StarsBypass

joined 1 year ago
[–] StarsBypass@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Backbone One PlayStation Edition will make use of your existing phone screen.

[–] StarsBypass@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[–] StarsBypass@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (8 children)

What do you mean? They forced the Chinese company to sell it. An American firm bought it.

[–] StarsBypass@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Whose Meal Is It Anyway?

[–] StarsBypass@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why are we dragging out a political argument from 5 years ago?

[–] StarsBypass@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If there was a Linux approach to smartphones, I’d be interested. Instead, it’s a choice between two large corporations. And one of them receives the majority of its income from advertising. So that’s why I chose what I perceived to be the lesser of the two evils.

[–] StarsBypass@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hopefully once the alternative App Stores come about (thanks to EU legislation), it might appear in the future.

Or web app approach (like Voyager does with Lemmy).

[–] StarsBypass@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (19 children)

A shame it is not available for iOS (at least I can see).

[–] StarsBypass@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Sage (Breville) Barista Express. Been around for 8 years. Solenoid valve has been needed to be changed twice but it’s a job I’m confident in doing now and the parts are quite cheap (£25).

I bought it broke and fixed it up. Still makes a quality cup better than anyone else’s at home machine. Mainly because other’s often opt for less complicated but more expensive Nespresso pods (which make weak cereal-heavy flavoured outputs - check the James Hoffman video on that); or cheaper Delonghi’s, which I used to own before upgrading.

However I find Delonghi machines have a particular taste which I think comes from the Easy Serving Espresso system they implement in their machines, which puts a rubber gasket in the basket which a) is used to compensate for the weaker pressure of those machines by creating pressure in the basket rather than from the resistence from the coffee (thus affecting taste from the method of extraction), and b) affects the taste from the rubber itself (as well as its collecting of old coffee grounds).

So for anyone looking for a good quality espresso machine, I’d recommend picking up one of these second hand.