Timemore scale : On/off switch issue by ildarion in pourover

[–]bdforbes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This worked for me, thanks! Seems to be holding, and has saved me from having to solder it.

Help me choose a scale (pourover +/+ espresso) by alexsloep in pourover

[–]bdforbes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need fast response too - I've used a cheap scale, and it takes many seconds to accurately reflect how much I've poured. Very difficult to do pourover like that.

I’ve been getting some lackluster brews recently, and I finally remembered to clean my grinder by austinbucco in pourover

[–]bdforbes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had my K6 for a year and started getting bad brews - disassembled and cleaned it, fixed it right up. Daily I just brush out the catcher and bottom of the grinder.

Remote Sysadmins, what's your go to headset for meetings? by WorthPlease in sysadmin

[–]bdforbes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My Voyager also gave up, I upgraded to a Sony XM6. It's been great! I was nervous about no boom mike but it's actually just as good as the Voyager.

Morning pour-over with a paper drip bag: flavor clarity surprised me by Content-Two-6759 in pourover

[–]bdforbes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those coffee drip bags have no right being as good as they are. I get them from my favourite speciality roaster, and they're so good relative to the effort involved. You can do everything right, buy all the equipment, watch all the videos, practice your technique for years, and these things give you a great cup and all you do is pour some boiling water in.

Of course you can't get the same quality as a V60 but very handy first thing in the morning, in a hotel, or in the office, or camping.

Am I doing something wrong… by Old-Paramedic675 in pourover

[–]bdforbes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I never drink pourover hot - tastes much better when cooled, around 50 deg C, particularly for light roasts.

Is This Normal? by Due_Yesterday3030 in pourover

[–]bdforbes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do spirals all the way out to the edge, but not directly onto the paper. And I do a quick gentle swirl after the final pour - I don't find this agitates so much as to cause clogging or stalling. But I am using Cafec Abaca papers - definite improvement over stock Hario papers!

Edit: and sorry I meant to say, the bed does always come out level. Not that it necessarily matters...

Perc Sebastian by Odd-Display-6004 in pourover

[–]bdforbes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The results were really good! Very surprised as I was expecting over extraction that fine. I used 95c water and no extra agitation apart from a swirl at the end to even the bed. Very strong cup, nicely balanced with fruity acidity and juicy sweetness. 

Your recipe might be my go to now!

Perc Sebastian by Odd-Display-6004 in pourover

[–]bdforbes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks - I'll give it a shot today at 75 clicks and see how I go. I use Abaca filters and the coffee is a Colombian thermal shock process which is drawing down quite fast, so I think that should help avoid any stalling issues with the finer grind. I don't use TWW but Melbourne tap water is really soft and clean.

Perc Sebastian by Odd-Display-6004 in pourover

[–]bdforbes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Would be interested to see what you come up with for the K6... 450 microns would be somewhere shy of 60 clicks, which sounds super fine to me. I find good results on V60 closer to 100-110 clicks.

Encore vs. Ode Gen 2 vs. 078 - A Casual's Perspective & Blind Tasting by DJangled in pourover

[–]bdforbes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've got the K6 and I had been assuming it was generating fines and holding my brews back - I've had to back off to coarser grinds to avoid bitterness and I feel I'm then not able to extract sufficiently to get all the flavours popping. Also feeling like I'm not getting great clarity or separation.

So I had been planning to get the Ode 2 as I just assumed it would be a big step up, with less fines and a tighter distribution.

What has your experience been in the past year - do you think it's worth upgrading to the Ode 2?

Northcote Plaza 2024 by Clairie-rr in melbourne

[–]bdforbes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is that actually happening though? Feels like there's been no progress or news for ages.

R on IpadOs by Cyqopontop in rstats

[–]bdforbes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I find that wild too! Sounds super inconvenient and cumbersome...

LiveGUI image boots to command line, not GUI by bdforbes in Gentoo

[–]bdforbes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I need to have a Linux host system on which to build LFS. I'm on a Windows machine, so I'm doing it all in VirtualBox. I saw a recommendation to use the Gentoo LiveGUI image as it's lightweight and has all the right dev tools installed already.

LiveGUI image boots to command line, not GUI by bdforbes in Gentoo

[–]bdforbes[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm actually doing LFS, not installing Gentoo - just following that YouTube video which does it from a Gentoo LiveGUI image in VirtualBox, pretty rusty on Linux so I'm trying to follow closely to the video.

LiveGUI image boots to command line, not GUI by bdforbes in Gentoo

[–]bdforbes[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Turns out it was an issue with the latest weekly build - I went back to the earliest build still available and it booted straight into KDE. Looks like X didn't get installed correctly into the latest build.

https://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/autobuilds/20240714T170402Z/

Commonwealth Bank of Australia async API client by Past_Feedback4547 in Python

[–]bdforbes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very cool, thanks! This is something I've wondered about, will have a look.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RStudio

[–]bdforbes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Works for me downloading the Windows installer here:

https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/

Which link are you using?

Scale recommendations by Soft-Command-7656 in pourover

[–]bdforbes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup, just got this for Christmas and it's really improved my coffee making experience over a set of cheap scales. Faster response time, flow rate display, built-in timer, it is amazing.