About “Tips”:
While I’m mostly interested in things having to do with:
Computer stuff, especially small single board computers
Making money, usually via trading
Weather and climate (“Global Warming” & “Climate Change”)
Quakes, Volcanoes, and other Earth Sciences
Current economic and political events
(often as those last three have impact on money and climate things…)
And just about any ‘way cool’ interesting science or technology
Oh, and lately, cars &
numerical computing / graphing with languages like Python & Julia ;-)
If something else is interesting to you, put a “tip” here as you like.
If there is a current Hot Topic for active discussion, try one of the Weekly Occasional Open Discussion pages here:
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/category/w-o-o-d/
You can also look at the list of “Categories” on the right hand side and get an idea of any other broad area of interest.
This ought not to be seen as a “limit” on what is “interesting”, more as a “focus list” with other things that are interesting being fair game as well.
The History:
Note that “pages” are the things reached from links on the top bar just under the pretty picture. “Postings” are reached from the listing along the right side of any given article (posting).
Since WordPress has decided that comments on Pages, like the Old Tips Pages, won’t show up in recent comments, it kind of breaks the value of it for me. In response, I shifted from a set of “pages” to a set of “postings”. As any given Tips Posting gets full, I’ll add a new one.
I have kept the same general format, with the T page (top bar) still pointing to both the archive of Tips Pages as well as the series of new Postings via a link to the TIPS category.
This is the next posting from prior Tips postings. Same idea, just a new set of space to put pointers to things of interest. The most immediately preceding Tips posting is:
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2019/11/08/tips-notices-november-2019/.
The generic “T” parent page remains up top, where older copies of the various “Tips” pages can be found archived. The Tips category (see list at right) marks Tips postings for easy location.
Musings from the Chiefio 
I’m seeing Amazon with $99 “Stick PCs” loaded with Windows 10.
I have an old Windows laptop doing duty as a server to a few USB devices. It’d be nice to pull the full-use device away from that duty and let a stick take over. Atom Z8350 processor.
Paranoia strikes deep… Is there much risk these are like the Smart TV scam where a cheap(er) device is sold on the strength of it Trojan Horsing away user data? Any gossip to that effect out there?
I think the issue is that the CPU is 64 bit but may only run some things 32 bit with limited driver and software available these days. Looks like software fighting from limited hardware support is what you have as a negative. IF you can show it does what you want before you buy, fine.
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/93361/intel-atom-x5-z8350-processor-2m-cache-up-to-1-92-ghz.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Atom#32-bit_and_64-bit_hardware_support
Running headless you don’t need a graphics driver, I think, but I’ve not run Windows headless much (more on kvm switch shared head…)
Prrsonally I’d use a Raspberry Pi for $35 for a file server….
Oh, per trojans and data loss: you get all the security of standard Windows with the Atom, enhanced by low vendor interest and limited sotware attention.
Just found this…
Don Lemon is extremely self unaware.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1575031/israel-preparing-for-flights-to-uae-over-saudi-arabia
Saudi to allow Jewish flights over country, but really that is Jewish Native Title Land
Saudi is definitely Native Title Land
How come Aboriginals are Special?
Jewish people in Saudi (including Mecca and Medina):
Indigenous
Probably there for 50,000+ years, longer than Aboriginals
Connection to land
Invaded by others
Stolen generation
etc
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-before-islam-when-saudi-arabia-was-a-jewish-kingdom-1.5626227
https://www.thejc.com/comment/opinion/one-day-jews-will-visit-to-see-saudi-arabia-s-rich-heritage-1.489263
Old Jewish Ruins in Saudi ;)
https://english.alarabiya.net/en/media/digital/2019/08/23/Al-Jazeera-presenter-suggests-Jews-return-to-Saudi-Arabia-stirs-controversy-
https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-saudi-arabia-jewish-sites-with-ancient-resonance-beckon/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Khaybar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaybar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Saudi_Arabia
Were there before the Maori, should get native title
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_tribes_of_Arabia
Mount Sinai is actually in Saudi. Which was Native Title Jewish land
Why they pretend its in Egypt when its not
@EMSmith; you might find this interesting;
Dave Rubin / Scott Adams discuss monetization of podcast /blog
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