What to do with $1,200 free dollars?

[@MickeyD2012]

Florida man tries to organize Linux nerd cult from his compound.

[@tanmaysingal2179]

Buy a windows 10 pro license key

[@HungNguyen-lz5xb]

@@stillness0072 The joke or the license key?

[@DodoGTA]

Windows is bloat

[@whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat]

Even better, you still have money for Adobe CC and Microsoft Office subscriptions. Money and computer resources well spent!

[@comtefernandes]

Based

[@wewd]

Based & Redmondpilled.

[@joshuakaufmann4081]

Regarding having chickens for eggs, my 8 free range hens give me more eggs than I want. When I give them to one of my neighbors, they give me me homemade cookies back. Independence for survival is great, but some co-dependence can be sometimes better.

[@red13emerald]

Joshua Kaufmann I think that what Luke means. You didn’t need money to get those cookies, you weren’t depending on the economic system to obtain them. Support and co-dependence inside a community are good things, they allow us to specialise and be safe. Substituting those things for dependence on your economic situation and thus your job and your usefulness to the economic system (which really equates to how much money you move around) makes you less safe and less free.

[@FourOfClubs]

You can preserve eggs in lime water for up to a year or more. Look it up. It is really useful for later in winter, when chickens don't produce as much.

[@siddid7620]

Hell yes!!

[@GE0attack]

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. - Cicero

[@infogang3603]

He's legit dressed as steve from minecraft in this video

[@wewd]

Herobrine IRL

[@nswayze2218]

Jesus christ

[@MrAlienAssassin]

Default RuneScape character doubles his cooking XP with one weird trick!

[@pabloignaciomancilla1628]

Next tutorial: How to use the terminal to rise your chickens

[@iluan_]

I have an automated system to water my plants running with a raspberry pi. I think it would be quite easy to make a system to automatically feed chickens.

[@A_Box]

^ This Long gone are the days where you actually needed to be some sort of engineer to do stuff. You can spend like 50 bucks on development electronics like the famous Arduino Family and you can start playing with automating things. No need to make a board from scratch and worry about having the appropriate tiny components. Stuff nowadays just works.

[@iluan_]

@@A_Box Also, there are many tutorials and open source code to do so. For most tings that you might want to automate there's already a project in Hackaday, openecology, instructables, the arduino blog, ohwr, or even some of the distribuitors like adafruit.

[@blackrastafarian]

You meant to say to *rice* the chicken right? Linux ricing for better sustainability.

[@SamTheEnglishTeacher]

​@@A_Box You don't need to do all that crap with pis or arduinos. An electrical timer controlling a solenoid is sufficient... and easier, cheaper, more robust.

[@zibane6246]

I'm going to finally buy Linux.

[@tuluwa]

Zibane lol

[@chubbytwist9434]

This channel used to make Linux tutorials now it's turning into a Minecraft modded let's play tips

[@SERVOPUNK]

Coming up: Luke's Auto-Rice-Foodgrowing Scripts for independent nutrient aquisition.

[@_smhmd]

I had that position at 2:06 but you bullied me out of it

[@FourOfClubs]

You know how worthless their currency really is when they're giving it away for free.

[@rhysperry111]

When is Luke Gonna start an ISP to "become less dependent"

[@danieljones6778]

@@keiganthetennessean1796 USENET already exists

[@siddid7620]

Thanks for showing us the way to independence.

[@simonedeiana2696]

Luke with his Coronabucks: “You see these thinkpads? I found them used from a tiny little vendor on ebay and fell in love with them so entirely that I bought enough of them to last me a lifetime; and now, I’m on the last one :)”

[@erikT3500]

I'm using it to pay off the remaining debt I have.

