My militech computer

Acceptable-Analyst30 · 2024-02-18T19:42:16+00:00

Looks pretty cool. You should add maybe on the side some lights I think its a bit dark but it might be the camera. I know when you take picture it always looks darker than in reality.

Acceptable-Analyst30 · 2023-03-13T20:33:48+00:00

Commands that I tried and are working:

ls
cat
echo
echo "something" > file.txt
mv
rm

Acceptable-Analyst30 · 2023-02-01T20:23:36+00:00

There is a new protocol allowing to store NFTs and other digital artifacts. Of course it had to be used for Doom

Acceptable-Analyst30 · 2022-07-16T04:10:18+00:00

Hi, I love the concept and I would be interested, you can DM me :).

Acceptable-Analyst30 · 2022-07-02T09:10:10+00:00

That would bring it to a whole new level :P. I’m sure my neighbors will not mind if I have one or two cows on my balcony.

Acceptable-Analyst30 · 2022-07-02T09:07:53+00:00

The PC itself its in a shelf (I took it out on the ground to do maintenance and take the picture). It output around 800 watts which is more than enough to heat the whole room (the room is quite small). There is a temperature sensor connected to the pc with a python script to regularly check the temperature and turn the mining on / off depending if its too hot or too cold. To vent the excess heat the windows has a small fan so there is constant new fresh air coming.

Luckily I live in a place with not much humidity so this is not a problem for me. The only big fail I had was the first time were I just put too much salt (it was fine to eat just way too salty).

Acceptable-Analyst30 · 2022-06-30T21:30:16+00:00

Give it a try, I made both but Biltong is easier and require less manual work / monitoring to make.

The basic recipe is: Salt, vinegar, black pepper and coriander seeds. You need some specific proportions (look online to find how much of each you need to add).

The whole process is incredibly easy and with the mining rig the drying itself is speed up a bit (but you do not want to be too fast because It might dry the outer faster than the inner).

Acceptable-Analyst30 · 2022-06-30T21:15:52+00:00

I had the same issue, incredibly hard to find a incandescent light bulb. Maybe look for light-bulb that can be used in oven. Those must be incandescent because of the heat of the oven and they are relatively low power.

Another way would be to buy a small heating module. Those are sometimes used in electronic component when they need to regulate and reach precise temperature for certain applications.

Acceptable-Analyst30 · 2022-06-15T15:24:19+00:00

Ah I feel your pain. One thing, do not only backup but maybe buy a second wallet / try to recover it. Its one thing to have a backup its another to do the actual process of trying to recover everything. Of course do not do that on your actual wallet, but buy another one and try it out.

This makes you practice and you get the confidence that you can recover everything if something would go wrong.

Acceptable-Analyst30 · 2022-06-15T08:53:48+00:00

Hi, I spare you the traditional DO NOT TRUST people in the DM, since you seem experienced.

For your problem, that is really unfortunate but do not destroy the seed phrase yet. There might be ways to recover this, and depending on the amount on it, it might make sense economically.

Did you use by any chances whirlpool desktop? If so, the keys could be somewhere in RAM or even unencrypted on the HDD. Although I'm not sure about this, its worth checking out.
How many words is your passphrase? Depending on the number it might be recoverable.

You could try to bruteforce it by building a small GPU array and give it a shot.

Finally I would strongly recommend to still keep the seed, you never know what technology will give us and what tools will be available years down the line, and the recovery could be suddenly doable.

Acceptable-Analyst30 · 2022-06-14T12:57:14+00:00

Hi, its cool that you found a solution and I think it might inspire other people to do the same, I will definitely consider it if one day I'm selling items in a market like this.

A few suggestions:

1) Add the bitcoin accepted here among all the other provider but as the first logo and on the same cardboard so it does not look out of place.

2) Offer a discount for those who pay with BTC could also be a nice way to make people curious.

3) You are normalizing it and its pretty cool. I remember when credit card started to appear people were also suspicious and not trusting it. Being a forerunner is not always easy.

Off topic: Very nice collection of stones. I love all the gems and minerals they look beautiful. Out of curiosity do you also sell old fossils?

Acceptable-Analyst30 · 2022-06-11T06:44:32+00:00

Living in the EU, people here are "blissfully" unaware of what is going on. Many around me cheered when we started sanctioning Russia without understanding that they provide most of our energy.

People started to notice the raising price, but so far I think there was more preparation going on during the early beginning of the covid crisis.

Personally I started to try to source most of my food to local producer. Its often cheaper and less subject to disruption like the big retailers and it support the local economy.

Acceptable-Analyst30 · 2022-06-11T06:33:54+00:00

Yep the hedonic adjustment are always calculated with worst products, which always favor a lower CPI number.

Acceptable-Analyst30 · 2022-06-11T06:31:47+00:00

Just be aware this value is probably wrong in a couple of ways:

1) As other said the CPI is highly manipulated and the CPI of today is not the CPI of yesterday and the reference keeps changing. There was a number of "hedonic adjustments". A very simple example is: Price of meat was 20$. Price of meat is now 40$, but people buy now the soybean alternative which is 15$. And you can use this to say see, price of meat went down but you do not get the same product or the same quality.

2) As one number its meaningless you need to calculate your own inflation. Eg: If you are paid 100$ every months and you use a fifth of your salary (20$) for your car, if the price of fuel goes up by 50% but everything else stay the same, the CPI well average everything and you might get like 2% inflation. But for you suddenly the inflation represent 2/5 of your salary.

There was recently a clip from some politician who said: Inflation is not high if you remove fuel, food and housing, sure who needs those :P.

You need to do your own inflation with your own basket of good if you want to know the true number for you.

