YouWillNeverBeAWoman

Having to work while being in school is not ideal, but also not uncommon. Lots of people (me included) have done it successfully, so it's absolutely possible with the right strategy.

If you already have problems with your mental health, this should be a priority. Make absolutely sure you are fit for uni, before starting! Otherwise the additional stress of the course load can have a big toll on your overall health and make you drop out. Seek counseling before attending.

The problem with multitasking (for a computer as well as for a human) is context switching. Constantly having to change between tasks (e.g. studying/work) costs a lot of mental resources, because you basically always have to focus anew on the current situation. So try to work and save the money during the lecture breaks and vacations, to focus solely on studying during the semesters.

Depending on your program, you might choose which classes to take for your degree. Find out exactly what classes are available and how they will be graded. In my experience classes that have final exams in the end of the semester are harder compared to those requiring the submission of a paper/essay or (group) projects. Exams always stressed the hell out of me, because no matter how good you were during the semester, the last few weeks always boil down to cramming books for different courses while the task of writing papers or doing projects can be distributed over a longer timespan. Choose the classes by the easiest grading methods, not so much by their topics.

Sounds awesome! I‘ll check it out.

I am honestly amazed that there is no completely FOSS printer existing that runs on libre firmware and is build from 3D printed parts. I wonder how hard a project like this would be?

It‘s an unfortunate trend, that also kinda feels artificially propagated/normalized by articles like this one.

There are good reasons to personally decide against having children. But this decision should come from one self and not be instilled by fear mongering media or an emotionally skewed perspective on the current state of the world (both seem to be the most common reasons, when I talk to people about it).

In the end, your kids are the best way to ensure your own values and beliefs outlast beyond your life time. And I personally think future generations will be in dire need of good values and beliefs.

That is highly dependent on your University / program. I went to a German Uni where you can often show Professors your transcript of classes and they can acknowledge them for the program.

It helped that both Masters were at the same department and many courses / Professors overlapped.

One was in general Comp Sci., the other focused on Statistics and Data Science, which was a brand new (basically unknown) field at the time. Good thing was, I was able to transfer more than half my credits to this program, so I only had to do the few math/statistics focused ones (and a second thesis).

I went for Comp Sci. (B.Sc, two M.Sc. and a PhD). The most important part ist finding your own personal learning type. Theres a distinction between those who learn best listening to lectures, reading textbooks, explaining a topic to others, etc. Start by finding what suits you best.

Here are the things that helped me most (after years of trial and error):

• Going to all appointed lectures and exercises (treating Uni like a job, basically)
• Actually doing the assignments of my Prof gave me
• Avoiding my Laptop/Tablet/Smartphone at Uni. I uses a thin notebook for each lecture and wrote my notes with a pen (more focus on class)
• Using flashcards (I wrote them by hand, but there are software alternatives) for topics, that require a lot of fact memorization
• Making friends with fellow students to help explaining topics to each other and share notes

In which context?

What exactly are you complaining about?

The ignorance of people, while at the same time using services like Whatsapp or Instagram (despite better knowledge)? Why aren‘t you consequent in your hatred of these Apps and uninstall them? Are the things you need them for more important, than the protection of your privacy?

You can rant all you want, but people have certain needs, that are met by these Apps and unless you come up with a better solution for their needs (that is also privacy concerned), you should come off your high horse.

Most people aren‘t even prepared for when the power is out more than an hour, let alone an actual happening on a national level…

Now, if only a fraction of all FOSS users would also contribute to projects… Imagine what would be possible!

Good points! I have to admit, I rarely consider the "inner workings" of a platform like lemmy from a moderator point of view, but this is an important aspect to be thought of.

I would still disagree on subjective votes as a good thing on a social network. All the "echo chamber" effects, that already have been discussed to death, come to mind and I am personally not a big fan of metrics that, in a worst case, stem from pure ideological or current-trend driven opinions of people. People may also never really fathom why they are being down voted, because of the features anonymous nature.

Your argument that "Votes still leave the content in place", also sounds questionable, considering how often posts on big platforms get "down voted to oblivion" and completely disappear from the first few pages (Not saying this happens here, but the example of the mechanism applies, imho). Sure the content is technically still existing, but will the information reach the people that request it?

I personally think, old timey internet forums and even certain imageboards feel much more objective content-wise, even if they are more chaotic moderation-wise.