Same with me. I had just changed my SIM last month, forced by the phone company. Luckily I had an inactive eSIM from a trip abroad from last year as IMEI2; that Google liked.
First Linux I bought was Walnut Creek Linux CD-ROM. Second was Redhat. I would still be on Redhat if it were not for IBM and their bad faith source-available interpretation of the GPL. Then I bought Mandrake and used it as long as it was Mandrake and not the thing that became Conectiva. Then I heard about Ubuntu which would mail free CDs anywhere in the world. I was in education back then and my students would ask Ubuntu for CDs for a class I was teaching, and Canonical sent them a cardboard display, flyers, stickers, and about 50 CDs. They watched in class Revolution OS and contacted many of the people on it, which were kind enough to answer them. Those were the times; I'm old, yet still looking for a job because I love the industry.
My girls, then aged 10 and 12, made it through the Coursera ECS first course. They are not geniuses, but the material is stellar. I helped them in a couple of assignments. They enjoyed it, even tough not one of them went the STEM route. They became the smart artsy young women that make art and music with computers.