Since I was 3 years old with a high end at the time Toshiba satellite with a Pentium 4 (!) and a GeForce 4 series GPU (!!), I've always loved computers and I didn't understand at the time of course what a CPU or GPU was, let alone how it worked in any capacity. But it was just insane how impressive it was to me compared to all the other technology I was surrounded by, I thought that no other computer could beat it, no other screen could beat it, it was even better than our 22 inch CRT TV!
Obviously now it seems laughably slow compared to the modern processors, or even compared to smartphones SoCs. The laptop still works 20+ years later, if only the hinge wasn't broken, otherwise I would attempt to use it more than once in a blue moon.
Now I'm in a community college to study for Engineering. It took me a while to decide on that, with me considering IT and video game programming, but I realized with how much reverse engineering of games I've been doing in my free time, and having to learn about x86 and PowerPC in the process, I want to be learning how the actual architecture of CPU's and SoCs work and to eventually help develop them. As to me there's nothing much cooler than working on something that highly advanced.
Besides knowing about computers I also love cars especially of course the engineering and aerodynamics of them (most likely why I also love planes). Would love to do car racing or even own a plane but both are out of the realm of possibility currently, so stuck with just flying in Ace Combat 7 and Project Wingman.
I'm in progress for learning German just for a friend I know, not amazing at it, but definitely getting better at it than the average American. Speaking of America, I wouldn't mind going to a different country like Germany, Switzerland, Norway, and many other countries within this decade, for reasons like studying, or being with people I know overseas, and generally just political reasons.
