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[1380.40 --> 1383.74] And we have spent a lot of time in a lot of different places. |
[1383.84 --> 1386.60] We've eventually settled on Vermont as a place. |
[1387.52 --> 1396.98] So about two or three months ago, we closed our sale or our purchase on 40 acres of completely raw land in central Vermont. |
[1397.86 --> 1401.88] And when I say raw land, this is literally like trees and dirt. |
[1402.14 --> 1403.30] There really is nothing there. |
[1403.30 --> 1404.66] It's a hill with some trees on it. |
[1404.84 --> 1405.90] You know, you can say it. |
[1405.90 --> 1406.86] You can be honest. |
[1407.30 --> 1408.70] It's a hill with some trees on it. |
[1409.74 --> 1410.70] It really is. |
[1410.90 --> 1412.34] And there is not a lot there. |
[1412.64 --> 1416.14] But when we went into this, we had some very specific requirements of what we wanted. |
[1416.74 --> 1418.58] We didn't want to be in a city or a town. |
[1418.66 --> 1419.92] We wanted to be somewhere more rural. |
[1419.92 --> 1426.52] And one of the things that made that requirement a little bit more challenging is we said a must-have is fiber internet. |
[1427.12 --> 1433.54] So even though we're in the middle of nowhere in central Vermont, we will have 800 meg symmetric fiber to the property. |
[1434.08 --> 1434.48] You bastard. |
[1434.92 --> 1436.02] Good for you, man. |
[1436.20 --> 1436.90] Nicely done. |
[1438.06 --> 1439.48] In the woods with fiber? |
[1439.62 --> 1440.26] Yes, please. |
[1440.76 --> 1441.08] Yeah. |
[1441.24 --> 1443.68] So we are now at the start of this journey. |
[1443.98 --> 1446.24] Last week, we had our driveway put in. |
[1446.24 --> 1453.40] We're building the house site about 1,000 feet back from the road, and building that driveway was just beyond what Diana and I could possibly take on. |
[1453.84 --> 1454.10] I don't know. |
[1454.16 --> 1455.46] I've been watching your videos, dude. |
[1455.56 --> 1459.12] You have been felling trees like a proper lumberjack. |
[1459.42 --> 1460.74] It's really impressive. |
[1461.36 --> 1463.18] There's a lot of new skills that we're picking up. |
[1463.52 --> 1475.88] It's kind of surreal to, like today, I was out there with a chainsaw working on the property and then came home writing a blog post, compiling some stuff and working on some programming and some automations and things. |
[1475.88 --> 1480.38] It's a very surreal kind of contrast, I guess, between the two things. |
[1480.74 --> 1482.16] What a cool existence there, huh? |
[1482.50 --> 1483.60] Yeah, we have a lot of fun doing it. |
[1483.96 --> 1490.82] And how great that you have the RV there with you with all this stuff kind of done and now taking care of itself so you can focus on other stuff. |
[1491.10 --> 1491.74] Yeah, exactly. |
[1491.96 --> 1502.38] And in many ways, this house that we want to build, it should probably go without saying that we want to have a load of smart technology in there and things and obviously self-host a lot of things inside there. |
[1502.38 --> 1508.38] The RV in many ways has been our test lab and still continues to be our test lab for a lot of those things. |
[1508.88 --> 1520.48] So even though we're running with just like one little Intel NUC and could serve that all with like a little travel router and would probably be fine in here, we sort of push the boundaries to learn some of the things we might need for the house. |
[1521.06 --> 1521.90] The RV is staging. |
[1522.32 --> 1523.34] It basically is, yeah. |
[1523.34 --> 1529.22] I'm sure you're already daydreaming of ideas for the new house, but this is something you get to build from scratch. |
[1529.34 --> 1532.32] So I imagine you're thinking Ethernet throughout. |
[1532.54 --> 1535.04] You're already picturing a spot where you'll probably run a server. |
[1535.18 --> 1540.90] Walk us through a little bit of what you're now considering now that you got a crack to build something from scratch, even if it is a bit off. |
[1541.34 --> 1542.40] I'm learning so much. |
[1542.46 --> 1547.24] And I think the community around the self-hosted Discord and things has been a fantastic resource already. |
[1547.24 --> 1551.20] As I learn more, I keep evolving my plans. |
[1551.44 --> 1564.40] But some of the things that I've picked up so far are things like if you want to run your own hardware, there's usually a tradeoff of like heat and noise and cost and power efficiency in these things. |
[1565.06 --> 1568.12] We've learned so much about resource management in the RV. |
