QMK (and Kanata)
I'm posting here because I have nowhere else to post. If you squint, this meets the community rules because my current keyboard is a Piantor/42, and my issue stems from a combination of 40% and QMK behavior. Although, to be honest, this is mostly about QMK, but using Discord is painful, and I'll go there only as a last resort.
For a long while, I used Kanata on my laptop, and desktop an ErgoDox, having replaced kmonad because of one certain feature: tap-hold key sequence behavior. It's best described here, but the tl;dr is that (press lsft) (press a) (release lsft) (release a) where a is a tap-hold key should output "A" and not "a" -- kmonad outputs "a".
A few months ago, when I got my Piantor, I discovered that this sequence outputs no character, and although there's an option that makes it output "a", I can't find a combination that makes it output "A". I'm asking whether, in the bewildering set of QMK variables, is there a way to configure QMK s.t. the sequence (press lsft) (press a) (release lsft) (release a) outputs "A"?
That's the main thrust of my question. As a sort of addendum, I think this behavior is behind another of my QMK irritations: I'm a reasonably fast typer, and often will be typing the next key before I've completely released the previous key. This means I have to set a large-ish time-out before tap-hold engages, which introduces an annoying delay whenever I want to chord a layer and get at, e.g. numbers. I do understand that this is may be an unsolvable issue, that it's just an unavoidable limitation on small keyboards in having so many common keys (numbers, punctuation, and arrows are the worst -- coding, nearly half the text are characters from layers). Either I have a long timeout and and live with an annoying delay when I want to type (many) punctuation characters or numbers; or I have a short timeout and frequently accidentally shifting layers. However, I feel as if this might be mitigated somewhat with the Kanata-style key sequence handling, because even though my Kanata configuration is nearly an exact mirror of my QMK layer configuration, I never have this problem with Kanata.
I suppose I could give up on using QMK for anything except the most fundamental mapping, and use Kanata instead. However, there's an appeal to the portability of having the programming in the keyboard itself; it makes me a little less dependent on the computer to which the keyboard is attached.
QMK (and Kanata)
I'm posting here because I have nowhere else to post. If you squint, this meets the community rules because my current keyboard is a Piantor/42, and my issue stems from a combination of 40% and QMK behavior. Although, to be honest, this is mostly about QMK, but using Discord is painful, and I'll go there only as a last resort.
For a long while, I used Kanata on my laptop, and desktop an ErgoDox, having replaced kmonad because of one certain feature: tap-hold key sequence behavior. It's best described here, but the tl;dr is that (press lsft) (press a) (release lsft) (release a) where a is a tap-hold key should output "A" and not "a" -- kmonad outputs "a".
A few months ago, when I got my Piantor, I discovered that this sequence outputs no character, and although there's an option that makes it output "a", I can't find a combination that makes it output "A". I'm asking whether, in the bewildering set of QMK variables, is there a way to configure QMK s.t. the sequence (press lsft) (press a) (release lsft) (release a) outputs "A"?
That's the main thrust of my question. As a sort of addendum, I think this behavior is behind another of my QMK irritations: I'm a reasonably fast typer, and often will be typing the next key before I've completely released the previous key. This means I have to set a large-ish time-out before tap-hold engages, which introduces an annoying delay whenever I want to chord a layer and get at, e.g. numbers. I do understand that this is may be an unsolvable issue, that it's just an unavoidable limitation on small keyboards in having so many common keys (numbers, punctuation, and arrows are the worst -- coding, nearly half the text are characters from layers). Either I have a long timeout and and live with an annoying delay when I want to type (many) punctuation characters or numbers; or I have a short timeout and frequently accidentally shifting layers. However, I feel as if this might be mitigated somewhat with the Kanata-style key sequence handling, because even though my Kanata configuration is nearly an exact mirror of my QMK layer configuration, I never have this problem with Kanata.
I suppose I could give up on using QMK for anything except the most fundamental mapping, and use Kanata instead. However, there's an appeal to the portability of having the programming in the keyboard itself; it makes me a little less dependent on the computer to which the keyboard is attached.
Open Source AI Definition – Weekly update September 23
The more maintainers are paid, the more improvements they make to their projects
In the second finding of the 2024 Tidelift state of the open source maintainer survey, we found that the more maintainers are paid, the more improvements they make to their projects.
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In the previous finding, we reported that 60% of maintainers describe themselves as unpaid hobbyists, and 36% of maintainers describe themselves as paid (professional or semi-professional) maintainers, earning some or all of their income from their open source work.
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When you break down the paid maintainers into professional (earning most or all of their income from their maintenance work) and semi-professional (earning some of their income from maintaining projects), it becomes clear that the amount of money a maintainer is making for their work has a large impact on the types of improvements they are able to make. Across nearly all major categories, professional maintainers are on average over 20 percentage points more likely to make key improvements to their projects than semi-professional maintainers.
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In the previous study, 81% percent of professional maintainers earning most or all of their income from maintaining projects spend more than 20 hours a week maintaining their projects. This year, the percentage was nearly identical (82%).Conversely, in last year’s survey, we found that the vast majority of unpaid hobbyists spend ten hours or less per week on their maintenance work (81%). This percentage also stayed consistent in this year’s survey, with 78% of unpaid hobbyist maintainers working ten hours or less per week.
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We’ve heard from many maintainers that how they are paid for their work also matters. For many maintainers there is a huge difference between getting a one-time “airdrop” of money, perhaps right after a high profile incident where people are paying attention to their projects, compared to ongoing recurring income that they can count on. So this year for the first time we asked maintainers to tell us whether they would prefer to get predictable monthly income or a one-time lump payment.An overwhelming majority of maintainers prefer to receive predictable monthly income, with 81% choosing that option.
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My first instinct is to say "No shit Sherlock", of course people who get paid more for their projects can afford to contribute more time to them...
but I do understand that having empirical documented evidence of something, even of it should be common sense, is really important, cause common sense isn't as common as people think it is (especially when a lot of people in power seem to quite intentionally lack it)
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Official Plasma 6 Breeze UI Refresh Mockups
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/20092494
GujjuGang7 on Reddit found this, saying:
Found this link while looking through the upcoming theming engine (Union) repository. It has mockups for several core apps (dolphin, Kate, konsole and more) and general components such as modals and titlebars.KDE contributor Manueljlin would like to remind you:
hey folks, it's really early still. we didn't even properly show it at Akademy. there's no design system to properly back it up yet - only some tokens and components that are definitely subject to change. please keep that in mind
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It’s so sad to hear that KDE died of figma.
(For real though I’m looking forward to seeing how this turns out, love Plasma a lot so hoping for the best from it)
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How expensive would it be to make similar spacecraft now?
Assuming it's relatively cheap, what could we learn from sending out thousands today?
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The voyager probes only got as far as they did because of their trajectory that got some massive (and rare) slingshots, it will take ages for the new horizons probe to get anywhere near as far.
We could probably spam missions to some other planets, who will pay for it though? We are not at the stage where an 'out of the box's mission can do that I think?
