I kinda doubt it. Ive doesn't have that much pull, most people don't know him, definitely not as much pull as Ferrari, one of the most recognizable brands in the world. And I bet Ferrari was into this, they make a ton of new models anyways, and they probably know that sport car enthusiasts would not have jumped to an EV no matter what. Much better to try to make something very different than their lineup than just an engine swap.

I'd wager that razor blades and scalpels and many other things sharper than kitchen knives are made by machines. Sometimes we don't automate fully expensive things because handmade is also a premium, not necessarily because if we were to dedicate engineering resources to the problem it would be impossible to automate. That said there are things that machines currently can't do despite good efforts to solve the problem. That's true

I imagined that there would be better ones made by real c64 democoders, but I can include a .prg. Also, if you make a C project in the web-based IDE I linked, and copy-paste the last .c file, it will compile it, run it in an emulator, and give an option to download the compiled .prg from there too

It's just how I decided to generate the previews for my blog in general. Not my best idea, but I don't hate it enough yet to change it.

There are both mechanical keyboards for the c64 (mechboard 64) and c64 inspired mechanical keyboards for the PC (8bitdo sells one, probably others)

Cool, that 8bitdo one would have been a perfect holiday gift. Look so good.

Eh, if only I had one. I have some relatives living next to me through and I think I remember an old TV in their basement, I might check it out, that's a good idea.

Fwiw, the c64 is pretty robust, if you don't use the original power supplies.

I'm surprised that people find this to be an example of clickbait. If I cared about views, I'd imagine an honest title like - "I turned my c64 into a digital fireplace" - would have probably been more appealing, no?

You’re surprised that people find a title of “Help! My c64 caught on fire!” to be clickbait in a case where your c64 did not catch on fire and you don’t need help?!

It’s an interesting article, but the title is a textbook example of clickbait and I’m surprised that you’re surprised.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickbait

i understand them but considering the project and its nature its a punny / good way of clickbait :D. lovely lil fireplace btw!

thanks

Author, fwiw, I don't do/care about click-bait, as I never cared about clicks. Since I moved to my bespoke blog system (previously I was on blogspot) I don't even track page views. But I thought it was somewhat funny.

I think not enough people today have ever seen the message "printer on fire".

Not GP, but I was expecting to read about a C64 on fire and was disappointed when it was just a post about an unoptimized fire demo

Author - yes, it's "aesthetic", albeit not my best work and I might revert that decision at some point. Was inspired by lowtechmagazine but they did a much much better job.

I do care about the blog being snappy and working also on very low-end, vintage hardware though, so that also somewhat achieves that goal.

I like the aesthetic choice

I wrote that it doesn't need VR, not that it wouldn't benefit from it. My 2 cents is that currently and for the foreseeable future VR is not a big asset, I think it's clunky and ridden with fundamental problems we don't know how to solve even in the realms of academic research, much less in products we can actually make and sell for reasonable prices and so on. That said, it's orthogonal to the point I really wanted to talk about, that's why I didn't elaborate further :)