Hi there

It's a Saturday morning here in New Zealand as I type this, windy and a bit cool, it's meant to be summer. Hmm.

Have some updates to history.txt to share. I'll hatch out an updated nodelist and infopack shortly. I also plan to try and hatch some ANSI art files a bit later too.

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2021-12-15
Added Node 2/128 seeLive's rusty Hedgehog BBS (USA) Joining the fsxNet
community welcome aboard to Clive Reuben who is based in
Reuben. Also running Mystic BBS on a RPi you can find the
BBS at rustyhedgehog.dynv6.net:2300

2021-12-14
Added Node 2/119 Anderson's Toolshed BBS (USA) welcome to sysop Jon Thorson
who hails from Longmont, CO. You can reach his BBS by
heading to bbs.andersonstoolshed.com:2323
Powered by Mystic the BBS is runing on a Raspberry Pi
(a popular choice for sysops these days).

2021-12-13
Added Node 4/135 PiBBS (CAN) welcome to sysop Shaun "McDoob" Buzza who is
based in Ottawa. Running a Mystic BBS system you can reach
his BBS at pibbs.sytes.net

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Best, Paul

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2021-12-13
Added Node 4/135 PiBBS (CAN) welcome to sysop Shaun "McDoob" Buzza who
is based in Ottawa. Running a Mystic BBS system you can reach
his BBS at pibbs.sytes.net

Popular indeed! And here I thought I was being clever! o_O

Time to fall back on some old advice:

If you can't blind 'em with your brilliance,
baffle 'em with your bullsh!t...XD

Thanks for the welcome, Avon!

McDoob
SysOp, PiBBS
pibbs.sytes.net

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On 17 Dec 2021 at 04:11p, McDoob pondered and said...

Popular indeed! And here I thought I was being clever! o_O
Time to fall back on some old advice:
If you can't blind 'em with your brilliance,
baffle 'em with your bullsh!t...XD

Nah, just keep doing what you're doing and have fun for your own reasons :)

Nice to have you as a member of the online community :)

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On 12-17-21 16:11, McDoob wrote to Avon <=-

Powered by Mystic the BBS is runing on a Raspberry Pi
(a popular choice for sysops these days).

2021-12-13
Added Node 4/135 PiBBS (CAN) welcome to sysop Shaun "McDoob" Buzza who
is based in Ottawa. Running a Mystic BBS system you can reach
his BBS at pibbs.sytes.net

Popular indeed! And here I thought I was being clever! o_O

Haha I'm using a Banana Pi, and have run some Pi based device since around 2016. Clever - yes, new, nope. However, my big upgrade this year, just before my burnout episode was probably a BBS saver - a 500 GB SSD, which allowed me to make the SD card read only. :) I could feel things going downhill and was concerned I couldn't keep up the maintenance of SD cards, which was affected before reading mail.



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year, just before my burnout episode was probably a BBS saver - a 500 GB SSD, which allowed me to make the SD card read only. :) I could feel things going downhill and was concerned I couldn't keep up the
maintenance of SD cards, which was affected before reading mail.

Right now, that's not a huge issue. I have a couple of spare SD cards. But
it's something I'll have to look into in the future. Eventually, 32 GB is
going to start feeling tight...

McDoob
SysOp, PiBBS
pibbs.sytes.net

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On 12-19-21 23:38, McDoob wrote to Vk3jed <=-

Right now, that's not a huge issue. I have a couple of spare SD cards.
But it's something I'll have to look into in the future. Eventually, 32
GB is going to start feeling tight...

I had to change them every 6 months due to wear, but no longer. :)


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Right now, that's not a huge issue. I have a couple of spare SD cards.
But it's something I'll have to look into in the future. Eventually, 32
GB is going to start feeling tight...

Reminds me how I just got a new phone (Fairphone 4), and it says something about being able to handle an SD (I forget the exact type) card up to 2 TB in space.

So of course I start looking on German sites for any place that _sells_ that size of card, and so far have only seen 512GB.

and, of course, there's the tiny matter of what I'd do with that much space
on my phone, and the obvious answer is to copy over my entire laptop hard drive, twice.

But I'm sure it'll start feeling tight before too terribly long -- videos
have their ways of taking up lots of space.

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Reminds me how I just got a new phone (Fairphone 4), and it says
something about being able to handle an SD (I forget the exact type)
card up to 2 TB in space.
So of course I start looking on German sites for any place that _sells_ that size of card, and so far have only seen 512GB.

(@_@) 2 TB?!?! DAMN! My phone is just using the 32GB internal and a 64GB!

But I'm sure it'll start feeling tight before too terribly long -- videos have their ways of taking up lots of space.

I really don't get why someone would put videos on a phone. I mean, why would
I watch something on a screen that fits in my pocket, instead of the screen that takes up a significant portion of my living room wall?

On the other hand, I did fill that 64GB with mostly music...like...my entire library...

To each their own!

McDoob
SysOp, PiBBS
pibbs.sytes.net

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Re: Re: Houskeeping / welcomes
By: McDoob to Adept on Thu Dec 23 2021 03:28 pm

I really don't get why someone would put videos on a phone. I mean, why woul I watch something on a screen that fits in my pocket, instead of the screen that takes up a significant portion of my living room wall?

Smartphones are portable, so if you are deeeeeeeeply bored, you can pull out a smartphone and, as a desperate attempt to beat tedium, watch a movie in such a small screen, anywhere you are, anytime you are.

I cannot take a 40" screen with me and watch Fury (The Story of a Horse and the Boy Who Loved Him) in a waiting room, but I could do so in a waiting room. So there is that.

Other than that, there are not many other legit applications, unless you are poor and can afford a single piece of electronics, and it happens to be a mobile phone.

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Reminds me how I just got a new phone (Fairphone 4), and it says
something
about being able to handle an SD (I forget the exact type) card up to 2
TB in

I would put my entire music library on the phone.


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Arelor wrote to McDoob <=-

Smartphones are portable, so if you are deeeeeeeeply bored, you can
pull out a smartphone and, as a desperate attempt to beat tedium, watch
a movie in such a small screen, anywhere you are, anytime you are.

Mine also serves as a media backup. I bought a 512 GB card and copy any new movies and music to it to bring with me on the go.

On the rare occasions that I went out to lunch at work, I'd usually get something through drive-through, mount my phone on my dash mount, play the sound through my car and have a dine-in movie in my car. Even though most dining rooms are open now, I still prefer the former.


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I really don't get why someone would put videos on a phone. I mean, why would I watch something on a screen that fits in my pocket, instead of
the screen that takes up a significant portion of my living room wall?

Yeah, I think it makes more sense with, "and I'm on a long trip and have my phone with me" or "I don't have space for a larger screen, so I watch stuff
on my phone".

But I guess I was thinking more along the lines of watching video _that I
took on the phone_, as the phone cameras can create some pretty large files, these days, and people's best camera being a phone is probably standard.

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But I guess I was thinking more along the lines of watching video _that I took on the phone_, as the phone cameras can create some pretty large files, these days, and people's best camera being a phone is probably standard.

Fair point. I basically never use a camera, even my phone's, so that idea had never occured to me.

McDoob
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