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- Billions.
- Little to Nothing. Because they wouldn't make it as far as fast as the Voyager probes because they got a massive gravitational assist from a rare alignment that only happens every 176 years. All the other planets needed to be aligned appropriately for this journey at this speed. New horizons may leave the solar system in 43 if we don't lose contact. And they already want to shut the program down. NH is about 10000 km/h slower than Voyager 1.
Best to use targeted probes to explore things we haven't before. Ask different questions and if they leave the solar system, good on them. But I'd prefer orbital data satellites around all the ocean moons in the outer solar system.
Maybe I could have been more explicit. Without the planetary alignment that made the voyager probes possible an equivalent mission would be ridiculously expensive/impossible due to the fuel requirements (and wouldn't be able to visit all of the planets)
If starship/new glen/the rocket lab one work, it might become more feasible.
Instead, sending smaller, simpler probes that just visit one planet/moon would be much more cost effective, but still expensive.
We have already got a lot of the low hanging planetary science fruit from existing missions. New missions would need new/novel sensors or need Landers/aircraft which make them much more expensive.
Even just a 'standard' interplanetary mission isn't just an out of the box job like current earth satalites are becoming.
A drop in the bucket isn’t event close to a good understanding of how big space is. A satellite in the ocean is grossly misleading when it comes to the scope of space.
Maybe a single O2 molecule in the ocean might be closer but even then that’s not even close to the scope of space.
Space is big. So big that the light cone of our “pollution” can’t physically interact with most of it even if we did our best to “pollute” as much as we can and some alien species did their best to find that “pollution”. Space is so big that physics dictate the impossibility of our “pollution” interacting with most of space.
Fun fact this is why the chance of aliens visiting us here on earth is basically 0.
You can’t use earth scale thinking, that’s how big space is.
This all being said we should do our best to not pollute the earth. We should use earth scale thinking when it comes to earth.
There's about 4.6*10^46 molecules in the ocean. There are about 8.5*10^47 cubic meters in a cubic light-year
Surprisingly close orders of magnitude
For reference, the closest next star system is 4.25 light years away. The diameter of our Galaxy is about 105 700 light years, with a thickness of about 1000 light years (much less than the diameter, since our Galaxy lies on a plane)
Huh. That’s crazy. And that’s just one cubic light year.
Now if we multiply that cubic light year to match the volume of space we have a similar comparison. Infinite oceans to sift through for a single molecule.
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
Douglas Adams
I've always enjoyed this video to give a perspective on size
I usually increase playback speed, it's a bit slow at start.
Fun fact this is why the chance of aliens visiting us here on earth is basically 0.You can’t use earth scale thinking, that’s how big space is.
But that is earth scale thinking. You know, in a "things heavier than air can't fly" way.
That's what i meant. Even our civilization, with our limited understanding of physics, can think of theoretical workarounds.
Dunno if aliens are on earth. But that argument against it, is only guesstimating.
Fair. But that’s not really earth scale thinking in my book. It’s more our best understanding based on what we know.
I know of these theoretical work arounds. They’re more mathematical models that say if such a thing as negative mass exists, then we might be able to go faster than the speed of light. Issue is that the model does nothing to show that negative mass exists.
That and everything we know shows that it does not exist. If it did I would be incredibly happy. It’s just wishful hoping at this point though. We don’t even have a model or theory that shows how negative mass could exist. We only have theories that show what could happen if it did exist.
It’s like saying hm we know how F=m*a works. What could happen if we set m to a negative number? Yah in the math we can but that does not mean we can in reality.
The only thing we can realistically pollute is our immediate orbit
Everything beyond would be impossible for us to pollute effectively even if we tried. You might not know this, but space is very very very big LMAO
So comparing to New Horizons mission
- New Horizons mission cost is estimated to around 780mln in 2001-2017
- Voyager cost is estimated at 850mln in 1977, which is ~2.8bln in 2006 dollars
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Ohrožuje je sucho a kůrovec, mizí nám před očima, jsou v krizi – říká se o lesích. Jenže v krizi je možná spíše náš pohled na lesy v podobě, jakou jsme sami vytvořili. Tématu se věnujeme v aktuálním čísle časopisu A / Věda a výzkum. Většinou holá, vypleněná půda. Zůstalo jen pár stromů na těžko...
Switch to Linux: any suggestion on a virtual screen manager like DisplayFusion?
I want to switch from Windows to Linux for my office PC.
I will be using multiple Windows VM because in the office we use multiple software that runs only on Windows (maybe we'll switch to something else, but right now I need the VMs) and because i like to snapshots and go back in time when I test new software.
I thought about Ubuntu because it seems to be the most user friendly.
I always work with a tons of opened windows (mainly Firefox) and I like to have a place for each of them, Right now on Windows I use DisplayFusion that creates multiple virtual screens (7, 4 or the 32" horizontal monitor and 3 on the 28" vertical one, both 4K), I've attached the configuration.
So, the question: is there a software that works kinda like DisplayFusion? (virtual screen each with it's own taskbar, maximize in each of them, remember the position of each window, ...).
P.s. Can I pass only some USB port to a Windows VM using KVM?
Pp.s. Is it possible to use Premiere on a Windows VM? Would it run smooth?
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Most of the "software that runs only on Windows" runs perfectly on Linux with wine, including the installation software, and the integration into the app launcher on all of the Linux distribution that I know.
For a widow manager, I don't use one, i have many virtual desktop and as it's smoother than in Windows, I use only that (i don't remember how virtual desktop works on ubuntu)
Première run really badly in VM, and run it with wine is highly messy, do to poorly designed Windows install soft and plenty of missing dependencies, there are linux alternatives that do nearly the same job : KDEnLive, Shotcut and Openshot.
That all I can tell for now, I hope it will help you a bit.
Ps: try other linux distribution before doing an installation to find the desktop manager that you prefer.
I'll definitely try using Wine and the Premiere alternatives.
About the virtual screen, I mean...screen, not desktop. I've added a screenshot in the OP.
I know that there are tons of Linux distributions, but I don't have much time to try them. I've been using Ubuntu for my servers and I've seen that it's quite nice and user friendly in the desktop version, ...but I'll do some extra search!
As the other person said, what you're doing is pretty much emulating the behavior of tiling window managers. Edit while writing: I'm leaving the rest here because you might find it useful, but I've just realized that there's a tiling extension for GNOME (the desktop environment used by Ubuntu): Tiling Shell. That's definitely going to be the most painless way for you to try out tiling. There's also bound to be something similar available for KDE.
~~I think you will get a much better result than with virtual screens by configuring one to your taste, assuming you're willing to spend a few hours learning all the ins and outs (it's absolutely OK if you're not willing to do that).~~
Here's links to a few of them, you should be able to install them in whatever distro you prefer:
Hyprland - a tiling WM focused on good out of the box experience and animations (but it's still very configurable). If you want to get your feet wet with standalone tiling WMs as fast and painlessly as possible, this is IMHO the way
Sway - a more keyboard-centric tiling WM that leaves out the fancy stuff (for example I don't think there's any way to do window shadows or animations for all the window manipulation) and focuses on just being fast and efficient if you learn its concepts. This is the only one I've ever used for longer periods of time.
