pianoplant

Figured you guys might enjoy my little winter project. I have an always-on server + my gaming PC in my office set up with xmrig. I have electric baseboard heaters in my apartment (PNW, USA) so as long as I'm not heating my office past my normal setpoint the electricity is essentially free.

How I set this up:

• ESP32 flashed with ESPHome + MCP9808 temperature sensor takes a reading of the ambient temperature every minute and sends it to homeassistant
• Homeassistant feeds that temperature (as well as a controllable setpoint) to a python script
• Python runs a PID controller based on the room temp and setpoint
• I use the XMRIG http API to pause/resume and dynamically control the number of threads used for mining

Here's the result:

Keeping my room +/- 0.5 degrees from the setpoint while mining

If you guys are interested I can post more details. I've had my baseboards off for over a month now with outside temps below freezing.

I feel like I used to see a lot of women with super long nails struggling to use their touchscreen phones. I'm sure at least some of them have chosen slightly shorter nails to make it easier.

Just got a new work phone: Galaxy S22. Wanted a pixel but it was out of stock in our internal allocation. Already tired of samsung's UI and interested in something new.

So what do you like? Bonus points if it works with android enterprise's profile mode dual app drawers.