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  • Let me tell you a couple things about PhDs in CS:

    • Research is highly competitive, avoid if don’t have ambition or can’t handle constant pressure
    • Some (most) jobs do not require PhDs, but most will care about practical experience and age
    • Research is a lot of work. If you want a peer group, you work 40h a week, then peer review stuff for your buddies. You will need buddies, because you need peer reviews too of course
    • (As you already mentioned) at least until you have your PhD, pay is between bad and insulting

    If you do have the ambition to land a top-tier position in the end, maybe even stay and compete in research, go for it. If you love doing research, go for it. If you just want the title, just don’t. Go work somewhere. Best case they offer a PhD programme at the company or you can earn certificates and whatnot




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    6 days ago

    Connecting to any trustworthy VPN at the very least:

    1. Encrypts your connection entirely and ensures you are connected to a party you trust
    2. Limits snooping in your traffic to one party you trust

    Which is objectively not a scam and a desirable thing to do. Not as desirable as hosting your own VPN, but 100% better than not having one, no matter what some guy on the internet says.





  • Bruh, you need a new name. “EU OS” is both terribly bland and super hard to pronounce. I guess they got screwed by EndeavourOS and e/OS already occupying EOS already, but you can do better. Let me try:

    EurOS (self-explanatory) Ios (as a play on Io, the mythological ancestor of Europa and, in my humble opinion, a brilliant mocking of iOS) BoIS (Boring Independence System… Why yes, I do like Rust and Arch, how did you know?) PlutOS (Lowest layer, ruler of the underworld, get it? Get it? Okay, it mainly sounds cool.)