Yep. Sounds like you grew up in hell.

The hardware looks fine. I’d start by slapping some fresh bearings (Reds are always a safe bet) with spacers. Before spending money on trucks, I’d invest in wheels that match the surface he rides the most (street v park). Nothing kills the stoke faster than a slow board.

If it isn’t Linus Torvalds with Linux then it has to be Steve Wozniak and Apple.

100%, but OP said he was a complete noob. Given that they only have 4GB of RAM on an older computer, I suggested Lubuntu. But yes, no DE is best if they can manage it.

Another choice is Lubuntu, a lightweight and fast variant of Ubuntu, so the Ubuntu instructions you find online should still work.

When I was a kid I lived in the Caribbean where all the kids ate their veggies.

Deep fried.

No. Everyone always focuses on the flashy stuff like datacenters but the truth is that the most vulnerable, overtaxed, and underfunded weak-spot for the United States is the electric grid.

I stick with YT Music simply because I consume so much YT. That said, if YT Premium was not part of the deal, then I’d most likely go Tidal due to sound quality but also because YT Music has an annoying habit of serving up wrong versions of songs, including playing the audio track of the songs music video instead of the album track itself, or replacing my explicit lyrics version with a radio edit one.

I cannot answer if it is weird or not because I never valued others’ opinion of my relationships. That said, I would actually find it hurtful if my wife had no interest in my work. My work life consumes a large percentage of my waking moments and it is important to me. If I knew that the depth of her care for such a big part of me is whether or not my paycheck clears, I would feel very hurt. Plus, I would never feel like she’s fully part of my life if I am not able to share such a massive part of it with her. That’s just me, so please do not think that I am anywhere near average on the matter.

I haven’t seen it mentioned yet but I would add the mobile port of Wingspan.

bruv

NTA

…the first time we had sex, she took off my condom without permission…

This is sexual assault and illegal in some places. Granted it is normally the reverse, but I believe the law is written so that it goes both ways.

EDIT:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-consensual_condom_removal

This might all be a simulation.

We actually are the main character. We can only perceive the universe through the data our senses collect. We are each a ghost trapped in a meat sack, standing on a rock, hurtling through the universe. You are wholly incapable of seeing the universe through someone else’s perspective. The best you can do is analyze the data you’ve collected through your own senses and try to guess what someone else is experiencing.

Telepathic Orchid. Jury is still out but the cons should be fixable via firmware updates.

I’m old and “cooking” was old when I was young.

If I didn’t have dietary restrictions the Vietnamese and Puerto Rican (with Mexican essentially tied).

Not if said humans eat seafood.

Tech executive here. The likelihood of you being able to compete as a developer in the current job market when you cannot demonstrate skills, knowledge, or showcase your previous works is negligible. That said, you have access to the internet, FOSS, Git, presumably test environments at your school, teachers and fellow students to ask when you need help, etc.

Find a bunch of problems you’d like to solve or features you’d like to see and spend the next year cranking out projects. Make sure you have a portfolio fo projects that required multiple skillsets to achieve.

Also, there are a lot of free courses and even some certifications out there. AWS, Azure, and GCloud have all sorts of training available for free. Take some and use those skill to run some projects in cloud environments.

CONTAINERS!!!

EDIT: The best position you can be is one where you don’t want a job because you want to build your own thing. Be so good that companies want to compete to hire you away.