I like flavored coffee on occasion. We have two grinders, the slightly lower quality one gets all the flavored beans, they never go into the good grinder.

That said, I got a handful of flavors recently to share with friends. I like to bring our espresso machine glamping, I set it up on a table under a tarp next to our tent, with a 100 foot cord running to a small generator.

When I got home, I tried mixing a little bit of each flavor together. 5 flavors,a few beans from each. It was honestly terrible. Far worse than any individual flavor by itself. It wasn’t unique or interesting, it was bad, and I’ll never do it again 🤷‍♂️

Edit: That said, while I would never put flavored beans in the flavor free grinder, as a matter of principle… I’ve never noticed a problem when changing from one flavor to another in the flavored grinder. So I doubt the grocery store grinder would affect the flavor that much 🤷‍♂️

Thanks!

Also curious about this

What an excellent idea! So simple, so powerful!

Just googled base mode, what an excellent idea! This is yet another thing that’s got me excited to get back into meshtastic

We had very few bugs! One guy used some bug spray, but for the rest of us they were mild enough that the campfire kept them away.

I think I got bit 2 or 3 times in as many days.

It was a beautiful weekend

Thanks! Yep the stones are dryish on the camera side of the hammock 👍👍

Hey thanks this is helpful!

Now THIS looks interesting. This might be the thing that gets me back interested in meshtastic after my failed solar node debacle

I would love to have a copy of this circuit!

I imagine adding more capacitance not only increases the run time at night under a light, but also the charge time. How did you decide on a good value?

Very cool!

Have you looked into lithium capacitors? Here’s one built into a charging circuit. Kind of interesting

I was all geared up to make my first solar node, got a rak and a solar panel, put an 18650 in it. I was doing some testing to see how long it would last on my bench without sun. I got distracted and the voltage got lower than the rak liked, and then it just… Never came back. Wouldn’t wake up again, not with solar power or adding additional external power. I’d probably need to disconnect and reconnect the battery. But I never tried that, because the point was that I wouldn’t be able to.

Before this, I had already been researching and thinking about different methods, and I had already wasted some money on some ill-planned hybrid lithium capacitors. I also had some disappointing range tests from the local hill. Plus I was trying to get my buddies on board and they were dragging their feet.

So this was the last nail in the coffin. You can’t have a device enter a non recoverable state when it’s 40 feet up in a tree at the top of the tallest hill in town. Just bad design.

That stupid thing is still sitting on my desk, almost a year now. I lost all interest, unfortunately.

I’m sure I’ll come back to it, eventually.

But yes, in my experience, rak doesn’t like low voltages, and will likely get stuck in an unrecoverable state.

https://a.co/d/5S3ZJTT

It’s like a teal, blue green ish

Extremerate emerald green

Changing the screen was easy peasy. The glue is tough to get off, but my screen was already broken. I did my buddies screen too, which wasn’t broken, and he wanted to save it, so I had to be more careful. That took a bit more effort to do carefully.

But that’s the hardest part, everything else is easy.

The hard part for me was changing the front case, that took significantly more time and effort. A million little parts and screws and stuff. Took hours.

But if you’re just changing the screen? Not so bad.

I’d still do it all again though, looks great

Thanks! And you should! For $300, it’s hard to beat the performance per dollar.

Other handhelds have more oomph these days, but not that much more, and your battery lasts much less time when your cranking those new chips that hard. None have matched the efficiency of the deck, frames per watt. To me, that’s what counts.

If I’m out and about, I want efficiency, not raw performance. If I’m at home? Well, I can stream from my PC and get all the performance I need. So what’s the point of these other machines?

No drama so far, though I admit I STILL haven’t had time to play with it. Busy weekend, even now 🤦‍♂️

Slow Internet users unite!

Mine could be worse, it’s 30/10. Had it for a few years. Before that it was 10/1 though, for like 10 ish years. And before that? For a significant portion of my teenage years, it was 1.5/.5.

Before that, my young childhood was all dialup. DSL existed, we just didn’t have it 😬

Right now they’re putting fiber in my town though! Soon I’ll have access to 8000/8000 if I wanted! That’s way too much though, I’m gonna go for their lowest tier, which costs the same as I’m paying now, but gives me 300/300. Plenty fast for anything I need to do these days. Nice to know the capacity is there if I need more 🤷‍♂️

I mean, it kind of is a toy 😬

To each their own though 👍

See my comment below for advice on an SSD swap, it’s super easy

Yeah SSD swap is one of the easiest upgrades, with the most benefit. Plus if you get an external nvme enclosure and take some time to play with RescueZilla, you can clone your old drive to the new one and you won’t have to reinstall anything at all. Pretty slick!

Can confirm 🫠