The msg "scare" was such bullshit. MSG is the fuckin bomb for making those quick meals taste great when you're in a rush. And good meals even better when you got time.

Big ass bottle of MSG in the drawer with the rest of the bulk spices. It is mandatory that my food is properly seasoned.

thanks I was gonna type all that out 👌

The issue I have with MSG is that if you put it in everything, it becomes your new norm. I would ideally like to minimize how much MSG I eat, and keep it feeling special.

Yeah if it was bad you wouldn’t see three East-Asian countries in the top 3 of life expectancy.

I make a "savory salt" that I just use in place of salt. It's not a miracle or anything, but it's definitely good.

By weight:

90% salt

7.5% MSG

2.5% I + G https://www.amazon.com/Sodium-Inosinate-Guanylate-350-gram/dp/B07ZQS2DL2

Calm down Dr. Frankenstein

You can fork them too 😏

I'm already available as an executable, a few known bugs but they won't accept pull requests for patches on oneself, something about eternal life or something.

I mean uhhhhhh beep boop.

OpenLlama. Alpaca.

Run a local friend model, today!

I... actually futzed around with this just to see if it would work, and... yeah, there actually are models that will run on a Steam Deck, with Bazzite.

EDIT: Got my angry spitting long necked quadrupeds mixed up.

Alpaca is a flatpak, literally could not be easier to set up a local LLM.

Well eating a shit load of fried "Chinese food" that happens to have msg makes me feel ill, so what else could it be?

If you like parmesan cheese, you like msg

Msg is naturally occurs in most protein rich foods. While extremely important for our bodies, our tongues actually don't detect protein directly, but the msg that occurs with it. That's why your brain goes "ooooo yummy!" but in a different way from salt.

Steps down from soap box

Anywho.

Nor is there anything wrong with MSG or prozac

He said fluoridation was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, fluoridation is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

Yeah, I think that one's just FUD, because fluoride is added to the water by the US government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_in_the_United_States

Krita.

Everyone screams at me when I say this, " Krita is for tablet artistry REEE!!! ", but Krita is basically PhotoShop from before Adobe went hardcore into 'everything is a subscription', roughly 10-15 years ago.

grumbles about macromedia suite and newgrounds and homestar runner and xiaoxiao stick fighter and fucking kids these days

Perhaps I'm pedestrian when it comes to image editing, but idk what it is that Gimp can't do that's regularly needed. Aside, of course, from AI features that draw for you.

[Cries in CAD]

You must mean magic se gathering

Revit, AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, Bluebeam, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign. Virtual machines are, unfortunately, not ideal professionally. Other solutions like Crossfire and Winboat are hit or miss, but mostly miss. My biggest hope for SteamOS isn't that games continue to improve, but that other large corpos will start to take Linux that much more seriously soon.

I'm pretty happy with FreeCad.

From what I remember, that boiled down to 'it is more important to consistently pump out lots of content instead of letting staff learn and use something new' which... I don't have a very good opinion of him but that's another oof.