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How many Lemmy users are non-technical background?
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Been in the foodservice industry for a lot of years. Quit that and switched to nonprofit social services.
I am of the age that I remember helping my mom set the time on her VCR so it would stop blinking 12:00. Now I need my kids to help me with stuff they consider pretty basic.
I am a geek by nature and an IT tech by trade. But my kids still need to help me with basic windows stuff. It dawned on me qhen I entered my 40's that while I'm technically adept beyond most people in many areas, I simply stopped caring about other areas that is still in the same field.
At work I usually say "If your PC has a monitor, I won't be of much help" when I get asked about "normal" IT stuff. I can build you a petabyte-sized server cluster and route it around the world via VPN over maritime satellites, but ask me how to find stuff in any windows control panel and I'm going to come up short.