Asklemmy

My only background is in Hell/customer service. Like most of us, Reddit was home for so long. I wouldn't call myself super tech-savvy, but I fucked around with the Fediverse, figured it out and am happy to not create content for that shitbird Spez. Thanks for listening

I'm a real estate office drone who loves guitar and video games. Took a programming 101 class and absolutely hated it. Fuck Spez!

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.

Construction industry project manager here.

Sure, we use lots of tech and actually build a lot of the data-centers and fabs that are the backbone of the internet and modern computing, but the on-the-ground nuts and bolts of what we do is very much about highly-skilled tradesmen performing manual work that can't be done remotely or by robots.

So it's not really "tech" per se at all, even though we do a ton of work for companies like Intel, Google, Meta and the like.

Apartment building super. But also a computer geek.

I am a loader on a dust cart. I found out about this type of website through my brother, who was mates with the IT guy where he worked. He told him about Digg and reddit, which I then joined. I actually prefer the tech side of things rather than everything being memes.

Soon to be brewer. But I play with Linux (after w 10 got too heavy with updates).

There is non-tech and non-technical.

I'm not in a tech field, but I'm in an engineering field and there is a lot of technical knowledge in that.

I'm a medical lab manager. I don't work in tech professionally, but it has always interested me. By default I handle all my labs technical issues. Lol I loved using reddit via a 3rd party app and was disgusted how things were handled so I have come here to test the waters. So far I'm finding this exciting and I'm having fun!

I love seeing the diversity in here! And so many people actually participating.

I think a lot of people here who are not into tech in a non-professional capacity are into "nerd" stuff as a hobby. Including me. I don't know if I count, but I'm looking forward into working in tech, kinda terified because I run the chance of getting my hobby jaded.

Tax consultant

I used to be an accountant. I’m in the process of changing careers. It still won’t be tech related.

Psychologist, work in schools. I feel like I'm slightly more tech-inclined than my peers but idk

I'm technical. But I would love to hear from people who aren't. It's impressive for someone who isn't technical to be on Lemmy I think.

My tech background is in the fact that our family computer in the early 2000s wasn't powerful enough to do much and my parents wouldn't pay for games, so I spent a ton of time digging around in Control Panel and system files and messing up the BIOS settings.

My studies have all been in the humanities and I've never worked in an actual tech role; I got into scripting and self-hosting because I'm lazy, I like FOSS, and I like systems that work in the way I tell them to rather than how someone else thinks they should work.

US Navy Sailor: Professional PowerPoint Ranger, not computer troubleshooter. That’s for my IT homies sitting in their Div office onboard, and why I make sure they stay supplied with whatever snacks they want.

Im in HVAC/plumbing. But I mainly install the stuff.

I built my own Computer, use Linux and am passionate about floss and privacy issues.

I’m a stand-up comic and game show host. I migrated from reddit, where I founded /r/feminineboys and then passed it to capable moderators and abandoned the site as Apollo died.

A humanist here, working in the cultural heritage (which is also increasingly digital) field.

I reckon I have more computer skills than an average user but in no way I am a "techie". It's just that I know how to search for tech solutions and am not afraid of breaking the computer. Due to using Unity I also have some experience with C# and currently I am trying to learn python (mostly just for fun but you'll never know if it ends up being helpful at some point).

So definetily not a tech person, but interested in both the humanist and technological side if life.

I’m not super into tech and I work in a bookstore. I heard about the fediverse thru various sources on the red site.

I don't know if I count but I'm a communications student. Information technology is somewhat related but this field isn't pragmatic when it comes to that. I'm probably one of the few students here who's interested in studying (alternative) media platforms over media content.

It's rare to have dicussions on things like copyleft, privacy, open-source software, and decentralized communications platforms, all of which I genuinely believe are worthwhile topics in this field.

I work in a bank and have very little technical knowledge about mechanics, software, coding and web design. However, I know a good deal about computer hardware, as one of my hobbies is fixing and building computers.

Musician now studying compsci because I dun wanna starve :(

I have my own carpet installation business, no formal tech knowledge but I'm a hobbyist and taught myself html and some visual basic in the late 90s early 00s when I was a young teenager and have always built my own computers to play games on, somice always had an interest without ever really getting involved as a.career 35 yo currently.

Marketing, illustration, and graphic design here. I also dabble in music making but have yet to do anything interesting.

I'm a professional dev, but I'm also mostly shite with technology. So whether that counts is up to you I guess.

I am not technical however I can follow instructions very well. When people were migrating i read a bunch of the stuff and finally got here.

I’m a math education major and a stay at home mom

My MIL can program cobol but can’t use her iphone lol

Depends on what you mean by "background". I'm an ex-lawyer (practiced for a couple years, but hated it, doing other law-related things), but I'm an old school geek that was using the internet in the late 80s, building my own boxes in the 90s, etc. I'm also a woman.

I like the fediverse because it reminds me of the free-wheeling, anarchical days of the interbutts in the early 90s with IRC (EFnet only, mind), usenet, etc., before Endless September.

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'm techie by gift, not by trade. I'm an MA in philosophy. Teaching is my main activity.

Well, I'm here. I'm loving the fediverse. And I'm kinda from outside tech, although being IT literate. So perhaps I should be counted as having a technical background.

I’m a real estate advisor so definitely non-technical though I do consider myself more familiar with the workings of computers and most other tech than the average person. I’m familiar with the Linux command line at a basic level and have run Linux on my PCs before. I’m also somewhat concerned about online privacy and frustrated over how capitalism is largely destroying the best things about the internet, something which seems to have accelerated as of late..

I'm a teenager with a maintenance job, interested in game design tho.