I do not at the moment, but I agree that I need to start writing about my off-grid and battery-powered (mis-)adventures. Most of my battery management is bespoke hardware and I’d love to share it.
I also do not want to highlight the creepy side of remote living because that just attracts the wrong type of attention.
Yes, it would be very interesting. For people like myself, living in parts of Europe where there’s no real off-grid wilderness, it’s fascinating to hear about. Particularly when it’s not paired with a) prepper/conspiracy mentalities or b) gear-obsessed content.
Yeah, I’m the western US which is very sparsely populated by comparison to the eastern half of the US[0] or Europe in general. Waaaay too much of off grid information is focused on preppers and I’ve even been accused of being one. Can’t someone just want a cabin to visit for leisure?
I never appreciated how easy it is for me to find very remote wilderness until I started traveling to other places both in and outside the US. I can take a major US highway over Donner pass, a place that 175 years ago, people were eating each other because they got stuck without food. Now, CalTrans has a fleet of equipment and staff that work 24/7 to keep the road clear 99.9% of the time.
> Waaaay too much of off grid information is focused on preppers and I’ve even been accused of being one.
I feel your pain, every US "prepper" related material I've read or watched leaves me with a hanging "and ...?" or "so... ?"
I'm 60, my father, still alive and splitting wood, was born in 1935 - we're both from the remote corners of western australia, a state 3x the size of Texas with a 2023 population of ~ 2 million most of whom are concentrated about the single large city.
In the mid 1980s a group of people came in from the western desert and were suprised to find that Europeans had landed in Australia and over run the continent ... it was the first they'd heard of such a thing although they had wondered about the contrails across the sky.
