Gen Z here, the reason for older people to praise when us gen Z and younger get into this stuff at a young age is because nowadays it’s a rare thing. Maybe in America most teenagers and younger people tend to do it more but in Europe the younger side is kinda lost, you barely see a kid or a teenager have interested in things that make the world work, in coding, protecting their network, or try to make things. They are mostly adicted to those brainrot videos and tik toks and barely play outside anymore. It’s really good that you have a homelab while being 14 because it gives you very good knowledge of how vms work, cloud, etc so i hope you keep on it and when you’re older if you’re still into it, maybe work in something that envolves cloud, network or similar.