. And then life changed massively again.

We could now run our desktop computers, put immersion heaters in our water tanks, and generally spend less time worrying about things freezing or waiting for the sun to charge enough battery to run the vacuum cleaner.

I’m forgetting about 99% of the details here. I suppose at this point I should be turning this into a blog or a post somewhere… But that will have to wait for a time when daily life isn’t so much physical effort. I can barely afford the time to shitpost and leave snarky comments that I do now :p

This coming Spring will be time for a water well and starting the housing for a few chickens, ducks, and a goat or three.

Some Photo Evidence

Early Days: Early Days

House Firewood Storage and Bathroom Built: Rear of house with bathroom

“Front” of the house actually faces the forest not the driveway. Backwards… Like me! Front of House

Winter beauty - Why I put up with the cold! https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/d0532c38-0ebf-4e40-b958-260d217f4e74.png

Summer Solace - Why I put up with the heat and bugs… https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/fe538f09-8ce2-4c6c-8dbb-e5c1a09fef2a.png

And last but not least - The lights that brought me to this thread. Ignore the vapour barrier ceiling and unfinished walls. I’m working on it! Solar Lights as indoor lighting

Bo7a, to piracy in Uhhh oh

You don’t get to decide what is a slur. Go away.

Bo7a, (edited ) to memes in Would it be weird to light my entire home like this aisle?

Our little house in the forest started out fully off-grid for the first year. As a result of that our ceiling lighting is actually 4 strands of solar garden lights wrapped around the rafters.

It isn’t as bright as this aisle. But it is 100 individual leds strung up semi-randomly and has a similar feel.

Bo7a, to piracy in Uhhh oh

It sure seems like you’re in here trying to enforce your personal opinion that the word people are using is a slur.

Bo7a, (edited ) to memes in You can even leave your doors unlocked and let your guard down.

Yeah, stores suck. Town days are the worst part of living in the middle of nowhere!

Bo7a, (edited ) to piracy in Uhhh oh

This is not evidence that the term is a slur.

This is the definitions of words which most everyone in this thread certainly already knew, strung together with your opinion that they are connected.

While this has been somewhat entertaining, I don’t think I’ll continue to feed your delusions any further.

I will not be replying again. Goodbye.

Bo7a, to memes in *clamp clamp*

How long before the repost with ‘Whoa Black Betty’ as the caption?

Bo7a, to asklemmy in What's the point of buying new phones every years?

Foldable

Iron out the kinks

I don’t know if this was intentional, but if it was not, you’re a goddamn comedic genius.

Bo7a, to memes in Would it be weird to light my entire home like this aisle?

It is all of those things, for sure.

The chipmunks who will climb onto my lap to eat and the blue jays who scream every morning if I don’t bring them their breakfast, are the perfect balance for dealing with human problems at work.

Bo7a, (edited ) to memes in You can even leave your doors unlocked and let your guard down.

Oh, I know!

I live in the middle of a forest in the middle of nowhere. After living in over 20 cities in 4 countries, over 13 years - I am very done with city life. We started out here with a patch of untouched forest and lived the first 14ish months fully off-grid. I’m talking like - getting water from the creek in buckets and chopping down enough trees to make room for our trailer to live in off-grid.

We have mains power and starlink now, but remote is definitely the right word for our situation. The nearest human is about 5km away most of the year, with the occasional hunter in the fall and camper in the summer.

Now all I need to do is build another shed so that we can buy two big freezers and take the town trip frequency down to quarterly instead of monthly :)

Bo7a, to dadsplain in I got a present for father's day ❤️

Nothing like free add-vise.

Bo7a, to piracy in Uhhh oh

Care to provide any of that? Because so far all I have seen is your opinion, and a bunch of people disagreeing.

Bo7a, to memes in Would it be weird to light my entire home like this aisle?

Chipmunk tax! This is my best chippie friend. Her name is Apple. Apple loves peanuts, and I love apple!

Chipmunk Tax

Also - My wife is a wet-on-wet oil painter, so bob ross really fits :)

Bo7a, to memes in Would it be weird to light my entire home like this aisle?

Very rarely. There are a few other people building cabins on the same logging road now. But not many that come out more than a few weekends per year.

We also have cameras at the end of our quite long driveway. So we get notifications before they actually make it onto the land.

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