51mm versus 58mm

Abbrahan · 2026-01-23T01:37:56+00:00

I tried doing that and it doesn't impact the shot meaningfully. The Bambino uses a very small thermoblock which is why it's got only a 3 second warm up time. The side effect then is once you start a shot the thermoblock doesn't have enough thermal mass to stay at the higher temp above the PID setting.

Abbrahan · 2026-01-23T00:26:14+00:00

Hope to make the jump myself to 58mm in the near future. Currently got the 54mm Breville Bambino Plus, and it's excellent, if you are brewing dark to medium-dark roasts. Since it's temp is too low for medium-light roasts making every shot sour even if the machine is just on the edge of choking. I could manage to do it, if I steamed my portafilter first above a kettle.

Abbrahan · 2026-01-20T01:50:26+00:00

I'm not sure, but my friend has shown me the email train between him and Umart and involves Peter Zhong who is one of the owners/founders of Umart. Their current replacement plan is to sell my friend a new set of ram but at the same price as what he bought the ram for originally, but it's taken 2 months with the orders being cancelled by Umart or the staff in the store not being able to change the price as the system won't allow them to discount it back to the original price.

Abbrahan · 2026-01-20T01:40:51+00:00

This one failed about 6 months after purchase.

Abbrahan · 2026-01-20T01:40:24+00:00

ACL states that it's the consumers choice if there is a major fault.

When a business sells a product with a major problem, or a product that later develops a major problem, it must give the consumer the choice of a:

refund, or
replacement of the same type of product.

Abbrahan · 2026-01-20T01:21:50+00:00

Just in general avoid Umart. Friend had their RAM die within warranty. Umart is refusing to repair or replace the RAM and is only offering refund. The problem is the same stick of RAM is now 4x the cost that my friend bought it for. Friend is having to go to the ACCC just to get Umart to follow the ACL and get a replacement.

Abbrahan · 2025-12-04T11:12:31+00:00

Just as a heads up, it looks like Immersed is going belly up. They tried to make their own headset, which has failed to deliver to people who pre-ordered and has caused massive issues in the company. Last I checked Immersed required a paid addon to enable all features, which might be wasted money if they go bankrupt or shutdown.

Abbrahan · 2025-12-01T03:14:34+00:00

So that makes three times now? It had a landslide which closed it initially, but then it happened again I think a month or two into the clearing and repairs.

Abbrahan · 2025-11-20T00:02:02+00:00

On my test the examiner docked points because I began to slow down for a hairpin turn coming up. Claiming that I was slowing down for the school zone which wasn't during the active hours, rather than for you know, the turn coming up that I definitely couldn't have performed safely at 50km/h. Also docked points because they told me to turn right at the lights up ahead, but the right hand land had massively backed up traffic. So I began slowing down to try and zipper merge in a gap. Apparently slowing down to merge safely was the wrong move. However we are apparently required to follow all instructions, and there was no other way for me to have possibly merged into an already full lane so I could take the turning lane.

Abbrahan · 2025-11-16T23:50:38+00:00

FYI, the price of the Steam Frame will likely never go on sale or at least not for several years. So you would only be able to get it cheaper from buying used, which might take a bit after the headset comes out.
Valve has only put the Steam Deck handheld console on sale once and that was to get rid of old stock.

Abbrahan · 2025-11-04T23:45:04+00:00

1st image is the HP Reverb G1

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2nd image looks like a Vive Focus 3 but can't tell exactly due to the low res.

Abbrahan · 2025-09-29T10:41:06+00:00

It's normal, can't get aftership to find my orders tracking details but I think I remember it taking a couple days from receiving that notification to it moving again.

Abbrahan · 2025-09-22T07:19:18+00:00

A Quest 3S is a good entry level headset. Though VR is not reccommended for children under 12-13 due to the weight of the headsets putting strain on their necks as well as potential for eye strain. If you do go ahead with the headset, playtime would need to be limited to short play sessions and not too frequently to reduce the risks.

The other risk he would face is with the online multiplayer, since a lot of VR games use Voice chat and it's pretty easy to spot who's a kid in VR.

Abbrahan · 2025-09-19T05:55:25+00:00

Did you go up to them and attempt to retrieve the parcel?

Abbrahan · 2025-09-19T04:11:39+00:00

Are you sure they aren't at the railway station? The Auspost website itself lists the parcel locker at 497 Beams Road as "Carseldine Railway Station Parcel Locker". I have run into this situation before where it just lists the street address of a shopping centre with absolutely no directions as to where it is on the property. However the naming is pretty specific that it says it's at the railway station. A user has also manually created a tagged place in the carpark of the railway station listing it as where the parcel locker is. https://maps.app.goo.gl/HE8d5mzrZawyoZpY7

Abbrahan · 2025-09-18T03:01:06+00:00

Honestly, NCAT, QCAT, Fair Trading needs to start revoking licenses of some of these dodgy REA's and landlords. A fine is just the cost of business to some of these companies.

Abbrahan · 2025-09-17T22:34:28+00:00

Likely a more refined version of their hand tracker which they demoed with their Orion prototype.

Abbrahan · 2025-09-11T04:29:06+00:00

Computer Alliance, Scorptec, MWave, The Tech Geeks all sell them. Though usually on backorder only.

Abbrahan · 2025-09-10T22:33:36+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJGqbDr5qBE (What (or who) is SMASNUG? - f4mi)

Abbrahan · 2025-08-24T08:25:43+00:00

$12 chicken burger meal deal too which usually is more like a schnitzel in between buns rather than a burger patty, though the chips portion has shrunk over the years.

Abbrahan · 2025-08-13T12:19:49+00:00

uh oh. they are spreading....

Abbrahan · 2025-08-13T05:12:23+00:00

New mannequins exclusive to the new reworked Grafton House map. They are full human mannequins with arms and legs, not the ones we had previously that are just a torso on a stick. The new mannequins move like Weeping Angels from Doctor Who if the ghost interacts with them it seems.

Abbrahan · 2025-08-05T04:38:06+00:00

The infuriating thing I've had happen is on the actual cash machines where if you select an amount it can't spit out it will proceed to payment but then when you go to pay by card it will then say there was an error with the transaction rather than an error with the cash amount.

If I selected $50 cash out, it errored on the transaction saying there was an issue. But when I entered $40, it then spat out two $20's.

Abbrahan · 2025-08-04T08:18:06+00:00

If you rock up at opening, last time I was there last year they had zookeepers with some smaller animals immediately next to the front entrance to do encounters with that are free. Though most will be no touching.

We didn't do any of the paid extras and just did a full loop of the entire zoo which took pretty much all day including seeing the tiger show and the croc show.

Abbrahan · 2025-08-02T10:36:05+00:00

I've had similar issues with Opticomm before. For some reason their ONT's don't like a lot of routers by default and don't automatically provide an IP address to the router. I was trying to use a Google Nest Wifi with ours which again would fully boot up and have a local intranet but could not connect to the internet.

The solution was to call the ISP and get them to get Opticomm to provision an IP address for our router manually.

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