I want to see the clip from the Today show.
Living in a smal space also helps with lifestyle creep as you can't find a space for new things. Also, only replace something if it's broken or unsafe.
I blame the streaming boom and then password sharing crackdowns.
I put it in an eWaste pile which I hope is sending it off to be "recycled". There was no saving my palm pre or touchpads.
It's hard sometimes, I needed a new laptop to get a better CPU for video encoding. I now have my older laptop, which is actually a hand me down, so it's old, but it's going to replace my even older laptop that's running a 2nd gen i3. So that's going to be the one I will likely bring to an eWaste site as it will no longer serve me. Sure I could keep it around as a spare, you never know, but I really doubt that will happen.
All my laptops are running some form of Linux, except one. That's used to run turbo tax (I know) as the windows software is typically much more affordable over the website version. So that saves me like $50 each year.
Anyway, eventually I'll need to toss my old pixel xl as the battery only last about 45 minutes and I think lineage isn't able to update it, I didn't check the last few months. I was planning to have it be my kids first tablet, but a battery replacement is around $75 I think... Just seems not worth it.
My trouble is battery health of older phones and laptops. I typically purchase scratch and dents from Dell outlet and for phones wait for the battery to only make it 4hours before it needs a charge.
Yes, you can get a replacement power supply.
That's how you can draw basic things on the c64. It's showing the alternative symbols for the key.
Could have been made by someone local. They are likely using the SD card drive by now. I hope... I didn't get to read the full article as it asked me to sign in and I aborted.
This might be unique to each parent as well. Some children do require extra attention and it is very difficult to managed work time in.
With most schools letting kids out around 3pm it's not easy to keep the children occupied before the work day is finished. This leaves parents either on a work call with kids heard in the background or working late at night al week.
Think of it as if the person is a caretaker and a full time employee at your company. It's basically two full times just that happen to overlap during the day.
I think calling it a privilege is really unfair but if the people are missing work and not meeting deadlines then management needs to step in and work out a solution. Work life balance is hard.
That picture looks like his on the set of Enterprise.
Use a custom launcher. I use Flauncher as my home page so it only has jellyfin visible. No ads ever.
My Ring app is going crazy the last few weeks about people saying drones are flying around. I'm sure it's normal...
I popped on the SNES with my Super Gameboy cartage for a visiting kid that's like 7 and he was amazed playing Super Mario World 2. It was a whole new game for him. I wish I could get a cheap working gameboy for kids today, the used market is scam now with the prices people are doing.
Great article that really helps me understand the various presets of AV1. I re-encoded a 8gb 1080 h264 with AV1 preset 4 and crf 22. Came out just under 800mb. I do see some compression artifacts in the resulting video, but nothing serious and the bandwidth savings is great.
I have also found that encoding speed doesn't change much between presents as much as just scaling the output to 720 instead of 1080. Which is what I do for files that I'm ok with being standard HD res to get that almost 2x encoding speed.
Smart watch will be what I get my kid instead of a smartphone. Its basically the modern day bepper in my eyes.
You can theme Kodi to look pretty close to Netflix, but not out of the box. As my library doesn't update too often, I can live with the slower refresh as it's a sacrifice I am willing to make for the ability to play everything in my library.
Really, for the moat compatibility, a PC with a wireless keyboard is going to 100% of the time work with subtitles.
YesPlz beans
The best and most fun coffee subscription service — a no corners cut bag of the best fresh roasted coffee delivered to your door.
Trying out their blend and just opened my first bag. It's their 295 mix. I like it, lite and easy to drink It tastes like coffee. Did an aeropress brew and will try V60 next time. I will say the beans gave off an interesting smell that made me nervous about how it would come out, but all is good.
I never heard of this place, but it was recommended in another post. I'll likely keep the subscription, at least for another few bags to see how it goes.
What's in your cup this week?
I'm doing a blend of Kona from a local store and whole food Kenya. It's a 70/30 of Kenya to Kona and taste great. The Kona alone I got taste and looks like really dark soil after a brew, so I picked a lite roast to see how it would go and I'm happy.
I haven't had too many Kenya coffees, but if you have a whole foods nearby this one tastes good to me.
(Solved) Unable to install 2.6.1 Google Play
I'm having trouble getting the latest update for the Android app 2.6.1. is it working ok for everyone else?
Stumptown Coffee Videos
I've been watching a bunch of the stumptown coffee brewing videos on YouTube. They are another great starting point for all of us. I tried their V60 and aeropress recipes and the coffee came out good. It tastes like coffee. Lol
Anyway wanted to share in case someone hasn't seen them. Enjoy
Media Skipping after recent releases
My Google TV picked up the latest versions of the jellyfin app and now a few of my 4k movies are no longer working as expected. I'm getting pauses and it looks almost like a buffering issue. I checked with my NAS and see network to the TV to be around 9MB/s which is fine for a wired connection. I used to be on wifi, but started having the same issue there after the update so I loved to a wired connection. Some 4k movies are good over wired, but some are in buffering hell.
