I’m using a Kaffeelogic Nano 7 sample roaster, which is quite simple to use and produces consistent results. I actually think almost all of my roasts were at least as good as high quality roasts I get locally.

That’s an absolute shame, because there’s tons and tons of cool coffee shops absolutely all over the place doing really cool, interesting, imaginative, and downright tasty things with coffee that you’re missing out on.

Maybe not around here (it’s not the biggest city though), I think I tasted every worthwhile coffee in the city so far. Some are ok, but nothing that really stands out. It’s also more meant figuratively (though there’s still some truth… after habituation on good coffee, previously ok-coffee is now bad… so I got really picky over the time of my coffee-nerd-career)

Starbucks coffee isn’t really intended to be enjoyed straight, it’s supposed to be made into milk drinks where the dairy, syrups, and toppings provide most of the flavor, and for that use case, it’s adequate.

Yeah it’s americans perversion of coffee. It’s more like soft-drinks with coffee-taste or something like that…

burnt toxic shit Starbucks sells as “coffee”

Yeah they roast way too dark, probably to hide the cheap coffee they use and possibly because their extraction is shit.

I can’t drink coffee anywhere else anymore, since I’m roasting myself, and perfected extraction with a Cafelat Robot (low pressure, which I think works better with lighter roasts).

Welcome to Rust which “solves” this issue…

Yeah it takes more time than a quick and dirty python script. But when I’m counting the countless hours (what irony) into this equation because of mindless leaky abstractions and resulting debugging, I’m certain that I’m at least not a lot slower writing that. As I said I’m not talking about the last 10-20% of performance that’s possible say even up to 40%, but more like an order of magnitude (at least), i.e. algorithmically insufficient or relying too much on that your abstractions do everything right and you use it correctly (which in the case of react is seemingly not the case, when looking at the modern web).

Taking that example (Rust) again, I very often get away with .clone() everywhere, i.e. not even caring much about performance while the performance is not significantly impacted. Then I switch to our typescript code-base in my job and get aggressions because of this extreme slowness (because of stupid abstractceptions, like wtf? shadcn needs to be built on radix-ui needs to be built on react etc. which in effect results in a slow abstraction-hell… and leaky abstractions everywhere)

Non ironically: In practice it mostly boils down to experience, writing relatively efficient software should not take much more time or even long term accelerate development (less time to wait) (I don’t talk about the last few percent of compiler reverse-engineered SIMD optimisation that takes time…)

I detest the state modern web development has downspiraled to. I bet I’m faster writing a big application in Vanilla js vs using the abomination that Next.Js has come to…

Yeah I have sometimes the feeling that stuff like this is rubbed of to real executives/managers who e.g. think a small team of programmers can achieve a big application in a manner of days or something…

Or free shipping at xx Euros, which results in me paying/buying a lot more unnecessary stuff…

I’ll make it simple, as I don’t care about losing “that argument”: Don’t feed the troll

So in other words you’re trolling and don’t care about being right or wrong…

Ok, right the details are a lot of work to “survive”. In case you’re really completely isolated from society. I agree with that. Definition of harmony is what I probably missed (I did not necessarily mean the romantic understanding of it), you’re a lot more dependent on it. I did though in fact live somewhat remote for some time (as volunteer) and did indeed thrive there, I like hard rather primitive work in nature. The exact circumstances are also important (i.e. does it rain a lot, is climate mild, is winter hard (heating etc.)). But… you actually do stuff that makes sense, as your survival depends on it. Not like having to fix zillions of bugs in an overabstracted frontend, having to deal with incompetent but arrogant and power hungry bosses and all that artificial stress we have put our lives in. Or having to read the non ending negative influx of idiocracy that Trump produces everyday.

I rather like to keep things more fundamental. And I think if you’re up for it (i.e. active/fit, craftly etc.) it can be fullfilling. Obviously it’s not as romantic as you probably imagine most of the time. But I rather like to deal with this than having to get angry about society not seeing that our probably most important problem is climate change and not migrants etc. and not caring enough about it.

So you’re extrapolating from this single case? As I say, if you know what you’re doing it’s less effort than you think, you let nature do its thing for you and just nudge it in the right direction, so you just harvest the fruits. And yet again, just because that lifestyle isn’t for you it can still be for others…

And that is relevant how? I don’t say that it’s a lifestyle for the average person, definitely not.

Not sure if you have control over it, but the ones I’ve used didn’t even smell when directly smelling over them. Not sure if there was something mixed in there too, to reduce the smell further. The owners used the resulting humus as fertilizer too.

In theory cities are more efficient, than living off-grid, I agree.

In reality though if you’re really careful and know what you’re doing (and are really disciplined and have educated yourself), you can live a true carbon neutral life.

All the infrastructure in cities and everything around modern life is just destructive in so many ways unfortunately…

And unfortunately the mass of people don’t care enough, to initiate the necessary systemic changes to make cities truly sustainable…

Counterpoint: I tried and I want to leave this broken society even more now (especially since societal enshitification seems to even accelerate).

Though you still need social contacts (that you really like) to avoid loneliness, so in case you have that, it’s a wonderful, peaceful and healthy way to live more in harmony with nature, but it’s a lot of work nonetheless.

I have a quite good experience with these, and was surprised how little they smell (but it was an outside toilet with an incredible view)

Based.

Yeah it’s sad that LG didn’t maintain that niche of high quality DAC jack phones. Also still stuck with my V30…

Like not get what you’ve got?

But it’s difficult to get a decent phone with a jack these days, that’s true…

I know a lot of people that lost their headphones, I don’t have that issue.

Also I’m a musician with pretty good custom IEMs. I have to use a very energy hungry external DAC (and while that I can’t easily charge), if I wouldn’t still have a jack (with a very good DAC)