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I can understand your reservations, „running a coffee making cycle“ makes it sound as if it is some kind of machine - which it isn’t. It’s one of these percolators, made of stainless steel, that you put on your stove to make coffee. Look up „Bialetti Moka“ and you get the idea, it’s really quite simple.

The reason why the dishwasher takes so long is that it takes time to break down the grime. Same in the coffee maker. There is a deep crevice in the coffee compartment that cannot be cleaned mechanically because you can’t really reach it (clearly a design flaw if you ask me). But remaining coffee tends to build up there and over time it affects the taste. Using detergent and letting it sit overnight breaks down this oily residue and leaves it shiny as new. Then you take the whole thing apart, gaskets and all and thoroughly rinse it. If I put the coffee maker into the dishwasher it would be the exact same chemicals (ok, at 70 instead of 100 degrees Celsius) plus less thorough rinsing. But no one would object.

By „make coffee“ I meant „use the coffee maker as usual, without ground beans but with detergent in the water“. The fume/steam is surely not healthy if inhaled directly and up close, but then again your dishwasher vents those same fumes into your kitchen untreated in much larger quantities than a 200ml coffee maker possibly can.

I regularly use things to clean that I am more worried about, such as bleach, acetone, turpentine and the likes…

This works for cleaning a lot of things. I regularly clean the coffee maker (a Bialetti espresso thing) by putting some powder detergent in the water compartment, then „make coffee“ without actual coffee and leave it in overnight. Neutralize with white vinegar (which has the added benefit of descaling) and rinse thoroughly. It‘s as new afterwards.

And yes, it’s not good for your skin, so avoid immersing your hands in it or wear gloves.

Ah ok, that makes sense

And shouldn’t it be possible to make the battery smaller with a more efficient motor?

Im still waiting as well. And while I’ve found it to be infuriating at times it is still better than „the real“ Office for everything I do.

Cannot recommend enough, great tool!

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Bought it to transfer mail from SMTP to Office365. Worth every penny.

Google Sheets indeed does everything a common user would expect from a spreadsheet, without having to install anything and fiddle with licenses. This in itself is the killer feature.

For me personally the absolute killer feature is the bidirectional integration with BigQuery, something you won’t get that easily (if at all, correct me if I am wrong) with Excel.

I have the complete opposite experience. I use CSV files a lot, LibreCalc has a sane import dialog and handles these files near perfect by default. When working with Excel-users I always get a reply along the lines of „the file is weird, can you send me xls?“

And yes, I know that Excel opens CSV just fine. But it is not straightforward enough to explain it to a semi computer-literate office drone…

That would indeed be fair. On the other hand, I couldn’t repair the clutch on a car on my own whereas taking a bike apart and putting it back together can be done in my living room if need be.

On DIY: absolutely on anything not safety related. I‘d never touch the brakes. Changing oil is perfectly doable for a reasonably skilled diy person. If you like that kind of thing and have the access to the necessary infrastructure (especially for oil disposal), go for it.

But I like to take the car to a mechanic for another reason: in Germany you’re required to get regular technical inspections (TÜV), if the mechanic does it chances are better that it goes through without problems.

I agree. But if the use case is „take one person for a <10km commute“ then the comparison is fair.

Nothing exotic, a Peugeot Traveller van. The spare parts were 700€, rest was labor. Took a whole day to take apart the transmission/front axle and put it all together again.

True, the price tag might buy you a second hand car. But if you factor in the maintenance cost of cars it comes in cheap in comparison. I’ve just had to replace the clutch in my car (~2200€), whereas having the whole transmission (all sprockets and the chain) in a bike fixed is around 250-300€. Less if you do it yourself.

And being able to do it myself feels really good, I couldn’t agree more!

Exactly. It’s illegal here in Germany. I don’t know if it’s ok somewhere else.

Well, it sort of does. Imagine your doing 100 in the left lane, as does the car in front of you and the three cars in front of them. There’s a truck doing 80 in the middle lane some 500m away. All of you are going to pass it. Now a sixth car starts tailgating behind the last in line and because there’s left a big safety gap he’s overtaking on the right.

I was the last in line, going at the exact same speed as the cars in front of me, just leaving enough space. Why would I switch lanes?

Plus it was leading to an exit anyway…

I know that. But what am I supposed to do when the left lane leads to the exit I want to go to?

Also: there was someone in front of me going the same speed, I just left a big gap

Just yesterday I was driving in the left lane with cruise control set to the maximum allowed velocity, with the maximum gap behind a car driving in front of me. Of course someone overtook me on the right (illegal in Germany) just to swerve in front of me and then drive at the same speed, just 20m further ahead. He ended up being first at the red lights. I’ll never understand it…

Agreed. I once cross-compiled for Intel on an Apple Silicon machine while being on a Teams call. Guess what was heavier on the CPU…

From my experience as a programmer who did accounting for a while: Accounting is the easy part, but the borders to taxes are nonexistent (at least here in Germany). So when you do accounting you always do taxes to a certain degree. And this is not something that can be understood with logic, it’s completely arbitrary.

On software that was written by accountants: look no further than DATEV. It’s an abomination I would not inflict on my worst enemy.

A friend of mine has developed an assistive browser extension for people with color vision deficiency. It works on the current viewport, a selected area or a DOM element, allowing you to inspect the shades and approximate color names of the pixels. It also outputs color info in RGB and hex, making it useful for web devs, graphic designers as well.

He is also the creator of https://isit.red, a highly performant augmented reality web app that displays color info through a live camera view.

I learned to drive in a CX Break, a 5m beast of a car. Two and a half turns of the wheel from left to right, self-centering. Brake pedal went from zero to fully engaged in one cm. And the suspension was the absolute best. Never again drove anything like it.

I have also used the K860 and I like it. I stumbled across Chad Austin’s Microsoft Sculpt wired conversion [1] and I have been using it for some time now. Apart from the abysmal function keys it’s a decent keyboard, and with QMK you can make it do whatever you want.

[1] https://chadaustin.me/2021/02/wired-sculpt/

Can I open the fridge while I'm at work to see if I need to get more milk on the way home?

Only works for a neatly organized fridge. The way my kids cram everything into the fridge makes this feature worthless.

Is it just me or does the article only mention female examples? I specifically searched for „boy“ and „son“, to no avail.

Thanks!

This looks amazing! I'll bookmark it in case I have PNG/PDF labels in future.

I currently have the problem that Dymo changed their tray application/print from web solution to be pretty much useless, so I bought Zebra printers and came up with my own "JSON to label" thing [1]. Just now it’s a mere proof of concept.

1 https://github.com/nonimode/multihaftetikettierapparat