Installing GCC 13.1.0

[FlatAssembler]

To me, Control Engineering is much more boring than the origin of river names.

But how many people will pay you for researching river names, compared to paying you for Control Engineering?  If you're independently wealthy you can do anything that appeals to you, but otherwise you'll have to provide a product or service that someone else is willing to pay you for.

I have a diploma in TV and radio production, but never had an opportunity to work in that field.  My first two jobs were as an accounting clerk.  It wasn't exciting, but it paid my rent and bought my groceries.  My last job involved typing for nearly seven hours a day, for over thirteen years (but fortunately it was interesting medical stuff, so I was rarely bored).  Now I'm retired, with a pension and some money in the bank, and now I can do what I want.  That would have been impossible when I was in my twenties, because no one would have paid me to write novels and study Latin and putter around in the garden.

At some point you'll have to seriously consider what you would be willing to do all day for the benefit of someone else.

But nobody is paying me to study Control Engineering either. I have to study Control Engineering so that I can get a piece of paper called diploma. And that diploma is supposed to help me get hired. Now, whether it will actually do that, I have no way of knowing. Maybe the reason I cannot get a job is because I lack the diploma. But maybe it is something else entirely.

The stated reason I got rejected at Mono is that I don't know stuff like ReactJS, MobX and interacting with REST-ful APIs. And that's true, I don't know those things. They were seeking somebody who knows JavaScript, and, to me, "knowing JavaScript" means being able to make something like a PicoBlaze Simulator in JavaScript. And the stated reason I got rejected without an interview at RT-RK is that the compiler I made uses neither GCC nor LLVM. I suspect the actual reason I get rejected everywhere is because I lack the diploma, although I do not have data to confirm that.

As for my work on the river names, listen, quite a few professors have told me that they think I should continue doing that, because having published papers in peer-reviewed journals counts for much more than good grades.

[Astreja]

As for my work on the river names, listen, quite a few professors have told me that they think I should continue doing that, because having published papers in peer-reviewed journals counts for much more than good grades.

But can you make a living from it? Will it pay your rent? Will it put food on the table? If not, you may have to compromise by working some sort of job and writing papers.

[Ravenshire]

You might want to consider changing your major.

Or, just dropping out.

[FlatAssembler]

As for my work on the river names, listen, quite a few professors have told me that they think I should continue doing that, because having published papers in peer-reviewed journals counts for much more than good grades.

But can you make a living from it?  Will it pay your rent?  Will it put food on the table?  If not, you may have to compromise by working some sort of job and writing papers.

You don't think that having published papers in peer-reviewed journals will help me get a job?

[Astreja]

But can you make a living from it?  Will it pay your rent?  Will it put food on the table?  If not, you may have to compromise by working some sort of job and writing papers.

You don't think that having published papers in peer-reviewed journals will help me get a job?

Not with the papers you're currently writing. Your work might appeal to a very small niche market of academics working in linguistics, history and geography, but if they see anything of value there they'll probably just cite you in their papers. Don't expect anyone to send you money.

My brother has written some peer-reviewed papers - but he's a microbiologist who's the lead investigator at a lab, and that's the source of his income. Not the papers.

[FlatAssembler]

I've just noticed that my 32-bit Debian virtual machine doesn't boot after I've updated VirtualBox to the version 7.0.6. I get the following error:

I've tried to re-install Debian from CD, but the installer also crashes with the same error message. What should I do?

Undo the thing that you did before it broke (back out your VirtualBox update).

In anticipation of your next question, if you want to know how to fix the kernel panic your OS vendor ando virtualization provider are over there.  ---->

If it were me, I'd start by reading VirtualBox release notes for the new version and every version you skipped and see if anything of use is in them.  If not, go back to my first suggestion.

This suggestion by a LinuxQuestions user worked: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions...ost6428372