@zundan Oh, I'd love to go there! I did go to the Sendai morning market though, and it had a lot of fish. Long story...
One day I wanted to ride my bike from Inawashiro, climb around mount Bandai and up to lakes Hibara and Akimoto. I love this area.
So I took the train from Omiya to Koriyama with my bike, but when I got off I was pushed by 4 very rude salarymen. I realized later my phone fell in the train at that time, with my bank card and driver license in a pocket in the back of the phone. I also no longer had a map because I was going to use my phone for that. I decided to keep going anyway (nothing I could do at the time), but I got lost in the mountains and ended up climbing up to Grandeco ski resort. 😆
At the end of the day I took the train back to Omiya and asked my wife to call JR for me (my Japanese is far from good enough for that). They said they found my phone and it was in Sendai, that they could mail it to me but it could take up to 4 weeks. I was supposed to fly back to the US 2 weeks after so I said I'd go to Sendai to pick it up. Plus, I had always wanted to go there.
So the next day, I took the direct Shinkansen to Sendai (1 hour and 5 minutes, it reminded me of back home in France), picked up my phone at the train station and walked out. My first stop was the morning market, it was early on a Sunday morning so there weren't a lot of people yet. Then I walked to Aoba castle where I was lucky to catch a group performing some folkloric dances. I ended my day at the history museum which had interesting Joumon Jidai artifacts (my favorite period of Japan history).
That was an unplanned but great day! Too bad I didn't know about the Yuriage market because I would definitely have gone there.
@zundan I doubt the compositor could cause Firefox to be unresponsive, but maybe? In any case, I find compositors so pointless that it's disabled by default in my own distro. https://lmd-linux.github.io/
@zundan We have a self-hosted GitLab service with an Ultimate license for a few hundred users. I'm the one who started it all a few years ago and stood up the 3 hosts we had (now down to one). I admined everything for a few years (and alone for the first one or so), as well as initiated all our CI and CD on it. We're still using all this but I'm no longer a GitLab admin. To sum it up I'll say this: we're starting our transition back to self-hosted GitHub. The main reason we left GitHub back in the day was that GitHub Actions didn't exist yet. These few years as a GitLab and CI/CD admin were pretty painful to say the least. It's brittle, shows a clear lack of QA, has dubious security practices, and is more focused on the superficial than on the fundamental. I understand it must not be easy but still... We had weekly meetings with their reps and have seen it all. Like one of them systematically skipping the meetings because it was his lunch hour, to reps changing every two months and us having to restart the relationship from scratch every time. Our setup is fairly sophisticated and they had to be explained all of it every time, which was very time consuming. Also, I don't remember ever getting any actual support from them when we needed it despite our Ultimate license. I often had to look at their source code (and I don't speak Ruby on Rails) to understand some issues we had. And boy did I find some gems in there, like hardcoded and inlined URLs. Worse, they wanted me to explain to them and basically hand them over the code (for free!) for how I had fixed major security and usability issues in their pipeline system. I had spent more than a year working on that on my company's dime, that wasn't happening. They could have at least given us a free license, that was no cost to them. Now we've told them we're moving back to GiHub, meaning they'll be losing on a few hundred thousand dollars from us, I'm hearing from the current admin that we're getting better support. Not enough, too late, I guess.
@zundan Sorry, I have to switch to English, this is too technical for my Japanese.
You first prepare a simple "persillade". Just chop garlic and parsley. You probably want to add salt, but I personally never use salt (it's just me though, don't worry). You may find more complicated recipes on the internet but just stick to the simple one above.
Then you fry eggplant slices (2-3mm thick from memory) exactly like you fry potatoes when you make fries. But never use olive oil, it's too fragile and breaks at frying temperature. I remember she would do it in a frying pan, laying batches of non-overlapping eggplant slices flat in the oil. I suppose air-fried is OK too. It's better if it's a little crunchy but not too much. Experiment and find what works best for you. You may want to set them aside on a paper towel to take some of the oil away.
Then you mix the persillade into the fried eggplant and you eat while it's still warm.