SwayFX - "Sway, but with eye candy!" - I don't think I can write a better description - has some graphics effects like window blurring or shadows.
For Wine: Microsoft 365 and anything Adobe notoriously doesn’t work with wine, any solution will most likely not be permanent.
For Premiere: Kdenlive is the best open source alternative IMO and there also DaVinci Resolve which has a free and a pro version. It is also more professional. Be aware DaVinci has problems with GNOME, which is the default environment of Ubuntu.
For distro: Nowadays Linux Mint is the best for user friendliness. If you will be going for a tilling window manager, the typical easy distros won’t make that much of a difference as you will be replacing a large part of it. You could probably do everything with KDE though with window rules and this, if you are going to use KDE then maybe use Kubuntu, it is a official version of Ubuntu with KDE. Ubuntu flavors
For a more professional tool, I’ve heard DaVinci Resolve also supports Linux.
I would be annoyed with how much Shotcut or OpenShot crashes, but I can’t say better of Premiere.
i think you can do this with xrandr. it usually works on "outputs" but i believe you can define virtual monitors as well.
also, you'd do well to look into tiling window managers like i3 or hyprland. that may be closer to what you actually want.
Not exactly what you're asking for but you should look into tiling window managers, if I'm understanding correctly they do almost exactly what you want
For example on my laptop if I open Firefox it opens in full screen, if I open a terminal it resizes Firefox to half the screen and opens the terminal in the other half, a third and it splits whichever window I'm focused on vertically etc etc
You could achieve what you want by having the VMs in windowed mode and just using a tiling wm
You get the added bonus of virtual desktops that you can flick through with mouse buttons/keybinds/3 finger swipe if you want multiple layouts of different windows
Also I've not used it but I'm pretty sure hyprland has something called fake full screen where it tricks windows into thinking they're full screen while actually being windowed
For example on my laptop if I open Firefox it opens in full screen, if I open a terminal it resizes Firefox to half the screen and opens the terminal in the other half, a third and it splits whichever window I’m focused on vertically etc etc
Interesting!!! I'll definitely give it a try!
Thanks!
I don't know if I correctly understood but I think that KDE plasma has this functions you need from DisplayFusion. You need to use Virtual Desktops + Activities, both inhetit to KDE
Maybe I didnt undertand correctly, but I think this may do the job for you
Not exactly like DisplayFusion, but virtual desktops have been a thing forever on Linux. There's a ton of options in that department. They don't work the same in each DE, so if it doesn't work in yours try another. I believe COSMIC supports this already, otherwise in the tiling department you might like Sway or Hyprland. KDE and Gnome are a bit weird with per-monitor virtual desktops, and KDE at least is working on it.
USB Passthrough: yes, either the device node itself or the entire controller via PCIe passthrough.
Premiere, I believe so but you will need GPU passthrough for that to work to any degree of smooth. GPU passthrough is super nice when it's all set up, worth the spend for a second GPU. Performance is near identical to native, it's really great. Been gaming in a VM for years... out of convenience.
Try to use the standard virtual desktop functionality. It's not going to behave the exact same way but you might find a workable adaptation.
You can pass through USB to VMs.
You can use Premiere in a VM. Depending on what you want to do and how fast your CPU is, you might be able to use it without any special config. If you need to pass through a GPU, you can buy the config isn't trivial. Definitely doable though.
Generally you'd want to use KVM (with virt-manager) for virtualization but it doesn't support any 3D acceleration in Windows yet. The result is that the Windows UI in a VM is not "smooth." It's usable but not smooth. If you need acceleration you'd have to do GPU passthrough. There's some ongoing work to get basic acceleration without passthrough but it isn't done yet. Both VirtualBox and VMware have basic 3D acceleration for Windows VMs. They have other pros and cons but if you find that one of them works better than KVM for your use case, go ahead and use that. We use both VirtualBox and VMware for different purposes at work. I know of people who use all sorts of engineering CAD software in VMware.
VFIO GPU Passthrough for Premiere is a must. While not trivial to set up, it’s not too bad if you know what to do. It took me some trial and error but didn’t spend too much time on it. Main issue is making sure your PC has enough PCIe lanes.
ETA: look into LookingGlass for capturing the framebuffer from a GPU accelerated VM into your Linux host. I haven’t tried getting this to work personally but I have used Moonlight which adapts Nvidia game streaming tech for your desktop apps.
Like others have said, most of this is possible but might take a bit of work to set up. In other words, you’re doing somewhat complex things on Windows, so it’s going to get a bit complex on Linux.
I’ve done GPU passthrough using 2 graphics cards (RX 580 going to VM and RX 550 staying connected to host) for VMs on my desktop, and it mostly works. I’d recommend this tutorial for getting it set up. I had to adapt it a bit to get my AMD card working, but it got me started. I now pass through my RX 580 to 3 VMs (obviously not at the same time): Windows 10, Windows 7, and a Hackintosh VM. Although you can technically use just 1 card (leaving Linux without graphics as Windows is using the card), I recommend using dual cards. Just make sure you:
1. Have a free PCIe slot for a second graphics card that stays connected to a monitor while your better card goes to the VM. (The secondary card can be a cheap card - I’d say the 1030 might be good for you. There are ways to use the better GPU to get better performance in Linux native applications when a GPU passthrough VM isn’t running.)
2. Be sure that slot is in a different IOMMU group from the GPU you pass through to the VM as well as any important system peripherals like network cards or SSDs. (Just Google something like “Linux check IOMMU groups” and you’ll find a way.)
Note that GPU passthrough invites a few bugs. You can’t always return the GPU to Linux after turning off the VM, depending on the GPU. (For a while, I got this fixed and could use my card after VM shutdown, but I’ve experienced a regression and haven’t been able to figure out what happened yet). Also, after I’ve run a VM and try to turn off the host, Linux doesn’t shut down clean sometimes and I have to manually press the power button.
As for distros, I actually don’t recommend Ubuntu anymore. I’ve found a severe decline in its performance compared to other distros and its privacy standards. I personally use Debian, but would recommend Pop OS as an easier distro. OpenSUSE and Fedora are good ones as well.
I’m sorry if I dropped a bunch of new terms without explaining them well. Ask me any questions. In return, may I ask what kind of desktop this is? Is it an ATX or ITX form factor or some sort of proprietary small form factor computer by HP or Dell or something that’s going to be miserable to upgrade?
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In June 2024, the International Women’s Alliance hosted its third international assembly in Penang, Malaysia, drawing hundreds of women involved in grassroots, anti-imperialist and national liberation movements around the world, including a delegation from Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network that included women from multiple chapters, including occupied Palestine. The convening brought together organizations and activists for panels, cultural events and presentations, as well as planning for the Alliance’s next steps.
