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[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 93 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Running water would be nice

[–] npdean@lemmy.today 43 points 6 days ago (7 children)
[–] rayyy@piefed.social 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

In the winter you freeze your ass while in the summer the smell will floor you.

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[–] Beacon@fedia.io 34 points 6 days ago (18 children)

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 ...

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 days ago

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.

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[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think that comes from the roof.

(water incursion is a huge source of anxiety; this place is NOT for me)

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[–] geekwithsoul@piefed.social 40 points 6 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I absolutely recommend touching the book. The flesh binding and esoteric runes are metal AF and look good on the coffee table.

[–] derfunkatron@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

Just remember that you must say these words exactly when removing the book from its cradle: Klaatu barada nikto.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Okay, I'm drawing a line in the fucking sand, here. Do not read the Latin.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

Yea but if a tree falls on it, its going to survive the impact. Which is kind of important in the woods.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Tree falls on your log cabin — now you just have more house.

- Mitch Hedberg

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[–] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Been living like this for over a decade in south east asia and its incredible. Got all of my tech gadgets, 1gbps, jungle, beach, rescue dogs and occasional road trip to the city. If you can earn 3k usd/mo remotely you can have all of this too!

[–] MyNamesTotallyRobert@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 days ago

I am using 4G today for internet and its totally fine.

[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (5 children)

As someone who lives out in those boonies in the middle of a forest, (groceries are a mere 100 mile round trip. I did that yesterday), the internet has had a funny journey here. We pretty much went from dialup to fiber, sometimes it's good to be last. We've had fiber now for 6 or 7 years. While it's only 2.4G, still fast enough for most people. But weather can make internet and electricity somewhat spotty as winds can blow trees over and the lights go out.

But we still very much behind on cell service. Due to the trees and and hills, towers can be far and few between. Many places have poor to no service. I can sometimes get a text message out in my yard, but making a phone call isn't happening. And most places I forage or hunt in have no service at all. If I have a heart attack, ain't no one dialing 911 for me unless they use the land line in the house. Weirdly enough there is one spot one the lake I live on that I can get 5G. It seems to be about a 200 yard circle.

What all of these swaive, 'fisticated, and urbane Ubanites will miss is the "quality of life" they are used to. "Fun things" like movies, concerts, plays, shopping, fine dining, are either miles and miles away or non-existent. Best we can do for you is Brodini being in town for a one Saturday afternoon comedy magic show in the summer. And for shopping, you can always use Amazon and wait a week or two for the shipping.

But I get to sit here this morning, breathing in the smoke from the Canadian forest fires, (we are not quite in the promised orange yet today), and drink my tea over looking a quiet lake and listen to the loon out in front of my house. I think it takes a special mind set to live like this. And most people don't have it because they don't know anything different.

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[–] pharceface@retrolemmy.com 4 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago

too many spiders

[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Nah, this and a laptop with 16TB.

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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 days ago

Why would it need fast internet? Fairly slow internet would be fine, stick a 4G antenna on the roof and I would be fine with that.

[–] halvar@lemy.lol 5 points 6 days ago

dont doxx my mind pls

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