And then you decide to become a witness ....

Good day , yeah i know another witness ... 😜

I've been thinking of becoming a witness ever since i joined steemit / hive, why because i've done so many things on computers in the past from playing with MIDI to running a bbs on 1200baud modems up to hosting +400 websites on a dedicated server back in +/- 2003 .

About a year ago i even bought a pc for it just to play with it , but then things in life happened and i had to prostpone the idea .

Then we had to move places , then the wife got in the hospital , then we had other family maters , then i ended up in surgery , then we got a warning they were going to upgrade the powerlines in this area and now they were done with the powerline upgrades so no more outage they promissed .

And yesterday i saw this post of @ph1102 about the upgrade of their liotes witness and a link to a simple manual from @mahdiyari on how to setup a witness in docker Link

So the hardware we use :
is a minisforum UM780-xtx

Specifications
Model:EliteMini UM780 XTX
Processor:AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS (8 Cores / 16 Threads)
Clock Speed: 3.8 GHz (Base) 5.1 GHz (Boost)
Integrated Graphics:AMD Radeon 780M
Memory:2x 32 GB Crucial DDR5 5600 MHz
2x 262-pin DDR5 SO-DIMM slots (5600 MHz + 96 GB max)
Storage:1 TB Kingston OM8PGP41024Q-A0 M.2 NVMe SSD
2x M.2 2280 PCIe Gen 4 x4 (1x if using OCulink)
2x 2.5 GbE LAN (back)
2x Realtek RTL8125 2.5 GbE
Cooling:Active cooling (heatsink/fan)
[source ] https://www.minisforum.com/products/elitemini-um780-xtx

I've used the mini-pc for gaming played GTA-V , World of warcraft and Guild wars 2 on it worked pretty good even on 4k so i know the hardware is solid.

I was planning on setting this up on my proxmox homelab , but i can always setup a second one there with one of my alt accounts to see how good or bad it would run compared to this.

Yes i will be running this from home i have a decent internet connection :
since i have an optical fiber conection at home.

and since 14:00 local time it is up and running ... i think

I don't expect to run in the top 20 but every little bit helps i guess in the end to keep the network up and running .

I'm not chasing golden eggs and not invested in crypto , i prefer to invest in my photo equipment and share my photography here on hive .

So should you vote on me ? ....

That depends what you expect to get back for it , my votes are not for sale and i'm a terible dishwasher .

I do own two communities on hive ( and a cat ): the most active one is Photo-essay

/tag/hive-14396

and the other one is Macrophotography , but due to all IRL issues i didn't have the time to get that one active again.

/tag/hive-15966

Hopefully things will stabilize in the family so that i can focus more on my photography and communities .

At the moment i also do some curation and moderation work for @ecency in the discord server.

And i also do some curation work for @topcomment , so yes I'm still very active on hive maybe not always visible but i try to be there.

and o yeah the bee and the cat are my own photo's 😎