Blog Archive: December 2022
An ex-pat living in Georgia since 2011, I trade stocks, take photographs, work out at the gym, and many more. Here I write about travel, finance, and other things that might interest me.
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How to Install Drupal 9 with Nginx, PHP-FPM 8.1, MySQL, phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 22.04 - Linode Guide
In this article, you will learn how to set up a webserver for serving Drupal websites running with Nginx, PHP-FPM 8.1, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 22.04 For the following tutorial, I used very much the information from my previous guide with Ubuntu 18.04, but I decided to rewrite it for Ubuntu 22.04 version as it is shipped with php8.1 version and will work with Drupal 9 (most probably with previous versions too) Prerequisites Ubuntu 22.…
How To Earn $200/mo from trading Ethereum Call Options
In this article, I will share a practical example of how to potentially make $200/mo from trading ETH options on the deribit or any other reputable crypto trading platform. There are several ways to make money trading Ethereum or any other crypto, in this article I will focus on selling call options. Call options are financial contracts that give the option buyer the right but not the obligation to buy a stock, bond, commodity, or other…
November 2022 Blog Traffic And Income Report 21,650 Users / $ 398.52
Welcome to the #1 renewed blog traffic and income reports covering blog traffic and earnings/expenses for November 2022. It has been already 7 years since my latest blog traffic and income report. As I enjoyed them back in 2014-2015, and because both the blog traffic and income have decreased significantly in the past year - I decided to renew these reports to get a better understanding of what's happening behind the scenes as they help me…
Latest Stock Buy: Bought 1 AMZN shares at $93.57
On November 18, 2022, we bought an additional 1 share of Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) stock, paying $93.57 per share for our Partnership Fund. We are now holding 11 shares of AMZN in our Partnership Fund portfolio Using dollar-cost averaging our average cost per AMZN share is $110.52 89 shares to go once we will be able to start selling covered calls and generate extra income from AMZN stock. We are looking to get there by April / May 2023 using a…
Top 15 Gaming and Creator Laptops with Intel Core i9 2023
Intel Core i9 processor-powered laptops have already established their authority among gaming laptops, now gaining momentum among creators. Without much hesitation, I will say that I9 is going to rock in 2023 too. Intel Core i9-powered laptops come with a price attached. You should be willing to spend about $1,500-$4,000 in 2023 In this article, I have listed the top 15 gaming/creator laptops with Intel Core i9 processors. 11th, 12th, and…
Crypto Portfolio Updates November 2022
November is over and it is time to take a look at how did it go. Last November we stayed in Georgia, with limited travel mostly just around Tbilisi. For our 4-year-old daughter hired a swimming coach, who turned out to be a 7-time Georgian champion in butterfly-style swimming. Additionally secured our first buy for real estate in Tbilisi and won an online bid for the plot of land in Latvia. Both properties are planned to sell for a profit…
How To Gain Access to Linode over Finnix SSH in Rescue Mode
In this article, I will keep some notes on how I accessed an "inaccessible" Linode over SSH using Rescue mode. Brief background: More than 10 years ago (in 2012) I did set up a virtual server for XTRF translation management software, back then I choose freshly released Debian 6 (which reached its end of Life back in February 2016). Back in the day, XTRF was not a big name, and most of the help support was done over some simple MS Word…