tankplanker

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[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Interestingly the AI stories are voiced by real people, ractors. That would now be one of the first things cut, see James Earl Jones

[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

The truly pedantic way is:

  • Coffee by volume not weight. It's particularly noticeable with espresso. Obviously ridiculous to do irl because it means doing the penny test each time
  • Grind level needs adjusting throughout the day as humidity and temperature impact consistency. Also unless you freezing exactly one portion your beans off gas a little bit more each day, even in an air tight container as its not actually air tight
  • Temperature ramp should be considered and if you need to preheat everything or not to impact it. You want a slight downward temperature ramp to avoid over extraction at the end to reduce astringent and bitter flavours

Obviously over the top for vast majority and pointless if you making dark roast beans, although over extraction with them is pretty rank. However if you have some expensive light roast then it can make a noticeable difference. Is that worth it to you? Who cares, how you like your coffee is how you like it, i don't even do the above

[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah same, City winning it after that season would be disheartening. Instead we get Palace and Newcastle this year showing there is life outside the big six. And I say that as a villa fan who doesn't like facing either, but especially Palace

[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Noctigon it is then, thank you!

[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Managed to lose my Sofirn SP36, after something similarly floody but brighter over a longer run time than a quick turbo mode. It's my main flashlight for walking the dog in the woods. Prefer non proprietary batteries

[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

UK. I get about 30 days plus bank holidays, pretty standard at my firm that people push it up to the max. Biggest perk I get is being able to work in between days off remotely, so I can be away for 3 weeks and work 5 days, so it would only cost me 10 days off. Its great for traveling.

Daughter is a teacher at a private school, she gets about 17 weeks or 85 days plus the 1 bank holiday that doesn't fall inside school holidays. Thats after teacher training days, which are days the teachers have to be at school but the kids do not. I would kill for that allocation, but not the dealing with other peoples kids every day part.

[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Train Sim World, currently 5 but TSW updates are like FIFA or Madden so its not that different from previous versions. At least it was a free update.

Just driving a train around, especially if its somewhere I know is really relaxing. Really looking forward to the first Japanese route dropping sometime this year (hopefully).

I do like that you can chose to enable safety systems or not depending on if you want to play on easy mode or very easy mode. It has even less pressure than your average relaxed building game if you ignore the clock.

Downsides, steam engines are pretty bad in the game, I just don't bother with them. Dovetail are pretty useless. Brand new routes are usually overpriced. Some of the routes are bad, really bad, or just plain boring. Very important to read reviews. Everything is DLC.

Upsides, there are frequent sales so if you stay away from the latest content it can be pretty cheap in comparison. If you get a route you like it has a fair amount of repeatability. Some of the DLC overlays nicely with other DLC.

[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

You only get capped if you on one of the lite or priority tariffs.

Lite is fair, you paying less so you get less, not everybody needs a huge data allowance especially if its a backup or other infrequently used service.

Priority is where it gets squirrelly. You only really need priority if you in a high density area for starlink as you will get throttled, but you don't really need priority if you aren't unless you absolutely need to rinse the performance all the time. I typically get about 200mb down and 25mb up, but this can drop to 80mb and 10mb during peak times.

This isn't the end of the world for me as being able to access high speed internet anywhere, even on a boat is the most important thing. Sure I would like the sync 1gb I have at home while out, but its more than enough when I am away from home in the middle of nowhere.

Obviously I would rather not use starlink at all because fuck Musk and fuck the way the starlink sats are in low orbit for star gazing, but I do not have anything remotely comparable for even his inflated prices.

People always say use 4G or 5G, when I often dont even get 2G and I am reliant on wifi calling via the starlink. I have a proper external 4G antenna and its still shit when properly in the middle of nowhere.

[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nothing wrong with chocs, I have a low profile Zinc with choc jades that I swapped the click bar for my usual stronger click bar on and some stiffer springs. They were an absolute nightmare to mod compared to MX switches but worth it.

Old photo of it:

Best of luck with your search for the perfect switch!

[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

The only remotely suspect part is she filed the plan to sell the shares as soon as she knew Musk was going all in on Trump, it doesn't take a genius to know that would finish Tesla. The plan is then the fastest timeline to offload her shares before Musk kills the company.

[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Or that they would even be born degenerate gamblers

[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

If your plan has that many moving parts with that many opportunities for derailment and relies on people you employed fucking up it's the plan of a crack addict

 
 

Even if this isn't really a 40, I'm posting it as it's my only new board this year so far.

 

Spoiler, its RDT

In case people do nto know what RDT is, which they really should if they have been into coffee for a little while as it makes a big difference:

RDT is Ross Droplet Technique, which is very much adding water to beans. Named after David Ross who came up with it back in 2005

 

The postman delivered a new to me DF83 Gen 1 with SSP HU burrs. Just had fun dialing it in over lunch for espresso. It is a huge step up from the Niche Zero it replaces for espresso.

 

Very interesting grinder for those that like to experiment with different burrs as it supports both conical and flat burrs. I think only the niche zero with a 3rd party kit did that so far?

Can't say it would replace multiple grinders with just one for me as it still takes too long to switch over but I could definitely see myself switching burrs when I change over bags once or twice a month.

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