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As someone not in tech, I have no idea how to refer to my tech friends' jobs (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

But the term isn't used for technology outside of software companies, for example, mechanical and electrical engineering

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

There's tech companies that don't work with software

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Such as?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Anything hardware related that doesn't program in-house, by definition.