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Man I love my Firefox/Gnome/Wayland/GNU/systemd/Linux/GRUB operating system!
I mean, almost all coffee that's not freshly ground and brewed in a perfectly clean machine is rancid anyway. I know people who actually associate this taste with coffee itself, and won't enjoy a cup until their moka pot has been "properly seasoned".
Your grandma's drip coffee? Rancid. From the vending machine at work or in a gas station? Rancid. Every single preground package at the store? Rancid. From your brother-in-law's $2k bean-to-cup machine? You guessed it, rancid. The 10yo nespresso you salvaged from a friend to bring at your desk? Boy you don't wanna know how much crap gets trapped inside over the years.
Tons of oils. And the darker they're roasted, the more the oils come out and get exposed to oxygen and get rancid. Once you identify the smell, you can't unsmell it. These oils stick to everything, especially plastic coffee drippers.
The "break room smell" I'm referring to is the lingering, heavy, overpowering stink of rancid coffee clinging to everything in a break room where the 20-year-old company dripper have gurgles along every morning, that has never seen any cleaning more advanced than a quick rinse of the glass jar.
Rancid oils? Like a "break-room-at-11am"-flavor?
If all the coffee shops in your area serve unbearably sour espresso, there might be 2 possibilities: either all of them suck and can't properly extract a light roast, or you might be hypersensitive to acidity. Personally, I love acidity and I enjoy fruity, pleasantly acidic espresso as much as sweet, chocolatey shots, but I get that for a lot of people, "coffee" tastes burnt and bitter.
Coffee is naturally acidic. Very acidic. Acid compounds are also among the fastest to extract. The lighter the roast, the harder it is to extract most of the coffee, therefore light roasts tend to be more acidic than more heavily roasted beans. Light roasts are all the rage ATM because they respect the beans' origin and characteristics and highlight rather than hide the specificity of high quality beans. The more you roast, the more you lose the original character of the beans and get burnt flavors (this is why most commercial coffee is heavily roasted, the more you burn it, the more you hide the flaws of you cheap, commodity shitty beans).
Espresso extraction follows a curve :
- First drips: salty and very thick
- under-extraction: sour and thick
- sweet-spot: sweet, chocolaty and syrupy
- over-extraction: bitter, watery.
Since roast levels affect the ease of extraction, the same ratio on a light roast and a dark roast will be wildly different. a 2:1 ratio for a light roast would be still way under-extracted, therefore a longer ratio should be used to get some sweetness to compensate for sourness, and get a slightly acidic shot (2.5:1 to 3:1 ratio should be fine). Dark roasts will overextract much quicker and get bitter much sooner, and therefore should be shorter to be palatable. A medium roast should be in the Goldilocks zone at a 2:1 or slightly longer ratio.
TL;DR: ask for a longer shot or a medium roast if you want less acidity and more sweetness and chocolatey flavors, a traditional dark roast blend with up to 20% robusta if you enjoy old school bitter espresso, or drown it in dairy, sugar and spices.
I fuckin love vinyls, they're beautiful, fragile, tangible, massive objects, but this is bullshit propagated by audiophile circle jerk who believe they need to break-in their $100000 solid gold oxygen-free gluten-free audio cables to properly align electrons.
Most proper denim pants are sized in inches, even from non-US countries.
But of course vanity sizing is a thing so a size 36 is closer to 38in unless explicitly specified, and most online retailers provide true sizing in cm anyway, so there's that.
Short answer: yes
Long answer: I own multiple brewing methods. Aeropress, French press, Turkish... and a Lelit Bianca. Nothing gets me as happy as a double espresso. Nothing beats the taste, the syrupy texture, the pure jolt of flavor in each sip. I bought an Aeropress for travel, and I ended up buying a Flair because I want the same espresso joy when not at home.
My Bianca is an absolute joy to use. I have completely internalized my workflow, making an espresso at home is so natural to me that it's by far the easiest method. But brewing with the Flair is painful. It's the least practical method of making coffee I know. And yet, I'm ready to go to such a length just to have delicious espresso when away.
As you can see, I kinda like coffee, but I love, live and breathe espresso.
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Well, it's simple.
Solomon Epstein discovered a way to make fusion drives orders of magnitude more efficient. Unfortunately, he grossly underestimated how much more powerful his new drive would be, and died testing it while sustaining more than 11G for 37h, yeeting his own corpse in deep interstellar space.
