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While I enjoy watching the sport, I'm not the most well versed in it, but I'm happy to see Holt do well.

Seems like a pretty genuine guy

I'd agree with the points that @youClown made, but really the only way is to do a proper test.

Maybe split the bag into bag & jar, and either have one of each each day, or alternate on which you use each day?

Yeah, at this point I'm thinking along similar lines. Stop running it mirrored, and back up the relatively small capacity of personal files backed up using cloud storage as well as some offline disk storage.

I did also just discover that Synology & QNAP also sell NAS Expansion devices, which seems like a pretty handy thing to have. Though I haven't done the working out, so maybe buying a bunch of new drives twice the capacity of your current setup is better value than an Expansion device + new drives at your current drive capacity.

I've found basic 'jewellery scales' from Amazon or similar to work perfectly fine, mainly use one of these now: https://rhinocoffeegear.com/rhino-coffee-gear-brewing-scale-3kg.html

Think it cost around £30 or so

I've currently got a 2-bay NAS at home for file backups and my kid's TV shows/films. It's currently running with mirrored drives and getting low on space.

Upgrading to larger drives seems like a relatively costly option, and I can see a few decent 4x4TB options second-hand for £300-400 (I could get 2x8TB drives for my existing NAS for a similar price). And of course the 4x4TB option will yield greater storage capacity than the 2X8TB option.

Seems like a slam dunk for buying a 4-bay NAS right?

No idea on that to be honest, all my at-home grinders have been single dose.

Personally I wouldn't bother with a grinder with a hopper for home use.

They tend to retain more grounds which means you'll have some stale coffee in each shot (assuming you're having 1 or 2 per day), and any grind changes will need purging of old grounds to ensure you get a representative shot (though if you're using the same beans, this likely won't significant factor).

If you're measuring by time, you'll need to compensate in dose for any times you're adjusting the grind fineness, as a coarser grind setting will result in larger dose for a given time (and vice-versa of course).

The weight-based ones (such as the Sette 270wi) do seem to be pretty accurate, but I'd always be wary of the weighing mechanism/software being a failure point (no data to back that up of course!)

Is it worth trying to pick up a spares/repair model that comes with the doser and just swap it over?

A piece of paper?!

Christ, it's 2024! I want that shit on a blockchain!

But the outrage over the price is a reflection of the lack of education and serious engagement in art both on the part of individual and wider media.

So, you don't think it's an example of 'good' art, but you also think that anyone who is outraged at the $6m+ price tag shows a lack of education and/or serious engagement with art?

I'm perfectly happy with opinions on art being subjective (I mean, I'd almost go as far to say as it's pretty much always going to be the case), but your original post did reek of snobbery IMO.

Can't you buy it here? https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/Nintendo-Switch-games/Overcooked-All-You-Can-Eat-1933818.html

Also, Portal 1 + 2 currently on sale on Switch for around £5

Excellent

Mushrooms even more-so

Amazing, just listened to it there. Glad I'm not alone in being similarly baffled.

Feels like more of a sundae discussion to be honest

Art valuation is one thing, I can't be getting into a philosophy discussion on the same day here!

As I understand it, the banana is regularly replaced (helpfully, the artwork includes instructions on how to replace the duct tape and banana) and has been eaten before.

Jesus, I can't believe I actually typed that. What an odd situation.

But the outrage over the price is a reflection of the lack of education and serious engagement in art both on the part of individual and wider media.

I'm not one of the ones that are outraged by the price, I am certainly baffled over it though. I understand that the value of these sorts of things is subjective (at least I would argue so), but are you able to offer any sort of insight as to why $6 million or so is a valid price for this?

Aside from "because that's what people are willing to pay for it".

I'm asking this genuinely btw, I'm completely in the dark as to how art pieces are priced. But the price point here is genuinely something I don't understand.

And I guess a follow-on point, is there any difference as to how something like this is valued vs those NFT monkey portraits that seemed to take the world by storm a few years back?

The NFT thing completely baffled me, and at the time I was working for a company offering blockchain services and had their own NFT marketplace. Sitting in the room on launch day watching the amount of money being thrown around for these things was ridiculous.

Crypto bro buys art piece at overly inflated price, not sure how many other squares need checked off for a money laundering bingo card

I'm not gonna disagree! I was the uncool kid still playing UT while everyone else was hooked on CS

Definitely been tempted to pick that up a few times, seems like the humour is excellent also. Unfortunately these days I share my Switch with my daughter and could do without her telling her friends the names of the games she's been playing when she goes off to school!

Will definitely pick it up at some point though!

paying a sparky

plus vat!

Rare to see those two in the same sentence!

Soundtrack was absolutely awesome too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEcPakW42JU

Yeah my main concern with a lot of these machines from new companies is the long-term availability of parts.

Naturally that's one of the big plus points of the La Pavonis.