Some companies are smart, and specialize in hiring qualified workers that don't have the right degrees, because other companies wouldn't and hence they're cheap.
I'm working for a company like that
It's frustrating for the above-mentioned reasons, and because you know you're just disposable once your internship ends and they would have to pay for your work
But at least you can get virtually any kind of job you would like through internships, if you want to do dev, security, devops, ...
It's also a first experience to write on your resume, and you will meet contacts who can recommend you.
Because once you have experience, degrees become irrelevant
I mean, anyway, being naturalised here happens when you are in a stable situation, and is very symbolic in that case, so there is no rush.
If you live in France, you are welcome to be in here, you can vote for local elections if you're from the EU, you pay taxes or not according to your income, like anyone else, you can access the full social security system and other public services,...
I understand that being French is a stateless concept about living in here and sharing the moment, and it's not just a legal status ; so it makes sense if it takes time, but it arrives eventually.
Legally, the government has to reply within 18 months after your application, according to the page about Naturalisation on service-public.fr, an official website (idk if I may post links)
In some cities like Lyon, you can indeed wait 1+ year for the process.
Informally, the Administration / "Préfectures" are infamous for being slow, and requests are processed in each administrative division, so you'd rather not be in a city where there are a lot of applicants.
And the results are pretty similar to the 2018 vote on cancelling their public broadcaster, which also highlighted questions of corruptibility of big companies, but was not around privacy, technology, or surveillance.
That can also be read on the scale of "privatize anything because the state should just make 'laws'"/"have a public sector to offer basic services to citizens", that is a debate in Europe
The latest European standard for IDs is a credit-card sized of plastic with a chip in it.
It should allow more security, because digital signature is harder to forge than previous physical securities.
But also you could use them more easily in other countries, as it can be read by a computer, and not a human that speaks a finite set of languages.
Lastly, you could use them for authentication for various online and daily services, such as banking, taxes, creation of companies, digital signature,... that are said to save time on logistics.
But I'm concerned that a company can tell you what you can or can't do with your hardware.
Where is the spirit behind the hacker community, Jailbreaking iPhones, the right to repair, the ban of tattoos that prevented the use of Linux on PCs,...
That's a very concerning move from me.
Also, for a company that does morale :
(1) Nvidia's marketing is one of the best for making old products look obsolete and replaceable.
Most gamers would do great with their old gen card, they just don't need to upgrade already. But they reserve cards for them so that they can create as much e-waste as they want
(2) they could just have prevented supply issues if their supply chains were diverse and resilient. But it turns out they aren't. And it's not something that was asked by the gamers
(3) for a company that's focused around gamers, they have already prevented powerful "crypto" GPUs from being repurposed into gaming gear, as featured in LTT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY4s35uULg4
You could try to find apprenticeships.
Some companies are smart, and specialize in hiring qualified workers that don't have the right degrees, because other companies wouldn't and hence they're cheap. I'm working for a company like that
It's frustrating for the above-mentioned reasons, and because you know you're just disposable once your internship ends and they would have to pay for your work
But at least you can get virtually any kind of job you would like through internships, if you want to do dev, security, devops, ... It's also a first experience to write on your resume, and you will meet contacts who can recommend you. Because once you have experience, degrees become irrelevant