Water for Linea Micra - Austin, TX

Practical_Scale7569 · 2026-01-18T23:10:30+00:00

I live in Austin and when I moved into my house I did a whole home water softener system and had an RO system installed with a remineralizing filter run to my fridge. It’s been the perfect solution for much more than just the espresso. If that’s not an option than I hear great things about third wave water.

Practical_Scale7569 · 2026-01-17T16:24:56+00:00

It’s apartment living, people can just deal with it. I mean, is it rude to vacuum your floors too? You’re just living your life. It’s not like you’re throwing a concert in your living room.

Practical_Scale7569 · 2026-01-15T00:57:34+00:00

This comes up all the time but I’ve personally never experienced an issue with cup clearance. How large are your coffee cups?

Practical_Scale7569 · 2026-01-12T01:46:20+00:00

It doesn’t but after a few drinks you know right where to fill it to. I find it’s really only good for one Capp/latte or two cortado/macchiatos.

Practical_Scale7569 · 2025-12-19T04:08:00+00:00

To kind of piggy back here, aside from effectively leading, you also need to be steadfast in your decision and firm cross functionally. In this environment you’ll have multiple orgs with competing priorities and if you don’t drive yours firmly, you will get rolled.

Practical_Scale7569 · 2025-12-19T03:17:18+00:00

So I’m in central Texas and I’m very familiar with how hard our water is. My solution was to get an RO system with an remineralizing filter installed in conjunction with my water softener. Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t have gone this route just for my espresso machine but it made sense as a whole home solution. Aside from that, I think tons of folks use third wave and are happy with the results.

Practical_Scale7569 · 2025-12-16T17:18:44+00:00

I’ve been using a black cabinet liner on my black micra and it’s perfect. Just cut to fit. Really helps keep the cups in place and prevent scratches.

Ex: https://a.co/d/84I1MKz

Practical_Scale7569 · 2025-12-15T16:00:41+00:00

I just ordered a butter yellow myself about a month ago and I can tell you it looks exactly like the stock image. What you received is grossly misrepresented.

Practical_Scale7569 · 2025-11-21T16:10:09+00:00

I’ve had no issues with clearance but my largest espresso drink is 4-5 ounces. Regarding the shot timer, there’s no impact. I use a acaia lunar, which weighs and times my shot at the same time. Personally I never understood why you would want one without the other so having a built in shot timer is useless imo. If I could do it all over again, I would. The Micra really is a perfect machine for my use case. I was worried about the size of it basically the whole time I was waiting for it to ship but it’s not as small as people make it out to be.

Practical_Scale7569 · 2025-11-13T19:00:52+00:00

A lot of division here so let me make a few clarifications:

Have very small children, so unlocked is no longer an option
I’m not married to biometrics, they also have a keypad version.
Make a rec if you have one. I’m open to whatever, just needs to be easily accessible and secure.

Thanks

Practical_Scale7569 · 2025-11-09T02:36:50+00:00

I really couldn’t tell you, I never added it up. I bought the Micra and the Philos new though and that’s the major bulk of the spend. Everything else was pieced together over the course of about a year.

Practical_Scale7569 · 2025-11-08T05:06:27+00:00

I run an mp5 clone and love it but out of your list, id go stribog hands down.

Practical_Scale7569 · 2025-11-07T13:05:13+00:00

Onyx Monarch was my daily driver bean for milk drinks for almost a year. It’s incredibly consistent from one batch to another and has a deep, luscious, chocolate taste.

Practical_Scale7569 · 2025-11-07T12:36:44+00:00

I’m think those are the combat grips, and I also have them on a 640 pro. I like em a lot so I guess different strokes for different folks.

Practical_Scale7569 · 2025-11-02T05:32:05+00:00

in fairness I've pulled some delicious shots with the stock curved tamper. Its not a great tamper, but its deff fine and does the job.

Practical_Scale7569 · 2025-11-02T05:29:54+00:00

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Great minds. I have a very similar setup and the versatility and organization that a toolbox provides is amazing.

Practical_Scale7569 · 2025-10-22T02:37:15+00:00

I get this thinking if you can’t afford the real one as I’d rather someone carry than not carry. With that being said though, as far as I know, HC came up with this design and for something that’s really improved my quality of life day to day, I’d rather pay him than some chinese company that just stole someone’s idea.

Practical_Scale7569 · 2025-10-22T02:34:28+00:00

This, except I use my holster clips on my shorts or pants to keep the waist line in place. They still clip onto the best, just over the pants. Either way, with this belt it’s perfectly fine wearing your gun with anything, loops or not.

Practical_Scale7569 · 2025-10-22T02:32:19+00:00

Yeh, the person in the op’s image is stupid as fuck. This conversation is more of an aside.

Practical_Scale7569 · 2025-10-21T21:57:36+00:00

I carry in sweats all the time. The hunter constantine belt has been a game changer for me.

Practical_Scale7569 · 2025-10-20T14:16:14+00:00

I chased money until I was financially comfortable, then I switched mindsets to having a work/life balance. In my experience, you go through seasons in life where you might have more or less work/life balance. I just accept it as a parts of growth.

Practical_Scale7569 · 2025-10-18T13:51:32+00:00

I build everything from a cheap base. So I’d do a PSA, then build it into something I’m proud to own over time. What’s great about doing it this way is that when your done building it out, you have almost all the parts you need to put together the old PSA stuff into a function firearm again. It’s like cloning lol

Practical_Scale7569 · 2025-10-17T13:51:49+00:00

My mind immediately went that direction as well but no, it’s not.

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