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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

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

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 was a citizen of the internet before the www started.

Telecommunications network operation

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.

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.

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.

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! :)

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.)

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

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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.

Playing the skin flute.

Hong Kong. I live there. There are a few of us here and there, but outside of the c/hongkong I've seen like 2.

Me.

Also, my cat.

Domestic abuse.

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

Bringing friends and community together? I see an awful lot of Lemmings talk about disliking people, being introverted, etc.

I think if there's one main thing people will remember about me, it's how I bring people together. I get all my depressed friends off their ass and make them hang out with me, fun stuff :)

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.

Roller skating. In that community my skill level is nothing special. But it's not a common hobby to have at all these days (at least where I am) for the average person.

Propane and propane-related accessories

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.

Cardiac conditions that involve diagnostic and interventional cardiology procedures and treatments.

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.

korea since that's where i live. only seen like two other users here

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.

Hah ! Speech therapy was what I thought! I used to be an SLT, but you probably know more than me about a bunch of things, because it's been a while...

Insects and arachnids, although I’ve noticed I know more about those than the average person in general.

I’ve loved them ever since I can remember. My mom said I used to watch aphids as a toddler and she bought me a magnifying glass because she was afraid I would hurt my eyes. I’ve posted pictures of my green lynx spider friend living in my garden and folks online and off didn’t know they can grow their legs back or that non black widows eat their mates. I’ve also used terms like pedipalps, cephalothorax, or mentioned how to tell the difference between male and female spiders or mantises when casually talking about both, then I always have someone ask me to explain what I’m talking about.

My partner knew I liked insects and arachnids when we first got together, but I don’t think he realized how much until I built a raised bed garden and started taking lots of pictures of all the critters that show up. I have SO MANY pics of my green lynx spider friend.

Sound design, mixing, and mastering audio.

Please prove me wrong, I'm so lonely.

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.

Historical sword-making, modern metallurgy, practical stats and experimental design. How to structure a business in a not-dumb way that treats employees as people.

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

If it was general public I'd say D&D or Linux, for sure. On Lemmy, I guess I would say Pathfinder 2e and Kubernetes.