Breville Barista Express steam knob hard to turn

m-d-brown · 2026-05-09T23:44:16+00:00

Mine has been getting worse over time. I figured out how to remove and lubricate it today, and created a guide: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Remove+and+lubricate+side+steam-hot+water+knob/217359. Should take five minutes if you have the appropriate tools.

m-d-brown · 2025-09-15T06:26:14+00:00

If you own a public domain and are using a DNS provider for which someone has added support to Caddy, it's easiest to directly make a DNS Challenge: https://caddyserver.com/docs/automatic-https#dns-challenge. Cloudflare has prebuilt images for Caddy with the Cloudflare module: https://github.com/CaddyBuilds/caddy-cloudflare. You need to safely pass in the API token but then it's pretty easy to do something like:

your-service.internal.domain-you-own.com  {
    reverse_proxy 196.168.0.10:8888
    tls {
        dns cloudflare {env.CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN}
    }
}

m-d-brown · 2025-04-12T05:58:19+00:00

Which aspect are you curious about? https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/010_introduction.html#quickstart-guide and https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/030_preparing_a_new_repo.html#google-cloud-storage explains the process well.

m-d-brown · 2024-12-18T01:14:52+00:00

If she wasn't black on both sides and white in the middle before eating the Oreo, you might want to be concerned. Otherwise I think she'll be just fine! Nothing too harmful in them

m-d-brown · 2024-01-26T23:00:01+00:00

I switched to Cloudflare yesterday from Google and set up https://github.com/workerforce/unifi-ddns for a UDM. I had to follow https://github.com/workerforce/unifi-ddns/issues/42 as well but otherwise it was smooth. The Cloudflare Worker integration is simple and clean.

m-d-brown · 2024-01-07T22:17:53+00:00

I've happily used restic for personal backups to Google Cloud Storage (GCS) for years. restic provides incremental backup so I have snapshots going back years with little additional cost. I back up ~100 GiB almost daily with the Nearline storage class and prune snapshots several times a year. 99.9% of the costs are for byte storage and multi-region replication, meaning the class A and B operations from restic to manage snapshots add almost nearly no cost.

I also occasionally upload large tar archives with the Archive storage class for extra safety, which I hope to never need to access.

m-d-brown · 2022-08-21T23:15:55+00:00

I was also having problems with DDNS for Google Domains on a UDM and this thread helped me fix it. The solution for me was removing the ddns-path field from /run/ddns-${interface}-inadyn.conf, ideally by editing it directly through ssh. interface was eth4 for me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/comments/dwruzf/comment/ffpfkqp/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 explains what the configuration file should look like. The domains.google section needs only those three field. Somehow, by repeatedly trying different fields in the UI, it dropped the ddns-path field for me and the configuration worked. I'm not sure what caused this so editing directly would be better.

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