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From what I've read this one is amazing. Not sure I want to drop that much cash on a keyboard yet though. Plus I've seen some reviews about it being a fixed layout as a downside (and some reviews where that is an upside).

Yeah I didn't particularly like that about Signal. If a malignant person were trying to keep tabs on a person (victim) using Signal, they would be able to see that the victim has switched to encrypted messaging (letting the malignant person know the victim is at least partially onto them). Thinking about the use case of a person trying to avoid a hacker/stalker here for example.

Agreed there, I know not to mess with plumbing, electric, and/or heating myself. Was debating going with spray on insulation done professionally, although I understand costs will rise the more I hire contractors.

Is it really that difficult? I’m imagine there are things I am missing, but isn’t it pretty much: build foundation, build floor, build frame, build out roof, build walls, etc.?

As long as I research, do proper leveling, cutting, etc. and follow along with other builds’ process, I am thinking I will be fine. Would be great to hear where I might be wrong though so I don’t sink money into a failed build.

I was hoping to sell the local government on it being a green building somehow, or something else that might motivate them to help with the building codes. Perhaps reaching out to universities within the region.

I think I’d like to try the tabletop model idea. I plan on having it be a second home / AirBnB spot.

Maybe I’ll try starting with a tabletop model as the other poster suggested.

Any thoughts on acquiring the land? I was told getting in touch with a realtor local to the area would be a good start.

Could you expand on this? I’m trying to learn more about using Lambda as a serverless REST API recently and one of my projects has a SQL DB.

Interesting to hear. Even as a technical person I'm often a bit taken aback when a site's primary domain is a non-[.com, .org, .net, .gov, .io, .country, or .city]. For $0.88 at a certain registrar I could pick up a bunch for side projects, but even at that price I'm wondering if it's worth it.

I'm familiar with Java Servlets and Express for the middle-layer. I've yet to set up a database from scratch, but I've worked with MySQL and Oracle SQL databases before. It'd be cool to learn more about setting up and scaling a database (though I doubt I'd need much scaling for my side-project for awhile).