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🤯 February was Short 💥💨
Hi everyone, and welcome back to another month. This month is always packed with stuff and very little time to have fun. Schools start in NZ, my car usually has problems around this time, people decide to do stuff, and so on.
It has not yet ended, but next week will go quickly for me, so I am considering it a DONE month!
I have decided to include the inverted picture (on the right), of the amazing Blue Origin, New Glenn rocket launch 1st stage nozzles, back in January already... 😍
The number of things happening in 2025 is already overwhelming, especially if we consider all the Trump stuff that I won't delve into.
Hive wise, things dropped almost 50% since the beginning of the year, but that does not bother me at all. There are a lot of things planned for 2025, and I am just taking advantage of the lower prices as much as I can (not financial advice, DYOR).
From the last HPUD announcement, you may have seen my idiocracy of trying to expand my reach on X, which I am getting very tired of (to be honest) like it happened last year. It depletes completely a person to be trying to use those idiotic strategies to reach "momentarily more followers" in order to then have bigger reaches and start to create a social bond with the followers.
I am just playing dumb because I can... not because I want to. But idiots apart, I think I have reached a few people already, and slowly having more reach is actually causing good positives. So, I am continuing the effort when I can, and when I have the patience to do it. If you think I like it, you are seriously ill.
Anyhow, I have got a couple of people trying to find out more about Hive, and recently the most successful one that I am going to feature here is @finpulse. I am enjoying letting him find more about Hive, at his pace, when he can. Which is exactly how I see the best way of doing it...
I am not going to give up "ever" on onboarding and helping ANY Hivien user to learn more from what I know. Including all those good things about "also" verifying what I say. I am not perfect, I am a person.
And by now I have lost 50% of the readers LOL... no worries, lets get to pictures shall we?
📱 Forced my iPhone to touch the 🌊Water!
Disclaimer: If you do this, please understand that you are at your own risk. After doing this, I cleaned the phone with drinkable water and then dried it well. I also didn't leave the phone in the Sun after dipping it in the salt water to avoid deposits of salt in areas that afterwards are difficult to clean. All these reduce the chances of failure but aren't 100% risk-averse.
February was/is usually where the best "Summer" days in New Zealand are, and on days when the sun shines, everyone gets outside. I am no exception, and so I had touched (several times) the water!
What I didn't do for a very long time (because honestly, we forget these things) is that the iPhone 13 is actually, let's say, "water dippable". At least for a wee time. It's IP68, so, as long you don't abuse in crazy pressures (like throwing the phone against the water surface) and avoid long periods of exposure underwater, it should be fine.
But depending on how old your phone is, the membranes that usually protect the micro and speakers, might allow liquid to pass and if so, you will get rust from the salt water. The older your phone is or the longer you leave it under salt water, the more risk you will have. So, please take that into consideration before following my steps. In this case, mine is only 3 years old, so not yet too bad to risk doing these things.
Anyhow, this was great to see if I could capture some underwater pictures. You can barely see the school of small fish. The focal distance underwater is super small... so that's what I could get.
Hey, fishy fishy fishy ... 😂
See you next time fishy!
When you drop next to close footage, the image gets quite great! I had taken more photos, but most of them were crap, because they would auto-focus on the little debris of things floating in the water due to the mega-short focal distance of phones.
Still a very nice photo in my view. And you can spot some "Common periwinkle" in a very short distance... for context, that's about 20-30 cm from the phone.
🔥 A Little Upgrade
One of my sons needed a little upgrade, and we swapped parts around the house as usual. So, I gave him my Ryzen 3 3600 (Zen2) and I bought a Ryzen 7 5800X (Zen3) to replace mine. This was mostly because we didn't want to buy any additional memory and buying a 5950 now would be stupid (and still very rare and overpriced in the NZ market). And mostly because I couldn't wait... due to schools starting.
This raised the base frequency a bit (plus boost clock) and added 2 more cores into the mix. Enough for my experimentation, gaming, etc. Also, power-wise, this one consumes a bit more, so I had to throw a bigger cooler too.
Frankly, I did not want to spend more money on this old PC, but because buying a more recent one now is not in my queue, this should allow me to wait a bit longer before I buy the big core+memory AMD that will replace the 14900K, and I will use this old one for other stuff (like backups, etc).
(https://explore.openhive.network)
I believe I have already stressed in a couple of places, that my new favourite explorer is this one 👆 (picture above). I took a print screen when my node (@atexoras.witness) produced a block, just for the picture obviously.
UI's is not my comfort zone, but I threw a suggestion for improvement based on what I see in the output of the hived node that could be used in the explorer view.
