I don't want snap, ever. It is really annoying to have to disable it on Ubuntu. I don't think it would be as bad if they didn't hijack apt to install what they think should be a snap.
Snaps are also built into Ubuntu in such a way that if you don't reenable it and try to upgrade releases you can seriously mess up your installation. Yet, while they take great pains to disable 3rd party repos and PPAs they won't even warn you that you have snapd blocked
The article mentions that it's "usually white horseradish, dyed green", and that the real thing "can cost more per pound than even the choice tuna it sits on."
Would be interesting to verifiably taste real wasabi. Who knows, maybe I've never actually even tasted the real thing?
They give you a root, and a grater. Tastes milder than what we get, here.
I have heard that it is impossible to domesticate (has to be harvested wild, on certain mountains). However, I watched a program, where a guy in Hawai'i said he'd figured out how to domesticate it.
It's a difficult plant to grow as it requires specific conditions. Though there are farms in the pacific northwest that have been able to cultivate it successfully.
Here is a decent paper that discusses the challenges[PDF]:
It's still very hard to grow with high failure rates, but you can definitely find plants for affordable prices -- a bit less than 10$, but then you need to manage to keep it alive for 3 years if you want to enjoy it propagate it.
There are a number of good YT videos on how to cultivate it, and some documentaries on professional plantations.
To have it the spiciest you should wait a good ten minutes or more, the spiciness is activated by the process:
"The chemical in wasabi that provides for its initial pungency is the volatile compound allyl isothiocyanate, which is produced by hydrolysis of allyl glucosinolate [...]; the hydrolysis reaction is catalyzed by myrosinase and occurs when the enzyme is released on cell rupture caused by grating" (adapted from wikipedia)
It is difficult to grow but there are multiple producers in the US, and I've occasionally seen it for sale in grocery stores. Some sushi places use it. It is more expensive than the green horseradish/mustard powder, but not prohibitively so.
You can taste the difference but in most contexts it is pretty substitutable with the fake wasabi, hence the ubiquity of the latter.
I'm curious as to why its not possible to grow locally given the growing number of startups growing food in cities in fully controlled environments? for ex: https://youtu.be/VxRNoSSkLkE?t=191
I’ve found real wasabi to actually be a bit milder than some of the horseradish imitators. I suppose I always assumed it’d be even stronger, but that hasn’t been the case in my experience.
If you don't see the sushi chef grinding a little green root fresh on a wasabi grinder and adding a little bit to your rice, it's safe to assume it's not Japanese wasabi.
If you have a Japanese food market near you they might have it. Some specialty grocers can carry it too. If you happen to be in the bay area iirc there's a Wasabi farm in half moon bay.
Even then, it's often not fresh. Real wasabi should be generally consumed within 30 minutes of being ground/grated, before it loses its flavor.
You can absolutely buy some wasabi powder that is made with up to 50% real wasabi on Amazon fairly cheaply, but what you're tasting is still going to be the horseradish. They're basically just selling you the discarded remains of wasabi that isn't actually any good anymore. Still safe to consume, but stale, essentially.
Why are people still using Google services? They take your money and disappear when you need any help. Only way to actually get support is to know someone who knows someone or get enough social media support to have an engineer see it.
I de-Googled a couple of years ago and haven't looked back.
Maybe in other sectors, but not on Cloud. I've been an involuntary GCP customer on two accounts that were mid single digits millions a year and one that is among GCPs larger customers. In all cases, Google was a nightmare to work with. Support is better when you're spending absurd amounts, but it's still an awful partnership, distinctly worse than their competitors.
Because their products are really really good compared to the competition.
I’ve tried to switch away from chrome, from search, from gmail, from calendar, from drive and from docs… and none of the alternatives work as well as the google ones. Even old stuff that got killed off - RIP wave, RIP reader.
Agreed. I don't understand how so many people are ok with trusting their whole digital lives to a platform with little, if any, access to real customer service by real human beings directly employed by Google. Or with essentially being Google's merchandise to be whored out to advertisers instead of being seen as customers.
It is getting hugged to death. It is a map with locations of retro computing/gaming points of interests. Think arcades, bars, shops. Really cool idea. Going to use this to find cool places to checkout in places I visit from now on.
I understand why municipalities want these facilities connected to the internet. However, I can't understand why it is allowed. We really need to take the security of our critical infrastructure seriously.
It feels like they waited a long time to post an advisory for an exploit that was being actively used by threat actors, more than a week after they pushed a fix to their repositories. Why not give customers a heads up prior? At least give your users a fighting chance.
> The patch for the vulnerability was pushed to Github on July 5. Another actor exploited the vulnerability for a full two weeks beginning on July 11 before the official patch became available on July 25.
What's the point of a responsible disclosure embargo policy when the enterprise software developer alerts threat actors of the precise vuln three full weeks before they even begin to patch their customers' systems?
I stopped used Google search two years ago. I switched to DDG and I have never felt the need to switch back. I just want search, I don't need my search engine to anticipate me. I want to type in a query and get results, maybe modify my query and try again. I really feel that Google search has lost its way and it is sad to see, but I guess money talks and search doesn't make them money.
Yeah, some years ago I still needed to use Google quite often since DDG didn't provide a way to restrict search to specific times, but a few years ago they added that functionality...
I agree with him. After having a car with CarPlay, I can't imagine going back to the user experience that car companies offer. I tried the standard Bluetooth experience in my car and it is abysmal. Nothing works right, who wants to go back to that?
