

I strongly relate to your experience, I am currently employed and basically doing my old job + learning devops/coding for our internal site.
I too have set up my own home NAS (proxmox with two computers running as nodes) with LXCs and a VM for HA. Have moved out of the cloud as much as possible and trying to cut ties to the major corporations wanting to profit off our data.
I am a leftist, nearly Marxist and work at a fucking financial institution that I hate because I have to make an income to help support us.
I wish so much I could work somewhere that aligned with my values, and want to quit so badly but I can’t leave us without my income for long and the job market sucks and it feels like learning coding/dev ops is a waste of time because of LLMs even though the evidence that they’re able to do the things claimed is non-existent (they’re helpful for sure but companies are seriously massively over-inflating their current capabilities and making stupid decisions because of it).
I want off this corporate bullshit ride.









Everything having connectivity is cool, I like automating stuff, the issue is it feeding all of your information to a company to profit off of it or worse.