It’s just an overpriced FreeBSD.

AI is currently all the rage. I know a guy who does neural networks training, and it’s the closest job to Pokemon trainer that you can have. He does not know any programming language, it’s all purely data processing, and it requires a heavy math background. It’s still an 8 hours per day job in a corporate environment, and a half of it is fixing his computing farm, because there’s no dedicated sysadmin for replacing burned videocards.

Another math-heavy option is signal processing. I’ve worked in a company which produces wireless communication hardware, it’s like 200 people, and there were two signal processing guys who patented an algorithm which increases data throughput by something like 0.5% in some specific high-noise scenarios, they are listed together with CEO on their website About page. That said, all the easier tasks for signal processing are already done, we’re already at the theoretical limit of Shannon theorem, so you’ll only be making gradual improvements.

I would also recommend cryptography research, but it requires a lot of coding knowledge, even if you’re not writing any actual code, and paranoia is pretty much a requirement.

Check for WiFi and Bluetooth drivers compatibility first. Every x86_64 motherboard should work with Linux well, as in, it will boot and all USB/PCI Express/SATA ports will work. What you should care are peripherals soldered onto the motherboard, like WiFi, Bluetooth, extra Ethernet ports, ten years ago I would say soundcards but nowadays all integrated soundcards are supported, some motherboards have strange ports like Firewire which might not be supported, integrated videocards are now soldered directly onto CPU and not on motherboards like before so HDMI ports should all work on any motherboard.

And yes, as the other commenter said, check that firmware update does not require some Windows program, and could be done only with USB drive and selecting some option in the BIOS/UEFI menu.

WebView. But only if you configure your system to use Firefox for WebView globally.

There are better fonts now for people with dyslexia. I think ADHD and dyslexia are different things though, there’s no specific ADHD font.

Ha, everyone knows that cocaine grows on coca trees, not banana trees.

It’s the fact they did not include all of CJK characters in their fancy new Roboto font, so we need to have several .ttf files for all languages.

In Russia, bad hackers are promoted to infantry. They also cannot make a decent living elsewhere, because they are conscripted and cannot leave the country.

Put on some socks you heathens

Donations are not sustainable. Many open-source projects tried them, and the only thing they can cover are server costs or conferences, developers are still working for free on their own time.

With North Korea included, it’s already more than two countries who are at war.

it’s used to verify that OpenGL ES2 works on your system. It’s the variant of 3D graphics drivers that is used on smartphones. Many apps nowadays write their GFX frontend with GLES2 so it uses the same code on phones and PCs, and if they compile the app to run in the web browser, WebGL is also based on GLES2.

Nah, it will end up simply as “John” in the database. You need “John%sDoe” to crash C software with unsafe printf() calls, and even then it’s better to use several “%s”

Someone wants to raise their Hirsch index, is all.

Among field troops in Vietnam it became common knowledge that ingestion of a small amount of C-4 would produce a “high” similar to that of ethanol. Others would ingest C-4, commonly obtained from a Claymore mine, to induce temporary illness in the hope of being sent on sick leave.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-4_(explosive)

Ah okay, Christian medieval traditions are weird.

How did ‘slave’ become ‘ciao’?

Torvalds kicked out a bunch of Russia-based kernel maintainers.

Hey, do you maybe know the Polish alphabet song? I was searching for it on the internet forever, but I don’t speak Polish so I could not google the correct phrase. It started like this (reconstructed from oral lore using Google Translate):

Berlin miastem w Niemczech leże

burdel - miejsce dla młodzieży

guzik to jest częścią ubrania

gówno jest produktem srania

dynia to jest do jedzenia

dupa to jest do pierdzenia

…

And it supposedly continued all the way to letter Z.

They were just called ‘tomatoes’ on the label. They also were more sweet than sour, and over-ripened.

You can use plum tomatoes, they are usually the cheapest, and will have the taste closest to the tomato paste.