Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

I still think it's mildly insane that Amazon doesn't combine the payments for video royalties from different regions. They could have done a single 82 cent transfer instead of a 74 cent transfer, a 7 cent transfer, and a 1 cent transfer. Of course, if Amazon can afford to do that, what's Alphabet/Google's excuse with YouTube?

more orders, more roasting #coffee

Cat mug. There are 5 more cats on the other side.

Cat has a hot head.

The cat disapproves of my dinner choice and so do I, but I didn't want to shop after work.

@cloud 3B+, raspbian, mostly used for experiments with different process (coffee roasting) control techniques, no

Does anybody have a recommendation for a good home WiFi AP? Mine is failing at about 5PM almost every evening in such a way that everything comes back if I just unplug/replug the Ethernet cable going to the modem, but it's obnoxious to have to do that nearly every day.

@gnomon Okay, that's not quite true. I've attended some lectures by people who are insanely experienced in beer making and have looked into re-purposing beer making equipment to produce other products with similar problems, but that doesn't translate into anything particularly actionable when it comes to making a delicious beer.

@gnomon I know nothing about making beer, but a local brewery ordered some coffee to use for that today.

I wonder how much beer you get out of 6 pounds of coffee.

Time to roast some coffee.

@equal@mastodon.technology The IRS tried to make this point ages ago. Accountants and tax preparation software makers successfully lobbied to make the sane solution illegal as it would drastically cut the need for their services. This is why we can't have nice things.

cat

@debugninja@banana.dog Is that the one with the karts or the one that's sliding down a mountain?

At the hardware store I saw a product called OdoBan. Sadly not intended to counter the changeling infestation.

Having written that down, it's actually a little bit surprising how many new machine designs fail on key criteria. Sometimes these deficiencies mean exercises that should be doable in minutes take hours instead. Others mean your very expensive machine is likely to become impossible to repair within a few decades.

Drafted about six pages on how to choose a good machine for learning to roast coffee. It should also be a good read for someone considering opening a roasting company who doesn't know what to look for in a first production roaster. It briefly covers things like controls and instrumentation, a usable trier, batch size, build quality and availability of replacement parts, budget, and training. No mention of specific brands/models because that would be huge and quickly outdated.

Regional rate B boxes arrived today. They don't stock these at the post office, but it's usually the cheapest way for me to send a few pounds of coffee.