I am Lattrommi. Yes, that one. You’ve never heard of me? I’m not surprised. It is often said that anything you put on the internet will live there forever. It becomes immortal. I do everything backwards and wrong. I do not live forever, I am always dying. ¿|√∞²|?

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Cake day: June 9th, 2023
  • lattrommi@lemmy.mltoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•what are your biggest contributions to open source software?English
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    20 days ago

    There’s a ‘joke’ that goes something like “How do you know if someone is vegan and uses Linux? Don’t worry, they will let you know…” with many variations. Thus, I avoid mentioning that I use Linux, to avoid being ‘that guy’. If that makes sense? The operating system might be more approachable if there were less people being pretentious about it, in my opinion. (BTW, I use Manjaro.)

    I’ll also suggest FOSS as alternatives when I hear people complain about proprietary software, if the above does not feel like it would apply.

    When I am having problems, I research error messages and warnings, read the man pages and old forum posts that might be related, attempt to diagnose the issue myself and try to do everything I can to avoid bothering the devs. This is more due to anxiety but I think it helps to not waste anyones time but my own. Moreso with user-caused problems as opposed to actual bugs.

    Finally, one time someone posted a negative rant about a FOSS application. It referenced comments the sole dev of the program made on github as being toxic. I pored through thousands of comments on the programs github page, literally every comment that it had, to find these supposed toxic comments. Instead I saw a dev being plagued by the most trivial, bullshit problems, often things that had nothing to do with his app whatsoever, with him responding in ways no sane person would think was toxic. So I made sure to call that out on the negative rant, asking them to clarify what led to their criticism. They were unable to do so and instead reverted to name calling, making shit up and using multiple accounts to try to troll me, to no avail. I suspect it was some sort of ‘hit piece’ attempting to draw away users from the app for reasons beyond me. I don’t even use the program it was about.

    They may not be code-based contributions but I hope they help, even if only slightly.

  • lattrommi@lemmy.mltoTechnology@beehaw.org•Ohio Republicans pass pornography age verification ID law as part of state budget • Ohio Capital JournalEnglish
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    25 days ago

    Not to mention powered flight was invented in Ohio.

    Because people were flying the fuck out as fast as they could, Ohio stepped up its game with other inventions: speeding tickets and stop lights.

    It’s no coincidence that cash registers, price sticker affixing machines and barcodes were all invented in Ohio too. You can try to leave, but you’re gonna have to pay and it wont be easy. Ohio is also where vacuum cleaners and chewing gum were invented.

    Think I’m being ridiculous? Just wait and see!

    There’s a variant of three-ring loose-leaf paper binders invented in Ohio. It’s called a “Trapper Keeper”. Think about it…

    The inventions of Ohio tell a bleak, dystopian tale if one reads between the lines. Interesting that Ohio brought the world freon and leaded gasoline along with gas masks…