Literally new

I came here because it says it's for beginners but I dont understand a single post Ive read so far 😂 Every ham-specific site Ive looked at reads like a website full of scraped barely coherent content geared towards equipment sales. Specifically, I would like to know: 1) An actually legitimate source I can read up on in terms of how ham works and what I need to do/learn to be able to do it 2) Entry-level equipment, preferably something on the more portable end 3) Willing to pay for quality but also not a weeks worth of groceries worth either. 4) Advice, pitfalls, groups, clubs or other nuggets of wisdom you'd like to share for a noob noob.

Thanks!