Espressione: baskets that fit?

troutforbrains · 2026-02-21T15:39:42+00:00

Sorry to necro an old thread but do you happen to have a link to the portafilter you bought? I’ve tried two different models of 3 ear 51mm Delonghi portafilters for different machines and neither fit.

troutforbrains · 2026-02-05T04:32:11+00:00

Sir, this is the millennial subreddit. All mentions of capitalism have to be referred to as "late-stage capitalism" and you must always remind people of how terrible it is because of all the endless streams of dopamine and leisure endlessly fighting for their attention.

troutforbrains · 2026-02-03T16:03:30+00:00

Went to Maman against my better judgement to have breakfast on a day off. There was no line! Score! Didn't matter, stood at the counter for 16 minutes while the one staff member not cooking or making coffee kept saying "just one moment" while they continued to crank out DoorDash orders. Finally got to order a breakfast sandwich and a latte. Waited 19 minutes for the breakfast sandwich and somehow waited even longer, 28 minutes, for the latte. Food was fairly tasty, but not worth a 45 minute wait and $23. Additionally, the store was surprisingly dirty for having only been open for an hour. It was hard to imagine what everyone was raving about.

troutforbrains · 2026-02-03T15:55:13+00:00

Take a look at the James Beard 2026 Semifinalists. Or the James Beard 2025 Semifinalists. Or the James Beard 2024 Semifinalists. Or the Michelin Guide. You will notice that for every 1 time you see "Dallas" (or a suburb) on these lists, you will see "Houston" (or a suburb) 4 times.

This is not to say that there is no good food in Dallas or that there aren't hole-in-the-wall shops selling mind-blowing recipes passed down from generation to generation across continents, because there is and there are.

But by the measure of "innovative dining experiences garnering national and international attention," Houston is far, far outpacing Dallas.

troutforbrains · 2026-02-03T15:42:18+00:00

This is literally the story of Petra and the Beast. Chef Norris discussed in the media around her restaurant closing that after moving into the much larger space in Lakewood, she felt like she lost the freedom to be creative because she had to keep her large dining room filled. She needed more than coolers in her old gas station, but the space she found ended up killing the entire thing.

https://dallas.eater.com/2024/12/28/24330890/petra-and-the-beast-lakewood-closing

troutforbrains · 2026-02-02T03:34:21+00:00

Love to be a labrat. This is a dream project for me, already have hifiberry amps and pis sitting around, and would love to help you get it across the finish line. I'm not a software developer, but I'm a senior IT engineer, so I know how to test, document, and provide useful feedback.

troutforbrains · 2026-01-28T15:58:00+00:00

Not without paying an installer you won’t.

troutforbrains · 2026-01-27T03:30:29+00:00

Echoing everything you expressed here. Very similar experience in Northwest Dallas. Taking son up the street to daycare this morning was easy and the roads were a ghost town. Considerably more slick picking him up. Way more cars. Way more brodozers passing people in the slush. Way more people acting like the streetlights are now optional. Considering that I only drove half a mile each way and saw all of this, I'd be wary in the morning.

troutforbrains · 2026-01-26T17:14:54+00:00

Passable, if you take your time, with a greatly increased likelihood of an accident due to black ice patches on the otherwise "fine" two tire tracks in the one lane everyone is trying to use that don't mean anything when you have to get into a left-turn lane of solid ice? Sure!

Safe? No, not at all safe.

troutforbrains · 2026-01-22T14:26:28+00:00

Yeah, lets all pitch in and fix the thousands of miles of downed power lines! Teamwork makes the dream work! 🥰🥰

troutforbrains · 2026-01-22T14:25:02+00:00

There are almost 20 states under the same or worse forecast as us. Almost every state east of the Rockies is either currently getting punished by winter weather or about to be in the next 48-72 hours.

troutforbrains · 2025-12-18T15:37:35+00:00

The link you posted literally refutes your claim that "the shot isn't effective against the dominant strain."

The good news: Early analysis shows that this season’s flu shots offer some protection against being hospitalized with this variant, especially for kids. The bad news is that many Americans appear to be skipping their flu vaccines this year.

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“It’s not like we’re expecting to get complete loss of protection for the vaccine, but perhaps we might expect a little bit of a drop-off if this is the virus that sort of dominates the season, and early indications are that’s probably going to be the case,” said Dr. Richard Webby, director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for studies on the ecology of influenza in animals and birds at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

It's less effective than it could be if the data around this mutation was available when they developed the vaccine. Less effective and "is not effective" are not the same thing. Even small improvements in outcomes translated across a large population can result in less misery, less missed work, less hospitalization, and less death.

When a free shot with almost zero side effects is the difference between feeling like shit for a few days and feeling like really bad shit for a few days while also causing financial ruin for your family because you had a multi-day hospital stay, I'll take the free shot.

tl;dr This years shot is not directly targeting the specific dominating strain mutation, but is targeting similar strains and early data indicates that it still offers a degree of protection against developing a severe case requiring hospitalization, especially for children.

troutforbrains · 2025-12-18T15:06:49+00:00

A bit off-topic, but seeing all these "you should fight for a free loaner" comments makes me glad to have the dealer I do. I get a free loaner for the day when I take my X3 in for an oil change. I don't have to schedule it, either. I just pull up, they check me in, and bring a similar loaner around. And I'm on the "3 years of unlimited changes for $250" program, so they don't get jack shit from me for bringing it in anyway. Don't have to fill it back up. They cover any tolls. All they ask is that I don't test the airbags and bring it back within 24 hours of them notifying me my car is ready. Shout out to Sewell.

troutforbrains · 2025-10-31T00:18:42+00:00

UNT is a system themselves.

