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.

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.

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.

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/

At least 10 according to this article.

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

Molex MicroFit 3.0 are my gold standard for general purpose low voltage connectors. I buy from an electronics distributor (Digikey or Mouser) and crimp my own connectors. However, I did find a listing on Amazon for pre-crimped jumper wires and connector housings.

https://a.co/d/hrrtj3f

Middle vertical and outsides at 45 degrees

Punching Feyd-Rautha seems like a bad move

Roy Tillman (Fargo S5E8)

Snapraid to a single drive works well if you are fine with daily snapshots of up to 6 drives.

no clue, mine doesn’t seem to vibrate. just one of the things that popped up when I searched for why they used to warn against it. was hoping to get a “back in my day” comment explaining why.

Great setup! I’ve heard that it is best practice to keep a little distance between servers/drives and the UPS just to be safe from vibrations or EMI. Does anyone know if this is still something to worry about?

oof, nearly 3k for that model (assuming B020-U16-19-IP)

I have a voice assistant in every room so it can automatically recognize what lights I mean when I say “turn off the lights”. Controlling individual lights can be a little annoying so my Living Room Left and Right lamps are just called Fred and George.

MergerFS + Snapraid is a really nice way to turn ext4 mounts into a single entry point NAS. OpenMediaVault has some plugins for setting this up. Performance wise it will max out the drive of whichever one you are using and you can use cheap mismatched drives.

What a nice automation. I have a cat that also gets spooked by any sound. Often times I have to bring breakfast to him because he gets spooked and will abandon his food to his sister.