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neogodless··on US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban
(Not a down voter)

I think the issue with this hypothesis is that it omits variables.

Basically... is the United States, scratch that, WILL the United States be on a trajectory, post-Trump, where there is reason to believe future leadership will consistently be trustworthy to foreign nations? And how would anyone know that, or at least have reasonable confidence in that belief?

What brought us here to elect someone like this, and is that "what" going away or being fixed? Is there some hope for undoing polarized politics in this country, so that "this election is the most important of our generation" doesn't occur every four years, and both sides believe that "the other side" will ruin the country once and for all?

Time is not enough to fix the core issues. Time can move us past this particular era, these particular instances of unpredictable leadership, but time alone will not move this country past whatever levers of control convinced this electorate that this kind of leadership was the right choice for this country -- and the rest of the planet.

neogodless··on Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain
> It also performs far better than any EVs or ICEs I’ve seen anywhere close to its price point.

Curious what you're using for comparison for "performs better." There are lots of 300-400+ HP EVs when you consider the cost of a RAV4 Prime ($41.5K-$50K USD)

neogodless··on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
If you reboot infotainment in a Polestar 2, all HVAC stops working until the system is finished booting...
neogodless··on GM Gave Up the Fight Against CarPlay and Android Auto
See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49713635 GM unveils a new user interface experience for pickup trucks (gm.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49713328 GM gives its most important trucks a new UI–and includes CarPlay (arstechnica.com)

neogodless··on GM unveils a new user interface experience for pickup trucks
See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49713328 GM gives its most important trucks a new UI–and includes CarPlay (arstechnica.com)

https://www.thedrive.com/news/gm-finally-gave-up-the-fight-a... GM Finally Gave Up the Fight Against CarPlay and Android Auto

neogodless··on GM unveils a new user interface experience for pickup trucks
> Updated Android Auto™ and Apple CarPlay: Our new UI integrates Android Auto™ and Apple CarPlay with our native system, giving customers the best of both worlds. Content appears in a large card window alongside native apps like trailering and vehicle status. Drivers can seamlessly move between the two experiences, taking advantage of the features developed specifically for their truck and their device.
neogodless··on 'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes
https://variety.com/2026/film/festivals/elon-musk-ex-ashley-...

https://variety.com/2026/film/reviews/musk-review-elon-musk-...

Turns out, someone is about to release a similar, 4 hour long documentary about Elon Musk.

neogodless··on Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
Sometimes you want nothing more than to make room for new memories.
neogodless··on Fine, I'll build my own text editor
Same in Firefox (on Windows).
neogodless··on Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982
To whom it may concern, I believe the year was 1987 or 1988. (I was around 9ish, I think.) My brothers and I stumbled upon a Commodore 64 amidst trash beside a country road. In the box, even the manual was in good shape.

This was promptly carried home and plugged into the TV via coax, if I remember correctly. Sample programs from the manual were entered, and before long, custom programs were written.

The power brick was large and hot. My dad would not let me leave the computer on overnight. Nor did I have a disk drive.

I got good at typing out programs from memory. By the time I reached college, code (at college course level, as well as fast touch-typing) was generally easy, and I felt like my fellow students were learning what felt "natural" to me. (Unfortunately, this also instilled a bad habit of preferring the easy route, and never being a diligent, hard-working programmer. Not to mention... dropping out.)

This machine was definitely instrumental in my chosen career path! I did not own a proper PC until sometime early in college when I bought an IBM from my second roommate, and upgraded the CPU to a Pentium 200Mhz...

neogodless··on A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber
I'm sorry we're getting so off topic here but...

I suppose it helps to focus on the core of someone's strength, and the core of the content they are sharing.

You could be a great engineer and a great blogger, but have no skill in making graphics. If you made the artistic choice to add AI-generated art to an excellent engineering blog post, I would forgive it -- assuming it wasn't detracting in some important way.

Overall, the human skill of editing - particularly excluding that which is not additive - does remain key though.

I will say in this case, I don't know the pop song well enough to know if the AI-generated image is super relevant, or just random.

