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Do you participate in this hobby without a formal IT education or a career in a similar field?

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).

Replying to @⁨blight@piefed.blahaj.zone⁩

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters ISP Internet Service Provider LAMP Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP stack for webhosting NAS Network-Attached Storage Plex Brand of media server package VPN Virtual Private Network

5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 11 acronyms.

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