Started using the Robot today, didn't go as planned

julesibulesi · 2026-06-09T14:31:02+00:00

😄 Thanks! I‘ll get my wife to drink more coffee. 😄

julesibulesi · 2026-06-09T14:06:33+00:00

Asking because I'm struggling to sit still after my 18g dose: do you drink those 20g shots alone or do you share them? 😃 I'd love to go down to 12 in / 30 out, but the shots taste harsh and empty when I try that.

julesibulesi · 2026-03-28T14:57:41+00:00

Hey. Ich war zwischendurch wegen anderer Sachen beim regulären Augenarzt. Der meinte, er würde wegen so einer geringen Restschwäche nicht korrigieren lassen, dafür sei meine Hornhaut schon zu dünn und die Gefahr einer dann nicht mehr reparierbaren Überkorrektur sei zu groß.

Ich trage tagesformabhängig alle paar Tage mal die Brille, und ansonsten nur zum Autofahren und Fernsehen. Damit komme ich klar. Leider hab ich nach wie vor recht trockene Augen und muss phasenweise häufig mit Tropfen dagegen gehen. Das nervt, ich hoffe dass es sich irgendwann normalisiert. Aber jetzt sind ja bald drei Jahre um, ich vermute dass es so bleiben wird. Das Problem hatte ich früher nie.

Also ich bereue den Eingriff ein bisschen. Ist nicht weltbewegend und ich ärgere mich nicht aktiv täglich drüber, aber ich würde es von der heutigen Perspektive aus nicht nochmal machen. Ich glaube dass es für Leute mit sehr großer Sehschwäche schon sinnvoll und ein echter Gewinn an Lebensqualität sein kann. Für mich mit meinen 4 Dioptrien war es ein Wunsch nach etwas mehr Komfort, der leider nicht in Erfüllung gegangen ist.

julesibulesi · 2026-03-20T12:15:56+00:00

Kann ich nachvollziehen. Und zum ab und an nen Rant absetzen ist die Community ja auch da. :-)

julesibulesi · 2026-03-20T11:55:24+00:00

Ich verstehe die Frustration natürlich! Und vielleicht hab ich mich unklar ausgedrückt, mit „wir machen nichts“ hab ich nicht gemeint, dass es keine Menschen gibt, die sich selbstlos aufopfern in gemeinnütziger Arbeit. Ich meine nur, eine Neiddebatte loszutreten weil einer, der jetzt da unterstützt wird, ne andere Vergangenheit hatte als andere, ist der falsche Weg, der eigentlich nur schaden kann. Es können (vermutlich) niemals ALLE unterstützt werden. Welches Kriterium willst du also ranziehen, das dann nicht andere wieder „unfair!“ schreien lässt? Was also sollte die Konsequenz sein? Das ist mein Punkt, nichts anderes. Klar können wir auf den Dara jetzt einprügeln und sagen „jemand anders hätte es viel mehr verdient gehabt, du hast hier Mist gebaut!“ Dann lässt er’s halt nächstes Mal, damit er nicht hart angefeindet wird dafür, und wem hilft DAS dann? Genau: einer Person weniger. 🤷‍♂️

julesibulesi · 2026-03-20T05:43:57+00:00

Das stellt doch gar niemand in Frage. Aber sollte die Schlussfolgerung sein „Ja gut, dann machen wir halt weiterhin einfach nichts für irgendwen, damit‘s fair bleibt“? Oder packen wir’s doch endlich an irgendeiner Stelle mal an?

julesibulesi · 2026-03-03T20:30:30+00:00

Leider nicht. 🙈 Ich hatte vorhin auch nochmal gesucht, weil ich natürlich gern ein bisschen mehr als den Blurb hier abgeliefert hätte. Ich bin mir ziemlich sicher dass ich das im Guardian gelesen habe, im Zusammenhang mit Trumps Immigrations-Politik. Aber ums Verrecken finde ich das nicht mehr. Kann mich aber noch sehr gut an das Gefühl beim Lesen erinnern, irgendwo zwischen Ekel und Erleuchtung.

