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The only reason to eat a starch is to transfer something else to your mouth. Really, does anyone eat a starch plain? And if so, why, oh why would you?
* mashed potatoes => gravy
* bread => butter and/or jam/jelly
* pancakes => butter and/or syrup and/or fruit topping
* baked potato => sour cream or loaded
* sweet potato => sour cream or sugar (candied yams) [and yes, I know yams and sweet potatoes are 2 different plants]
* taco/burrito => all the fillings
* rice => butter, chili, or whatever else you put in it.
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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It sounds to me like you rarely if ever taste really high quality bread, still warm from the baking oven, baked with wheat and rye and tasty seeds. When I bake my bread, I usually enjoy a couple slices of it bare, with no other taste added, while it is still warm. Even after cooling down, it is so tasty that I can cut myself a slice and enjoy all by itself, even if baked the day before, or two days ago (but it is at its very best when still warm from the oven).
The modern style dried (sometimes unleavened) bread ("knekkebrød" - you may know the Swedish 'Wasa' brand) is to use lots of seeds, giving it an excellent taste. Even the whole meal rye flour alone gives fine taste to bread.
Baked potatoes also have a very distinct potato taste, that I love. I may add some sour cream, but certainly not always, and never so much that it overshadows the potato taste.
Taco: I'd agree with you for what I call 'false taco shells', baked on wheat flour. Real taco, made from maize, is an essential taste element in a filled taco.
Rice - there are so many different ... What we use for rice porridge (the short, almost spherical grains) have a distinctly different taste from the long grain rice we use for, say, chili con carne or similar dishes. You would never switch them around, which shows that the taste of (that specific kind of) the rice is essential to the meal.
The first potatoes in late summer are excellent and tasty all by themselves, after boiling. Eat the skin as well - lots of taste, and lots of valuable nutrition in the skin. Adding a little salt is OK, but the true potato taste is the essential thing. I frequently eat meals where boiled rice comes as a side dish, maybe in a separate bowl: I certainly enjoy the taste of quality rice, prepared properly.
Have you never had such culinary experiences? Grains, potatoes, breads of various kinds can be great, tasty food all by themselves.
I have far more negative reactions to some of the industrial foods. Take chicken: It has a taste of nothing! It is nothing but a substrate onto which you can add spices of various kinds. Give me a two year old, egg laying hen - that will tell you what poultry is supposed to taste like! But they are not sold in the supermarket 
Now that I mention egg: I suspect that egg-laying hens of today produce as much taste as hens did two generations ago - but it is distributed on three times as many eggs! In the 1950s, hens laid 120-150 eggs a year. Hens of today lay 350 eggs a year. They are unable to give each egg even nearly the taste that the old hens could, having three days on the process rather than one.
Fruit and vegetables are bigger, too. New variants give huge crops, measured by weight. Maybe by taste as well, provided you sum all the taste of the entire crop. Crop by crop, today or 60 years ago, the amount of taste may be comparable. But the taste of the new apple kinds are watered out, compared to the old, smaller-gain kinds - some of those are really taste bombs! Carrots are the same: Your taste buds have to do a search for the true carrot taste!
And so on. I am somewhat tempted to put up my own hen house to get proper poultry and eggs. I do bake my own bread. I do grow my own vegetables.
I suspect that when you talk about 'bread', you refer to that white sponge that has been sitting in a plastic bag for a week on the shelves of the grocery. That kind of bread certainly has no taste, nothing that gives it a value of its own. Maybe your potatoes have been fertilized to grow to super-size, but fractional-taste as well. Maybe your taco shells (and taco chips as well) are made from wheat because that is cheaper - but also low-taste. Maybe you rice have been industrially processed to make it non-stick (what is so great about that? Americans seem to love it to be non-stick!) and pre-boiled, damping off all the taste, so that you can prepare it in 3 minutes. I have tasted that kind; that is not what I use for a good rice meal.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Oh man! A fresh slice of warm from the oven home made from scratch bread with nothing at all on it - manna from heaven!
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I very much agree with you that all of those starches you mention have there own unique taste, some of which are far from bland. However, my palate is not for starchy food, just as some people are meat eaters and some lean more vegetarian.
As for egg laying, there are many breeds of chickens, some which produce as many eggs as you say, but most are far lower. Whether you can get them in a store or not is another matter. My kids raise chickens (and ducks for awhile) and insisted that they tasted better than store eggs, but I could never tell the difference. Their eggs had thinner shells, which means the chickens weren't getting as much calcium, so that could have impacted the taste.
I also have baked my own bread, but I only do sweet breads, like squash and banana nut breads. I do eat them hot, as that is the best. But even in these cases, I put many things in the bread like nuts, chocolate chips, or fruit filling. Thus, the bread is used to convey these ingredients to my mouth.
I wish you well in all of your food adventures, even if we disagree in what those adventures should look like.
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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Samsung or Android (don't know which) has idiots at the helm.
My phone moved a spam message to the bin and blocked the sender for me.
Unfortunately it also notify-beeped my phone.