As part of the Assembly, four awards were presented to Women of Valor, to women whose contributions advance liberation struggles around the world. This year, the awards were presented to: Evelyn Calugay, advocate for the labor rights of Filipino migrant women; Wilma Tiamzon, a consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, brutally killed under Marcos Jr. regime in 2022; the late Anuradha Ghandi, revolutionary leader, writer and founder of the Communist Party of India; and Etaf Alayan, Palestinian former prisoner, lifelong struggler and revolutionary, whose involvement in Palestinian resistance and organizing at all levels has in many ways mirrored the trajectory of the Palestinian cause itself.
As Etaf Alayan has been subjected for years to a travel ban, a Palestinian woman from Samidoun spoke about her contributions, the situation of Palestinian women and prisoners today, and presented a video greeting from Etaf to the IWA assembly. Watch Etaf’s video below:
Text of Etaf Alayan’s comments:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful,
“Permission [to fight] has been given to those who are being fought because they were wronged, and indeed, Allah is able to grant them victory.”
Allah the Almighty has spoken the truth.
To the esteemed sisters and brothers present, to the dear and hospitable country of Malaysia, my greetings to you.
Greetings to you, and Um Yusuf is still searching for her curly-haired son.
Greetings to you, and the girl is still searching for her mother, whom she recognizes by her hair among the martyrs.
Greetings to you, and the fighters are still defending their land.
Greetings to you, and a mother in Jenin buries her four martyred sons and is shy in her mourning in front of the catastrophe in Gaza.
Greetings to you, and the nails of the people of the West Bank have been clipped under Oslo, in protection of the settler herds that roam and corrupt our land.
Greetings to you, and the free women of Palestine are still being tortured in prisons but remain unsilenced.
Greetings to you, and the doors of Al-Aqsa are closed to its lovers and devotees, but open to the herds of settlers who desecrate it
Greetings to you, and the rulers of the so-called super powers bury their heads like ostriches, deaf to the truth and seeing only what the occupying entity shows them, repeating its claim of “Israel’s right to defend itself.”
Greetings to you, and the Arab rulers were castrated, with their voice nowhere to be heard.
Greetings to you, and the Islamic countries still do not see their duty towards the land that Allah has blessed and claimed to himself those who defend it, as He said: “We sent against you servants of Ours of great might.”
Greetings to you, and to the living consciences that refused to be like a herd behind their rulers, those shouting no to injustice, and demanding freedom for Palestine. These consciences will be the safety valve to their countries,
for those who cry out against injustice.. are alive.
Greetings to the unity of the fields, the happy Yemen with its decision, the proud Iraq, Iran the supporter, and the great Hezbollah, victorious by the will of Allah.
Greetings to the resistance fighters from all backgrounds in Gaza the proud, Jenin the steadfast, Tulkarem the dignified, Qabatiya the heroic, Nablus the mountain of fire, and to everyone who broke their silence to defend their land and protect their honor.
Despite all the pain and wounds that have afflicted the entire Palestinian body, our cause is not just a humanitarian issue; it is a matter of an occupied homeland, a lost right.
“And Allah is predominant over His affair, but most of the people do not know.”
We trust in Allah’s victory.
Greetings to the wounded Sudan, the injured Syria, and to the Philippines to Vietnam, greetings to all the oppressed peoples from the north to the south of the earth, and from east to west.
Greetings to you, and peace be upon the people of Gaza for their patience. They have indeed been afflicted as Allah said: “And We will surely test you with something of fear and hunger and a loss of wealth and lives
and livelihood, but give good tidings to the patient.”
So rejoice, O patient ones, in Allah’s victory.
Greetings to you, and peace be upon you.
Text of Samidoun’s speech at the IWA assembly in honour of Etaf Alayan:
Thank you, International Women’s Alliance, for this invitation. There are no words to express how proud I am to be here among you comrades. I’m thankful for your trust and for the chance to speak to you today.
It is an honor to stand here with you, to meet all of you and to learn from fellow fighters from all around the world. My heart aches for my people, for the children, youth, and women who are suffering immensely. The world cannot contain the rage I hold within me for the resilient Gaza, the wounded Sudan, the fighting Philippines, the joyful Yemen, South Lebanon, who answered the call, and of the rest of the free world, confronting death, colonialism, and imperialism and resisting them with a bravery and heroism that must compel us all to action.
Dear comrades and friends, my greetings come from the occupied land, a land steeped in the struggle of the Palestinian people, who prove to the world every day that Palestine, from its sea to its river, is the cause for which we live and die. My greetings also emanate from the hearts of the people who stand against imperialism, who confront capitalist and neoliberal governments that plunder our resources and our land. We are here today united in the struggle of all peoples. Calling out loud for joint struggle. My salutations go to the courageous women everywhere, raising the flags of freedom and struggle, standing for the revolutionary rebirth of their people.
Our wounds run deep today. Genocide has ravaged our people in Gaza, and the rest of the country faces a systematic silencing of its voice. They attempt to end our struggle, to eradicate our resistance, and impose an even greater siege on our prisoners, our first line of defense in the Zionist prisons. All of this under the patronage of the United States, Western imperialist governments, and complicit, reactionary Arab regimes.
We are not deterred by these crimes. We are the inheritors of a legacy of resilience, of a history etched with the blood of martyrs who have paved the way for our liberation. We are the torchbearers of hope, the embodiment of the unwavering spirit and practice of resistance. The Palestinian people will not be silenced. Our voices will echo through the corridors of power, demanding justice and accountability. We will continue to fight for our freedom, for the liberation of all oppressed people, and for a world free from imperialism, colonialism, and exploitation.
Palestine has always been central to the global struggle against imperialism, because of the political depth of the Palestinian cause, and what it represents. The Zionist movement, a product of imperialist ideology that has been supported by Western powers from its inception, a movement that adopted the tool of settler colonialism to oppress and seize Palestine, was able to transform Palestine into the central imperialist base in the heart of the Arab nation. It seeks to erase Palestinian existence, expel Palestinians from their land, and expand its economic and political relations to dominate the region, which aligns completely with western imperialist interests.
Since the establishment of their colonial state. the colonial project of erasing Palestinian existence has been ongoing, their systematic expulsion, followed by the theft of Palestinian Arab heritage and culture, all while maintaining a controlled presence of Palestinians on the land to exploit them and boast at the same time in front of the world a blood-stained, false democracy. Palestinians in occupied Palestine live today in what cannot be described as anything but ghettos, a system well-known to imperialism: unwanted people must be completely controlled, policed, and isolated.
Starting with the resilient Gaza, its people, and its heroic resistance that has proven to the world that our right to our land will not be lost, Gaza today has changed the world. It has contributed to redefining the concept of solidarity and has exposed the depth of the crime of the Zionist project funded by the United States and the West. It has restored the balance of the struggle to its natural state, affirming the right of peoples to freedom from the clutches of colonialism and imperialism.
