One way I've been trying personally is just gathering as much information as possible and remembering it. I've always been super bad at history and biology because of my resistance to memorization, but I'm slowly keeping up while trying not the get burnt out.
Of course, after I have enough info, that'll inform me of what the next move is, I hope, because if I do anymore now I'll just crumble
I'm not very knowledgeable in existing works, but Stray is an incredible game that explores this idea I think. I haven't finished it but what I've played so far is fantastic and immersive in that sort of world
I mean I don't particularly hate having to compile everything myself, and your point about minimum requirements should've hit me wayyyy sooner. I really only planned to try RISC-V on my laptop since I only use it for productivity purposes anyways
Currently at the crossroads from newborn paranoid into either this or tech paranoid, it's so joever