735 karma · joined January 16, 2012
Offgrid in NM
After moving here, we quickly made friends and I've encountered quite a few other like minded tech workers in the area (one works for a direct competitor). My job and co-workers (many 10yr+ relationships at this point) fulfill my intellectual needs and the main engineering office happens to be located in Boston!
Another big thing for me is having a separate place for an office, so I can leave the house and go somewhere that is dedicated to work. For that, I have a 400sq ft office about 20 yards from the main house.
We also have a separate space for homeschooling, that's a big help for my Wife and the kids.
If you want advice on remote living and property type stuff, shoot me an email (in my profile).
As for the deciding where to live, it was pretty easy for us. We were already coming to New Mexico for the outdoors multiple times per year, and land in our favorite area is cheap. We were able to locate 43 acres with a log home and relocated here 5 years ago... was the best decision for our family.
Our first couple of years here the internet was a bit spotty as I had to use a Verizon hotspot and typically had 2 bars of LTE on the best days. Surprisingly, there is fiber run all over the place here even tho its super rural. Eventually the local phone company installed a DSL box on one of the fiber runs near our property and that allowed us to get DSL. It's only 5/1 but fits our needs and my VPN connection works fine with it along with my VOIP desk phone.
For our deployments, we generate a single token with a max # of uses that matches the target server count for our deploy and also a very short TTL of 5 seconds. Our code gets pushed and the token is passed to each server (in an env var) during that time and a command is passed to refresh environment vars with secrets from Vault. So if a token gets compromised it's very likely to be used up and/or expired.
- During WWI it peaked at 77% - During WWII it peaked at 94%!!
They also have quite a few interesting compressed air kitchen appliances...such as mixers, grain mills.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrofluoric_acid#Health_and_s...
In a 1967 novel this Nobel Prize winner wrote, “The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude”
https://www.viceland.com/en_us/video/magic-mushrooms-in-mexi...
That could be rather disappointing!
As I was going through the top pairings I noticed a strange pair of "milk and poi" ...it looks like it's picking up the word "points" as an ingredient
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