If you can taste the salt, you've absolutely added way too much. Salt should be a flavor enhancer, not a flavor by itself. You've got the right amount of salt when all the other flavors seems to sort of meld together and the overall taste just tastes that bit more like itself than it did before.
Personally, I prefer soy sauce or fish sauce or similar salty ingredients over straight NaCl, whenever possible.
I think the most important thing to realize is that salt should be a flavor enhancer, not a flavor by itself. If you can taste the salt, you've added to much. Personally, I prefer to use good quality soy sauce or other salty-tasting ingredients, that aren't simply just NaCl.
It's the same thing with sugar. It's a flavor enhancer and should be used sparingly (and it works wonders in bolognese sauce), and I much prefer to use something like honey instead.
PC laptops are only crap if you insist on bargain-basement El-Cheapo models. Buy a Thinkpad, HP EliteBook or Dell business-class laptop, and you'll get much better hardware than the equivalent-priced Macbook, better serviceability and equal or better build quality.
Try Linux Mint. It's easy and fast to try out or install (the install medium is a LiveCD/LiveUSB or whatever you want to call it), it has a completely sensible UI and it gets out of your way.
I don't want my home life to be as arduous as my work life. I have precious enough time to myself without having to fight my computer.
This is why I put Linux Mint on my desktop and laptop, because it just works
It stays out of my hair, it doesn't automatically upgrade anything you don't want upgraded, it has a default UI that's pleasant to use, it has a nice selection of default applications. I use to be a hardcore Gentoo and Arch fanboy, but I have to say that the Mint "who cares about the bleeding edge?" approach is much more appealing to me now.
All I've done over the standard config is install some applications I prefer over the default ones, and added PPAs for a few specific applications where I need the latest version for various reasons.
I sit at a desk in front of a computer (running Windows) every day. When I get home, I want to just turn on my PC and do fun stuff. Linux Mint gets out of my way and let's me do things without bothering me.
I have a 2011 Thinkpad T420 that I use at home and on the road, and it works as well today as it did the day it was made (I bought it refurbed earlier this year). This thing has seen some shit, man...and every single component still works flawlessly.
Plus it's easier to service, easier to upgrade and much more comfortable to use.
Modern automatics are really fucking good. I'm not even talking about fancy double-clutch gearboxes, I'm talking about good old torque converter "slushboxes". You really should try driving a car with a ZF 8-speed automatic. It's amazingly good.
Thinkpad-branded Lenovo laptops are still awesome, well built and easy to service. I'm using a ~6yo T420 that I bought refurbed. Solid as all hell and everything is easily replaceable and upgradeable using nothing but a standard screwdriver. "Good-looking" is subjective, it is a big ol' slab of black, after all.
My previous Thinkpad (I flirted with a Chromebook for a couple of years) was a T42, which I loved dearly. It still worked perfectly when I sold it, but the poor little Pentium-M and 1.5GB RAM just couldn't keep up anymore:-(
My Thinkpad T420 is ~6 years old and still works exactly like new. It runs Windows 10 and Linux Mint 18.1 just fine, it still gets 5-6 hours of battery life, and it cost much much less than a Macbook of equivalent age when I bought it refurbed.
Plus you know, Thinkpads are made to be used hard and easily serviced, parts are inexpensive and plentiful, I can upgrade the HDD, RAM and pretty much every other piece of hardware, it'll accept a total of three drives internally at the same time (normal HDD bay, ultrabay HDD caddy and PCI-E SSD), and of course the keyboard just completely humiliates Apple's silly chiclet keyboards. Even the newer Thinkpad chiclet keyboards are so superior, it's not even a fair comparison.
And of course the T420 will comfortably crack a grown man's skull, with little to no visible damage to itself.
I tend to cover or erase excessively prominent brand logos.
One of us! One of us!
This is why I really appreciate the design of my Moto X Play. The only visible logo is a shiny gray on gray ~10mm Motorola 'M' on the rear of the phone. It's just a discreet black phone, unlike my Galaxy S5 work phone, which says "SAMSUNG" in shiny prominent letters both front and back.
No one is saying you have to ditch all your favorite obscure CDs, just because you subscribe to a streaming service.
I use Spotify, but I still have around 1800 MP3's of various content that isn't available on any streaming service, but I still listen to. I've uploaded those tracks to Google Play Music, so I can even stream those wherever I am.
