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bebna··on The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot (2018)
There are mobile solutions for Espressos.

- Presses, like Picopresso, where you need to use your own muscles to create the espresso. If you got any pains in your hands or wrists there are a no go.

- Stovepots like Moka pots, but who create enough pressure, like 9Barista, expensive, needs to cool down between making shots

- Aeropress alikes, like Cafflano Kompresso, who are cheaper and lighter than the rest, but it depends on your control how the resulting espresso tastes.

Aeropress is for coffee. If coffee is good enough I recommend Espro P1 or P0, they filter is its money worth and they allow for making a mug of coffee on the go and keep it warm. I was able to make multiple on the go with just a small box of ground coffee and an insulation can with hot water. Personally I got a P1, and the lid can be hard to open, without also screwing open the middle part, but one gets used to it.

bebna··on Ask HN: Why E-Ink Phones?
N900 had a transreflective screen, officially as a selling point.

I think my Surface Go first gen also has it, even when not advertised as such, because I can switch to white themes and almost work with back-light off in the direct sun.

bebna··on Ask HN: Why E-Ink Phones?
Check out the pinenote project. It is intended to be more than just a hackable eink reader slab.
bebna··on Why Are Glass Carboys Shattering Suddenly?
2 effing dollars price difference
bebna··on Trailerduck is a smart e-bike trailer
fat tires, like an udx for example
bebna··on Peter Pan, Existentialist Fairy Tale? (2017)
The Spider Anime adaption is sadly so badly realised. I recommend to look for the WebNovel (there is an english translation epub out there as a good starting point) or the light novel.

The main character thinks a bunch and speaks little, so anime and manga will miss out. The manga still gets its somewhat good adapted, but the anime is sadly just so bad that it shouldn't be mentioned.

For a good starter isekai anime, "Tensei Shitara Slime datta ken" | "That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime!" is a much better anime and gets more points right.

bebna··on In which a laptop defies the trends
The blog post starts with replacements for an X301, and I guess, people like that/us are using the notebooks for getting work done and don't care about "consumer" stuff.

Serial and Parallel ports are still important if you are running around a factory floor. That is also why still got a T400 and X201 in working order, because over their card slots I can still can get a good serial port.

bebna··on MangaDex infrastructure overview
Just call their service often enough, and tell them internet isnt working.
bebna··on Apple Just Gave Millions of Users a Reason to Quit Their iPhones
yeah right
bebna··on Incremental note-taking
That is why the Samsung Note series was the only thing that I see as a possible alternative to paper. (Paper is still king in my everyday life.)

Steps you need to take to write down a note with a Samsung Note:

0. Have it and screen off is fine.

1. Pull out the pen.

2. Don't press any buttons, just start writing on the display, the UI will awake when you go near the display with the pen tip.

3. Put the pen away. Note will be saved and screen will shut off.

bebna··on Trish Rothgeb coined ‘third wave’ and is looking toward coffee’s future (2019)
based on the book "The Wave" I also wasn't thinking about coffee
bebna··on Apple Readies MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Revamps
Based on how well Apple designs thermals, we can only throw dice. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiCBYAP_Sgg

bebna··on Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
like u said notes are really personal. I personally prefer paper the most, but if its about electronic notes, I settled with a folder that gets synced with syncthing to all devices and also got git for easy offsite backups with push. (yeah, syncthing does that too, but I like to have a history in my backups, to allow for single file and state restores)

In this folder I categorise with subfolders and use simple markdown files to write down stuff and todo.txt for when I need tasklists. A dedicated file in root is used for collecting random stuff before there get sorted and another to collect all links that I wanna bookmark.

