@lore Yeah I know the feeling. One area of research required at least a Threadripper with 128 threads and a lot of ram. It's a shame that the University wouldn't fucking cough up the funds. A lot of my research work was done on equipment that I had to buy with my own money. I pushed for open source projects and it was mostly ignored by the department. Someone in the department slipped me a name in Engineering and the last time I checked, they were discussing my old proposals because I impressed them.

I've worked on systems that I could not afford and I was only allowed to do so much because they knew I was a hacker and got past their systems before. I miss it sometimes and people were sad to see me leave. It was hard to feel the same way when it seemed like I was sabotaged and stabbed in the back numerous times. I still can't discuss some of the things I worked on.