* Compared to the 90's when I used to buy a ton of CD's my music purchases for the past 5 years has slowly dwindling. iTunes seems to fit the bit of convenience for the odd purchase I make these days.
Since subscribing to Spotify Premium, my music listening time has increased greatly. I have millions of albums available instantly, I get automatically generated personal playlists based on my listening habits and which tracks I mark for "my music" (ie. my favorite tracks ever). Currently, there are four daily mixes for me, based on different genres, it's like having personalized radio stations with no ads.
I haven't listened to this much music in years, and it's great:-)
My main objections are lossy encoding (MP3 or similar)
You will not be able to hear any difference between CD-quality and a 320kbps MP3 or Ogg Vorbis stream of the same master of the same track. It's a complete non-issue.
Well, I don't know what music you're finding, but I'm continually getting awesome recommendations from Spotify's daily mixes and weekly discover playlists. Sure an uninteresting tracks slips through once in a while, but I don't mind. It's easy to skip to the next awesome new track.
I probably worded my request a little too glibly. I'm not from the US, and I generally don't follow US news, so I had not heard about that little twist.
Glad to see most people just provided sources, without being assholes about it.
You should definitely re-evaluate your understanding of politics.
Anarchists are generally left-wing (except anarcho-capitalists, maybe), communism specifically requires the complete withering of the state, there have been plenty of authoritorian right-wing regimes.
It's not a left/right one-dimensional axis. It isn't even two-dimensional, it has a hell of a lot of dimensions.
Personally, I lean towards libertarian socialism. Think on that for a while, it's a real thing.
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Try eating winter food in summer for a week, see how sick you feel after a week.
I eat the same foods all year round, and I feel great.
That includes hearty stews in the middle of summer, light salads in winter, and everything inbetween.
Stop spreading nonsense.
Citations are definitely needed here.
Do you have any actual proof at all that whole grains are not healthier than processed grains?
If you can taste the salt, you've absolutely added way too much. Salt should be a flavor enhancer, not a flavor by itself. You've got the right amount of salt when all the other flavors seems to sort of meld together and the overall taste just tastes that bit more like itself than it did before.
Personally, I prefer soy sauce or fish sauce or similar salty ingredients over straight NaCl, whenever possible.
I think the most important thing to realize is that salt should be a flavor enhancer, not a flavor by itself. If you can taste the salt, you've added to much. Personally, I prefer to use good quality soy sauce or other salty-tasting ingredients, that aren't simply just NaCl.
It's the same thing with sugar. It's a flavor enhancer and should be used sparingly (and it works wonders in bolognese sauce), and I much prefer to use something like honey instead.
No no no, it's beans, bacon, whisky and lard!
PC laptops are only crap if you insist on bargain-basement El-Cheapo models. Buy a Thinkpad, HP EliteBook or Dell business-class laptop, and you'll get much better hardware than the equivalent-priced Macbook, better serviceability and equal or better build quality.
Try Linux Mint. It's easy and fast to try out or install (the install medium is a LiveCD/LiveUSB or whatever you want to call it), it has a completely sensible UI and it gets out of your way.
I don't want my home life to be as arduous as my work life. I have precious enough time to myself without having to fight my computer.
This is why I put Linux Mint on my desktop and laptop, because it just works
It stays out of my hair, it doesn't automatically upgrade anything you don't want upgraded, it has a default UI that's pleasant to use, it has a nice selection of default applications. I use to be a hardcore Gentoo and Arch fanboy, but I have to say that the Mint "who cares about the bleeding edge?" approach is much more appealing to me now.
All I've done over the standard config is install some applications I prefer over the default ones, and added PPAs for a few specific applications where I need the latest version for various reasons.
I sit at a desk in front of a computer (running Windows) every day. When I get home, I want to just turn on my PC and do fun stuff. Linux Mint gets out of my way and let's me do things without bothering me.
I have a 2011 Thinkpad T420 that I use at home and on the road, and it works as well today as it did the day it was made (I bought it refurbed earlier this year). This thing has seen some shit, man...and every single component still works flawlessly.
Plus it's easier to service, easier to upgrade and much more comfortable to use.
Modern automatics are really fucking good. I'm not even talking about fancy double-clutch gearboxes, I'm talking about good old torque converter "slushboxes". You really should try driving a car with a ZF 8-speed automatic. It's amazingly good.
