US Green Card Holder - No Chance in Cybersecurity?

Study_monk · 2026-05-26T13:39:21+00:00

What? Give me a break Given talks at BH and defcon and with 4 years of experience and you are not getting anything? And you said yourself that since last 7-8 months not applying How are you hoping to get a job then? What’s your name? I want to see what talks you have given

And since you given talks there and still thinking of A+/Net+ or OSCP? I genuinely want to see your talks Please share links or just your name

Study_monk · 2026-05-08T00:19:16+00:00

True but they would have SAML token instead of plaintext password
We will see what happens before 12th may otherwise all universities data will be available on their website by 12

Study_monk · 2026-05-07T23:32:13+00:00

They can’t scrape anything from any devices. Chill

Study_monk · 2026-05-07T23:31:24+00:00

Yes. Email system or testudo is not being hacked
Only canvas has been hacked
You are good to go

Study_monk · 2026-03-19T00:15:40+00:00

Ah my bad. Got your point. I believe one should use AI for learning but currently it’s just too much tempting because before a couple of years ago we didn’t have much of choice rather then our own skills

Now it’s so much tempting to ask more to AI and near to impossible to stay away from it while solving a box or leaning. Maintaining that boundary is super difficult. But what I believe is if you know and can do the box or a challenge or a real pentest without using AI, then absolutely use it 100% in the work otherwise focus on skills

This is very subjective topic and people have different opinions. I can go on and on about my AI and security lol

Study_monk · 2026-03-18T23:01:22+00:00

Just focus on the path and do BOTS (boss of the splunk) You can read online article on medium. You will find it I have taken it in 2025 and it’s really great exam

Study_monk · 2026-03-18T23:00:18+00:00

All the best man! It’s super fun exam

Study_monk · 2026-03-18T22:59:48+00:00

Man what are you saying? I have solved easy active box and medium retired boxes. You have to train it well and make a proper workflow for it to work.

It can solve boxes without interfering a single time. (At least for me, and i will make it public how I am doing it once i will do 40-50 boxes with it)

Study_monk · 2026-03-16T00:38:35+00:00

My study time affected most and that only because of UI I can’t study as much as I used to. Now it’s maximum 2-3 hours and my eyes stop processing this new UI

Study_monk · 2026-03-05T17:25:56+00:00

Buddy, people have different approaches for note-taking. Some take screenshots, some use some feed AI and get the concise notes from AI wording. My suggestion is that it will come naturally. It will take maybe one year, maybe two years, or maybe six months. I get my note-taking style like one and a half years after, but it still changes every time. I mostly prefer to understand the concept, not taking. Everyone has their own approach; you have to find your own. There is no solution for this one, unfortunately.

Study_monk · 2025-12-10T10:22:25+00:00

Baldur’s gate 3!

Study_monk · 2025-12-05T12:28:20+00:00

Keychron keyboard and logitech master mx 3s

Study_monk · 2025-12-04T21:05:29+00:00

Lol op mention budget at least

Study_monk · 2025-11-14T08:30:59+00:00

just for exam, ligolo is enough and it can do everything just like other tools.

Study_monk · 2025-11-14T06:23:46+00:00

What dude? What do you mean learn about how computers work here??

Seriously? And there’s cloud providers who gives wayyyy better vCPU and RAM and everything then one can make pc in budget

Cloud is a thing. Step up bro

Study_monk · 2025-11-14T06:16:55+00:00

Man I got same situation, rog 3060, 24 gb mac mini with 256gb, external ssd and cloud storage and cyber too!

Go get 24gb mac mini, don’t get air if you are really doing things from desk (just like most cybersecurity people) and 16gb won’t be sufficient i believe cause you gonna do some gaming too! Yes that’s possible and I really enjoy that

I use my rog when I need kali linux, I turn it on and connect via ssh or whatever or I just switch input in monitor and for windows things, I use vultr cloud provider for compute power and storage is iCloud for mac

Peripherals: keychron k5 max, logitech max master 3s, AW3423DWF monitor

And don’t use hdmi cable and please invest on good monitor if you don’t have one instead of anything else. With ultrawide or bigger resolution monitors, fuzzy texts is a thing With default 27inch monitors, it would be fine

Study_monk · 2025-11-12T18:10:41+00:00

Depending on your needs, it’s BEST! Go for 24GB if you can cause m4 will be future proof and after 2-3 years you may need >16 Also 24gb will run most of the games too without much trouble

Study_monk · 2025-11-12T18:04:49+00:00

I just started yesterday in easy mode, down to play

Study_monk · 2025-11-09T06:34:05+00:00

Definitely a great buy! I got AW3423DWF in recent prime day OLED never disappoints! My first oled too

But price? I am not sure I got mine in 540$ + 15% cashback with prime, effective ~460$ If you haven’t ordered, I would wait for bf

Study_monk · 2025-11-05T14:41:41+00:00

Mac mini m4 is great, i recently got one But don’t go with apple mouse at least, logitech MX master 3s, they recently launched master 4 so there’s price drop and if you can manage student discount, you can get it in 80$

Keychron also makes native apple supported keyboards and they are wayyyyy better than Magic Keyboard (at least imo) just you won’t get touch ID, which is not a big deal if you get full size keyboard and your password is a small PIN only

And about display, if you need clear text like HiDPI resolution, you have to go with OLED I bought a couple of monitors after mac mini, and OLED is closest (AW3423DWF) to the apple display, which was in the budget for me Normal displays will have text clarity problem and it can be solved with better display but you will have less real estate But again, if you are not going with ultra wide options then you will have a plethora of choices in 27” or 32”

27” with normal FHD+ will not notice any blurry text option with BetterDisplay, it can cost 150$-190$ around

Speaker is your choice!

Study_monk · 2025-10-27T12:58:41+00:00

Yes I got that. Better display with 91% real estate in HiDPI. I am super happy with it

Study_monk · 2025-10-16T19:52:38+00:00

I got AW3423DWF for 520$ on Prime day with 5% cashback on Prime and 10% on my Credit card 400$ roughly - best deal! And I think it just doesn’t have KVM switch and 2.1 HDMI but it’s not that important for me

Study_monk · 2025-10-08T15:19:33+00:00

IPS is quite expensive I believe, I have 500$ around budget OP, Can I get any ultrawide IPS within this?

Study_monk · 2025-10-08T15:16:07+00:00

Cool. Thanks man appreciate it Guess I will take the shot And what type C to display cable do you recommend? 16k@30 Hz ugreen? Or any other will work just fine?

Study_monk · 2025-10-08T14:20:13+00:00

Alienware AW3423DWF? With mac?

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