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!

Hario could be more popular because Hario, not sure though. I’ll ask said coworker if he has experience with other devices (pretty sure he dailies a V60).

As for faffery levels: yes, if that is your cup of tea (ha), that slightly changes things of course. ;)

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?

My takeaway wasn’t that he didn’t like it, he did. Just not worth the absurd price unless you want to literally pay for the privilege.

It absolutely is. Yet, as Sean said, it’s also yet another bit of software to run and maintain, and ES is known to be a bit of an effort to keep going well.

Admins having only finite amounts of time and/or resources, might make the very understandable decision to leave it out.

Kbin can do Microblogs, but I’m not sure what you mean with “alternative to chronological feed”?

These tips are all solid, and reflect my setup. Database (MariaDB) and PHP files on the SSD, data storage on spinny bois. Don’t underestimate the importance of a recent enough version of PHP, OpCache, enabled, and so on.

There’s a whole chapter on performance tuning in the manual, and the “Security & setup warnings” part of the administration settings should point out some configuration issues, when it finds them.

My setup might actually take a (smallish) performance hit because I use btrfs for all my filesystems. Just don’t get roped into the whole “wsl on Windows” thing, that’s just not going to work out, it’s a kludge that MS offers to not bleed users to Linux too much, but it’s certainly not meant for server workloads.

The hardware should not be the bottleneck at all, the 1265 in OPs machine should not be significantly slower than the 1280 in mine.

Eh, my gen8 is chugging happily along with Nextcloud, Synapse, Jellyfin and friends, docker-mailserver, a GoToSocial instance, Home Assistant in a VM, and so on. I don’t know what else is running on your server (and, admittedly, I’ve added some RAM and stuck in a somewhat beefier Xeon CPU), but it should have no problems running a web app like Nextcloud, especially if you stay away from the more intensive stuff like office apps.

That aside, I’ve gone through a fair amount of note taking apps, and so far I like Joplin best, too bad it doesn’t seem to work out for you. Not sure when you last checked out the Android app, but I do know there’s been some changes in the editor it uses recently-ish, it might be worth it to check again.

I’ve used Rockstor in the past, I liked it mostly (but in the end went with a self-configured OpenSUSE system).

Apart from that, I hear good things about OMV and TrueNAS