I contributed a feature to the .NET JIT without knowing C++.
I really dont know C++, I have at most wrote 300 lines while following a tutorial 6 years ago.

Contributing to big project can earn you more recognition than doing little project from scratch.
You know JS ? Contribute to some libs.
Found a bug in chrome ? Report the bug, learn a bit of C++, and submit a patch to fix it.

Got acquired and rised price.

the what

Or vtuber tech.

When you are bored, backup a VM then hard kill it and see if it manage to restart properly.
Software should be able to recover from that.
If it doesn’t, troubleshoot.