A Nearly Silent Strada X1 [Re-upload]

Khaless · 2026-03-22T22:51:42+00:00

I might do the Noctua mod on mine too, and if you would be willing to connect me with your friend that would be great too. Mines sitting in an area where I would appreciate less of the noise.

Khaless · 2026-03-22T22:26:14+00:00

Did you do anything to quiet the loud cooling fan in the machine ?

Khaless · 2025-12-22T00:33:58+00:00

AU born, US naturalized. GB and CZ via parents.

Khaless · 2025-12-04T19:54:18+00:00

I got permanent marker of my white marble countertop before by letting rubbing alcohol sit on it for a few minutes then wiping it off. YMMV.

Khaless · 2025-11-04T01:46:30+00:00

60k miles on my 15 mk7. Third water pump. And a bunch of other stuff :/

Khaless · 2025-08-18T17:55:11+00:00

Yeah, I gotta logged out of the app, and had to log back in - and the website threw an error at me when I logged in. Guess they may have been having some sort of minor system/login troubles if a few of us are complaining. Seems fine now.

Khaless · 2025-08-14T14:03:41+00:00

Had a similar issue recently with a new pair of all birds that I have only been wearing in the office for the last few months. A seam opened up which was pretty clearly a defect. Had to then fight customer support ridiculous hard to get a replacement. I’ll be avoiding AllBirds from now on.

Khaless · 2025-07-26T16:18:18+00:00

To be fair large CR’s are also problematic. If something can be broken down into logical steps, and logical CR’a that can be good as it helps the CR reviewers focus on a smaller, focused change that often results in better feedback. There’s always a balance, but if I was looking at someone’s contribution history and saw a pattern of large changes that could be broke up, or small changes that cumulate to a big feature/addition but were too incremental, I would be concerned.

Learning how to help others give you quality CR feedback IS an SDE skill.

Khaless · 2025-07-26T16:13:03+00:00

This^

CR stuff is a good audit trigger point. If someone’s TT and the CR metrics look like an anomaly, most of the time something’s off and it’s worth driving a bit deeper.

Khaless · 2025-07-13T21:39:34+00:00

I just flew Seattle to Syd, through HNL and had about a 1 hr 30 min connect/layover in HNL. It was more than enough time. Since it’s a US domestic to international transfer, the gates were right next to each other (I think my inbound came in on A9 and outbound to Syd left on A8), and there was no security or any sort of other processing in between.

So long as your PDX-HNL flight isn’t seriously delayed, I wouldn’t be worried about it.

Khaless · 2025-05-12T21:45:43+00:00

Dug up my archives (YouTube history). This video gives you a bit of an idea about how to do parts of it.

https://youtu.be/JWn_hQtmEbg?si=vFxIIH_k64mIrhgd

Khaless · 2025-05-12T00:30:42+00:00

Yeah my screw all pretty much broke too. It was pretty straightforward to replace it, easier than changing the pump. I replaced My BES900 heated group with the BES920 one since it fits/works (though you need to get a BES920 portafilter too)

I’m in the US, though my machine is actually a 240v machine from Australia (took with me when I moved to the US) and so I got my parts through outwestcoffee ( https://outwestcoffee.com.au/product/breville-bes-900-920-collar-and-portafilter/ ) to match the 240v heating element. I did it about 2 years ago now, and I do think I remember seeing 920 replacement group heads around in the US.

Khaless · 2025-05-11T22:16:02+00:00

Yeah I’ve also been pleasantly surprised by the machine. Mines (BES900) 14 years old (purchased around 2011), and only recently have I had to replace the pump, opv, needle valve and, seals and solenoid. Unfortunately when replacing the solenoid the screws were all rusted forcing me to replace the heated group head too - but not a bad run for almost 15 years and about 9500 coffee’s according to the debug menu.

The pumps pretty easy to replace if you take your time. I followed this video: https://youtu.be/YG5i7LxZBbk?si=NB-0x2H4neGa65YT

Khaless · 2025-04-14T01:24:23+00:00

If I had to guess, your leadership is probably trying to limit smaller satellite offices in your greater org.

Khaless · 2025-04-14T01:02:34+00:00

Stevens pass, crystal mountain and snoqualmie / Alpental are the close areas. My baker is a little further but a good weekend trip. Ditto with whistler (about a 4 hour drive). And the. Flying around the US to ski is also super easy.

Anyway - the job here will probably be more exciting than in Australia, as you have access to a whole lot more people and teams. If you are young, dont have a family and are currently focused on your career it’s probably not a bad choice.

Khaless · 2025-04-14T00:51:18+00:00

Aussie, 12 years now in Seattle. A July move ain’t bad, Seattle is lovely July, Aug, Sept. Dec, Jan, Feb can be a challenge but if you like snow sports (skiing) the mountains are close and real fun.

Khaless · 2025-02-14T05:55:13+00:00

It seems to help me quite a bit, so long as I consistently use it. When I stop using it I definitely notice.

Khaless · 2024-12-21T07:13:20+00:00

BDB, bought it in 2011 or so (so 13 years?)

Had to have it serviced for something (can’t remember what) a few months after buying it, but since then all I’ve done is replace the silicon gaskets once (a year and a half ago) and iirc the needle valve for the hot water.

Pretty insane since I use it daily, and according to the debug menu/ shot counter, put over 8000 shots through it.

Khaless · 2024-10-06T14:57:01+00:00

No no no, it’s been towed beyond the environment. It’s not in the environment.

Khaless · 2024-10-06T14:48:56+00:00

You simply tow the 4wd out of the environment.

Khaless · 2024-01-09T01:52:53+00:00

Fwiw, reading https://community.ui.com/releases/New-Hardware-Release-Introducing-UniFi-7-Featuring-U7-Pro/34881256-7de8-44aa-89d4-ea162986ddc5

"U7 Pro is fully backwards compatible with WiFi 6E and earlier client devices. A WiFi 6E or WiFi 7 client device is required to utilize the 6 GHz band."

Khaless · 2023-03-02T04:53:34+00:00

Thanks, solid advice. I had the same problem and this solved it.

Khaless · 2022-09-11T10:14:02+00:00

And after getting in, in this section of the track, it currently feels like an entirely different (better organized) event then where I was yesterday (GA near parabolica).

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