(this is the #35 giveaway enabled post - check the giveaway details below)

The "after New Year" weather was kind of crapy on the first two weeks, and only after getting back to work things started getting better.

We did enjoy a few days at the awesome Paraparaumu beach, with amazing weather, 17-22 C degrees water (depending if you go deep or stay in the shallow parts).

On this beach, you can get quite far on medium to low tide...

The iPhone can take some great "macros"...

And after a few tries, I managed to pull an acceptable panorama, just to give you a sense of where I was taking the picture from. And this was not even the farthest you can get... water was under my knees still.

Some of you might have seen this picture already, but there you go...

But throughout all of January, I was still kind of looking for more. Maybe after the kids go back to school I and my soul can spend some alone time either somewhere road-tripping, at the beach or just enjoying the sun from the comfort of home.

So, in the spirit of looking for something more, this weekend I have decided to revive the fishing kayak (slow as hell, and I don't even use it to fish... 🤦‍♂), give it a good wash and jump into the ocean!

The water was like a mirror, which is very rare for Wellington.

It provides perfect conditions for these kinds of things, as long as some boats or water jetskis don't decide to ruin the view.

Weather wise, it was not super open in the sun, but that was actually great because you can easily toast in New Zealand summer.

The wind eventually started after a while... and that "flat mirror" was gone.

Whenever you decide to Kayak you need to keep watch for the changes in weather (it can change quite quickly), especially wind, and make a good decision on which direction you want to go, in case the wind decides to push against you.

In the distance, there was quite a bit of rain, and because it was already blowing from the south, this was my sign to come back.

The rain was catching up... but managed to escape.

This was the trip.

I have bought an Orange Pi 5 Ultra. You can check its details over here.

The main reason for this version was the fact that it has LPDDR5 and the Rockchip (RK3588) looks a bit more beefier than the Raspberry Pi one (it has 4 extra cores of an A55, 1MB more of L3, plus an NPU and PCIe 3.0). So lets see...

For now, I have added some heatsinks (just to feel how much this thing heats, not definitive) and some legs. I have also bought a 256GB eMMC, so I should have enough to start playing with this thing.

It also has an NPU that I want to start discovering what things I can do with this thing.

If this thing has great potential, I already have something even beefier under my radar... and I only spotted this brand (Radxa) after buying the Orange Pi, otherwise, I think I would have ordered the Radxa version, which is more my stile...

The Orion O6 BEAST!

https://radxa.com/products/orion/o6

I have a lot of testing to do on the Orange Pi, but I have a feeling that this thing (the Orion O6) would be an amazing board for a lower-power Full Hive node. But I need to first understand the latency of the memory to these CPUs (and if they can beat the Intel/AMD ones of intensive memory operations). For web stuff, I suspect these are faster, but let's see. More when I can!

If anyone out there has tested compiling Hive on ARM64, let me know... I know @gtg played with some really tiny and low-power Zotac board before, to which I found way later on but got me brewing about buying something very tinny too (at least for a witness).

Totally something just for fun, but because I got nailed by X and forgot to cancel my subscription for an ENTIRE YEAR!, I was kind of left with something without much value (at least for the time I have).

So, I decided to make up some value and change the strategy a bit to see if I could reach out to more people. For now, I need to tag along the people paying for Premium as I understood (although I suspect that X might change rules halfway again soon, once they release whatever "new way of paying users").

How can you help?

If you have an X account follow @forkyishere there, and recently @katerinaramm (katerinaramm1 on X) created the Web3 - Hive Blockchain community of which if we add more hive people into, it will have the following potential impacts:

• Whenever people post inside the community, everyone gets notified (if you want to) and you can also opt to share the same post over the rest of the followers (otherwise it is just visible inside the community)
• Because of the way it exposes Hive on X, people looking into the community will feel more related to the already large amount of people on it (hence why it's important to have numbers there).
• Posting inside of large communities has a large impression rate, because of the notifications (at least for now), which also increases exposure when you also post for all your followers (due to how the algorithm works for very high impressions).

You can post anything related to Hive inside (don't forget that you still have to obey X rules)... and in there I will follow everyone who is also on Hive.

Once I have enough followers, aka around 2k verified members (because this is a metric X says, good enough), and around 5k followers (3k not verified/Premium), I will change a bit the way of sharing things to see if it catches some fire.

IF I start to get paid meanwhile (I doubt it because I messed up last year), which either way is not an objective to me, then more "good noise" will exist. And my aim was always to buy HIVE with the X money, and when that happens I will use that as a show-off message in order to get people attracted to at least research about Hive.

My 🖐️ motivation!

Have fun, play games, learn, and when possible, teach new things to newcomers, showing them how interesting this place can be.

🤝 Follow me on X

@forkyishere 😈 (@forykw dark side) is a character I created, which emerged from Crimsonclad imagination 🙏 while dwelling over the dark dungeons of Discord chat levels.

Follow for #news about the #HIVE #Blockchain, and other stuff. I sometimes get crazy with what happens around social media. I am following all HIVE users! No promises of behaviour. 😁

In addition, if you are looking for a nice place to either reach out, share or just have a great time, come along to @atexoras.pub gatherings. We welcome everyone on the blockchain.

👉 Vote for Witnesses

(⚡Vote) - Hive-Engine here - voting uses staked WORKERBEE
(⚡Vote) - HIVE here - voting uses staked HIVE

(✍Delegate) - 3Speak Network - You win 0.015% SPK tokens if you delegate LARYNX to other nodes, as opposed to only 0.010% from your powered LARYNX!

@forykw is running 😎 @atexoras.witness on all the above 💪

📰 Public Hive Engine Infrastructure

• Cloudflare Protected
• HE RPC (https://he.atexoras.com:2083)
• HE P2P (https://he.atexoras.com:2053)
• HE History (https://he.atexoras.com:8443)

Any feedback/problems, feel free to contact me! My stuff is being monitored via UpTimeRobot where you can find their current status or just come along to the ATX Discord server.

😎 Looking for some #HIVE merch? (ASK ME) - I did try to setup something but I don't have the time for it anymore (for now). 😘

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