Um probably most people here know more about their work subject than the average Lemmy user

For me it's beekeeping and honey processing

PS my other half did her degrees in speech/language therapy and psychology

Telecommunications network operation

Playing the skin flute.

Domestic abuse.

Edit: I'm a DA outreach worker and I've researched the field a lot

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Nuance.

vaginas for sure

Bad day to be into computers

Work: Chemical engineering, activated carbon (especially production), membrane filtration and high pressure boiler systems (shoutout @Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world).

Non-work: Moonshine making, Festival organizing (quit two years ago), plumbing, carpentry and general home improvement.

I dunno the inner workings of Walmart? Been here for over a decade and I've held a few positions of authority within.

My very specific niche in programming.

If you ask me about some very common things, I have no clue. JavaScript? More like JavaShit amirite? But if someone can explain OCI layers, describe the boot process of a RISC-V device as it leads U-boot and a Linux kernel, and talk about performance optimisations in modern Python... Well, my team is looking for more developers and this combination of skills seems impossible to find.

TCP congestion control

Considering the general conversations that are posted and popular here I expect I know more about Europe in general and some countries in it in particular that the average Lemmy user.

I've not seen anything about 3d printing getting traction here nor snowboarding so I'll add those two to the list.

I most probably don't know more about Linux than the average user here.

Chemistry, physics, engineering, safety systems, and AI.

Graded Modal Dependent Type Theory, but that's mostly because only "dozens of" people know it exists.

Propane and propane-related accessories

Skydiving

~4500 jumps that included; night jumps, competition 4-way and 8-way, a couple of record jumps (I was on the a team that set state records in 3 different states back in the day) , Demos into various stadiums, air shows and a couple of NASCAR races.

I might know a thing or two that the average Lemmy user has no idea about.

I was a citizen of the internet before the www started.

Maybe coffee. I actually roasted an interesting batch yesterday that I'm looking forward to tasting 🙂

Maybe guns too. I kinda lost interest in them years ago, so my knowledge/experience is pretty dated. I worked for a gun dealer for many years though. If you're like a technical-brained nerd like me, guns can become a fascinating rabbit hole if you spend enough time around them. I knew almost nothing about them before getting that job.

Also, maybe whisk(e)y. There's so much to learn and explore in the world of whiskies. I used to enjoy touring distilleries when traveling. Some of them have such long, interesting history. And some of the newer distilleries get pretty creative.

Fun fact: There's an heirloom corn species that was saved from extinction by a bourbon distillery. It's a very interesting bourbon! "Jimmy Red," IIRC.

Sadly, my pancreas suddenly decided that I had to stop partaking in one major part of that hobby: tasting. I miss it.

Probably a decent amount of music stuff.

I used to play piano at an ARCT level, and used to be pretty knowledgeable about theory and music history but I’ve forgotten a lot of it now. I haven’t practiced or studied since COVID hit so unfortunately a lot of it is gone now.

The music that I listen to, I have basically an encyclopedic knowledge of. I know when they were born or when the band formed, when each of their albums came out, and generally know a lot of trivia about them.

I collect records and have been learning a lot about record players and audio equipment over the last couple years. Not as good as an audio engineer but better than the average lemming I’d say.

I used to do classical music composition pre-COVID. Again, probably not as good at it anymore, but I got quite good for a while. My music instructor at the time said I was the most impressive composer he ever taught. I’m still sorta riding that high from 2019. Very unfortunately, I had all that stored offline on a hard drive with no backup, and I’m sure you can guess what happened next. Since then I’ve been dissuaded from composing.

I used to help teach and tutor music courses when I was in school. I was basically the music teacher’s pet, and this was at a music school. The music teacher in question happened to be the head of music at that school too (there were several music teachers at that school).

A friend of mine, who was also into music and knew a lot of music students, once told me I was the only person he’s ever met that should’ve absolutely done a degree in music. This was at a time where he had a strong opinion that you should only go to school for a “real” degree that pays well afterwards. He’s since changed his opinion, but it was a big deal for him to say that to me at the time.

The worst part of all this is my severe AuDHD meant that as soon as COVID hit and I paused music courses and lessons, I couldn’t get myself to continue. Now I live in a place too small for a piano so I can’t practice unless I visit my parents or in-laws, and I have different hyper-focuses now, instead of theory. I wish I could change my brain sometimes.

Maxfield Parrish's use of color theory and it's application in his glazed paintings made using most often (esp. for commercial works made for print) cyan, magenta, hansa yellow and lamp black pigments in a translucent medium.

I'm very sure I know more about flying an airplane than the average Lemming. I have been a pilot for 20 years and an instructor for 15. I'm not the only pilot on Lemmy but there's not a lot of aviators among us.

Ship systems such as radios, echosounders, transponders, etc. (AMA, I guess, if you so wish)

High pressure boiler systems.

Ah ha, my moment to brag about it:

90% of Lemmy are Westerners, I probably know about Chinese Languages than most here. (Except a few users like @NorthWestWind@lemmy.world, they probably know it better)

I can speak Cantonese and Mandarin and kinda understand Taishanese (台山話）(Taishan not Taiwan)

I can read basic Chinese characters, type Pinyin and Jyutping. Can't write on paper tho, idk how to recall it from memory, but I can recognize it if someone else wrote it down.

(But don't ask me to teach you lol, I only went to grade 2, not exactly a pro at it, I lack the vocabulary)

Btw: I watched some youtube videos about foreign visitors to China, and um... their tones are kinda off, like waayyy off. Even people who've been there for like 10 yeats still have the tones being kinda wrong. (Its very hard, probably impossible if you didn't grow up used to the difference in tones.)

We live in a tiny house in the forest.

my niche would probably be blue jay, chipmunk,and squirrel, behaviour. I spend a lot of time with a lot of forest animals. But those three consume about 80% of that time.

Lithium ion batteries. Especially when they catch fire and how to put them out.