[1568.28 --> 1570.20] We want to have a completely net zero house. |
[1570.20 --> 1581.64] We're trying to build a passive house and hit the living building challenge, which are a set of requirements that basically mean a very, very high quality, sustainable, comfortable home. |
[1582.08 --> 1586.10] How do I now then host servers and things within that is kind of the challenge. |
[1586.84 --> 1593.54] So one of the things that we're going to do because we're self-building, the priority is to get utilities onto the property. |
[1593.54 --> 1603.96] So electricity and fiber, bring those up the driveway, make sure we've got our solar and our batteries installed, bring the well truck up and dig a well, all those sorts of things. |
[1604.28 --> 1606.16] I love that water came after internet. |
[1606.50 --> 1607.46] I noticed that too. |
[1608.04 --> 1612.92] Someone asked us a few days ago if we had a phone line at the property and I'm like, I have no idea. |
[1613.12 --> 1613.98] I have never checked. |
[1614.94 --> 1616.50] No, why would you? |
[1616.64 --> 1618.36] Yeah, it's gone now. |
[1618.36 --> 1625.54] But no, so because we need to bring those things on and get them done quickly, most people would put those in a basement. |
[1626.28 --> 1629.12] But to have a basement implies you already got a house and we don't. |
[1629.66 --> 1645.24] So we're actually going to build a separate standalone mechanical building, bring all of the utilities into there, which gives us this big advantage that we've then got a separate building where noise and environmental controls can be tailored to whatever we want inside. |
[1645.24 --> 1649.12] And that's where we're going to run all of our servers and switches and all that kind of stuff. |
[1649.26 --> 1651.20] And it can be as loud as it wants to be. |
[1651.84 --> 1652.52] It doesn't matter. |
[1652.90 --> 1654.96] We can then have a separate building for that. |
[1655.58 --> 1655.60] Right. |
[1655.64 --> 1657.14] With an ethernet cable going to the house. |
[1657.66 --> 1664.40] So that's where you're going to put all your solar batteries and inverters and electric grid tie off points. |
[1665.22 --> 1665.66] Exactly. |
[1666.26 --> 1668.28] So it'll have as much power as it needs. |
[1668.28 --> 1675.78] We're thinking because the property is quite large, the distances between some of the buildings could also therefore be quite large. |
[1676.08 --> 1679.02] For example, we want to run cameras along the driveway. |
[1679.56 --> 1682.34] We're sort of pushing the limits of what ethernet can do. |
[1682.58 --> 1693.90] So we're then probably going to run fiber as a backbone between the buildings and run fiber from the road to the house site and then our own fibers back down to the road and then tap in there. |
[1694.46 --> 1694.94] Might as well. |
[1694.94 --> 1700.90] And at this stage, and if you're building this property in 2021, actually fiber does seem like a pretty smart way to go. |
[1700.98 --> 1702.12] It sort of future proofs it a bit. |
[1702.54 --> 1703.06] Yeah, exactly. |
[1703.34 --> 1706.58] And it's one of those things where we have a YouTube channel. |
[1706.92 --> 1709.54] We're moving around big media files all the time. |
[1710.52 --> 1716.60] And so having an ability to do that at greater than one gig speed is something that we would actually really find valuable. |
[1717.26 --> 1718.94] Can I rent some space in your mech room? |
[1720.88 --> 1721.06] Yeah. |
[1721.34 --> 1722.92] Forest data center, colo hosting. |
[1723.02 --> 1723.80] I can see it now. |
[1723.80 --> 1725.76] Vermont Rural, yeah. |
[1726.00 --> 1726.22] Yeah. |
[1726.32 --> 1727.64] What did we coin it on Discord? |
[1727.84 --> 1729.80] VT Rural, like AWS do. |
[1731.76 --> 1732.72] That's pretty great. |
[1733.30 --> 1738.76] That sounds like almost exactly, although at a larger scale and distance than what I had vision. |
[1738.76 --> 1749.12] My ultimate goal for RV Lady Joops would be to park her on a piece of property that we've bought with a shed that has solar. |
[1749.32 --> 1749.98] It has the inverter. |
[1750.10 --> 1750.80] It has the batteries. |
[1751.64 --> 1753.04] Maybe it has a washer and dryer in it. |
[1753.04 --> 1761.28] And it has some on-premises servers that have been, you know, theoretically syncing over Starlink or something with media ready to go or whatever. |
[1761.60 --> 1766.16] And I love the idea of separating out the noisy stuff into its own building. |
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