Hacker News: thirdsun

New comment by thirdsun in "Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance"

thirdsun — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:51:16 +0000

Not OP but chances are they are renting (like a large part of germany's population are) and therefore don't have the option of installing a wallbox.

New comment by thirdsun in "Steam Machine"

thirdsun — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:02:16 +0000

I think that filter is called Apple Arcade but of course it's not free.

New comment by thirdsun in "uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store"

thirdsun — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:33:02 +0000

> Because I don’t want to give google any money.

Don't use Youtube then.

New comment by thirdsun in "I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'"

thirdsun — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:53:46 +0000

Someone applying to a blockchain company is probably also more likely to own a valuable crypto wallet the attacker might be able to access.

New comment by thirdsun in "Apple M5 chip"

thirdsun — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:03:36 +0000

Have you tried restarting your watch? I noticed heavily increased battery drain after the update too, until I restarted the watch and everything turned normal again.

New comment by thirdsun in "AI was supposed to help juniors shine. Why does it mostly make seniors stronger?"

thirdsun — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 08:06:30 +0000

I don't think you have to convince the parent poster or seniors developers in general. You have to convince their employers that this is a valuable use of time.

New comment by thirdsun in "A failure of security systems at PayPal is causing concern for German banks"

thirdsun — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 09:14:35 +0000

I strongly disagree. The main advantage of Paypal and the reason for its popularity in Germany was the fact that it provided instant payments at a time when credit cards were very uncommon.

Cash on delivery was a huge pain since you had to potentially large amounts of cash ready to hand over to your postman upon delivery. That's the opposite of convenient.

Alternatively you could pay by bank wire transfer, which of course led to an additional delay of a day or two until your transfer actually arrived at the sellers bank account. Nobody wants to deal with barriers like these in ecommerce. Paypal was a godsend back then. Remember, barely anyone had a credit card in those days in Germany.

New comment by thirdsun in "A failure of security systems at PayPal is causing concern for German banks"

thirdsun — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 09:06:31 +0000

> ? IBAN transactions are instant and free.

Instant transactions are a very recent development and are only starting to become common because banks are required by law to support them for free come October. Up until rather recently instant SEPA transfers were often either not supported or came with additional fees attached.

New comment by thirdsun in "Bending Spoons acquires komoot"

thirdsun — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 07:11:26 +0000

> lack of premium features that where catered towards ambitious cyclists that use their phone instead of a GPS

I think that's a very small target group. Most ambitious cyclists will use a dedicated bike computer rather than a smartphone. And rightfully so, if you ask me.

New comment by thirdsun in "Garmin's –$40B Pivot"

thirdsun — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 13:23:13 +0000

ANT+ is still very much present in the cycling world and likely won't go anywhere. While most sensors and devices will also support bluetooth it seems to be a much more fragile and problematic connection. From my own experience I'd always opt for ANT+.

New comment by thirdsun in "Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM"

thirdsun — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 12:16:36 +0000

I think the problem is that a large and growing part of the population is in a constant state of dissatisfaction, if not downright anger, often being fed or demanding simple solutions to complex problems. At that point it doesn't seem to matter if those solutions actually work as long as they promise change. And when it becomes clear they won't or require long term planning people will just demand new leadership and the cycle continues.

Let's face it. Most problems require patient approaches. Often changes that are made won't show their effects until years or decades later. Unfortunately that encourages short term thinking towards the next election in government and population alike.

New comment by thirdsun in "Apple courier may have stolen 2 MacBooks, ... Apple is not going to help"

thirdsun — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 08:47:52 +0000

Also it's so complicated to have UPS leave your parcel at a place of your choice (carport, deck, porch, etc.) in case you aren't home.

They have their MyChoice service which you have to sign up for and wait for a confirmation that is sent to you by mail which might take several days. However even if you take these steps it turns out that they will only match your parcels if the sender uses exactly the same address as the one you provided them. One character off and you lose any ability to set how your parcel should be delivered.

Any other delivery service does that easily, without postal confirmation for a specific parcel or any upcoming shipments.

Since I'm at the office during the day I had situations were I simply couldn't receive a UPS parcel for several days because their MyChoice service is useless once the address matching fails.

New comment by thirdsun in "FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions"

thirdsun — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 13:55:09 +0000

It's up to the store owner to actually default to "agrees to marketing". I'm not sure if Shopify is to blame when it's the owner that used an illegitimate opt-out for that setting instead of an opt-in.

And of course, follow-up mails for abandoned carts are an optional setting too.

New comment by thirdsun in "Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail"

thirdsun — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 13:53:27 +0000

> All "fine" except that this is the third time in the last 12 months that the same line undergoes maintenance forcing you to move to Lubeck first and adding 1 hour to your trip.

And there are even longer interruptions scheduled for the RE1 between Rostock and Hamburg in 2025. As someone who strongly prefers bikes and trains it forces me to commute by car. It's a disaster.

New comment by thirdsun in "Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail"

thirdsun — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 11:59:09 +0000

> Think of how often dedicated walking and cycling routes need to be repaved—almost never.

The condition of many german cycling paths would beg to differ.

New comment by thirdsun in "Playstation 5 Pro"

thirdsun — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 08:42:56 +0000

I doubt the non-Pro PS5 is anywhere close to the RTX3080's performance.

New comment by thirdsun in "iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max"

thirdsun — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:55:47 +0000

I experience none of that.

New comment by thirdsun in "Gear Acquisition Syndrome"

thirdsun — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 13:38:06 +0000

Cycling, particularly road cycling, also comes to mind.

New comment by thirdsun in "Trump injured but ‘fine’ after attempted assassination at rally"

thirdsun — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 13:50:54 +0000

Civil War (2024)

New comment by thirdsun in "The 'pay phone bandit' who baffled the FBI in the '80s"

thirdsun — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 07:24:45 +0000

I remember this story being released by Epic Magazine and Chicago Magazine.

The Bicycle Thief: https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/february-2019/bi...

On a sidenote: Epic Magazine is a treasure trove of these strange, little, Coen-brothers-movie-like stories: https://epicmagazine.com/