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Gordon ,

So my issue with this is the amount of water you need to use to clean it. Paper is compostable and bio-degradable.

Gordon ,

True, but I drink coffee daily and only do laundry every week or even two weeks some times. So although that may work for some, it would not work for me.

Gordon ,

Even just getting the user grounds and fines out would require at least a gallon of water.

Gordon ,

I haven’t read every single reply but the vast majority say probably not.

My experience is basically the opposite of everyone here. I bought a refurbished gaggia classic for $275 in like 2012 or so. I use it daily. It’s not hard to use, and in fact my 5 year old can pull a shot all by himself.

There is a comment that for the same prep home espresso won’t be as good as commercial because the machine quality is lower.

I’m sorry but IMO this is 100% wrong.

As long as there’s nothing wrong with your machine, water, or beans, there’s no difference. The goal of an espresso machine is to supply 9 bars of pressure. The coffee doesn’t care if the machine cost $400, $4000, or even $12,000.

The reason commercial machines are so expensive is really twofold. Mainly they are built to be able to pull shot after shot all day every day for decades. The second thing is that commercial machines are pretty much universally multi group dual boiler setups where you can steam and pull 3 shots at the same time. So not only do commercial machines require the highest quality stuff, but they need 3, 4 or more copies of everything.

But again the goal of the machine is to supply heated water at 9 bars of pressure. The results will be the same in any machine that can accomplish this goal, the cost difference basically boils down to how nice the machine is to use, and what extra features it has.

The grinder on the other hand makes a huge difference. But, you don’t have to spend a ton to match cafe quality. A baratza encore will do the job but not well. Step up to the sette and you will be able to get close.

Lastly is the beans. Now this is an area that you will have to research, but I found a local roaster that mainly sells to local cafes and hotels, but is also is open to the public. His coffee is fresh and I really enjoy it.

The last thing is that tricky statement “for the same amount of prep.”

Cafes pretty much do the very minimum. Press a button on the grinder, get a volumetric dose that should be within 1.5g or so, quickly tamp, pull a shot, and move on to the next customer. I’ve even started seeing mechanical automatic tampers being used.

You on the other hand will (likely) be weighing beans with sub gram accuracy, checking the machine temperature, carefully distributing the grounds, carefully tamping or maybe using a calibrated tamper… Etc.

You will be putting in more prep just simply because you have to. You don’t have the equipment that cafes do that will make the process as easy as pushing 2-3 buttons. But that’s okay. If you enjoy espresso you will enjoy the process and it’ll become a hobby more than anything.

But that last part is the key. Are you willing or ready for espresso to become a new hobby? Yes? Buy a machine. No? Keep using aero press. Or do some else. Only you know what you want.

How do I get my suit tailored?

I bought a cheap suit with the intention of making it look good through tailoring, but I don’t know how to actually get that done. The local stores don’t have websites and haven’t picked up when I called, should I just walk in with the suit? Do I need an appointment? Also, how much should I expect to pay? (California)...

Gordon ,

Seconding the above, I want to say I paid $60 in a pretty average city.

The store I went to is called Jos-a-bank, feel free to look them up but any higher end men’s fine clothing store should have a tailor on site at all times.

There are also dedicated tailor shops you can try looking for one of those.

I don’t think places like dillards or Macy’s will do alterations but I could be wrong.

Worst case the place you go may tell you something like “he only works Tuesdays and Saturdays” or something like that, so you may want to keep trying to get them on the phone, but I’ve not been told that before.

Gordon ,

They are still around in S.E. VA

Gordon ,

Blue, no, yellow.

AAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Gordon ,

But… It’s a legume?!

Gordon ,

You mean 8.5x11

Gordon ,

It’s actually 8.5x11 not 8x11.5

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Gordon ,

This is exciting, now just to wait until it’s available in my state.

Gordon ,

NGL I’d wear them.

Gordon ,

I liked it

Gordon ,

My first email was [email protected]. When aol became insufferable and a challenger appeared, I made [email protected].

Gmail lets you add "."s anywhere and it’ll still work, so all my spammy or whatever things I sign up for are [email protected] or some random variation. Makes it easy to delete all the junk.

Gordon ,

It really sucks the joy out of listening to those songs.

Does it tho?

Really?

Why are you so mentally invested in that song and other people’s opinions of it?

How Do You Deal With Thumb Stick Drift? (lemmy.world)

So I like to use Xbox controllers (doesn’t matter if it’s first- or third-party) because I like the layout, it’s just comfortable to me. However I’ve noticed that on all my controllers in the past few years, the left thumb stick will start to “give out” over the course of a couple months. For instance I’ll be...

Gordon ,

Do you know if the L2 and R2 use hall effect as well?

