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New comment by dasKrokodil in "Warm up your MacBook (2019)"

dasKrokodil — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:54:22 +0000

Speaking of cold weather and warming up computers... I've had my fair share of long bicycle commutes during cold winters and I always wondered whether booting up the laptop right after arriving has any effect on the long-term reliability? Like, are there any components which suffer from being activated when they're really cold?

New comment by dasKrokodil in "The Steinwinter Supercargo"

dasKrokodil — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:13:02 +0000

Sure, visibility would be worse than on a normal truck, but no worse than a low sportscar (which is also road legal and no problem to drive). I don't think it would have been much of an issue.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "UnDUNE II"

dasKrokodil — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:20:03 +0000

This is very cool! And very impressive that it was made to work on PICO-8.

A small nitpick: I'm pretty sure the sand worms wouldn't eat foot soldiers in the original, only vehicles.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "First tunnel element of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel immersed"

dasKrokodil — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:15:45 +0000

> With this tunnel done, I believe Copenhagen to Hamburg will be less than three hours.

Even when the tunnel will finally be done, Deutsche Bahn will find creative ways to make it take five hours again.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down"

dasKrokodil — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:19:34 +0000

Great, I live in coastal northern Europe, so the question will be whether I'll freeze to death from AMOC shutting down, or drown from the rising sea levels. Maybe I should move to Switzerland or something.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "The Joy of Folding Bikes"

dasKrokodil — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:54:52 +0000

If you're into folding bikes and recumbents, check out the prototype for the folding Baron:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTsTKdqVTY8

It's a shame that it never went into production, but I guess at that time Optima already saw the writing on the wall that two-wheel recumbents wouldn't be profitable for much longer.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "Iran claims US exploited networking equipment backdoors during strikes"

dasKrokodil — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:45:07 +0000

Not for a BMW though.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

dasKrokodil — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:18:24 +0000

It's mildly interesting, but ultimately it's just a little greenwashing project. They even painted it green to make that clear :)

New comment by dasKrokodil in "MacBook Neo"

dasKrokodil — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:04:03 +0000

Funny; for me, a backlit keyboard is one of the most unnecessary features I can think of. Even for those who can't touch type, the keyboard is just inches away from the bright screen which sort of illuminates them.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games"

dasKrokodil — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:44:27 +0000

Yeah, not to mention that you even needed to connect to their servers to play the fucking single player campaign. I hated that so much, and then it more or less became the standard for many AAA single player games to come...

New comment by dasKrokodil in "Bitcoin tumbles below $70k, wiping out gains since Trump 2024 win"

dasKrokodil — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:23:12 +0000

Interesting... so, what is the most straight-forward and least shady way of investing in it?

New comment by dasKrokodil in "Home Office Is Sabotaging You"

dasKrokodil — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:00:30 +0000

> This is so obviously written by an LLM I can’t get past the first paragraph. When will this end?

I'm not disagreeing, as you might very well be right, but... why exactly do you think this is written by LLM? I couldn't find any obvious giveaways myself.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "Why Is Greenland Part of the Kingdom of Denmark? A Short History"

dasKrokodil — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 17:49:55 +0000

> the land belongs to the one with the bigger guns, and a willingness to use it

Not necessarily. USA certainly had bigger guns in Vietnam and Afghanistan, and yet they eventually had to retreat from both.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "All known 49-year-old Apple-1 computers"

dasKrokodil — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 10:30:30 +0000

I previously asked about how hard it would be to create a forgery and got a nice answer here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29173562#29175946

TLDR: it would be very hard, perhaps next to impossible to create one, and then you'd still have the issue how to convince people it's real, given that the existing ones are pretty well documented and accounted for.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "No escape, no control: A 'Severance' keyboard is coming soon"

dasKrokodil — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 12:58:07 +0000

If anyone wants to have this style but in an actually usable keyboard, you can buy (at great expense) these keycaps and put them on whatever cherry-mx-compatible keyboard you like:

https://spkeyboards.com/products/sa-macrodata-refinement

New comment by dasKrokodil in "Tesla's sales plummet across Europe"

dasKrokodil — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 11:37:49 +0000

Here in Germany, the somewhat paradox situation is that the right-wing party AfD has been pro-diesel and anti-ev for a long time, while it's usually the more progressive and/or left-leaning people who have been buying EVs.

But now that Musk has done something which looked very much like a Nazi salute on stage and also meddled in German politics by endorsing the AfD, nobody on the left wants to be seen in a Tesla anymore, while the right-wingers still prefer German diesel cars.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]"

dasKrokodil — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:11:07 +0000

The new one is rumored to feature hall-effect sticks on the Joycons which would hopefully solve that issue.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]"

dasKrokodil — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:07:35 +0000

Yeah, and this might make first-person shooters and some strategy games play a lot nicer if (big if) it works well. Perhaps the next iteration of Mario Maker might also make use of it.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "ZType – Typing Game"

dasKrokodil — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:06:28 +0000

I would like it if there was a hard mode, where every wrong keypress would spawn another enemy.

New comment by dasKrokodil in "House designed on Passive House principles survives Cali wildfire"

dasKrokodil — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 14:04:53 +0000

Perhaps this should be kept in mind while rebuilding all those houses that were lost?