u/Natrix91

Hi!

Yesterday morning I installed Ultramarine Linux Surface Edition on my Surface Pro 5 as I mentioned in this other post. This morning, after turning on my SP5, I noticed the battery was low and plugged in the charger.

I turned the tablet off, and when I powered it back on a black screen appeared with a white battery symbol showing a single bar (I assume it's a critically low battery warning). After a few minutes the screen went completely dark and the power button stopped responding.

I've tried holding the power button and the volume up (or down) button for 15-20 seconds, but nothing happens.

I don't think it's a charger issue since it was working fine the day before.

Any ideas? Am I left with a very expensive paperweight, or is there a fix? 😅

Hi guys!

I just installed Ultramarine Linux (the Surface ready-to-use version) in my SP5. All stuff works like a charm (except camera, but I don't care).

Should I still install the custom kernel? It is already installed with the Surface Ultramarine version?

I tried eating porridge (100 grams of oats + hot water) on two separate nights. Both times, it gave me terrible diarrhoea the next day, so I need to stop eating it. What other options containing beta-glucan and/or high fibre content could I try?

Hybrids in the Oryzias genus are commonly reported in the scientific literature, however I'd like to know if somebody has got Oryzias latipes x woworae hybrids in their setups. Can you share a photo?

I'm writing this because I'm completely burned out and need to vent. I also hope it serves as a warning to other researchers, predocs, or postdocs who are considering participating in these types of "open innovation" events.

I recently participated in an international bio-hackathon. It was the typical environment they sell you as the ultimate opportunity to connect academic talent with real-world industry problems. My team had to solve a rather complex technical "challenge" to improve the formulation of a major multinational's product, without altering its physical properties and keeping costs low.

This is where I come in. At my research center, we have spent years developing the know-how to process and extract value from a very specific and extremely cheap industrial byproduct (it's currently almost entirely discarded). The properties we achieve in the lab fit exactly what this company needed. We pitched it to them as a solution. They were thrilled with the idea. I suggested we could do a small trial phase or a short project with my lab to kick things off and scale the process. Throughout the week, the two company representatives were lovely; they kept asking me questions, showing interest in the viability, and squeezing out logistical details. Acting in good faith, I told them where to get the raw material and the foundation of the idea.

Fast forward to the last day. We didn't win the hackathon (which I couldn't care less about), but I noticed something really weird. The company reps, who had been glued to me for days, were suddenly super distant. They said goodbye with a simple, cold, obligatory "bye," while fawning over other members of my teams.

Shortly after, I found out the truth: it turns out that during the event, behind my back, they approached representatives of a giant primary sector company (who were also at the hackathon and are the ones generating this byproduct) and directly agreed with them on the supply of the raw material.

I got brutally bypassed. They extracted the information, validated the idea, identified the source of the raw material, and cut to the chase by partnering with the supplier, leaving me and my research center completely out of the equation. They got a strategy for free that a biotech consulting firm would have charged them thousands of euros for.

Of course, they are going to get a harsh reality check. Having the raw material doesn't mean having the final product; the extraction process to integrate it into their product without ruining it is technical complex and is which exactly what my lab masters. But no one can take away the sting and the feeling of having been used to do their R&D for free.

A word to the wise: Don't go to these events to give away your work. Corporate hackathons are, in many cases, an open bar for multinationals to mine academic talent for free. If you ever go, sell them the what, but always keep the how and with whom under lock and key. I, for one, am absolutely done and never setting foot in one of these again.