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  • From the look of things, yeah, the OXO device looks similar enough to a Gabi, just a different filter type and a different (bigger) size. If there’s a disadvantage to the Gabi, it’s that: it’s rather small, so unless you’re doing single cups, you’ll have to pour in a couple of rounds, making sure your bed doesn’t dry out in the meantime, etc. It won’t be a problem if you do single cups, so I suppose that’s what it’s primarily aimed at. Oh, and the type of filters differ, of course, so if you have a strong preference there, that might dictate the dripper/drip-assist you can use.

    Either way, yes, the OXO looks to be the same kind of thing, good to hear it works well, too!



  • but I don’t really see much difference from manually pooring.

    Main difference is ease of use, you don’t need to use a gooseneck to circle around, another time, wait a bit, make a pentagram, invoke some eldritch coffee god, pour the rest. You just fill the top resorvoir and wait for it to drip through. Refill until you’ve hit your water volume.

    Basically going the immersion route makes your water touch the coffee longer.

    It’s not immersion route, afaict, not more so than a regular pour-over. Unless I’m misunderstanding you (or the processes).

    It might give you a slight improvement in comfort, but at what cost.

    Roughly 30-40 euros, I believe. ;)


  • Someone at the office brought a Gabi Dripper (or whatever the proper name is). Basically a Kalita Wave compatible filter holder, with a shower thingy on top that you just dump water into.

    I love that thing. It makes it stupid simple to brew good coffee, without faffing about, and if you want to take the time or experiment, you can still take the top off and do a manual pour.

    The way I see it: it’s an addition. I’ve seen posts about “does this defeat the purpose”, and I consider that silly gate keeping. The purpose is good coffee, yeah?













  • I’m actually still on my first ergo, a Lily58 (my first mechanical was a “regular” 75%). I was a bit on the fence between this and the Corne, and I think I would’ve been fine going with the Corne; I barely used the numrow and currently it’s not even mapped, and I’m experimenting with putting the things I had left on the outer columns on layers or combos.

    But regret… no, of course not. It’s been a great learning experience so far!

    I’ll certainly build more boards at some point, at least a Corne because, well, gotta build a Corne, but maybe some other things as well. Maybe a Charybdis or a Cygnus or something like that.



  • This sounds like it’d be exactly how I currently use Tumbleweed on my workstations: I don’t update daily, but rather every once in a while. I appreciate the new versions of things, but being on the daily bleeding edge is more work than I care to put in.

    I can also see this working quite nicely for those with nvidia hardware, where with TW you’d sometimes end up with a kernel too new for the drivers to get shoehorned in. A slightly easier-going pace would help there.

    It also reminds me of Android, where you have roughly monthly updates (theoretically) and every now and then a bigger one.