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I'm an English teacher who wanted to "cut the cord" wherever I could, so I started learning about domain hosts, containerization, .yaml files, etc.

Since then, I've been hosting several pods for file sharing and streaming for many years, and I'm currently thinking about learning kubernetes for home deployment. But why?

If you aren't in development, IT, cyber security, or in a related profession, what made you want to learn this on your own? What made you want to pick this up as a hobby?

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[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I've always been kind technically motivated. The only reason I didn't actually study computer science is that I had a great math teacher who made me fall in love with math. But I had it for a minor, and like to read stuff up from time to time. So, I guess I'm kinda in the grey area of being a person in tech.

Anyway, I love tinkering with stuff, so I inevitably got into self hosting. Nowadays, I've even started maintaining some self hosted software.