Hacker News: stefanfisk

New comment by stefanfisk in "New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays"

stefanfisk — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:10:35 +0000

What makes you say that? Unless I am mistaken, it’s only the Pro models who run at 2x by default.

New comment by stefanfisk in "Outbreak linked to raw cheese grows; 9 cases total, one with kidney failure"

stefanfisk — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:22:43 +0000

Dry aged cheeses are safe to eat unpasteurized. Raw milk and relatively fresh cheddar are a lot riskier.

New comment by stefanfisk in "Death to Scroll Fade"

stefanfisk — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:40:05 +0000

Agree 100%!

I’m a fast scroller and skimmer. Info scroll down and the text is not there I’ll just assume that the site is shot and close it. Ain’t nobody got 200ms to wait for a god damn fade in when there’s an infinite amount of sites out there to discover.

New comment by stefanfisk in "The new Apple begins to emerge"

stefanfisk — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:37:30 +0000

Sounds like the road to checkbox hell. Not to mention the added costs of supporting both the code and users with varying setting combos.

New comment by stefanfisk in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

stefanfisk — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:08:01 +0000

European advertisers would be the ones paying tariffs.

New comment by stefanfisk in "MacBook Neo"

stefanfisk — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:31:56 +0000

I had the 11” dual core i7 and I wouldn’t even call it slow (for its time). Loved that little machine and I keep longing for that form factor but with modern specs.

New comment by stefanfisk in "MacBook Air with M5"

stefanfisk — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:58:33 +0000

What have you tried?

New comment by stefanfisk in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

stefanfisk — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:55:11 +0000

In what way are the keyboards and ports non-functional?

New comment by stefanfisk in "EU mandates replaceable batteries by 2027 (2023)"

stefanfisk — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:41:22 +0000

Personally I prefer the current solution to adding weight and size.

I can’t remember my battery draining below 50% since I bought my M5 a while back. 10+ years ago I agree that the needs were different but these days needing swappable batteries seems like a very minor niche IMHO.

New comment by stefanfisk in "EU mandates replaceable batteries by 2027 (2023)"

stefanfisk — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:22:40 +0000

MacBook batteries have not been permanently glued in for quite some time. Replacement requires some disassembly but is perfectly doable for most techies.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Air+13-Inch+Late+2020+B...

New comment by stefanfisk in "EU mandates replaceable batteries by 2027 (2023)"

stefanfisk — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:15:12 +0000

You can just use a third party shop.

New comment by stefanfisk in "Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Critically (2025)"

stefanfisk — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 05:26:48 +0000

So gender is a strict binary but dragons kinda-sorta exist, got it (＠_＠)

New comment by stefanfisk in "Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter"

stefanfisk — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:49:48 +0000

Yeah, my 2005 beater has both CarPlay and a backup camera. Cost me $40 and an hour of labor.

New comment by stefanfisk in "Gen Z first generation since 1800's with lower cognitive performance"

stefanfisk — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:47:52 +0000

At least it’s not a reaction video. That those are such a widespread phenomenon both frightens and fascinates me.

New comment by stefanfisk in "Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025)"

stefanfisk — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:12:55 +0000

Doom scrolling. For people who get hooked it can be very very addictive.

New comment by stefanfisk in "OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III"

stefanfisk — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 11:21:24 +0000

I switch between Tahoe, fedora and pop_os on a daily basis. Tahoe in its complete design madness is still in a league of its own when it comes to basic UX IMHO. Just the fact that the keymappings for undo/redo are consistent between apps puts it’s way ahead of Linux when considering the whole ecosystem. Linux is a clear winner in tech and tooling thought, which is why I use both.

New comment by stefanfisk in "Claude Code Is the Inflection Point"

stefanfisk — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 12:53:51 +0000

I’d guess that there’s at least one person at your company who has bragged about it.

New comment by stefanfisk in "PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok"

stefanfisk — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 12:44:47 +0000

My understanding is that it worked by doing read/write on a known bad sector to verify that the physical defect is there. Replicating that on normal discs sounds hard.

New comment by stefanfisk in "Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video]"

stefanfisk — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:19:18 +0000

I Googles that exact string and I can't say that I see even enough cases to count on one hand. Do you have any concrete examples that you think are representative for the behavior that you are referencing?

New comment by stefanfisk in "The Great Unwind"

stefanfisk — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:41:33 +0000

I can’t really remember hearing a Swede complain about bank bailouts in relation to the 2008 crisis. The 90s crisis and related bailouts are however often referenced when complaining about the banks making huge profits these days. Whether that’s reasonable or not is another question.