[@kot3405]

If you have debt, youve already fucked up

[@pt60000]

>debt HAHAHAAHAHHAA AMERICUCKS

[@kot3405]

America is a meme

[@allegoricalstatue]

Another option for city-folks would be to setup a hydroponic or even aquaponic gardening setup in their apartments to grow some food. If everyone had vertical hydroponic systems in an apartment building and maybe some chickens and stuff on the roof, the whole building could probably mostly feed itself. same with converting 'secondary spaces' in communal living areas into shared gardens.

[@BlazeIOS]

luke be like: "I used the system to destroy the system"

[@allegoricalstatue]

based anprim #accelerationism

[@__-vz8ux]

My mother's friend spent all her stimulus check on alcohol.

[@trailblazingfive]

When it comes to extracting compounds from herbs you should get a Soxhlet extractor not a distillation setup

[@igo5543]

There is no need for this, as essential oils are quite volatile. It would be better to use a simple steam distillation, which would do the job well enough and does not need to use any solvent other than water.

[@-Pepsimayn-]

Dude he's going to make moonshine, not "essential oils" lmao

[@salvatoreshiggerino6810]

@@-Pepsimayn- Why not? With his online following he's in a perfect position to start a multilevel marketing scheme.

[@calinbarburescu9356]

"Chickens are flying off the shelves" LOLed so hard at this one =))

[@bruderdasisteinschwerermangel]

I'm a student, and my eating habits have really gone downhill while since I started university, I often eat junk food, get predone frozen stuff and so on... And the surprising thing is, I'm not part of the "bad" demographic. I still cook for myself semi-regularly, but from other students I heard that some don't even have a proper kitchen? Like they're using the microwave more than the stove and - what in the world even..?

[@epain]

I wonder if it has to do with parenting. Some mothers don't cook at all. My mother was a great cook and baker and she had a good attitude about it. Never kept a recipe book because it was "all common sense and a bit of science." It's not rocket science to make bread. I have noticed a lot people think cooking is this a great effort and are discouraged by failure, and some treat recipes like gospel not to be strayed from rather than using all 5 of their senses in the process.

[@bitnatures]

You just defined me :). I've just turned 20 and my eating habits are awful because my mother doesn't cook. I'm hoping to get into cooking food because I want to eat healthier and cheaper. My diet consists of Chick-fil-A 12ct fried nuggets, fries, and Coke. Yikes. The problem with me right now is fixing habits. It feels like a battle with my mind all the time to stop it from doing something. I always get the "urge" to go out and eat or jump out and buy a new gadget. Mostly because of depression and stress from work+univ. But I'm striving to battle my brain. I'll let you know if we take the L.

[@suyuro_]

@@bitnaturesI really hope you get the W.

[@horndog2224]

Im in grad school now but for my undergrad here almost everyone i knew or met would just eat microwaved garbage and junk food or order food. I had one girl tell me skinning a potato was cooking lol.

[@allegoricalstatue]

@@epain It's really unfortunate because all these coking shows like chopped and great british bake-off make cooking/baking look even more difficult / arcane / rigid as opposed to actually encouraging people to get into either.

[@leoliu2079]

I think it's time to do cooking videos Luke

[@chri87d9]

Me (a European): "What to do with 1,2$ dollars?" buy some gum?

[@dingusdangus1790]

Honestly a better investment than pretty much anything else you could do with it

[@Jeff79621]

Hi Luke ! I you still can't find chickens to buy you could try to hatch your own . You could find an egg incubator for 100$ and if you can get some fertilized eggs you can start hatching . It's requires a bit more worck from your side in the sens that after you hatched you will have to set up a place with wit a bit more heath to compensate for the lack of a mom ( my grandma uses a box with a light bulb to keep them warm at night ) . This will help you on your quest to independence 😊

[@sergeydocenko]

In 90's it is only way to stay alive in Ukraine is was to have a plant where U plant potatoes and other's onion and tomathos! But U whole independent from state.

