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My trusty Ninja 300 and I first met
12 years ago and it's been a beautiful relationship.
As the first entry level bike with fuel injection, it's been nothing but reliable and easy maintenance. What better way to repay those years of reliability than to abandon it for a younger model
with a crazy and unnecessary hybrid gas/electric propulsion system.
My last purchase taught me no matter how much of a jerk you are, the sales people are either not allowed to kick you out or are too desperate to move product.
My trusty 300 went from "the most you'll get is $500" to upwards of $2,500, and the $1,500 rebate jumped to $2,500 for a total of $8,500 purchase on a $12,500 MSRP.
It probably helped that this particular bike is clearly aimed at nerdy motorcycle riders, of which there can't be that many. I'm confident the sales guy was thrilled to be rid of it.
Before I could take ownership though, as a sign of things to come for this motorcycle, an
active recall software update was required.
The tech had to connect to all 8 modules and update them individually. No central bus on this bike, so future updates will always be upwards of an hour. The lack of a clutch or gearshift was initially confusing, but I'm on board with the paddle shifters and various power modes now. Here's a
cheesy royalty-free music overview video to bring you up to speed.
With the demonification of unsecure HTTP traffic in full swing, the random nonsense that is this webserver clearly can't remain unsecured any longer. A valid SSL certificate on ever server is the only solution for our future, so I've decided to do the absurd and
actually secure this website. Why internet browsers can't determine the uselessness of this website and agree SSL is wasted on it is beyond me. And since I spent the time to generate the SSL cert of great waste, I decided to also properly forward all IPv6 traffic for this domain to this newly secured webserver as well.
BEHOLD: The Grade A SSL Secured Abomination
The recent Storj node addition to my
blinged out webserver has made certain hardware limitations come to light. Specifically, the lack of native M.2 slots for NVMe storage expansion. After a brief flirtation with a 10TB SATA HDD, it's become clear Storj needs SSD speeds to work effectively. Rather than do the smart thing and end my Storj node, I've gone all in with a new motherboard using my displaced Ryzen 7700 CPU, which supports PCIe bifurcation of the x4x4x4x4 variety. Thus my
6 NVMe drive wall mounted web server (and Storj node) machine is born.
After playing around with
Storj I decided to jump in and
create a dedicated node. Consequently, this server now serves up distributed data in addition to embarrassing photos and stories about old people. I'm sure the current 2TB of space will become too small shortly, but for now it lets me see if this is even worth it. Something to keep me distracted when Chia is too stable.
My trusty
Asus TS10 Atom x5 Z8350 which has powered this webserver
since 2018 was replaced by the ultra golden RGB monstrosity
Dell Optiplex 3020 SFF Treasure Box today. I could not pass up this
ridiculous purchase, and upon arrival it felt perfect for serving up nonsense on the interwebs. The new server eats up 20 watts, vs the old TS10 which only pulled 5 watts. The RGB and golden bling are well worth the wattage increase obviously, and the
impressive hardware upgrades are a nice bonus. Surf confidently, knowing your packets are being generated on the most gawdy PC available on this planet.
After burning up both my
Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe and my
SK Hynix PC711 NVMe creating Chia plots to fill my ever hungry
crypto farm, I decided to slow my roll a bit. While the two cheap 240GB SATA drives I purchased to help generate plots never really performed that well, I was curious if a
RAID 0 configuration would help give them a boost to get closer to my fabulous NVMe performance. That answer was
decidedly no, with only about 1/6 the NVMe speeds achieved. However, with my NVMe drives now
throwing SMART alerts I'll stick with this setup until the farmer fills up or they fail. Whatever happens first.
After completely converting my old
crypto mining machine above my fridge from Ethereum proof-of-work GPU mining to Chia proof-of-space farming, I decided to spruce it up a bit. Instead of
hiding it on top of my dusty fridge I decided to turn it into an art piece and
mount it on my wall. Of course you can follow along at
my dedicated status page or my
chia wallet. With all my GPUs sold at maximum profit, that leaves two spare PCs with nothing to do except
mine Raptoreum until their CPUs burn out.
With the summer weather approaching 90°, I decided I do not want to mow my yard anymore. Fortunately, a wide variety of robotic lawnmowers are available, and after some research I landed on the
Husqvarna Automower 315x. I immediately set about making
a bunch of YouTube videos, and eventually discovered the
developer portal. This of course necessitated a new
dedicated web application which now tracks my robotic mower as it meanders aimlessly across my yard saving me from heat stroke.
I am closing my eBay account of 23 years today thanks their absurd seller policies that allowed the following individual to completely rip me off.
I'm posting this here as a warning to stay away from this idiot, or in case someone else searches for him and needs additional evidence against him.
eBay ID: herringtonelectronics
eBay URL: https://www.ebay.com/usr/herringtonelectronics Physical Address: Stephen Herrington / Tait Herrington
3693 Kirkland Dr
East Tawas, Michigan 48730-9544
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With the recent explosion of Ethereum cryptocurrency, I've
upped my GPU game to a 2080 and 3 1060s for a total of
104 MH/s @ 500 watts. That currently nets me $700/month, which is nuts. I can't get any more GPUs since I refuse to pay 200% over MSRP for one, so I decided to add the proof-of-space crypto Chia. I have plenty of old hard drives to fill up with plotting, so my recently converted to integrated graphics primary PC
has been assigned to the cause. While not nearly as profitable, it's enjoyable to see
all drives hit 100% utilization while plotting as fast as I can.
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My trusty Ninja 300 and I first met 12 years ago and it's been a beautiful relationship.
As the first entry level bike with fuel injection, it's been nothing but reliable and easy maintenance. What better way to repay those years of reliability than to abandon it for a younger model
with a crazy and unnecessary hybrid gas/electric propulsion system.
My last purchase taught me no matter how much of a jerk you are, the sales people are either not allowed to kick you out or are too desperate to move product.
My trusty 300 went from "the most you'll get is $500" to upwards of $2,500, and the $1,500 rebate jumped to $2,500 for a total of $8,500 purchase on a $12,500 MSRP.
It probably helped that this particular bike is clearly aimed at nerdy motorcycle riders, of which there can't be that many. I'm confident the sales guy was thrilled to be rid of it.
Before I could take ownership though, as a sign of things to come for this motorcycle, an active recall software update was required.
The tech had to connect to all 8 modules and update them individually. No central bus on this bike, so future updates will always be upwards of an hour. The lack of a clutch or gearshift was initially confusing, but I'm on board with the paddle shifters and various power modes now. Here's a cheesy royalty-free music overview video to bring you up to speed.
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