I have a home full of expensive electronics and live in a rural county in the US Midwest where weather is an issue. I'd much rather have the external feed trickle-charging batteries that steady-supply my home, than be vulnerable to the spiky local power during weather events.

I sort if wonder in a complete amateur sense if this might herald a "ac for distribution, dc microgrid in homes" evolution.

I took Reddit to Small Claims Court for failure to process a GDPR Subject Access Request (SAR), and as part of their defence they accidentally admitted that their system is badly broken. The particular account I was requesting data for was apparently automatically banned because the system thought it was a bot, and then when I appealed a *manual review* also decided that it was a bot. To compound the error, they then lied about it in emails and on their login page, and failed to process the SAR.

I expect that will offer to settle soon, which is fine (I don't care about the money, beyond my costs) as long as they complete the SAR. The details will be fascinating. Their website gaslights you, their staff lie to you, and it all seems to be in aid of dealing with a bot problem that they have very little control over.

Using it will be like having your head up Elon Musk's arse 24/7.

In case Steam ever shuts down. Also what happens if your Steam account gets banned for some reason?

I tend to avoid games that use DRM as well, because I don't want that shit screwing up my system.

It was a prestigious service for Air France and British Airways. When they decided to stop flying Concorde, Virgin Atlantic wanted to buy the aircraft and keep flying them. Of course, BA refused to sell them and made sure that every single one ended up beyond the point where it could be returned to service, because they didn't want anyone else to operate a supersonic service.

It took a long time for a few reasons. You can reduce the boom with an exotic shape vehicle, but then it starts to suck as an aircraft. Less lift, awkward to use existing airport facilities, difficult to take off and land, pilots need a lot of training etc.

To be commercially viable it has to carry a reasonable number of people, in relative comfort, and be relatively fuel efficient for a supersonic aircraft.

Some of the tech to enable that is relatively recent, or still in development. Engines in particular.

It should be mandatory to allow sales of used digital games. There is no reason why these companies couldn't allow it on their platforms, other than greed.

Some people got partial refunds for them removing Linux. I wonder if it might be possible to do the same here. Harder to argue as the Playstation itself has not been altered, just the opportunity to buy physical copies has been removed.

I would buy a physical copy but then pirate it anyway. Quicker and easier than ripping, adding all the metadata, encoding etc.

For digital only stuff I will only use platforms like GOG where you get an offline installer you can backup and keep forever. I used to buy a few games on Steam but don't now. If a game is Steam only I just won't play it.

I suspect that is almost always, because a rather large part of typical electricity pricing is delivery.

You can decide how aggressive Cloudflare's defence of your site from bots is. Since mine doesn't have anything users can post on, I keep it on the lowest setting and never see any captchas.

Either that was a long time ago or your utility company is shafting you. Here the payback time is a few years depending on your usage, and then it's all profit. Batteries should last a minimum of 10 years even with hard cycling every day, much longer if not hammered. I cycle mine almost fully every day to maximize profits.

You can even DIY your own battery cheaper than you can buy one, although even buying one is very cheap now. Before tax a ready-to-plug-in 15kWh battery is about $2000 here.

Yes, it was very loud even at sub-supersonic speeds. The engines were tuned for performance at supersonic cruise speed, and due to the wing shape it needed a lot of thrust and relatively high speeds at low altitude to generate enough lift.

I have no doubt that is accurate. Too many enterprises are shit-shows with no accountability and no negative consequences for really bad decision making once somebody has managed to climb high enough.

The company I work for has decided to stay on VMware because they stated that "the applications we are running aren't supported under another VM".

The point of virtualization is for the applications to not know that they are on a virtual machine.

This was presented at a major corporate "hallelujah" meeting recently where they at the same time had created positions for upper mid level managers that they now are looking for people to fill.

I did experience a similar thing right before the Dot Com bubble burst and that company I worked for just got absorbed by a bigger player and the former management was bought out.

This is how many large corporations dies. Not with a bang (chapter 11 etc.), but with a whimper (bought out by a competitor for pocket money).