If you subscribe to the site and received a bunch of notifications from old posts today, that is because I’ve just updated 50+ stories where Google Indexer found issues with some of the videos, most of which are no longer available at their original source.
I’ve deleted the offending links and corrected a couple of grammar issues.
I recently ordered and received the Peak Design Universal Adapter and finally got the chance to try it out today. I actually received it for free as I have ordered a case from them, the Everyday Case for Pixel. Due to various problems the cases are still on back order. No big deal but Peak Design was kind enough to shoot an email out with a coupon to get the adapter free as their way of an apology. Not necessary but a cool way for a company to respond.
This is what the adapter looks like on the back of the dbrand case on my Pixel 6 Pro.
I had to wait a couple of days to try it out because I had to order an Apple Magsafe charger and a 1″ ball adapter for my Ram Mount. I’ll get into the Ram Mounts at some other time but I have used a Ram Mount for the last ten years. They are the most awesome and sturdy mounts you can buy. Depending on what you need it can get a bit pricey but definitely worth it. This is actually my second Ram Mount, my first one was stolen when someone broke into my car three or four years ago.
Here’s the Magsafe charger attached to my Ram Mount.
I’m not sure how well these should work as I have never played with Magsafe anymore, I’m an Android guy and unless you purchase third party products, obviously Apple doesn’t make anything for me. Seems like a great idea. Wireless charging and a magnet. Great idea, not such great results, at least in my case. First speedbump I went over the phone slid off and cracked my screen protector. Oh well, it’s back to the X-Grip. I linked to a version of it above (by the way, those are affiliate links so if you click on them I might get a buck or something). Here’s the picture of my X-Grip below.
I still like the idea of the wireless charger. What I may do is take the magsafe charger out of the adapter I bought and glue or tape it into the X-Grip. Looks like there is just enough room to accommodate my phone and the charger.
My only concern is that while I received the Peak Design Universal Adapter for free (not including the magsafe charger, USB-C to USB adapter and 1″ ball adapter I bought) the Everyday Case I am waiting on was $40. That’s as much as I paid for the dbrand case, which is much better looking. If it falls off the magsafe charger like this adapter did, it will be headed for the trash bin. I lie, it’ll go into one of my desk drawers with cases from my last 15 or so phones until I can find someone that needs it 🙂
I also had to remove my Spigen Ring, which I really like, from the back of the case in order to install the Peak Design adapter. I may be prying that off real soon if I can do it without ripping the skin off the case. Time to break out the heat gun…
I managed to register both shadowscope.net and shadowscope.us; Both should forward here (along with richiemiles.com, which I have owned for several years. the subdomains which redirect to my BBS that’s hosted here, should also forward correctly. You can now access the board through:
bbs.shadowscope.com, bbs.shadowscope.net, bbs.shadowscope.us and shadowscope.noip.us
I have also upgraded my weather station and will be putting it back online soon. With the move to the new town it’s been down for a couple of months. I will be back online at villaricaweather.com and villaricaweather.us once it’s up. Full weather report, forecasts, and a couple of webcams.
Should be transparent but I am moving my last two domains (the original shadowscope.com and another one) over to Google Domains from register.com; It’s cheaper and it’s a hell of a lot easier to manage domains through Google than it is register.com
Apparently my web provider decided to restore something from backup and when they did it messed up my domain forwarding that I set up in the zone editor. When I asked them to restore all they did was add a 301 forwarding rule, which pretty much does nothing unless you are accessing stuff with a web browser.
Between the move and holidays and work I haven’t had the time to fix. Since it had been so long since I added the CNAME in my zone editor I forgot how to do it lol. Looked that up (Thanks Google) and fixed it late this past week. You should now be able to access the BBS however you were doing it before.
Regardless, should the forwarding go down you can always access it at shadowscope.noip.us which is where bbs.shadowscope.com is forwarded to.
Seems like the only time I post at all the last couple of years is when I’ve updated the site.
I’ve temporarily changed from the comic based theme here to retrogeek. Not sure if I like this or not but as most of my stuff the last couple of years has to do with the BBS or Home Automation it fits.
Cleaned up the categories. While all of the crime categories are gone, the posts are still here and I am planning on leaving them. If you find that you have been mentioned in a post and want to request it be taken down shoot me a message using the support link above. I can guarantee that if you were convicted of murder, rape, child abuse, etc…you’re going to be here forever. The rest, however, I will consider on a case by case basis. If you come in here demanding it be taken down or threatening me, fuck you then. Use your manners.
I also got rid of the sidebar links. The majority of the blogs that I used to frequent have been gone for over a decade now and the couple that I still visit I have in my own bookmarks.
Feel free to make suggestions.
Had a few minutes of downtime earlier. Just finished adding another network drive as I was running out of space for my Plex server. I now have 11 terabytes of network space (4 of that is free). Should be good for another couple of years.
Going to take the BBS down again later this evening for an update to the Mystic software as well.
The power went out in the storms last night briefly. When it came back on apparently my mesh network didn’t start operating again. I was able to get out but apparently the BBS was unavailable. Didn’t realize that until this morning. I’ve reset it and everything should be good to go now.
Going to pin this post (if it lets me) so that folks can more easily find the links. You can access the BBS by using your telnet client and visiting telnet://bbs.shadowscope.com or telnet://shadowscope.noip.us
If you want an EASY way to get to it from your web browser you can access it from this blog (best accessed using a desktop browser, may not display properly on mobile browsers) or by going to http://shadowscope.noip.us/
Plenty of games (200+) both locally hosted and networked. Local and networked Message areas, news groups, awesome old-school Ansi featuring Luciano Ayres artwork and MORE. With a bent toward the supernatural and horror.
Due to the severe weather that’s supposed to move through this evening and into overnight I will be taking down the BBS and any other internal servers for the evening. Depending on when the storm moves through it may be tomorrow evening before I come back online (Have to leave for work around 6ish.)
The website here will stay up as the server is located across the country but the BBS, home automation server and media servers will be inaccessible.
Charter Spectrum apparently has an internet Outage in my area so the BBS and mailer are down until they get it fixed.