That photo at the top of the article is just a random image the editor found. There is a photo of the actual person who complained that she only got chips for one night of her 7 day holiday further down the article.

I use trackballs and vertical mice (and fully split keyboards) because of wrist pain - all of those allow a more natural posture and put less strain on your tendons if you’re spending a large chunk of the day in front of a computer.

It keeps the food cold, which is all I want it to do.

You don’t want to do karaoke duets with your fridge?

it depends more on the type of fridge you have, not really the age. Side-by-side fridges seem to be especially bad.

I have a chest fridge (91 kWh/year) and chest freezer (142 kWh) for that reason, they use less power than the equivalent volume of upright fridge+freezer combination. (To preempt any dad jokes: I don’t store chests in them, and they don’t cost an arm and a leg).

Dyneema (by Avient) is the same as Spectra (by Honeywell) btw. Choose your patron megacorporation wisely.

As others said, only a stovetop pressure cooker will be BIFL. All the self-powered ones have far too many points of failure - electronic controls, electrical power, mechanical parts, the silicone gaskets. You can eliminate half of that with a stovetop one.

Some induction cooktops can go down to 40 C for melting chocolate, I don’t know if that’s good enough for yogurt. Bread proofing settings on ovens are usually around 30C.

For cooking beans, rye groats and other hours-long jobs I’ve found Heat Retention Cooking (sometimes tautologically called “Thermal Cooking”) works well - get what you are cooking up to a high temperature, then turn the power off and put the whole pot inside a larger, insulated one to retain the heat until it is done. A system like the Wonderbag can be DIYed by wrapping your inner pot with a couple of silicone baking mats then putting it in an insulating box/bag.

It’s not ferromagnetic but it still interacts with the induction coils - if you’re willing to risk burning out your cooktop through abuse, you can magnetically levitate a ring of aluminum foil on it.

Are you sure it was a genuine aluminium pan? The stove would have to be able to reach 933.47 K ​/ 660.32 °C / ​1220.58 °F, which most won’t get anywhere near that. A propane stove might, but an electric stove is unlikely to get so hot.

I’ve done cooking & baking classes at a community house and we used the Ikea “365” range of stainless steel pots and pans, with metal lids. They’re fairly cheap but induction compatible and stand up to a fair amount of abuse.

The idea of “scrap this edifice and let’s see if we can do without”

That’s what I found confusing about Gemini - its goals aren’t incompatible with HTTP but it’s deliberately trying to be incompatible with HTTP, apparently just for the sake of being different and not any technical reasons.

To answer the original question of “What’s up with Gemini development” it seems that interest has waned because building something that’s deliberately incompatible with existing systems isn’t going to maintain broad appeal and get people creating and using content and software on the system.

99% of the goal could be done in a web-compatible way by just having a way to declare that any site is “gemini-like” or “gopherish” by enforcing a Gopher-style hierarchy on the site, using a restricted subset of HTML (and semantic use of markup), minimal or no CSS (e.g. Smolweb’s CSS Grading), no font embeds, no images, no JS, no videos. The remaining 1% could be done with a browser extensions that activate on any such page and provide gopher-style map/menu navigation with the keyboard.

The best bit, about a third of the way through:

… and so we end up sounding like a nineties era sociology textbook and there’s this trope of like toxic masculinity. And every time you hear the word masculinity among people on the left, it’s usually. It usually comes with that toxic trope. Now, if there’s not another option about a non-toxic masculinity, then at some point you’re basically condemning a whole group of people. And if you don’t offer them anything, why is it surprising that they’re gonna go in a different direction?