This works very well on different types of devices at the same time. On android Markor is a good editor for it, on desktop/macs I recommend typora for the nice interface and obsidian.md for the nice navigation between files, if you don't have already have setup a favourite editor. Also works well with vim/emacs/vscode or anything else that handles plain text files.

bebna··on Show HN: Freeciv-Web
Std feature for civ games. Other older games had it too. Works well with round based games, especially chess.
bebna··on Apple's MacBook revival plan: Bring back old features
nobody hates the touchbar, they hate that a row was sacrificed for it, instead of just adding it on top.
bebna··on Ask HN: What can replace my iPod for podcast listening?
Look at FiiO, they have dedicated hardware. Back then they produced headphone amplifiers for iPods, after those got canned, they start to produce their own iPod replacements.
bebna··on MuditaOS: An open-source, e-ink mobile OS
I tried it with an S3 mini, u could get a reasonably up to date version of android on it for current versions of whatsapp and co, but most of them had significant problems, especially with the hardware support.

There was the Nokia 1, don't know how well available that still is.

otherwise the kaios devices, I think they do have WhatsApp, but can't remember about the others.

Therefore for everyday I just setup my phone to not annoy me and when I want to shut off completely, I switch to the F3, which gets thrown deep into the bag, just as an emergency thingy next to the basic first aid kit and I don't see it again until I got to go to work.

bebna··on MuditaOS: An open-source, e-ink mobile OS
That os is only for that phone.

There is a quick setting with a bar inside a circle, which shuts of any attention grabbers. If you still need some of those, you can allow them in the app-details notifications settings. Back on blackberry you controlled that similarly by defining important contacts, who are allowed to ignore mute. Even the palm pre had that functionality.

bebna··on MuditaOS: An open-source, e-ink mobile OS
I still don't get it.

If you wanna do digital detox and still need a phone, get an used Motorola F3.

- It can't do more than talk and same very bare texting (Mudita already got a calendar, something that wants to get your attention and don't get me started on that mediation timer)

- costs almost nothing (Mudita Pure costs >300)

- flat and small, therefore easy to put away in any bag or pouch and forget

- doesn't has any big display where you need to take care of it

- upcycles an old phone for what is likely a, perhaps repeating, but still temporary use case

bebna··on Ngx-scully-blog: A simple blog for developers
bash script with inotify or watchman to watch the folder, pandoc for conversion, done.
bebna··on Annoying website features I face as a blind person
Take a piece of cloth and blindfold yourself.

Now try to use your own website with a text-to-speech (TTS) engine and your keyboard.

No joke, recreating the users situations is often a cheap and easy way to find problems.

For example I like to check a design by setting the network speed limit with the browsers dev tool to 32kbps, to see how long it would take to load on a bad connection.

bebna··on A Clean Start for the Web
For example hugo allows multi language. This is done by file name or directory [0]. I find this much more usable than trying to fit multiple languages in one file.

[0]: https://regisphilibert.com/blog/2018/08/hugo-multilingual-pa...

bebna··on Cities sue Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, claim they owe cable “franchise fees”
Germany had TV or Radio, (every car got a radio...). Today it is per household, independent what you own.

As a student, unemployed or otherwise paid from the state it isn't a problem, you let them pay it. But if you are single, you have to pay the 210€/yr on your own.

bebna··on DPD to pilot 'world first' electric delivery truck in London
Yeah Deutsche Post was first I think.
bebna··on What's it like to get a “?” email from Jeff Bezos? [video]
Yeah, at some point it just becomes a conversation.
bebna··on Ask HN: Are YouTube ads getting worse?
if you're using android, check out redtube.

I use Firefox to browse and with long click and open in app to let redtube handle it. it also is nice to have the option of watching the vid as popup and keep browsing around on YouTube

bebna··on German stock trading platform Xetra down, all securities affected
That is why I call that gambling and not investing.
bebna··on Cheap tricks for high-performance Rust
I prefer low effort.
bebna··on No to .io, Yes to .xyz
Io is the daughter of the greek river god Inachos. :P
bebna··on Microsoft calls for a closer look at app stores
I don't think that don't matters that much atm. Most will google for paint programm or directly for krita after they heard about from somewhere (youtube tuts for example) and land on the project homepage. After which they mostly will remember to look for the homepage next time they install it again.
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