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Cake day: August 11th, 2023

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  • I had an interview similar to this. I’m a programmer, but I had just taken an intro to circuit design course at my local maker space, and I emailed the instructor about what potential jobs would be like day to day, if I got into more electrical engineer and circuit design. He emailed back that he knew a friend at a company that designed motorized kid’s toys, so he could set up a meet and greet. He emails both of us, we set a time to meet at the company.

    I get there, and they think I’m there to interview for a programming job. Instead of explaining the confusion, that I was only there to learn more about the day to day of the electrical engineers, I roll with it and just decide to do the interview and see how it goes, as I was unhappy in my current job and was looking to make a change anyway.

    Big. Mistake. Interview goes horribly since I hadn’t prepared, and as I’m leaving after having obviously failed the interview, the one engineer who interviewed me says:

    “Hey, um… We printed your resume on some high quality paper, do you want to keep it?”

    Only time I’ve been handed my own resume back to me in an interview.

    Also the guy that I had originally set up the meet and greet with turned out to a be a bit of a jerk in the interview process so I never bothered explaining the confusion and trying to get what I had originally wanted out of visiting that day.





  • I was given an old Chromebook tablet by a friend that wanted to get rid of it, and it just happened to have mainline Linux support. I was able to get postmarketOS running on it, and got gnome shell mobile as the DE. It works, and works well. The apps that support the touch interface and are made to be responsive, etc work really well, and the waydroid integegration works fantastically well. I was able to get android version of jellyfin working, with vlc, and a few other apps I use daily. All this in 4GB of ram, I’m really impressed! This screenshot was running gnome shell I think, I’ve since switch to the ‘mobile’ variant of it, and running system monitor with android vlc and android jellyfin running, zoomed out so you could see all the apps running at once.

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    Its time for a Linux phone, I put in an order for the 2nd batch of this phone, hopefully they start shipping soon, they supposedly already shipped the first batch to users.

    https://furilabs.com/shop/flx1/