Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es

@mdhughes@cybre.space welp it's off my desktop

Daria did the thing for us

welp

hi again Windows

@m1st uh-oh what did you do @kara_dreamer@plural.cafe

*sighs*

okay, looks like I'll be rolling back to Windows 10. *spits*

I suppose I should now be asking, how can one make the Windows 10 experience a little less intolerable. can you at least get back to an older-fashioned UX and ditch the "improvements"

@kara_dreamer@plural.cafe bleh. I'm reminded that we were gonna try to put Linux on that dinky little Dell. I suppose that might be good enough to satisfy our masochism of having a Linux box running and used for shit

of course I've not got a clue where any Windows media are in this place

ah crud there isn't even a feckin' optical drive on this machine, I forgot about that, Daria said "you don't need one"--pfffft Kara you really ought to stop letting her build our shit

@kara_dreamer@plural.cafe well if you can figure out a way to _love_ this sack of sh...surely fine, quality computer engineering, then be my fuckin' guest, Kara

ugh. ok do I make one last try to get #ffxiv working on Ubuntu or not

I really don't want to slink back to Windows--much less WINDOWS TEN--just to play a flippin' game (or be able to connect to my phone properly) but shit...there's nothing *fun* about fucking about with this shit. it's awful. how on earth do Linux geeks put up with nothing working right

@melaninpony on Gaymas, Santa Asgore gets everyone Mettaton merchandise

https://beecher-arts.tumblr.com/post/135923058814/merry-christmas-everyone-i-was-so-happy-to

@evie I'm still here!

tired: George Washington Carver was a genius who came up with hundreds of practical industrial uses for peanuts and other agricultural feedstocks!

wired: none of Carver's discoveries mattered much because capitalism dictates that only the absolute cheapest feedstocks be used for industrial chemistry and that means coal and petroleum and nothing else

that led me to this gem.

https://archive.org/details/vegetablefatsoil00andrich/page/n6

a whole chapter on solid vegetable fats, woohoo! there's a bunch aside from the usual suspects (coconut, palm, cacao) but nothing that looks like a promising easy way to get a margarine substitute

idly speculating about whether a "natural" margarine or vegetable shortening could be gotten by simply fractionating a commonplace vegetable oil (soybean oil say) known to have a moderate amount of tristearin and tripalmitin. yield would be poor (maybe 10-15% of the feedstock) but you'd get a solid cooking fat without chemical modification, and the unsaturate-rich fraction would be useful for other things

@evie so could I like just upload scans of textbooks and add a little copypasta claiming that they were really parts of a cosmic horror, and put 'em in SCP

if I don't start doing some goddamn chemistry again soon I am gonna be peeved *stamps hoof* or something adjacent anyway

@max ugh. I hate to think I'm being driven back in that direction

Linux is just a non-starter. too much crap doesn't work right

an attempt to find a shop selling Windows 7 media was a dismal failure