Running all cores on turbo even when idle.
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As shitty as it is going to be for us, we'll adapt and survive.
And writing the cards can be done with Balena Etcher https://www.balena.io/etcher/
Works well enough and much cheaper than the Pro version. Using it regularly to provision Raspverry Pi-s.
There is nothing superficial about those things. By doing those things you gain wealth that is not measurable by any amount of money.
> Less privileged folks may have to get up early just to barely make it to a shit job because of a 90 minute commute or a bunch of child care (or elder care) duties they have to perform. They may eat poorly or miss exercising because of all the obligations they cannot financially afford to offload.
Less privileged folk also tend to stay up late and fill their minds with mindless media streams (television, social media etc.), drink alcohol to relieve stress to name a few stress relief activities. Daily stress should not be relieved by mind numbing crap, but by taking care of ones mental and physical health or seeking psychological help from professionals. Yes people tend to have too many obligations in which case people should re-assess their values and make sacrifices to not burn themselves out and die early.
Life is complicated but we also tend to over complicate it.
Self discipline is also easier when you actually work on your self discipline, plan your day, have a schedule, stay off your phone and computer when not working and so on. There are countless ways you can make your life easier and stress free.
Losing weight is a matter of eating healthy foods, using the stairs instead of elevators, taking walks during lunchtime, don't eat/drink sugar rich foods and drinks. Losing weight is obviously difficult when one has a medical condition that prevents losing weight, but when you don't it is a matter of self discipline to lose weight. Also taking daily vitamin D supplements makes a huge positive impact on ones mental and physical health.
Liver says no.
For pump and other peripheral control I plan on using an opto-isolated relay board. You can get one for really cheap and they're easy to setup with the Pi. Check this wiki on how to use the board in isolation mode.
https://www.tindie.com/products/miceuz/i2c-soil-moisture-sen...
Haven't had the chance to try it out in soil yet, but reading the comments it looks promising. It uses capacitance instead of resistance and connects directly to the I2C pins of the Pi. So, easier to setup and should be more reliable.
On the software side I use Grafana https://grafana.com/
Not really made for gardening projects but its monitoring and alerting capabilities are pretty much perfect for this kind of application. Not to mention how easy it was to set it up on the Pi and get all (temperature, moisture, light) the sensor data in.