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I saw a pair of Chromebooks on ShopGoodWill.com going cheap and I bid $17. I won the pair of Chromebooks for $15. $7.50 a piece shows you how little reputation Chromebooks have. The shipping cost me more than the two computers.
Chromebooks OS is built on Linux and there are lots of project pages that let you install a full Linux repo. I am going to try this and then run a LAMP stack similar to how I ran a WAMP stack on my desktop computer. I will then copy over my WWW folder onto the Chromebook and configure it to replace the desktop machine. It will be interesting.
After I get LAMP working on the Chromebook I am going to do the same thing with a Raspberry Pi. I have a feeling that the Pi will run my websites better than the Chromebook.
If I find time to do this I will post the results here.

I have been using a few different email forwarding services to get email service for the websites running on my local machine.
Cloudflare.com started a beta test of an email forwarding services. I signed up and got accepted this week. I am now using Cloudflare for JT30.com HarpAmps.com and this site KPGraham.com.
Send an email to anybody at one of these sites and I’ll get the mail in my gmail mailbox a few minutes later. I’ve tested this a little and it seems to work.
I will not be very concerned if it doesn’t work. I don’t anticipate any long conversations with anyone.

I had some inspiration and did some googling and I have discovered that I can run a webserver on a raspberry pi. Why? I am running a dozen websites on an old desktop computer in a cluttered room we call the “cat room”. It has been a storage room for old furniture and the cats have decided it’s a good place to take an occasional piss. The old PC draws about 150 watts. A Pi draws 5 or 6 watts. It makes no sense to leave the old PC running all the time to serve a few simple websites.
I asked Erica for Raspberry Pi 400 for Christmas, so I may be installing a LAMP stack on a Pi on Christmas day. (LAMP is Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP and is a standard web server configuration.)
If I can get it working I will turn off my desktop PC, perhaps for a long time. I will probably only turn it on to do Taxes and write short stories.

I have enjoyed answering surveys from Survey Monkey for a few years now, but I’ve done it for free. I recently found that there are a bunch of sites that will actually pay you a small amount to answer surveys.
I have been doing surveys from one of these sites and I’ve made about $50 a week. I do the surveys with the TV on, and I don’t have to concentrate very hard on either the survey or the TV.
There are many places to get paid for surveys, but I have been using https:/www.prolific.co. It has the disadvantage that it pays out in Great Britain Pounds, but it pays directly to PayPal.com so that it is converted to US Dollars automatically. All of the surveys pay for $10 to $15 per hour. Most surveys take a few minutes. Some surveys take 20 minutes or longer.
I am a preferred survey taker because of my age, but it is still hard to snag a survey. The competition is fierce. Prolific.co has shut down the admission of new users because the users so far outnumber the surveys available. I am hoping that things will settle down a bit and I will be able to answer more than I am doing now.
It is nice to get some money for something that is fun to do. I don’t count this as a job, but I am using the money I make to buy Christmas presents.
It is much better than playing solitaire while watching TV at night.

I sent resumes into a dozen or so job postings and was answered by one of them. A week later they emailed me a ‘thanks but no thanks’ message.
I am bummed out an I will not be trying to find a new job. I think being 70 years old makes this difficult.