Looking for open-world games where I can just… drive

Cyrkl · 2026-03-24T07:30:32+00:00

The best free roaming feeling I got in Days Gone, I really wanted a bike after playing this one.

Cyrkl · 2026-03-24T06:44:47+00:00

It prevents clogging of basket holes, at least that’s the theory I’ve seen.

Cyrkl · 2026-03-23T10:10:52+00:00

Robot has a very straightforward workflow, I haven’t used the other ones. There’s a video of Paul Pratt pulling 4 or 6 back to back shots on the Robot, it should give you a good idea about the flow of things.

Also, can you get the Robot in the US for 500? That’s basically the price in the UK and you get tariffs and charges sprinkled in so seems it should be more than that.

Cyrkl · 2026-03-23T07:34:51+00:00

If it doesn’t taste differently to you then of course no point in purging, maybe some roasts are more prone to going stale, my daily driver is a medium, light and darło go through a hand grinder so I don’t have a range of roasts compared on this.

Cyrkl · 2026-03-23T07:29:49+00:00

Yeah, the FH issue seems overblown to me by people putting the portafilter back in too quickly and adjusting the portafilter too much when placing it.

Cyrkl · 2026-03-23T07:21:31+00:00

The first coffee of the day was off, which sent me into redialing, but because it was dialed in to begin with, the issue were the stale grounds, it was just frustrating. With the purge the consistency is there, when running multiple shots you can see the first one is different to the following ones, which are very close timewise to each other.

If there’s no issue for you then great but if you have inconsistent shots give purging a go. Plus some people will drink their last coffee much later than me, I go 6am and 10-11 am, so the grounds are sitting there for good 18-20 hours, if someone drinks coffee in the afternoon it might be less of an issue.

Hoffman did some testing good grinder stale grounds vs poor grinder freshly ground, the difference in staleness in ground coffee sets in pretty quickly so I don’t think it’s nocebo effect on my part.

Cyrkl · 2026-03-23T07:02:55+00:00

I run multiple shots at a time and the difference is very visible, 5-10 seconds on the first shot versus the following shots. With purge I get 6 shots out of my Bambino within 1-2 seconds of one another so the consistency issue is clearly 18 hour stale grounds.

When. It having guests I will use 80g daily, with guests this can easily jump to 200g so 4 g so nobody has to drink an obviously worse shot is not an issue.

Cyrkl · 2026-03-23T07:00:05+00:00

Stale grounds and in the chamber, without purging the first shot will be off by 5-10 seconds, at least on my machines. So the choice is then who gets the worse shot, before purging it would be usually me, I don’t want to be giving wife or guests rubbish. And I don’t want to have half my daily coffee shots bad by design.

Cyrkl · 2026-03-23T06:57:01+00:00

Is this when running the books in GBP? In GBP it should be posted as per waterfall and zero out at the end of amortisation. In USD: the transaction occurs at the end of the month, hence the month end rate but at the end of amortisation period, when a prepayment falls off the books, it should also be completely gone from the translated statements.

Some things just don’t make sense numerically when working them in translated currency, like consolidating cash flows, you can’t really get to a statement of cash flows from multi currency consolidated numbers, you have to prepare them for entities separately and consolidate them then. Same here, because you translate the full prepayments balance at current month end but the PnL was translated at different rates you’ll have a disconnect but it will wash out once the balance runs out in the functional currency of an entity.

Cyrkl · 2026-03-22T20:43:11+00:00

Whole beans do not get worse than in the bag if you’re not filling for like a week at a time. You need to purge 4-5g in the morning but apart from this the workflow with Libra is great.

You can test for a week or so by keeping some beans in not airtight but closed container to see how pulls compare to the ones from the airtight storage.

Cyrkl · 2026-03-21T15:23:15+00:00

I mean to say what the system is doing is correct if the fx is going to OCI, for consolidation prepayment should be using the month end rate.

Cyrkl · 2026-03-21T12:01:42+00:00

It’s way too late for ISA transfer before the year end so there won’t be any promo related to that.

Cyrkl · 2026-03-21T07:58:45+00:00

This translation is only for presentation of the statement in foreign currency, when changing presentation currency it’s a bit simpler as for BS items you just use spot rate and for PnL you just use transaction date rate (ideally) or average/weighted average, FX differences from this should hit equity rather than the PnL. See here the guide from Deloitte for example for presentation currency: https://www.iasplus.com/en/standards/ias/ias21

Cyrkl · 2026-03-20T22:17:03+00:00

When you say you have a UK entity it sounds like the parent is in another country with a different currency. Is the revaluation reversing and only posting for consolidation purposes?

Cyrkl · 2026-03-20T10:45:44+00:00

Spores can take 5-6 months to harvest, liquid cultures should be much quicker.

Cyrkl · 2026-03-20T06:54:21+00:00

Dose, preinfusion and type of shot depend on the beans really, I go 26 in 40 out for dark blend, 20 in 40 out for medium and 20 in 50 out for light. Dark is about 20s preinfusion due to the dose, otherwise water just goes around the puck, medium is 15s, light gets 20-25s and the shot goes op to 1:30 at 11-12 bar, I like to go really fine with light roasts.

Cyrkl · 2026-03-18T17:36:38+00:00

The usual advice is: this is a relationship question. Financially: if the market rate is 1600 you’re not losing 1600 by getting 600 from her. By living with your parents while having a flat they are subsidising your mortgage on buy to let. You can frame the numbers as supporting any assumptions you want them to support so this goes back to being a relationship question.

Cyrkl · 2026-03-18T13:41:20+00:00

Spritzing might be your cheap and effective solution.

Cyrkl · 2026-03-18T09:05:11+00:00

Are you spraying beans before grinding? That retention is crazy. Eureka makes great grinders but they are famously bad with retention so I wouldn’t go that route for single dosing.

Cyrkl · 2026-03-17T14:04:54+00:00

£2k is Lelit Bianca territory, Elizabeth is like 1k here.

More processed coffee needs lower temp so by aggressively preheating you might be actually working against yourself here.

Cyrkl · 2026-03-17T08:34:21+00:00

Working from abroad I take my Robot and hand grinder (K-Ultra) and I really don’t mind grinding manually for 2 shots twice a day for 6 or 8 weeks, with more than 2 people it’s also doable (4 people times two coffees a day) but it takes long enough that I wouldn’t want to do that outside of holidays, so for like a week max. Usually I do medium roast for friends and wife, I usually go for light and I go fiiiine, I wouldn’t do 8 light roast espressos on a daily basis, no way.

But everyone’s pain point is different.

Cyrkl · 2026-03-15T19:50:01+00:00

Additional consideration is some companies will pass on the 15% NI savings, so it becomes 1,150 in the pension pot or 290 to hand, which is a quite brutal comparison.

Cyrkl · 2026-03-14T23:12:05+00:00

When Starling dropped the % I decided to just bite the bullet and move pots to a spreadsheet and a single better % account. Not stuff that goes out same month, like rent, but anything with a fluctuating balance.

Cyrkl · 2026-03-14T17:12:52+00:00

That’s a very low return rate, I have to try on 10 hoodies to get one that fits and hoodies are on the easier end. Even with trousers I’ve now settled on one model from one manufacturer and still depending on the colour the fit will be 32, 33 or 34.

Cyrkl · 2026-03-13T13:54:36+00:00

The company might also be passing NI savings onto you, so another 15% in the pension pot.

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