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Thank you so much to everyone who is supporting TROM financially every single month!

We provide a lot of trade-free content and services, and we will provide more. Right now we are still far behind what we need to run this project in a sustainable way, but via our 200 for TROM campaign (see tromsite.com/donate) we hope that in time, with little steps, we will achieve that.

Thank you to all of you! #tromlive

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Comment gérer le déclenchement de facturation ?


La #gestion à l'affaire est une composante du quotidien de nombreuses #entreprises, en particulier celles qui opèrent dans des secteurs où les #projets s'étalent sur des périodes longues. Dans cette approche, la création d'échéanciers spécifiques liés à chaque #affaire revêt une importance capitale pour gérer le déclenchement de #facturation.
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I installed /e/ OS on my old Galaxy S7 from 2016:

Really surprised to see that they support this model. Basically I made it functional again. I will try to replace its camera from another S7 that is bricked. I will document everything and it will all merge into a big article about mobile phones ;).

I really like my Pixel 4a with CalyxOS. Control control control. Am excited to start my astrophotography adventure with it :).

in reply to Tio

Nice! I mainly use a Samsung S7 Active which is just moderately deGoogled / cleaned out with ADB. Though I do also have a standard S7 which I've much more aggressively stripped down to a bare minimum of packages and it boots up so super fast now in just a few seconds 🤓

I have considered trying /e/OS before, but didn't want to lose access to the default camera app.

in reply to BB

I recommend /e/ OS because that updates Android to version 10. Samsung got stuck at 8. Plus if you use OpenCamera then that can be even better than Samsung's camera. Maybe install it beforehand and play with it.
in reply to Tio

I have played with both Open Camera and A Better Camera before, and found that they both could be good in certain circumstances but not as reliable performing as the default app and maybe missing some feature or other which I forget. But it's been years since then, so maybe I should give Open Camera another look sometime.
in reply to BB

Yes true. For my Pixel 4a too, I much prefer the Pixel Camera than any other camera despite using CalyxOS. Does a much better job....unfortunately there are no better alternatives.
in reply to Tio

And tbh, Android 7/8 is already new and fancy to me. I've used the S7 Active for some years just for GPS, but only in the past year or so switched it to being my actual phone too. Before that I always used my much more compact S4 mini with its (very cheaply) replaceable battery. But it got to the point where too many apps stopped supporting the Android 4.4 on that, otherwise I would still be using it today. Perfect just as a straightforward and unobtrusive phone.
in reply to Tio

The newer Android versions are also becoming increasingly locked down with less control available to the user which also makes me less keen to update to them. And in general I'm quite opposed to the modern trend of increasingly frequent forced updates of software systems with no real benefits to the end user. But I still agree that it can be seen as a potential benefit of /e/OS 👍


Our TROMjaro Theme Switcher has been fully re-written by @Rokosun in Nim and the owlkettle library. Our theme switcher is now made in a more sane way.

When you select a theme it will remain highlighted using the accent color of the selected theme. The notifications are also improved and you can see the theme icon in the notification preview.

Roko had to learn all of these from scratch, in order to make it. He is always improving our custom TROMjaro scripts and on top of that he is a proper human being: calm, nice, smart, down to Earth, and so friendly. How awesome that he is helping TROM so much without asking anything in return. That0s becuase he does not "work for TROM", we all work together to build something important and useful!

#tromlive

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in reply to TROM

Amazing job @Rokosun, looks fantastic! 😍 Glad you fell for Nim so much, this powerful, yet simple language definitely deserves some love!

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in reply to Roma

@esh
Dude thanks a lot for telling me about this language, I feel like it would've taken me a long long time if I were to write this in something like C, but #Nim offers a very simple and flexible syntax without any major performance drawback, it actually compiles to C code which is amazing.
#nim @Roma

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Yeah, I wish to see more applications written in #Nim, and so happy that it's a part of #TROMjaro OS now. 😌 I think, it might be a very good platform for promoting the performant and useful utilities like that. I think, I'll rewrite a welcome app in #Nim too someday.
in reply to Roma

@esh
> I think, I'll rewrite a welcome app in #Nim too someday.

You don't have to, I'm working on it as we speak, haha 😆 @tio asked me if I could also rewrite our Layout Switcher in Nim, so maybe I'll do that too let's see. Overall I'm really glad to have found this owlkettle library, I'm forever grateful to the developers of that library because it is what made it possible for me to write GUI apps, the developer even made some tutorials on YouTube which were extremely helpful.

#nim @Tio @Roma
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@TROM

Oh man you are so kind, I honestly couldn't have done it without you. I was reading this article the other day about how people often overlook non-code contributions in the FOSS community - opensource.net/non-code-open-s…
It made me think of you and how most of the work in TROMjaro is not related to code at all. Anyway, here's the funny thing - at one point I remember watching some YouTube tutorials to learn how Inkscape works, and man it was not easy at all 😅 So for me it's very impressive how you can quickly design these little icons and such, Theme Switcher wouldn't have been possible without those nice button icons you made - the UI is the only part visible to the end users so it's important to make it look nice and intuitive. It's amazing how we can work together to make this thing that none of us could've made alone 🙃

@TROM




Best Android (nonroot) system wide adblocker?

For the love of the internet gods, I cannot find a good one. Adaway, personalDNS Filter, PIA VPN, and more, are not doing a good job at blocking the ads inside apps or websites.

So, anyone knows a better alternative?

So much easier on desktop (Linux).

EDIT: Seems like Blokada, the "free" version, is still the best so far. Tho it advertises their "pro-bro" version.

in reply to Tio

Going with Firefox + uBlock origin + Ghostery + Privacy Badger
No problems for over 3 years now.
And yes, it is not system-wide adblock, as I tend not to use an apps with ads inside.
in reply to Eugene

Yup or the Bromite Browser - the default in CalyxOS. Comes with an adblocker.


The Palestinian Horror Story told by Yara Edi, a girl raised there.


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Gaza explained - Vox Atlas






We had to remove the donor wall from tromsite.com/donate/ because it was incorrectly displaying the donors. At times it was displaying the donors who donated for other campaigns, or displaying those that canceled their monthly support. Sorry about that. If we make it work we will add it back.

A massive thank you to everyone who goes out of their way and donates 5 Euros a month to support this massive project of ours. We will produce more content and projects for sure!

#tromlive

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