Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es

honestly, I should probably get on Twitter. my chances of getting answers to technical questions would be something a bit more than zero, there

what would be the most valuable use of low-tech #chemistry for the people. got major choice paralysis between options

home serum monitoring of hormones is a possibility

food analysis? like, getting nutritional values for foodstuffs?

low-tech atmospheric CO2 monitoring?

there's the Unity approach but, ugh, it's Unity

is there something a bit less of a faff

oh yeah time to ask again about what the least painful options are for getting some kinda #Android app running

I figure if I repeat the question enough days, I might get an answer in a month maybe

hey I can't tell if my likes and boosts are sticking or not. seems like a "light theme" thing...

wow Bing used to be slightly better than Google Images in a couple of minor details but that was a while ago, holy crap does Bing ever suck now

focus is just awful today

ok Aza Cope it is. that's a name, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aza-Cope_rearrangement

but I think this vein for names is getting near exhausted, unless I really wanna have game characters named, like, "Willgerodt Kindler" or crap like that

running out of good names

already used "Diels Alder", "Dess Martin" (well Kara did, in a story she never finished)

"Wolff Kishner" is weird for a girl's name

ok back to #FFXIV

got a character already on Malboro named Corey Kim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corey%E2%80%93Kim_oxidation) but, bleh, I don't remember how to play a conjurer at all, or anything else for that matter

might as well start from scratch

Daria did the thing for us

welp

hi again Windows

*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"

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

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