Take your time and find yourself and your place.

I feel it took me longer than most to find my place in life, but looking back everything I did in life lead up to this. It’s really special to finally get here. But I also took my own pace to get here, and thats not a problem at all.

I have a nice community built on discord, as soon as they announced the age verification thing I made a post.

if they pop up that for me, I’m not coming back to discord, here is other ways to contact me. I added a matrix server and signal chat, etc as a list of alternatives.

I try to work as little as possible. I value happiness and spending time with loved ones and friends.

I spent many years working 110% and getting taken advantage of at several jobs. It wasn’t worth it and didn’t make me happy.

I may live frugally and near the poverty line, but I’m happy as can be.

I can see maybe the parent of a child seeing games as unproductive.

But as an adult it’s a good way to unwind like listening to good music or watching a movie. As long as it’s only for a few hours though, as games can go on and on and on. Some people over do it, and some people have even died from lack of food or breaks.

I really enjoy games, buy them whenever I see them at the thrift stores if I don’t already have the game. Now I have many thousands of games, and no worry about the game companies taking them away from me because these are physical.

I ran a 7 days to die server for a few years, fun to do missions with a lot of friends, and build bases and stuff.

We VALUE your privacy, by selling your info to our 2,569 partners.

AI uses so much power just to give a slop answer, VS having an actual algorithm providing useful info for a fraction of power.

Oh that’s good to know. Thanks!

I feel like 6-7 is just another version of the made you look hand gesture.

Ventoy is great, it’s my go to tool, boots on basically everything (even my MacBook) but… wasn’t there a scare about possibly being compromised because it builds itself from hundreds of modules on github or something like that?

I bought some gold a few years ago, the price has gone up quite a lot since. I invested in small little pieces recovered from a lake somewhere. I figured it’s easier to barter with a tiny piece than a huge coin or bar of gold. It’s only a small part of my portfolio. I decided to invest in a mix of stuff, as you never really know the future. A little bit of cryptos, gold, silver, bullets, canned foods, solar panels, batteries, rain catchment and containers, etc. I also worked on my survival skills, tool skills, crafting skills, etc. it’s a huge way to barter with people when you have skills they need. The biggest thing I invested in is raw land in the middle of nowhere. The land has an RV and working on systems to gather water, power, etc. 99% of the stuff will be solar powered, but we do have a diesel heater, it doesn’t use much fuel as we only use it when it’s really cold.

I think gold is just one of the many things needed to survive if things collapsed. If it’s even needed. It’s just one of those things that makes me feel better as an insurance / just in case. But I feel the other things I have done will make a bigger difference if it ever comes down to it.

I was so pissed off when that company bought stumbleupon and trashed it. I hunted and searched for an alternative and nothing was ever the same. It was a huge death blow to the internet I loved. 😭😭😭

I was really sketched out with my BLI-KVM. I had a server that was off, when I booted it the bios was in Chinese. Although someone did say that motherboard had a flaw that would do that, I wasn’t Sure if it was the KVM or the motherboard, but still…

Thank you, I added that to a list of printers to look at.

Yes, printers suck.

I’m sure that would fix it, but I went with buying a rollo, hopefully that just works. Thank you for your advice!

I was sure the zebra used its own proprietary stuff, that’s why I got 2 more modern no name printers hoping they would work. I was so fed up with the zebra not working after trying everything I found online.

I ended up buying a rollo printer. Thank you for your advice!

Most of The labels I print come directly from eBay. Sometimes I will have a PDF or JPG of a label to print. Those I click CTL-P and select the printer.

I did play with CUPS a ton, adding custom files, all that. Nothing worked. That’s why I bought 2 other no name label printers to see if those would work. But same issue.

I ended up buying a rollo printer, hopefully hay just works.

Thank you for your advice.

I do half of these and my neighbors do several of these too. What do you want? Want me to explain every dollar I make? Thats too personal.

There’s many ways, I have multiple income streams from several places.

Here are a few examples of income ideas:

Sell online

YouTube or twitch, only fans?

Do odd jobs for neighbors and the community

Sell at local swap meets, fairs, art shows

Air BNB

Sell eggs, meat, animals

Sell homestead tutorials, courses, online or in person

Remote teaching

Remote work, telemarketing

There’s tons of ways to make money from a homestead in the middle of nowhere.