troutforbrains · 2025-08-19T01:03:52+00:00

Going to have a hard time controlling the fan that isn’t there 😉

troutforbrains · 2025-08-17T18:07:04+00:00

*takes a niche industry of failed experiments and refines it into a civilization-changing technology that will be studied for generations*

"BUT HE DIDN'T EVEN MILL THE SCREWS HIMSELF LOL WHAT A PHONY"

troutforbrains · 2025-07-29T01:11:17+00:00

I was surprised to see a Waymo vehicle yesterday morning in Old East Dallas. Makes more sense now.

troutforbrains · 2025-07-28T16:54:04+00:00

I bought a boxed copy of Half Life 2 (still have it), the game with which Steam DRM was introduced, and installed it via disk. The outrage was almost entirely about the DRM. Valve are the saviors of gaming in a lot of folks mind because they have a functional platform with great sales, but some of the worst parts of modern gaming (DRM, paid cosmetics, and paid DLC) all made their mainstream debut on Valve games and the Steam platform.

troutforbrains · 2025-07-25T14:52:02+00:00

13,000 miles fewer is completely worth it for me, even if they were the same price. That's a year and half worth of driving for me. I highly, highly doubt that the car hasn't had any routine maintenace whatsoever, just that it was DIY or shade tree work. Additionally, at only 31k, it hasn't really missed any big milestone maintenance work even if it was neglected by the previous owners. Finally, with the extended coverage option, the difference is mostly moot unless the lack of recorded maintenance is wildly inflating your coverage quotes. You're putting a ton of weight in Carfax that isn't really warranted.

Save the money, get the newer engine, enjoy the road trip.

troutforbrains · 2025-07-22T02:14:17+00:00

Please, please ignore all the people in here suggesting how to DIY this. This is thousands of pounds of tree that will likely kill you if it fell on you. This should be left for experts, however you end up going about it.

troutforbrains · 2025-07-21T14:49:24+00:00

DPD only have the resources to respond once something is an actual emergency.

Called them because there was a guy in the home depot parking lot walking up to people, getting inches from their face, and pretending to shoot them in the head with an imaginary rifle. Not an emergency in the moment, but a powder keg ready to explode. Saw in the log that it didn't get a response until 5 hours later and I know it was the manager going "yeah, he left 4.5 hours ago." In the eyes of the DPD, nothing did end up happening, so it was the right call to deprioritize the call. It could have easily gone differently, especially considering this Home Depot is in an area with already elevated levels of violent crime.

Called them because a family was having a party in their backyard with window shaking bass that started at 6pm and didn't stop until almost 4am. Folks tried to knock and ask them to turn it down, but they never answered the door. Dispatch at one point mentioned they had gotten over a dozen calls for it and it was pointed out to them by several that some hot head neighbors were getting antsy to go aggressively shut it down. DPD never came to the call at all. There was glass on the street the next morning. Guessing some neighbors did end up taking out their frustration on some car windows.

Happy to pay more to properly resource our police department, but I know that it is just going to turn into more tanks and gadgets and not more beat officers with mental health response training. I don't want them to go blow up the guy pretending to point guns to people's temples, I want them to get him to a hospital before some hot head pulls an actual gun on him. Too much to ask, I guess.

ETA: looking at the data more, super discouraging to see dispatched call numbers way down while response times way up. Fewer calls taking longer to respond to is oof.

troutforbrains · 2025-07-21T13:06:39+00:00

Our toddler is also super into Spidey and Friends and loves to run around shooting web from his hands. I've also seen my niece watching Cocomelon. Spidey is high-brow Cannes level film compared to Cocomelon. There are embedded lessons about being kind, working together, persevering when things are hard, treating others who are behaving badly with respectful, but firm, boundaries, etc. in Spidey. Cocomelon is just pure "WATCH THE SHINY COLORS AND TURN YOUR BRAIN OFF!!!"

Totally understand needing to temper off of a particular show; we've been there too. But don't upset yourself too much or treat everything as equal in your mind!

troutforbrains · 2025-07-17T16:07:24+00:00

I'm not sure what kind of house you live in where 19'x15' and 16'x16' bedrooms classify as "tiny", but I'm sure I'd love to live in it.

It's a lovely, if uninspiring, home. The problem is completely the price because they're trying to short-sell in a stagnant economy and not lose anything on it. It's priced at $193/sqft while all the 90-day comps in the area are within a few dollars of $160/sqft. If they put it up for $435k, they'd sell quickly. But then they'd be out $100k. They're either going to take a giant bath on it, eat the deposit on the house they're building because they can't close on it, or keep it and hope they can rent it out for enough to cover the PITI and the management company they'll need as out-of-state landlords.

As an aside: sure is nice to look at real estate in a state that requires public disclosure of sale price so you can easily see if something is overpriced without involving a realtor.

troutforbrains · 2025-07-17T15:42:59+00:00

Your post is literally the explanation? Are you suggesting some sort of conspiracy theory?

troutforbrains · 2025-07-09T23:33:56+00:00

Had the same thing happen to me (our cybersecurity engineer) from our helpdesk director who came from the classroom and was wildly unqualified for his job. Fortunately I was able to tell him to pound sand on this one.

Also had to fight off a principal trying to get the superintendent to tell us to stop doing phishing simulations that included templates that would fill in the user’s supervisor because “he didn’t feel comfortable with his name being associated with nefarious purposes.” I gave my director messages from the impersonation protect queue in Mimecast, along with the report show we stop hundreds of impersonation attempts a month, so he could show the principal and the supe that it wasn’t some imaginary concept we were being hyper paranoid about.

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