TRS 80 sans disk drive. My school library and local library had BASIC programs in the books. I'm now a SR Software Engineer. Wild. My first phone couldn't even text... Whatever it was.
Probably not here for me in America (F yeah!). I've been hospitalized with multiple over night stays like 18 times or so since it started. They took my gallbladder for good measure... it was fine... should have left it. Lets throw paint at a wall and see if it sticks! I'm fine. People deal with way worse. I just hope you and yours are as good as you can be.
Started with Gentoo. Early 2000's. 24 painful install. Moved to fedora shortly after. Keep going back between Arch and Ubuntu over the years. It's all so easy and accessible now.
Been fighting a dying pancreas since 2016. Dropped from 212 to 120lbs. My body doesn't Absorb the food I injest. Pancreas dumps awful amounts of acid into my stomach. I throw up almost daily sometimes up to a dozen times. I take very expensive pig enzymes to compensate for my body not absorbing food. It's an absolute mess. I feel your pain. At 40 I'm feeling pretty bleak. Hang in there. Pancreatitis is a terrible thing. Especially chronic
When I was a kid my mom took us to the library all the time. I always got programming books for BASIC. Like 30 years later I'm a SR Software Engineer. It works. Educate your kids. At least don't inhibit them.
Having lived in Kansas for 4 years... No. Kill me. I refuse to ever again.