Sometimes you just want to brag about something you excel at but never get the chance or you’re just to modest. Now is your chance to tell a bunch of internet strangers about your amazing talent.

  • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world
    24·
    9 months ago

    I’m really good at raising, training, and handling ducks. I’m the duck expert of my family and friend groups. I’m also damn good at treating injured or sick ducks myself, but that’s a necessity because there aren’t any vets remotely close to me that treat waterfowl. Performed very minor surgery on one of mine a couple months ago and he is totally fine now. I also treated a crippled duckling who was really close to needing put down and managed to get her legs working well enough for her to have a good life. She walks on her knees, but she gets around just as well as the other birds now. It’s her first birthday in a couple weeks.

  • hperrin@lemmy.world
    16·
    9 months ago

    I am really good at building computers. Like speccing out the parts, making sure they’re compatible, making sure they look good together, doing nice cable management, setting up the UEFI settings, etc. I spend a lot of time staying up to date on all the new hardware and checking prices.

    Other than laptops, I’ve built every computer I’ve owned since I was about 14. It’s so fun that I’ll spec out PCs on Newegg with no intention of buying them, just for fun. My wife thinks I have too many computers, which I can’t really argue with, but I just know I’m one good sale away from building another.

    It actually came in handy recently, when my sister wanted to buy her husband a gaming PC for Christmas. I gave her a bunch of spare parts I had, and we ordered the rest and built him a beautiful PC within her budget.

    I built my company’s servers too, instead of paying the ungodly high prices for equivalent Dell or HP servers.

    • rab@lemmy.ca
      2·
      9 months ago

      Enterprise servers are expensive because you have support. DIY servers are on you if something goes haywire

      • hperrin@lemmy.world
        2·
        8 months ago

        Yeah, I understand the benefits of going with enterprise solutions, but for a very small company like mine, it makes a lot more sense for me to build them myself. I know how to do it, and I’m very comfortable digging into the hardware to fix any issues I might encounter. But yeah, for a company with a lot more resources, I totally understand going with a more expensive option that they know will work within whatever SLA they have.

      • hperrin@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 months ago

        The ones I just built are 64 core Threadrippers with Supermicro boards and 2U Supermicro chassis. I know they’re technically workstation processors, but if you’re only putting a single CPU in each server, they make really good server CPUs.

        I built two of those to handle the workloads and have fault tolerance, then a third node that’s just a little mini PC running a Ryzen 5700G. That’s literally just there to fill out the Ceph cluster. He sits on a little rack mount shelf and does the work like a champ. His big brothers are very proud of him.

        I’ve always been impressed with Supermicro’s quality. I considered a cheaper Asrock board, but Supermicro has never done me wrong.

        Then for RAM, I stupidly went with Nemix this time. 22% failure rate on the sticks they sent me. And such a hassle dealing with their customer service, who sent me more bad sticks and told me they couldn’t find a problem with the sticks I sent back. Idk man, whichever system they were in wouldn’t boot. Put in known good RAM, and they would boot. Then the replacement sticks wouldn’t pass memtest. Whatever they’re doing to test their RAM is inadequate. Anyway, I returned that RAM and went with Micron, and now both systems are running great.

        For the OS, I’m using Proxmox VE. I really like how easy it is to run high availability services with it.

        $10k for the whole setup, but it sure beats paying $550 a month for cloud hosting on Digital Ocean.

  • pugsnroses77@sh.itjust.works
    15·
    9 months ago

    cooking. people are regularly impressed, ive got stiff competition with most indian and even high-end italian restaurants. still working on chinese, korean, and mexican :)

    • Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca
      9·
      9 months ago

      Also cooking for me. Greek, Italian, Vietnamese and french are my go to’s but I dabble a little in everything. I love cooking.

    • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
      4·
      9 months ago

      What would be really impressive is figuring out literally any other flatpack furniture manufacturers instructions

      IKEA furniture is mostly shite, but whoever designs their instructions is an uncelebrated genius

  • Noodle07@lemmy.world
    9·
    9 months ago

    I guess gaming with my thousands of hours spent on it. I’m very efficient at leveling characters on world of warcraft lol

  • ace_garp@lemmy.world
    9·
    9 months ago

    I rarely get to talk about this. I can 1CC about 20 arcade games(from 1983-1993).

    But I did excel at Slapfight and have clocked it 7 times over on a single credit.

      • ace_garp@lemmy.world
        2·
        8 months ago

        Good question.

        1CC is short for ‘One Credit Clear’ or One Credit Complete.

        To finish an arcade game on one games’ worth of money put in. Original prices were: in USA=1 quarter, in UK=10p, and in Australia=20c.

        To get to the end(beat final boss etc) and complete the game. Some games would end after completing and roll credits/congratulations etc, others would start back over again at the start with increased difficulty. When you start again, you ‘clocked’ the game(like a clock going around to 12).

        You could sometimes get 1hr or 1.5hrs out of a single credit.

        I remember one night in a video shop that a 1CC on the game Heavy Barrel is exactly(to the second) the same length as Metallica’s album, Ride the Lightning at 47min 26seconds. (nb. On a WM-FX421 Auto Reverse Walkman)

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    9 months ago

    Honestly? I’m good at a lot of things. Not world class good, but good enough that I’m the best at it that I know of.

    I’m a fucking fantastic DM. I can improv sessions, build campaigns, do good characters as NPCs. I’ve had players have to stop during sessions because they were crying too hard. Every single player I’ve ever had has not only told me I’m the best they’ve ever played with, but a few have often just stopped playing with anyone else when I wasn’t able to run a game. That shit made me proud as hell.

    I ran a campaign that lasted three years irl. Almost every week, sometimes multiple days on weekends. Kept every NPC, side quest, map and bit of detail straight, and explored multiple worlds in the process. Best game I ever ran tbh.

    And, I can cook like a motherfucker. I’ve managed to make things that people who hate a given food will happily eat my version. It’s mostly country cooking, soul food, with the usual us standards mixed in, but I can do fancy shit too. My wife? Hated greens, hated black eyed peas, and was dubious about pintos. Now, she’ll find greens like collards at the grocery store, grab a bunch. A bag of beans or BEPs, and ask for them my way. My dad hated Brussels sprouts until I introduced him to roasted with my balsamic reduction.

    My wife jokes that she married me for my meatloaf. I’ve actually won prizes for that. My biscuits too. And I bake. My fucking sourdough bread is amazing. Back during early covid, when store bread was decimated, a yeast was scarce, I set up the kitchen for it. Told my family and neighbors that if they brought flour, they would have bread. Was doing a dozen plus loaves every day for weeks. My hands were fucked, so I was downing way too many medications, but there’s still neighbors that ask for loaves, and offer to pay way over store prices.

    And don’t get me started about my lemon meringue pie, or my murder cookies (it’s a reddit thing that I’ve tweaked). Kinda suck at decorating tbh. The cakes taste great, but they’re ugly lol.

    There’s other shit that I’m really good at, or used to be. But those two are the ones that I’m proud of the most.

    • GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      8 months ago

      Having a good/great DM can change a session from eh to amazing.

      You should do a one shot where the players have to find the ingredients for a magical meatloaf. Mix both of your passions.

    • Today@lemmy.world
      6·
      9 months ago

      Same. We can be good at appreciating the attributes of others while secretly feeling wildly inadequate.