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New comment by 2III7 in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

2III7 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:20:35 +0000

Just get a golf 6 or 7 (can be had without any of the nanny features).

New comment by 2III7 in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

2III7 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:40:48 +0000

I'll keep my 2014 golf mk7 thank you. Euro5, no adblue bullshit. Still gets good mileage, is still cheap to maintain even after 260k km (the biggest expense has been the dual mass flywheel with a clutchpack) and the only high tech feature is a radar based adaptive cruise control.

Considering how many mk7 golfs were made over the years it'll be easy to just get another one for the next decade. I'd also consider the Hyundai ioniq 5 or 6 which have a shortcut on the steering wheel to just disable all the nanny crap.

New comment by 2III7 in "Nobody clicks your share buttons"

2III7 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:43:54 +0000

Yes you can copy the URL.

New comment by 2III7 in "Ferrari Luce"

2III7 — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:09:29 +0000

The Model S is also a plasticky shitbox from the inside. This Ferrari will be colossally better in terms of build quality, ergonomics and handling compared to the S.

New comment by 2III7 in "Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS"

2III7 — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:03:21 +0000

What's wrong with foobar2000? Used to be one of the best music players and you could infinitely customize it.

New comment by 2III7 in "The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars"

2III7 — Wed, 06 May 2026 08:10:06 +0000

The ZF auto should last for the lifetime of the vehicle if serviced correctly. The engine will probably give out before the transmission.

New comment by 2III7 in "The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars"

2III7 — Tue, 05 May 2026 06:38:07 +0000

Still driving my 2014 Golf mk7. No ads, physical buttons, adaptive cruise, frontal collision avoidance, great reliability. Not planning an upgrade any time soon.

New comment by 2III7 in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

2III7 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:45:47 +0000

How the hell can we have more data on people replacing their batteries if the batteries are not user replaceable?

Most people want new phones because of shit software updates and marketing not because out of necessity.

New comment by 2III7 in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

2III7 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:42:31 +0000

Earlier this year I downgraded my S24 ultra to an iphone 13 mini and then to the first gen iphone SE. I replaced the battery myself on the SE and couldn't be happier. Less screen time and more IRL time. People should just use less of their phones and for battery longevity they should not let their phones go daily below 20%.

No one on this planet should use their phone more than 2 hours per day. Period. More is just plain stupid.

New comment by 2III7 in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

2III7 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:09:10 +0000

The eGPU "thing" should work on anything that supports thunderbolt as it has native support for pcie.

New comment by 2III7 in "MacBook Air with M5"

2III7 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:00:39 +0000

- thermal throttling under sustained heavy load, though apparently there is the possibility to add thermal pads to get rid of throttling, probably at the expense of comfort

- no Linux support

Otherwise I agree, it is a wonderful machine. I'd replace my crappy thinkpad if I could.

My 2014 Air is still going strong for light web browsing and terminal use.

New comment by 2III7 in "The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory"

2III7 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:50:04 +0000

Imagine if we had people that actually listened to scientists, reduced their carbon footprint and changed their habits.

New comment by 2III7 in "The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory"

2III7 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:43:48 +0000

And who are the customers of big companies driving the demand? Regular people or other companies who also produce for those people.

New comment by 2III7 in "The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory"

2III7 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:31:18 +0000

WDYM personal decisions don't matter? Industrial and agricultural sectors, which both in sum contribute 50% of total greenhouse gas emissions, produce what is in demand from consumers. Another 15% of emissions is from personal vehicles. Changing personal habits is the only way we can ever reach some utopian climate targets. Utopian because old habits die hard.

New comment by 2III7 in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

2III7 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:49:03 +0000

They've been doing hybrids for a while now. Not to mention the F1 and LeMans prototype cars. This car is more like the iPhone SE or 16/17e line of phones.

New comment by 2III7 in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

2III7 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:42:08 +0000

Hyundai Ioniq 5 N nailed it perfectly.

I think by simulating a transmission you mean those internal combustion engined cars with CVT transmissions. Those are terrible yes.

New comment by 2III7 in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

2III7 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:33:49 +0000

All the necessary controls are fortunately physical in the Ferrari.

This is way better than what VW and other manufacturers have been doing in the last 5 years. At least VW is going back to physical controls as customers weren't satisfied with the capacitive buttons and hidden menus for essential functions.

New comment by 2III7 in "Fairphone 6: cheaper, repairable and longer-lasting"

2III7 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 08:06:22 +0000

What's wrong with a USB-C -> 3.5mm adapter? You can even get one with an additional port for charging.

New comment by 2III7 in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

2III7 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:40:41 +0000

How about not limiting yourself to specific services? If you've built your product around specific cloud providers services then that is the problem not the fact that there aren't alternatives to those seevices.

New comment by 2III7 in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

2III7 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:30:15 +0000

How about we start creating well optimized software again that doesn't need ridiculous amounts of compute and money?