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.

charonn0,
@charonn0@startrek.website avatar

Apartment building super. But also a computer geek.

crystalshower,

I’m a music composer and currently learning deep learning to help me compose music and arrange it. I don’t know if I should consider myself as a non-tech person or not.

sab,
@sab@kbin.social avatar

Political scientist checking in, but I'm doing statistics in R and installed Linux for the first time before I hit puberty, so I guess I'm not entirely non-technical.

Am here both out of an interest for open source and because I consider centralized social media platforms to be dangerous for society, so it seems worthwhile to help fight them. I'm also pushing 30, so I'm nostalgic to the days of yore of independent forums.

Dubious_Fart,

I fix (flatpanel) TVs as a side hustle, but I wouldnt call that technical since 90% of the time, its just a blown capacitor on the backlight power rail. 6% of the time, its a blown backlight itself, and the remaining 4% of the time its something else that usually requires in my personal experience, for me and my limited skills (Which is mostly just common sense and internet searching, no actual practical skill besides knowing how to solder), to either pass or part shotgun it, depending.

well, i’ve gotten a few broken screens, but those arent fixable, so i dont really count those.

mostly I’m just a gamer, and any technical skill I learn is because i’m forced to to unfuck something with my linux install, heh.

Makeshift,

Factory worker. Not tech illiterate but also not exactly an expert in any respect.

Have been abnormal though, Internet-wise. I only have a twitter to post crap from Switch to lazily import screenshots to computer. When Facebook asked for my real name I said fuck you and never looked back.

Reddit was the only social media that I actually used as social media.

Cross,

Union ironworker, mainly do heavy rigging and crane work. Not tech related at all, but I’ve helped build data c enters all over the US

ChuckLopez,

Airline pilot. Surprisingly low technical knowledge required considering how computerized airplanes are.

techconsulnerd,

Airplanes tech is designed easy to use for the pilot. You wouldn’t want to debug an error during a flight mid-air.

GiantChickDicks,

I have no tech background. I have a degree in communications that I’m wasting as a veterinary receptionist and doctors assistant. The discount is huge for people who have a lot of animals, and wait times for appointments are very long due to the shortage in the industry. My animals are seen right away for the slightest concerns, and they get top quality care for pennies on the dollar. They’ve got me by the short and curlies.

insomniackoala,

I am a doctor, not quite a techy person, I’m just tired of the shitshow that is conventional social media

jiaerene,

i’m a psychology student going to graduate school for counseling :) wouldn’t consider myself to have a tech background - tech savvy enough to build my own pc and troubleshoot common tech problems for friends, but not tech savvy enough to understand most open source technology

KinNectar,

I don’t have any IT background if you mean that. I have a decent tech savvy and work in an engineering oriented field though.

SouthEndSunset,

I work electrical maintenance in a hospital trust. We cover all sorts though.

HowlsSophie,

Human troubleshooting (I’m a therapist). My dad is an engineer who always built his own PCs and gave me a pretty solid foundation for the software side of things, as well as basic car knowledge. Haven’t kept up on that in a while but I’m Tier 1 tech support for my parents (my brother is Tier 2) 😂

MonsiuerPatEBrown,

I stopped doing the computering until around 2006 or so. At that point I was tired of slapping keys like some kind of psychology experiment bunny slapping the paddle in the cage when the light went off and on and off and on for them to spit up a food pellet.

And009,

Just curious, do you not need computers in your day to day and able to mostly avoid using one?

MonsiuerPatEBrown,

I find it impossible to avoid them. I write a lot, and I write using cursive and typing.

I avoid programming and doing sysadmin tasks. I avoid reading about this new programming language and that new framework.

Otherwise I have become simple luser.

And009,

Cursive is something the next gen might only hear about or learn in art/typography school. Gonna be a thing of the old.

My dad’s graduation certificate has the most beautiful cursive writing I’ve even seen whereas mine simply has a fancy print job.

MonsiuerPatEBrown,

Yeah, but i have found that I write differently if I am handwriting than when I type. So I think that it might stick around for that. And honestly I wrote cursive like a second grader for most of my life. I began practicing cursive for something cheap to do.

And like how learning some other musician’s song on guitar … a writer’s cheat is writing out the works of authors one admires is a great habit to allow influence. So don’t be quick to let it slip. And working on my cursive got me to start doodling and drawing again even in my middle age.

And009,

I’m one of those artists who write like a doctor. It’s on my bucket list to practice calligraphy. Probably would get around to that in my own middle age. Based on my research it helps sort out a lot of pathways in the brain too.

TronnaRaps,

Oil and gas pipeline intervention

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