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.
Professional land surveyor. Work a lot with raw digital data, with some experience in various coding languages to manipulate the data. Plus I know computer stuff pretty well.
I don’t have much technical background, but wanted to share somewhere that… last month, some news apps on my Android 13 phone stopped loading; most importantly, Germany’s Deutsche Welle, but also another public broadcasters’apps from Germany, and to a lesser degree the British BBC. I live and I’m from the country south of the border of the US, and my ISP used to be the dominant one (not anymore).
Checked if the apps would run fine on my phone’s network, not the landline ISP. They did. They also ran smooth with a VPN, an integrated proxy, and finally, with another ISP, after I cancelled with the previous one. So, I guess it may have been the dominant ISP. Other news apps and anything else ran fine.
Are you used to these things happening every once in a while and I shouldn’t make a big deal of it?
I honestly don’t know where I fall on this spectrum. I went to college for Musical Theatre. On the other hand, I am a huge tech enthusiast. But I feel like an idiot savant. I have experience with raspberry pis, creating mods for pc games, and some elementary Python understanding, but my understanding is very paint by numbers. If there’s not multiple articles with information on a project, I’m probably not going to be able to solve it. So like, right in the middle maybe? I’d make for a good rubber duck.
I’m working on my PhD in Immunology, and seeing how many people are going back for their MBA worries me! I hope it wasn’t because you couldn’t find a job you liked.
In my case my PhD took too long and I felt burnt out to the extent that I kind of lost interest in my subject. Also salary from teaching after PhD was shitty. Now I am actually enjoying studying something new and interesting. My mental health is also much better now. Just hope I get some job after MBA that I would actually like to do.
I had problems with Linix Mint so I switched, very good so far. No problems at all besides switching init systems from runit to openrc because I did not like runit commands 😂
I am a ux designer and design in a tech company so I am around tech and development often. I also can do the bare minimum of coding as a hobby and enjoying tech topics.
It would be nice if lemmy had more non-tech communities as well though, but they are growing in number. I haven’t used other social media besides Reddit or lemmy for years now and have no interest in any other.
I like having many that are not even close to news related and maybe not tech (because that is often a news articles) because I just need a break from that sometimes. I like having art, travel, books, diy/crafting, and world building type subs/instances to follow. I found some after one by one going through my Reddit subs and searching for suitable (active) replacements. I used some tool that someone made that searches all instances for anything related to your search term. I can find specifics if anyone is interested.
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