This is from last year, but it's a quality post regardless.
I think a lot of Americans consider romani people to be a fictional people like elves or something.
why yes I love to pay a 500% markup instead of just buying an appliance that will pay for itself in about three weeks
You could also get a plastic cone for $5 and some filter papers for about 5¢ each, which would pay itself off after three cups of coffee.
And last surprisingly long given how much money you save and how prone things are to breaking in a matter of months
insufficient caffeine supply leads to revolution so they keep that shit on lock
Legit Americans might start giving a shit about climate change once the coffee stops hitting the shelves
Smashing the door to my local Starbucks with an axe and shouting "Tommy Needy Drinky".
Climate collapse leading to coffee supply disruption would just lead to ecofascists death squads enslaving coffee producing regions
You'll see the south turn into Yaupon plantations real quick, I think.
I got a hand me down $700 new espresso machine that stopped heating up, fixed it with a jumper (the power circuit got fried during a storm) and it worked perfectly for 10 more years.
I wish I knew how to make basic repairs on electrical stuff. I can put up a lamp and that's about it. How do you learn more?
When it comes to digital stuff? Good luck. When I comes to regular dumb electronics, just check for burns and busted capacitors. 90% of the time that'll be your problem
Everything around the digital stuff is the same, troubleshooting wise. Does the power go where it needs to? Is it changed how it needs to be (stepped up or down, etc)? For digital stuff... yeah, code is usually locked down so you can't just buy a chip and flash it and replace it. Though, I've considered doing the old school hacker thing and adding in my own MCU setup dead-bug style before...
I meant low voltage boards with smd components lol, replacing stuff on those is really hard
Yeah, at some point, you need an electronics microscope a la EEVBlog, and a really fine tipped iron (fine tipped everything really). I've ton a bit of bodge wiring on SMD boards though for prototyping. My fanciest work was hooking up a WiFi module with equal length wires since it was fast, parallel lane SPI (SD something, can't remember what that protocol is called. EDIT: maybe it's just called "SD SPI", according to reading on wikipedia). The wires were stiff enough to hold the module up in the air though.
YouTube can get you pretty far for basic electrical know how and repairs, I think.
The most problematic ones are cheap espresso machines, just because they need more cleaning/maintenance, and even those last for a while.
A whole lot of :LIB:s tend to use it as a self-compliment, weirdly romanticizing a culture while putting it down.
Honestly no idea, it's so out of place that every time I see this post it catches me by surprise over again.
Could've bought a machine, filters, and nice beans for that much
Was thinking about this guy a few weeks back. Wonder if he's still out there raiding gas station coffee counters.
you literally don't even need a coffee machine, just mix some coffee grounds and water together and wait a day, like damn dude do you not have a bowl or a jug or a vase or something
Do you not have palatable instant coffee in the US?
How to have something better than palatable instant coffee anywhere in the US...
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Put coarse ground coffee into French press.
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Add boiling water.
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Press.
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Wait a few minutes. Some sites say 3 minutes. Others say 4.
One site said:
Heat the water to boiling, then cool for 1 minute.
I guess I'm a barbarian - I've never let it cool.
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I'm super-lazy but using a French press is the easiest thing in the world. And my cheap ass even finally bought a coffee grinder to make buying whole beans online a snap.
I guess I’m a barbarian - I’ve never let it cool.
Your coffee may be more bitter than it needs to be, then.
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Instant Coffee is Euro and therefor lesser, at least in the chud's minds.
They have those at supermarkets and stuff, at least in the so-called United States
They're more like 1-2L bottles of cold brew. Usually they're alright. Instant coffee is a sin frankly, you can make real coffee with a french press and hot water that is way, way better. Or you can make drip coffee with a cheap machine and filters that might be a bit more expensive.
They do but it's expensive and not hard to do that yourself in the first place.
Do Americans not know how to use a coffee filter? You need to put those in coffee machines anyway, so they must be available, and what the machine actually does for you is not at all difficult to do manually.
No, but I suspect I’ll be very upset if you tell me about them.
Like, just get a bigger cup? Maybe dont get addicted to people serving you?
This is a bit right?
Nobody buys hot coffee to freeze and later reheat, right?
Grown coffee-drinking men know how to brew a cup of coffee at home with a filter, a french press or a machine or something, right?
Nobody is this stupid, right?
Not even in America, right?
Right?
