I’m not tech-savvy or all that smart when it comes to a lot things tech based, but I keep trying, and I’ve always had a healthy curiosity to want to know enough to at least try to follow along

This is worth so much more than knowledge any day.

I keep trying, and I’ve always had a healthy curiosity

As I recall, this is the essence of the classical hacker mindset:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Hacker_Manifesto

https://web.archive.org/web/20130827121341/http://cosman246.com/jargon.html#hacker

but I keep trying, and I’ve always had a healthy curiosity to want to know enough to at least try to follow along.

That's one quality that becomes more rare these days. And it's quite sad to see.