Thinkpad-branded Lenovo laptops are still awesome, well built and easy to service. I'm using a ~6yo T420 that I bought refurbed. Solid as all hell and everything is easily replaceable and upgradeable using nothing but a standard screwdriver. "Good-looking" is subjective, it is a big ol' slab of black, after all.
My previous Thinkpad (I flirted with a Chromebook for a couple of years) was a T42, which I loved dearly. It still worked perfectly when I sold it, but the poor little Pentium-M and 1.5GB RAM just couldn't keep up anymore :-(
I'm still on a 3.2GHz 6-core AMD Phenom II, with 16GB RAM, and the weak part of my system is probably the Geforce 460GTX, not the CPU.
My Thinkpad T420 is ~6 years old and still works exactly like new. It runs Windows 10 and Linux Mint 18.1 just fine, it still gets 5-6 hours of battery life, and it cost much much less than a Macbook of equivalent age when I bought it refurbed.
Plus you know, Thinkpads are made to be used hard and easily serviced, parts are inexpensive and plentiful, I can upgrade the HDD, RAM and pretty much every other piece of hardware, it'll accept a total of three drives internally at the same time (normal HDD bay, ultrabay HDD caddy and PCI-E SSD), and of course the keyboard just completely humiliates Apple's silly chiclet keyboards. Even the newer Thinkpad chiclet keyboards are so superior, it's not even a fair comparison.
And of course the T420 will comfortably crack a grown man's skull, with little to no visible damage to itself.
Fuck 'em. They chose it, they'll have to deal with the consequences.
I tend to cover or erase excessively prominent brand logos.
One of us! One of us!
This is why I really appreciate the design of my Moto X Play. The only visible logo is a shiny gray on gray ~10mm Motorola 'M' on the rear of the phone. It's just a discreet black phone, unlike my Galaxy S5 work phone, which says "SAMSUNG" in shiny prominent letters both front and back.
Some bands have successfully kickstarted albums, but it requires you to already have a fanbase.
No one is saying you have to ditch all your favorite obscure CDs, just because you subscribe to a streaming service.
I use Spotify, but I still have around 1800 MP3's of various content that isn't available on any streaming service, but I still listen to. I've uploaded those tracks to Google Play Music, so I can even stream those wherever I am.
* Compared to the 90's when I used to buy a ton of CD's my music purchases for the past 5 years has slowly dwindling. iTunes seems to fit the bit of convenience for the odd purchase I make these days.
Since subscribing to Spotify Premium, my music listening time has increased greatly. I have millions of albums available instantly, I get automatically generated personal playlists based on my listening habits and which tracks I mark for "my music" (ie. my favorite tracks ever). Currently, there are four daily mixes for me, based on different genres, it's like having personalized radio stations with no ads.
I haven't listened to this much music in years, and it's great :-)
My main objections are lossy encoding (MP3 or similar)
You will not be able to hear any difference between CD-quality and a 320kbps MP3 or Ogg Vorbis stream of the same master of the same track. It's a complete non-issue.
Well, I don't know what music you're finding, but I'm continually getting awesome recommendations from Spotify's daily mixes and weekly discover playlists. Sure an uninteresting tracks slips through once in a while, but I don't mind. It's easy to skip to the next awesome new track.
If you have Spotify, it's actually really good at creating automatic playlists for you, with music that you'll probably like.
I have 4 daily mixes being generated every day, with about 50/50 music I already like, and new music that is usually really damn good.
YMMV, I mostly listen to metal and prog rock. It may be different for other genres.
I probably worded my request a little too glibly. I'm not from the US, and I generally don't follow US news, so I had not heard about that little twist.
Glad to see most people just provided sources, without being assholes about it.
Yeah, we're gonna need a citation on that.
You should definitely re-evaluate your understanding of politics.
Anarchists are generally left-wing (except anarcho-capitalists, maybe), communism specifically requires the complete withering of the state, there have been plenty of authoritorian right-wing regimes.
It's not a left/right one-dimensional axis. It isn't even two-dimensional, it has a hell of a lot of dimensions.
Personally, I lean towards libertarian socialism. Think on that for a while, it's a real thing.
The modern island-style Lenovo keyboards are amazing, at least the ones they use on Thinkpads. Dunno about the budget models.
T420 at home, T440 at work. The T440 is wildly superior.