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FOR MY FIRE

I wonder what it does, as the HELP (FIRE/DOCTOR) field is elsewhere. Light my cigar? That would make more sense next to CIGARS & CIGARETTES.

It was advertised as "2 TB (64 GB Extended)" at a local clearance sale (not AliExpress), which was basically correct though I would prefer "64 GB but misprogrammed so everything can get corrupted at any time". When buying it, I didn't yet know if I could reprogram the chip but the low price was justified for the pretty aluminum case with a USB-C port and place for a custom PCB. I decided to buy it also to prevent another, less technical person from using it and losing their data. The store was getting rid of inventory for very cheap and would close soon so no more fake drives would be ordered.

Well, depends on how much you're OK with some problems. I knowingly bought a "2 TB (64 GB Extended)" flash drive, tested its sectors and reprogrammed it to 32-in-64-GB for wear leveling and bad sector avoidance because it was still a cheap 32GB USB drive. I made sure to label it for "non-critical use" such as movies.

As for camping lanterns, ones charged from mains might have a nasty habit of shocking their users. (The YouTube channel contains a huge number of cheap Chinese charger teardowns and most don't meet safety criteria. Usually, there is just 1 or 2 layers of thin tape between mains and the output you can touch.)

In second-world countries like mine, we didn't skip technologies much but avoided format wars and just ended up with the winner:

• ~~Betamax~~ VHS
• ~~MiniDisc~~ USB flash storage, SD cards
• ~~iTunes~~ YouTube and pirated MP3s
• ~~HD DVD~~ Blu-ray − just kidding, piracy again for most
• ~~Game consoles~~ PC because it's cheaper to stay up-to-date with hardware and games (not everyone though)

If tech moves too fast, people get annoyed. Up until 2008, one could use just about any old TV, perhaps with a UHF-VHF converter and a PAL-decoding mod for SECAM sets. Now that they need a new digital tuner every few years because wireless and video tech is evolving fast and we're no longer staying behind, they keep complaining.

Sometimes, counterfeits or unknown brands are so similar to the real deal that it barely matters. I'd say that basic electronics (alarm clocks, kitchen scales, calculators, SD security cams) or even RAM is fine. With appropriate expectations, parts like video or USB cables, hubs etc., small home improvement items (hooks, screws) are fine too. Avoid categories where a lot of items have fake specs (storage devices, LED bulbs, anything that claims a runtime on a Li-Ion battery). Power electronics (especially if using mains or non-tiny Li-Ion batteries) can be downright dangerous. For novelty items and electronics modules, it's usually easy to find text or video reviews on other websites because they're easy to uniquely describe. Remember to consider ways in which the product can be utter crap despite high reviews citing good first impressions; it also helps to have practical knowledge of testing the properties of the items and fixing common issues.

It's worth doing even if your country did, or if it is predicted to fail the threshold, as all signatures count towards the total goal of 1,000,000. However, seven countries also need to pass their threshold and only two (Germany, France) did so your support is most valuable if you're from Denmark, Benelux, Italy, Spain, Slovenia or Sweden. Some percentage of the votes will be invalidated in the verification process so it's better to aim for 125% of the threshold.

Thanks for sacrificing this one RP2350 to educate people on what happens when you get electronics wet and don't dry them or disconnect power quickly enough. /s

Well, dojít also means "come to" as in "understand" or "deduce", besides the usual meaning of "finish walking". However, dojetí is the gerund-like form of either the verb dojet ("come to"/"arrive" but not on foot but by a land vehicle; though dojezd or příjezd is used more often) or way more commonly the verb dojmout se ("get moved [emotionally]").

The most accurate translation of the song title would be "[I Am] Afraid To Get Emotional" but "Resisting Being Moved/Touched", close to what Google came up with, is the best if syllable count needs to be preserved.

An old Czech song just played on the radio...

Well, then you're going to hear

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most of the time, much like Spotify.
(Last time I was in a Spotify-"enhanced" waiting room was 6 years ago so no idea if that still holds.)

He absolutely nailed it, actually. The fact that you posted it speaks to the success of the viral marketing campaign. If you're in doubt that this is an ad, either turn on sound or notice that the weirdly big URL tag on his pullover goes unpractically over the zipper.

The sad thing is, he will end up winning more than 20 states despite this.