Investing

September 2018 Dividend Income Report - $65.33

Welcome to the seventieth (#17) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks, peer to peer lending (both fiat and cryptocurrencies) in September 2018. In case you are wondering why I'm sharing online my earnings - the answer is pretty simple - I like transparency and these reports help me to observe my progress or bounces. Hopefully, my reports can…

Crypto

HashMart Bitcoin Cloud Mining Review

It has been a time since I last time reviewed some of the cloud mining platforms. It was at the end of September when I noticed an ad from HashMart.io and decided to explore more. Seems that HashMart.io is a Russian cloud mining company incorporated in Cyprus. Disclosure:  This article contains affiliate links to hashmart.io cloud mining website, by clicking on links on this page and by making a purchase on hashmart.io,…

TOP 14 Best Selling 8GB RAM Laptops

There are several parameters and criteria to use for filtering out laptops for your needs. One of the parameters to look at is RAM memory. In today's article, I've listed the top 14+ best-selling laptops on Amazon featuring 8GB RAM memory.

8GB is a decent business class laptop actually, and it's not a surprise seeing that 8GB RAM is accompanied by Intel Core i5  or even Intel Core i7 processors. 

Not to say more, meet…

Latvia

Kalvene Railway Station

Kalvene Station is a railway station on the Jelgava – Liepāja Railway.The station is located in the Kalvenes municipality of the Aizpute district in Latvia. I noticed this railway couple of years ago and was amazed by its impressive heights visible from the road. Kalvene Railway Station September 2018Kalvene Station was opened on September 25, 1929, along with the opening of the railway line Jelgava-Liepaja . The modern…

Latvia

Gutmanis Cave in Sigulda

Gutman's Cave (Latvian: Gūtmaņa ala) is the widest and highest cave in the Baltic countries, located on the Gauja River in the National Park of Sigulda, Latvia.It started forming more than 10 000 years ago when meltwater eroded the sandstone rock after the Ice Age. It is the oldest tourist attraction in Latvia. On the walls of the cave are inscriptions from the 17th century. It is 18.8…

Latvia

Cafe Ivetas Ķēķis / Jura Staļļi / Grobiņa

Cafe Ivetas Ķēķis (Iveta's Kitchen) is located in Grobiņa municipality, some 10km from Liepāja, this cafe/restaurant actually is part of another cool attraction Jura Staļļi (George's Stables). From my understanding, it's a family run business. It was already past 20:00 and we left Liepāja a little bit hungry and decided to take some quick stop at Caffe Lielā Pietura, but the place was already closed, and we decided to give it a…

Latvia

Red Sun Buffet Liepāja

Red Sun Buffet is a stylish cafe/restaurant located in the heart of Liepāja town.Visited it briefly in the mid-August 2018, just to take some coffee take away.Interior at Red Sun BuffetFeaturing elements Latvians are proud of - Brainstorm, Kristaps Porzingis (NY Knicks) and Intars Busulis. HehInterior at Red Sun BuffetSomehow I already feel bored from black blackboards and white texts. Though cafe late ordered here was delicious.

Investing

August 2018 Dividend Income Report - $158.41

Welcome to the sixteenth (#16) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks, peer to peer lending (both fiat and cryptocurrencies) in August 2018. In case you are wondering why I'm sharing online my earnings - the answer is pretty simple - I like transparency and these reports help me to observe my progress or bounces. Hopefully, my reports can give…

Drupal & Servers

Is It Profitable Mining Ethereum (ETH) now (August / September 2018)?

I have been operating a GPU ETH mining rig since the December 2017, the total cost so far to build it has been $1,661. That's a lot of money for just ~ 58MH/s hashing power. Now, things were different back in December 2017, let's see how does it works out now (August/September 2018).Building a 12 GPU Ethereum Mining Rig From Scratch - Part 1: Ordering DetailsFor most of the Summer my Ethereum mining rig has been powered of (…

Top 5 Best Selling Intel Core i9 (Gaming) Processor Laptops

Intel Core i9 processors are gaining momentum in 2022, and seems they are going to rock in 2023

Top 15 Gaming and Creator Laptops with Intel Core i9 2023

With their high number of cores, high power draw, high thermal output, high performance, and unique desktop socket, LGA 2066, they are intended to be used by enthusiasts. A mobile version based on the standard BGA1440 socket was released in 2018, featuring six hyperthreaded …

