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opan commented on Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 wired.com/story/ford-kill... · Posted by u/sacred-rat

wsc981 · 6 hours ago

I'm just a Dutch guy that emigrated to Thailand, but I'd never trade my Toyota Hilux diesel for an electric truck. I don't want to have to rely on electric to be able to drive my car. A hybrid could be ok though.

The nice thing about diesel, in case of emergency is you can have a couple of filled jerrycans around so you can always move if needed. I like the reliability, it feels more anti-fragile, if that makes sense.

I wonder if the Gibraltar company that produces Toyota trucks for UN [0] is going fully electric anytime soon, if ever.

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[0]: https://www.offgridweb.com/transportation/toyota-gibraltar-t...

opan · 4 hours ago

While ICE vehicles need gas/diesel specifically to run, EVs can be charged from a variety of sources, including a diesel generator. Electricity is the great unifier. You could pedal a bike to make some electricity, but no amount of pedaling will create fossil fuels.

opan commented on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/fleahunter

tormeh · 3 days ago

What I'd really like is a TV with DisplayPort. How is this not a thing? IIRC you cannot buy a display with DP that's larger than 45 inches, give or take - they just don't exist. I think this is really weird. Like, I'd pay an extra $100 for that port, but I'm just not allowed to have it.

opan · 2 days ago

I have a NEC P462 display with DP among other things. It's about that size you said, so maybe you're right, but my first thought is that there's gotta be bigger displays for digital signage, and why wouldn't they have DP if this one does? NEC and Samsung both make these types of displays, IIRC, not sure who else.

opan commented on The Keyboard is Faster than the Mouse outofdesk.netlify.app/blo... · Posted by u/ggauravr

opan · 3 days ago

While I'm not a fan of AI, as a lover of keyboards and vim, I found this to be a fun read. I occasionally try to explain the reduced friction / increased flow to people that comes with CLIs, keyboard navigation, and fast typing speeds, but I'm not sure I get it across well. So many people are quick to claim a fast typing speed is useless because typing isn't the bottleneck or whatever, but being able to type 150wpm+ means typing 100wpm is also much easier, and also that you've learned your tools well and can get around with little thought. It's just easiest to quantify raw typing speed, it's not the whole picture. I wasn't aware of the specific research covered in the article, but it kinda aligns with how I already felt, so it's cool to read about.

opan commented on Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools larr.net/p/namings.html... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

sweetjuly · 4 days ago

I always assumed part of the "data destroyer" folklore was from people flipping if/of by accident and destroying their data :)

opan · 4 days ago

I thought the more common mistake with dd was picking the wrong disk to write to (especially when using /dev/sdc type naming instead of /dev/disk/by-id/whatever naming). Flipping source/dest and overwriting data is a problem I associate with the tar command.

opan commented on Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices office365itpros.com/2025/... · Posted by u/taubek

tonyhart7 · 7 days ago

I also didn't understand where sentiment of the same industry that promote SaaS for their niche tool comes from

like this is YC sponsored site, there is a tons of SaaS for niche toolkit that people sold,shares etc

and now all of sudden they hate it when other people doing the same thing they do

opan · 7 days ago

I'm not buying or selling a SaaS. I don't like them. HN has more than one user and they don't all agree.

opan commented on The Joy of Playing Grandia, on Sega Saturn segasaturnshiro.com/2025/... · Posted by u/tosh

kouteiheika · 7 days ago

> 10-13 minutes if I remember correctly from booting the game to actually being able to do anything besides mash buttons to try and skip the cutscenes.

Genuinely curious - if you don't care about the story then why play an RPG? When you're speedrunning - sure, skip all of the cutscenes, but when you're playing casually - why would you want to do that?

opan · 7 days ago

I agree with your take here that he should care about the cut scenes/story if bothering to play, but this has gotten especially bad in newer games where they try to shove you right into the game before you can tweak settings. I never played through Bravely Default on 3DS because the opening scene used the English dub instead of the original audio, and I had to skip it to access the settings and change languages, then there was no way to rewatch that opening scene. I've similarly avoided their other games like Octopath Traveler as I suspect they have the same issue. It seems like an accessibility issue. I don't think they should ever stop you from getting to the settings first thing. I am not entertained by them trying to be overly cinematic. I don't think it would kill them to wait until you hit "start new game".

opan commented on Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/e... · Posted by u/lattis

stackghost · 8 days ago

What's a Naruto shadow clone? Google hits are just about a kids show.

opan · 7 days ago

It's a technique to temporarily make one or more duplicates of your body which can move independently and have your memories/abilities. A strong enough hit will dispel them, or the user can do it manually, after which the memories of what the clones did return to the user.

The usage here by GP might just be because everyone looks/is-dressed the same and is working in unison, and since they're Japanese, anime comes to mind. In the show, Naruto often uses shadow clones to pull off more complex techniques, throwing himself, having them take turns punching/kicking, or in the case of the rasengan he divides the work of controlling the ball of chakra since he struggled to do it successfully by himself.

opan commented on Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015) anders.unix.se/2015/12/10... · Posted by u/turrini

anthk · 9 days ago

The more 'h4ck3r' screenshot you have with useless toys at /r/unixporn in Reddit, the less you actually know about computers.

Most i3 setups there are for showoff; cwm has better defaults and conmuting between tags it's far more manageable than fighting with tiles where often the window resolutions are either useless or scramble your content.

Also most fluxbox or *box users will have far better setups than i3 ones because they use their actual setups to do actual stuff instead of posting screenshots.

opan · 9 days ago

Hard disagree. The fact that they have customized their system to such a degree shows they do know how to use computers. I think you're trying to conflate that with other things like programming ability, which are orthogonal.

opan commented on Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015) anders.unix.se/2015/12/10... · Posted by u/turrini

zvmaz · 9 days ago

"I don't know how to make a screenshot"

Linus Torvalds often says that he does not know how to do X (like install a Linux distribution, or other simple stuff). I wager that it's a status thing.

opan · 9 days ago

Due to these sorts of quotes from them, I often say semi-seriously that programmers don't know how to use computers. Another thing in this vein I often recall is Notch saying he finds both vim and emacs too confusing/difficult (while many non-programmers can use them both without issue). It may be an over-specialization. With modern labels you could say they put everything into "Dev" and only the bare minimum into "Ops".

opan commented on Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence eclecticlight.co/2025/11/... · Posted by u/frizlab

wpm · 14 days ago

Until AI can vibe-code a stable, secure global menu bar for Wayland I'm stuck on macOS for a while.

opan · 14 days ago

Sounds like the revived Unity/Unity7 still has a global menu bar, and there's a version called UnityX with Wayland support.

https://9to5linux.com/unity-7-7-desktop-environment-to-get-a...

https://unityd.org/unityx-7-7-testing/

https://gitlab.com/ubuntu-unity/unity-x/unityx#manual-instal...