The very best thing about #learning how to write your own #computer #programs may be, that other #programmers have no longer a say on what type, or how old, a computer you should be using... or which #operatingsystem you should have installed in it. In short, they no longer get to define the system requirements of anything. Quite the contrary, it is you, the owner, the only one who decide that once you get closer to the silicon.
At a time when #LinusTorvalds ditches almost everything #32bit, while selling his soul to the #AI coded computer weapon industry that is killing little girls in #Iran right now, this advantage of computer #independence shouldn't be taken lightly. As a bonus, by denying #GitHub of your code, you won't be training automatic killing #drones.
Just buy yourself an old #laptop, for literal peanuts, in the second hand market... one with a sturdy, funtional case... install something like #FreeDOS in it, and fire up something fun for your first programming experiences, like a #BASIC interpreter (because AI prompt programmers have no authority to tell you what language is best). Soon you'll watch yourself writing programs for 286 computers and mere KBs of #RAM, which do the exact same thing as programs written for #64bit architectures with RAM in the order of gigabytes. Undoubtly better written, too, if system resource efficiency is any tell.
And you'll be sparing #Africa from at least some electronic #garbage, which the west dumps on them all the time, just because their skin isn't #white enough. Garbage dumping which the open source collaborators like Torvalds are only enthusiatic about, by declaring perfectly working systems as " #obsolete " overnight... just like any other guy from the tech industry, suffering of a billion dollar complex, would do. To think that #Minix was so much better designed, while running on far more modest #hardware than even the first version of #Linux, without the dubious distinction of being " #opensource " just to help in building and training Claude years later. Dear Linus, you should have paid more attention to your teacher, Andrew Tanenbaum. He was right about everything.