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alphax314on Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off

Its not about the recall. Every car manufacturer has many per model. Its about the wheels about to fall off

alphax314on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux

This is the discussion I was referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46673264

alphax314on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux

There was a post here a while back saying that Microsoft will eventually switch to Linux instead of maintaining Windows. Given all the negativity around Windows this seems more and more likely (I haven’t used Windows myself for over 20 years so I have no idea what its like now. Last time I used it, it was XP)

alphax314on Bye Bye Gmail

I used to do the same for many years woth dovecot as well. Its not too difficult plus now with the llms it can probably be easier to maintain the configuration fires (I havent tried).

However I did have issues with the VPS provider I was using getting blocked and not just my VPS’ IP but the entire block. So at some point it became tok tedious to have to follow the unblock process.

And so I switched to fastmail and have been using it for over two years. No major complaints.

Would I self-host again? If I have the free time I think its fun and you can learn a lot. However, if you have young kids and are too busy with life I would say go with a provider you trust with your data.

alphax314on Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go

Looks great!! I had the same idea a few days ago and am so glad you posted this now! I will be using it and will let you know of any feedback. So far works great on my network!

alphax314on Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)

Am I the only one who has setup notifications in the terminal so when claude is done and asks for a permission or whatever else it might need the terminal has a red dot and is bouncing? I go back to it respond in two seconds and then switch back to whatever I was doing. It doesnt feel that disruptive that I would want to run it with the —dangerous flag.

alphax314on Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026

Is this also a problem when buying and the seller is amazon.com or only affects third party sellers?

alphax314on Provide agents with automated feedback

Running all shorts of tests (e2e, API, unit) and for web apps using the claude extension with chrome to trigger web ui actions and observe the result. The last part helps a lot with frontend development.

alphax314on The longest Greek word

Even as a native Greek speaker it is hard to parse it.

alphax314on jQuery 4

Amazing oss library, glad its still being maintained!