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I’m not making this up. I was thinking about posting the exact same question an hour ago. I am questioning my entire tech and communication stack. The first thing I did was download all my emails locally with offineimap. I can’t deny that I’m worried to get rug pulled by US companies any moment now.

A couple of years ago some art school students built an apartment in a Berlin subway tunnel. Some years later another artist built a little penthouse unnoticed on the roof of an apartment building. I went to visit it after I found it listed on real estate website. It turned out to be sort of a mock real estate agent pitch performance. Later the artist told me that all renters, neighbors and janitors though it must be legitimate and nobody suspected it to be built without permission from authorities or the owner.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-11/photos-a-...

https://penthaus-a-la-parasit.de/

Funny, I just used my Brikka coincidentally 5 min before reading this post. I think you are right. It's such a simple design and creates better espresso than most of the expensive machines that people use at home usually. Roughly made of 6 replaceable parts, backwards compatible with other Bialettis, no plastic capsule waste and easy to use.

Last year I picked up a HP Jornada 720 from Ebay out of curiosity. Considering its from the year 2000 it's impressive how much it can do. The build quality is sturdy, the keyboard is amazing and the OS feels more snappy than most of my current setups. I wish they would do a reboot with better screen and wifi. I'm not sure if it's "the best-designed" thing I have ever used, but it impressed me.