Investing

Converting Currency Balances (EUR/USD) Interactive Brokers / Lynx Trader

A time ago I opened a brokerage account with Lynx Broker, which turns out is affiliated with Interactive Brokers.As I opened my account from Europe, by default my base currency was set to EUR, which in fact is nice and neat, as SEPA transfers from my bank to brokerage account happens almost instantly (in the same day).Now, as I started to acquire US stocks, I noticed I have a negative balance in USD currency (while still positive in EUR). I…

Drupal & Servers

Photoshop How to Solve: Could not complete the Save As command because there is not enough memory (RAM)

The other morning I faced an issue Could not complete the Save As command because there is not enough memory (RAM)" while trying to save a .pdf files using Adobe Photoshop. I spent a couple of hours before finally found the solution:

The solution involves another problem - Error: An integer between 96 and 8 is required 


When you try to access the Performance preferences (Edit > Preferences > Performance),…

Latvia

Wild Horses at the Lake Pape (Latvia)

Now, this is an interesting story - we didn't meet any wild horses tonight, but found some great information. At least I did. It turns out, wild horses have been living here just since 1999 when WWF-Latvia started to stimulate the return of wild horses in 1999 in Latvia. It was in the evening of my birthday when we finally reached the place called  "Wild Horses at the Lake Pape " - unfortunately, turns out, such wild places, …

Hotel reviews

Europa City Amrita Hotel Review in Liepāja

Europa City Amrita Hotel is located in the centre of Liepāja. We booked this 4-star hotel in mid-August 2018 and stayed here for two nights in total paying EUR ~110.

The 4-star hotel offers rooms with a flat-screen TV with cable channels, a minibar, and a private bathroom. Free private parking is available for hotel guests.

A couple of years ago I stayed at another great Liepāja hotel - see: Hotel Fontaine…

Latvia

Pape Lighthouse

The Pape Lighthouse (Latvian: Papes bāka) is a lighthouse located on the Latvian coast of the Baltic Sea. I paid a short visit here during my 33 birthday in August 2018.The lighthouse was built in 1910; in a place of a former lighthouse (which existed since 1887); on the southernmost tip of Latvia's coast to the Baltic Sea. Although this lighthouse doesn't impress as much as Akmenrags…

Latvia

Padure Manor in Latvia

I'm continuing to explore manor houses located in Latvia. This time a short stop at Padure manor near AizputePadure manor in 2018In 2018, there was located Laža special school in Padure manor. See: http://lazasskola.lv/

Investing

Unbiased Mintos.com Review - Results after 19 months

I've been investing in Mintos.com peer to peer lending marketplace since the beginning of 2017, or it has been already 19 months since I've been exposing my funds to this Latvian fintech platform. In the past 19 months, I've made a nice revenue of EUR 624.78 (before tax) from an investment worth little more than EUR 4,000I should note that I have been skeptical regarding peer to peer lending business in general and…

Crypto

Invest in Cryptocurrencies - Review After 13 Months (Dollar Cost Averaging)

Time flies and it turns out it has been already more than one year since I've been investing in cryptocurrencies. Wow, what an interesting time it has been - starting with buy and hold, day trading, and even building up a custom ethereum mining rig. At one time I even experimented with cloud mining contracts.It all started in the July 2017 when the idea of purchasing crypto once in a month came after a brief conversation with a friend…

Investing

July 2018 Dividend Income Report - $202.84

Welcome to the fifteenth (#15) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks, peer to peer lending (both fiat and cryptocurrencies) in July 2018. 

In case you are wondering why I'm sharing online my earnings - the answer is pretty simple - I like transparency and these reports help me to observe my progress or bounces. Hopefully, my reports can give some…

Drupal & Servers

Let's Encrypt Fix for "produced an unexpected error: Problem binding to port 443: Could not bind to IPv4 or IPv6.. Skipping."

The other day I faced this problem - server was not automatically renewing Let's Encrypt certificate:  


produced an unexpected error: Problem binding to port 443: Could not bind to IPv4 or IPv6.. Skipping. 


It took me some time to debug and find a solution, which is as easy as shutting down nginx server and then renewing lets encrypt (Solution found here: Trying to renew cert on nginx but getting “Problem…

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