• hOrni@lemmy.world
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    Yah. But also with heat, running water, AC, a convenience shop nearby and some friends. So basically what I already have minus a job.

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      You don’t need A/C.

      Source: I live in Wyoming.

      Edit: I meant that you don’t need A/C in a cottage like the one pictured, not that A/C is unnecessary altogether. I used to live in Texas. No A/C will literally kill you in Texas, but in a wooded mountain cottage surrounded by trees like that, you don’t really need it. In my house in WY, the hottest it ever gets inside is 78 with low humidity. Below is the current temp in my room, with computers running, at 2:22PM.

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        All depends on the climate your in, and the insulation of your house. You can build houses which don’t need AC even in hot places by going underground or making earth ships. Yet with traditional construction and insulation in many places AC is almost required. Pretty efficient anyway, just a heat pump.

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    We basically have this in Ireland. Only instead of a log cabin its an old cottage in the middle of nowhere.

    An old cottage with a gigabit connection.

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    Lived like that for a while (but with a working shower and not-so-fast internet). 10/10 would recommend. Will do again when I’m done with $CURRENT_LIFE_ISSUES.

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      A composting toilet is all I want and need.

      • No clogging
      • No splashing
      • No waste of water
      • No smell

      I always hate to use a plumbed toilet when we visit friends or family.

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        Do u mean 2 sticks and a hole in the ground type of outhouse? 1 stick to put your pants on and second one to fight off bears while u poop?

  • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world
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    You want Norway, Sweden and Finland. You can get fast internett pretty much anywhere and a large portion of the countries are just forest. I actually met a guy in Troms who is the only year round resident of an island that has two ferries a week if you book ahead of time and he has fast internett, as well as a lovely vegetable garden and a plentiful supply of fish.

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    Would like a variant on this, the bugs and darkness of the woods would drive me insane:

    • On a field, farming optional
    • Add a soldering station, solar panels, well with pump, and septic tank
    • Perimeter tripwires and defense (nobody’s coming to help if something happens)
    • Tornado shelter with medical supplies and a healthy supply of 3D filament

    And I’ll finally be able to complete everything on my bucket list that doesn’t involve travelling.

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    I’d love a stone or brick built eco build version with full insulation, solar & battery supplemented with and ground or air source heat pumps. I saw that dream house on my last winter trip to Scotland. My sense of making it!

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    meh, I’m too anxious and would end up fitting a bunch of security in and on the house

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    I’ve lived out in the rural before. I’d only do it again if there was a pharmacy that was open more than 9-5 mon-fri within a reasonable driving distance, a grocery store, and at least one good restaurant close by (it’s nice to be removed from other but boy does cooking for yourself every meal get old fast).

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          We have to kids and cook every day. We have about 12 dishes we cycle through, plus a new dish every couple of weeks. Plan for a week and shop for it accordingly.

          Before the kids i would go to the local supermarket, that, regardless of the city i lived in, never was more than 10 Minutes away by foot. I’d figure out what i was feeling like cooking once i was

          But it is nice to have other options, like ordering food, for the very lazy and very stressful days. This i would give up for a nice place in nature though.

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    Sometimes I wish I could understand why people want this. I grew up in the middle of nowhere and it’s taught me that some REALLY fucked up things can be visited upon you by the 2 or 3 neighbors you have living 20 miles away and not even guns can save you.

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      Well there’s two different things that people who relate to this picture may want: either the nature or the solitude (sometimes both); for the second, part of the fantasy is that they would never have to deal with anyone.

      In reality what people want may be completely different, but the picture passes the message better.

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        either the nature or the solitude

        i think this is why i don’t get it: growing up in the middle of nowhere taught me that nature can fuck you over in an instant multiple times and living in suburbia gave me a cold & painful dose of reality when it comes to solitude.

        i suppose it looks nice if you’ve never experienced enough of the dark sides of nature and solitude.

        • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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          I used to live alone in the forest like that and I loved it. I can’t wait to move back.

          Yeah, nature can fuck me over but as long as I don’t have to deal with anyone I’ll manage.

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        it’s the same story as it is every where capitalism is in charge: rich people want to get richer by taking land that isn’t theirs; they get the local gov’t to cut off water and salt the land to make people leave; then people leave.

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      My vote is for non-ai. Look at those rocking chairs. They actually make sense. Even the best image models would trip up on complex geometry like that. Also the window on the top right. You can see through to the window on the opposite side of the cabin and see some of the green foliage through it. It looks very “abrupt” in the sense that I don’t think that a model trying to come up with the most statistically likely image would just put a fragment of green in the window like that.