In Gaza today, the number of known martyrs has approached 38,000, including more than 10,000 women. Over two million people are displaced and living in tents, and more than 2,500 are prisoners: to those we only know of their estimate number, we have no names or knowledge of their situation, prison conditions, locations or the prisons they are held in. In Gaza, schools and universities have been wiped out, hospitals bombed, people buried under the rubble, and lately it was revealed that the barbaric Zionist enemy has been burying people in mass graves after subjecting them to brutal torture. For more than nine months, the sounds of bombs and destruction have been continuous. For nine months, no one in Gaza has been able to sleep, and women are suffering indescribable conditions, from displacement in tents to a lack of basic health supplies, and a complete absence of healthcare for 60,000 pregnant women. Diseases are spreading uncontrollably due to the targeting of the health sector and placing it under constant fire. All of this is happening amidst killing, torture, bombing, and destruction.
The story of Gaza did not begin in October. Gaza has been under siege for over 17 years, enduring continuous wars in 2008, 2012, 2014, and 2021. It has been economically and socially besieged, with its people imprisoned in their own land, deprived of life and dreams. The dream of the martyr journalist Yaser Murtaja was to capture an aerial picture of Gaza. The paramedic Razan al-Najjar, a flower who loved flowers, was martyred while treating injuries, shot down by a sniper’s bullet. Thousands of faces and names each have their own stories, lives, and dreams. Today, in just nine months, more than 38,000 stories have been buried, each with dreams, names, and lives that could not withstand the Zionist killing machine, while human rights organizations and the international community stand by as spectators. And we will not forgive.
In the West Bank, there has been 544 martyrs since October, preceded by hundreds in recent years, along with a suffocating economic blockade. This is in addition to the targeting of the refugee camps in Jenin, Tulkarm, Aqabat Jabr, and the siege of the old city in Nablus, and the repeated military aggressions against Tubas, mirroring the same scenes of total destruction of homes and streets, the erasure of neighborhoods, and the pursuit and assassination of resistance fighters. Settlers are armed and roam the streets, killing everything that is alive. Meanwhile, settlement activity, which has plundered the West Bank, has increased undeterred at an unprecedented rate.
At the same time, the Palestinian Authority acts as a partner to the occupation and a diligent worker for it, suppressing and killing protesters, filling its prisons with political prisoners, performing its duties in service to Zionist and imperialist domination in the best possible way, and dedicating all its capabilities to ending any form of resistance against the occupation in exchange for financial interests obtained from the occupation for its services.
In the territories occupied in 1948, since the start of the war on Gaza, the occupation has instilled terror, disrupting the lives of Palestinians through widespread prosecutions and mass arrests, with several years long prison sentences for anyone who tries to speak up against the war and death in Gaza. This is in addition to pursuing them at their workplaces, expelling students from universities, and threatening and inciting against the Palestinian population.
As for the prison battle, it is unprecedented. Today, the number of prisoners exceeds 9,500 from the West Bank and the occupied territories, while only 2,500 prisoners from Gaza are known. Since October 7, the occupation has hidden their status, numbers, names, and locations, and we know only a little from the horrifying testimonies of released prisoners. They recounted barbaric torture, abuse, and murder, with mass graves discovered containing the bodies of martyrs returned from detention, handcuffed, with no part of their bodies free from torture marks. Some survived by a miracle after having their limbs amputated due to the chains that bound them. Testimonies of prisoners who were forced to choose between their right or left feet for amputation. Others witnessed the killing of their families in front of them. In secret prisons, some images were leaked showing the atrocities committed by the Zionist enemy against Palestinian prisoners from Gaza, including multiple daily headcounts, chaining them day and night in desert rooms devoid of any basic necessities, some half-naked and others wearing the same clothes since their arrest months ago. Moreover, diseases are rampant among them, and they are deprived of food and water, causing some to emerge as skeletal figures covered in bruises.
What does it mean to be in Zionist prisons today? It means no food, no medicine, no water, no blankets, no clothes, and no books. The occupation has stripped the prisoner movement of all its possessions and isolated them completely from the outside world. There are no radios in most prisons, no family visits in any prisons, and they are also deprived of lawyer visits for many months. Families do not know what is happening with their sons and daughters, and the prisoners do not know what is happening with their families except through new prisoners being brought in. Those who are released emerge in a state barely recognizable to their families. They describe repeated raids on their rooms, with smoke and sound bombs thrown at them, and being beaten up by hundreds of soldiers in their closed, cramped rooms. They are piled on top of each other in cells, unable to sleep on the floor because the occupation has taken away their mattresses and blankets. Today, the number of administrative detainees has reached approximately 3,500 under the pretext of having secret files against them. And despite all of this, they are not broken; it has only increased their determination to resist and revolt.
The Palestinian prisoners’ movement and the heroic armed resistance of Palestine, together with the forces of resistance throughout the region, stretching from Yemen to Lebanon to Syria, Iraq, Iran and beyond, are exposing, humiliating and bringing down Zionism and imperialism. Despite the torture and the genocide, they remain charting a dignified path of victory.
From the struggles of the prisoner movement, the idea was born to establish Samidoun, Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, to be their voice in the world, to tell their stories of struggle and heroism. Their sacrifices for the Palestinian revolution and national liberation are the reason the Palestinian struggle is alive to this day. Because of their blood and sacrifices behind bars, we are now present in 14 countries with 20 branches around the world, united with the struggle of the prisoners movement to convey their message to the world. They, along with the Palestinian resistance, are the first line of defense for our just national cause, and our duty is to free them from captivity. This is not just our duty alone; it is a mission that falls on all the free people of the world. There is no freedom from imperialism without the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea and the return of the refugees.
Today, our friends are imprisoned in Damon Prison in the Carmel Mountains of Haifa, a city we dream of seeing its sea and breathing the fresh air of its mountains without restrictions. The occupation has taken from us Layan Kayed, Layan Nasser, Yara Abu Hashish, Diala Ayesh, Doha Maadi, Amal Shujaiya, Shahd Owaida, comrade Khalida Jarrar, and our mother Hanan Barghouti, among others — there are today over 74 female prisoners from the West Bank and the occupied land in 1948. We do not know how many women from Gaza are in the enemy’s prisons. Today, they are one of many stories of Palestinian women and heroines of the Palestinian prisoner movement. We salute them from here and promise them that imprisonment will end. Their resilience gives us the strength to continue, and the prison bars only increase their determination and longing for freedom.
We are here today to honor a liberated Palestinian prisoner whose history is a lesson in dignity, and whose life is a book from which we learn steadfastness and resilience: Etaf Alayan, a refugee from the village of Khulda in the Ramle district. Etaf joined the Palestinian revolution in her early youth and received military training in the use of weapons and explosives in the training camps in Beirut. She was active on national, social, and institutional levels, chairing the Al-Nuqaa Islamic Women’s Association between 1997 and 2020, where she opened a kindergarten and school in 2002, and a center for daily surgical operations during the second Intifada. She visited the families of martyrs and prisoners, was a member of the Association of Women Imprisoned for Freedom, and a member of the Jerusalem Center for Literature. Her life in struggle has mirrored the development of the Palestinian national liberation struggle, from her days in the Fateh movement to her role as one of the earliest fighters of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, through the prisoners’ movement and an unending commitment to the liberation of Palestine, its people and its land.
