Computers: Don't you love'em?
I first learned about computers on a borrowed TRS 80 computer from Radio Shack, then an NEC PC8801A hybrid CPM/MSDOS machine. These two provided learning about spreadsheets and bookkeeping, word processing and brochures, mail-merge letters, and databases.
The work at the environmental monitoring company provided continued learning about these items, plus programming in interpreted languages such as a proprietary report language and Basic, and a little C. The bulk of my experience was with the company's data acquisition system running on a Unix-based system, so there was some system administration involved, often remotely with customers' machines.
Work for the Western Methodist Justice Movement, Affirmation, and the Reconciling Congregation Program and at the legacy Rocky Mountain Conference provided in-depth learning about web site development, programming and maintenance.
So I enjoy computer-related stuff. I have a couple of Linux/GNU (Ubuntu), systems, one on a box put together from parts from my "junk box." It has an old motherboard that can access 5.25" and 3.5" floppy drives to recover things I wrote years ago... It is fun getting "under the hood", putting it all together, and keeping it running.
Besides the above box, I have a small HP machine and a hand-me-down Asus server with terabytes of storage!
I showed my appreciation several years ago to Dell for offering a computer with Linux preloaded by buying a laptop with Ubuntu 9.04; several laptops later, my laptop now runs Ubuntu 24! Suspends, has fast video, large SSD and lots of memory. I like it! Oh, and it is dual-booted with Windows 11.
When I worked at the Rocky Mountain Conference office, I helped in a refurbishing project bringing free or low-cost computers to churches and pastors. The free ones used the free and open source software Ubuntu Linux operating with free and open source software office suite, web browser, e-mail client, bookkeeping, and Bible study.
We have CenturyLink/Lumen fiber to our house. Besides the router functions of the CL box, we have a wireless router which also protects the computers and smartphones. The printer is an Epson ET 4750, accessible through the network. No problems getting it networked with my Linux box, or my partner's Windows machine.
I enjoy surfing the Web, and learning about all kinds of things from TCP/IP networking, CSS, Joomla!, to PHP.