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Is Alexa Safe?

I recently gave a tour of my home network. I walked around my home and showed all of the different electronic components of my home. This included the firewalls, routers, switches, cameras, and all of the devices that get interacted with. One thing that blew up in the comments over and over was comments to […]

Repairing the Commodore PET 4016

A few episodes back on The 8-Bit guy, David restored a vintage Commodore PET Model 4016. However, he left one thing incomplete. The space bar didn’t work.  Since it wound up in my museum, repairing the Commodore PET has been high on my list of things to do.  It’s incredibly hard to use the thing […]

Mining with a CPU (without a GPU)

When most miners think of mining, they tend to have visions of stacks of graphics cards (GPU) all lined up mining their favorite crypto-coins. It’s true, a GPUs are great at mining and you can mine lots of different coins with GPUs. But lots of new miners ask a question no one else ever dreams […]

Using Dual Power Supplies for Mining

Mining. You’re probably sick of hearing about it!  But its in the news. Its on TV shows. Its all over blogs. Well, not mining specifically, but cryptocurrency. Specifically a certain type of cryptocurrency called Bitcoin. To mine bitcoins you need an ASIC powered miner. But for many other cryptocurrencies like Ethererum can be mined with GPU […]

How to set Windows 10 to Auto-Login

It’s very common to want to login to windows without entering a password or to do what is called auto-login after Windows boots up.  With Windows 10 auto-login you can bypass the login screen completely and go straight to your desktop. Windows 10 auto-login is a fantastic feature if you don’t want to remember a […]

Windows vs. Linux for Mining

I recently published several videos and articles on building and optimizing mining rigs. In both builds I used Windows. Mostly because I had never done some of these things and I knew it would be much simpler to experiment with things in Windows. I mean after all, the manufacturers of the video cards are targeting […]

Overclocking the AMD RX 580 for Mining

Mining is literally going insane! People are snapping up both GPUs for mining as well as ASIC miners faster than manufacturers can make them. This has led to explosive growth in those markets. It’s also let to a whole art and science behind overclocking these systems to make them perform better. So in this post […]

Building a Mining Rig

After the tour of my mining rig I had a lot of comments asking to do a build a video of a mining rig. So today we’re building a mining rig! I’ll walk us through some of the changes from the original mining rig and why I made them. None of the changes are really […]

Antminer Alternatives

If you didn’t already know, mining has become a booming business. Everyone and their brother it seems are getting into mining cryptocurrency. This has led to a huge demand for GPUs when mining alternative currencies and almost impossible demand for ASIC based miners for mining Bitcoin. The Antminer from Bitmain is the hands down most […]

Best Cases for Mining

If its not just crazy obvious, mining has become a big deal. There is some serious money being put into mining! Today, even some of the big clearing houses and brokerage firms are dipping their toes into cryptocurrency.  Even the likes of companies like Fidelity Investments are adding Bitcoin to their websites. The rise of […]