My (tech-based) goals:
Make an Ashley Graves Doom Wad
This is just changing the sprites of the character, audio, etc. However, perhaps if this wad gets popular in the COAAL community I might even make original levels, but the latter is far-fetch to think about for
Make an NES game:
I'll need to learn maths, computer science, and programming in assembly. Honestly, if I can get an NES game that simply says I AM DAVID WOLFE that would be cool. Perhaps after that I might use a C compiler, as I want to make a Super Tux port on the NES. Unfortunately, due to my mininalist lifestyle, I won't be buying an NES so flashing cartridges won't be part of this journey. Ultimately, the point of this goal is to move over to RISC-V which I think is neccesary for the open-source community, and therefore learn RISC-V assembly I'm getting ahead of myself.
Have my own imageboard
Popularity is not a factor, I'd probably be the only one submitting posts, however, it would be nice to say I have my own 4chan-like board.
Yes the latter two goals was inspired by Ashley Jones you should check her out.
Tech-based fantasies:
Make a video editor
Realistically, this is never going to happen. However, I'm struck by how open-source video editors such as Kdenlive, OpenShot, Shotcut, Flowblade, etc are so far behind video editors such as Vegas Pro 4 (which came out in 2003). To be clear, what sets them behind is not inherent technological flaws, but rather strange UI choices and missing simple features.
For example, some of the videos editors require you to first drop the files into the project media box before you can drop them in the timeline (VP4 allows you to drop into the timeline straight away). You might think this is nitpicking "who cares?" but understand it's basic features like these that can make the entire experience troublesome. If that hasn't convinced you, one of these video editors you can't select multiple keyframes when editing a clip, copy and paste the keyframes, you have to do it with individual keyframes (the other video editors, I couldn't even figure out the keyframe system).
If you think I'm CrAzZy, please, download any of these open-source video editors and replicate this very simple video I made in half an hour using Vegas Pro 13 (which came out in 2011) on Windows (the only reason I used Windows until I managed to get Vegas Pro 11 working on Linux ^_^).
I've been using Linux since June of 2012, I'm not one of those new Linux users you can gaslight, "uh dude why use adobe premiere? just use coloured pencils from the supermarket that's so much better and more efficent!" "uh actually, the open source alterantive DOES have this simple feature, you just have to perform 10 extra steps to replicate it!"
(some of you guys are straight up liars, you don't even use the programs, you just search up whatever open-source alternative there is and post it. One time I came across a post somebody asked an open source alternative to Vegas Pro and the upvoted comment was, get this, Handbrake. That's like comparing Photoshop and MS Paint. You people talk with such confidence and authority on matters you know nothing about, and then I HAVE to do the thinking on YOUR BEHALF and and then rebutt your points only for you to then go "Uhh actually thats not what i meant!" only to give an even STUPIDER logic than the one I came up for you).
I love Linux and open-source software, I switched to Linux in before early 2012, during the Windows 7 days (the last good Windows OS). But pretending it's "better" than software developed by multi-million dollar corporations is crazy-talk, it might be true nowdays but only because these propertiary software now shoehorn random AI features, cloud-based rather than running locally, subscription payments and advertisements), etc into their products, not because open-source software has inheriantly better features.
Realistically, I could use Vegas Pro 7 which came in in 2007, it has all the features I need (such as masking) but rendering using WINE was difficult due to software/codec limiations. For this reason, I use Vegas Pro 11 which can render up to 4k and uses more modern codecs which work better under WINE.