Just made some rather nice passionfruit mousse. Very similar to this recipe, but with white chocolate instead of dark, and most of a packet of powdered passionfruit added in.
I love pottering about in the kitchen with music going.
That sounds amazing. I didn't know powdered passionfruit was even a thing, would it be good in smoothies, do you think? I'm still on my half-assed calorie counting thing so I don't know that I'll be having any mousse any time soon.
Yeah, it would be great in smoothies - I get the Fresh As stuff (usually the passionfruit or raspberry ones). I normally add some to plain yoghurt with my breakfast.
I'm pretty sure I've made that recipe before (the chocolate one). I'm not a passionfruit fan but it sounds like a nice combination for people who like passionfruit.
Whenever I get stressed I start changing things: in the last week or so I've swapped Win11 for linux, then decided I miss my software so of course Mac is the next sensible(?) alternative, so I've been obsessively reading up on making the switch from win/android and have all the pricing memorised. I'm exhausted, lol.
Has anyone made the switch to apple and developed Opinions?
I use all three, although primarily run Linux and macOS.
I think Apple's hardware offerings have really beaten the competition with their new M-series chips just outperforming everyone else with significantly less energy. You also get the advantage of macOS being a UNIX system, so if you're familiar with Linux, the same principles apply.
I switched from running Linux on my Surface Pro 3, then Linux on a Dell XPS 15, to a 14" MacBook Pro with the 10-core M1 Pro. I still use Linux on my desktop and love it, but macOS is very similar to Linux and apple's portable hardware beats everyone else by about 3 years or more imo. There are definitely some apple universe quirks but I wouldn't consider anyone else for a laptop for another few generations of competitors attempting to catch up with where apple was in 2021.
Mostly I'm off the idea of AI being bolted onto windows, and I'm going through an anti-google phase so I'm liking the privacy side of Apple/Mac, and I like the tight integration between phone and macbook.
What was it about ios that was too limiting? I like tweaking my stuff with different themes and whatnot but I'm guessing I can't do that on mac? I looked up a few bits of software that I'd be interested in using and it all looks to be subscription-based, is that the case for most apps developed for mac?
I use Windows, Linux (CLI only) & MacOS. My gaming PC & work laptop are both Windows. Most of my work day is spent with an active terminal session to a linux cli somewhere; and any personal work I do is on my M1 Macbook Air.
The latter is by the far the best laptop i've ever used, with its unix underpinnings and homebrew its also got pretty much every linuxy thing I need and apart from gaming (which is apparently getting better all the time) app wise its also got all that I need too.
But then, mostly on that i'm in a web browser or a terminal as well so your mileage may vary.
Hardware wise because i'm not doing any heavy rendering or compiling etc the M1 chip has all the power i've needed in it; and it just sips battery. I don't use it heaps, but charge it maybe every couple of weeks; and it just doesn't really get hot either which is nice as I tend to use it in times where I won't have a desk etc; ie as an actual laptop.