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A UPS can keep the modem and phone running for a couple of hours. If you have satellite internet, it will work for as long as you can power it. Cable or DSL will go out when the battery dies in the ISP’s equipment.

Landlines have gotten a lot less reliable in a lot of areas because the phone companies don’t want to maintain them. Mine would go out as soon as the power did when I cancelled it.

The Elegoo Rapid PETG works great too. There aren’t as many color choices as their PLA though.

Have you tried using a different SATA cable. I had one go bad and the drive started throwing all kinds of errors.

RAID isn’t an alternative to a backup. If a second drive fails while rebuilding the RAID-5 array, all of the data will be lost.

If you’re buying a PC for OPNsense or pfSense, look for one with Intel NICs. Realtek NICs tend to be unreliable.

Cloudflare won’t even allow you to use your own nameserver. Avoid them like the plague.

You can still connect it to your LAN without giving it internet access.

You can create a saved search on ebay, wait and hope some eventually show up. They won’t be cheap though.

It’s not really worth the trouble to try to host your own e-mail. There are lots of e-mail hosts that you can use with your own domain. A few of them are free and there are plenty of low cost ones. As long as you use your own domain, you can switch hosts whenever you want and keep your addresses.

Syncthing and Nextcloud are both FOSS. You don’t need to sign up for anything.

The denatured alcohol you typically find in the the US contains a lot of methanol. It’s much more toxic than IPA.

FM radio stations can transmit up to 100 kW. You can probably receive some just by sticking a paper clip in the antenna jack even if you are a long ways from the transmitter.

PETG works great as long as the part doesn’t need to handle more than 60°C. It’s easy to print with and doesn’t warp.

I would not recommend using PETG-CF though. It will shed microscopic fibers unless you coat it in varnish or epoxy.

Reed switches aren’t that sensitive. The magnet usually has to be within a centimeter or so from the switch to operate it.

It can be done, but I would suggest doing it outside to be safe. Set the depth stop on your drill press so you can’t go too deep.

You will need a normal tap to get started and a bottoming tap to finish threading the hole all the way to the bottom. 5mm is not a lot of thread to work with in soft aluminum. Those terminals are intended to have bus bars laser welded to them.

Jellyfin is free open source software, they don’t have the money to provide free proxies to their users.

You can use the 3040 to build an AllStar node.

FAT32 is still a very common filesystem for flash drives and memory cards because it works on everything. Lots of people are likely to run into the 4GB file size limit.

HTTP works fine in Firefox unless you set it to HTTPS only. Even then, you only have to click off a warning to open an HTTP site.