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Fantastic grinder, got one a few months back and absolutely love it. Has a few quirks and I can never not laugh at the bellows, but produces generally tasty coffee with minimal dialling in

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Please do not fap into your coffee grinder, it’ll really increase the retention with all the stickiness. I fear you may have confused grinder with Grindr here

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Don’t stick your dinky were you wouldn’t stick your pinkie

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I’ll preface them by saying this is me being critical of it, it is otherwise very good:

  • the bellows don’t stay attached, everytime I take the lid off to put beans in I have to reattach them in place
  • grind adjustment dial is obscured by the indicator such that you can’t read what it’s set to easily
  • adjustment indicator can itself be moved without changing grind size
  • bellows tend to blow the fresh grounds everywhere, especially the fines at the end
  • as a leftie, the switch is in an irritating position
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The stories that man could tell, bonus points if he has his dog Gromit with him

Is it OK for a company to expect using their paid product for a job interview?

I had a job interview with a company recently and one of the negative feedback I got was that I hadn’t tried out their product. Now this might be a valid concern if they had any sort of free trial for it, but the lessons they offer start at 60€ and I didn’t feel comfortable spending that amount just to get a better chance...

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I don’t know if there’s any legal implications, but morally it’s pretty abhorrent. The question I’d be asking is would you even want to work for a company that engages in that type of tactic, especially since they’re likely to repeat that kind of nonsense after you’ve started the job.

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I would have also put 20 down on an expired certificate

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Lots of decent suggestions here so not going to repeat them, but I do have a couple of my own if using synapse:

  • have plenty of RAM
  • have plenty of CPU
  • have plenty of DB storage space
  • use Postgres as your database, SQLite sucks

Basically synapse is just a resource hog, and you need to plan for that. The database itself grows quicker than you’d expect as well

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You can use old machines for all kinds of servers, I’ve got a stack of old laptops running a Kubernetes cluster, but synapse would push some of them possibly further than they can go so I have it on my more powerful NAS, and even then it isn’t exactly speedy at times

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I’m most familiar (although casually) either UK/EU rules, and this page has an excellent breakdown of what’s considered the bare minimum this side of the pond for safety.

gov.uk/…/1-eu-and-aetr-rules-on-drivers-hours

Personally I prefer to have a 20-30 min break every 2 hours which leaves me feeling sufficiently refreshed, and conveniently works perfectly for changing a 64kWh EV enough to do the next leg at the same ratio. I honestly believe switching to an EV has forced me to become a safer driver with regard to taking breaks.

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I was wondering if this was similar to the Baltic Fleet and going down the comments looking for a reference. Lemmy did not disappoint

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Current drinking a cup from Kickback Coffee in the Peak District, great coffee and great people, usually go and pick it up in person.

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Most welcome, and really enjoying this thread for recommendations myself. Others I’ve been to in person in the last 12 months now I’ve had to think about it:

  • Origin coffee, Cornwall - fantastic roastery café, very friendly staff.
  • Buxton coffee roasters, Peak District - generally seem to be darker roasts but have some interesting ideas. Sadly doesn’t have a café
  • Foundation coffee, Manchester - used to have a lot more in store than is currently online, not sure what’s going on. Two very nice cafés though
  • ManCoCo, Manchester - white lie, didn’t go myself in person, but friend I was with did to get me a surprise gift as we were <5 mins away. Was a tasty coffee but can’t comment further.

Places I personally avoid from experience:

  • Chatsworth house restaurant blend - had this in a Christmas hamper for the past few years, goes straight in the bin as it is undrinkably dark for my taste
  • Pippas London - a front for a huge white label coffee distribution warehouse. Coffee was nice enough, but prefer to support small batch roasters.

Personally I really enjoy the whole going to the roastery and seeing what they have, trying a few things out etc, so I’m heavily biased towards what’s available to me locally. I’ve got The Nocturn to try when I next run out of Kickback, but as I’ve never tried any I can’t pass any judgement.

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That I very much agree with, CloudFlare is great, but it certainly isn’t for every use case nor should it be. Thats kinda the entire point I was trying to make.

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Whilst I agree on the glue records, DNSSEC is most definitely included as standard (check my domain itsg.host which is on a free account)

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I think it’s also worth bearing in mind there that the average fedi user currently is well aware of the lack of platform level moderation, both the good and the bad that come with that.

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Took 4 takes for me to finally work out what it said

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I once spent a good portion of a marquee club event sat on top of some Nexo Alpha S2 subs watching the chaos unfolding before my eyes (I distinctly remember something about a rubber horse head mask). Apart from not being able to feel my arsehole for a week afterwards, the power of the sub with the writhing mass of bodies was almost mesmerising

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I did exactly this a few months ago on my NextCloud instance. Much sad ensued that evening.

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If you want a truly privacy respecting option (because self hosting), I’ve been using cactus.chat which is great. I specifically use it on my streaming setup as it’s real time as well to boot.

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