yeah i get that the usa is backwards in many ways but its power infrastructure is fairly good, if aged.

anyway here is the storm i mentioned. it was kinda cool in many ways (well, not for the unprepared which was like 95% of the population that was affected by it) and was a good test of my disaster planning (ie barely any effect on the wife and i)

i had two telephone poles lying in my side yard. leaking transformer goop. they sent a crew to dig all the contaminated soil out and replace it. i have some really surreal pictures of the damage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Halloween_nor%27easter

so i gather the windows miner does not have the wallet, correct? and my mining rig is windows. so

can i install the linux miner on my ubuntu box, which should include the wallet. the ubuntu box has no cards,  just the igpu. then just point the windows miner to the wallet in the ubuntu machine?

ie the wallet does not need to be on the same machine as the miners?

sorry if this is answered somewhere but i am just starting with this. yeah i know im always behind on the cool stuff.

depends. youll have to meet our cats standards, which are much higher than ours.

you would also have to be ok with extremely loud music at all times of the day and night, mostly pink floyd, rush, lynyrd skynyrd and other southern rock, and punk. and the music the wife and i play on our instuments; hers played well and mine that sucks. plus random weapons fire at any time.

under ideal conditions sure. im thinking of worst case. im not really a pessimistic type but when it comes to survival, i plan for pretty bad conditions. and some of those plans have paid off big time. a tornado in town and a freak snowstorm that caused a 7 day multi state wide power failure affecting most of those states population on the east coast and that made many roads impassible for days (even with a pretty serious 4wd with mods), most fuel stations inoperable (no power to run the pumps), pharmacies having problems keeping meds in stock (statewide travel bans on some highways), stores running out of food and lots of the refrigerated stock they did have going bad because no power, plus limited resupply made me glad i had a weeks worth of fuel for my genset thats capable of running most of the house (just the electric stove and electric cloths dryer is excluded) and a transfer switch to do it right and make it wife safe, food for a month with several cooking sources with different fuels, lots of stocked up batteries, extra meds, tools supplies and equipment to fix the genset etc. not all of it was needed but i slept well knowing the wife and i were good. but it sucked big time for many, and especially hard for those with electric powered medical equipment. most of the unprepared just had no fuel, no heat source and no food, pretty big inconveniences. 

and thats on land. storms and their duration are unpredictable. how big is that boat anyway?

a seastead of course will have different failure modes, but there will be failures and they will happen a the worst times, like when you cant get to land with what youve got.
 

while i do believe google etc tracks and keeps too much info with no option to really opt out its the price one pays for the convenience of using their device or service, which is very useful at times. so i dont stress about it.

now i do believe privacy is a right, and it can still be achieved, you just need to work harder at it and give up a lot of conveniences. so while i think too much info is being kept, im willing to go along with it. for now anyway. the convenience factor outweighs the privacy im am willingly giving up.

re: cellphones, especially smartphones. as someone mentioned it is amazing what you can get from all the internal sensors. of course the phone needs to be powered up.. dont need gps or a cell signal, just dead reckoning using stored readings, which can be saved even in airplane more or whatever, and transmitted when it connects again. download some of those apps that can read the cell sensors. you may be impressed. or alarmed. my note 4, which is old tech now, can recreate anywhere ive been based on passive sensors alone. just need the data history.

supposedly one can map your house layout based on passive phone sensors. without gps or any location services. rooms and floors can be mapped just based on the passive phone sensors. even property layout like outside structures and such to a lessor extent .. again by dead reckoning and pressure changes, not with location services, cell tower info or gps or any of that stuff. nothing that city hall doesnt have but still a good demonstration of the capabilities of smartphone sensors.

i tried to register but got an error.

EDIT: nevermind tried again and got in.

for me, one aspect of a seastead is the isolation from supplies. living in the boonies i tend to have everything needed to survive for several weeks with absolutely no dependencies on the outside world. well within some practical limits. so i would have backups (sometimes several) of all critical infrastructure, tools and parts to repair most things along with a small machine shop, above average medical supplies, and overkill on monitoring equipment for environment and systems status. like, lots of stuff like that. i live in the boonies, and ive learned that if you dont have it with you, you dont have it period. simple enough thing but when the stores are a dozen miles or more away in rough seas for unknown period of time thats the same thing. so any seastead i design will be pretty big. living quarters would be a small part of it. command and control will be as redundant and as state of the art as i can make it, after all, when you get down to it this is a sea going vessel that my life will depend on. so costly for the specs that i am comfortable with, which are admittedly above specs a typical seasteader may have.

