Indeed, the article was written with Backblaze B2 as the S3-compatible storage used.

The manufacturer can save money by not including grills and if the speaker gets damaged they will make more money when you buy a replacement speaker.

Having a 3d printer is super convenient for any home or shop repairs I need to make. I have so many curtain spacers and custom hooks all over the place now. The key is to get some hours in Fusion or some other good CAD software so you can whip up custom parts in minutes. You may get it wrong the first few times, but a couple minutes of tweaks and then you have a new part printing while you go back to working on other stuff.

The Swedish Maker just put out a video about how transformative 3d printing has been for his workflow. https://youtu.be/p2bClWmKHRM

Not a lawyer, but there are lots of intricacies to this. You can own a trademark without having it be a registered trademark. Registration is expensive and then you are expected to actively defend use of your trademark. Be prepared to pay lawyers to send cease-and-desist letters to parties using your trademark for financial profit. Not to mention you have to be/become a business engaging in interstate commerce using this trademark.

https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/basics/what-trademark

https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/basics/how-much-does-it-cost

dedsec doesn’t appear to be a registered trademark in the US at this time.

https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/search/search-results

edit: added the word registered

The instructions for my smoke detector recommend spraying the openings with compressed air regularly.

I appreciate your question, it is nice to see things from a different perspective. My generator is definitely a luxury that hopefully can remain off. Most utilities focus on uptime and this generator ad is a weird cash grab by preying on people’s fear. My local natural gas company did a similar thing where they strongly encouraged us to buy buried pipe damage coverage through them. If a pipe is damaged on your property then you have to pay a contractor to fix it.

American suburbia is an odd thing. The core metro is usually well planned and stays online due to buried cables. However, a lot of old suburbs were built with overhead lines. Then expansion never slowed down and the cities grew around the old suburbs. Many of the modern suburbs now have underground power, but even they may be fed by overhead poles outside the community. However, other parts of America could be different where they have hurricanes or earthquakes regularly.

Not frequently, but weather extremes and natural disasters do cause outages. I was without power for a couple weeks after a tornado came through my neighborhood. Now I own a generator.

Do you have an auxiliary power connector hooked up to the HBA? Here is the manual.

Play slowed down African elephant noises on the stereo as you drive on wet roads.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/movies/news/g2486/how-6-of-star-wars-iconic-sounds-were-conceived/

Awesome project!

Time is relative, Carter can tell you about it.

Scholastic announced Thursday that “Sunrise on the Reaping,” the fifth volume of Collins’ blockbuster dystopian series, will be published March 18, 2025. The new book begins with the reaping of the Fiftieth Hunger Games, set 24 years before the original “Hunger Games” novel, which came out in 2008, and 40 years after Collins’ most recent book, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.”

At least 10 according to this article.

https://sabersourcing.com/2020/11/11/all-of-the-wookiee-jedi-and-their-remarkable-lightsabers/

or whales?

It stopped around 100m to identify a safe landing spot according to this article.

https://spacenews.com/change-6-lands-on-far-side-of-the-moon-to-collect-unique-lunar-samples/

you’ve never had 3am Waffle House chocolate milk?

2703 AUC translates to 1950 CE

Wikipedia AUC

I buy samples from Atomic Filament when I don’t know which filament would work best for a project. They are 50g spools for under $4 each. It is usually enough filament to print out a filament sample card and a small test piece.

Krystal appears to have the bite size chili dogs, not White Castle.