Weekly review: We saw the northern lights – and Klaas Heufer things!

TECHNOLOGY

November 14, 2021 at 10:30 a.m.

This week on Hallo igamesnews: Northern lights in Lofoten, the comeback of “Wetten, dass?”, TV Total and Squid Game. We also dug up what is probably the flattest flat joke of all time.

TV Total, “Wetten, dass”, your newsletter writer: It was and is the week of more or less big comebacks. Today, chatting from the sewing box again, welcomes you to the wild technical all-round blow on behalf of the entire team, Michael.

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Hello networld! Just back from a two-week road trip through Sweden and Norway, I’m dying to tell you about the latest developments in the world of technology, entertainment, linear and non-linear.

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2. What awaits you at the very end of Lofoten

3. A steam powered SUV

4. The comebacks of the week

5. These were other top stories of the week

6. Northern lights hunt using apps

7. The flat joke of the week (is particularly flat this time)

I can tell you about a personal experience. “Experience” is a good match, because on my vacation I was driven very far by car to the north, to the northern end of Sweden and then to the Lofoten.

What awaits you at the very end of Lofoten

Do you know what awaits you at the very end of Europastraße 10 (E10), what feels like the northernmost end of the world? First of all the most frequently stolen place-name sign in the world, namely that of the town “Å”.

If you leave this sight behind you and drive a little further, you come to a parking lot. On the left hand side it goes down to a small cluster of fishermen’s houses. Why am I telling you all this? Because I was pretty puzzled that there are Tesla charging stations not only near Mount Everest but also here in Å.

There were charging stations for electric cars from California on every second red wall of houses. Now my visit fell in the gray November, far and wide not a soul was to be seen. So I don’t know whether the charging stations are all occupied in summer, during the high season, or whether it is just a clever marketing campaign by the manufacturer. What I’m actually getting at, however, is the following: Finally bury your range fears!

In Norway and Sweden, electric mobility is as normal as brushing your teeth. All large rest areas offer quick charging options. You can shorten the waiting time by having food delivered directly to the charging station.

On the main roads, in small alleys, in the mountains – there is a buzzing and roaring everywhere. With my mini-bus from Toyota (unfortunately not this beauty) with nailing diesel under the hood, which had been converted into a motorhome, I, the technology freak, was a rolling anachronism, surrounded by many Teslas. But the VW ID 4 and the Polestar 2 also find a lot of buyers in Scandinavia. Understandable. I often had to pay around two dollars for a liter of diesel.

At home I came across many other reasons why the future belongs to the electric car, despite the prophecies of doom in Germany, and why fear of range is unfounded. The question of what should happen to the discarded batteries is also slowly being clarified.

A steam powered SUV

If we Germans aren’t careful, we’ll be just as weird when it comes to mobility as this Brit. He converted his Land Rover. The SUV is now started with logs soaked in diesel, which in turn ignite a coal fire. A rolling steam engine, an anti-electric car.

Do you “bet that?” seen? I would be surprised if not. The ratings were fantastic. 13.8 million viewers watched, a market share of 45.7 percent, reports DWDL.

The comebacks of the week

Twitter and other social media were full of praise for the great entertainment show. Immediately there are considerations to oblige Gottschalk for further expenses. The old show steamer on linear television against Netflix, Disney + and Co.? Aren’t we back at the steam-powered Land Rover from above? Can the old television really still stink against the streaming formats?

The appearance of the ProSieben duo Joko and Klaas was remarkable in this regard. Asked by Gottschalk about the format Joko and Klaas against ProSieben brought Heufer-Umlauf to the pointWhat still excites him about linear television:

I think this is at this time, when many only get and hear what they should also get, through certain algorithms also the great strength of so-called old, linear television (…) If you broadcast at 8:15 p.m., you can put something in front of people that they did not expect.

Klaas Heufer-Umlauf on ZDF

Speaking of ProSieben: TV Total’s comeback also started there this week. So far, there has been a great deal of consensus among the editorial staff that this comeback can still be expanded. “The last 20 minutes were okay, I didn’t see anything else. I didn’t have to laugh,” is how our film critic Tjark sums up the format.

At least he held out until the last 20 minutes. I died before. Asleep, I meant asleep! Oh my God. These actors, however, actually died during the filming. Sad. Like this transition. Man, Micha …

These were other top stories of the week

Northern lights hunt using apps

The chances of being able to see the northern lights north of the Arctic Circle at night at the beginning of November was one of the main reasons I set out for Norway. However, cloudy weather threatened to thwart this calculation. The moment a friend sent me a message on my cell phone was downright frustrating. Due to an unusual solar flare, the chances were suddenly not bad, even in Germany, to see “Aurora Bolearis”, the northern lights, she wrote to me. I already had more than 4,000 kilometers on the clock and looked disappointed at a closed cloud cover above me.

From that moment on, I spent a couple of nights pacing around my minibus like a soccer coach, hoping for a gap in the clouds over and over again. Of course I used good weather apps. However, embarrassingly, I had to be explicitly made aware of the fact that there are special aurora forecast apps. There’s an app for everything.

I used the Appe Aurora Alerts because I liked the simple display in the form of a percentage display and the app sounds an alarm if something happens in the sky. “20 percent chance of seeing northern lights on the horizon”. I can do something with that. From then on I was often driven off the bus in the middle of the night. And then it actually worked. Friends of the net world, here, for you. The moment was just too good not to share with you:

The flat joke of the week (is particularly flat this time)

Attention – if you hang your head in the stars, you can fall all the deeper. I bet the following flat joke will ground you guys right away. We’ll read each other again next Friday at the latest. Until then, stay curious, it’s worth it!

And while you’re at it, stay linear, steam-powered or leak at a charging station for a change. It really is time we moved into a new, healthier, nicer, greener age. Electric cars are only a very small part of this, I know. Perhaps it is also a wrong, misleading building block? Feel free to write us a few lines about this and everything else that is on your mind about this newsletter to [email protected]. Oh, one more thing: I really have nothing to do with this!

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