As for her life journey, she was arrested a week before the planned execution of her operation, and a few days after the arrest of the person responsible for preparing the car bomb in August 1987, which was intended to target the Zionist Prime Minister’s office in occupied Jerusalem. She underwent severe interrogation for over forty days at the Moskobiya interrogation center in occupied Jerusalem. She started her first hunger, thirst, and speech strike for 12 days to protest the mistreatment by Zionist interrogators and the threats she faced. The occupation courts sentenced her to five years in prison, with an additional ten years added for her involvement in confronting a Zionist prison guard in Ramla prison. She went on a hunger strike again to demand her transfer from Abu Kabir prison to Ramla prison. The Zionist Prison Authority isolated her for four years, during which she faced harassment related to family visits and the confiscation of her belongings. She went on a 34-day hunger strike to break her isolation, managed to return to the general sections, and joined the prisoner’s movement strike in 1992. She was released in February 1997.
The occupation re-arrested her in October 1997, placing her under administrative detention. She immediately went on a hunger strike in protest and won her freedom. She was re-arrested for her activities in the Al-Nuqaa Charitable Association for nine months in 2002 and again at the end of 2005 for opening a surgical operations center and providing services to those wanted by the occupation and injured during the Al-Aqsa Intifada. She remained in prison until 2008, spending one year in administrative detention. She declared a hunger strike to have her infant daughter admitted to her in 2006, managing to embrace her daughter inside the prison for a year and a half. The occupation has banned her from traveling since her very first arrest in 1987. Since her liberation, she has continued to struggle ceaselessly for the liberation of Palestine and of the prisoners, including for the liberation of the bodies of the martyrs, the hundreds held captive by the Zionist regime even after death.
This rich history teaches us that the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea is the inevitable end. This history gives us a glimpse into the lives and sacrifices of Palestinian women. We wish Etaf could be with us today, but the continuous pursuit by the Zionist enemy prevents her from leaving the country. Therefore, I leave you with some words and a special message from her.
source: Samidoun
Breakthrough Study from IU Scientists Predicts Catastrophic River Shifts that Threaten Millions Worldwide
Breakthrough study from IU scientists predicts catastrophic river shifts that threaten millions worldwide
Indiana University researchers have uncovered key insights into the dangerous phenomenon of “river avulsion,” offering a way to predict when and where...news.iu.edu
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Rewilding complex ecosystems (2019)
BBC: How restoring rivers' natural curves can prevent flooding (Frankie Adkins)
For centuries meandering rivers have been straightened – but experts say restoring their natural bends and curves can prevent flooding and create healthy habitats for wildlife.
For centuries meandering rivers have been straightened – but experts say restoring their natural bends and curves can prevent flooding and create healthy habitats for wildlife.
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Man ihjälskjuten i Uddevalla. Omkring klockan 20 i elva på lördagskvällen inkom larm om en skjutning vid Dalabergsskolan på Dalaberg (Dalabergs centrum), Uddevalla. När ambulans kom till platsen hittade de en skadad man i 30-årsåldern.
What is the advantage of IRC over say Matrix, Email, etc...
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Email is message exchange with a person or group of people. They can reply at any time.
IRC is a chatroom. You go to it when you want to chat. A lot of software have support channels. You probably don't know most of these people. Unless you are saving them somehow, you don't have a history of the chat room.
I've never used Matrix but it's a instant messaging protocol that allows voice and video.
Study shows reduced inflammation in residents after adding trees to their neighborhoods
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/13574268
A really innovative study that went beyond statistical association and actually planted trees in low-tree neighborhoods and measured the impacts.
After the plantings, the research team reassessed residents' health. They found that those living in the greened area had 13-20% lower levels of a biomarker of general inflammation, a measure called high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) than those living in the areas that did not receive any new trees or shrubs. Higher levels of hsCRP are strongly associated with a risk of cardiovascular disease and are an even stronger indicator of heart attack than cholesterol levels. Higher CRP levels also indicate a higher risk of diabetes and certain cancers.A reduction of hsCRP by this percentage corresponds to nearly 10-15% reduction in the risk of heart attacks, cancer or dying from any disease.
Although several previous studies have found an association between living in areas of high surrounding greenness and health, this is the first study to show that a deliberate increase in greenness in the neighborhood can improve health.
Study shows reduced inflammation in residents after adding trees to their neighborhoods
A new project has found that people living in neighborhoods where the number of trees and shrubs was more than doubled showed lower levels of a blood marker of inflammation than those living outside the planted areas.ScienceDaily
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yeah, we should cut down all the trees so people (like me) don't have allergy symptoms /s
the study didnt exclude people with allergies.
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TU Fest - Go Underground
Donnerstag 03.10.2024
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Offizielle Aftershowparty im Monkeys Graz Beginn 23:00
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NEW BLOG POST:
TROMhome and some recent thoughts
Read it on my website (recommended):
tiotrom.com/2024/09/tromhome-a…
Or read it here:
tromhome.com is now live! But what is it about?
This is the motorhome that we want:
I drew that in Inkscape from one of the motorhomes we are looking at to buy.
It is around 6 meters long, so a small one for a motorhome. I think the smallest you can find is 5 meters. But we want to have a proper bathroom with a separate shower, and another place in the back where we can make a desk/room. The inside layout is so important for us and I will share more about it soonish when I’ll make more videos about this new adventure.
But basically we are about to start something completely new and exciting. Maybe a bit concerning for me.
A Dog and a Wolf
All of my life I lived in 3 places. 2 in Romania and 1 in Spain for the past 14 or so years. I like stability and comfort. I want to have my own private place to hide from the rest of the world and do TROM-like projects, read and watch about the world, learn and stay away from normality. I need my room, my laptop, my internet connection, my privacy. I am a house dog….that’s the truth.
Yah I like to go out, but mostly, if not mainly, in nature. I hate crowds, big cities, “going for a drink”, and stuff like that. Sure I can do them thrice a month max, but anything else is causing me a mountain-weight of stress.
The thing is that unless I’d live by myself I cannot achieve this kind of life. Living with my parents or other people in the same place is not fun at all for me.
But for the past 4-5 years I’ve been sharing my room, my place, my privacy and my internet connection with Sasha :D. Surprisingly it worked and I quickly felt very comfortable with her around. But we had to move with our parents for the past few years since we were broke. So that sucked.
But Sasha is a wolf. She does not care as much about the “cage” she lives in. She wants the outside. Mountains, trees, waterfalls, surfing.
So how can a dog and a wolf live together?
A MOTORHOME. A home that we can take with us to different places. 🙂
This is my dream! To be able to have a comfortable and familiar “cage” (house), with a comfy bed, with a kitchen and a fridge where I have food, with a bathroom and a shower, with a little space for me to work on my computer. With an internet connection, power from the sun, and big enough inside to feel like small home, yet small from outside to feel like a big car when driving. This way we can go places, stop for a few days, work on my projects, feel safe and comfortable in this house on wheels, while also go out for some walks and hikes with the wolf to see some cool nature places. 🙂
That’s the dream!
