A lot of my interest in computers stems from early childhood trauma. As a young kid I had … let's call it a "Lemony Snicket" period, where several exceptionally terrible things happened to my family. These events were not just horrible, but also basically *random*; caused by the fundamental indifference of the universe to our existence, and (mostly) not by the malice of human beings. This lead to me seeking a feeling of control. (For elder millennial tech nerds, this is not an uncommon origin.)