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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are a few advantages

  • you can use the latest and greatest upstream versions (even versions under active development)
  • you can let the compiler optimize for your system (especially useful with PGO, but honestly only worth it for a few applications, e.g. video encoders)
  • you have full flexibility over optional features

And it's a good learning experience, sooner or later things won't just work and you have to learn about compilers, linkers, various build systems and script languages etc.

But yeah, for most people it's not worth the effort

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

And as someone who has no patience: If you are frustrated, go elsewhere the world is huge. That's a big plus for me compared to Darksouls 3. Alternatively, just stop, do something else and try again later.

Also you can go very far without mastery a technique, so don't obsess about it (I can't pary at all). Some enemies can be cheesed, some you kill with dumb luck, and if all else fails just run for it 😅

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My two main methods are either brewing in the Aeropress but with half the amount of water, or using an espresso, as others already mentioned.

The one thing on my bucket list of things to try is "recursive iced coffee":

  • use the avove method to make iced coffee
  • freeze to ice cubes
  • make iced coffee with coffee ice cubes

I made some coffee cubes before and used them with an oat ~~milk~~ infusion? Drink? Whatever you're supposed to call it, and that turned out very tasty

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I won't even try, but remembering art class in school I could probably use any attempt as ad-hoc Rohrschach test 😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I guess without the prismo you either have to accept a little "loss" at the start of brewing or less water. Shouldn't make a huge difference either way though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Are you breweing inverted? That'll loose you some capacity. If you have very fresh beans it might also help to wait a little longer after stirring for the CO2 to get out and not have too much foam on top

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Oh, thank you. I'll have to remember that name. Might help sell the idea when I next try to get someone to taste-test it 😅

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hehe, don't thank me yet. The general consensus seem to be that it's an abomination from the deepest circles of hell ;)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Well the orange juice is certainly the dominant flavor and the coffee adds some nice bitter notes to it. The ginger then brings a nice spicy kick if you like that sort of thing in your food/drinks (I do, obviously)

I'd never have thought of mixing coffee and orange on my own. Same with espresso tonic. But it turns out I like both Or maybe my brain just suffers (more) damage when the room temperature exceeds 27°C 🤷

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

lol, good luck, I can already see them grabbing their pitchforks. And if they do let you live, ask them if they have any crazy recipes of their own and share with us ;)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I swear it's not a joke - I do actually drink this. And the two friends I got to try it at least haven't sued me for poisoning them, so it can't be that bad

 

The coffee sunrise post earlier reminded me of one of my summer favorites (I just suck at taking pretty pictures but I think you'll get the idea):

  • a strong coffee (this one is 125ml from an aeropress but a double shot of espresso/lungo also works very well)
  • about 3-4 medium sized ice cubes (enough to still have ice after pouring the hot coffee)
  • ~120ml orange juice (adjust to taste and/or the size of your cup)
  • 10-20ml of nice spicy ginger juice (if the bottle says "don't drink pure", you got the right stuff)
  • pour the coffee slowly onto the ice cubes
  • Wait a bit so it gets nicely chilled.

I like slowly sipping about half of the top layer (it's basically an iced coffee at that point) before stirring and enjoying the final mix

Dunno if there is a name for that recipe, I just combined two stolen ingredient ideas (I saw a youtube video about espresso+orange juice once and a local café had an extremely tasty cold-drip based drink that included ginger)

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