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Bad day to be into computers

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

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.

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.

Domestic abuse.

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

Propane and propane-related accessories

Plumbing, since I've been a professional plumber in both North America and Europe. Not the most interesting knowledge base but alas, it is what it is. Other than that, Age of Empires II maybe?

Sound design, mixing, and mastering audio.

Please prove me wrong, I'm so lonely.

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.

honestly, i know a little about many things so i don't really know. i guess uh, when it comes to skill, i can definitely draw better than the average lemmy user, and i know some theory as well.

Anything remotely rural. It makes sense that Lemmy would be mostly city-dwellers, but I still manage to be surprised by the gap.

Using sex toys anally/anal sex toys

My record is a 9 inch circumference

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

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.

Computer programming.

Joking! There's no way in hell that's true around here. I'm pretty sure some of you guys could code The Matrix.

My specialist subject would probably be 90s UK Indie bands.

My cat's thought process. I can tell when she's getting annoyed or when she wants to randomly barf. It's like a spidey sense.

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This is actually a pretty good one cause lemmy is pretty technical. I would say its flashlights for me and electrical engineering.

Guitar, maybe. Definitely Pokemon breeding.

Locks especially high security ones like Medeco. I am the most knowledge person about them at the locksmith company I work at which easily puts me above the average Lemmy user.

Hum, I'd say probably drawing technique. Since it feels like the majority of the lemmy denizens are still tech people, my skills are enough to be above average. Our artist community is growing, so I'm happy for that, and hoppefully it fills the fediverse with more OC! :)

Telecommunications network operation

How is "average lemmy user" defined? I probably know more about eg. tea than the typical/median user. But there may be a true tea expert here that pushes the average up by a lot.

Cats, particularly kittens. I do a whole lot of fostering, particularly with very young and/or sick kittens. At this very moment, I have 16 fosters from 4 different litters.

High pressure boiler systems.

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 dumber than everyone here.

Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?

Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humour.

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.)