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  • Its a well put together grinder with good build quality. However wouldn’t get this grinder if you aren’t sure its a good fit for your type of beans and your chosen method of making coffee.

    One grinder with one burr set can be great at espresso and another at pour over, its rare to get a burr set that’s great at both at this price point, good yes, great no.

    Also if you regularly switch between espresso and pour over/immersion it can be a pita with a lot of grinders switching between the two become of how much you have to adjust the dial. I think this one would be multiple turns. It doesn’t sound bad but try it, especially when you lose count of how many turns you done. I have two grinders for this exact reason.

    If it was me, I would get a decent 64mm grinder as there are a metric ton of good 64mm burrs for all sorts of coffee. A 64mm grinder will enable you to play around a lot more with the burrs. The Oro locks you into their weird size with just their burrs, not good.

    Remember I mentioned type of beans? If you like dark roast i would strongly suggest getting a conical grinder rather than a flat burr as it suits those beans better. If you like light roast then typically you want high clarity burrs, medium you could be in-between or in either direction.



  • Successive governments have shown that they will not fuck with the boomers and older gen x retirement age or pension.

    So any raises in age or means testing it will only apply to younger gen x and down and come far too late to actually help with the problem.

    A hearty fuck off to that as it is as we paying for the older generations state pension and a younger age than we will ever get despite being a considerably smaller group.

    If you want to do real change that will have a faster impact, means test existing pensioners. Except the government bottled doing that for even thr small amount of the winter fuel allowance.

    Also can the triple lock and instead increase the pension credit. But again that will be bottled.


  • Any conversation around salary has to include their generous pension scheme (better than civil servants), significant expenses that they are allowed to claim for their lifetime in parliament, expensive freebies such as Taylor Swift or access to an Arsenal box, subsidised food and drink, and the opportunities offered for additional salary from outside jobs and lobbying. Oh and if they lose their seat the get a decent pay out, significantly more than statutory redundancy. And for the small number who might have a baby in office, six months full pay, far more than statutory again.

    Just focusing on salary when its only part of their actual net income makes it appear meaner than it actually is. They should be forced to stick to statutory requirements as that would incentivize them to improve it quicker rather than yet another exception.







  • I purchased a bunch of dlc for Train Sim World (tsw). I only buy dlc for tsw when its on sale, save a small fortune that way.

    Bonus savings if you can get one of the bundles on sale for double discount. I got £150 of dlc for about £55. Yeah dlc is super expensive for tsw but it doesn’t go out of date and nor is it needed for a multiplayer mode so why rush?

    Been after the expansion pack for Germany and the Preston Route for ages.

    Train Sim World® 5: West Coast Main Line: Preston - Carlisle Route Add-On Train Sim World® 5: Schnellfahrstrecke Kassel - Würzburg Route Add-On Train Sim World® 5: DB BR 101 Loco Add-On Train Sim World® 5: Maintalbahn: Aschaffenburg - Miltenberg Route Add-On Train Sim World® 5: Hauptstrecke Rhein-Ruhr: Duisburg - Bochum Route Add-On Train Sim World® 5: Ruhr-Sieg Nord: Hagen - Finnentrop Route Add-On Train Sim World® 5: DB BR 363 Loco Add-On


  • It depends on the quality of the ingredients put in.

    Bad tasting water will fuck up a coffee regardless of the recipe.

    Crap beans roasted till they blacker than vantablack and then left on the supermarket shelves for months simply don’t have the depth of flavour to extract.

    Using a bad grinder, like a bladed grinder more suited to spices will also impact your coffee more than a particular recipe. You don’t have to spend a fortune on a grinder to get good results, kingrinders are very good value for money.

    Recipes also need tweaking for the beans you are using, what works for one light roast is not going to be optimal for another, and unlikely to be suitable for a medium or dark roast. If you are after the absolute best you can get out of beans you will need to tweak the recipe (which includes water temperature) for those particular beans.

    Personally I use a slightly simpler version of the devil recipe with my switch, its good enough and far less time consuming to do.


  • I agree it has some value, but the problem is that value doesn’t seem to align with the cost of Western AI.

    If you look at what Altman said about how much OpenAI was losing despite charging an arm and a leg for its premium subscription, no one will pay for that for low value items such as transcription or scaffolding code.

    Unless it can actually replace high value jobs long term rather than short term pretend replace as with Klarana then its doomed with the current models.


  • People will blame Nick Cleggs Lib Dems for this and yeah they play a big part in this, but the root cause is further back.

    Tony Blair removed the cap on the number of students who could go to university which lead to introducing tuition fees. Before then you used to get a grant, I got three grand a year, to go to university.

    Suddenly universities could massively increase the number places so they did. This lead to spiralling costs, which lead to fees going up and loans had to go up to cover this. They also borrowed heavily to expand.

    David Cameron removed the cap on fees while increasing the money students could borrow with Cleggs backing (against a key Lib Dem manifesto pledge fucking the Lib Dems for years after) and Universities started getting properly greedy.

    Inflation kicked in but the loans available to students didn’t because the government couldn’t afford to, majority of students never pay back the full amount before its written off. Student loan book is set to be a trillion pounds in about 20 years.

    The whole situation is fucked because Blair said anyone could go, rather than being honest about what we could afford to pay for. Now we have a ticking timebomb that someone’s going to have to pay.


  • It would cost them votes with a certain group of voters who would make this a capital offence if they could.

    It doesn’t really impact MPs, see the studies into drug use at the HoP or even this articles headline, so why bother risking losing important votes in swing seats? If the police started throwing MPs in jail for drug use then you’d see something done quite quickly.

    Much like a lot of these wedge issues such as abortion there are a few nutters in the HoP who are rabidly opposed to it on moral grounds and a few whose husbands own legal medical cannabis farms who frankly don’t want the competition.


  • UK based. I did get all my beans from Outpost Coffee as they my local specialty roaster but they got too expensive for me when they went from about £40 a kg to about £55 a kg. I mostly buy from Rave Coffee, they aren’t as good as Outpost but two thirds of the current price before their regular offers, and good enough. When you buy nearly 2kg a month its a lot of extra cash to spend over a year.

    I do buy from local specialty shops when I travel, picked up some beans from Island Roasted when I was in the Isle of Wight last week.

    I keep meaning to try some of the more interesting beans from Sigma Coffee, they seem to have a great selection but they are even more expensive the Outpost.




  • I normally order extra with whatever GB I picked up the board from. I only use 40% keyboards, so it tends to be rare that they are freely available in a keyboard shop, least of all the UK. Last one I remember was monorail, I purchased three of v1 (direct) and v2 (mechboards) each.

    Sometimes you get third parties making new versions that are often re-imagined layouts for the same board or a continuation of an out of print board, for both see monorail for both. Some of the fun ones convert an existing layout into something else, like the wolfjaw xl for the equinox xl. They tend to be advertised by the 40% discord.

    If you like a common layout like 60% they tend to be a lot easier to find, as long as its not been heavily customized. Mechboards have a bunch in stock right now


  • Board I am using today its Moyu Blacks/Dark Jades with I think 55g progressive springs from Spirt, but I built this board a while ago so I might have put in a slightly different weight. As I like the sound a lot and they represented good value I purchased several batches of these and I have at least five or six PCBs built with them, its fairly typical for me to have more than one PCB per keyboard case.

    Very tactile switches and I really enjoy the bottom out sound of these, they are very loud for tactiles and will not be for everyone.

    Favorites I have built are either some zealios I put in a long stem and progressive spring or some primekbs (smokes with red stem) that are ball bearing modded. I really like that utlra clacky nature of these three switches.