2022 is destined to be another year of big changes! As part of this, Rippowam Labs has made the decision to consciously decouple itself from Big Tech and we’ve dumped our old Android phones in favor of GrapheneOS! GrapheneOS is a flavor of the Android operating system that has NOT been co-opted by Google and/or …
Monthly Archives: January 2022
Time to De-Google
I’ve been talking to some of my friends lately and we’ve become so disappointed with the big Tech companies. The social media companies cancel anyone who expresses an opinion other than that of the mainstream media and companies like Google and Facebook have the ability to track your every step – even if you have …
Our DIY Projects aren’t all robots
My wife and daughter gave me a great Christmas gift this year. They gave me some Rit fabric dye (along with some color fixative). I had some old jeans that were still good (no rips or fryaing) – but they were really faded in some spots. I guess this was to be expected after 5 …
Mining for Crypto
We were wondering how we could dip our toes into the profitable world of cryptocurrency mining. After all, the crypto scene is exploding and fortunes are being made. Our group created a Bitcoin miner back in 2011 – but it all ended badly when we couldn’t decide how to divvy up the profits (not that …