Hi you there!
I... honestly don't know where in the femininity spectrum I stand, I'm not sure if I fully understand that concept.
But know that I'm here to help, I think I'm pretty decent in terms of
tech-savyness so if you think I can help please let me know.
You can send me a PM with the link to your question, or, if you're not sure you want to ask the question publicly, you can send me your question directly,
Although in the forum is preferred that you post your question publicly, no matter how basic they may seem, so others with the same problem may benefit from the answers as well. We should be here for each other, I guess is what I'm saying, and of course, that doesn't mean we're going to neglect the boys out there. but there's something special about us gals in tech that I think is worth some special attention.
About the percentage of men/women here, I don't think that is somthing that can be truly asserted, I'm sure many of us had been, at least, tempted to use
a gender neutral nickname/username/avatar/etc, just to avoid unwanted attention. But from reading the post in this forum, I don't think that's so much of a necessity here. But I totally understand the comfort of it.
spedigre wrote: ⤴Fri Apr 07, 2023 11:31 am
Greetings ladies! I'm an old hippie chic from the 60s, my only previous ventures into the cyber universe were building websites for my home business back in the day using basic html, playing with computer graphics, and most recently converting our massive collection of audio and VHS tapes to digital (some audio cassettes dated back to reel-to-reel tapes, and some video tapes converted earlier from super 8 movie films; an historical journey for sure).
My late husband was always my tech guy, but after his passing I've had to learn on my own. Not sure what he would have thought of my Linux Mint machines. He was a beta tester for Microsoft in the very early days of Windows, and while he was loyal to a fault, he did realize that Windows was nothing like what it had once been. He didn't share my reverence for open source programs, and he was a gamer, so he probably would have been frustrated by the difficulties that others seem to have trying to get games to work easily with Mint. But autonomy has always been my most valued commodity, so I'm comfortable with having made the switch. I'm still a newbie with much to learn, and grateful for the online help I've received on this voyage.
First of all, I'm sorry for your loss. and second, but not least, HUGE respect!. Not only for being one of the few real hippies that remain truth to their values of freedom and comradery, but also for that
epic historical journey, I mean I'm not sure if I could have done those conversions, and sure, I would have managed to defend myself in HTML1. I guess it was back then when you had attributes like COLOR=BLACK, when no standard force you to keep a hierarchy of tags, and most guides simply ignore that, when the editors didn't had code snippets and you had to type everything by hand and without syntax highlighting, in other words, so many things that we now take for granted, that make our digital lives so much easier, specially when we compare them to when even doing something basic in HTML wasn't exactly trivial.
zelf wrote: ⤴Mon Apr 24, 2023 6:17 am
Hello!
Newbie at Linux here. Been dabbling in the tech sphere for a long time, mostly in the peer-to-peer spaces such as Scuttlebutt.
Feels like falling into a jungle which I am now learning to navigate, not with ease yet it feels good when it works.
Previously used mac but when photoshop became available in a browser, there's not much need for me to stay in such a harsh techie environment as a corporate space creates.
Keen on things solarpunk and open-source systems.
Studying at an interdisciplinary IT education atm ~
Welcome, I'm glad that you're here, and I know for sure that I'm not speaking only for myself when I say that
I'm also glad that you broke free from that abusive operating system.
I'm sorry to report, ma'am that I only became aware of the solarpunk term because you mentioned. But now I know,
and I have to say, what an awesome concept! - as if we needed more reasons to be happy that you're here
I wish I could welcome all of you personally, but I'm sorry, I can't that could take more of my time to quote, paste, type, etc that I can afford on a single post right now. I guess what i'm trying to say is, I'm glad that you're all here and I'm glad that this post exist.