[@ВадимБарабанов-д6я]

Чому ти так схожий на Люка ?)) Ахах))

[@LandsknechteL]

Now you do all these things but also bullets for Putler invaders

[@sergeydocenko]

@@ВадимБарабанов-д6я Вот ты сказал, а теперь я призадумался :) Нас наверное с одних репов собирали :)

[@CoffinDodger143]

Thanks for using real life examples in your videos, I find the topic much more understandable and impactful that way.

[@Misterz3r0]

Luke, you bring so much wisdom to the table with your advice. This is the kind of stuff Americans used to pass down from generation to generation. With the advent of packaged food and other modern conveniences, we've lost that pioneering spirit and independent attitude. Don't get me wrong, I am not a Luddite. I do appreciate the benefits of technology. But your great rule of thumb of asking whether something makes you independent or more dependent is a great way to test which technology is beneficial and which isn't.

[@PuzzL_]

NOOOOOO!!!!! YOU HAVE TO STIMULATE THE ECONORINO!!!

[@westonstone3047]

If you don’t already getting a vacuum sealer and a deep freeze is always great. Anything you get you can seal it and freeze it for warming up later. I do this with any excess game I get and it saves a lot of money in the long run. Great channel always enjoy your content whether it’s about Linux or homesteading 👍🏼

[@OtherDalfite]

Vacuum sealers are bloat. Just suck the air out with your mouth

[@typingwhilepoopingLOL]

Is there any kind of vacuum sealing method / something adjacent that doesn’t use plastic? I’ve been trying to stay away from the stuff as much as possible

[@billkillernic]

What is the purpose of existence if you are on your own alone in the woods ? Eating food so that you can wake up yet an other day and see the same woods ? Scenery has value only if it creates memories and there are not any better memories than the ones of occasions where you shared life with other human beings being happy. I suggest not to waste any resources any more into becoming isolated and just join society again An alternative would be to buy something that can terminate all of this waste and unhappiness .

[@ernstmayer3868]

What's the cost of buying such a big plot? I live in Germany, and this would be nearly impossible to buy.

[@baileyharrison1030]

Ernst Mayer Not very expensive. In some parts of northern Florida maybe around $150k. But it could easily be way higher in more populated areas

[@baileyharrison1030]

Ernst Mayer you don’t need this much land to homestead though. A quarter of an acre is doable

[@xGOKOPx]

I'm not too sure if I'm not mistaken but I remember him saying in an older video (before he got this plot) that he's gonna inherit it

[@LukeSmithxyz]

It was 5 acres or so, less than $100k. I didn't inherit it, although I bought it from a distant family member. He didn't give me a total steal though, I still bought it a good bit above the appraisal value. I do have some rural land I might inherit, but there's literally nothing on it, although maybe later on I'll build something on it.

[@copper4eva]

Ya Europe is pretty overpopulated. But the South in the USA is pretty nice. Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and other states, you can get a lot of land fairly cheap. In fact, where Luke bought isn't even that crazy cheap imo. In some parts if you're willing to really live in the middle of nowhere, you can get hundreds of acres for 6 digits.

[@mohammedburhan5766]

He's playing minecraft real life 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭

[@UntrackedEndorphins]

None of that closed source rubbish, he's playing the superior open source gnu/minetest

[@kacperw587]

@@asynchronizedloka No, he IS Steve.

[@6w817]

Bruh he made a whole video about your comment

[@kquote03]

A whole video

[@mohammedburhan5766]

@@kquote03 😭😭Florida man triggered

[@doom-and-gloom]

Apple™ Screen Holder

[@TheAnimateor]

Man spends every hour of the day in the garden planting cumquats... still has more thyme than he could every imagine

[@galaxyanimal]

You should start a garden. Green beans are really easy to grow, but you can also grow corn, tomatos, squash, potatos, onions, etc. basically the essential vegetables for cooking. Also, you can learn to make jam from fruit from your fruit trees. Investing in some hand tools for home maintanance, etc. wouldn't be a bad idea either.

