Max

I think we may have different definitions of a kettle. I mean something like this:

Which you put on the stove. I can’t imagine that having tea in this is a problem at all. It’s just glass.

I’ve also done this with something like:

Which I could imagine keeping more of the taste/being a problem.

I assume you mean something like this by a kettle?:

Apparently I’m committing all the tea sins. I definitely make tea in a kettle. But if I do that, I boil the water before adding the tea bags. Isn’t that pretty standard? I’d only do so if I’m making a lot of the same tea (or iced tea), usually for a group of people

I often do this. With loose leaf tea too. The quality of the result highly depends on the tea and whether you get the timing right. I know my microwave pretty well and can hit boiling or just before boiling by changing the time for a black vs a green tea.

When boiled appropriately, I can’t really tell the difference for most bagged teas, so maybe I’m just tea uncultured?

The earl grey loose leaf I have I actually like better when it’s kept boiling for longer (about 15 seconds of boiling), and the microwave allows me to easily do this.

The loose green tea I have changes its flavor a lot when heated for different amounts and to different temperatures. The microwave also let’s me easily control this in a way that I would struggle to with a kettle. I suppose I could add the tea afterwards and just get the water a bit hotter to compensate, but I’m lazy and I always forget about my tea in the microwave so it’s easier if it already has the leaves in it so I don’t have to re-steep

It definitely depends on the microwave. In my office, one boils a mug in 2:20, while the other requires over 3 min

I think pacreport --unowned-files might be able to help with that too. Showing you files that aren’t part of any installed package. Probably only does system files though, nothing in /home

I use qdirstat a lot to determine what files are eating all my space