How many Lemmy users are non-technical background?
I think most all of us here on Lemmy are people with technical background. Most of my professional contacts remained using Reddit, Twitter and even excited when Threads launched.
If you are non-tech background, please comment and share what you do for life.
If you have tech background, upvote this to help promote this post so that we can find more non-tech users on Lemmy.
This applies to me, except I’m an English major and had to cheat to pass high school math even with a full time tutor! I’m not intimidated by technical stuff though; when I get stuck I can usually find the answers by Googling. I did get pretty frustrated by how many times I had to try to simply get an account opened, and I still hate that I can’t see my password when I log in.
Arborist. No real tech background or skills but always been interested in tech trends and issues, so I keep up with those things more than the average person.
Not really, unfortunately. I added all that seemed relevant but most aren’t really active yet. I was thinking of making a tree focused community but haven’t had time.
Community created! !treehuggers. Please consider submitting something–as a new community it will only be successful if we reach a critical mass of content.
Lecturer at a university! I am a political economist working on post-growth/post-development and trying to change the economics discipline. So I guess I feel quite good on Lemmy now, better than reddit 😁
I often nervously wonder what will happen when society hits the post-growth phase and worry about what will happen to the stock markets since our retirement depends on it.
The transition is what is scary and complicated with post-growth and that is very much understandable… Because we can envision how it would look like, but for this, systemic change is needed, and we know how well changing everything at the same time is impossible and/or won’t go the way we envisioned it at first. And pensions are not working the same everywhere, so transitions wouldn’t be the same everywhere too.
Couple references though about transforming pension schemes and how a different monetary system would contribute to it too, hope it may help already! (Second one is a PhD dissertation, but the guy already published articles, at least the dissertation is open access!):
Bro I don’t even understand what a server is. My spouse explains it to me like every second week and I get it for like 30 seconds but I just don’t understand to remember. I’m also not sure what a router is. Apparently Wifi is like radio, just waves? Wtf
I’ve got a MSc degree in Biomedicine and before going on parental leave (still am) I’ve worked in pharmaceutical research and with DNA/RNA analytical services in the lab. My biggest tech experience was trying to code with R and I hated it and it was a mess.
A server is nothing more than a computer that is always running 24/7.
The server (or actually, computer) can do a lot of different things, such as simply storing a lot of files, streaming these files, download other files, etc.
Besides that, the server can run programs like Lemmy and because the server is generally 24/7, the Lemmy program will also be accessible 24/7.
Edit with an analogy: A server is similar to a literal restaurant-server. People can request data (such as a file) from a server and the server will serve that file to the people who requested it. Just like how people order food from the server in a restaurant, people ‘order’ data (such as a file or image) from the server.
It really is. Even for data analysis there are (apparently and hopefully) much better programs/languages (not sure what term would be correct here). I was actually assigned to an institude for computational biology to help me with the coding for my Master’s thesis but the people DID NOT USE R so they didn’t provide any help anyway. And I had to use R. They mostly used mathlab. Later, when I started working, Graphpad Prism absolutely did the job necessary. Most of the “coding” I used R for could have honestly just be done in Excel.
But the worst part of it is making it through and it completely doesn’t matter. Like, people who actually code for a living don’t care in the slightest about R. Just because I now have fought my way through it doesn’t mean it is anywhere useful to learn C or PHP or whatever, mostly because the field of use is so narrow and specific and not one of those “universal” languages (for lack of a better term) that you actually can build software and websites and apps with. I cannot code anything “for fun” even if I wanted to. I remember there was something HTML something in R, but come on. (Also I forgot what HTML is.) This is not what it is used for and it gives me nothing. While my spouse, who is a software developer with the patience of a saint when it comes to my stupid questions, used his knowledge of python to learn Rust and then play around with C and now Go and even go to a conference about Go and actually understand whats going on there. There seem to be much more crosslinks and transferring going on and also a similar usefulness.
Please excuse the R-rant/R-rage, I am really frustrated about it because I went in with the best intentions and I wasted a year on this bullshit and it doesn’t even make my CV look good.
I assume, considering this is the fediverse, that by “technical” you mean IT-related, Silicon Valley type fields.
While I grew up on computers and know my way around them, and have a bachelor’s degree in biochem, I’m an Operating Engineer.
That’s the proper title of “union guy that runs heavy construction equipment.” Mostly, I help build or resurface roads.
I’m one of the guys y’all get irritated with when your local highway is restricted to one lane by a work enclosure, but are thankful for when your new road rides nice.
It pays really well though, so there’s that. And it is actually very technical, but in a materials/engineering sense.
Wastewater Operator. We have an older gentleman at my job who refuses to use computers at all. We still do everything with paper and pen. Nothing is digitized.
Probably literally mails them with postage, spending money on stamps and such.
Nowadays you can be like “oh shit my bill is due, gotta open up my finance app to pay the bill.” Before it was the same but you had to remember 3 business days in advance for the postage delivery times.
I’m an assembly line worker and have been for about five years now at different factories. Refrigerators, car parts, ag equipment, etc.
There’s a job opening coming up at a plant that offers college benefits though, so hopefully I get to join y’all in tech in a few years. Hopefully working with so many robots and machines will give me an advantage through sheer osmosis lol
I wish you luck! College/university is amazing! I wanna go back (went for trades) but it’s super expensive and I managed to land a job in tech without a degree. We will see though.
Cinema worker, diorama maker/sometime animator. I jumped ship from Reddit about 2 days before RiF became unusable. Have been progressively finding more (if not identical) interests to pursue in fediverse, and unexpectedly contributing more content than I did on Reddit.
Whoa, wait… diorama maker? Is that a hobby or a side gig? Do you have examples you could share? I’m quite curious as to what adult-made diorama’s look like outside of something like DnD.
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