Video game programming, because I’ve been doing that for more than 20 years.

Chinese food! More specifically, Sichuan and Northwestern style food.

I don’t need to pick a second one.

It should be possible to buy frozen durian in Germany, in asian supermarkets. Not sure if that’s an option.

When I was studying computer science I had a dual-boot setup on my laptop. I was never happy with a VM but it’s not a lot of work to set up so you could try that first! With dual-boot I could still use Windows if I absolutely needed it for a course. I can recommend the Arch Linux wiki, it has many articles and tutorials. It’s only really useful if you are using Arch Linux or a distro based on Arch, e.g. EndeavourOS

The downside is, you will be spending a lot of time customizing your Linux and fixing problems. This can be very rewarding and a great learning experience but it also takes time and effort. If you want to spend less time with your computer and more time talking to people offline or enjoying nature, installing Linux can be a bad idea.

Check out https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/ There is a list of books he wrote with free PDF and links to Kindle store. “Mencious Moldbug” is one of his pseudonyms.

Might want to add that yogurette by itself is a weird thing to eat.

Where I live you can buy only frozen Durian and it’s very expensive :/

32167 (Heroes of Might and Magic 2)

I would argue that people you are describing enjoying Tik Tok and being too lazy to look stuff up themselves, are not really engineers. You could also frame it as, information technology got so mainstream, even people with no technical background whatsoever are part of it. Engineers and tech nerds still exist, but they are a minority now.

I always thought cigarettes contain tar, as in the substance asphalt on the road is made from. It always felt weird to me, why would they put it in the cigarettes but I figured maybe they need it so the tobacco doesn’t fall out or something.

Paper drinking straws