I put ground beans in, pour hot water on them and start pressing pretty much immediately. How freakin strong do you need your coffee to wait for 4 whole minutes?
You can go for an Intel B580 and an AMD 7700 and have a decent gaming experience for well under 1000 $/€, even ignoring used parts. A Steam Deck is 420€.
It's not like gaming is unavailable, but everything above low-end has a premium price tag at the moment. What people don't seem to realise is that this low-end is still on paar with current gen consoles and games still look pretty good without spending 2k+ on a computer.
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
I think the first couple seasons of BBT are brilliant and then it rapidly became worse. There are only so many maths and physics jokes you can crack before it gets boring.
Also, it seems like the characters went from likable, socially awkward goofballs to just straight up being assholes all the time. Except for Howard, who kinda always was one.
Have you considered that you can be attracted to more than one thing, and that this may evolve over time? You don't expect people to be like 'I'm gay now' at age 12 and then automatically have zero interest in anything else, do you?
Probably don't want to play graphics heavy games on it. For everything else it's pretty much like any other phone. Although of course it's not quite as premium as flagship phones. Hardware wise, a Pixel 8 leaves it in the dust. But you can't swap your battery or really anything on that one.
The GDPR is definitely neither wits end, nor applied reasonably under all circumstances. I have my doubts that these "cutbacks" will be the adequate reforms however.
Maybe the even more important question: Why can you even opt out? Why is this not done on-device, without anything going anywhere to begin with?
I mean, I know the answer, you know the answer, everyone knows the answer. If this was truly privacy preserving, there would be no need to opt out.