Am I alone with this issue ? Idk. I ordered a 1gb USB adapter for the tv as a last attempt to validate it isn't the network connection. Will be here this weekend and will update with the results from that.
--- Got to tv on GB ethernet and I see it pulling the file at around 50MB/s which is great, but no difference. Maybe I did something wrong on the encode... Not sure. Let me try a re-encode of the movie... Idk
Hario Drip Kettle Air
This little kettle is perfect for beginners or travelers. It’s durable and heat resistant. Perfect for brewing small batches of coffee. The material is very lightweight and gives the user more control over the pour stream. This kettle is tiny and can fit in any cabinet, drawer or camping bag. ...
I recently picked up a V60 to take a stab at pour over at home. I was getting ok drinks out, but my pour control was all over the place. It was too fast and not very accurate as I was using my existing hot water kettle.
I hate replacing things that work and I didn't want to get a new kettle just for coffee making. I started looking for some small kettle options where I can put my hot water on and pour out. A lot of the products in this category are either too affordable where the handles come off or too costly. I was hesitant to get the Hario Air due to Hoffman's review, but it really seemed to check all my boxes.
After making a few cups, it is amazing. I can't get as close to the grinds as a normal kettle, but I'm not to far. Control is great, but the neck thickness causes me to bump the V60 sometimes, need more practice. At any rate, I love this and it's easy to store in the cabinet when not in use.
TLDR: Great product if you have an existing hot water kettle you don't want to replace just to make pour over.
Crooked finger print sensor
I was sitting in my car the other day and was able to tilt my phone just right under the sunlight to see the two sensors under the screen. This is a pixel 7. I noticed that the finger print sensor was crooked while the top sensor was pretty straight. It got me thinking for all the people with issues against the finger print sensor, I wonder if theirs is more mis aligned, or maybe this is unrelated.
I check the photos on iFixit and the sensor looks straight there, but it's getting the back. Anyway, would be interesting if others could take a look at their sensor to see if this is a common thing.
Took a photo with my flashlight and modified it on Snapseed to make it easier to see. It is possible this is normal, but never know. !
Starting Grind Settings Chart
I'm wondering if we should start a sticky post which contains everyone's collection of Bean/Grinder+Setting/Brew method information as a reference. It's always good to have a nice starting point.
I will update as comments come up.
| Bean | Grinder | Settings | Brew | |:----------:|:---------:|:---:|:---:| Speckled Ax - Early Bird | Encore ESP | 20 | Aeropress 11g - 200ml Speckled Ax - Bird Dog Espresso | Encore ESP | 23 | Aeropress 11g - 200ml Speckled Ax - Early Bird | Encore ESP | 21 | V60 15g - 280ml Light Roast | Fellow Opus | 4.5 | Moka Pot All | Encore | 16 | V60 Light Roast | Encore | 18 | Chemex - 1 cup Light Roast | Encore | 20 | Chemex 32g - 2 cups Light Roast | Encore | 22 | Chemex - 3 cups All | Jaffee J1 | 30 clicks | Switch 20g - 300ml
Aieve Silicone Coffee Hopper Bellow
When I placed the order for a new Baratza Encore ESP, I also picked up this bellow for the hopper to push the left over grinds out of the machine. I posted a picture of the grinder earlier this month.
After two weeks of use, I needed to clean the grinder since I'm switching from flavored beans to non, there were no grinds in the machine. Sure there are some fines on the burrs that need to be brushed off, but not much. I'm impressed with this product and recommend it for anyone that has this grinder.
You can actually see the left over grinds fall into the bin when you press the bellow. Works great especially if you do the water spritz to minimize static.
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Parent's Bitter Coffee
At visiting my parent's this holiday weekend I tired to gently tell my parents that their coffee brew is very bitter. The response I get back is something like, " I like it strong."
I wasn't too sure how to respond, but then they told me my coffee is to watery. 🤔 I told them it's not that is watery, but it's a light roast and not bitter tasting.
So my question is how do you convince someone that bitter coffee is not good coffee? I might bring my scale next time to help measure and perfect the coffee brew there. Maybe even see about cleaning their been grinder, which I think has never been cleaned.
Oh well.
Update: Thanks for all the tips and thoughts. I agree with basically everything posted here and sorry no butter (I fixed the title)
Brave using network when idle
I wanted to try out the desktop version of the Brave browser. Its setup according to the privacy guide directions and I have sendoff usage data disabled, but if I open the browser sitting on the home page, windows is reporting 100KB ofdataa going out every 5 or so seconds.
Running the same test with Edge, no network usage is reported.
The only extention on Brave is bitwarden, which is also installed on edge.
Any thoughts? This is the IP it is sending to: 104.18.12.33
Edit: on reboot of process, I see the hostname: ec2-35-163-26-5.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com