I kind of have to opposite but a similar problem. I'm diagnosed autistic, so while I am great at self teaching, I also tend to hyperfocus. This lead me to be a kind of one trick pony, but I'm really good at that one thing. And I think my lack of diversification is killing me. I just don't have broad enough knowledge to cover a full position. That and well...I'm awkward in interviews, with the no eye contact, reciprocating responses, and tendency to ramble.
yeah I have a weird wifi dongle that runs the driver via dkms. It was a pain for years, because with every major driver update I had to reinstall it. But the last time I installed it, the repo I found had an autoinstaller, so now it gets automatically gets added when the kernel updates. what a life saver.