I did LFS after I started dailying gentoo with a custom kernel (~2017), it was actually fairly easy, if not time consuming. People on IRC are extremely helpful.

I did LFS after I started dailying gentoo with a custom kernel (~2017), it was actually fairly easy, if not time consuming. People on IRC are extremely helpful. These days I write code more than infra, but I still think it was valuable. That combined with my general interest in Linux probably saved me thousands in cloud costs. Linux is a dying art among young software engineers, but alive among young nerds. Even among infra/devops people, maybe if they learned more about linux they wouldn't reach for k8s to solve the simplest problems.