EDIT: I'm guessing it's "Kant"[0] in the image, listening to modern music. Ah... at first I thought it was like, George Washington.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant

neogodless··on An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375016 Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left (moddedbear.com) 75 days ago, 828 comments

neogodless··on Namecheap.com, Hosting Services, DNS Service, Private Email, EasyWP Maintenance
Previous / original:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285145 All of Namecheap Is Down (namecheap.com) ~1 hour earlier, 3 comments

Additional:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285750 Namecheap.com undergoing emergency maintenance due to a power outage in Phoenix (namecheap.com) 12 minutes earlier, 1 comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287319 Namecheap outage caused by cooling system failure at Phoenix data center (twitter.com/namecheap) 1 hour later, 5 comments

neogodless··on Thundermail Email Hosting
Past:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43554197 Firefox maker Mozilla prepares Gmail-like Thundermail (theregister.com) 2025-04-02 (9 comments)

neogodless··on Thundermail Email Hosting
What do the early bird users think of the early bird pricing plan? Anyone trying it out?
neogodless··on Cloudflare OS
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182996 Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work (cloudflare.com)

~1 hour earlier, 78+ comments

neogodless··on Some car companies are operating without regard for a declining customer base
> literally no reason for a new model to drop

You're making an extremely bold hypothesis that your internet armchair knowledge about what investment auto manufacturers make in research, design, and marketing to remain competitive in the marketplace of car sales easily exceeds what auto manufacturers know about that same topic.

You would need some strong supporting evidence to convince people of that. One would be any 6+ year old model of vehicles that sells as well as or better than any 5 year old or newer model of vehicles, even if it only competes on price. Can you name such a model? What share of the U.S. car sales goes to that model? What is their profit margin, and how to does it compare to models that Toyota sells?

neogodless··on Some car companies are operating without regard for a declining customer base
It will be interesting to watch such predictions play out.

I'll guess that it's not quite like that.

First, propaganda is powerful, and people buy based on what they believe. And right now, U.S. car buyers do not universally believe that EV is better than gas/hybrid, nor do they believe the cheapest car is best, or that features are the only thing that matters.

In fact, they go to a dealership, probably for a brand they are already somewhat loyal to, or the marketing worked. And they buy whatever their monthly payment allows, even if it's a lot more car than they need.

Second, they like big "American" cars like pickup trucks and huge SUVs. Take a look at how many full-sized pickups are sold every year in the U.S. Until the foreign-made full-sized electric trucks are palatable and competitive with what U.S. buyers are currently buying, those OEMs will continuing making and selling them.

neogodless··on Some car companies are operating without regard for a declining customer base
There are quite a few dozen auto manufacturers. Why is Toyota one of the largest global sellers? Why hasn't a competitor simply made a "good enough" car and sold it in perpetuity, raking in higher profits than the manufacturers who keep adding features and redesigning the sheet metal?
neogodless··on Folding Paper Globes
Found some imagery:

https://mapscaping.com/diy-folding-paper-globe/

Not same source but related:

https://goodwoodglobes.com/guide/folding-globe

https://lyncean.education/projects/astronomy/polyhedral-glob...

neogodless··on Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified
Given the article's bullet points, I would think the UGreen options bypass the first six... the following bullet points are just general market pricing issues and other issues outside of the NAS manufacturer's control.

EDIT: OK I see he doesn't like the onboard eMMC - fair enough.

I paid $280 for a DXP 2800, and was fortunate enough to get drives before the recent price increases. But I've only got 8GB and missed my window for an inexpensive jump to 16GB. Still it isn't having performance issues for my needs.

Serves as NAS, media server (Jellyfin), photo server (Immich). I've also dabbled with some web serving via pre-made docker images but haven't taken it very far.

neogodless··on T-Mobile outage, no updates from the company
It's back!
neogodless··on T-Mobile outage, no updates from the company
It's very weird. Been talking to someone else with multiple lines... we'll call them X and Y.

Then I have two lines, J and K.

K and Y have the issue. X and J do not.

K can send and receive texts with X and J, but cannot call them (with or without WiFi calling.)

K and Y cannot text each other.

K cannot check voicemail.

neogodless··on T-Mobile outage, no updates from the company
Spouse's Pixel never lost signal, but my OnePlus has been out for an hour+
neogodless··on Sam Altman says we are in the singularity: 'This is the moment'
At least when you give in to a car salesman, you leave with a car.
neogodless··on T-Mobile outage, no updates from the company
Who's waiting for the post-mortem on this one?
neogodless··on Codeberg Divides
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49015635 Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs (blog.codeberg.org) 1 day ago, 144 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003386 Codeberg bans vibe coded projects (codeberg.org/codeberg) 2 days ago, 279 comments

neogodless··on AMD's Instinct MI455X: Aiming for the Sun
Duplicate post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025398 (13 hours earlier)

neogodless··on If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?
> those bugs affect your ability to focus on driving

Name and shame! I'm in the market for a car. Which one should I avoid?

neogodless··on Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day
shrug

In 25 years of hosting a dozen domain names on a server on my home connection, this problem has not surfaced for me.

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