LeviWritesBooks on Nostr: My wife and I run a small power production company, and we sell electricity using ...

My wife and I run a small power production company, and we sell electricity using multiple GPU's and a CPU, mining whatever Kryptex tells them to mine. But we get paid in sats, which is really nice.

One of our motherboards runs 6 GPUs, the RX 6600 for you nerds. It's been a pain point for a very long time that I thought I would need someone to be physically present in order to cycle this mining rig, we call it Big Rig. I thought that I would need to hire someone to come out, turn it off, then turn it back on.

But then, while we were working in North Scottsdale, Arizona, I tried to log into it using Distant Desktop, but strangely couldn't. We had another mining rig running at that time so we knew our solar power system was working.

I figured the Big Rig had gotten frozen and needed a reboot, but it needed to be physically directed since I couldn't log into it. So after waiting a couple of days, we finally made it back today. I restarted the frozen Big Rig, and once I updated Kryptex it started mining again.

I asked Grok a couple days ago about some way to turn a plug off and on using the internet, and it turned me on to smart plugs. I picked an Amazon smart plug up near Phoenix, and we came home.

I plugged in the plug, downloaded the Alexa app, set up the smart plug, plugged in the Big Rig, and used the app to turn on the Big Rig over the internet. It was so cool!

Then I used the app to turn the Big Rig back off, and then had my wife press the on/off button, and the Big Rig sprang to life! A problem, being able to cycle a mining computer, is solved after years! Without needing to be physically present, and without having to use Distant Desktop to sign into Big Rig, I can now cycle it using the internet and a solar power system, which essentially means my wife and I are WAY more geographically free to travel even days away. I'm so relieved.