What is your end goal with this? Going for BSc in Computer Science / Engineering would enable you to become a developer / computer scientist.

Photo/video/vector editing seems very out of place in your plan. That's just another domain. If you're passionate about those visual arts, that's great and more power to you, but know they're not relevant for a computer scientist. Src: I've been there.

Regarding everything else you've said, it seems to me that you're learning stuff without a direction and just because you've heard those things (cs50 / linux), are important. I suggest you choose a moderately difficult task (game, app, tool, website, ehatever) that seems interesting for you to create, (install linux) and start working on it, and focus on finishing it. You'll learn a lot on the way and gain a broader understanding of how a project is pieced together. Most importantly, you'll figure out what you don't know, and thus eill have a direction going forward.

And don't get me wrong, you're right, you can gain a lot of valuable knowledge by going through cs50 or learning to use the linux terminal, but it's not really useful unless information, unless you apply it to a project.

There seems to be a general consesnus that feddiverse users don't want anything to do with meta and that instances will defederate with threads. I'm curious if the majority will follow this trend to avoid yet another EEE, or if there will be some exceptions. I bet meta will be open to pay good money to instance admins for "colaboration" if the instance is big enough.

I'm actually trying to avoid google, but thanks for the recc!!

I really like the first one. Gives a very interesting sense o perspective contrast. The dog looks big and the world around quite small. Collage vibes. Very nice!

I'm very much the same. Also because I use it for porridge quite a bit, and it feels pretty wrong to eat oats with... oats.

Care ar motivul pentru care nu pot gasi o comunitate externa cand o caut in search? E vorba despre neovim@sopuli.xyz.

Mi se pare ciudat pentru ca pot gasi alte comunitati de pe sopuli, dar pe aceasta nu.

I ran into simmilar issues with aurora a while ago. From my understanding this is not related to LOS or MicroG. It's just Google blocking the anonymous accounts used by Aurora. What others suggested and I successfully implemented is creating a dummy google account with no personal info, and use it to with Aurora.

A few notes on this. If they ask for a phone number for verification use some online service and immediately add fallback options for login (like an authenticator app - i recommend Aegis). My account got blocked after a few day, but i successfully recovered it aferwardas. Can be a bit of a hassle to setup, but it's been working without issues since then.

Exista vreun motiv bun pentru orice țară din UE sa poată avea veto în chestiuni de genul ăsta? Din perspectiva mea, pur si simplu se blochează progresul zonei noastre și întreaga unitatea a blocului comunitar e afectată că vrea Xulescu. Poate cineva mai cunoscător să explice de ce nu se iau deciziile majore pe baza unui vot majoritar (+75% de ex?)

doesn't seem open source but aurora store reports way less tracking compared to the adobe one, so this might be an option. thanks!

extrem de interesant. e usor sa judeci din exterior fara sa intelegi contextul si dificultatile comunitatii.

Nope. Checked it out now and seems to work very well! Thank you @Heine!

With that budget you should be able to get your hands on a machine with plenty of power. My recomendation would go to a lenovo t480/t480s. I was planning to buy one of those for myself but my current laptop is still good enough. Regardless of the device you choose, I would recomend portability over power: power efficient i5 4 cores, 8gb (idealy 16gb) ram, ssd storage, lightweight and good battery.

To answer your last question, you shouldn't be concerned about performance. Linux can give life to old hardware, but you're not really looking at old hardware.

As a cybersec student myself, I would suggest starting out with a generic linux distro and just install the tools you need as you go. If you really need kali, install it in a vm. I say this because I expect you'll use Linux as your daily driver, and Kali is NOT mean to be a daily driver, but a tool for when you need it. And "when you need it" will come with experience I guess.

not too bad

Mint is a very good start! If you don't like it you can always switch later

Interesting ideas! I'm don't do mobile dev either, but regarding your first point, I think the idea is very cool, but taking that direction would be very difficult. Achieving what you suggest the easy way is through a mobile app. The problem is that the if we're looking at older phones that are not supported anymore, they aren't secure, so we could run into problems there. The second option you suggested, which is a single purpose ROM seems very cool, but it also seems very daunting, as it is hardware specific from my understanding.

I'm not familiar with the animal prosthetic field too much, but could be an idea.

thank you, and please share more ideas if you can :)

Beautiful pic and wow, this must have been an exerience to be remembered. Would you mind sharing a bit more?

As other poster recommended, you should by all means install Linux and learn by using it as a daily driver.

It's hard for me to say because I haven't lived in another country other than my own for any amount of time. It's funny though how all the answers are countries in the west :)) Send some love to the balkans please.

these look very nice. please share the recipe!!

Haha, this unfortunately falls way out of my area of expertise :)