You just did it, you found an amazing deal on a digital touchscreen with an Android OS embedded on it. Its 22″ and you’re stoked thinking how nice it will be to final have that Homeassistant or maybe Grafana dashboard up in a useful manner. Not much to your surprise you get the screen booted up, everything seems great, and then you realize the OS is Android 4.4.4; heck you can’t even get the Google Play store to connect. You…
There are probably lots of folks who have seen or read about Chia farming. Chia is a newer Crypto currency being touted as a green and sustainable bitcoin that is focused on the use of excess available space. You use your computer to plot a series of cyptographic hexes in your available storage. Plotting is temporary storage intensive and can take a toll on consumer grade SSDs. But beyond the plotting efforts you can then use the plots to farm…
With 2020 behind us we look to the promise of a 2021 with significantly less strife, maybe getting to hug friends and family again, and hopefully seeing a stabilizing US economy. In hindsight I have to say I’m appreciative to of the the many blessings my family has received over the last year despite the pandemic. We’ve been trying to give back any ways we can. One way we found we reaching out to local churches or charities and asking…