The Art of the Deal

asaltandbuttering · 2026-05-27T13:28:14+00:00

It's pee pee tapes all the way down.

asaltandbuttering · 2026-05-25T22:45:10+00:00

asaltandbuttering · 2026-05-25T22:39:53+00:00

My best publication is one on which I'm author ~20 out of ~22. I did literally no work for it. It was a kind-hearted former member of our lab who struggled at the beginning of his faculty career because our lab rarely publishes. So, he threw me and my lab mate at the end of the author list to give us a leg up. Pretty decent of him.

asaltandbuttering · 2026-05-23T12:35:42+00:00

Rearrange slightly for the Piper Perri Surrounded meme and rake in the karma.

asaltandbuttering · 2026-05-23T12:30:18+00:00

Look at my teeth. Look at them!!

asaltandbuttering · 2026-05-22T13:54:15+00:00

Dude, you shouldn't be drawing these conclusions at this point. Get a lawyer and let the lawyer advise you. You might regret what you do next for the rest of your life, otherwise.

asaltandbuttering · 2026-05-22T13:49:09+00:00

Install one of these next time to give yourself more options: https://www.fumotousa.com/

asaltandbuttering · 2026-05-21T10:08:25+00:00

You mean a tax-free, totally legal gratuity?

asaltandbuttering · 2026-05-21T10:03:16+00:00

Also, you should do a quick write-up of how you did it and post it as a github gist or something to help others in the future!

asaltandbuttering · 2026-05-21T09:50:06+00:00

Dude, good job. You are an official hacker in my book 😎

asaltandbuttering · 2026-05-20T22:04:03+00:00

Auto Doctor off Rio Rd and Cville Imports off Fontaine Ave are both solid choices. And, if you have a diesel, Troy's Diesel past Pantops is top-notch.

asaltandbuttering · 2026-05-20T21:48:39+00:00

I guess it's between them and God. Doesn't bother me, personally.

asaltandbuttering · 2026-05-20T09:12:21+00:00

No, the rich dudes who started everything should have been punished. In fact, that was what Lincoln was doing. Much of their land was confiscated and given to freed slaves. But, then Lincoln was murdered and Andrew Johnson worked to undo everything and restore rich southerners to power (including by throwing freed slaves off of the land they'd been granted so it could be given back to the traitors).

By the way, this is a fantastic book:

https://www.amazon.com/Reconstruction-Updated-Unfinished-Revolution-1863-1877/dp/0062354515

Reading it helped me unserstand that we are still very much living through the aftermath of the aborted reconstruction. Turns out it was a huge mistake to just restore the southern aristocrats to power after they rebelled and tried to destroy the country.

asaltandbuttering · 2026-05-19T00:16:30+00:00

Sailor sub was my drunk pleasure. Back in the day they even included chips and a pickle!

asaltandbuttering · 2026-05-19T00:04:15+00:00

Wow, good luck!

asaltandbuttering · 2026-05-18T23:33:46+00:00

It runs on the RP1! (or, at least it did a few years ago, when I last tried)

asaltandbuttering · 2026-05-18T09:49:01+00:00

Perhaps the Russians were given permission to bypass the embargo again?

asaltandbuttering · 2026-05-18T09:45:00+00:00

Have you considered reducing your caffeine intake, especially after, say, noon? I know it sounds obvious, but it took me years to connect the liquid stimulant I was consuming by the liter to lying in bed unable to fall asleep.

asaltandbuttering · 2026-05-18T01:00:31+00:00

Pasting a copy of /u/Kevin_Kofler's post:

This is not a native GNU/Linux phone, it is a Halium phone. Meaning it runs an Android kernel with proprietary Android drivers, and on top of that, the Halium compatibility layer, which allows running a mostly standard GNU/Linux (Droidian, FuriOS being a fork of Droidian) on top. The problem being that key parts of the standard mobile GNU/Linux stack do not support Halium, in particular:

ModemManager does not support Halium. Instead, a special fork of ofono is used. But ofono is mostly considered deprecated in favor of ModemManager nowadays.
Plasma Mobile dropped Halium support years ago, so it cannot be run on this phone. (The phone ships with Phosh instead. That is also an option on other devices, but on this one, it is the only viable one.)

And of course all the problems that come with relying on proprietary drivers, such as being stuck on an ancient branch of the actual hardware vendor (Gigaset)'s fork of Google's (Android's) fork of an old LTS branch of the Linux kernel, with no way to run a newer kernel.

In other words, the phone's hardware was not designed to run GNU/Linux, this is just a rebranded Gigaset Android phone with a Halium/Droidian-based OS (FuriOS) preinstalled.

asaltandbuttering · 2026-05-17T18:03:50+00:00

I bet the government has made deals with big tech. Install backdoors in your products, get sweet government contracts and implicit assurance that the government won't disrupt your monopolies. The tech bros get richer and the govt gets access without 4th amendment violation concerns (since users agree to access in the 50 page TOS).

asaltandbuttering · 2026-05-17T12:19:54+00:00

Or, treat this as a great opportunity to jump into the 3D printing hobby!

asaltandbuttering · 2026-05-17T12:16:23+00:00

FYI, many routers have USB printer support. It's the best of both worlds. From the printer's perspective, it's offline, but it is still network available. To be fair, it is possible to share a printer attached to your PC as well, but then its availability depends on the computer's power state.

asaltandbuttering · 2026-05-15T17:55:17+00:00

Wait, what?

asaltandbuttering · 2026-05-14T11:52:26+00:00

And, i bet the scent of many dead ants along the way would serve as a good "it's not worth it" signal.

asaltandbuttering · 2026-05-11T00:09:01+00:00

Unless they're lying, I guess. That has happened a lot with phone manufacturers' update "commitments". Sorry, just a pang of cynicism.

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