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@literary The Bonavita is nice, but very expensive, and frankly the handle and spout (pouring control) are crap.

An easy, and much cheaper, alternative is to get a meat thermometer and a Hario kettle; enlarge one of the holes in the lid just a bit, and you can stick the needle in.
// @JeremyCherfas

@kdfrawg Hardly surprising, really; the quality of a great deal of articles suggests reporting from hearsay even for easily verifiable subjects…

// @streakmachine

@literary Between an automatic coffee maker and a large vessel + sieve, I'd take the latter. Makeshift French press, and you get to control the water temperature.

// @JeremyCherfas

@kdfrawg Precisely. And it's a Windows system. I haven't dealt with Windows since 2006. No rsync, no

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@kdfrawg He trusted my uncle — who lives in Canada — to set up a backup solution, and never thought to verify it for himself. Blind trust. Said uncle documented nothing.

@kdfrawg I couldn’t get the backup drive to mount to verify anything. I’m assuming the worst at this point…

@kdfrawg Geometrically perfect, beautifully(?) greased…

@matigo Happily, he can do the essential banking and all on his phone, which gives me until our Saturday dinner.

Doesn’t help just his iPad’s useless since his modem is on its last legs: it only works with direct Ethernet connection. Won’t cooperate with a router, wireless is borked.

@matigo Yes.

Now we have a few problems:

• Uncle helped him set up a 2TB backup solution, or so grandpa claims. But the 2TB in a dock won’t mount, and I can’t see any backup app. No documentation on the matter, even though said uncle lives in Vancouver…
• Grandpa has his accounting/tax info on there, as well as photos and recordings of his own flute performances.
• He doesn’t have any offsite backups.

So it looks like my best bet, assuming the worst, is to clone my Win 7 VM onto a new hard drive, then see what I can pull off the “backup drive” and the internal…

Never did like that uncle.

@matigo Ha!

BIOS SMART test failed, so that was an easy diagnosis.