dont get me wrong, the isolation and self sufficiency is a good thing for me, but a lot of planning goes into that. its not just the base platform which worries me, you guys seems to have those problems licked. its the rest of it that i worry about. ive learned to only trust critical infrastructure that either i design and build, or is so well proven i can adapt off the shelf items for my use. i have no intention of getting into some life threaten situation that i could have avoided because i skimped on kit loadout.

interesting. you use the lightest weight oil you can get? at least very light oil was what was recommended back in the day, like 20-30 years ago when i was using and rebuilding very small fans on electronics and early computers. and engine oil then was typically 30 weight or more. thick oil would sometimes prevent the fan from starting and sometimes they would not attain the correct rpm as these were pretty small low power fans back then though.. now engine oil is much lighter and fan bearing are probably much different in lubrication requirements, or at least the bearing themselves are larger.

cool.

while im not sold on the idea at this time i look forward to you sharing your experience with it. real world info from "the common man" so to speak. 

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thanks mic you rock

i keep an amount of btc on the core wallet on my daily driver pc which is on 24/7. its the same original wallet i created in 2011. never compromised. and its been on the windows os. so about 8 years on a windows computer thats always on and always connected to the net.

just need to not be an idiot when it comes to your computer. no torrent/cracked software etc. just common sense stuff.

but with safer options available theres no reason to keep all your coins in it. i moved most to paper a long time ago, only keep small amounts on it.

EDIT it is of course backed up to the point of absurdity. if all copies get destroyed the world will be in such bad shape it wont make any difference.

btw if your still running it in non deterministic mode (as i do) make sure you backups are always recent as in that mode change addresses are limited.

ive had a trezor one for years and bought a trezor t last year. since the t was new ive only put a little on it so far as ive been waiting for the real world, out in the wild test before i really trust it as i do the trezor one. havent heard anything bad yet so its probably fine.

as with any important new tech or update in the crypto world i always wait a bit for others to test it 1st.

unknown.

me? i never merited roach for anything.

i figure if you are your own sovereign nation you need to be able to defend it. lotta nuts in the world.

and such a place would need a lot of redundancy in power generation and flotation.

im not against it (seasteading) but nature tends to be unfair and takes advantage of bad or incomplete designs.

well gpuhoarder released some info yesterday on discord along with a screenshot of an early build (one that was solo mining).

1st version for public consumption will likely be very limited.. linux version may run better as opposed to the windows version. amd cards are talked to direct, nvidia goes through cpu. things will change though as it is refined.

thats just what i recall, take with much salt.

time frame was "near future" iirc.

hit up fpga discord for the real info.

or nuts like in the "waterworld" movie.

without serious defensive measure in place im not sure how i would feel living on one.

i have that mobo, the onda D8P i think. 8 x16 slots, and 4 x1 towards the back of the board. and takes like 3 molex and 3 sata power inputs along the back?

run 7 vgas (mixed assortment from 1080tis to a 460) plus nest4x with 3 acorns. win10 1709. 8 gigs ram, g4400. 256 gb ssd in that weird ssd slot forgot the name of the format (not m2 though.. maybe msata?). had no problems at all.

my biggest gripe is i cant find any bios updates anywhere but it hasnt seemed to need them tbh.

only downside to it, as with most mining mobos, is only one pcie lane to all slots but the 1st, which is 8 pcie lanes. no prob for traditional mining but not sure how acorn gpu accelerators will like those x1 lanes.

Maybe a default trust member that gave you trust is now removed from the list? been changes to the default trust list

see:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5095156.0;topicseen

because of the dead cpu fan? the celeron should just clock down by itself if it gets too hot.

if you can remove that fan often there is a sticker on the motor hub, remove the sticker and you should see the bearing. sometimes under a rubber plug, sometimes not. add a drop of light oil (like sewing machine oil or 3-in-1 oil) to it. that can add a few months but likely youll have to redo it every month or two.

if youre on windows there are cpu temp monitoring programs that will keep of track that. realtemp or coretemp are good.

interesting read. i must say i like the "attack them back" bit, but dont know game theory well enough to follow that plan through to see how well it would work in the real world.

they should definitely redo their website to include the "no gpu acceleration miner currently available." and redo their boost estimates as its been a while (maybe im wrong). but like eth is going progpow so the main reason most would of wanted the 101 will be gone. sure etc might stay on ethhash maybe but its main use case will be gone by the time anyone gets any serious returns on them unless the 101 can do well in other stuff.

i spent about a grand: couple 215+, a 101, a nest2g and nest4x. and it now seemed i backed the wrong horse. oh well, my bad. it was a risk that seemed reasonable even "building in" some arbitrary delay. the real delay exceeded my guess by a lot though.

im not saying these things are a write off, they may come through yet. unknown. but i sure wont buy anymore till the software is proven.