the.com/off the grid

means Living disconnected from public utility networks—electricity, water, gas—and often by extension from mainstream society and surveillance altogether.

from The 'grid' here is the actual electrical grid—the interconnected network of power lines and stations that started lighting up countries in the 20th century. 'Off the grid' began as plain engineering talk for a home or system not wired into that network, generating its own power instead. From the mid-to-late 20th century onward, it got adopted by homesteaders, survivalists, and privacy seekers as shorthand for a whole lifestyle of self-sufficiency and disappearing from official records, not just unplugging the toaster.