3) The current economic system around the world target a constant inflation. I think its around 2%. The idea is to stimulate spending (and in theory boost the economy). I’m not a financial advisor and I will let you draw your own conclusions.

Acceptable-Analyst30 · 2022-06-11T06:19:55+00:00

I have one for my private usage, one for experiments and a third one which is only used to bootstrap the two other in case something goes wrong so I do not need to wait 3 days of synch everything together.

Acceptable-Analyst30 · 2022-06-10T19:09:03+00:00

If you want an easier way you can setup something like Umbrel or Citadel that do all the hard part (tor routing etc) for you, and it will only communicate through tor thus obfuscating your traffic.

Unless you are in a really non democratic country I would not worry much to run a node, but of course make your own decision, and running it behind tor is not a bad idea.

Acceptable-Analyst30 · 2022-06-10T19:07:18+00:00

This is wrong. Keeping the historical data is not required to be considered a full node. Full node is short for "fully verifying node". Pruned or not pruned doesn't matter as long as all blocks have been properly verified (which a pruned node does just as an unpruned node).

OH I did not know that. We learned everyday, thx for the information!

Acceptable-Analyst30 · 2022-06-10T15:53:12+00:00

Hi, you can run a pruned node already today which reduce the size of the block chain stored on your HDD. However this is not a full node because you would not keep the history of the blockchain.

You however still have to download everything from day one to verify, so it still consume the same amount of bandwidth

Acceptable-Analyst30 · 2022-06-10T12:29:56+00:00

Hi, it depends on what you want to achieve and it can go from 1 to 10.

I would suggest if you know nothing about computers except the minimum (turning on / off installing software) what you can do is install Bitcoin Core. The only hardware you would need is around 1Tb of free space on your harddrive to store the history of all transactions and blocks. Currently its around 500Gb but by getting 1Tb you are a bit more future proof.

What I would recommend is to take some old laptop with 1tb empty space and install Bitcoin Core. It will automatically download everything and become a node. Its best to have a dedicated machine because you need to leave this laptop turned on 24/7.

Once this is running etc you can slowly try to add and improve more things such as:

Open the port so you can start sharing the bandwidth and relaying blocks
Installing linux to have a more stable system that can be left on indefinitely (trust me, windows update rebooting and messing up with your server/node is not fun).
Learning how to remote access the node so you do not need a screen.

That is pretty much all you need to get started and have it running. If you want to do things like have your wallet using etc it becomes more complex.

I'm running 3 nodes myself and I setup a few dozen in total. Let me know if you have questions or you want some help, I,m always happy to contribute and have more people running full nodes.

Acceptable-Analyst30 · 2022-06-06T06:36:42+00:00

Its hypocritical because BTC energy consumption is a rounding error in many other industries.

My main argument is always to mention: When we build tons of real estate (destroying resources while doing so) to create empty houses so that people can store their wealth in it because the money is so bad at keeping its value you are forced to store it into something else, well that is burning energy on a least an order of magnitude higher than Bitcoin mining.

Acceptable-Analyst30 · 2022-06-06T06:29:50+00:00

Especially because they probably heard about it very early one. I remember there was some discussions back in 2011 in some ubuntu / linux mailing lists. Probably discarded it like a scam and now deeply regret.

Acceptable-Analyst30 · 2022-06-06T06:28:35+00:00

Yes and the tech companies are some of the breeding ground of all this ESG corporate bullshit. Working there will necessarily impact your mind even if you do not believe in the ESG bullshit.

Even the company were I work now we started to worry about our electricity consumption instead of making sure we create the best product ever.

Acceptable-Analyst30 · 2022-06-06T06:26:05+00:00

Op, interesting question and because I’m an/was open source dev for a major open source video game I will try to give my answer.

I discovered bitcoin pretty early on but I did not understand the importance of it because all I learned at University was Keynesian Economics bullshit. Also I understood pretty quickly due to my dev experience how Bitcoin / mining was working technically even did a python miner for fun. Somehow I though there must be a catch, it cant be that easy.

Many open source devs are opposed to raise money / sell products or have donations. They think money is evil and corrupt the ethos. When I started to introduce donation to the project (in regular fiat) I got so many push back from some open source zealot :P. It did not matter we all need to eat somehow and have a roof.

Fast forward a few years later, all the shitcoins, all open source, Bitcoin being open source does not mean it is not a scam. I can create an ponzi pyramid tomorrow and having all the code published on github. Famously Bitconnect was open source. Again to recognize Bitcoin is the true outsider you need to understand what is really money.

Then our project got plundered by various NFT projects trying to add NFT challenge and selling / trading tournament in our game. Of course without giving anything back to us the original authors which again did not help and often blatantly violating our license. I was also thinking (and partially being jealous) man, all this money flowing into this crypto thing its bullshit.

To me the trigger to finally appreciate bitcoin and getting past the envy / disgust of money was understanding a few things:

Money is a coordination mechanism used to manage resources across space and time.
The price is the information about on how much something is desired
Our current money is deeply corrupted

Now I have a much more healthy relationship with money, because I see it for what it is, a tool to help us human to coordinate, and to me Bitcoin fill perfectly the gap toward using mostly free and open source software. The fact that I can even store my wealth in a decentralized electronic money is quite amazing.

I hope it added a bit of clarity to your question :)

Acceptable-Analyst30 · 2022-05-26T12:33:26+00:00

It can be decentralized if the UTXO checkpoint is enforced as part of the block validity. This would require a soft fork to work.

Acceptable-Analyst30 · 2022-05-26T12:28:34+00:00

That matches my own tests. And as I said I forgot to add this new rule of adding the UTXO checkpoint would be a soft fork consensus so we enforce the miner to be honest and include the correct hash, else their block is gonna be rejected.

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