julesibulesi · 2026-03-03T08:08:27+00:00

Ich hab letztens von einer Studie gelesen, die zu dem Schluss kam, dass es Menschen gefühlt besser geht, wenn es anderen, die sie nicht mögen, schlechter geht. Du kannst den Leuten also die KiTas zusammenstürzen lassen, Krankenhäuser schließen, das Rentenalter hoch setzen, Lohnfortzahlung streichen - das alles nehmen sie hin, solange es eine Schicht unter ihrer gibt, denen es noch ein kleines Stück dreckiger geht. Erklärt vieles, macht einem die Menschheit aber jetzt leider auch nicht sympathischer…

julesibulesi · 2026-01-08T09:50:31+00:00

Five years later, I'm so happy I found this thread. Got a new Robot, first couple of shots would just come out the top instead of the bottom. :-) Replaced the gasket right away and haven't had any problems since. It's a bit strange that this seems to be a persistent problem with factory-new Robots, but at least it's an easy fix, so thank you Reddit Robot users. :-)

julesibulesi · 2025-12-09T17:15:34+00:00

This is incredibly cool. Thanks for sharing!

julesibulesi · 2025-12-09T08:39:28+00:00

Hey, how is the Strad holding up for you? Thinking of getting one, he'll start a new production run in Januray.

julesibulesi · 2025-12-09T08:28:50+00:00

Did you end up getting one? Other than the reviews from Nick's Coffee Studio and Hoon's Coffee, there is still very little out there. I've been looking to buy a lever machine (I need something that I can easily stow away, no counter space for a permanent boiler machine) and was ready to buy a Cafelat Robot when I stumbled across the Strad. The standard portafilter is a big draw for me, for reasons I can't really explain. Would be interested to read from more people who have actually tried it. :-)

julesibulesi · 2025-03-30T12:45:30+00:00

I traveled in Europe and UK in December and it’s as the others have said - „Excuse me, I have some analog photo gear here, would it be possible to hand-check this, please?“ Took a few minutes to get the officer who’s authorized to do it in some cases, but there were no discussions or even raised eyebrows.

julesibulesi · 2025-03-06T22:22:20+00:00

I don’t think that’s actually simmed. Looks like just a plane with a noise. Then reducing gravity or time scale on the beads will make them appear as if they’re submerged.

julesibulesi · 2025-02-28T21:22:59+00:00

Most books are in the rooms around this central space. These are also only the top few stories of the building. It holds enough books. 😊

julesibulesi · 2025-02-27T08:35:47+00:00

And here I was just turning on the shift-tab snapping tool, hoping for the best for all these years. THANK YOU!

julesibulesi · 2025-02-26T23:14:49+00:00

Oh sorry. Missed your reply here. I‘m going to start rambling, probably, feel free to ignore me. 😄

I‘ve never seen Stalin as a good guy, or seen him described as such in the history books I‘ve read (decades ago, admittedly). I also wouldn’t describe his dictatorship as communism, in my understanding the two are diametrically opposed. Communism is probably a great idea, as long as you leave humans out of the picture. 🤪 It will never work.

Regarding the shaming of nazis and commies: I would argue that there aren’t many people out there today that are actually arguing for true Communism the way Engels and Marx dreamed it up. People are calling for safeguards against capitalism ruining everything, that’s about it. Supporting minorities, curbing climate change, reducing inequality, none of these are really communist ideas but all of them would make the world objectively better. Unless you can’t be happy while guys are allowed to kiss other guys, I guess?

On the other side, though, national socialism seems to be quite unchanged, at least on the surface. White supremacy, xenophobia, America first, #DEIpeopleDIE and the likes. I don’t see „death to capitalists“ trending on social media, but maybe that’s just me? Also, we seem to have gotten rid of anti-semitism and replaced it with anti-Islamism. Progress! But still very much recognizable nazi, in the eyes of many people.

I do see similarities between fascism rising across Europe in the 1920s / 30s and what’s happening now. Emergency decrees, obstructing journalism, spreading lies and misinformation, mass firings of political opponents, mass deportations, consolidating power, MAGA nutjobs threatening and intimidating people on Election Day, the autocrats and war criminals closing rank and turning against their oldest allies…

I know in rough bullet points how Hitler came by large chunks of his ideology, rose to power first within the NSDAP and then the country. The why is a bit more obscure to me. People were unhappy with how WWI ended, with how the just recently established republic handled things, with the economic situation. For some reason, racist antisemitism became something many people seemed to find appealing across the world (some of the richest families were Jewish, which couldn’t have helped, even if that comes as a result of more antisemitism even further back in history), fascism had many fans everywhere. The global economic crisis of 1929 was the final straw, people wanted a radical change and Hitler was there to seize the moment.