[@lukaskovar6921]

This video literally changed my mind.

[@SamTheEnglishTeacher]

Thankfully I emptied my life savings out of low-yield term deposits etc to buy my first home back in December. Previous owners lived there for 50 years and man of the house ran his own small gardening company his whole life. So we're all set up with automatic irrigation, greenhouse, chookhouse, etc. Haven't bought chooks yet, but I don't think that will be difficult where I live. I EVEN STARTED USING LINUX [for my octopi]. Even if (when) property prices crash, I still have land and the ability to make food out of sunlight... and fiat money locked in TDs and retirement savings won't be worth anything by then anyway.

[@Eletronicafg]

When will Luke start to make tutorials of how to cook properly???

[@LukeSmithxyz]

I have thought of a "Cooking for NEETs" series in the past...

[@yourdadisbad1679]

@@LukeSmithxyz YES!!!1111

[@ms-fk6eb]

@@LukeSmithxyz 100%

[@nykal1510]

@@abdulwahabjag bro just searx "easy budget recipes" or something, either way you're supposed to fuck it up a couple of times to know what's the best

[@JohnDoe-bm5lp]

He's playing dwarf fortress irl

[@MJAsadi]

real life minecraft

[@LukeSmithxyz]

It's just called real life.

[@Shaddow798]

@@LukeSmithxyz nO wHERe dID yOU geT tHE tEXtuRe pACk.

[@palmilhas1530]

I get what you're saying, but I'll just keep doing all those things in minecraft

[@info11]

found your channel via Bryan Lunduke. all good thoughts. Get those chickens!!

[@andrej4342]

Protip: use your chickens to prepare a gardening area. Use the area as an enclosure, chickens will eat all the grass, they will scrath the land looking for insects and they will poop the ultimate fertilizer all over the area. After they're done, relocate the enclosure, rinse and repeat. Free labor and less chicken food

[@gyattrizzV]

a few days ago i got 900 free dollars from ontario government pog

[@ambiguoustv7403]

Use it to leave Ontario

[@thedarkenigma3834]

Use it to leave "Canada".

[@zongzoogly4549]

Guys don't get a slow cooker get a pressure cooker (or better yet, a pressure canner!). It's like a slow cooker but instead of having to do plebian shit like think ahead (who even has time for that?!) you can get the same results in rarely more than 20 minutes (of actual cook time, they do take a while to heat up). If you get an electric one with a timer you can even set it up like a slow cooker ahead of time but instead of leaving it to cook all day it starts right before you can get home. The advantage of this over the slow cooker is that you can also use it for sterilization in processes like canning, so when you're going full unabomber and growing your own crops you don't have to worry about that potato salad made with those home-canned potatoes killing you with the botulism.

[@zongzoogly4549]

Also fuck it I need to start teaching bug people how to cook because god damn I am amazed every time at how inefficient and oblivious some people can be when it comes to food.

[@evanjrowley]

That's what I call wisdom

[@AndrewLovelesss]

should’ve bought a couple of thinkpads

[@adammontgomery7980]

Buy a woodstove if you have a fireplace. I spent about $200 to heat my house over winter and fall last year.

[@jimbarino2]

He lives in Florida. Probably not worth it.

[@ethana.838]

When are the chad cooking streams coming? 🤔

[@DTZinatbakhsh]

Seeds are always a good buy if you don't have a plant you want to grow for food already. Depends on what you have already. I think anyone with a decent amount of land should procure tools. Especially hand tools. also you don't need chickens if you have wild turkeys. You can just start feeding the turkeys and close the gate on them after they get too plump. Then you have a source of eggs and turkey.

