Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es
food chemistry
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
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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Annnnnnnnnnd we're done. Thanks to everyone who asked a question, I get to turn my brain off now!
If you have any queries regarding chemistry, specifically the chemistry of materials, you're always free to ask. Other science, well...I"ll get back to you on that. :D
if I don't start doing some goddamn chemistry again soon I am gonna be peeved *stamps hoof* or something adjacent anyway
an attempt to find a shop selling Windows 7 media was a dismal failure
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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imagine your typical spider, but it has the intelligence of a hundred thousand people. what is it thinking. how does it feel about us. what is it planning.
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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> There’s one argument I sometimes hear that I have never understood. If we eliminated work, someone will ask, wouldn’t life be boring? What would we do if all our needs were provided for? To which I could only say—how could life ever be boring? Life is boring when we are trapped in tedious toil. If we’re freed from it, we have the privilege of finding life utterly fascinating.
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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Dream Theater's Metropolis part 2 is actually about Nicholas trying to admit to himself he's a trans girl
okay where can I get Windows 7 still
there might be media somewhere lurking in this household but I kinda doubt it, the other two don't want me running Windows 7 but heck with that noise
Linux is too rubbish for me, and Windows 10 is awful, so...it's gotta be Windows 7
haha trying to go through some gawdawful checklist of command-line gibberish to get #FFXIV installed on this Linux box and of course it's already going wrong and there's nothing in the checklist to explain how to recover from errors
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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fascism
reading a bunch of nazi apologia is probably A+ for my mental health</sarcasm>
god why is "nazis are bad" so fucking controversial these days
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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anyway if anyone knows of someplace that has like.
victorian era newspaper scans, of newspapers that were illustrated / had big advertising sections, let me know lol
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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ah yes, that good ol' internet researcher problem: Everything's Fucking Paywalled
I wish I knew the least bit about the colloquial terms for various types of electronic music
salt about fediverse community
(I'll be blunt, I feel little sense of community on the fediverse. oh it's there, but it's only if you fit a certain profile. being SERIOUS about anything is social death. but I ain't good at cute shitposts)
(this will be another question that I will have to ask three or four times before getting even one answer)
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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feels to me like most sewing stuff out there is either about making tiny low-effort changes or making stuff from scratch, but most of what i do is kind of in the middle - really involved resize work or like, making something new out of an old garment by more or less tearing it apart
so what IS the least horrifying way to get an #Android app running? the official SDL is a complete nightmare and I don't wanna touch it
Unity, maybe?
Windows file sharing remains unusable. I still can't connect to my Android phone in a way that lets me see its file system; the most I can do is manually send files from my phone to my computer. connecting to the household printer seems as unattainable as walking to the Moon
why am I doing this to myself
