wk29/2021

Links from week 29 2021 (July 19 - 25)

• How I Hacked My Standing Desk With a Raspberry Pi (medium.com/@davidkongfilm) - using a Raspberry Pi to automate a standing desk schedule
• Why are used cars so expensive right now? (thehustle.co) - price of second hand cars is not dropping like usual due to the shortage of chips having an impact on production
• To H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks With Facebook (damninteresting.com) - website that has now deleted its Facebook presence
• Fraud on the Farm: How a baby-faced CEO turned a Farmville clone into a massive Ponzi scheme (restofworld.org) - a farmville style game that purported to support real life farming that finished as a huge pyramid scheme
• Floating wind turbines could rise to great heights (economist.com) -  the huge floating wind turbines of the future
• How to spot a good fake ID (trevorklee.com) - checking the tiny details on ID cards to spot good fakes
• Building The Worst Linux PC Ever (hackaday.com) - creating surely one of the slowest Linux PCs ever out of an 8-bit microcontroller, booting Ubuntu in ~6hours
• Why does the New menu even exist for creating new empty files? (devblogs.microsoft.com) - the reason for the New file option on the Windows right-click menu
• We’d Rather Have the Iceberg Than the Ship (granolashotgun.com) - buying a house in the ever expanding suburban sprawl in the U.S.