[@drakedorosh9332]

There is different levels of cooking. You can get a box of macaroni and follow the directions. You can get velveeta processed cheese product and melt that on noodles. Or you can add a little flour to melted butter which becomes a "rue" to which ordinary cheese and milk join to form a creamy sauce that you pour on top of the egg yolks and flour you massaged with your bare hands until noodles emerged from your fingers. It is OK to start raw and find out what you can make by boiling water. Collect your kitchen gear at the thrift store if they still exist in post-corona land. Look for pans that are thick bottomed. Kitchen appliances that are perfectly good are in abundance for a few bucks. Sometimes you get the most amazing things like a stainless steel steam juicer set which you can use as a still if you balance a cold pot on top.

[@hanes2]

Some of u guys are lucky, here I live we mostly got unemployment. I would spend it on something that gain me in the long run. Example if u lost your job laptop. Maybe spend it on a laptop so you’re more independent.

[@yas-xk5wf]

The beard is a good look!

[@harrytsang1501]

I'm glad that I learned basic cooking from a roommate and is able to long term borrow a rice cooker and some pots before all this happened. Cooking is a main activity for me and I spend less than $4 per day on food. It isn't as good as living off the grid but I am working with what I have.

[@edoardoschnell]

Spend it on learning stuff. That's another quite direct way to get independent

[@cliverussell6031]

have you thought about Guinea pigs? probably the easiest animal to farm. if you do go for chickens, make them fox proof.. harder than it sounds

[@netbotcl586]

3 sets of mac pro's wheel

[@bIackstreetboy]

Hi, Luke. Check Paul Wheaton's videos on raising chickens. The latest ones are pretty good and insightful. In the topic of food, I'd recommend checking solar dehydrators, solar slow coockers and rocket ovens. All of them can be built from scratch. Best wishes.

[@vitorgoncalves7678]

i love when he says "living in an apartment in the middle of a city" like we say "living in a cabin in the middle of nowhere"

[@kkuusk]

What about generating your own power? Solar, hydro or wood gasifier?

[@kylec.5476]

Please put your comments in the video description. Thank you

[@magmasceptre]

This is our new stallman. ALL HAIL LUKE!

[@roypdxful]

Going to get me a waifu!!!

[@DetectiveAme]

A Man of principals.

[@dacho707]

buy an albanian wife for 200$ an then buy a car with 1000$

[@roypdxful]

dacho hmm 🧐 sounds like a plan

[@Anon-tr2lq]

When will you find Mrs. Smith?

[@leviticus8930]

Since you are farming, an old tractor. A Ford 9N or a Farmall Cub could be gotten in that price range, unless you already have one. Just don't get the Farmall on a side of the hill. You will roll like Arch updates.

[@leviticus8930]

Other than that supplies to can your own food, a freezer, chickens as you mentioned, pigs are reasonably cheap to raise (a true chad need dem chitlins), and a maybe a generator to protect your freezer goods. Apple, Pecan, fruit tree's or Muscadine vines (thought I saw these on your land) etc.

[@pt60000]

haha money printer go brr

[@tmuet3653]

well, you know what chickens also are good for... tendies

[@kyraiki80]

Chickens are flying off the shelves!

[@estebanmarin002]

Mate love your videos

[@michaellk2254]

This is Canada right now with the CESB and CERB

[@JDStone20]

YES! More FREEDOM and more LIBERTY!!!!

[@itsallasimulationman]

I just used my last 100,000 hotel points from when I had a job to buy a 1,000-watt generator. Bring it!

[@f23anone82]

It's actually better to get some quails. It's even easier to grow them, they don't get sick as easily as chickens and their meat and eggs are more delicious and dietary

[@_R8x_]

I can't cook but for god's sake what's so hard about making some basic stuff like potatoes, vegetables and maybe some meat? A pan, a pot, some salt and pepper and if you want it really 'fancy' some herbs. C'mon people!

[@thatoneuser8600]

Nothing is ever really "hard" but rather just time consuming. There's a lot of terminology, techniques, and equipment one may need to have or know to cook safely and effectively. I've just started learning cooking and so I've been watching a ton of videos just on single recipes to understand how to make it myself, but I still don't really know how to make a dish taste good myself, such as making sauces or seasoning mixes. I can heat stuff up in a pan, yes, but it's still plain tasting food with a lack of the juicy texture if I don't have a sauce or marinade with a blend of ingredients that complement each other in taste.

