u/Idk_man_8128

Learned some basics of the C language and some fundamentals concept like variables, arrays, loops, pointers and learning about data structures. What should i do next ? Should i learn other concepts like OOP or sorting algorithms ? Or explore the other C libraries ? Or find a project to work on or contribute to one on Github for examples ? I don’t have any objectives except that i just want to learn programming and get better at it because why not, i don’t care about landing a job with it as soon as possible

Got myself an objectively horrible laptop, a NEC versa M350 with intel celeron, 512MB of DDR1 (YES DDR1) and sum like 80gb of storage HDD.

So aside from running a linux distro like tinyOS or whatever niche distro y’all have, what are other things i can do with it ? Ive got some experience with basic electronics and overall ain’t afraid of trying anything so give me your craziest ideas !

I know the answer is kinda obvious but i want to make SURE that i am not doing a dumb move. I have a dell Inspiron 14 7445, CPU is a AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS w/ Radeon 760M graphics and with 8GB of RAM, and for the very obvious reason that i do not want my pc to be bloated and have 80% of my RAM used with literally no softwares running, and that i hate that copilot ia, i want to go back to windows 10(that i never tried bcz i never had a pc before this one and it already had win 11) which is atleast a bit less annoying, my question is: what is the difference when speaking of performance ? I would like to know people who experienced both, because i do not trust what i read when i made my own research about the topic

I’ve always wondered how people like content creators or journalists or students find the information they need, like for example, at the moment i know that the AI bubble isn’t doing well from what people online are saying but i want to do my own research but it seems like just writing "AI reports" or something like that doesn’t show me interesting articles or trustworthy sources, so how do y’all find those ?