Hardware – Scopique's

Modern Problems, Modern Solutions – Ethernet Over Coax

Scopique November 18, 2022

About a week ago we upgraded from Xfinity 1GB internet to Fidium 1GB fiber. They had only finished laying the fiber throughout our town this past summer and knowing what they were doing I was pysched to finally be able to kick…

Stepping into the Wider World From Home

Scopique November 16, 2022

This here website is hosted air-quotes in the cloud air-quotes because despite being a web application developer by trade, I don’t want to screw around with getting my personal shingle up and running on my free time. I used to build blogging-type…

Dedicated Space – Two Setups, One PC

Scopique October 18, 2022

This was originally a Tweetstorm, but I felt that I wanted to write a post and have no other topics to cover this morning, so here we are. I have a Game World Problem: my desk is ill-designed to accommodate everything that…

Something Simple – Mounting the StreamDeck

Scopique September 17, 2022

I do not have the best simpit around, but I am comfortable with it. I have more or less stopped using GameGlass mostly because it’s very slow and uses a lot of “toggle state” controls yet receives no feedback from Star Citizen…

Dumbassery Intensifies

Scopique August 16, 2022

Still kind of on my 3D printing kick, except for two roadblocks. The first is that I’m out of resin. I spilled what little I had (into a safety bucket) when attempting to empty the printing vat back into the resin container.…

Adventures in 3D Printing

Scopique August 1, 2022

My daughter, who is down at Otakon as we speak, asked me if our ancient 3D printer could print her out some items for one of her cosplays. Unfortunately, I had attempted to repair it last year when the filament feeder got…

Hobbies, And the People Who Hate Them

Scopique July 31, 2022

I guess “hate” is too strong a word, but it provides the emotional punch necessary in a title designed to get people to read the post. In my Old Age I have been spending less time playing video games, and more time…

Agony and More Agony – Home Server Setup

Scopique June 26, 2022

This past week, I have been trying to set up a home server. This whole thing started when I had been talking with my boss about the server he has in his home (Synology DS920+ specifically) and all of the cool things…

Update on the Quest 2

Scopique February 23, 2022

It’s been a few weeks since I got the *ahem* Meta Quest 2 *ahem*, so here’s a bit of an update in long form about how it’s been going. Upgrading the Experience Out of the box, I didn’t have any real issues…

reMarkable 2 eInk Note Taking Tablet

Scopique November 3, 2021

My reMarkable 2 eInk tablet arrived whole 2 days early! Let’s take a look! The packaging is pretty much standard for tech these days. A lot of nice slip-cover wrappers, boxes with pull tabs, and everything sitting a convenient and snug little…