[@theelodgeovkeku]

@@thatoneuser8600 Ain't no shame in making that bargain bin eye round punch above its weight with a nice thick gravy. Throw in a side tatos and badaboom you're golden.

[@allegoricalstatue]

@@thatoneuser8600 the problem is that youtube tutorials etc. always way over-complicate things, throw in all these special ingredients and use fancy tools. irl you can make infinite meals with a knife, a cutting board, a pot and a pan. chop vegetables and/or meat, throw in pan with oil, add salt / pepper, make pasta or rice or beans of some sort in pot, done. People think they have to act like a master chef on TV just to cook meals.

[@_R8x_]

@@allegoricalstatue Exactly. Nobody needs to prepare a nice dinner everyday that tingles all the senses. Just some basic stuff will do just fine most of the time. Although, I don't put my veggies in the pan but steam it over the rice/noodles. That way you don't lose all the good nutrients ;)

[@ismailefetop]

Luke's quarantine beard is sooo hot

[@jackdavidson5863]

You should plant an oak Tree. You can make coffee by roasting acorns and can make acorn butter

[@TheLazyLemmon]

buy a cast iron pressure cooker to put over your fireplace.

[@ponytoms2]

If you want chickens, try the Jacksonville area they haven't been bought up here like in other areas.

[@Liampanto]

Loved this video solid advice

[@skwerel]

Use capital to reduce expenses and increase future liquidity. Pay off a debt, learn a skill, etc.

[@naezith]

You have a really nice field and a big house I assume. I'd get one or more Raspberry Pi's and do some automation projects for those future chickens :)

[@alextremodelnorte1905]

Being an individual belonging to the White race in Mexico, I am not eligible for that kind of cash.

[@Oswee]

I would buy just a one more nice server. Like at least 24 cores, 128 RAM, SSDs. And will keep being "independent" and host my stuff there. :)

[@bahaelaila]

This is about to become a Cooking/DIY channel. Uncle Ted style.

[@Ashkimbo]

>so the chickens can play lmao

[@cocorico128]

do you have a clothes line in your inventory?

[@an2qzavok]

why go independent when I can just download some Harvest Moon roms and have as many virtual chickens as i want?

[@AwkwardSegway95]

"I used the system to destroy the system."

[@therenzix]

I would pay off my crippling debt

[@hasibrahman4321]

good way to catch inv. scope before big recession (vote of confidence matters ) (impressive man)

[@atypicalambience3487]

What do you think of people who live out of their vehicles? I'm planning on using it as an extreme way to save money so I can be more independent in the future.

[@gavinridley5727]

Bought the stock dip saving for land. I’m hopeful for 5 acres.

[@thechristianweeaboo3085]

My friends are going out and buying whole new computers and other pointless shit. It's like, I get wanting to play muh games better. However, at least pay your damn rent.

[@anatolystepanovichdyatlov1747]

Unironically, in your situation id literally buy a horse, if you can get a decent one for that amount.

[@copper4eva]

Have you considered getting cows? My cousin and uncle had cows for a while (in Florida too), they said it was the easiest shit ever. You just gotta have the land, gotta spray them down once a month for disease, and dump them some hay now and then (shouldn't be required if you have enough land tho). Although ideally your land should have a lake or something they can drink from, idk if you have that. And then you just kill one every year or two and have beef for the next forever.

[@dacho707]

b00mer rants about free gibs amongst his unacabins

[@timelesstrance3720]

Get a rope driven sawmill connected to a water wheel

[@abhirajkarki8272]

Wine and dine with family. KISS works here as well.

[@hjoshua1701]

Is that all your property? Looks pretty damn nice