Have you ever wanted to become more efficient with a Computer?
Are you on Budget?
Below is a photo of 2 laptops running 10 monitors,
with the lowest cost, highest performing DIY multi-monitor stands designed to date.
And it only took ONE DECADE to come up with the latest design!!
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Sometimes I pretend to live in a fantasy world where I know Elon Musk. I imagine myself to be a great inventor like Musk, but in a microcosm, with no benefit of employees, venture capital, family trusts, a parent or a sibling who pursued the same interests.
However, as an adult with only cats and only a few sheep to care for, I do have some time to create -- and what I seek to create is often times related to "simple ideas" that have been overlooked as well as those that existed prior but were thrown out with bathwater -- typically for corporate benefits, not our own.
If I told you I had been working for the past DECADE on the worlds lowest cost, most functional multi-monitor stands for twice as long as it's been since Musk broke ground for Star Base, and I'm just cresting the hill on this $10 design -- you would laugh (and you should!)
Working by yourself can be brutal, especially when the goal is LOWEST COST DESIGN. There are no sounding boards when you need them, not enough hands when you need them, and nobody can understand why you want to design products that will never lead directly to your own financial wealth. Who would ever want to do that and why?
Engineers and Data Scientists know that with enough money, almost anything is possible -- but it's limited to what is permitted by Commercial Powers that control this world who many are still oblivious too.
In a public setting , with public or venture capital money, you are limited to creating only what they want -- and if/when you stumble on something that threatens patents or long standing processes of others who you may or may not have known existed -- often times you and your work simply vanish.
Check the news just in the past 6 months. Two scientists on the edge of energy discoveries died mysteriously. What are the odds? The same happened during COVID -- and lets not get into the guys who developed cars that ran on water and a 200 mile per gallon carburator. Then look back a decade. Almost 200 alternative medicine doctors gone mysteriously.
Indeed, the world as you know it technologically is NOT what it could be. Not even close.
It's what families and clans with multi-generational money and power want it to be -- and it will always be that way UNTIL enough Engineers and Data Scientists invert.
Stop supporting the Corporations. Find your garages -- build what needs to be built -- and then secretely share you work with others quickly so there are are so many people who could simultaneously release knowledge that they have no place left to survive.
There are items i'd like to see built. They are needed to help the world compute better, and they are beyond the skills I possess now. Without this "stuff" -- the above average person can not easily survive in small business nor efficiently manage a home these days. To survive these days and flourish -- many more small computers are needed around a home and business -- and without these -- the costs of technology support are simply too high for most to survive. If these are developed, a key arm of the Corporate Control grid collapses.
Printers - We need low cost, "Volkswagen bug" style printers. We need machines that can print in black and white and color that have repairable parts -- and refillable ink. For decades, the corporations controlling printer cartridges have charged more for ink per ounce than gold. The new epson ink tanks are nice, but all we need is a printer. Not a scanner/copier/fax machine. Just printers. The scanner needs to be a separate machine. With scanner and printer, don't need copiers. Sure, they'd be nice too, but get the basics built first to wipe out corporate control of those industries, then start competing for complexity again.
Scanners - We need low cost, "Volkswagen bug" style autofeed scanners. I have used Fujitsu Scan Snap for years. The hardware is great the software was written by an inverted 3rd grader from overseas. The product needs to 1) Scan documents and other stuff that it can feed and 2) drop the scanned files in a folder. That's it. The options would be related to scan quality and auto file naming. That's it. No flat bed scanners are needed. Apps on the phone can be used for that now.
Computers - We need low cost, "Volkswagen bug" style computers. My personal preference at this time is small enclosure computers ideally about 2" x 8" x 8" like lenovo's small machines but bigger is fine until smaller is easy -- or some other small cube -- am guessing it would have 5 to 10 components that can be plug and play. be more if easier. If i want a faster processer, i unplug one and put in another. if i want more ram I change out (like now). if I want a bigger hard drive I change out - and hard drive must be easy to remove for imaging backups. We need to figure out what the baseline is needed for running 6 monitors at a time for non-gaming purposes. That reduces processor speed and memory a lot. Then those.
