How do you expect anything to be completely free?

I’m using the AdGuard extension. Would this potentially be a preferred alternative?

As of brother Lance has been hearing my prayers. He just put a video out, really tripping my understanding of dialling in. Honestly, I have to admit I have been fixated about achieving high pressure, and it’s true the window of balance seems to be really small, resulting more often in mudy bitter harshness.

Going to give turbo a shot.

I put a temperature probe in the E61 grouphead to check the temp on the Mara X, and now i can coffidanlty say it does have stable temperature control. It reads a 1-2 Celsius higher in the E61 injection point, right about the shower, than what the manual says the temp ought to be in the various modes, so there might be some heat lose when the water hits the coffee. Several times I tried Mode 0 to potentially offset the high reading temperature, it doesn’t seem to be a good match for the medium roasts.

with these precision baskets, targeting a shot time first seems to go out the window. Like you also say, go off taste is what i try. But then changing variables don’t always result in my intended effect.

I like to believe i have my puck prep pretty much dailed in, at the very least consistent.

An obvious variable many like to point out are good quality fresh beans. I always buy from reputable local roasters. Buy in batch, rest for 1-2 weeks, freeze, and take out a week’s worth of beans as i go. There might be a bad batch occasionally, but i seem to screw up on the simple blend roasts too.

the crema is indeed non-existent on these beans, I have seen the same on other beans I used that are on the older side. I am not a crema hunter, sure looks nice, but when there is plenty I dilute it with the rest of the cup usually. Of course in this case, might be an indicator that the beans are a bit stale.

You give a good suggestion, I might indeed give the beans a shot in my Clever dripper instead, even though there are ‘espresso roast’. They are definitely very lightly roasted for espresso. I might be chasing a brew method that doesnt yield the best result anymore.

These DAK beans aside, all my other frustrations are still there. I had luck this morning, grinder a bit finer brewing a blend for my cappuccino. And I have a ton 3x1 kg of brazilian roasts, from classic medium roast to anaerobic fermented, to try out the spectrum.

I am getting a puck screen in the mail soon, in order to eliminate some of the headspace with lower doses. In the 17-19 grams pullman basket, i consistently seem to get better results with 19-21 gram doses, but i don’t want to drink and waste so much coffee.

I am not the full expert on the subject, but I assume the profiling is to a lesser extent. For one you don’t browse within a Google account.

I also like the slimmed down UI and subscription management of invidious compared to yt.

And don’t forget no ads and sponsorblock. Although some add ons like vinegar for safari get you pretty close to uninterrupted viewing.

All said, probably not the best in regards to pure privacy.

How quickly those this flood your storage?

Currently I ran invidious in docker. The solution is … just okay, performance isn’t great. But at least you only stream whatever you pick for watching.

I only follow around 15 channels. For simplicity 10 video are added daily to my subscription feed.

Are there privacy concerns with this solution. This together with ad blocking were my main drivers for invidious.

I hear your argument, and I agree to it. For new drivers it should also become common sense to plan your route save and thus comfortable.

But OP specifically mentioned his daughter experiences anxiety. That pushes it into a different category if it was not meant metaphorically.

If your daughter gets anxiety or panic attacks while driving, I suggest her to get professional help/therapy instead of avoiding particular (but common) traffic situations. I’m talking from experience. Fostering the anxiety now by not acknowledging it, might end up with an ever longer road to recovery for self confidence later on.

Imported chinese EVs are still undercutting the European manufacturers, as much they have been lobbying to have increased import fees on the cheaper non EU EVs. The narrative is that they are heavily subsidised to the extend they cannot compete anymore, in so crippling overal in-continent EV development. Resulting in a dependence to the East.

If I am not mistaken such import fee has just passed in Brussel, in order to protect the European market.

In a weird way, humanity has been longing for greener automobile solutions, and now that it’s there, Europe wants to slow it down.

I have a Mac mini m1 and run several containers to manage media, arrs and vpn. I also have a Debian vm for homeassitant. I had used UTM prior but now moved the vm to VMware fusion.

Main issue I run into is not enough ram as the base model only has 8gb. And I do not have redundancy optimised when I reboot. I have it locked with a password so it doesn’t auto run the containers or the vm.

I double the mac for light browsing too. I considered getting a dedicated Linux mini pc for the services next to a desktop Mac. But my usage is too sparse at both ends of the spectrum.

I don’t find it extremely resembling, but okay. Will they ban 88 on all shirts ever? Extremists will find symbols in anything.

Leapfrogging Bitwarden I see.

Do we like this over bridge? That hasn’t been halve bad on Mac.

Sifu was on my shortlist so I’m happy

Yes it has been already for a couple of weeks

It has been in a sealed container yes. It had risen more then in the fridge I think

I simply created the usb from the aarch64 image provided. Wouldn’t it configure it right from that?

Thank you for pointing out the obvious mistake.

I tried the hass route instead, but can’t get it to work due to dependency issues once I try to install the supervisor package. Even though the aarch64 OS agent seems to install without issue. I’m tired of getting it to work.

I have managed to install HASS on a Mac mini m1 through a Debian vm in UTM, that is serving its introduction purposes right now. Likely I will end up getting a home assistant Green at some point, but I don’t find the price that appealing for what it is. Or I need to shell out even more for a n100 mini pc.