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.

Do I need to wear some sort of special technical fabric fanny pack? I don’t want to inhibit the progress of the pioneers.

If I may ask as an edc lurker, I love the idea of edc, but how do you carry so many useful gadgets? If I put stuff in my phone pocket then it scratches up my phone. If I put stuff in my key/wallet pocket then it unlocks my car randomly. I would carry my lathe in my pocket if it was feasible.

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

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.

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/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by_market_capitalization

Anybody have a list of these movies that I assume I need to watch? Trying to avoid any more spoilers in the picture of movies that are in my watchlist, looking at you Legend.

It’s a shame that Mythbusters isn’t around to turn this into a shark week special. I’m pretty sure the myth would be busted and the only risk would be of the batteries catching fire after the shark bites one.

At least 10 according to this article.

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

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

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