I play a lot of racing games, and I find that that L2 especially wears out prematurely on Xbox controllers.

Oddly I don’t have any problems with stick drift, just the L2 and R2 buttons become erratic.

Gordon ,

It really takes some very special conditions for that to happen. Every time I’ve boiled water in the microwave it’s always boiled fine just like on the stove.

Gordon ,

Historically kettles never really caught on because we only have 110v power, so our kettles are bogus compared to nearly everywhere else in the world.

Gordon ,

Keyword being “my”. Your machine sounds like it has an element below the pot. I’d say nearly zero home coffee machines have this in the US.

Gordon ,

Bro, 15a is pretty much standard with 20a outlets being the exception. Still, most appliances are only 1500w in the US.

Yes obviously you could custom make a 4500w kettle that ran on 115v but nobody sells one.

Your comment demonstrates a fundamental ignorance… What? Who talks like that. Stupid pedantic fool.

Gordon ,

Totes

Gordon ,

Mulva?

Gordon ,

…“Don’t not go there” over “Do go there”…

So many tour guides for cities say things like “do not skip going to” or similar. It’s just a linguistic choice.

Gordon ,

“Nobody ain’t doin’ nothing’ wrong”.

I’ve always heard it more as “ain’t nobody doin’ nothing wrong”

Gordon ,

…the US knew about it but allowed it to happen…

I hear this, and in hindsight it makes sense to say, but put yourself back in the mindset of the late 90s. The US was a fucking giant. The world saw what happened after pearl harbor, I believe it was less of “allowing it to happen” and more of “we were so arrogant that we couldn’t believe anyone would be dumb enough to actually do it”.

Gordon ,

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Gordon ,

Maybe, maybe not. Just depends TBH.

Old spice Blue vs White stuff (lemmy.world)

While shopping on Amazon for my usual old spice bearglove smelling system, I’ve gotten burned with what I’m getting. I want the blue stuff and I keep getting this white stuff. I don’t care if they took the aluminum off, I’m not willing to try that again. Last time I tried it my armpits got extremely irritated. I’m not...

Gordon ,

“flavor” lol

Gordon ,

Do it, I double-dog dare you!

Gordon ,

They say it can’t run DOOM however you can use it to display the video output from DOOM.

Gordon ,

McFly! Hello!

Gordon ,

This is now fact in my head cannon

Gordon ,

Metal flex chimney pipe. Looks like 6-8" or bigger.

Edit: he says 150mm so 6"

Gordon ,

The knob and buttons are separate controls. One controlled the frequency on the radio, one controlled the inputs.

The question was: which one do you think the knob controlled, frequency or inputs?

Gordon ,

Having grown up in the tape era, the right button being next / fast forward just make sense.

I can see on a screen that you’d scroll down to get to the bottom of a playlist, but isn’t your finger moving up?

This is the classic problem of inverted vertical controls or not?

Just avoid it altogether and make the back / skip button left / right respectively, and volume be up / down which just makes obvious sense.

Gordon ,

Which direction do you move your finger to access the next song on your phone when. Looking at a play list.

Your finger moves up then taps the one you want.

You could just as easily say that next should be up.

Both are wrong.

Next should be left, volume should be up / down.

Gordon ,

Lol, bunch of schools, two correctional centers, and some sites of “historic battles”.

Welcome to pretty much anywhere in the southeastern US.

Gordon ,

I’ve even heard people say “Double-yoos dot”, and even that compressed version is still more syllables than the full thing.

Gordon ,

See, my favorite is GNU, for “GNU’s Not Unix”.

Gordon ,

Those are all brown AWD wagons with a manual transmission and come used from the factory.

Gordon ,

Was gonna say, I don’t smoke but I was in upstate NY and a guy gave me a $20 to grab him a pack of smokes from a corner store while I was running in to grab a snack, and I thing I got like $1 and change back. I was appalled.

Gordon ,

Sometimes our body tries to include traits of our ape ancestors.

But apes don’t have tails.

However approximately 25mya the monkey and ape lines split so itust have come from at least that far back.

Gordon ,

I know a guy who’s initials are MRS, which is funny.

Gordon ,

What size bag of dog food? You can get anything from 5lb to 50lb. I bet there are even bigger if you buy at bulk stores or online.

Gordon ,

First left, then right.

2FA just took an unexpected turn.

Gordon ,

Let’s see, you posted this about 19 hours ago, starting value was 315 with a bunch of zeros… yeah someone else can do the math, but I think our buddy scrooge will be just fine.

Gordon ,

Snickers 100%

Gordon ,

52ft or something long. Go look for a RV or camper. Simply because they are sold by the foot.

A 40ft camper is pretty huge and can easily fit 6-10 people comfortably.

People turn containers into apartment type buildings for a family of 2-3.

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