If we are broke how can we to buy one?
A decent motorhome that is around 20-24 years old is some 20.000 Euros. We usually live month by month with very little money. But for the past two years thanks mostly to Sasha who worked a lot, we manage to save some money. Actually 2 years ago I would have not imagined that we would have the money to buy a motorhome. But sharing the living expenses with my parents helped a lot, plus the donations I got for TROM. Basically the donations helped us eat and maybe pay some bills, and Sasha’s money payed for the rent, around 230 Euros our part, and the rest we could save.
We were also able to get some unemployment money from the government for a few months.
We are really cheap people. We dont buy anything that’s not needed, we don’t go out almost at all, we rarely buy clothes, or I think never. Sasha gets all of her clothes from my sister who has more than she needs (right Georgi!?). On top of this my parents kindly gave us 2.000 Euros for the motorhome.
So we think that by the end of this year we would have around 20.000 Euros in savings. And that sounds like we are rich, but we will become poor very fast, again. This amount of money is unfortunately not enough and it is ALL of the money we would have.
Why not rent a place?
After working in Spain for 17 years my parents will retire and go back to Romania. Therefore I and Sasha need to move anyway. Renting a place somewhere is very expensive and it means we will have to make a lot of money constantly. Plus Sasha cannot stay in the same place anymore….the wolf needs to go. And I also want to try something new, to see other places.
Because of visas, documents and the bullshit paperworld, even if we wanted to move to cheaper place in other European countries, to rent something, it would not be very feasible. Probably impossible. Plus we really do not want that. And renting in Spain would cost you at least 400 or so Euros a month, plus water, electricity, gas, or other bills, it is expensive. And 400 Euros a month is a super cheap place that is hard to find in Spain.
The type and costs of a motorhome.
Currently we are eyeing 3 motorhomes. So to give you an idea…
This one is from 2003. It looked ok but had some water infiltration inside that was never fixed. This is not good. People say water infiltration for motorhomes is like cancer.
It costs 20.000, has one solar panel but not a great power system and we need one. The fridge didn’t seem to work that well and were other things that were kinda “meh”….
This is the one that I like the most, granted we didn’t see it in reality and that’s crucial. We will see it on Tuesday:
Costs around 20.000 but the price is negotiable. I am quite sure we could get it for 19.000, but would be excellent if we could for 18.000. It is from 2001 and it too had water infiltration but in the back from the bike-rack and they said they fixed it.
It has no solar panels and such, but I learned how to do it myself and I think with 1.000 Euros we can get a very good system in place. The owners had it since 2011 and that’s super important for me. You want to buy from some people who used the motorhome and took care of it.
This next one is expensive at 22.500:
From 2003. Price negotiable. Has a good power system in place with solar power and big batteries. But even in the photos it looks a bit messed up inside. We are yet to see this one. Did not have water infiltration the owner said. At very best you could probably get this for 21.000….but may not even drop it so low.
All of the three have a very similar layout because we really want this layout.
The bed on top of the driving seats:
It is a huge double bed. 2m long and 1.5m wide. As huge as the bed we have now. Granted Sasha takes 70% of it despite being 60% my size….
Having a bed on top like that frees a lot of space in the rest of the motorhome. I cannot accept a motorhome that does not have this. And it is not as tight as you may think…
Moving on, all have the dinette area like most motorhome do, where you can sit and eat, or whatever .. work on your computer. Feels like sitting in a nice train 🙂
These two features many motorhomes have, but the next not many. A bunk bed in the back:
They look like this:
We want to create an office out of this space. This is really important for us. But this office to also be able to convert into a bed because we want to take some friends with us too for a few days, whenever we all can :).
All of the motorhomes on our list have this layout.
So we think one of these could be ok for us. The price can be anywhere from 18.000 to 22.000. I think we cannot afford one that’s more than 20.000 tho…
Other costs.
If we buy the one without the solar panels and a power system, we need to invest at least 1.000 Euros into putting one. Even those that have it need at least more solar panels for our needs if we are to work on our computers. We also need Internet and that opens up a new set of can of worms…but let’s say it would cost us some 4-500 Euros as a one time antenna payment plus a monthly subscription.
We need to buy a new and different toilet that costs 900 Euros….yah….took me a year to convince myself about that. Crazy expensive….I won’t tell you more now, wait for the videos about it. It is worth it tho! Actually without it it would be really difficult to live full time in such a house on wheels.
We need insurance and since my driving license is so new it would cost a lot. I hope no more than 1.500 Euros.
We need to perhaps fix some stuff with the motorhome, buy new things, or what not. And on top of this have at least 1.000 Euros saved for emergency needs since with a car you NEED that.
In total.
18.000-20.000 Euros for the motorhome plus some 5.000 in extra spendings. As I said we may have 20.000 at the end of this year, but we need those extra things for sure. This is why we made a Gofundme campaign.
Why a Gofundme?
I really didn’t want to make any campaign anymore. I hate these already….for the past 10+ years I made several campaigns and for the last few years many failed to achieve their goal. Like when I tried to get the money to work on TROM II….and I understand. How much longer can people help you!?
But a few friends convinced me to make one, and since we really do not have enough for a motorhome but we are so close to that, I said why not…although I feel kinda terrible for making it.
I was settled for 5.000 for the campaign then decided to put 7.000 since I got scared about what we do after we buy the motorhome and all it needs. Now I put it to 5.000 and will leave it as such. Scared or not, even 5.000 is a lot of money that I do not think we will get anyway…
See the campaign here.
I do not think we will raise that much money to be honest, but if we do I would be over the moon happy. Even if we do not succeed with this campaign, we will buy a motorhome somehow. We will borrow money and will see….We have to.
Actually it is a big big mystery about what we do after we buy the motorhome. How do we survive on a daily basis?
So from my calculations to live in a motorhome it would cost us this much:
Parking is free, and Europe seems to be a paradise-land for the motorhome life. Plenty of free places to park. So what will we have to pay for?
Gas of course. But since we will move slowly I hope we won’t pay more than 100-150 Euros a month. Then food is like now, 300-350 Euros a month. Gas for cooking and heating around 30 a month. Internet between 50 to 80…it depends what solution we find. Laundry some 30 a month. Maybe add some extra 50 Euros more a month just in case. That’s some 650 Euros a month. Currently I make around 400 Euros a month, and I am always scared the Webape subscribers will cancel their subscription and/or the people who donate to TROM monthly would stop donating.
Therefore I have no idea how we will make it 😀 – maybe if we get the 5.000 from Gofundme and we find a motorhome at around 18.000 Euros, we can have some 2.000 left to use monthly….
TOTAL TOTAL
18.000-20.000 the motorhome. 5.000 extras. Around 1.500 insurance a year. 1.000-2.000 repairs a year. 650 euros a month minimum. Not cheap!
