Does anyone else here participate in the selfhosting hobby without a formal IT related education or a career in a similar field? I’ve only had one or two programming courses as part of my university education, but it was only very basic Python and C. I’ve never formally learned how to use containers, version control or anything else. Sometimes I regret not pursuing an education in IT/programming because there are so many things I’d like to accomplish but can’t (for example if there’s a feature missing in some project, or to feel safe in my abilities to harden my servers and my network in order to expose services to the open internet).
I’ve been in film/television/video production my entire career. It’s a creative field that also relies heavily on ever-changing technology, so I’m not too outside of a tech field. But I’ve always been a geek. Eventually the enshittification comes for us all, and I said, fuck this, I’ll just figure out my own music server. Then, I’m gonna support the right to repair (Framework). I’ll use Linux, I’ll focus on privacy. And then it snowballed…and now I’m just the meat bag that keeps the 42U rack in my basement working :)