I love LaTeX and used it for my resume for years - you should be using a word doc. The autoreaders that everyone use can barely handle a PDF of straight text, .doc is so much easier to read programmatically. You can export your documents from OpenOffice or Only office as .doc, so no need to engage with Microsoft’s Office suite.
I would suggest making a LinkedIn not to post or anything, but basically as a small step of “I am a real person”. Toss a picture up, say how long you’ve been in school, write a little blurb on your interests, send requests to some buddies/professors.
Last thing I’d suggest is taking your resume and having some LLM jazz it up - ask it to be revised to be “more marketable” and see if you could skate by with the claims it makes. 95% of learning is done on the job, school is more to get you used to ways of thinking.
I just got a new job after years of applying, and I do think that these steps helped me as they were changes I made just a few months before getting an offer. I’m in software engineering so a bit different field, but feel free to shoot me a dm with your resume or anything and I could tell you if it at least reads an convincing to me.
My wife and I recently moved to a configuration like this since having a baby.
Realistically, the rare occasions we can watch tv it’s only one person, so you are kicking your legs out on the sofa anyway. You could totally lay back on the couch with this setup and watch comfortably, and when socializing it’s not everyone staring at a TV. Big win.