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I didn’t see the /s

I would say synthesis in this example is the creation of a molecular compound from differing source materials while refinement is the isolation and concentration of an existing compound.

Seen these. Pretty creepy but some folks don’t mind.

But you said Amazon has access to my fingerprints? Got proof?

Hey, you asked… I just answered.

Generally, artificial sweeteners are chemically synthesized while natural sweeteners are grown and refined.

I used to grow the stevia plant in my garden.

It’s interesting to read people’s reactions to stevia. I don’t seem to have the same reactions/aftertaste others point out.

I much prefer stevia over other sweeteners. I wonder if there is some sort of cilantro type thing going on.

Edit: Turns out stevia can taste different to other people!

On the plus side, stevia isn’t artificial.

Alcohol is a great solvent and widely used in flavor extracts such as orange and almond concentrating and preserving the essence of flavors.

It’s use can add natural flavors to a great variety of recipes.

Grr! That smug-arse thumbnail. Such a punchable face. I have no idea why it gives me such anxiety… That shade of lifelessness and pale eyes.

I hear the blog is well written. It’s just that thumbnail!

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I wouldn’t count on it. Been getting those letters for a good 10 years.

That industry is rife with exploitation; I’ve collected pages and pages of resume builders, entry level, junior, blah blah blah. Budgets are low because work and experience isn’t valued. If you do make it work, congratulations, you’re the rare example.

I switched careers from video/film because I didn’t want to live out of a car and other jobs paid better.

Ahhh cute sneks. We didn’t have a snake community last I checked but that was ages ago.

Me too! I was remembering the Intel incident when they discovered processors didn’t calculate math correctly and turned a batch into keychains. I still have mine somewhere …

Since you can’t use GPU for rendering or recording, a faster CPU couldn’t hurt and is probably your best bet, but it isn’t really thaaaat old. (There being no other hardware bottlenecks of course)

There are, cough cough I think, ways to decrypt and record HDCP protected streams but I’d imagine you’d have to have a render unit and recording unit in your setup. Sort of complicated.

Ah bummer. That’s most of my software tricks. I’d break out my hardware equipment next step, but that’s pricy.

That PC should be able to play a stream just fine. I’d check if there background apps hogging resources and make sure hardware acceleration is active. Scale the resolution down (no point of upscaling 1080p content) and record to a lower resource intensive format, perhaps h.264 vs h 265/HEVC.

I feel like all of us are picturing the same exact shop owner right now, never having met them.

Oh, the stories they can tell.

Edit: Whoa, saw the X post pics. Was not far off! Ha!

While I like to agree with that vision of decentralized social media, even here on lemmy we have our own pitfalls. Echo chambers are unchecked and defederation (even justified) happens.

I don’t assume everyone here is a real person. There was a article recently that AI was training “persuasiveness” using reddit subreddits. I have to believe a similar trial exists on the fediverse least I be caught off guard.

Plus, there are a lot of folks here (it seems like a majority sometimes in my personal experience) that are quick to advocate violence/sabotage in lieu of negotiation and debate. That reaks of puppeteering; there can’t be that many arseholes here, right?

I know I have some strong biases that lean towards peace, and I’m confused sometimes why a comment of mine in the fediverse gathers double digit upvotes steadily only to plummet to the negatives overnight. I get old reddit botnet vibes on some topics.

I suppose I want to like lemmy, the freedom, these communities, but it is still polarizing and influenceable by [insert tech/political/financial interests]. I don’t trust this enough to recommend to friends and family, but my presence here makes it a fraction more what I want to be.

Whoa whoa now. A comb over is just hair immigration and he doesn’t stand for that!

I use smokeping just for fun. It doesn’t measure throughput, just latency, but they are loosely linked.

I have a cheap ZigBee thermostat and some automations to control temp. Works ok, but I’m trying to smarten it up a bit in the next few weeks.