Hi, @abitcoinskeptic
Congratulations ๐๐๐พ๐ on your new computer! When I get a new one I always am excited to see it zoom down the internet faster then my old one!
I had to chuckle at the end cause I realize there was a day I would skip the details, but now after building a few crypto miners I want to know what components people pick and why..
I also wanted to say I enjoyed the civil discourse you and markkjuntunen had about Steem economics. Itโs so refreshing to see people discus different points of view and debate points without deteriorating into a flag war. Thank you. Every day, in some little way, things here get better.
Take care,
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It's interesting how computers have just become either gaming or Internet machines for most uses
Cryptominers specs seem a little different. You probably focus on GPU and a motherboard that just supports a lot of those. Electricity is too expensive here to bother with that. Although, whenever I get a new GPU, admittingly I try to see how well it can do.
The one I have now could easily run mira, especially if I threw in another 16gb of ram.
Glad you enjoyed my discussion with markkjuntunen. I guess you are meaning our conversation about Steem liquidity and powerdowns. I don't even disagree with a lot of what was said. It is more of my way of asking for clarification or getting meaningful discussion. I only flag people who abuse Steem or really annoy me with trolling. It hasn't crossed my mind to flag him before..
Hi
I agree that computers have become very specialized. The pre-fabricated computer miners for Bitcoin have only one single purpose and are very difficult to repurpose for anything other then mining.
This is not how I envisioned computers developing. I thought they might become fancy home media centers like a PlayStation which allows internet webpage navigation via a built in browser, photo and movie storage, playing streaming movies via Netflix, watching YouTube and playing games.
But so far I havenโt seen that, but perhaps individuals can build their own system to do all these things. And a popular manufacturer will follow up and improve upon this media center design.
We will see.
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I've always figured there would be a few types of computers that can do everything alright, ie. phones, laptops/tablets and desktops (especially with peripherals). These are very good for lifesyle, etc.
And then there are computers that can do one or two things extremely well (ie. bitcoin miners, robots). Cloud computing and storage are opening up interesting new avenues, and cryptology is keeping everything safe, but there are still some things I don't feel comfortable having on the internet. Air gapping is still the best failsafe we have. Also, if we want computers to be extremely efficient and tiny, we will only make them useful for what we are using them for.