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RamRabbit

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  • That graph doesn't have very many years on it; and half are COVID, which always makes me suspicious. Found one from FRED that shows things are pretty average:

  • Hair shows banning lead in gas worked

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  • About 10% is not the same as 10%

    That's correct, using EIA's numbers, it's actually 10.12% ethanol in 2023!

    Math: 0.33b / 3.26b -> 10.12%

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  • The very first paragraph in your last link straight up says the actual amount varies.

    That paragraph says the amount of denaturant in ethanol varries. That is normally 2%, but can vary.

    That very first paragraph has ethanol numbers, and those numbers are....10%:

    In 2023, about 0.33 billion barrels (13.73 billion gallons) of fuel ethanol were blended into the 3.26 billion barrels (137.11 billion gallons) of finished motor gasoline consumed.

    Do you have any numbers that show it isn't 10% or are you just trying to give me a hard time? The actual numbers, directly from the EIA, are 10%.

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  • We do that with gasoline in the US. 10% of gas is corn ethanol.

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  • The additives at the time didn't work well; and simply removing the lead would lead to premature detonation, destroying engines. It wasn't until the health effects were proven to be a big issue there was enough demand to change engine designs to be compatible with unleaded gas. That pressure was required as operating an additional set of incompatible fuel and engine types isn't easy.

    We still haven't completely removed leaded gas from daily use. Namely small aircraft still use it for the same reasons cars used to use it.

  • Russians Present Anti-Drone “Fan” to Protect Military Equipment

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  • Strikes me as a (weird) variant of slat armor. I would be very interested in to see if this is effective or not. Though my gut tells me it's throwing shit at a wall and hoping something sticks.

    I don't think this one is going to stick.

  • Discord to Require ID or Face Scan Next Month for Full Access

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  • Whereas a more ephemeral approach that actually encourages people to ask questions? Yes, it does cause long term issues when someone is trying to debug a project that has been on life support for years.

    It isn't just long-term, it causes issues right off the bat; no fix is searchable. All fixes require a community member to respond.

    • For the user this causes significant delays. A problem that could be solved in minutes with a search now requires hours or days for someone to respond to their specific problem. A problem that likely was already solved 10 times before. And god help you if the server is active, your problem might get burred instantly and no response will ever come.

    • For the support people, they have to answer the same questions over and over and over because there is no way for users to search for and solve their own problems.

    These issues compound on each other as support staff burn out and users get tired of waiting. Leads to people just going elsewhere.

    For me, a lack of support forums signals the creators don't care about the software working right and don't care the software will be unmaintainable the moment they step away. Ie: a lack of support forum is a strong signal to find greener pastures.

  • I will be this old man for the rest of my life

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  • That sucks. I installed LibreOffice on my work computer and just use that.

  • Hated homework, hating WFH

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  • If parents do their job and their kids are actually willing to learn something: eventually those kids learn the best path is to just do the work. It makes life easier and you learn shit that makes future endeavors easier/more successful.

  • Hated homework, hating WFH

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  • For many people, it's important to have a room, or at least a dedicated desk, that is only for work. You go to that room/desk for work, and when your day is over, you leave that room/desk and don't return to it until work starts the next day.

    Your entire home cannot be your workspace, otherwise you cease to have a home and only have a workspace.

  • I will be this old man for the rest of my life

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  • Yep. Got tired of constantly having to remove/disable yet one more thing Microsoft added. Or finding out some of my previous debloating was reverted or that I hadn't done it perfectly. If it was just a single checkbox and Microsoft actually honored it, I probably wouldn't be salty right now.

  • I spent the night for a stupid reason at a police station and people know it without knowing the reason behind it, what would be the most honorable way to get around this unfortunate episode?

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  • Just fucking own it and do better. Downplaying it means not only do people still think badly of you, but now they know you also don't take responsibility for your own actions and instead lie about them.

    You also don't have to be specific about what happened, only that you are actively improving yourself and what steps you are taking to do so.

    Edit: You are taking steps to actively improve yourself, right?

  • Non-US cloud storage for backup?

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  • A hard drive in a PO Box; data encrypted. Retrieve it occasionally to sync it with your local storage.

  • What's your opinion on Ubiquiti/Unifi gear?

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  • Are there any truly FOSS networking options?

    PFSense falls into this category for routers. Netgate makes hardware specifically for it, but you don't have to buy anything from them to use PFSense. I only mention them because their hardware is good and you can buy anything from a normal home router to enterprise level gear.

    I had to sign in with my ubiquiti account first before I could make a local account

    I used to be pretty into ubiquiti, but this requirement really put me off. I have no desire to do anything 'cloud' with my router. This requirement sent me elsewhere and I sold off all my ubiquiti equipment.

    TruNAS .... What alternatives are there?

    TruNAS has a community edition, so you could start there. Other alternatives are a standard Debian install, use mdadm to setup RAID, then setup a network share in the OS, etc.

  • Is there a word, perhaps as 40-letter compound word in German, that explains this annoying social phenomenon?

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  • I don't have a word for this, but:

  • US to bankroll far-right think tanks in Europe against digital laws

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  • what european law do you think is holding back free speech?

    The UK is the most obvious: https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2025/09/09/people-are-being-thrown-in-uk-prisons-over-what-theyve-said-online-can-free-speech-be-saved/

    Examples from the article:

    • "Authorities arrested a grandmother for silently holding a sign outside an abortion clinic that said “Coercion is a crime, here to talk, if you want.”"

    • "...sentenced to 31 months in prison for what police said was an unacceptable post. In contrast, a child molester was sentenced to 21 months in the slammer."

    Do you find it acceptable for common speech to be a crime worse than child molestation?

    Edit: Added some quotes from the article

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  • One can find common ground here: anti-censorship; free speech. An enemy of your enemy is temporarily helpful; help which is important to further mutual aims.

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  • Several European countries are going down the censorship hole. Best to fight that now.