Hey LES! New here - any other girls around or is it a complete sausage fest? 😅

jjnjjn
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Hej guys & gals,

Just signed up yesterday! Quick intro: I’m Johanna, originally from the Nordics (living between family life, Nordic landscapes, and fast EVs). Tech-wise, I’ve been working in telecom, web infra, and at various hosting providers for over a decade. And throughout all those years… pretty much every single colleague of mine was a guy. Standard industry reality, I guess!

Since sysadmin, low-end VPS, and hosting communities are notoriously male-dominated, I was just casually wondering: Are there any fellow girlie hanging around here on LES, or is it really 99.9% thick-skinned dudes tinkering with 128MB NAT boxes?

No drama or big debate intended, just genuinely curious about the vibe. If you’d rather not out yourself publicly in the thread, feel free to just drop me a DM!

Cheers! ✌️
Johanna

Quick demographic check
  1. What’s your status?22 votes
    1. Girl (Yes, we actually exist outside of marketing stock photos)
        9.09%
    2. Dude (currently hoarding 47 idle $1/year NAT VPS)
      40.91%
    3. I identify as an IPv6-only 128MB NAT container
        9.09%
    4. Rules of the Internet #37: There are no girls on the web
      27.27%
    5. I'd tell you, but my anonymity requires 3 VPNs and a fake WHOIS
      13.64%
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Comments

  • AnthonySmithAnthonySmith AdministratorProviderOG
    edited September 10

    I think there are actually a few more than most people realise, at least 3 I know of, which is 3 more than I expected, I guess 4 now.

    Edit: And Hello / Hej / Welcome

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  • AmadexAmadex Provider root.hr

    I guess you are 🏳️‍⚧️ ?

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  • DataRecoveryDataRecovery OG
    edited September 10

    @jjn said: sysadmin, low-end VPS, and hosting communities are notoriously male-dominated

    All because of @yoursunny muscularity - his fan club is heaped with all those missing ladies.

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  • treesmokahtreesmokah

    Feels AI generated, and making your introduction purely about gender is odd.

  • mikhomikho AdministratorOG Bash Me Gently
    edited September 10

    Velkomst / Välkommen / Tervetuloa / Velkomin

    None of the above
    In your poll

    “Technology is best when it brings people together.” – Matt Mullenweg

  • davidedavide
    edited September 10

    My high school had 1200 students across all its classes, of which only 2 were girls, and both were in a different department from mine. Among all the incentives that the place gives, only a couple of dudes were fags, but they didn't know each other :(

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  • WSSWSS OG Guru Meditation Error

    I have a feeling most of the men on here who are former gamers were lesbians at one point.

    "It's a hard life- to be a stick insect." - Karl Pilkington

  • hellboundhellbound

    Welcome! Do you know anyone on this forum?

    Eyes in the dark

  • MichaelCeeMichaelCee ModeratorProviderOG Cymru
    edited September 10

    I'm a dude but I can't say I haven't considered it. Welcome!

    Michael from DragonWebHost & OnePoundEmail

  • DrNutellaDrNutella

    No comment

    I moved all my websites to Carrd, and cancelled all my idlers.
    Save the earth, don't idle.

  • forestforest
    edited 5:47AM

    @AnthonySmith said: I think there are actually a few more than most people realise, at least 3 I know of, which is 3 more than I expected, I guess 4 now.

    We're all girls because we're all LESbians.

    In seriousness though, most just don't care about advertising gender and don't feel the need to correct people who refer to them as "he".

    We're all nerds and the stuff between our legs doesn't really matter as much as more important things like how many idlers we have.

  • angstromangstrom OG

    @jjn said:
    Hej guys & gals,

    Just signed up yesterday! [...]

    Why did you opt for an AI-generated introduction?

    "A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)

  • cybertechcybertech OGBenchmark King YABS 24/7/365

    i identify as a piece of technology.

    I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.

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