Fortunately, his files were recovered by his widow, who sold them to the secessionist Martian Colony government, who in turn sold them to the UN in exchange for independence. Earth and Mars developed the engine design so ships could move much farther and quicker than had been possible before, enabling a new gold rush in the outer Solar system and especially the Belt.
And that's why the Epstein Files were so important.
Why? They're married, they're supposed to, you know, talk to each other. Communicate. Coordinate their actions. You know, like, a functional couple.
I mean, nobody knows except these two if something critical was actually shared, but a coordinated statement is the least sus part of the story.
Here in the EU there are a few companies selling rebranded Tongfang or Clevo barebones without an OS. Some are Linux-oriented like Tuxedo, Slimbook or LaptopmetLinux, some are general-purpose or gaming oriented like Schenker/XMG.
Slimbook Elemental 14 start at around 600โฌ, Tuxedo Aura 14 starts at around 840โฌ for what looks to be the same SKU but a bit more storage.
Where are you located and what's your budget ? It might help point you in the right direction.
Luck has nothing to do with it. Daddy's apartheid emerald mines money and megalomania got him there. He didn't invent anything, he's just a glorified investor. All of 'his' successful companies are other, smarter people's ideas he 'stole' by forcing them to make him 'co-creator' as a requirement to invest his cash.
It's all about pushing a narrative. If he did it the 'normal way', he would probably be seen as a decent VC, known in some business circles but in the shadow from a general audience perspective. By making himself the 'co-creator', he deperately tries to makes us think he's the genius he believes he is, and gain the power and influence that come with it.
There are positions in all these companies where people are working roud the clock to prevent him from fucking everything up. And sometimes, even they can't prevent idiotic bullshit like the Cybertruck. Tesla and SpaceX work because they actively spend a massive amount of energy to work against his moronic ideas. Twitter is the best example of what happens when he's given free rein.
PETG is almost the same material water bottles are made from. I've made a soap holder that gets, by definition, constantly wet in PETG and it's absolutely fine.
Also, for the price, you gain a lot of fit and finish and sometimes features, convenience and/or workflow improvements. Good midrange products should focus exclusively on grind quality, even if it means lack of features or a rougher workflow.
Depends on what you're looking for. Do you want drip? Espresso? French press? Manual ? Electric? What's your budget?
For cheap/low quality electric grinders, most of them are blade grinders: they chop up the beans in very rough sizes, take forever, sound like they're gonna explode and make terrible coffee. Don't bother, they're shit.
Burr grinders come in 2 main "cutting technologies", conical and flat. Conicals are mostly found on manual grinders, entry level electrics and some medium to high end ones. Flats are much more common on the medium to high end range because they tend to need much more torque and therefore powerful motors. As for the differences between the topologies, it mostly comes down to particle size distribution and the effects it has. Conicals tend to emphasize texture (think thick, syrupy espresso), flats tend to emphasize clarity (flavors tend to be more easily to discern). But they exist in a continuum and burr shape alone is definitely not the only factor.
As for actual recommendations, take a look at James Hoffman's and Lance Hedrick's channels on youtube, they have a lot of incredible advice on all kinds of grinders, among other coffee equipment. Be warned though, it's a very deep rabbit hole :D
My main grinder is a DF64/G-Iota (~400โฌ), and is an absolute workhorse. It's a mid-range grinder that can be very easily modded to rival grinders more than twice its price, takes standard 64mm flat burrs and can be upgraded with super expensive SSP burrs. I love it. I think the current generation corrected many flaws I had to mod out of mine.
My travel grinder is a conical manual 1-ZPresso J-Max (~150โฌ) that's so quick it can grind at espresso range at almost 1g/s, with excellent results.
Dude I've been rocking a dna75c Odin mod for a few years, it's indestructible and has the most reliable chipset I've ever used in the 13+ years I've been vaping (most other mods I've had had died in less than a year). But it's massive, heavy and lacks a kill switch (like most mods) so tends to misfire if placed wrong in my pocket. I actually started to design a more compact 3D printed mod a few weeks ago that would be built around a dna75c or 100c.
I was also thinking going boro for the small form factor but no decent dna designs seem to exist.
The problem is in the spaces I don't control. My wife is messy, my infant daughter even worse ๐
Id like to see the study ;)
The problem with my vape is not memory loss, I have a reasonably good memory, it's that it's too big and heavy to be comfortably carried in my pocket like my phone, so I have to carry it by hand from place to place and when I get distracted, that's when things disappear.
I have no idea. Why? To control anger?
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