You can mitigate that issue to some extent by making the videos short. As long as the user count remains relatively small, the storage and bandwidth costs aren’t going to spiral out of control. Eventually you’ll have so many millions of active users that you’ll also need to figure out a way to get a steady source of revenue. I wonder how Loops will tackle that issues. Some mastodon instances already have a small yearly fee, so I guess video instances could do that as well.

“And math’s just physics unconstrained by precepts of reality ”

Source: xkcd, every major’s terrible, square 2

"Why can’t you leave the church alone?”

Here’s an opportunity to strike a deal. If mormons leave people alone, people will leave them alone. That’s how it already works with most religious groups.

Is that your first espresso machine, or was there also a journey from a cheaper machine to a fancier one?

Once you run out of this ultra-charred-roast, consider trying some light-roast next time. IMO dark roast requires milk to cover the bitter notes, whereas light-roast is perfectly fine without any milk.

If you’re handling highly concentrated solutions of nicotine, normal lab safety procedures should keep you safe. Wear gloves, be careful, take your time, no rush, clean everything carefully etc. You know, the usual chemical safety stuff.

What kinds of things have you tried so far? Any results yet? Did anything work?

Not very dangerous when it’s very diluted.

Check the SDS for more info. They didn’t include the high seas pictogram for no reason.

Sounds like it could be a super ultra dark roast. Do the beans look like coal? Normal coffee should have a brown color, but if the beans are more like biochar, you can expect the coffee to taste like elemental carbon and ash. if it’s mostly carbon, all the sweet and juicy flavors have been destroyed during roasting.

I’ve heard that brewing with super fresh grinds can be problematic due to excessive amounts of CO₂ bubbles forming a layer between the solid and liquid phases. if that happens, you might mitigate that issue by extending the brewing time and and ensuring sufficient agitation. Probably not going to produce the ideal brew, but should be better than under extracted coffee.

Check the dates on the bag. Was it roasted 6 years ago?

Do the grinds smell awful and rotten?

Extracting with water should work better. You can heat up the water close to 100 °C to speed up the extraction. If you use milk, you can’t heat it up that much without running into all sorts of issues. If you use temperatures that are reasonable to milk (55-60 °C), those temperatures would be super low for extraction. That’s why milky drinks use water for making a highly concentrated coffee (espresso) and then mix it with milk.

I know someone who bought a bad batch of coffee. It was dirt cheap and tasted like water. You just had to compensate by using an obscene amount of grinds to produce a little bit of something that is almost drinkable.

I’ve also bought some old coffee that was just barely within its shelf life. It tasted awful, but I guess you wouldn’t notice if you always use lots of creme and sugar. I drink my coffee black, so the only way to make it barely tolerable was to use 2-3x the normal dose and use an aeropress to make a super fast extraction. The longer the extraction takes, the more bad stuff will end up in the cup.

Should I start with the basics like grinding and extraction?

I assume, those bags contain whole beans. If so, you need a grinder. You also need something like a V60 or an aeropress to handle the extraction and filtration. Oh, and using a scale is highly recommended, but not strictly necessary.

If these things didn’t sound familiar, you’re in for a wild ride. This rabbit hole goes deep.

This sounds pretty cool. Are there other types of restrictions you can have?

Are the stereotypes real? You know, like starting a fight during your first day, dropping a soap etc.

Sounds great. I hope at least one of these communities becomes the main community for capybaras. Defederation tends to cause fragmentation like this, so I guess there’s always some demand for new communities that aren’t on unpopular instances.

Here’s what my serach results (in mlem) look like:

!capybara@lemmy.smeargle.fans

!capybara@lemmy.world

!capybara@lemy.lol

I have mixed feelings about this. Even though I totally love these pictures and the chill vibes they spread, I have to ask something. There are 2 other capybara communities, so why do we need to have multiple communities for the same thing? Doesn’t the biggest capybara community suffice? Regardless, I subscribed in case this community has something the other ones don’t.

Does it mean you face some difficulties other people don’t?