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If you want an identical texture from the plate on both sides, you could split your model in two laterally and print both finished faces downwards against the plate, and then glue/screw/pin/otherwise attach the two halves together afterwards.

Doing this with an inlay for the two colors would be possible, i.e. with a filament change on the same layer. If your colored bit is a separate layer on top of the other stuff that plan won't be possible.

There appears to be another line of text under it in your picture, although not enough of it is there to be legible. I'm sure it has other content as well -- more text, logos, a photo, whatever.

It appears to be some kind of a rolled up banner, and it probably has a mechanism to remotely release it so it'll unroll.

Hopefully in the process it'll turn out to be short enough not to hit anyone on the head in the process.

Somehow her navel is visible through the tube dress as well. Perhaps it just made out of Saran Wrap.

finds themselves in a social circle or job environment hostile to Linux.

Ugh. Tell me about it.

I haven't tried to run the latest Corel graphics suite in Wine recently, but the last time I did it exploded in my face so spectacularly I think my eyebrows still haven't fully grown back. I really need that to work for... work. Basically everything else I already use is FOSS anyway.

That is patently false.

...Sometimes we also complain about Facebook or Tesla.

You're conflating the tuner with the antenna. The person you replied to, however, is correct including the comment about the digital tuner boxes (which convert to an analog signal for old TV's) being available for free during the analog to digital changeover back when.

Any piece of metal will work as an antenna, even for receiving digital broadcasts. It might not work well, but there is no magical difference between a "digital" antenna and an "analog" one, and since digital television is transmitted over pretty much the same original frequencies as analog was, old analog antennae are already quite well tuned in size and shape to pick up modern digital signals.

You just have to plug your 1940's antenna into a 2009+ or so television. The antenna itself doesn't "decode" anything. It just catches radio waves and passes the waveform along to the TV or tuner box. I still use the old 60's era rooftop antenna that cane with my house, but plugged into my modern TV and it receives digital channels just fine.

I was sitting in a diner the other day and one of their TV's was apparently, for lack of a better word, tuned to that Samsung TV Plus service. I watched it play the same Kia ad four times, back to back. Not in separate commercial breaks. All in one commercial break where the same ad was played four times consecutively.

Just like you, I have to say they found no success in making me want to buy a Kia.

Not even. We just need it to trip over the pronunciation of something, preferably the same thing more than once, and then both the news and social media will latch onto it like a pit bull and with any luck they'll never live it down.

"But we need your generous donations and tithes to continue to operate our house of god!!!"

God, huh? The all-of-creation in 6 days guy? The water to wine guy? All the fish that swim in the sea and beasts that roam on the land and birds that sing in the sky? That guy? Seems to me he'd have no trouble magically causing a church to spring forth out of the ground for you if you're so damn devout, then. At the very least he could keep all his bisops and deacons and popes in clean vestments without having to put it on the congregation's dime.

No? How curious.

Well, they're MSRP'ing for $199 at the moment if you don't spring for the AMS Lite filament changer thingamadoo. To be fair that's less than several pocket knives I own are worth. I'm not a fan of Bambu at all, but I think you could wind up with far worse for not much less money...

Retailer who offers one of those 0% financing schemes, here. TL;DR: It's from processing fees paid by the retailer and punitive interest after the 0% promotional period lapses.

The lender makes money in two ways. One, a percentage fee is charged on the financed amount, but it's not paid by the customer. It's paid by the retailer. For us it is a little under 2%, similar to the fees most credit card processors charge. So as soon as you make your purchase, the bank instantly skims 1-point-whatever percent off the top. You don't see this, though. It affects the retailer's bottom line, not yours.

Two, the 0% interest rate is a promotion which provides specified limited time in which to pay off the balance. If you do not pay the outstanding balance in full by the end of the promotional term, the bank whacks you for a monstrous interest rate on the entire original transaction amount -- not just the remaining outstanding balance. In our case this is damn near 30%. Look carefully at the promotional signage and literature. It will always say "0% INTEREST FINANCING!!! ~for~ ~12~ ~months.~" That 12 months is important. That's the end of the promotional terms, after which you pay aforementioned buttload of interest.

And then, the minimum payments on the bills they send you are obviously deliberately structured to trick you into failing to pay the entirety of the balance by the deadline at the end of the promotional period.

If you're talking 0% introductory rates for general purpose credit cards, the answer is right there in the name. Those are introductory rates designed to entice you into signing up and using the card, but they're never permanent. Eventually that introductory rate will expire and you will be left with an interest bearing credit card. Possibly a lot of interest. Even if you pay your bill 100% on time every month without fail, the bank still makes money in percentages and processing fees taken on every transaction from every single retailer where you've swiped that card. The bank issuing the credit card can continue to comfortably make money even if no one pays any interest, ever.