Operating Systems - operating systems need to be stored and installable from separate partitions with some type of way to "reset" a device to new -- as is doable now on those lenovo machines -- chrome books -- iiphones, etc. Even if that requires command line stuff, that's fine. no software needed.
If you build in their Saas Systems your data and your business is never safe.
I was a full stack developer. I've built web based business systems most thought could not be built and I did it with tools most thought couldn't do it. I can provide templates for authentication systems and business backends that can be customized and built out by 6th graders once tought how to do it -- but you have to have multi-monitor setups to program this way efficiently.
My expertise was with Classic ASP with minor javascript For most small businesses that was/is far better than all this javacrip library minutia. I am now very fluent in Javascript but only after building out my own library specific for advanced business system functionality (dragging and dropping columns in tables as a tiny example) and futzing with Google Script for 1000's of hours.
All that is great but overkill for function. Classic ASP still works and I should be able to convert all that to PhP.
For purpose of both learning and rolling out robust Classic ASP Database Driven systems -- all that was/is needed is Microsoft Access and MS Front page (for limited functionality). For unix based sytstems and/or windows systems it would be nice to have alternatives. If you build in their Saas Systems your data and your business is never safe.
Stand Alone DBs for web use - Microsoft Access can be used as a stand alone file on websites with no server configurations. Connect via a "dsn-less" strings. The database file can be backed up via FTP and full copies can be downloaded and used for system build out. There are many benefits to this. If anyone can build a system comparable it would be nice. No stored procedures used. and not necessarily even views. The major feature of Access was it's visual query builder. That was/is a must.
GUI Website builder like Frontpage -- Need a GUI website builder for server side scripting like MS Front Page -- but with few features. All that is needed is the split view design screen and scripting interface. No preview mode. No auto ftp. No website management. However, when filenames change, the system has to be able to change links to that page. Front page still works you just have to ignore 90% of it and get an initial setup correct.
Local backup software - Crashplan had a local backup software that was robust that allowed for real time and/or batch backup of drives, folders and files to locally attached drives and remove servers. I'd settle just for local drives an then I can manually remove those from the home for my own backups. This was paid software, then it was free as they progressed to cloud storage, then it was discontinued once they got bought out by VCs.
I was once a Mechancial Design Engineer and Technical Sales person for a mulit-national company. I developed LOSTPED, the acronym/design tool used by Roboticists around the world for defining application requirements. It was first published by Star Linear Systems engineers a few months after I resigned / went self-employed in 2000 At that time Star Linear Systems was a Mannesman Rexroth Company but it was sold to Bosch.
I can offer the following:
DIY multi-monitor stand designs - required for efficient computer use for all levels
MBA level business education for the novice and professional
Small Business and Home Management guides second to none
Proper Bookkeeping Software and Education - The worlds first and only database driven, semi-automated, double entry bookkeeping program in a (google cloud) spreadsheet with fully functionaly General Ledger. This is exceptional for learning about bookkeeping and accounting and learning about required programming schemas -- as well as showing you what the flaws were with most/all database driven bookeepign and accounting systems
Dozens of relational database systems built in google sheets -- start with flat tables and build out from there -- with methodologies and systems that explain how to do that for small systems so other web based systems are not needed. Point of Sale, Acccounting , Operations etc.
Backend Business System Frameworks - web based, framset based back end business system templates and a proven programming scheme that is more powerful than anything that can be built in Sales Force, SAP etc for pennies on the dollar. It's rudamentary stuff.
Product Ideas - I have a lot of product ideas to share. The address plaques in the image above and methodologies to make those -- which are not known to any other at this time -- are one of several I have to offer.
Trade Knowledge - I purchased and renovated more than 15 homes. Can build an entire home with my own two hands , including plumbing, electric and HVAC. Can also manage subs and employees doing it. Had 40+ vendor accounts at one point. Mastery of some, proficient in others -- efficient in all of them.
30,000+ page code library that is legible. Reads like a book.
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