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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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[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Former healthcare IT, holy crap do all digital health records systems seem to suck. Some of them suck in different ways, but none of the big ones anyway are great.

I get that there's a lot of semi-special use cases and regulatory requirements and so on, but at the end of the day it's text and images and a record of the changes to them. And it's not like this is a surprise problem. People have been trying to digitize stuff since at least the 90s. And yet every single system seems like it's only been in development for a few months and usually has trouble working with itself, much less any other record system.