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  • Anyone that is genuinely interested in doing this should move north.

    I moved to the Yukon in 2011, I know dozens of yukoners and Alaskans living off grid. Decades without buying meat or vegetables, building their own log cabins, etc.

    One lady I met in her 50s had just worked as a cook in a mining camp for 8 weeks, and she was disappointed - that was the most she had ever worked in a year.

    by testing22321
  • I love hundred rabbits. Their blogs make me want to get a bunch of old thinkpads, solar panels and buy a sailboat.
    by lifeisloving
  • Interesting that donsol[0] looks at least superficially similar to scoundrel[1][2] which I've also implemented as a (much simpler and completely unpolished) online game[4]. That game was one of the last public things I've built that wasn't more or less LLM-generated, and it feels a bit nostalgic. I liked building small simple stuff like that myself. Also, Gleam was a joy to work with.

    Edit: On closer investigation, it is almost exactly like scoundrel.

    0: https://100r.ca/site/donsol.html

    1: http://www.stfj.net/art/2011/Scoundrel.pdf

    2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt2tYzM93h4

    4: https://munksgaard.me/scoundrel/

    by Munksgaard
  • I think they’d rather this isn’t shared to HN.

    https://merveilles.town/@neauoire/117405811781851569

    > I was wondering why I was getting death threats again, right, HN front-page. Thanks guys

    by latexr
  • I greatly enjoyed reading their sail log crossing the Pacific Ocean, very poignant and down to earth: https://100r.co/site/busy_doing_nothing.html
    by remywang
  • They are living in their dream and doing incredible work.

    a recent interview: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x8yKp1qdWh8&pp=ygURZGV2aW5lIGx...

    by cavoirom
  • I liked the part in their log where they took apart an old hat to figure out how to make a new one and compared clothing to open-source software. It seems like the same philosophy behind everything they build. Being able to understand, repair, and recreate the things you depend on.
    by newtypecola
  • Absolutely no hate to these people - their projects are very interesting, and if this is how you want to live by all means do it!

    But i gotta say, living off grid is fundamentally solipsist. Abandoning society rather than attempting to live well within society will always be a dead end. Imo. It’s easy to say you’ll go it alone, but staying and improving it for not just yourself but for everyone else is more valuable.

    by kennywinker

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