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That's cool, I'll give it a try, thanks :)

I've never used MSG, do you just add it during cooking, or do you have to do anything special to it? I've seen it compared to salt, but that's about it.

Ah, that's a shame. It would be really handy to be able to prepare a batch in advance. I'll just have to try small batches and see how much I use. Thanks for replying :)

How do they have to be stored like that? Instant mash is one of my go tos when I'm feeling particularly bad, but they don't exactly taste amazing on their own.

About 20 years ago, I lived in a shared house in the city. I worked nights, so if I left a download running when I went to bed, it would affect the others in the house. I saw a post online where someone was giving away a cable modem, and not knowing much about how they worked, I had an idea that I wanted to try.

The cable internet came into the house through a coax cable, rather than the phone line, and was split with a dumb splitter between the router and the TV. I used a spare splitter to run a cable to my room and plugged my modem in.

I tried it first on my day off so that I could check with my housemates if it caused any problems. It connected and everything worked with no issues, except that it only connected at about dial up speeds. We were going out for the night so I left it connected with some downloads running to see if it would stay connected. When we got home, the downloads that should have taken a few days were done. A speed test showed that I was getting around 35Mbps, when the fastest speed we could pay for was 4Mbps.

We later found out that apparently the street was sharing a connection (to the cabinet I think, it's been a while), and because my modem wasn't registered, it was just getting whatever was left over. At night, when everyone was in bed and their devices were off, it was going a lot faster. It didn't last long, only a few months, but we took advantage of it while we could :)

People: Oh how cool, I can monitor my chicken nuggets from my couch ~5m away.

This would genuinely be handy for me though. I've got a nine year old, and have similar aged kids over quite regularly. If I'm dealing with the kids, I can't always hear the air fryer finishing. A notification to the phone that's in my pocket would be really helpful.

As you say though, there's always shit tacked on :(

Look for the QxR group. Lots of their releases include special features, and often as a separate folder.

Isn't this the future you want? Not a car in sight, just trucks and trains frolicking freely, as nature intended 😉

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Two phew

I had a very similar system, but with an old R9 380, and upgraded to a 5700x and 64GB RAM. I picked up an RTX 3060 too. Now, I agree with your doubts - the upgrades didn't make much difference for day to day usage, and did feel like a waste sometimes. However, I like to take photos, and was using Photoshop with the AI features (before I realised how shit they are), and the upgrades made a huge difference.

My older games were mostly running smoothly with everything set on the highest graphics settings anyway, but now run perfectly even with half a dozen Firefox windows full of family tree research tabs open. I've played games while Firefox is using 32GB without issue. Minecraft can run at around 1,000 fps, which means that I can turn the settings up or have lots of mods installed.

I bought another motherboard and built the old parts into a computer for my kid, which is more powerful than my media server. The media server has about a dozen different Docker containers running things like the Arr suite, Immich, Navidrome, and a few others. I've got two small Minecraft servers and a magic mirror running on it too. I'm using these to learn more about Linux and networking, and generally improve my knowledge.

You'll enjoy the upgrades, and will have to do them eventually anyway, so you might as well enjoy them now 😁

I've tried a sling type camera bag on the bike, and it was a pain in the arse. It wasn't heavy enough to risk my balance, but it kept sliding around and trying to settle under my elbow. It was quite distracting and annoying. I don't bother with it now, and just put the whole lot in my rucksack instead.