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

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  • I went to my local neighborhood association because I wanted to improve where I live. I was elected president of the association a couple months later, mostly because no one else wanted to do it. It’s a fairly poor part of a medium sized city in the U.S.

    I’ve been using AI (running locally on a computer I built that isn’t connected to the internet, to reduce harm to the environment) to apply for grants, plan events and help me run the meetings.

    It is actually perfect for the job. Saying that as someone who thinks AI is mostly hype and useless for the majority of its current common uses these days. I feed it the text from city grant applications or ask it to make a poster to increase attendance and it’s saved me a lot of time. Without it, being someone diagnosed ADHD, I would not have been able to do most of the stuff I have accomplished so far.


  • On the part about “get out”, I saw he could have been dreaming or sleeptalking and I wanted to say that too. I’m told I talk in my sleep. Talk is an understatement. I’m told I say extremely hurtful, offensive, vicious things in my sleep, often directed towards people who I have no ill feelings against. I’m talking about cussing, insulting their personality traits, going down deeply psychological analysis of them, using words an phrases that aren’t common (as in rarely used, often intellectual words) screaming, punching and kicking in the air as if I were fighting them, all sorts of stuff very out of character of me.

    I try to warn people about it if I’m planning on sleeping around them but even with a heads up, people usually aren’t prepared for the things I’m told I say. I didn’t even know I did it for a very long time, then after one friend had a serious talk with me about it and I shared the conversation with family members did I learn that it is a very common thing for me to do and I’ve been doing ever since I could first speak.

    Maybe it’s some sort of mental illness or repression or something but for the most part, the people I’m told I scream at when I’m asleep are people I deeply care about and never does my conscious mind ever have these thoughts or an urge to scream at anyone.

    So it could be a red flag that the guy said “get out” but it still could be a sleep talking thing that he doesn’t even know he does. I would bring it up with him directly in a non-confrontational but still serious manner. Ask him if he remembers doing it and what it meant. How he responds should help you decide if he is worth pursuing.

    As for the ghosting, I’ve always used a ‘three strikes and your out’ rule. Things come up, I get it. If they come up a lot, they’re out of my life.


  • Hmm, for some reason I read ‘paper holder’ and my brain turned it into ‘bookend’, I thought it was for a bookshelf and mentally pictured a vertical contraption, I see now that isn’t what you were going for.

    The pricing situation seems similar to used furniture on craigslist. Some sellers seem to think furniture can only go up in value from the sticker price, regardless of the number of dogs owned. It’s not like they are made out of marble…




  • lattrommi@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhat should I learn?
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    Learn how to ride a bike with no hands. Obviously, only do this is you have access to a relatively flat and safe path to practice.

    Practice until you can go a mile or kilometer or whatever is your standard unit of measure for a decently long distance.

    Your trauma’s listed all appear to be focused on others (except the narcisissm one but I’m assuming that’s about other people with it) and disappointment in them, or a lack of connection with them, or they are difficult or weary-ing. It is disconnecting you from yourself.

    This might help you release your thoughts of the outside world, of analytical thinking, of everything. It requires focus on the physical body and absence of all other thought. Regain lost balance.

    I am not a doctor or professional anything. Also I broke my elbow doing this. I don’t regret it. Your milage (or kilometerage?) may vary.


  • To compare, I was born into a household of Luddites via poverty. When me and my siblings got to high school and homework assignments started to have typing requirements, the family solution was to purchase a used computer that was running windows 3.1 (this was in the late 90’s) which didn’t last long.

    Despite my fascination with computers and again due to poverty, I was unable to obtain one for many years into adulthood. I learned about Linux sometime around 2004-5 and reading about people like Torvalds and Stallman and open source and the FSF seemed like a wonderful world of progress I had not experienced. I was given a computer that didn’t work and was convinced I could make it come to life thanks to the magic of Linux. It did not go well.

    Thanks to my inexperience, I attempted to download Linux from my local library, where I had 1 hour of internet usage allowed per day. I don’t know what I downloaded but it was not Linux. I think it was a collection of man pages in text files. Needless to say, that was not my year of Linux.

    I did not own a working computer until I built one myself, in 2009 at the age of 27. I ran windows, played lots of games, wasted a lot of my time and finally delved back into the Linux world by installing Mint alongside my Windows installation. That was in 2020. The next day, the COVID lockdowns were announced. Then my system wouldn’t boot into either Windows or Linux. The day after that, my internet was disconnected because Spectrum is one of the worst ISP companies ever. All I had was a usb with a Mint live system. I had also gotten my first smartphone the month prior and because Verizon is one of the worst phone companies ever, I was unable to tether my data plan, which was heavily throttled anyways and effectively useless. Learning Linux without internet access or having any friends interested in Linux or computers in general, is not something I would recommend to anyone.

    September of 2021 I finally decided to ‘defenestrate fenestra’ or ‘throw windows out of the window’ and switched fully to Linux. My year of Linux I will say was 2024. That is the year I built a new computer, the third computer I’ve built and the third computer I’ve owned. The computer I’m using to type this out. I have not had to change distros or reinstall since then and being self taught in computers, having never held a job in IT, having a developmental disorder, being well below the poverty line my entire life and being someone who has attended college 5 times and dropped out 5 times due to either poverty or disability, it feels pretty good. I am still light years away in knowledge compared to many but it feels good to be able to know what my computer is doing and know that I did it myself.

    I still will randomly ‘stat /’ just to see the birthday. “Birth: 2024-02-05 04:54:20.000000000 -0500”. I don’t know if the time showing all those zeros is normal and I don’t care. I’m a month away from my second year with this machine and I am very proud of it.

    Why did I type this huge and personal story without being asked? The answer might be the same answer to your question of ‘why did I post this in Linux memes?’

    Because someone out there might read it and it might be what they need to give them that courage to finally make the switch themselves. Seeing stories like these with people who feel comfortable using Linix despite the various problems which might accompany them.

    Anyways, because this is Linuxmemes, I should mention that I use an Arch derivative, BTW.

    I can draw a circle in GIMP too. Like 4 different ways.

    Yes ladies, I’m single.


  • Breaking news from the Florida Supreme court: EVERYONE must wear either a shirt which fully covers the nipples and belly-button or a wool turtleneck sweater in public in Florida, at all times, from now on, including at the beach, regardless of gender, sexuality or minority skintone, according to the new ‘no nipples’ nevenude law. In a surprise move, Florida Governor Ron Destainus upon hearing the news is quoted as saying “Okay, what the fuck? Maybe we should rein it in a little… Too far people, too far…”, a unique position for him to take, wanting less government abuse and overreach for once and sources say he only sold 2 natural parks to the highest oilcom bidder shortly after that quote, a record low. All university volleyball tournaments have been cancelled due to confusion with the ‘shirts versus shirts’ matches.

    /s obviously but that’s my take on what would happen and my best The Onion impression attempt.