Our stovetop is having issues and I’d had a similar thought, so I’m hanging out to hear people’s reckons on this too!

I think this is what I came here to say, too! Bags of MSG are soooo cheap, I have a tiny jar of it next to my oven and it’s so satisfying and so much fun to taste what you’re cooking before and after adding a sprinkle of MSG. Amazing difference!

I’ve learnt to add umami in lots of other ways, but for some recipes, msg really is a good hit.

Butterflied roast chicken was the single recipe from Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat that really nailed home so many of the lessons for me - especially about seasoning your meat overnight! Amazing what a difference it makes - one of my fave easy cooks now!

I’ve been using it for the last week and really enjoy it - I’m on an m1 air and asahi is so much snappier than macOS, which is saying something because it still sings!

There’s a few key hardware features still missing - mic, speaker, and the thunderbolt port (so hdmi and external displays) that are preventing me from driving it fully because I do a lot of presentations at work, but it’s quick enough to boot into mac when I need to.

Occasionally there’s something that doesn’t want to run on arm architecture, but there’s usually an alternative - and it sounds like 4k paging is close.

Give it a shot! I’m invested cos I wanna hear more people’s take on it 😅

Oh, thank you! I’m glad you found it useful - I did too.

Oh, thank you! I’m glad you found it useful - I did too.

This is incredible - I love this style! Really thought it was a photo at first. It’s got such a nice depth to it - nice work!

Congrats! This must be so exciting - I’m excited for you! Housing in NZ is wild at the moment and I’m thinking so much about our living situation and where we might be headed - I’m so keen to get away from the instability of renting, but also to travel, and our housing market is totally inaccessible, so I’ll be watching along with interest!

I loooove making lasagna and thought mine was good, but I’m so excited to try this bolognese sauce recipe! I use Samin Nosrat’s pomarolla sauce which is pretty great, too.

Same - had exactly this problem. I’m not exactly sure if I found a real fix in the end, it just eventually inexplicably started working. Think I tried changing ram slots and having to change some options in the bios - might be worth trying there as a start!

Saving this post to remind myself later once I’ve written up my list for the week! It’s winter here, so might be a coq au vin or bourguinon on the cards!

Edit: okay here I am! On the list this week is a sesame beef stir fry, a loganisa breakfast sandwich, pork tacos, and pizzas. This Friday is the public holiday for Matariki in Aotearoa, a celebration of the Māori new year and a time to reflect. On Friday I’m making a big pot of boil up to celebrate!

It’s so interesting seeing the discourse on fedi about threads and meta - like I absolutely think it’s the right call for so many instances to not federate with meta because they for sure will be scraping user data and it will be a moderation nightmare, but this article raises a really valid point. Federation is almost a harm reduction approach for so many users who aren’t so privacy aware and are keen to be connected to their friends and family on threads.

I’m not a fan of the fedi superiority complex we so often see - people who use meta products aren’t a monolith, they’re people just like us, and a huge majority of them simply aren’t aware of the privacy implications of meta’s approach, or it’s not a huge priority for them.

A lil while ago I was making some sweet soy eggplant, something I’ve made heaps of times, and somehow wasn’t thinking and totally flipped the proportions of the soy sauce and the honey. So salty it was pretty much inedible - my partner very graciously still ate it with a copious amount of kewpie.

I think it’s still unknown? This article talks about how even the definition and symptoms of long covid are still being debated!

A few years ago I was playing a gig in an adjoining town and after, everyone (we’d all had more than a few) piled into a car to drive back home. I just assumed the driver was all good - it wasn’t until a few hours later I realised he was pissed out of his mind and had a moment of “oh thank god we made it home”

Not a teen, but when I would have been 10 or so we lived out in the country, with a big eucalyptus tree in the back yard. I used to climb it a lot, and was real into building things like platforms and little (shoddy) tree houses. We also had a great trampoline, which I often used to get down out of the tree.

You might be able to see where this is going.

One day, I was up in the tree building a little ladder with the trampoline below me. I went to get down, dropped my hammer to the trampoline, and immediately followed it.

Time slowed, i witnessed it all happening in slow motion as I was thought “oh fuck, that was dumb” as the hammer hit the trampoline, i landed, and the hammer flew in a perfect arc and hit me in the forehead with the head of the hammer.

I stood there, stunned still for a second, and then immediately went “oh god, that could have been so much worse”. Thankfully I was completely fine!

Not sure if this person is in the same place but Aotearoa NZ recently extended copyright from 50 to 70 years after death due to a UK trade deal, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the UK have pushed it. We’ve recently fast-tracked the change due to an EU trade deal, though, so it’s not the UK alone.

Both - $12.90nzd/yr or $41.90 outright

That’s the one! We’ve got at least two libraries with fully fitted maker spaces, it’s so neat.

I lived in Tāmaki for 10 years or so and there’s a few things I miss (the food!) but Ōtautahi is so affordable, so well situated, and SO flat for cycling!

Absolutely - I was so worried about finishing Ted Lasso purely because of how good it was and how much I enjoyed it, and I really didn’t want it to end.

I’ve felt the same way about other shows in the past, but Ted Lasso i think is unique in that I really feel it ended perfectly, and even in the leadup to the finale the way the writers handled things made me feel so confident that it would end well, so in the end I started the finale comfortable and happy.