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I love trains as much as the next nerd but that's a heck of a commitment haha

I think if I wanted to do the digital nomad thing I'd have to cheat on the nomad bit a little and have an anchor flat somewhere.. where else would I keep the NAS?!

As it stands my lil studio flat is 300/yr cheaper with all bills inc and has a coffee machine built into the (admittedly communal, but massive) kitchen. Plenty of caffeine, plenty of legroom!

If nothing else I'm sure we'd agree on remote working being amazing for finding the exact environment that suits you :)

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> digital nomad

> NAS

I think that is cheating on the nomad thing a lot a bit.

No more than using cloud services.

Cloud services are precisely the kind of thing that enable being a digital nomad. Having a permanent home so that you can keep your own NAS is almost the exact opposite of that.

You don't need a permanent home to own a NAS. Rent co-location space, rent a closet from a friend, rent space in your parent's house. You don't exactly need a livable amount of space to store a NAS.

It's no different than paying to use the servers your shit is stored on in some cloud service.

That's true, but that is not what the person I was responding to said, so...

a colo will host your nas in a virtual machine for €5 a month or in a physical machine for €30 a month. this includes the machine and internet connection. i think you'll have a hard time finding a studio flat in europe for under €150 a month

They put his yearly cost at ~9900€ which comes out to ~830€/mo. So 300€/mo cheaper would come out at around 530€/mo. At that price you could get a studio apartment in many cities or at least afford to live with 1-2 roommates.

at first i thought you meant corobo's nas was honking gigantic, but i think i misunderstood your intention

i think you are talking about lasse stolley rather than corobo

is that correct

if i understand correctly, stolley's €830/month includes not just lodging but also food, computer parts, hosting, and transportation. i spend less than that but that's because i live in argentina

Kind of ironic that the train is a colo for people. A mobile colo.

I'm looking to upgrade to a 2U apartment soon

Where do you find a flat that cheap? Genuine question, housing in the US is borked currently.

A small town (~70k pop) in the middle of England. Pre-covid the pay in local IT was quite a hindrance (£25k/yr is pretty much the average locally) but it's a great place to be now that remote work is a bit more normalised :)

Plenty of trails to walk or cycle, fields everywhere to shortcut through, decent train and motorway connections to the major cities on the rare occasion I do need to be on-site.

There's even a castle to explore within walking distance :)

Wherever the pay is proportionally lower. If people are making 1500 bucks then charging them 2000 won't work.

Well, if you have parents (he definitely has them at 17) or other relatives, you can ask them to host your hardware for some thank you payment (can be just the benefit of having PiHole for free). Or that could be some friend as well.

Behind everyone with an alternative lifestyle is someone with a traditional one. Guess I'm the sucker who hosts Thanksgiving.

> where else would I keep the NAS?!

In a colocation?

I mean, I guess I get what you are trying to say, by the NAS is the least compelling reason to keep an address somewhere.

Well yeah I was making a little bit of a joke there. It's also a handy place to keep the rest of my stuff, receive letters, use as an address for banks, sleep in known comfort, all the good stuff that comes with having a fixed abode

If it was the only thing stopping me doing the nomad thing I'd set it up at a friend's house (with payment in terabytes of storage) or aye colo it

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