Now why in the hell would I want to be harassed by that? It's just spam. Just bin it since you didn't show me what it said anyway, and don't annoy me with it - isn't that the point? Who designs this software?
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My watch sends me notifications when I stand up for a pee: "Oh good, you're active again!" 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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That watch would quickly find itself victim of a rapid, unscheduled disassembly.
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The Clippy among watches!
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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My watch ticks whenever a new second arrives.
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It fears that it will be replaced?
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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There would be more than just pee going into the toilet.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Look out for the Pavlov training…. You may not be able to “perform” if you are not wearing the watch!
(Especially if it is the HAL9000 version)
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and this is the reason I turn off almost all notifications on my phone. Only herself and my kidlets when calling or messaging me get to have it buzz or beep. Otherwise I am ruthless in turning all notifications off.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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I have developed a Pavlovian/Tourette's reaction to ringtones/notifications from my device followed by 'now what?!!' 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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Just in case it's a false positive?
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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I thought about that but how would I ever know without actually checking the spam call? like answering it, or calling it back? It's obv someone I don't know or they'd be in my contacts, and if i don't know a number I don't answer.
Edit: I should add, I looked at it seems samsung does not allow you to turn it off
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I have a Pixel, so none of Samsung's overlay on Android. It has a way of viewing all spam text messages, voicemails, and caller id info. Then I can mark it "not spam" if I so choose.
For text messages, I click on my Google icon in the top right corner. I have options to view Archived, view Spam & Blocked, mark all as read, etc.
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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Both my watch and phone seem to beep excessively and I've learned just to ignore both. I can't be bothered to go through and disable everything.
The only alerts I pay attention to are text alerts on my work number (phone is dual sim) and ideally I'd filter those to just the work monitor app and my bank, but it seems you can only set a specific alert for texts from numbers in your contact list and you can't add a display id to your contacts.
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Mostly Samsung but the Android programmer just does what Samsung wants
REALITY you own a device that does what it wants Case in point
I have a Samsung A23 5g it has a button named Device Care
It will let me "Clean Now" to clear apps not used recently
For how long you ASK about 30 min
In 30 min the Apps are back sucking on the memory tit
I am done with retailers that demand a phone number and e-mail address
I explain I do not have a computer and NO PHONE
If I really want the item I give them and email from a long gone ISP
and as for the phone number 202-456-1111 it is the White House
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Yeah I said mine was an A25 but I think it's actually an A23 now that you bring it up. Not sure though.
But yeah, I am kind of sick of samsung's nonsense.
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So, is it just me or does Microsoft Loop look like a gound up re-work of OneNote? Microsoft Loop: Collaborative App | Microsoft 365[^]
Many of the core facilities of Loop were already available (admittedly by somewhat dubious pathways) in OneNote (real-time collaboration, embedding of documents and web pages, live sketching/writing sharing etc) albeit in a much 'clunkier' UI.
However, with a little investment, OneNote could IMHO have become a fantastic real-time collaboration tool without the need to be permanently on-line (something that is only possible on a small percentage of the world's surface despite what MS, Governemnts, telcos etc tell you) -improved handwriting tools and better recognition, plus the ability to properly embed/edit PDFs would have got it very close to the Loop feature-set, adding a code window linked to git, VS (locally hosted or on-line) or other dev environments would have got it the rest of the way.
I did try to log in to the discussion forum provided (which had no comments when I tried), but I got an 'unknown error', all of which rather sums up the whole mess of Teams/OneNote/Loop/Sharepoint etc - tools which all seem to provide lots of advantages if you can get them to work, but only seem to work in certain very tightly specified environments that most smaller orgs etc do not, and cannot, run cost-effectively.
I have relied on OneNote almost since it first came out (Desktop not APP version) but recently, after extensive research for something with a better feature set re handwriting/PDFs etc) have switched to Nebo Nebo[^] , which does everything and more that OneNote did, across multiple platforms, is still being actively developed, and still allows for off-line working and later sync. THe only drawback for me really is the 'app'-like UI, but I can live with that...
I'd be interested in hearing what you think!
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onenote desktop team in ms was maybe three people....also now that things move to app format... desktop = stop
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Indeed so - that was my point (I think!). OneNote could have become much more, but was effectively abandoned (probably for good reason, at least from the MS company culture viewpoint). If you have to start over with Loop, then that's fine for new teams etc, but for us oldies with years of project notes etc already, it makes more sense to move to something that allows us to retain/migrate our existing workflow etc.
As almost always happens with MS (and indeed most large orgs) the attraction of the shiny and new is greater than the consideration for what has gone before and so long-term customers are, once again and at best, simply not considered.
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onenote was interesting and it tossed out some new ideas. I've been looking for an electronic engineering notebook for decades, and I actually had hope for one note - nah. It just got too clunky. Worse, somehow Microsoft managed to shove their head up where the sun doesn't shine and start indexing folders everywhere. This irritates the living daylights out of me because I use SVN heavily. So the stupid little files show up yada yada yada.
Microsoft does do some interesting work, but they always seem to manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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