Staying with Plex
Back in… 2019, Proctor & Gamble made a bit of a marketing blunder with their Gillette brand with what became colloquially known as their “toxic ...
Category: Product and service reviews
DF64 Gen 2 coffee grinder
About a year ago, I wrote about the Timemore Chestnut C3 manual grinder and explained that, while it’s a capable grinder, I bought it merely as a stopgap ...
Lavazza and the point of diminishing returns
One concept I feel a lot of people in the espresso communities need to learn, or re-learn, is “point of diminishing returns”, sometimes also called ...
Timemore Chestnut C3 manual grinder
I’ve said in coffee reviews on this blog that my grinder is the Compak K3, which is a motorized grinder with 58mm flat burrs. And for 8-1/2 years, it was ...
Verena Street Shot Tower Espresso
I’ll say up front that it’s possible my experience with this coffee is one-off. And I certainly hope it is. But it’s a horrible enough experie...
Pitch Black Espresso – Blackout Coffee
Okay… I decided to give in. I’ve seen Blackout Coffee advertised by a couple YouTube creators I follow. And I’d been… wishy-washy about ...
Geekworm X680
As said in my review of the KVM-A8, I picked this up at the same time, though I had to wait longer to put it into service. At the time I bought the KVM-A8, I al...
Geekworm KVM-A8
For the longest time I wanted a KVM connection to my OPNsense router. I have a KVM-over-IP appliance on my rack. An Avocent MPU2032 I bought back in 2018. (Vert...
Firefly III is not double-entry accounting
Double-entry accounting doesn’t have much in the way of rules. But one is paramount: all debits in a transaction must equal all credits. But there is no l...
Extended warranties and repair plans
“Extended warranties” have a bad rep in retail. In large part because they are pushed by cashiers and sales persons who earn a commission selling th...