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Americano coffee. You make a strong espresso with normal beans and add hot water to the cup after the press.

Yeah, true. I’m pretty good at the balancing circus act. I’ve only had one mistake and I was very tired that morning and forgot to put the filter cap on. Just a little spilled though, mostly I just wound up with a bunch of grounds in my cup. I may still try the valve or the Prismo, though.

100% subscribed. I’m the type to do a week of research of how and what before I push the buy button on something, and this will a help a ton. Thank you.

I can imagine its a nightmare to clean. Stuff like this is why I keep rugged reusable pipe cleaners at the kitchen sink. Not to mention I believe you have to use the stainless steel filter even if you use a paper filter?

I would think that just a paper filter would immediately siphon into the hole. Would be nice if they just made a metal insert with holes like the standard cap for paper filters.

That’s fair. It really does make a great cup of coffee. I just really want to try things like pour over and moka pot.

Absolutely! I use an app called Timer Widget - Tea Time. I swear I found it on F-Droid, but it seems to have migrated to Google Play only. It has no app interface, but rather is a widget. It’s customizable, you can choose the color of the timer and active timer and change the volume plus the sound that plays.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.hirschkorn.teatime

But there’s another simple one on F-Droid called Cuppa that’s very good, too. If you want something more complex that will go step by step, there’s Cofi - Brew Timer on F-Droid. It uses exact instruction input and a timer that will go down the list in order.

Admittedly, standard plunge is the best and easiest way to do it if you just want a good cup of coffee. I went overboard testing and fiddling with this method. It really is a ritual, lol. I feel like a kitchen alchemist sometimes.

In my defense, I spend a little more to get a good brand of coffee straight from the roaster’s site, as well as a local coffee I found that is absolutely delicious. I figured I might as well take the time to get my money’s worth out of them. This method takes upwards of fifteen minutes, and is not great if you just need to plunge and get somewhere.

Hmmm, strange. I guess you could try ProtonUp-Qt and inject GE’s newest Proton in and see if that works. Also, there are some games that wouldn’t run for me until I installed the Steamworks Common Redistributables from the tools page in my library. Threw me off recently because I swear that the last time I was on Arch those autoinstalled after switching my compatibility over to Proton.

Big corp facts.

Mullvad, (the vpn, I have not tried the browser) uses a single account number as both name and password, no emails. It allows for multiple anonymous payment methods and it’s open source.

Sliiiiightly more trustworthy than Google imo.

As a (currently) CachyOS user, I would like to point out that their custom mirrors don’t always reflect the newest version of packages, too. So if your package has a bug you may have to wait an extra day or two for it to reflect the fixed version after it drops. That or manually install the git.

Just make love with Timeshift and for the love of god don’t use topgrade if you don’t know what you’re doing. Thankfully, because of rule number one, Timeshift told me the topgrade nightmare was over and tucked me back into bed with a glass of warm milk and a bedtime story.