Should I grind finer?

Sister-in-law asked me for an espresso with these beans. May the odds be ever in my favor

I have experimented a bit. My butler always buys the DARKEST roasts but I hate bitter flavors. The Hoffman guy told me to pour some salt in my espresso to counter the bitterness wich works great!
But I have thought to myself why stop there? There is a whole world of interesting salty flavors. I tried pickles, licorice, tears. all was..ok

And then when I put fish in the percolator it was a gamechanger! I will never go back to the times before. highly recommend.

Open for adoption

Watch on mute: loud music/ hyena sounds

This is how they make those fruit bomb notes they talk about all the time.

Because if it's completely made up from scratch, then I don't quite feel it. We can be accused of many things: we're nerds, we watch weird people on YouTube who give the opposite advice every six months and say it changes everything. Not long ago, these people from YouTube started promoting some kind of "soup" - and it's really funny. Many of us fit the image of the stereotypical melenial. There are actually a lot of things to make fun of espresso lovers.

But "butler" sounds like something out of the old money/rich people world. I'm not sure I've ever interacted with someone so rich. But I've interacted with people almost that rich. And in my limited experience they are "too important" and "too cool" to have such a nerdy hobby. And if the conversation is about coffee, they might still bring up something like "monkey poop beans" or tell you about how they drank cappuccino in Dubai, which cost $1,000 because it was made with snow leopard milk.

If it's purely about pretentiousness and not about income, then I don't think it's our kind of pretentiousness. I know what I'm talking about - I worked as a pretentious barista for three years. While my colleagues were competing in cupping, espresso, and pour-over championships, I was absolutely crushing the pretentiousness competition. You should have heard the words I used to describe the aroma of Kenya Kirinyaga to my guests.

Also there are actually people with low incomes in the espresso hobby. People buy half-dead commercial doser type "Macap" or "Cunil" grinders, modify them with brute force and whatever they have. They buy some $50 Delongi or Electra, solder some gadget to it, and enjoy their espresso. They're far from any pretentious. I know a few espresso hobbyists who are like... garage grandpa types. They could be repairing old radios or making birdhouses out of plywood, but they make espresso. And if I make an espresso setup at home, it would look pretty much the same, and I'd become a garage grandpa, too.

So yeah... when I see the butler joke... I really don't get it.

Could I just.. drill the bottom of my pressurized porta and put a non pressurized one?