I was struggling with the title for this post, but you will get the point when you read the content... We are living in heavy-consumer times and we are brainwashed for so many things, sometimes with sense, but other times without any sense... For example, I remember the time when mobile phones were $100-$150, and those were "better ones"... In those times, I had a personal rule that I would not pay more than $50 for a phone! I was an IT guy, doing everything on my PC and it was logical to not spend money on a thing like a phone ( I was rather spending fortunes on CPUs, RAM, or a color inkjet printer when it was paid by gold... lol... 😂).
As time passed, I was raising my limits for a phone to $80, then $100, and I think that my latest phone was around $200... Which is nothing compared to phones over $1K, or more... But, maybe I did put some limits on the phone price, but I failed on another thing... I failed on my PC stuff... That's my kryptonite, where I'm not ready to make a compromise... 😃 As for security issues, I switched all my computers to Linux 20 years ago... Whenever I would buy a laptop, I would delete Windows on Day 1, and install Linux... Btw. I'm not an expert in Linux, and most things that I learned about it were on my own, and basic things that I have to know...
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As safety is one of my main concerns regarding my data, I have decided to update my Linux Mint today to the latest version... I'm not doing that very often because of potential issues with scripts and apps that I'm using, also, every upgrade has risks... Linux isn't like Windows regarding updates... If you don't update your system right away, the probability that you will be hacked the next day is insignificant... With Windows, I remember the time when some virus came out one day, and in 2 to 3 days, millions of systems around the globe were infected!
Anyway, I went too wide with the story... lol... So, I did the upgrade, rebooted my computer, and got... a BLACK SCREEN!! Nothing happens!! It stuck completely... I took my phone and began to search for reasons why that happened and how to reverse back my system to the previous version (of course, my last backup was a year ago (or more)🤦)... After a while, I found the reason and it was this:
bugs.launchpad.net
Can you spot the date in the top left corner? Yes, it was a freakin' 3 days ago!!! And yes, I have exactly that AMD GPU! :double-palmface-emoji-comes-here:
So, the probabilities that this happens are so low, that I can't even calculate them... One reason why are they so low is that I'm doing these system upgrades very rarely, but when I do them, I'm very lucky to be a guinea pig... lol... 😂 Proud to be one of the chosen ones... 🤣
I remember ONE time when I had a situation that was maybe even more "unique case" 😃... When I had a PC shop, we were selling computer parts, but also printers... And we bought a new Samsung laser printer which was easy to refill, but the model was like 2 weeks old! When we got it for testing, we realized that the toner has a special chip that marks when it is empty, and when you refill it, it wouldn't work... So, we began to Google it, and for the first time in my life, Google showed only ONE PAGE of results! 😂
Tenor.com
One of the results was in Russian language, but somehow, we managed to understand how and what we had to do with that chip to make it work... and it worked out! 😃
Back to my current case... Long story short, as you are reading this post, you probably guessed that my computer works... 😀 I recovered the system from the old backup, some apps are now older than they were before, but it works (I hope that script for paying this "dividends" will work out... will see in a minute)... Not touching anything!!! 😂 I will probably buy a new hard disk (is it cold like that anymore?), and install a new system on it... I found that the best way to NOT lose some valuable data is by "experimenting", and if I need something to do fast, I can always replace the disk with the old one, load the old system and do it!!
What did I learn today? Upgrades are good, but not always necessary as we think... We can survive without the newest iPhone, the best sneakers on the market, or without having the newest version of the operating system... 😃
Let's go back to the report numbers!
The same as last week, we didn't have too much movement in the pool... A few small delegations from current members... Thanks for your delegations!!!
In the last 7 days we mined 100 BEE tokens in total!!!
This POOL doesn't have fees and you get up to 20% MORE by delegating to it!
What about the bonus tokens?
This week it is time to giveaway some SPS tokens as a bonus... Last time, I did that at the end of April, and from them, unfortunately, the price went down significantly... Well, that's not that bad if you are accumulating SPS tokens for the long term as you can get more of them for less money! Because of that, you will receive this time almost double the previous amount! Of course, if you are not accumulating SPS tokens, you can freely sell them on the market... There is enough liquidity to do that without big slippage...
There will be distributed 230 SPS tokens to the delegators of the pool as a bonus reward today!
As always, in the end, let's give the exact numbers for this week... There will be distributed 100 BEE tokens and 230 SPS tokens as a bonus... The APR (without the bonus) was 7.767%, and when we added the bonus it went up to 9.313%!
I have calculated the ROI approximately with medium prices for all tokens at the moment of creating this post... So, those numbers are valid if you bought WB and sold BEE tokens at the middle HiveEngine price...
Do you want to sponsor the PH-Pool with your tokens, receive a short SPONSORED segment in this post, and raise awareness about your front-end or dApp? Please let me know in the comment section, or contact me through Discord or Twitter and we will find the best solution for both parties...
If you want to join the WorkerBee PH-Pool, the only thing that you have to do is to STAKE tokens to YOUR account and DELEGATE your staked WORKERBEE tokens to THIS account (
@ph1102)! Every week you will get your portion of mined BEE tokens and BONUS rewards!
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