Maybe I’ve ground too fine then. I thought crema was an indicator of good pressure!

I have a manual grinder and an electric one.

Both claim to be burr grinders, but who knows!

The manual one was from aliexpress…

Thanks for the detailed response.

I actually have a aeropress which is much less fussy than the dedica. I could just use that, but the machine was a gift from my partner.

Thanks.

And yep, I descale it every time it asks me to.

Thanks!

Where is the new community please?

Bourbon, custard cream, ginger nut, digestive, rich tea, nice, garibaldi, malted milk, jammie dodgers, hobnobs, oaties, party rings…

To name but a few.

“Hot tea”

Where the fuck is a biscuit in that atrocity?

Simply take cover in that air raid shelter you don’t have.

It can’t be worse than tex!

Yeugh. This makes me feel sick.

Rivet. Drill. Enjoy :)

I bet you’ve already read some Iain M Banks? If not, that’s an obvious choice.

I’m not sure if I read a lot of hard sci fi, but I’ve read some maybe semi-hard good stuff over the years.

Tried Gregg Bear’s Eon series?

Juice by Tim Winton was good.

I loved Gateway by Pohl, but don’t bother with the sequels.

Roadside Picnic by the Russian brothers? Super weird and intriguing.

J. G. Ballard? Alfred Bester? China Meiville?

This is all pretty mainstream stuff, I bet you’ve read it all.

About half way through Revelation Space by Reynolds.

Enjoying it so far.

I see. Thanks.

Has anyone tried any of the wacky e-ink readers on aliexpress?

I doubt they’d connect to the amazon ecosystem, but might be ok offline devices.

My partner has a newer one and it can only work offline. I can’t get it to even connect to WiFi any more.

What are we looking at? The gutter?

Fantastic. Sounds good!

And thanks whoever randomly downvoted, lol.