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skinnylatte, 10 months ago to random

I grew up in a family of cooks, including an uncle who ran a popular restaurant for taxi drivers. The height of his flame that he used to cook every dish was, let’s just say, usually taller than his head.

Most western kitchens including restaurants simply don’t have the raw power to do that type of wok hei. Therefore I find that most Chinese food in the US feels ‘weird’. No breath of the wok, no real fried rice. At home I pump up my stove, and a blow torch on top. Close, but not the same.

skinnylatte, 10 months ago to magASEAN

I love Northeastern Thai (Isaan) and Lao food, and one of the ways you can make everything taste like it’s from there is to use some combination of toasted sticky rice powder with fish sauce, sugar, limes, bird eye red chillies.

Toast sticky (glutinous white) rice without oil in a pan for about 10 min. Grind finely in a mortar and pestle.

You can even add it on steak and fish, preferably with some of the things above

#TootSea #Cooking #Recipe

llamasoft_ox, 10 months ago to random

I am on the little train 🚂

vowe, 10 months ago to random

Instagram Threads vs Mastodon. Looks like an easy choice.

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DigitalStefan, 10 months ago to random

Did your parent / guardian teach you to read and write before you went to school? My first experience of school was age 4. I remember my school holding me back from reading the higher grade books, which probably planted the first seed of my anti-authoritarian attitude.

ifixcoinops, 10 months ago to random

Thing I wish I could've said to my 90's self: Electric razors, They're Shite™

Electric razor companies: check out our new triple floating shaver heads! It follows the contours of your face! Watch the end of this advert, where the conventionally-attractive lady runs her fingers over the shirtless dehydrated steroid man's face, she's not recoiling or grimacing or rubbing her sandpapered-raw fingertips or owt! Electric razors are good now!

Me in the 2000s: are they good now aye, alright let's give it a go, maybe I just bought a crap one, let's spend some money and get a proper one this time, for sixty quid it'd better be good, ah yeah it's shite

Me in the 2010s: I wonder if they've gotten any better, it's been a decade, they can't still be shite... hmm, yeah, still shite

Electric Razor People: ah they're not that bad once your face gets used to them, the new ones are WAY better than they used to be
Electric Razor People after you hand them any bog-standard 3-blade razor from the pound shop: Hm, aye, fair enough, electric razors are shite aren't they

Me just now: I've never used the actual-shaving attachment of my sideburn trimmers, I wonder if they've gotten any better in the thirty-odd years I've been occasionally trying them, let's give this one a quick go, yup it's shite

I know this post is unlikely to reach any young lads who're still figuring out the shaving thing, but for the fresh new trans blokes who might see it, electric razors are one of those inventions that people keep saying are Way Better These Days, and twenty years from now someone will tell you "Ah, you should give the new ones a try, they're WAY better than those old ones you used to get," and when they tell you that just give them a second, let the pause extend outwards until they go "once your face gets used to them like"

"Once my face gets used to it"
Once it's thickened up a bit yeah, get that thick face
Once you've accepted your new standard of living, having-a-face-wise
Once you're not so soft, once you've got a good Tough Face that can Take It
Once your face starts making a noise like a skeleton sliding the lid off his stone tomb whenever you yawn aye

Supposed to have your calluses on your hands not your cheeks pal

tanepiper, 11 months ago to random

I got a #GBNews video suggested from Google via an RSS feed for Google News.

I watched 2 minutes. It was 2 minutes of hate. That anyone watches this stuff and has views reinforced, they must be fucking idiots.

skinnylatte, 11 months ago to cycling

Also in local bike theft news today: wtf wtf wtf

#BikeTooter

Fizzychicken, 11 months ago to random

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martin_piper, 11 months ago to random

My #Commodore64 games memories. This is where I look at old games and some of the technical details behind them. This is "Harrier Attack":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88NycFSVnCU

Fizzychicken, 11 months ago to random

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rc2014, 11 months ago to random

Soooooon...

A rear view of an RC2014 Pro Pride looking fabulous in it's rainbow of different coloured modules
Front view of RC2014 Pro Pride showing the rainbow of coloured PCBs, coloured LEDs and coloured switches.
Closeup shot of 6 boards in the RC2014 Zed Pro Pride where you can see the purple, blue, green, yellow, orange and red boards

llamasoft_ox, 1 year ago to random

Fuck me Tim Langdell back on his bullshit again?

Hey Tim, if you want to make money out of games then go ahead and actually release some fucking games instead of endlessly trying to get money for nothing by pissing about with bullshit legal nonsense. As an industry vet you should be setting a good example to people in the biz but instead you're just being a colossal cunt again and everybody hates you.

Go back to being a space vicar or whatever the hell it was and piss off out of our domain.

ifixcoinops, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to random

A fediverse feature that'd be way better than pinned toots: go to my profile and find a sidebar with a hierarchical menu of plain ol' HTML pages that are stored on my home instance, this is where I put the actually Good Stuff.

Easy Little Federated Websites, call it, ELFWS, think of Legolas surfing, easy to remember.

Add a button on every toot that takes you to that user's web pages. Label it "Good Stuff" so we can acknowledge that most of what I post and boost is shite

ifixcoinops, 1 year ago to random

Doing local politics with the table saw

Local mum's group got some endorsements for school board they want folk to know about, they needed flyers printed out 2 to a page. LOTS of them. TONIGHT!

My paper cutter can do maybe 4 sheets at a time, that's gonna take forever.

Obviously we can't cut just one sheet of paper on a table saw, it'd mangle and obliterate it.

RetroWizzard, 1 year ago to random German

The #Mega65 is probably the closest anyone can get to owning a #commodore #C65.
The original C65 prototype never had a badge, but imo this grey badge is probably the most timeline-correct.
@martin_piper correct me if I'm wrong.😉
I'm glad retrobadgeman.com made these.
#retrogaming #retrocomputing #C64

The Mega65 retrocomputer with a commodore 65 badge.
Close-up view of the commodore 65 badge.

LionelB, 1 year ago to random

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Fizzychicken, 1 year ago to random

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rc2014, 1 year ago to random

Breaking News: my DHL driver hates me

Possibly Related News: over 30KG of PCBs and 6KG of ICs have just been delivered.

ifixcoinops, 1 year ago to random

Helped a mate out with some yardwork today, went inside for lunch, hey how long have you had that grandfather clock, oh yeah that hasn't worked in ages...

Made bedroom eyes at that damn thing all afternoon, finally turned to my mate and said CAN I HAVE A GO ON YER CLOCK and my god, working on clocks is So So Nice

TheByteAttic, 1 year ago to random

Absolutely fascinating. The hand-assembly of core memory is the apex of patience and attention, but the hand-assembly of the backplane is nothing short of mind-boggling! PS: You don't need subtitles.
https://youtu.be/aDvtmjWQrzM

DigitalStefan, 1 year ago to random

The oven cleaning man is here. Arrived nicely on time. Desperately firm handshake... but OK.

He's talking to himself infrequently, which I guess I shouldn't judge... we all have our oddities.

Industrious sounds of cleaning are happening. We are 90 minutes into the process. I didn't ask how long it might take. Not worried about that, but I hope he's being paid enough for his efforts.