Some people are just really picky with their coffee/tea. I like a good cup of well-brewed coffee, but I certainly don't mind strong-ass black as tar drip coffee, even cold. It's a nice reminder that life is bitter, and then you die.
We're possibly talking about different things. I'm talking about the kettles (both electric and not) that are used by hipster douchebags to pour hot water over coffee in a filter in a holder perched on top of a mug, so-called "pour over coffee".
You must be talking about old-fashioned kettles where you mix the ground coffee directly with the water and let it sit, like a tea pot and loose-leaf tea, where the design of the kettle keeps most of the grounds from pouring out.
I've been using a blade grinder for years, and it still produces a perfectly fine filter grind, with very little size variation. People like to really overcomplicate coffee, for some silly reason.
That's probably a blade grinder, which splatters the oil all over the inside of the machine rather than leaving it with the grinds. You're better off buying pre-ground coffee than using one of those.
Nonsense, as long as you brush the ground coffee loose before tipping it into the filter, you'll get everything in there. That's why the blade grinders come with a little brush.
No need for all that faffing about, if you simply have patience. I use a cheap-ass filter holder ($5 at the hardware store), equally cheap-ass filters, an inexpensive electric grinder, and a perfectly ordinary kettle. I make amazing coffee like this.
As long as you know how to pour ("attention to details", I guess), you absolutely don't need the hipster nonsense kettles with the silly spouts.
This whole "pour-over" fetishism hipster thing is so goddamn stupid. Between the overpriced filter holders, the overpriced kettles and the insufferable "I wear a scarf and a beanie indoors" hipsters, it's a wonder any coffee gets made at all.
It's the simplest and easiest way to make coffee, don't overcomplicate it.
My workplace has every single floor outfitted with automated coffee machines that make decent faux cappuccino and the like, as well as high-quality drip coffee machines for us caffeine addicts who just want straight black strong coffee. And it's free, obviously. If they tried to make us pay for our coffee they would have a company-wide strike on their hands.
Even if you like filtered coffee (which is about the cheapest to produce) then you get a much better cup if you grind your own beans, which means buying a grinder as well as whatever you're using to make coffee, which can add up to a hundred dollars or so
Cheap electric grinders are perfectly fine for filter coffee, a filter holder that goes on a mug or thermos can be had for $5, filters cost almost nothing, and most people have an electric kettle. I make great coffee like this, in 5 minutes.
Don't get sucked into the trap of thinking you can only make good coffee with expensive equipment. Good quality beans trump pretty much every other factor when it comes to producing a good cup of coffee.
Some people are definitely way overdoing the nostalgia thing.
However, it would be interesting to be able to go back and experience earlier ages for a little while. Not a modern nostalgia-tinged pastiche, but the actual real thing.
Fuck that noise. Educate and enlighten your children, teach them responsible habits and how to deal with unpleasant things on the internet. Don't just use heavy-handed blocking tools, because shit will slip through the cracks (or the kids will quickly learn to bypass the blocks).
I've found uBlock Origin in dynamic mode to be highly superior to NoScript (either XUL or WebExt).
Enable "I am an advanced user" in the settings, then open the uBO toolbar button and mark 3rd party scripts and 3rd party frames as red in the global column. After this, add exceptions (noop = grey) or allow/deny in the global or local columns to unbreak any broken sites you encounter. The UI also handily shows which sites have inherited settings.
It only takes a couple of minutes to get the hang of, but it's an extremely powerful tool (and adds nicely on top of the good old static filters in uBO). Unlike NoScript, you can noop sites only on specific domains, instead of globally.
Those were Gregor Strasser quotes, not Hitler quotes. He was famously murdered on the Night of the Long Knives, where Hitler purged the NSDAP of people he considered dangerous to his own plans of leadership, and his more extreme direction for the party.
The search settings page gives you full control of which search engines to have in the browser (Google isn't mandatory, surprise surprise) and whether to enable search suggestions or not.
Similarly, on a freshly setup browser, it explicitly asks you whether you want to send usage data and telemetry to Mozilla. Unless if course you simply skip it because you're impatient and you just want to complain on Slashdot.
It's kinda funny how you claim you are completely neutral in this, but your post betrays the fact that you're deeply emotionally affected by something as silly as a web browser that doesn't cater 100% to your highly specific use case.
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Some people are just really picky with their coffee/tea. I like a good cup of well-brewed coffee, but I certainly don't mind strong-ass black as tar drip coffee, even cold. It's a nice reminder that life is bitter, and then you die.
We're possibly talking about different things. I'm talking about the kettles (both electric and not) that are used by hipster douchebags to pour hot water over coffee in a filter in a holder perched on top of a mug, so-called "pour over coffee".
You must be talking about old-fashioned kettles where you mix the ground coffee directly with the water and let it sit, like a tea pot and loose-leaf tea, where the design of the kettle keeps most of the grounds from pouring out.
