eramseth @ eramseth @lemmy.world

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I mean I'm not gonna waste my time trying to educate you on this but you're wrong. Go read some books, watch some lectures, listen to some podcasts.

15 years is a woefully short time frame to look at in a conflict that goes back hundreds if not thousands of years...

Hey I actually have a bellman without the gauge.

First off it works fine. Or maybe it doesn't. My latte art is terrible. ("Look baby I made you a cloud")

Second, you can just heat it with the valve open. When it starts steaming you'll hear it. Close the valve then wait a little while. I usually wait until the safety valve goes then turn the heat down to medium but i dont see why you couldnt just sort of leave it on high and start using it straight away. Hasn't failed me yet. I know at least one other person who does the same.

Using with a flair 58 by the way. If you start the bellman first, then a gooseneck kettle, then turn on the 58, usually (depending how much water you put in the bellman) you can pull your espresso just as the bellman is up to pressure and from there in just an extra few minutes between espresso and latte.

...And even though my latte art skills are lacking, the flavor and texture of the lattes I'm making are great.

Theres also something called URL cleaner. It just literally cleans the URL AFAIK (no virus total or anything). Ita available on f-droid and presumably the play store.

Just to elaborate on why recommend Baratza products... they are good products to begin with but also easily user-serviceable / repairable / upgradable. Also their customer support is top notch. That's not to say you should expect them to break, mind you.

I think you'll see similar sentiment in almost any review of them that you see.

On the other hand if you want to go cheap, the Cuisinart burr grinder is probably the best you can do sub-$100. It will be good (but not great) for anything but espresso I think. https://www.cuisinart.com/shopping/appliances/coffee_makers/DBM-8P1/

Edit: when it's time for the drip maker I highly recommend the breville precision. It's pricy but worth it. If it's out of price range just try to get something that's good cup certified... https://sca.coffee/certified-home-brewer

I will always recommend baratza. If you can spring for Encore ESP it will future proof you in case you want to go down the path of espresso. Otherwise the Encore will def serve you well.

Parental leave? Lol

Had to scroll pretty far to find this comment...

Depending on how in depth you want your firewall, packet inspection, etc to be and your internet access speed, you may want a commercial grade router. You can also probably use an old PC and add a dual gigabit NIC to it and load up opnsense or pfsense or some other router/firewall distribution. From there, add a stand alone switch and a standalone wifi AP (or router in AP mode). The reason I bring up using a commercial device or an older desktop is because packet inspection, filtering, etc at line speed on a gigabit connection won't be possible with a lot of low powered devices.

I used to do this (was using an old Intel core i5 second gen with added RAM and a dual port gigabit NIC) but it was a lot to keep up with. I have since moved on to an Asus router (RT-AX86U) with the AsusWRT-Merlin software package. The only functionality I really lost was suricata for IDS. The AsusWRT distro comes with some proprietary stuff (that I think you can turn off) but it's also very "open" in terms of just running Linux underneath. This means you can set up things like VLANS, use iptables, etc.

AsusWRT-Merlin adds some niceties (including a nice add on system that will expand into web based interfaces for certain things you might usually do from command line, better/expanded firewalling, and even adguardhome installer for DNS-based malware/spyware/ad blocking... kinda like pihole but lots of people like it better). The maintainer of that package corresponds frequently with Asus (to the point that some of his stuff is merged back into the official AsusWRT at some points).

I can confirm that the model I mentioned above is able to do all the firewalling, QoS, adguard DNS filtering, etc at gigabit speeds. It also has some sort of IDS and a few other protections, but they are part of the proprietary bits (Asus licensed via TrendMicro I believe).

People have already chimed in on grinder and they've hit the nail on the head.

You could also try going the pressurized or flow control portafilter route.

Definitely!

A short hike

It's not too bad. Pretty standard with like anyone who needs to communicate securely like banks and insurance.

I see you've more or less chosen proton.

Came here to say that I have been using tutanota for years now and it works very well.

It does fit the use case of encrypted emails to people who don't use tutanota. How it works is they will receive an unencrypted email letting them know they have an encrypted email waiting for them, along with a secure link to an https encrypted, password protected web interface with inbox and outbox.

Just wanted to point this out for anyone else evaluating privacy focused email providers.

Have you heard of a little company called Disney?

I was on a light/extra light kick for a while but have started sliding back to the medium and even dark side of things. It's a refreshing change.

I dont drink much (any) robusta though. I understand it's less... approachable? Maybe try with cream and sugar. Or iced with cream and sugar. Maybe cold brew (although that's a pretty polarizing topic). Or maybe try mixing it in 50/50 or less with Arabica blends with similar roast level.

Use milk, not creamer. Even better, half and half.

Brew it really strong (espresso of you have a machine) and pour over ice cream.

Iced coffee with milk.

Regarding the flavor oils in the grinder, using something like "grindz" might help, as well as some sacrificial unflavored coffee.

I remember the inventor of the Behmor machine saying that the smoke suppression was required by regulation of some sort... ao yeah they are kinda necessary in a sense.

Like I said, do whatever you like, but I advise against roasting coffee indoors without an exhaust fan that dumps the exhaust outside, at minimum.

Yes it would, with regard to ventilation.

During coffee production of both flavored and unflavored coffee, production employees become exposed to dangerous VOCs resulting in irreversible lung damage (Ref. 1). The most hazardous VOCs released from flavorings and naturally from roasting coffee beans are diacetyl and 2,3-pentanedione. Exposure to even small amounts over time or large concentrations over a short period of time can have drastic health effects (Ref. 2).

https://www.sentryair.com/blog/industry-applications/chemical-solvents/diacetyl-hazards-coffee-roasting-industry/

(Yes I know they're trying to sell you air filtration systems or whatever... but they reference several scientific studies in their literature)