Since most Hungarian banks do not pay much interest on certificate of deposit (CD) type of “investments” for some time now, but me still wanting to have some amount of easily accessible cash reserve, one thing I did was to get an OTP car sweepstakes deposit for fun, and potentially profit. However due to the nature of this CD one has to check each month whether it has won. Recently my automated checker script broke due to changes on OTP’s site, so it was time to update my script too.
The Raspberry Pi single board computer will throttle under heavy load to prevent the CPU core from overheating. Most boards when purchased will come without a heatsink or just with a small one. However there are custom designed, differently sized heatsinks some even with a tiny fan. The tiny heatsinks merely delay full thermal throttling, while medium sized ones reduce the amount of throttling. I was wondering if it’s possible to get full compute power out of my Raspberry Pi 3B only using passive cooling or is it doomed to throttle at full utilization unless I get active cooling.
Last year I’ve made a post on how to add the open API of IEXTrading as a data source for stock and ETF price quotes in KMyMoney. As of today IEXTrading has gated most of it’s non-IEX data behind a new platform called IEX Cloud. Let’s see how can we make the data to flow again for personal accounting purposes.
I have an old unmanaged, wired, gigabit switch from my university years, namely an ASUS GigaX 1105B, which now acts mainly as a backup and experimentation switch. I’ve decided to take it apart and examine the device for fun as well as a bare bone component for a potential SBC cluster build.
Unfortunately Firefox for Android does not offer export, or as the matter of fact import, functionality of bookmarks stored on the device. The only official way to get bookmarks from the Android version of Firefox is to use the sync service. Since I was decommissioning my old phone from everyday use, I was only interested on saving them onto my computer once, without registering for a sync account.