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How many Lemmy users are non-technical background? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by techconsulnerd@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] sab@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've been trying to help my girlfriend with her computer lately. After several months I've gotten to the point that she understands that her documents are stored in files within folders on her MacBook, rather than existing only within Word or whatever software she used to create them.

She still struggles with intentionally saving them in designated folders, but we're making progress.

To be fair, I blame this more on the design of OS X than on her.

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah for some reason this stuff is just really hard for some people. It doesn't fit their brain. But other things will perfectly. I think human brains are just more different than we understand.

My girlfriend can remember all her dreams and retell them when she wakes up. And she is sometimes aware she is dreaming and can do anything in the dream. I would kill for that ability, it's super cool. But to her, it's not even interesting. I asked, why don't you just fly around and explore the universe. And she just responded that since she knows it's not real, it's not interesting and pointless.

[–] sab@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Oh wow - I have a lucid dream every once in a blue moon, and you betcha I'm flying all over the place. I guess it gets less exotic when it's happening frequently.