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So "grid" only means public utilities networks? You can't connect to central service providers via pipe or wire, but you can via radio? The Internet equivalent

So "grid" only means public utilities networks? You can't connect to central service providers via pipe or wire, but you can via radio? The Internet equivalent of generating your own electricity and heat would seem something like generating your own readers and content, talking to yourself via http payloads rendered into a browser. As soon as you're purchasing service from an ISP to get onto a shared network, that sounds an awful lot like a grid.

uxp100 4y ago
Grid means the electrical grid. That’s it, and it’s typically the only utility that is available in rural areas. Many off-grid people don’t have these weird ideological hang ups that HNers project onto them, they simply want to live on land they own, and electrical service is impossible or extremely expensive.