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vaginas for sure

More than the average Lemming? Probably spiders. I'm far from an expert but I know more than your average person.

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.

Typewriter repair.

TCP congestion control

An enormous number of areas. The average

well, median, but assuming a vaguely-symmetric distribution, mean and median are close enough, and OP probably means median anyway

of any group has about half of the population knowing more than the average. This is going to mean that a randomly-chosen user probably has something like a 50% chance of knowing more than the average for any topic you could name.

As of this writing, most people commenting are listing things that they could maybe call themselves subject matter experts in, like, top-sub-0.1% or something like that. That's a much higher bar.

Heavy metal and I actually doubt there's anyone here who's more of a walking encyclopedia

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.

I undoubtedly know more about fire than the average user here.

I'm a circus performer with a decade of experience with fire performance/tech/safety. I teach other fire performers from beginners to professionals.

Video game programming, because I've been doing that for more than 20 years.

Biochemistry — specifically protein structure. It's so cool.

My favourite protein is Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP). It was first extracted from a jellyfish, and it's super useful in research. The middle bit is the bit responsible for the coloured glow, and the rest of it (the barrel type structure) is basically just to stop the emitted energy from being immediately absorbed by the solvent.

If anyone wants me to nerd out more about proteins, hit me up.

Herpetology is my thing

I am sure there are some cryptologists here, soo.. Nothing? Anyway, I know a bit about how RSA is inferior to eliptic-curve based schemes, and how security can be such a diverse and complicated topic than simple two-party communications.

I'm not a speech therapist but I did train myself out of a lisp in grade 6. Does that count?

MRP, MPS, and PLM, especially when related to engineer to order products

Ecological restoration of salt marsh and CSS habitats

Ocean kayak touring

optical discs

Drones

Making video games. The shit people write here about game dev is ridiculous, they will even argue with you when they are completely wrong. In general people on the internet are way out of their lane when they talk about game dev.

Naval Combat Systems Engineering and history with a smattering of tactics.

I work in Web dev so there's that. But also the roman empire and etymology.

Guns for sure. I'm a very amateur gunsmith and love ordering crappy used guns online and fixing them up. Stretches the limits of my mechanical, restoration and craft abilities.

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

Fire doors, I watched deviant ollams crash course video on it. Highly reccomend, but most people dont know much about them.

Broadcast tv, radio, the technical side of video restoration. Audio engineering , Acoustics, and music as a whole industry.

All of my skills and knowledge focus on the things that draw most lemmy users here and the ones who stand out from the norm have frequently proven themselves to be smarter than I in various ways, so ... Not much.

Martial arts, probably not Linux.

Probably volleyball. I'm not an expert, but I did play and I feel like most of you don't know anything about it. I'm sure there are exceptions.