We still use leaded gas for aviation, as does (I believe) the EU (I'm guessing RoW, too).

(Supposed to be banned this year in the EU but AFAICT pushed back until 2032.)

If you exclude blocked instances, you're a lot higher than #5...

We tend to use between 3kWh (vacation/idle power consumption) and around 8kWh per day. If we switched to electric stove, water heater, and heat pump, and add a hot tub, that'd increase substantially. But if we added solar (on our long Todo list...), the battery in the article (60kWh) would probably be able to handle all our storage needs, and it'd fit in he garage (bonus of it can be placed outside/under a deck!). I live in a major city, but I would absolutely love to effectively be off grid.

Exciting stuff

it seems these are touted as being extremely robust/safe, which is of course important for me if it's going to be in/near our house. Storage density not a huge concern, but price is somewhat important

let's hope this sort of thing ticks all the boxes.

As a long-time Debian user, I'd have to throw my vote behind Slackware for the title of most UNIX-y, which is I guess a bit different from most Linux-y.

Debian got me through grad school, but Slack got me through undergrad on a hopelessly underpowered old ThinkPad

Volkerding is a legend, and Slack will always be dear to my heart.

And I'd bet "real bills" are only bills that the parent deems worthy

mortgage, car payment, etc. I'm guessing teacher pays rent, utilities, pays for groceries...

Ford, Harley- Davidson and Lowe’s are among the companies that announced they would no longer participate in the Corporate Equality Index.

Meanwhile, here are the ones that did well on the Corporate Equality Index link.

Property can take a while to close

offer to title in under 30 days is on the quick side.

Of course, you could probably close very fast if you offered 100M cash on a 10M property...

I hope them publicly advocating for this backfires spectacularly.

"First they game for gay marriage, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't gay. Then they came for the abortions, and I didn't speak up because I didn't need an abortion. Then they came for divorce, and...fuck, that might be a real a pain in the ass. Maybe I won't vote for these asshats."

some people, hopefully...

Disregarding the question but commenting on the material, I don't think this is generally true. In labeling something as forever upfront (e.g., marriage, which generally includes a "forever clause"), it's only natural though.

Contrast marriage with a "summer fling"

the expectation is a duration of at most one summer. Not really considered a failure (which is kinda the plot of Grease, dated though that may be...)

There was a great restaurant near me (Michelin star), and it closed a while back

the owner was upfront that he just had a kid and wanted to spend more time together. I don't think anyone views that as a failure. A loss for the community, definitely, but not a failure.

Eh, but this is kinda true for all trade/niche publications?

IT publications would have, "Portal to hell messing with your wifi? Try this."

Cooking blogs

"Portal to hell, hello to flavor!"

Meanwhile, a patch shows up on the Linux kernel mailing list

"fix rng behavior: portal to hell causes /dev/random to be less secure with increased frequency of 0x06 0x06 0x06."

There's a reason unpainted metal bicycle frames tend to be the titanium ones, and not steel.

Feels like the death throes of the internal combustion engine, the supernova before they die out in common usage.

Or not.