@alice

I am a typical tea novice; I boil water and pour it over the tea bag (usually in a single cup).

I now most often make tea at work.

@alice though I do preheat my thermos bottle with boiling water before use - both for tea and coffee.

@alice
As a tea purist, I microwave the water IN the mug, heating both simultaneously.

@alice The thermal mass of the water is always going to be several times that of the mug, so I'm not really worried about losing heat to the mug.

@alice sometimes, but not regularly

@alice no, though on the occasions I drink tea, it’s typically a Japanese/Chinese green tea, rather than the classic English cuppa

@alice I don't. And I primarily make green tea which benefits from a cooler steep temperature anyway.

@alice (please let me know if I start rambling...) Okay so, it really depends on the tea whether or not you want or should. In contrast to what might seem to be the case, certain types of tea actually prefer "cooler" water - instead of near boiling. It can in fact severely alter the taste. Though not always, the more younger and floral the taste the lower the temperature should be. If it's dried tea leaves, it usually is higher (closer to boiling)

That said, the proces of preheating your cup...

@alice never even occurred to me!

@alice only when preparing mom's expensive matcha

@alice
No, but I do sometimes preheat my thermos.

My trick is that the kettle heats the water to 100C, but the tea only needs around 70C. So I pour some of the water into the thermos, heating up while cooling the water slightly. I then use the water for the first cup of tea, and pour the remaining 100C water into the thermos.

That makes the thermos keep the water hot for longer, and the slightly colder water is better for brewing tea.

@alice Yes. But I am British… 🇬🇧

@alice I tend to drink green tea, so it's not really ideal that the temperature be too hot anyway.

But I do my actual steeping with loose leaf in a separate mini kettle made of a thin glass, so it pretty much reaches full temperature right away anyway.

@alice So, I don't steep my tea in the cup. I steep enough for two cups at a time, in a... okay, it's technically also a cup, but not what you were talking about. It's one of those 22 oz. stainless-steel-outside, plastic-interior keeps-heat-in coffee cups. Anyway, I just throw boiling water over tea bags in that, then when it's steeped, I put a couple of ice cubes in my actual tea cup and pour the still-too-hot tea over that, then it's cool enough to drink.

@alice a. There needs to be an option that just says "What?"

b. I now believe I am not a "tea drinker."

@alice
I sometimes rinse my mug with boiling water to get rid of small leaves and whatnot (I don't clean it after every use), but not specificaly to prefeat it.

@catsalad So this is how I confirm I have AuDHD...

@catsalad **deep breath in**

“yeah” I sigh

@catsalad gold dihydrogen dioxide?
(Edit: I forgot my periodic table manners)

@catsalad
Me: "oh look, a squirrel"

@catsalad AuDHD, constantly overlooked: I!!!!

@catsalad i struggle with new things because everything new sucks more than the old thing did

@catsalad I am in this post and I still have to figure out how I feel about that…

@catsalad Many of us understand this.

@nina_kali_nina If all else fails, I've recently installed Win 3.11 and Win95 on a 386SX-16 with mTCP's amazing netdrive.

@nina_kali_nina 3.11 on 6.20 > 3.1 on 6.22

@nina_kali_nina I installed this combination a few times. During this phase of my life, frequent impressions somehow burned themselves into my brain, so that even today, when I am reminded of them and close my eyes, I can still see them like an afterimage on my retina. A bit like a catchy tune. So thank you for that. 😁

@nina_kali_nina never installed win3.11. thx for reminding me. 486 would be appropriate, yes? :)

@codemonkeymike On windows I always used FurMark and Prime95

But using that inside of any virtualization layer is not a good idea I think ...

GPU seems to be: https://www.geeks3d.com/gputest/ if asked in https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/x4jleb/whats_a_gpu_stress_test_or_benchmark_software_for/

For CPUs seems to be "stress" https://linux.die.net/man/1/stress

@neil Most likely (almost) everyone using Internet has been exposed in some of the many data breaches.

https://haveibeenpwned.com lists 15,109,169,472 accounts from 911 websites & data leaks. That is a lot, and there likely are millions more than that.

@neil Looks like 32% (currently) of the people responding to this poll are unaware that their personal data have been exposed in a data breach. 😉
(There are two kinds of people on the Internet. People whose data has been exposed in a breach, and people who don't know their data has been exposed in a breach.)

@neil *tries to count the number of times they got something in the mail about a data breach*

Am American.

@neil it's why I had a free year of Experian.

@neil Probably, but the worst was when it was the credit reporting agencies.