I was curious and wanted a list with no advertisements. Apple’s M-series chips have moved fast in just a few generations. What started with the original M1 as a huge leap over Intel Macs has expanded into a full ladder of standard, Pro, Max, and Ultra chips that scale from everyday laptop performance to serious […]
Ever want to take a road trip… but have no idea where you actually want to go? Same. So I built a quick tool: Trip Radius Planner Just type in how many hours you want to drive, and it shows you a map of how far you could get. That’s it. No logins, no planning […]
I’ve really the playground, you know the days when you could just FTP a few files to a directory and bam it was live on the internet! So I created one again called https://playground.scottpreston.com. Right now I just a a few examples projects/experiments.
Over the years I’ve ready many business books. I thought I would spend some time talking about my favorite top 5.
So this week-end I did an experiment with Ethereum Mining. The first thing I did was use a calculator. Here’s one from CryptoCompare.com. Now according to this calculator, I should make around $36 bucks a month for my Nvidia GTX 1060 Card. Well, I did an experiment and after 28 hours I made $1.10. This […]
The next step in setting up my network was adding additional “LANS” to my network. So while before I was happy with two networks 192168.1.1/24 and 10.10.10.1/24. I really wanted more isolation from my IoT network, Security Camera Network, my Raspberry PI and Smart-Home network and the computers and devices we use all the time. […]
I’ve been having network problems of late and also because of security I wanted to better isolate my network from IoT devices from Google, Amazon, Hue, Etc. I basically had a few ASUS routers (which have been great) and I’ve been using a Double NAT (Network Address Translation) with my more secure stuff behind another […]
While this is usually a trivial task it took me about an hour to get my permissions correct to get this to work. Here are the steps that finally let me get things working: Open the sshd_conf by entering: Then edit as follows: Then go to your command line and change some file permissions. If […]
You can take my ramblings about Big Tech a number of ways but ultimately it’s about decentralization. Don’t put all all your eggs in one basket. Diversify your portfolio. Own your own path. Explore alternatives. Grow.
So if you’re a cord-cutter and want to get rid of YouTube.TV or Cable. Check this out. https://www.suppose.tv/. It will let you select your channels and show you the best options available for you to pick. Today I canceled the following: Apple Developer Program Renewal – My app “Thors Hammer” will go away, but I […]