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My first two roasts
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My first two roasts

These are my first roasts, it's a soft peaberry from Brazil. I was aiming for a light medium roast on my gene cafe cbr101.

The left was the first one, with a more steady rate of rise but I roasted it for 13m30s and it ended up quite dark.

The one on the right was 12m , it looks more uneven and possibly underdeveloped. I messed up the ror for this one and stalled at around 6-7 minutes , after initially jumping up about 16C from minute 4 to 5. All good learning though and I'll aim for a ror of 5C per minute in my next roast from 4 to 9 minutes.

Just as general look, I charged to 200, dropped the beans in, brought it down to 180 for a few minutes, went to a max temp of 235 up to first crack then finished at 225C.

Would love your tips on trying to get a more even roast on this peaberry.

u/coffeerambler — 4 days ago
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My June/July coffee fun time

My first taste of US roasters (and a couple from Taiwan).

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I went to Alishan in Taiwan in 2018, and needed a coffee to help with the jet lag. I didn't expect much at all, buying a batch brew at a stand at the entrance of a tourist site. But it took me completely by surprise, it was an amazing balanced cup of blueberry for less than a £ and grown on Alishan.

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Alas, no more. I haven't found anything like it since. This particular Taiwanese bean hasn't been great, it cost me £25 for 100g and it tastes like cucumber - it's very green. The Ethiopian Wuri they roasted is very good though. I'm yet to try the US roasters. Fingers crossed it's all delightful.

u/coffeerambler — 19 days ago
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Edit: Don't mind the title, not sure how pitiful got in there!

Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase. Please do not use USD unless purchasing in the US:

£2199

Are you open to refurbs/used?

Yes

How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life?

Performance, minimum 16gb ram, battery 8-12 hours

How important is weight and thinness to you?

no more than 2kg

Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A.

14 inch

Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run.

I'll be doing CAD and using LLM lovely, hopefully higher B

If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want?

Not a gamer, want it for long coding sessions

Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)?

Good security, so many bio passkey

Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion.

I've been looking at Asus Rog flow, MacBook pro and Acer aspire. I want to install 24-32b LLM locally.

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u/coffeerambler — 2 months ago
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Hi all, looking for advice. I'm thinking about getting a new laptop so I can run some LLM tasks locally and for free. I currently use a fairly old laptop with only 8gb RAM, but stick to cloud options. My laptop still struggles with this.

The options I was thinking about:

-asus Rog flow z13 with 64gb (£1700)

-acer aspire 14 16gb (around £750)

-macbook pro 24gb (£2199)

-framework higher spec (~£2000)

Wildly different prices but it really comes down to what I realistically can achieve with each. I'm leaning towards the Rog for longevity, it'll handle bigger models and be somewhat future proofed as open source models improve.

Another thing in thinking, will it be any good? My current usage is for building SaaS apps, and I know the subscription cloud models are superior. I don't want to spend all that money to then keep subscribing. If that is the case, that's why I'd get the 16gb Acer aspire.

Would be good to know what you people think. Thanks

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u/coffeerambler — 2 months ago