Honestly, I would rather bring my own coffee in a thermos, than be subjected to such a thing.
Your workplace doesn't supply the coffee for free to you? What kind of third-world hellhole do you live in?
Ugh, your workplace should really just get a couple of drip machines instead of that vaguely coffee-flavored mud a Keurig produces.
I've been using a blade grinder for years, and it still produces a perfectly fine filter grind, with very little size variation. People like to really overcomplicate coffee, for some silly reason.
That's probably a blade grinder, which splatters the oil all over the inside of the machine rather than leaving it with the grinds. You're better off buying pre-ground coffee than using one of those.
Nonsense, as long as you brush the ground coffee loose before tipping it into the filter, you'll get everything in there. That's why the blade grinders come with a little brush.
No need for all that faffing about, if you simply have patience. I use a cheap-ass filter holder ($5 at the hardware store), equally cheap-ass filters, an inexpensive electric grinder, and a perfectly ordinary kettle. I make amazing coffee like this.
As long as you know how to pour ("attention to details", I guess), you absolutely don't need the hipster nonsense kettles with the silly spouts.
This whole "pour-over" fetishism hipster thing is so goddamn stupid. Between the overpriced filter holders, the overpriced kettles and the insufferable "I wear a scarf and a beanie indoors" hipsters, it's a wonder any coffee gets made at all.
It's the simplest and easiest way to make coffee, don't overcomplicate it.
My workplace has every single floor outfitted with automated coffee machines that make decent faux cappuccino and the like, as well as high-quality drip coffee machines for us caffeine addicts who just want straight black strong coffee. And it's free, obviously. If they tried to make us pay for our coffee they would have a company-wide strike on their hands.
Even if you like filtered coffee (which is about the cheapest to produce) then you get a much better cup if you grind your own beans, which means buying a grinder as well as whatever you're using to make coffee, which can add up to a hundred dollars or so
Cheap electric grinders are perfectly fine for filter coffee, a filter holder that goes on a mug or thermos can be had for $5, filters cost almost nothing, and most people have an electric kettle. I make great coffee like this, in 5 minutes.
Don't get sucked into the trap of thinking you can only make good coffee with expensive equipment. Good quality beans trump pretty much every other factor when it comes to producing a good cup of coffee.
Yet another anti-Firefox troll *yawn*
Yes, Firefox uses some Google services, they do not try to hide that fact. All of the data they send is anonymized.
AC = Anonymous Cat/Canine
They aren't "difficult" to train; they can't be trained because they're rather stupid.
Well yeah, since they're basically the animal kingdom's foremost libertarians, so it makes sense that they're short-sighted, self-centered and dumb.
Disclaimer: I like cats.
Woah dude, lay off the stalking.
Some people are definitely way overdoing the nostalgia thing.
However, it would be interesting to be able to go back and experience earlier ages for a little while. Not a modern nostalgia-tinged pastiche, but the actual real thing.
Foobar2000 is the best music player out there, by a huge margin.
Well, you can still use NoScript, if you think it provides better functionality. Nobody is stopping you.
Fuck that noise. Educate and enlighten your children, teach them responsible habits and how to deal with unpleasant things on the internet. Don't just use heavy-handed blocking tools, because shit will slip through the cracks (or the kids will quickly learn to bypass the blocks).
I've found uBlock Origin in dynamic mode to be highly superior to NoScript (either XUL or WebExt).
Enable "I am an advanced user" in the settings, then open the uBO toolbar button and mark 3rd party scripts and 3rd party frames as red in the global column. After this, add exceptions (noop = grey) or allow/deny in the global or local columns to unbreak any broken sites you encounter. The UI also handily shows which sites have inherited settings.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBl...
It only takes a couple of minutes to get the hang of, but it's an extremely powerful tool (and adds nicely on top of the good old static filters in uBO). Unlike NoScript, you can noop sites only on specific domains, instead of globally.
UMatrix is amazingly powerful, but I find uBlock Origin in dynamic mode to be more intuitive.
Noscript is inferior to uBlock Origin in dynamic mode. Use that instead.
I just installed a completely fresh browser with an empty profile when FF57 came out, and all of what I wrote is true.
Those were Gregor Strasser quotes, not Hitler quotes. He was famously murdered on the Night of the Long Knives, where Hitler purged the NSDAP of people he considered dangerous to his own plans of leadership, and his more extreme direction for the party.
The search settings page gives you full control of which search engines to have in the browser (Google isn't mandatory, surprise surprise) and whether to enable search suggestions or not.
Similarly, on a freshly setup browser, it explicitly asks you whether you want to send usage data and telemetry to Mozilla. Unless if course you simply skip it because you're impatient and you just want to complain on Slashdot.
It's kinda funny how you claim you are completely neutral in this, but your post betrays the fact that you're deeply emotionally affected by something as silly as a web browser that doesn't cater 100% to your highly specific use case.
Get a life etc.