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The Ford Lightning has been discontinued.


The Lightning BEV has been discontinued. The Lightning will continue to be produced, after a delay, but it will only come as an EREV configuration. Ford has been mum on the details but my guess is it will share a large part of the underlying architecture with the pure BEV version. I won't be shocked if Ford backpedals at some point in a couple years and offers both variants simultaneously.

I'm not entirely convinced Ford would have discontinued the BEV if the F150 aluminum manufacturer hadn't caught on fire a few times over the space of a month or so. Ford really needs to go for maximum margin trucks when they cannot produce all that they want, so it made sense to put the Lightning BEV on indefinite hold.


That’s not even the worst part. Imagine owning a car that has $7000 DRM tail light units if you need to replace one?


> $7000 DRM tail light units

What car has that? Please do not spread misinformation.

The Lightning taillights are expensive, a couple grand directly from Ford, primarily because of the integrated blind spot radar. That is the part that needs to be re-paired to the truck if you replace it, the taillights themselves are same as they ever were. Most of the time when someone breaks a taillight they just grab one from eBay and swap over the BLIS because it wasn't damaged.

Also, expensive taillights and headlights are 1) not unique to the Lightning, and 2) not unique to Ford.


My buddy who owns a lightning told me this story first hand. Perhaps he was exaggerating. His taillight got smashed, so this price was for the full unit not just the bulb.


KDE? It has great performance, it's highly configurable, and it's been improving. Many people don't seem to like GNOME 3, but it has also been getting better, in my view. I agree Windows and macOS have been getting worse.


I don't agree with the bill, but yes, I don't want the government to spend money on Meta ads either.


They can still control them remotely, so there's that.


*Hear, hear.


Thank you. Corrected.



"In the upcoming Authenticator release in January 2023 for iOS, there will be no companion app for watchOS due to it being incompatible with Authenticator security features. This means you won't be able to install or use Authenticator on Apple Watch. We therefore recommend that you delete Authenticator from your Apple Watch."


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Please don't do this here.


HN isn't reddit, please keep this shit out.


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