Asklemmy

Not exactly. I'm kind of a "learn what I need to to get by" person. I'm not really a Linux person... but my old laptop took 15 minutes to boot up, and the hardware obsoleted out of windows updates, so now I have Linux.

I ran out of space in Google Photos. I would've happily bought more space but they told me I'd have free backup space forever if I compressed my photos. When they changed that policy I realized I was being jerked around. So then I got a raspberry pi, and learned how to (barely) set up a server to run Immich.

I liked browsing reddit, but, again, I don't like being jerked around, so here I am.

Yes. It’s a tech/ nerd bubble here.

I'm a water engineer with a PhD, so not a tech nerd but definitely a nerd :) I came here mostly because I find the Reddit app annoying and the app I was using came here.

yes i am partially computer

Yes, I am in networking and cybersecurity so it was a matter of time before I found out there was a better alternative to reddit

Yes. I've worked in tech ever since I was able to teach myself enough to hold a job amongst people with CS degrees. I hadn't been on Reddit for a lot of years up until six months before the exodus. I had no account and only consumed. Here feels worth submitting links and discussing things.

I'm just here for the Reddit alternative. Being FOSS is a bonus.

I'd say I'm more of a computer person than the average person, but less so than the average Lemmy user.

I came to Lemmy just looking for a Reddit alternative. I think this is a superior forum system with user scoring and nested comments. But I do love that it is open and federated and I'm glad to be rid of Reddit completely.

I am a huge tech nerd and love doing these things as side projects (but I prefer making hardware). I like making stuff so the things I've been making/setting up are:

• Setting up a R.Pi as a retro gaming console
• R.Pi Kodi media player
• Putting together a hotswap keyboard from a kit
• Migrating to privacy alternatives and degoogling my life
• Migrating to Linux
• Making a fight game controller from scratch
• Making a custom keyboard with soldering and custom layout (and then again for having the same keyboard at work)
• Building a new gaming PC
• Getting a synology NAS and going down the Docker rabbit hole
• Making another fight game controller.......or 3

Now I'm planning making a DIY microphone for MS Teams meetings

I'm a little of both, I joined for escaping the reddit blackout shutdown, but I stayed for the advantages of the fediverse. I grew up working with a lot of proprietary software, and I've had growing pains as I've grown bitter about proprietary software over time. I've been self hosting, working on migrating my machines to Linux, and trying to find workable alternatives to everything.

Edit: yes I'm quite techy, a DevSecOps/software engineer. I worked with Linux a long time through VMs and containers, but gaming and Adobe kept me from having a daily driver machine for more than a little while. I don't think I'll ever fully escape Windows because I'm a big .NET developer and work with a lot of legacy code, but I'm more than happy to leave that to a QEMU VM.

Negative, I am a meat Popsicle.

I like how this platform works, I'm actually active here unlike the garbage fire that was and is reddit

Does just using Arch Linux and ricing DE for fun count as computer savy?, I don't even know how to code in any languages

No, and I cannot fix your PC

I'm a bit of a FOSS nerd and care about privacy, but I'm much more an art and design person than I am a technical person.

I use Linux, and I can write some very basic code after learning how in Highschool, but mostly I just like making pretty stuff. Especially anything to-do with UI/UX

Like someone else said, I'm a technical person compared to the average population, but not compared to Lemmy, or the FLOSS community. I left reddit when the api changes happened, and have found I really love the Fediverse and very strongly believe in what it represents

Yes, I am and before you ask: no, I will not help you fix your grandma's PC.

People referring to themselves as huge Nerds or Geeks are usually the ones that would like to be, but simply aren't, while those rigidly fighting these labels are the real bad ones as I observed.

Like most people on this site, I'm a happy consumer who rejects FOSS (McIBM is enough for me thank you), hates moderation (spicy pickles on icecream is my breakfast), and routinely walks the neighbourhood naked because I think privacy is for prudes. I'm only here as a spy for Reddit and routinely report all activity to Sir Zuckerberg since I hope to start a romantic endeavour with him one day...

...what kind of answers were you hoping to get?

I'm techie enough to be interested in federated social media networks. I'm techie enough to start using Linux. Ain't that enough techie?

I was formally studying Software Development before I came here, and yeah, I've been a sort of techie for the better part of 24 years. Been a LiGNUx user for probably a combined 18 years. If it wasn't for FOSS I probably would have lost interest long ago, because when I recently tried out some new hobbies I was shocked as I was reminded how much other basic activities cost to seriously engage in. I also happened to migrate from that other website you mentioned, but that's not important. I really wanted to simply find other forums that weren't based on one centralized website. Lemmy is kind of a compromise with that for me.

Yup. Techie, but with other interests. There are dozens of us.

Edit: gave up on Twitter and Reddit after being early adopter of both. Moved over to Fediverse and not regretting it one bit. All good.

reddit is a cesspit, on reddit it used to be that misinformation or incompetency cope would be promptly identified, now its the top 5 comments on any thread...and the next 5 are circle jerks.

in other words: welcome reddit refugees. please please feel free to leave the reddit mindset at the door on your way in :)

I only used reddit through an app so when they closed the api that was the day reddit shut down for me, I came looking for meme pages. I forget about reddit, I have my memes and shitposts. Sure, fewer than the before times but I also see less guerilla marketing so that's nice.

Compared to most people in my IRL, yes. Compared to lots of people on Lemmy who work in industry or are much more serious hobbyists than me, no.

Not a tech person. I'm a seamstress/tailor who will make you feel like the smartest person in the room when I ask questions about computers. Never knew so much about internet privacy before Lemmy, either. It's been eye-opening to learn about tech-stuff on Lemmy!

I left R×ddit out of spite, then found out youtubers made videos reading out my posts and said goodbye to it forever. It became a free content farm ripe for mishandling, astroturfing, and paid propaganda.

My stubborn ass will learn something beyond simple navigation because I'm always wanting to skirt injustice and do what little I can to not support rampant capitalism (I have no money!)

I mean.... I learned Blender. I'm capable of pretty much everything!

I like doing tech stuff as a hobby yeah. Don't remember why I signed up for Lemmy but I have been aware of it for years before I signed up. I think I wanted to have a place to talk about FOSS but also in a community that was generally aligned with my political views (hence my decision to sign up for lemmy.ml)