Took a look at one of those chemicals, and it was made of KOH, or potassium hydroxide. If there’s hair or fat stuck in the drain, the OH- ion should deal with them. I suppose NaOH should be fine as well.
I can’t remember when I did that. Probably around 2015 or something. Long before that, I used to have a curated and well organised collection of bookmarks, but at some point that just didn’t feel useful any longer.
Nowadays though, my collection is very small and none of them really matter. If I forgot to make backups, and had to reinstall everything, I could make new bookmarks in an hour.
A few weeks ago I heard the first birds since autumn. Winter is a pretty quiet period for birds, so there’s not much to listen to. However, now the earliest birds have returned. No worms for them though unless they can dig through snow and ice.
I’m still figuring out which steps actually matter and which don’t. Regardless, here’s the raw unrefined list of steps. I’m pretty sure most of these steps are unnecessary, but a few might be critical.
Buy old eggs. I mean really old. So old the shopkeeper is about to toss them out the back door. My supermarket discounts these, and I suspect age helps the membrane detach from the albumen later.
Refrigerate them. Then forget about them for a week (or at least several days). They’ll be well past their sell-by date, but still fine. This extra time lets more moisture evaporate, which might be important.
Use a cheap egg cooker (mine’s from Lidl) with a measuring cup that has a dull needle. Poke a hole in the rounder end of each egg. That’s where the air bubble is. This lets expanding gases escape during cooking, preventing cracks.
Load the cooker with 7 eggs, poked-end down.
Add a little too much water. The eggs will cook fully, but the yolks might turn green. This might not even play a significant role, but that's what I did last time.
Let the cooker run dry and beep, then turn it off. Add about 20 ml of water to cool the hot surface.
Get distracted with cat memes or superb owls on Lemmy. Forget the eggs exist.
Remember the eggs 1-2 hours later. At least they’re no longer scorching hot.
Refrigerate the eggs again.
Peel one each morning. This means that the 7th egg gets to sit in the refrigerator even longer. In the meanwhile, even more evaporation occurs, which might help.
Bonk the egg on the counter and roll it firmly to crush the shell into tiny pieces (still attached to the membrane).
If done right, the membrane will tear around the equator, and the crushed shell will be flexible as it's still held together only by the membrane. Rolling ensures the pieces are small enough to make the shell bendy.
The bridge section connecting the two hemispheres will allow you to bend them apart. It's like opening a lid of a box.
Yeah, that post was getting way too long, so I made some cuts here and there. The issue was in the way SE2 detects hardware... or more like doesn't detect my GPU at all, throws an error about it and refuses to start. Under Bazzite it starts the game first 🎉, then complains that my hardware might not be good enough to run this game 🤯, but the beautiful graphics say otherwise. It's still in early access, so I guess this kind of strange behavior will be ironed out sooner or later.
I got tired of researching this issue in Debian, so once I got it up and running in Bazzite, I stopped reading about it. Honestly, I have no idea what's the key difference here. Is it the driver version, Proton-GE or something else? Who knows.
Anyway, I would recommend trying Bazzite. It has some pre-configured tricks that seem to handle weird cases like this.
Took a look at one of those chemicals, and it was made of KOH, or potassium hydroxide. If there’s hair or fat stuck in the drain, the OH- ion should deal with them. I suppose NaOH should be fine as well.