Now…we’ve always been at the limit and somehow we made it, so I hope that will happen again.
If we have the motorhome then this is our home. We don’t have to pay rent and most of the energy needs we can get from the Sun. In the worst case maybe we find a place to park and stay for a while, and hopefully have money for food and Internet. But at least we know we have a place to stay and we only need to make the minimum to pay for food, fuel, Internet and some repairs.
TROM
So far I talked about the “home” part, but this is called TROMhome for a reason. TROM is tattooed in my brain and I will continue to do things for this project(s). That’s why I need a space to work on TROM from. But this time maybe it will force us to take TROM on a different adventure.
You see we have a fuck ton of materials for TROM. Many books and videos, so much so it is overwhelming. And so many projects. And although I will create more content (still working on several books at the moment) would be fantastic to got to events and present TROM, organize meetings, and overall talk to people about it. I want to put a TROMhome sticker on the motorhome with the website, to “advertise” it everywhere we go.
We will make videos about our adventures, and although the first months would be a lot about how to live in a motorhome, I hope they will evolve into more TROM-like videos. TROM on the Road :). Maybe we can meet new organizations and volunteer for hem, maybe we do some presentations and so forth.
We will post them all on our Peertube.
videos.trom.tf/video-playlists…
My concerns.
Of course my main concern is always the money situation like I explained above, but on top of that I have some other slight concerns.
When you live in a motorhome you can’t just park somewhere and stay for like a month. For one you are not allowed, and second you need to empty your grey water (water stored from the kitchen and shower) but also fill up the tanks with fresh water. So we will have to move move move….every other day. And I am concerned to not start to feel like I cannot relax and have time to focus on some TROM stuff for longer periods of time.
Speaking of moving, you get to sleep in new places all the time. So what if you park in a sketchy area, noisy, windy, cold? I always struggled with my sleep and any little noise wakes me up. Would I be able to adapt to having the home be in a parking lot all of the time?
Also….what if things break and you need time to fix them? Thus less time for TROM. What if you have to send the motorhome to a repair shop? What do we do? Go rent a place to stay for a few nights? What about our stuff?
What if we go for a hike, come back, and notice that our motorhome was stolen or someone got in and stole our stuff?
Many concerns as you can see…BUT….
Life is short, give new things a try!
When I made TROM in 2011 I was 23 years old. Now I am 36. In the past 13 years I did so many projects. Wrote so much, made videos, projects. So busy. Nonstop most of the time. I also had kinda the same life: me at the computer doing things. You know you can get cancer, or get hit by a car, or go to sleep and never wake up. I would like to experience new things as well, and this motorhome life is something I’ve been dreaming for quite some time now.
Despite all of the concerns it is beyond FABULOUS to be able to look at the map and say: let’s go here. Then there. Then over there. And to know that it is a continuous adventure. I write that with a genuine smile on my face. There are amazing caves and mountains, great lakes and wonderful forests. I want to see them :).
In 2026 there will be a total solar eclipse visible in one part of Spain, imagine being able to go to the best spot with the motorhome and observe it. Or go to the darkest places in Europe to see the night sky. Go visit our TROM friends, take them with us for little adventures, meet new people…let things evolve and emerge out of these experiences.
We have a microscope and a telescope. Let’s look at the small and the big, from different parts of the world.
And let’s share our experiences with others. Maybe we will inspire. 🙂
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We will make a lot of videos about this TROMhome adventures and we will post on our lovely Peertube videos.trom.tf/c/tromhome/vide….
This Tuesday we go see some motorhomes and we will film some stuff. If we buy a motorhome before December then we can already start to do some work on it and make videos about it. If not we will buy a motorhome in January. In December we will be busy with some personal stuff – we will go to Romania to help my parents move and we may spend the entire month there before we start our adventures with the motorhome.
I am both excited and stressed. I am sure I will feel a lot of stress when I’ll see our bank accounts empty after we buy the motorhome. But maybe once we start living in it, the excitement can grow for both of us.
End.
Right now, while writing this article, I have my headphones on just to cancel the insane amount of noise coming from outside. My parents….as much as I care about them and I want them to live forever and be healthy, stress me out beyond belief. They are noisy, scream at each other frequently, and overall are these normal citizens that make me depressed to be around. Our neighbors scream, their dog barks non-stop. I feel so stressed. But that makes me so eager to fucking go go go. Fuck it. If you live in a motorhome and have noisy neighbors just drive somewhere else.
I really hope this new home would be a great home for us, and that TROM will continue to live through my actions, me, others.
At times I read my old blog posts out of curiosity to see how things have changed. I know Tio you will read this post in the future….where are you now? You happy? I hope so. I hope you have a great motorhome and got used to that lifestyle. I hope.
De flesta vänstersajter tappade läsare under juli. Även i augusti har de flesta vänstersajter tappat läsare. Även ETC har tappat läsare. Några undantag är Dagens Arena, Klägget, Opulens, E-Folket och Internationalen som ökat antalet läsare enligt siffror från Similarweb. Största vänstersajterna i augusti 2024 är ändå i stort sett desamma som tidigare.
unmoored
in reply to 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍 • • •It looks like the feature is called Auto Shift in QMK/VIAL (I had to open up VIAL to remember the term).
I'm not sure I have a good answer for quick typing, I was in the process of implementing urob's timeless homerow mods for ZMK when I fried my ZMK board. I know there are QMK implementations (maybe in userspace?), but my quick googling didn't come up with what I was thinking.
dnzm
in reply to unmoored • • •For QMK, my go-to hrm-embetterment came from Achordion. Not sure if that helps OP, but it made hrm amazing for me, and it does the sort of timing tweaks that might help here.
Otherwise, the HOLD_ON_OTHER_KEY_PRESS mode might help.
𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍
in reply to unmoored • • •Thanks for the suggestions.
Auto Shift is a neat idea; I suspect adding yet another delay factor would be counter-productive, for me, though. The whole shift/press/release-shift/release-shift issue is more about typing faster than my brain actually works, such that I'm not always consistent in which order I release keys. Adding a lag to get caps would be, I think, infuriating.
However, the timeless homerow mod looks fantastic. Need to think a little more about their solution, but it's encouraging in that (a) they sound like they have exactly my problem, and (b) they found a solution for it. It's a great resource, thank you!
hedgehog
in reply to 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍 • • •𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍
in reply to hedgehog • • •I... had not. The permissive hold option looks like it might address my second issue, that of the fact that the fixed timing is incongruent with my far less consistent human timing.
Someone else mentioned the timeless homerow mods, wherein
positional hold-tapis used to address rolling issues, which is what I think I'm seeing with the shift-down/char-down/shift-up/char-up sequence not outputting the expected shifted character.Thanks for pointing me back at the documentation. TBH, I'm a bit overwhelmed by the number of configurable options in QMK, and suffer information overload: pointers like that help me figure out where to start fiddling. Working with QMK, even through the incredibly convenient Vial application, makes me feel like sitting in front of a Moog synthesizer.