[ThrowawayR2]

> AMD, ARM and NVIDIA are more my speed.

An important question to ask yourself is: what do you envision yourself doing at companies like these?

> Since I can't get an internship at a place like this then something as "internship-like" as possible.

AFAIK, there isn't any such thing. Unlike web jobs, where demand is (for the moment) so high that even less experienced people have at least some chance of being considered, systems programming jobs more or less require you to know your stuff up-front because most of the abstractions that web or app programmers take for granted simply don't exist at the systems programming level.