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Cake day: August 16th, 2023

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  • Milk adds a fair bit of sweetness and hides a lot of sins in the coffee process.

    If it’s been slightly burned or the machine/grinder aren’t really clean then milk will cover that. Black…it’s all out there.

    If you can ask them for 3 or 4 seconds of hot water from the group and then float the espresso shot on top and stir. Makes for a great cafe option.

    You don’t want water from the steam wand/hot water spout as it’s from a different boiler and will be much hotter. Normally around 130degress celcius vs around 90 for the espresso.




  • Definitely needs some more testing as those numbers in the table look low to me. Archiving vs listening is a key point and storage is relatively cheap.

    Listening on cheap Bluetooth headphones then you can get away with a low bitrate. If you are using better gear and/or music that has a lot of dynamic range and comes from strings (piano/classical/etc) then I would recommend 320 but your mileage may vary.

    Listen, compare and decide. I have a library of about 110k tracks (musicbrainz-Picard is amazing) and I wish I had:

    1. Focussed more on encoding albums rather than just songs and
    2. Had 320 or flac