I've been sleeping on a false hope for a very long time, I was a fan of new cryptonote coins and I've spend years gathering them, thinking I will be rich one way or the other, I mined coins like
1. Mask Coin
2. Goro Coin
3. Snowflake
4. Recoal
5. Tokl
6. Festival Coin
7. Btor
All these coins are now abandoned and dead, no update since 2018, I'm sharing this today to warn those who still believes in petty coins like these, stop wasting electricity and mine better coins like Monero, Haven Protocol and other popular cryptonight coins or regret later on
I suppose it wasn't entirely a waste of time and money. In the end you got out with the most important lesson about mining and you now also know the process step by step so it won't take you too long to upgrade, providing that you also have enough capital to invest into hardware.
In any case, this is a well learnt lesson and it is one all miners should be aware about. In the end, mining is similar to trading in that you still have to speculate around the coins, risks and rewards.