Speed Queen is great stuff. It will last just about forever. When it does break it is built so it can be repaired.
I only know of three places in my larger metropolitan area that care about how the espresso tastes. The rest are all just serving milk-based drinks.
It also helps to dial in the espresso machine which a lot of places never do or they have a machine that is fully automatic
Northern Exposure
The first full album I bought was on cassette tape. Pink Floyd dark side of the Moon
Lemmy is a lot like old old Reddit
I use power tank pens. They are pressurized ink tank pens, like the space pen, but disposable.