I don't know where we're going, but we know where we are? (Part whatever)

Well to be fair, I mostly dealt with German customers. Almost every single call or chat reinforced my stance that emigrating to Ireland was the right decision...

I want out of the place! It must be reverse engineering! Grow up in a cool place, move to a backwater. Grow up in a backwater, move to a cool place.☺️ I lived in Spain for a few years. Canary Islands. More advanced that many think except for crap broadband and postal service. Great. I got a taste of London at the start of 2020. Great start. Absolutely brilliant. Covid killed the dream. My next move will involve all three of us if possible. I still have itchy feet even at my age! I do not see the appeal of Ireland anymore.

I am a disco ball 😂😂😂🙌🙌

Thanks for that insight thomil. Understandable. But despite my qualifications from secondary through third level and actual experience on the job for many years, for me, the place stinks. I stuck around after my leaving cert while many of my friends emigrated. I stuck around after college while many of my class mates emigrated. I left at 40 years of age after the crash. I came back as I was promised a new Ireland that embraced ambition. My bank said they backed "brave". (they still do) That same bank told me recently that I have to demonstrate my ability to recover work opportunities after lockdowns before they'll consider me for a loan to upgrade my car. I grew up in this country when it hadn't a pot to piss in. I got educated here. I stayed here and started a business. I believed in it. But now I feel very let down by it. The harder I work, the more it costs. Absolutely no disrespect to you thomil, but I hate the fooking place and cannot wait for another chance to get out.

My life now ❤️❤️❤️

Coffee time, have a couple of boxes of monkey Pooh coffee, not as convenient as my Nespresso but quite nice.

Here is a dumb question for you.

I recently started using a Nespresso that a friend was getting rid of.

I am not a big coffee person so I'm still trying to decide if I like the coffee or not.

My question in..how when you put the pod straight in, the coffee is ready to pour? Like, when I'm making a cup of tea I've to wait for the kettle to boil.

It just doesn't make sense 🤷‍♀️

I'm not smurfjed, but I'll have a go with an answer to the Nespresso question.

Basically, it boils (no pun intended) down to the volume of the water being heated. Rather than heating a large volume of water at once, such as with a kettle, coffee machines such as Nespresso use relatively thin pipes of water wrapped around a heating element. This reduces the volume of the water being heated, causing it to reach the desired temperature quicker. This isn't really modern technology, by the way. Steam-powered railway locomotives and steamships from the late 19th century onwards used "small tube boilers" based on the same principle. Getting back to Nespresso, once the water is heated it is then pumped through the coffee grounds at high pressure to ensure that they "surrender" their aroma quickly. With the newer Nespresso Vertuo machines, which I use, the coffee pod is spun at around 7000 rpm, rather than using a high-pressure pump.

Hope I didn't nerd out too much there 😉

Nespresso is in effect a sealed system. The capsules and the machines are designed to interface directly, without any of the minor variabilities that allow the high pressure water to flash into steam on a regular espresso machine. In addition, Nespresso machines don't operate with the same high temperatures that regular espresso machines do, meaning that even if there was a way for water to escape, it wouldn't flash to steam.

For comparison, regular barista-level machines operate with water temperatures close to boiling point, between 90-96 degrees. Nespresso works with temperatures of 83-86 degrees in their original Nespresso machines and roughly 78 degrees in the Vertuo models, depending on the coffee pods used, as the latter machines can actually adapt their water temperature. That's why a Nespresso coffee is theoretically drinkable as soon as the brewing process is complete, whilst a regular espresso fresh out of the machine will straight up burn your tongue.

I feel like getting a coffee now...

Afternoon all

Couchside

Hope everyone is well

Have a small problem with my phone which is a xperia L1. The status bar on my phone keeps disappearing (only on the home screen)

Any suggestions how to fix it?

Thanks for that

Can't seem to find 'google now' though