In specific, I quite like this "mempool" view of the #Bitcoin blockchain. So, if anyone wants to take ideas from that and help with any MR to the Block Explorer UI project, here you go. OpenSource stuff means anyone can help (I know, including myself, but I am not sure if here I can be of much help). Plus, due to my IRLW, time is limited and does not allow me to have large periods of concentration (which is only when I can focus on this kind of stuff).
A new 🍯 gamification on Hive
Very recently, I discovered (via @libertycrypto27 post) a very interesting project that @LivingUKTaiwan released. It's called Apis Hive and I think this project has great potential to capture and motivate lots of web2 people who are either initiating on Hive or need an excuse to keep coming every day to check things out. By doing so, there are larger chances for those new Hiviens to keep interested in the discovery of the rest of the platform dapps, potentially improving the retention rate.
(Make sure you read the FAQ and the gamification rules so you understand the motivation. But don't rush... you have time! You can claim once per day (max) so that should give you enough time to read and learn how it all works.
If you fancy a guided post with some excellent explanations, feel free to check @libertycrypto27 post here.
🍃 ATXpi5 RockSolid!
Not much progress on its exploration since last month's post, but I have already made some great use of it. It can run easily a Hive-Engine light node and the VSC node (JS version), and probably every more stuff.
This time I managed to test the performance of the 2.5Gbit interface... and looks solid enough to me!
I have also recorded power consumption for a few moments just to give you an idea.
- Ubuntu 22.04 aarch64 / Linux 6.1.43-rockchip-rk3588
Consumption (w/eMMC only)
OnDemand (idle): 2.5 W (no fan)
OnDemand (idle): 2.7 W (fan)
Performance (idle): 3.0 W (fan)
OnDemand (startingHE+sync): 3.6-4.9 W (fan)
Performance (startingHE+sync): 4.5-5.1 W (fan)
The next stuff is to try to play with some "SATA disks" using an adapter I have, SAS disk via USB3, and anything else I find intriguing.
Not really sure yet what can I do with the Mali-G610 MC4 GPU and the 6TOPs NPU unit... but if you have any ideas, let me know.
😊 Forkyou™ in the next one 😉
My 🖐️ motivation!
Have fun, play games, learn, and when possible, teach new things to newcomers, showing them how interesting this place can be.
🤝 Follow me on X
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Follow for #news about the #HIVE #Blockchain, and other stuff. I sometimes get crazy with what happens around social media. I am following all HIVE users! No promises of behaviour. 😁
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Nice article, we're voting for you as witness, you have to grow as much as possible to get to the top! A greeting!
🙃 I have been falling a few places in the last year yes. Haven't done much scanning around other witnesses healthiness, but once we HF28, I will give a good go.
Thanks for the vote.
Sooo much information 😁
What caught my attention most is the power consumption of the ATX pi 5. That is next to nothing!
Some great updates as usual 👌🏼
The apishive sound like it deserves a checkup 💯
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😇 I am trying to limit my posts to 10 min reading max... I think that's quite a balanced amount.
The PIiiiiiiii stuff is amazing! I am so pumped to try justify something else I already have on the horizon! But first, more playing around.
It certainly seems amazing 👏🏼
Even makes me wanna go into that - just not quite sure where I would find the time at the moment 🤨
Same here don't worry... struggling.
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STOPYou're involved in multiple things. I am trying to find more about hive slowly and thanks again for your help. Have a great weekend
I am around for a lot of time =) so it stacks...
Here's another place for you, where you can see each account on hive details in terms of rewards and some nice badges @arcange team has put up over the years.
https://hivebuzz.me/@forykw (for yours you can check it at https://hivebuzz.me/@finpulse)
Really appreciate your persistence and dedication on continuing to find out about #Hive. 🙏
By the way, this post is indeed a giveaway "enabled" post too. I you want to participate, you just need to read the instructions at the top of the post. If you have any questions, as usual, let me know.
Just a word of warning regarding dipping your iPhone underwater for shots. If the phone is older or slightly degraded, beware of the waterproof sealing not being in its original pristine condition! I learnt that the hard way when my older (supposedly waterproof) iPhone decided to drown trying to take some shots underwater. 🤣 👉ATX👈
Yep, that’s exactly what I tried explaining in the post. I had other waterproof stuff that failed, and got lots of experience from it.
Which iPhone was yours, out of curiosity?
Was an old iPhone 10X Pro Max something something. I've forgotten how the old naming convention goes. It was long due for an upgrade anyway, so no big loss.
Times like these are when I'm glad I shelled out the extra money for an iCloud subscription to always keep my phone constantly backed up.
I can't help but admire your effort: I tried but I can't find the will to try to build something on web2.0... too scard of losing my time without getting nothing back :/
!LOL Well, still having half the readers still reading wouldn't be that bad 🤣
I've seen it too and I like it a lot: gamification imho is something that can help a lot solving Hive users' retention issue, as lots of people love unlocking achievements, getting unique badges and being rewarded for that, so it's definitely a nice addition! Hope it get some traction.
