I’ll echo someone else’s suggestion of trying out James Hoffman’s French press method. I get pretty clean cups while still retaining that oily goodness.

It’s the risk of knocking it over and making a huge fucking mess, it’s thrilling.

If your VPN has Canadian servers, CBC always has a very good website for watching the Olympics and IIRC you only need a Canadian IP address to access it.

There’s some confusion somewhere here, but I’m not entirely sure where. If you’re using a torrent client, you’re not using Real-Debrid. You can download torrents via Real-Debrid, but the torrent part is done on their servers. When you then download the files, you’re not torrenting, you’re downloading directly from Real-Debrid’s servers.

If do you want torrent client recommendations, qbittorrent on PC and LibreTorrent on Android. Just know that you wouldn’t be using Real-Debrid while using these.

Not at all, I just misread your comment!

They’re talking about Real Debrid, which is a subscription service allowing access to hosters and easy conversion of torrents to direct streams. It’s really cheap and absolutely worth the money IMO, but RD doesn’t seed torrents. Distributing content in that manner would get them in heaps of legal trouble.

I guess it does somewhat solve the problem of leeching, as if anyone has streamed a torrent via RD in the past 30 days you’ll just load their cached copy, but I was perhaps naïvely hoping for an actual addon (RD is not an addon but rather can be configured through Torrentio) that somehow seeded torrents I stream.

Which addon is that, if you don’t mind sharing?

I work in a café, so I usually drink what we have for espresso which is a medium-dark roast from Barista in Montréal

At home, I currently have a bag of medium roast blend from a local roaster, nothing fancy. I’ve been on a French press kick recently, and it does the job.

There is also a Trakt add-on, like the other commenter said the integration isn’t as seamless as a well-maintained Kodi setup, but it’s definitely good enough that I’ve switched from Kodi to Stremio with Trakt being the way I organise my TV/movie watchlists.

This may or may not be the case, as people’s experiences rarely map neatly on top of each other, but usually when I perceive others as being too cool to associate with “the peasants”, it’s usually more of an insecurity on my side than an aura of elitism from the person in question. In my mind, the thought is “they’re too cool to hang out with me”, not “they think they’re hot shit”.

Kodi + add-ons is great if you like tinkering, otherwise I would recommend Stremio with the Torrentio add-on. Stremio + Torrentio + Real-Debrid is the easiest way to consume pirated media IMO.

There’s so much missing history in early tech. This article reminds me of Ahoy’s video on YouTube about the first video game.

I’m a pretty big coffee nerd, and work as a barista. I have no patience for snobbery. If someone wants to learn more about coffee, the effects of roasting, immersion, percolation, espresso, I’ll gladly infodump to them and share the knowledge I’ve accrued over the years.

If someone is content with their venti soy mocha thing from Starbucks, or their double double from Timmies, or even store-brand instant coffee, and they don’t feel the need to jump into the coffee world, that’s fine by me. The idea that you must like a certain type of coffee to enjoy it “properly” is silly to me. I’m not yucking anyone’s yum.

I’ve been pretty poor lately (I was unemployed for a few months and my previous roommate moved basically in the middle of the night without warning, leaving me on the hook for the full rent) so I’ve been brewing crappy President’s Choice overroasted “morning blend”. It’s bad coffee, but it’s also 15$ for 1.8kg.

I’ve been coming back to immersion brews lately after a long stint of only using my V60 for pour-overs. My love for coffee was born out of a French press, and was pushed further by the Aeropress, both of which I’ve started to mess about with again. I generally find immersion methods more forgiving with low-quality beans than a pour-over.

I’m excited to start having a bit of income again, I can’t wait to try the new offerings at my local roaster. I’m lucky that I found work as a barista, so I do drink quality coffee most days. I just have to suffer grocery-store beans on my days off (that is until my next paycheck!)

Otherwise known as cowboy coffee, if anyone wants a searchable term to learn more!

IMO good home-brewing options (which I’d personally prefer but to each their own) would be either a moka pot or a French press. They’re more full-bodied as they use metal to filter the grounds rather than paper (like drip/pour-over) which lets through more of the oils present in the coffee beans.

If OP gets her drinks from a café, I’d suggest trying an allongé as well. A long black (in my neck of the woods it’s called an americano and we don’t distinguish between the two, this depends on your area*) is espresso poured over hot water, whereas an allongé is basically an espresso with more water passed through the puck of grinds in the portafilter. Passing the extra water through the ground coffee rather than simply adding a shot of espresso to hot water adds a lot of body. Note that there is a higher ratio of beans to water in an allongé compared to a long black/americano, so it’s definitely going to be a stronger tasting brew.

*In areas where they distinguish between the two, as far as I understand a long black is when you pour the espresso on top of the hot water, whereas an americano is when you add hot water to espresso. The main difference is that when the espresso is poured on top, you preserve the crema. In Canadian cafés, I’ve never seen a long black on the menu, but every café I’ve worked at prepared americanos with espresso poured on top of the water.

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As a barista and a vegan, this is the answer. Out of all the plant-based milks, oat is the closest to cow’s milk when it comes to how it foams up, so baristas tend to make way better and more consistent drinks with oat than almond or soy. And this is just personal preference, but IMO the taste profile of oat works the best with coffee.

Note: I have no experience brewing or drinking robusta varieties or blends, but I figure the basics are the same/similar to arabica.

For immersion brew methods such as the French press, you get a huge dropoff in extraction rates as time goes on. A two minute steep will be massively underextracted compared to a four minute steep, but in my experience a four minute steep and a 10+ minute steep will be pretty similar in terms of extraction. A bonus of a longer steep time is that the coffee will be at a better tasting temperature.

Have you set up port forwarding for qbittorrent?

You can run commands, so systemctl poweroff should work to turn off your computer (on Linux, not sure how KDE Connect works on Windows, but I’d assume there’s an equivalent)