The Gaggiuno is quite complex; a Shades of Coffee PID kit is simpler if you want better shot-to-shot consistency and don't care much about customizing to the nth degree.

Single boiler is fine if you're making coffee for one or two - any more than that and the overhead of switching boiler temperatures makes the process painful.

I've had mine for about 3 years, routine descale with solution about a year ago, no issues. My water is around 120ppm.

Sometimes I also carry my smartphone but I don't /need/ to. I've told my family and trusted contacts that any emergency should be a phone call.

Also, i know a lot of non-native English speakers that use AI tools to "correct things". Because of the language barrier these people especially are less likely to ever be able to recognize the specific llm tone that precipitates.

For the next 6-12 months I get so much positive feedback about all the time that is saved while navigating the network drives.

I joke that the efficiency gains from its introduction organization-wide alone pay my salary!

> 5. Products fulfilling a purpose are like tools. They are neither decorative objects nor works of art. Their design should therefore be both neutral and restrained, to leave room for the users self-expression.

Let the decorations be decorations and art be art, while the tools we use to observe or create those other things should be instantly transparent extensions of the user.

Sounds like the audio device going to sleep during periods of silence, then taking a short time to wake up again when audio is played. Maybe to avoid hiss?

For a data point of 1, my laptop does this regardless of OS.

Actually, it came out in 2015 and was just low budget.

Also, Bazzite takes over 2 minutes to boot, while Zorin takes less than 20 seconds.

I'm pretty new to Linux as a daily driver, and need a stable base that I'm familiar with for my non-gaming daily work, and Bazzite isn't that for me yet. On the other hand, Bazzite just worked out of the box for gaming, better than Zorin did.

I have a big enough SSD to split the partition and let each distro do its best work for me.

Setting up a second off-site NAS and connecting it to the primary one over VPN was also easy.

I haven't twiddled with Linux configs since I set up the system in 2018.