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Thanks for the words man.
And keep doing what you do. You do have lots of value here.
Look at some very interesting pictures my friend have a nice day 😘🤗
Thanks for the feedback
It always feels like the shortest month goes by the fastest!
The last underwater shot is amazing!! Must’ve been fun testing out the iPhone in the water 😁 I don't have the guts to use mine to test this out hahaha
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It’s a bit of, “doing it fast to avoid exposure too”. But yeah, I know what you mean.
That is a very fun activity to do during summer
Which one? I have talked about many 😅
Are you trying to monetize twitter?
In this case, you have to broaden yourself from Hive/ATX community to BTC/ETH community in crypto or to some sports community,
I am not as they didn’t like my last year stuff, and to be honest, and don’t have the patience do be every day there. Just want a wider audience to help reach other people.
Yeah, I figured, trying… via other X communities first to understand a bit more of the type of public.
Yeah February is a quick month for me too, markets crash as compared to January but it's ok with me too. I remember it was raining once and i tried to make a video and my Android phone remained in water for some minutes but it's working fine.
👉ATX👈
Androids in the beginning were much better than iPhones in terms of water proof.
Thanks for posting about Apis I have got collecting straight away and https://crownrend.com/ looks pretty cool too. Ah so many things and so little time !LOL
Where you able to find out what happened to Iron shield who that was high on the ATX pool list that got hacked I cant remember his exact account name?
I wont be trying any under water phone photography mine is so old it starts to send warning with any sign of dampness!
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I only know ironshield was hacked. Not sure about any other account. He didn’t have lots of ATX in the pool. Actually I haven’t even check what the hacker did to his ATX. Great point.
Will get back here…
I thought you might have him on discord too or if he had to start a few account. It would be tough starting from scratch.
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Underwear photography is real fun, Best to get a proper case and camera ATX pools
I have goPro's and stuff like that... but to carry them everywhere is never a thing I recall.. =)
I used to have a special case for older iPhones... and recordings were just amazing.
@forykw, I paid out 0.335 HIVE and 0.089 HBD to reward 11 comments in this discussion thread.
I am ready to power up on HPUD - ATX
There you go! Now all you need is to not forget to power up at least 10 HIVE on the first day of the month (in UTC). Which starts in ish 13 hours and runs for 24 hours.
I will be here tomorrow to remind you! LOL
Ready for another HPUD!
thanks for the mention :)
ATX
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Chanced upon this post on twitter! Let's see if I am lucky for the first time! Thanks!
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Nice, tell others... the more the exposure the successful this will be and the more people will start powering up Hive.
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Hi Forykw, I hope you are well, I have seen you in X sometimes I still get there the government has blocked that social network VPN, we have taken the light and the internet lately, but here I am ... I also like the sea, I have not done to the beach for 10 years, my mother says that maybe this year we go and I will make a beautiful post, the beaches of Venezuela are beautiful ATX
WoW 10 years! 😨
Yes, jjjeee it seems like a long time,,,,, almost my whole life, jjejjejeej I turn 16 years old on March 4th, it's almost time
I feel rich just for being able to live next to the sea!
More like this... even if its not visible...
The sea relaxes me a lot.
Truly a publication with valuable information, about three months ago my cell phone accidentally fell into the water, I realized and took it out at once, I took it to the technician and they did a maintenance, but according to them had to replace the cameras because of the water inside, a few days later, I realized that it worked perfectly. What I want to get to is that not all cell phones are waterproof, thanks for the clarification.
Today I joined by VPN, my country has blocked the X, I'm waiting for you to accept me, there are problems of light and internet and it complicates things, nice pictures under water. ATX
What's your X account?
Done! Followed =) thanks
Thanks to you @forykw
I also have an iPhone 13 but I'm afraid to submerge it in water, although they say it's possible, but I prefer not to try ATX
There are cases as well, if you want to protect it the right way.
saludos amigo, siempre me ha encantado el fondo del mar,
para la proxima participo en su sorteo, un placer
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Wow, I think I'm late. If it wasn't for a reblog, I wouldn't have heard of your post. Greetings. I'm glad you're okay. The situation in my country is a bit difficult, but moving forward. After the storm comes the calm, they say in my town.
Success in your projects, blessings
You are on time =) still a few hours left for this post curation to finish, AND you did power up too =)
That's great, thank you, I hope you are very well, best regards from Venezuela
Rought week for me, but like you said, at least things are moving forward.
what happened to you?
I shouldn't be complaining LOL, It's nothing special... just lots of work =) And little time to have some fun.
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Congratulations winners and thanks for the token.
Thanks for the ATX. This is interesting, will spend some to digest!
mas bacano gracias, cool
Thank you very much, what a great honor, grateful.
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