Somewhere in the middle? More of late night realisation than anything else.

I totally agree. This community has been really lovely and the whole reddit blow up happened just at the time I had started noodling with different brewing methods again so it was a happy coincidence. Thanks everybody!

Spending the money on the grinder first is such a wise choice - followed obviously by spending the money on the beans themselves - and you can't go wrong with an aeropress. It's also ridiculously portable, especially if you measure out your beans beforehand into little single dose containers...

Oh brill. I've found a place down the road that has some single origin medium roasted and I've ordered some to try. Thank you for the suggestion!

PS: bit late on the brew setup thing 🤓

PS: I changed the title of this post to be super specific because "Hario Switch" might have gotten some unintentional crossover from the Gaming community 😁

I think once you accept that standard keyboards are laid out as they are just by convention and nothing else, and that moving to a new layout will take a bit of time, the prospect of having a keyboard where everything is exactly where you want it to be becomes quite thrilling. This is actually my first bit of real typing using Colemak DH. It is excruciatingly slow to touch type but I didn't know it at all two weeks ago. In two more weeks time I'll have my first split keyboard in my hands. So it's definately doable...

To be fair I am planning on putting them back at some point.

I'm working on a core 18-key layout that I can expand anywhere up to 34 keys, so I have a consistent layout that I can use on some of the unibody split keyboards that are usually in that range of keys.

Oh. My. God.

Don't anybody say "drink tea" by the way.

I make my cold brew in a plastic and glass contraption that produces a drip onto a reservoir into a bed of grounds that has a metal filter on the bottom. I can't say I have ever noticed a metallic taste to the coffee. I put an aeropress filter on top of the grounds to help the moisture distribute. I suppose you could do the same at the bottom to avoid direct contact between the grounds and the metal in the filter, if it was a concern that some kind of reaction might take place (that wouldn't otherwise take place in the presence of ~0C water + dissolvables).

I can only compare it to the Chemex, which is a bit of a different beast. I find that I can get a great balance of extraction and flavour out of the brew because I can immerse. For my work coffee I have settled into a medium grind of 18g coffee + 54g water, gentle pour for bloom, followed by a full pour (to 300g) at 30 seconds with the switch up so that the brew immerses, then switch down at 2 minutes to let the brew drain through the settled grounds. Then I vary the grind to sort any extraction issues with the particular beans I have.

I'm not sure if glass v plastic will make a difference like the ceramic does. I prewash my filters with boiling water which will heat up the Switch but I'm not sure how effective that will be.

Here is a better angle as requested:

Will there be other changes, say to loss bonuses? Breaking will become far more significant because there will be fewer future full buy rounds from which to recover round deficits.

On the flip side, going 12-N and losing a few rounds on the trot will feel far more pressurised because there won't be so many rounds to make up and force OT.

Thinking of the third map of the Katowice final where it was seemingly impossible that G2 could catch up to Ence's lead but they were kind of doing it? With less rounds on the board that game would have been done and dusted before Ence was able to buckle down, win a bloody round and get to 16. That would be your 3-0 grand final folks. Yay?

Thanks for letting me know. Although that makes my decision harder :)

Yes it's to keep my wrists a bit further apart but also to give my pinky fingers less work to do.

Absolutely delighted to see these postmatch threads here!

Let's see if I can reply to this, at least.

I'm in love with Tetsu Kasuya's "god recipe" using a Hario Switch:

. 18g coffee ground fairly fine

. 300g water

. Start with Hario Switch open

. 0s - pre-pour to 60g

. 30s - 2nd pre-pour to 120g

. 1m 15s - CLOSE HARIO SWITCH pour to 300g and let the brew immerse

. 2m - OPEN HARIO SWITCH and let drain

. 3m or so - if grind is correct drain should complete

Swirl / stir and serve.

(Note: Kasuya says 20g but 18g gives you 60g per litre - obvs vary to taste / grind / beans)

I'm optimistic although I know I probably won't have the same kind of conversations about esports I had on Reddit.

I guess I will have to scout around a bit to see if there are groups for things in local feeds on other lemmy instances that I can't see here? Rather than re-inventing the wheel?

It's my own layout starting from Colemak DH with the "missing" outer keys on another layer.