hannadryad

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[–] hannadryad 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know you don't want to spend too much but there's also no point buying something that misses the mark in terms of the grind you need for the espresso you want. When I was looking at grinders for espresso I narrowed it down to the 1zspresso J-Max for a hand grinder or the Baratza Encore ESP for a machine grinder. Both are a bit more expensive than the basic options but give much more versatility for dialing in grinds.

[–] hannadryad 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes it's to keep my wrists a bit further apart but also to give my pinky fingers less work to do.

[–] hannadryad 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'm new to it and still getting used to it. I've gone the slow but accurate route, which is incredibly frustrating, but I'll get there.

[–] hannadryad 1 points 1 year ago

Haha its actually a Neon Genesis Evangelion themed keycap set so the additional keycaps are icons of the angels. I have them wired up to Vim and AutoHotkey shortcuts.

[–] hannadryad 2 points 1 year ago

It's mostly a copy of my 34 key layout so the thumb keys are shift - space - enter - layer. Having the spacebar would throw that off. I was tempted but in the end I didn't want to lose a key on the top three rows for "enter".

[–] hannadryad 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just worked out that a rotary controller can be mapped onto a mouse scroll wheel, which suddenly makes a lot of sense. I've been sitting here thinking "why would I want a volume knob? Why would I want two?" Is there anything else I am missing about rotary controllers?

[–] hannadryad 8 points 1 year ago

I think once you accept that standard keyboards are laid out as they are just by convention and nothing else, and that moving to a new layout will take a bit of time, the prospect of having a keyboard where everything is exactly where you want it to be becomes quite thrilling. This is actually my first bit of real typing using Colemak DH. It is excruciatingly slow to touch type but I didn't know it at all two weeks ago. In two more weeks time I'll have my first split keyboard in my hands. So it's definately doable...

[–] hannadryad 1 points 1 year ago

I was going to write a bunch of things about the Switch but I guess they would apply to most other pourover drippers too. I'm coming from the Chemex as a comparison, which is lovely but a bit slow and unwieldy for that one cup of coffee.

Having said that what makes the Switch stand out to me is that it feels like such a high quality piece of kit, and having the immersion element in the mix really suits me. My brain interprets that as "big aeropress" for whatever reason.

[–] hannadryad 5 points 1 year ago

Here is a better angle as requested:

better angle

[–] hannadryad 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will do tomorrow.

[–] hannadryad 1 points 1 year ago

Yes that's basically why I got my Switch and its mostly the way I use it: percolate for the bloom then immerse for the brew. Although I'm going to play around with that soon.

[–] hannadryad 5 points 1 year ago

I can only compare it to the Chemex, which is a bit of a different beast. I find that I can get a great balance of extraction and flavour out of the brew because I can immerse. For my work coffee I have settled into a medium grind of 18g coffee + 54g water, gentle pour for bloom, followed by a full pour (to 300g) at 30 seconds with the switch up so that the brew immerses, then switch down at 2 minutes to let the brew drain through the settled grounds. Then I vary the grind to sort any extraction issues with the particular beans I have.

I'm not sure if glass v plastic will make a difference like the ceramic does. I prewash my filters with boiling water which will heat up the Switch but I'm not sure how effective that will be.

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TWSBI Swipes (lemmy.world)
 

I got some TWSBI Swipes to play with and I am really pleased with them. I have some beaten up Lamy Safaris that have probably seen better days and I love my Vac 700R so I thought I would try them out, and take the opportunity to offer a little bit of content. I hadn't realised the community had moved!

 

Has anybody got experience of the Kiwi switches? They seem ideal for me EXCEPT that they are incredibly green and it sounds like they probably disrupt RGB backlighting from what little I have been able to find out. I don't know how bad the effect is, though.

I was going to go for a set of Gateron Kangaroos but I read that the Kiwis had less post wiggle. Why do they have to be so hulked out??

 

I'm in the UK so I would like to have a keyboard that has the at-symbol and inverted-commas in the correct places for my fingers. The Keychron Qn Pros all come with keycaps that have the ats and inverted-commas the "wrong way round" for me so I was wondering if I buy a Q2 Pro and a set of keycaps, will I be able to put on the keycaps that I want and remap the two keys using Via so that they send the correct characters?

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submitted 1 year ago by hannadryad to c/coffee
 

I have been making do without an electric grinder for a while now and I have decided the time has come to get one back on the kitchen work surface. I usually make coffee with my aeropress or chemex, and sometimes grind coarsely for cold brew. I don't have an espresso machine and while I could imagine myself dabbling with the weirder manual and stovetop espresso options out there, I know that I prefer the extraction from pourover so it would never be a Thing.

I am trying to decide between the Fellow Ode v2 and the Baratza Encore ESP. One the one hand I feel I can't go wrong with a Baratza and the ESP would give me some extra flexibility. On the other hand, the Fellow Ode probably matches my coffee sensibilities perfectly. I can't really see myself choosing other grinders because I have had a Baratza before in a former life and I know their customer service is amazing. It's just those burrs on the Fellow Ode v2 that are tempting me. Any thoughts? Gotchas? Steers either way?

 

There hasn't really been much buy in on the eSports front on Lemmy that I have seen so I thought I would create a general community for esports discussion, in advance of communities appearing for specific eSports.

So if you want to talk about ESL and Blast for CSGO, LCS for LOL, CDL for COD, RLCS for Rocket League or whatever the hell Valorant has please join in.

eSports on lemmy.world

[email protected]

https://lemmy.world/c/esports

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CODCompetitive (self.callofduty)
submitted 1 year ago by hannadryad to c/callofduty
 

So is there any interest in creating a /c/codcompetitive community ahead of Champs?

 

I was never a huge poster on Reddit and certainly never a mod so I don't have that level of experience. Should I try creating a community here on lemmy.world myself? Or should I stick to making suggestions and leave it to people with more experience?

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