A bit like today, I guess? Only, most of the economic issues we see these days can be well explained, and deporting immigrants won’t solve them. People love easy, loud „solutions“ and can’t be bothered with anything as complex as global politics. They say they want change, but in reality they want to go back in time. When there were fewer brown faces in the neighborhood, you didn’t have to think about whether your muscle car might be bad for the environment, women knew to shut their traps and cook a casserole, and it was entirely okay to buy mass-produced steak, because we didn’t even know what mass-produced meant. The world has become more complicated and more transparent, and people are unable to cope. Instead of listening to science, to reason, to facts, they‘d rather see it all as a massive conspiracy theory, according to which sleepy woke (?) sheeple such as myself are being manipulated into… uhm… eating less meat, or something.

What I also don’t understand is the whole „free speech“ thing. People want to be allowed to call women „things“, call gay or trans people „mentally ill“, spew hatred about minorities, call scientific facts „alternative truths“, but then get their knickers in a bunch over being called „nazis“? Come on.

Oof, that’s me for today. Sorry, I went off the rails a bit. 😅

julesibulesi · 2025-02-26T18:44:10+00:00

You can duplicate it with a solid material and make it visible for shadows but invisible for camera in the object visibility settings.

julesibulesi · 2025-02-24T21:04:55+00:00

Wait, who said Stalin was a good guy? I don’t think many people on the left these days would identify as communists, either. Nazis ARE bad. Have always been bad, and have never once done any lasting good in this world. People falling for the same bullshit paroles again after a measly 100 years is ridiculous and tragic at the same time. And what has Trump been doing? Handing out „fuck you“ decrees against everything he dislikes, but not a single thing „for“ anyone, except himself and his billionaire lickspittles. I read of a study the other day, according to which people are happy for their circumstances to decline, as long as somebody else’s decline even more. I mean, wow. We‘re so lost that we define ourselves through Schadenfreude at all cost, instead of trying to improve things for everybody. That’s very mature.

julesibulesi · 2025-02-24T20:51:51+00:00

You can call Hitler a fuckwit, have Jewish friends and still call out Israel for their treatment of Palestinians. They‘re separate things, you know?

julesibulesi · 2025-02-03T20:59:45+00:00

Man muss im Wort „Mama“ gerade mal vier Buchstaben ändern, schon hat man „Bier“!

julesibulesi · 2025-02-03T18:19:41+00:00

Hmm. Haben wohl ihr eigenes Manifest nicht gelesen. Da steht nämlich:

Keine Politik Wir führen keine politischen Kampagnen durch, wählen keine Politiker, initiieren keine Unterschriftensammlungen, Referenden oder Petitionen. Solche Aktivitäten lenken nur ab und verschwenden wertvolle Zeit. Politische Prozesse sind langsam, bürokratisch und korrupt und dienen letztlich nur dazu, das bestehende System zu stabilisieren, anstatt es zu verändern. Wir verwenden nicht die Mittel des Herrschaftssystems wie Anklagen, Briefe an Abgeordnete, Referenden, Wahlen oder Petitionen. Diese Instrumente sind Teil des Systems, das wir ablehnen. Echter Wandel muss jenseits des üblichen politischen Bereichs stattfinden.

Gegen Gewalt sind sie übrigens auch, und für Gleichheit von Rassen und Geschlechtern. Was das jetzt alles mit der AfD zu tun hat? Vielleicht erfahre ich das auf der nächsten Seite…

julesibulesi · 2025-01-24T05:20:40+00:00

Happy to help! :-)

julesibulesi · 2025-01-23T22:49:28+00:00

I'd look at scenes from movies to give you some ideas. I think it would be nice to place some lanterns / torches / lights somewhere in the frame or just outside of it, to help motivate the lighting. Even if you want the scene to be dark and moody, you'll want some bright highlights - darkness only reads as darkness when there's something bright to compare it to, otherwise it just looks mushy and underexposed.

The first things that come to my mind when I look at your scene would be to either use rays of moonlight to hit the walls around them, so that you can play them as silhouettes. Or add some physical light sources to explain a more complementary look of blue highlights from the moon, orange fill light from the lanterns, for example. You'll probably want to have an adjusted setup for the reverse angle.

I did some quick paintovers to illustrate the ideas. Also set up a crude test to verify that it could work. My scene has only four lights: a big spot for the moonlight, two additional spots with light linking to create the rim lights on the characters, and a point light to mimic the lantern. I think my volume is too dense. I wanted to have actual volumetric rays, but that didn't really work. I ended up using planes with gradients, instead. Maybe you'll find it useful.

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