RCS was a dumpster fire for years. Only in the past couple of years has Google stepped up to be the centralized force in making it work as envisioned.

quick edit to say I agree this could’ve been avoided if Apple had made iMessage for Android, but I just wanted to point out the blame is shared by poor implementation across the board.

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.

I did not expect the acrylic to be hand engraved. Thanks for sharing!

Requires an iPhone 15 Pro or an iPad

Some sort of chemical reaction. My best guess would be a drop of CA glue that degraded the material over time.

Glad you bounced back. Fargo S5 was my favorite story since S1. John Hamm was fantastic.

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.

We are at, bing! 42% efficiency.

I tend to use DuckDB now instead of SQLite for my applications. Though it would be nice if it had better concurrency support.

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.

Where is the carpentry shop?

They could be fined a small amount for cutting down the trees and then include a provision that the trees must be replaced with trees of the same size. If they were large trees, then that could get super expensive very quickly. There was a story about tree law on Reddit where someone cut down 32 trees on their neighbor’s property and were charged $1k each plus the cost of replanting, it ended up just shy of $2M.

If you are in the US, don’t trust any dimensions for wood. Buy a cheap caliper and measure to confirm. Personally, I prefer to work in metric to resist the urge to round to a nice fraction. That being said, measurements are always relative and wood is very forgiving so keep a few offcuts labeled and stored away to use as a reference.

As far as tools go: a cheap pull saw, square, hammer, and a steel straight edge will get you started. Harbor freight has some cheap entry level tools worth buying once to learn on. A drill would be my first power tool purchase if you don’t have one.

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

First, get on the roof if you can and look at the damage yourself. If any plywood is exposed then you’ll want to cover it with a tarp or a plastic sheet. Tuck the top edges into the remaining shingles above it to prevent water from flowing under the tarp. Secure it the best you can with bricks, stones, or something heavy.

The next step, and immediate step if you weren’t able to get on the roof, is to call a roofing contractor. They can put a tarp on if you need it. They will also provide you with estimates of cost to repair and how much needs to be replaced. Do not contact your insurance company until you know the scope of the repair.

If the costs to repair from multiple roofing contractors exceeds your deductible, then it may be worthwhile to contact insurance. If your home has multiple roofs, then they will only want to replace one, although sometimes they will agree on more to maintain a consistent sight line. The important thing is to make sure a roofing contractor is there when the insurance adjuster comes by to help argue for repairs on your behalf. This process of arguing with insurance to get a payout for repairs can take a month or more to complete so check on the tarp periodically.

Good luck!