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Introducing Apple Vision Pro https://ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=TX9qSaGXFyg

Or how you can make a "cool" video about a nonsense product, showing people doing the same lame tasks over and over again. Browse their photo albums, playing video games, watching movies. This time with a huge thing strapped on their faces.

Apple, the Sad Vision.

How about people having real and sane relationships, enjoying the nature, not buying shit!?

This company has a fruit as the name, but is doing nothing "natural" or healthy.

Such a lame video. A failed product anyway. But scary to see that there are many people who think this is "wow so cool".

Ok, bye.

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Last time I tried a VR was years ago and wearing it made me nauseated within half an hour, maybe the technology has improved now but I'm skeptical. And how can this AR thing be better than just a smart TV or your laptop or mobile phone? I bet its not as stable or comfy as they show us in their ad. But sure if you wanna watch a movie on a big screen while on an airplane than you may need it, but even then imagine if the plane goes through a turbulence and you're wearing this shit 😆
its interesting to see how what people consider "cool" or "futuristic" today is mainly influenced by the SciFi movies they watch. And the thing you should know about movies is that they often show you things based on how aesthetically pleasing or cool it is to look at, that doesn't mean its practical in real life. Technologies like AR/VR may be useful for things like 3D designing, but that's not what Apple shows on their ad because they want normal people to buy it not just some designers.

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Thank you for this post, it made me smile a lot and laugh too 😀 It was a pleasure to spend some quality time with all of these wonderful people 😀 ❤

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A new TROMjaro release is out https://forum.tromjaro.com/t/tromjaro-2023-06-04/176

We have a little surprise, the integration of @TBlock into the system! We named it Internet Content Blocker, and it is basically an ad/tracker blocker that works system-wide. Super cool and super useful and in line with our trade-free approach.

#tromstuff

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Tromjaro actually looks really cool, I might give it a try

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Here's a new video based on my blog "Prison Earth": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf2YVbi7-bg

@Dima recorded and edited the video, I made the script.

Here is a link to the blog that it's based on: https://www.bigworldsmallsasha.com/2020/01/07/prison-earth/

@Dima

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https://youtu.be/ceZGRk6JD2I

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Subscribe to Dima here https://videos.trom.tf/c/soberpirate/videos - he is doine some very interesting and important videos about volunteering. He is also part of the upcoming TROM II documentary. #tromlive

https://youtu.be/b4nrLFQc0LA

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Watch the latest @Dima video https://videos.trom.tf/w/kq6Jvh5beUKbRgSAsLdPYk about how some people use the food waste to feed the ones in need. Dima makes great and important videos about volunteering. Make sure you follow him. He is also part of the upcoming TROM II documentary. #tromlive

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Wow, what an amazing video! Seeing people help others like this makes me so happy 🙂

And it boggles my mind to think that all those good quality food would've gone to waste if it wasn't for organizations like this. 40% of all food produced in the world is lost in one way or another?! Now that is a hauntingly high number, we should try to reduce it as much as possible. Thank you Dima for finding such organizations, helping them, and shining a light on them through your videos.

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Thanks for sharing !
@Rokosun Thank you !
It's indeed crazy how much food are wasted. Yeah about 40%. Interesting fact that 60% out of those 40% are wasted in households. That was huge discovery for me, i was sure that supermarkets and production facilities waste the most. Which was true some time ago, but now it's changed.

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Thank you Handelsfrei for becoming a Patreon supporter and Nick Saura for the financial help you've been sending for the past months. We will release TROM II, a 5h long documentary, in June. If you want to support our work please do so here https://www.tromsite.com/donate/ - everything that we do is trade-free. #tromlive

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TROM II: A Message to the Aliens (official poster)

The documentary will be released in June. The trailer will be available this week.
#tromlive

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TROM II: A Message to the Aliens (official poster)

The documentary will be released in June. The trailer will be available this week.
#tromlive

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Did you know that Kdenlive has a mindblowing text-to-speech feature now? I tested it for our trailer. 99% accuracy. I am amazed! This gives me a lot of confidence that we can do the transcriptions with timestamps and all that for the entire documentary, quite fast. Just WOW!

Here's where these so called AI systems are helpful, not the nonsense hype around them. #tromstuff

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The trailer for TROM II is done. We are now working on making a few subtitles for it. Maybe we will release tomorrow! A huge thanks to everyone who is helping with the subtitle making, and if you want to help please use our Matrix chat https://matrix.to/#/#translation:matrix.trom.tf #tromlive

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TROM II: A Message to The Aliens (trailer)


We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires. Climate change? Who cares!

A one-marble world, floating in a giant soup of stars and planets, clustered in donut-shaped galaxies.

What are these humans living for?

In a 5 hour, 4 parts documentary, we try to explore their world, to understand what makes them human, what makes them enslave their kind, destroy their habitat, and be unaware of their place in this universe. But also what makes them so special.

Through the lives of 5 humans, we look at the culture that creates them, their struggles growing up on this planet, and where they are headed toward.
Watch it here: https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2/

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I played the TROM II trailer as part of my presentation about TROM.tf at a conference in Romania


Yesterday I played the TROM II trailer and mentioned TROM.tf as part of my presentation about the Rapid deployment of self-hosted cloud platforms for open-source web applications at a conference in Romania.

Today, on the second day of the conference, I presented again TROM.tf and YunoHost. I also had the opportunity to talk about trade-free, the TROM documentaries and the TROM tools during the Q&A about my presentation.

#TROMedu
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Awesome job Alexio!

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Thanks to the brilliant @Rokosun we now have a script that checks all of our apps from tromjaro.com/apps library (our trade free selection) and alerts us when it finds broken packages or those that need to be moved from AUR to repos and such. Brilliant work! This guy is not only brilliant but such a great human. I am so happy he found TROM and me. He is the most active now when it comes to TROM. Helps a lot. Also the other wonderful one, @Alexio who is always helping!! Wonderful beings. #tromlive

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Thank you my friend 😃

You know I like writing scripts to automate things :blobcatgiggle:

@alexio @roko

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TROM Presentation at Atlantykron 2022 https://videos.trom.tf/w/rToaoUqGZATe2Knewcbtvw

@Alexio gave a presentation at https://atlantykron.org and showcased the many tools that we have.

"The Atlantykron Project is a living experiment of education in nature. The academy brings together world leading experts, the latest learning tools and technologies, and youth from many countries. This combination of teaching, learning and living in a natural and wild environment creates an educational and life experience like no other. "

Unfortunately the presentation is only in the Romanian language. We have added subtitles in different languages but they are auto-translated so they are likely not that great. In any case, the important thing is that Alexio did the presentation. We need more Alexio's!

Anyone can present TROM everywhere they can. This helps us spread the core message of the project, that trade is the source of most problems. And to also showcase the many trade-free tools that we have.

Thank you Alexio!

#tromlive

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Alexio is simply awesome! 😃
@alexio

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Thank you so much for your kind appreciation!

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Today/Tomorrow we will upgrade our TROM.tf and all of its services to the new Debian and Yunohost release. It may take hours and things may not work. Please be aware of that! #tromlive

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Do you want to run your own #fediverse instance without having to deal with all the technical jargon of setting up and maintaining servers ?

https://webape.site is a new service that offers managed #hosting of #mastodon and #peertube instances. They also offer #nextcloud installations and #wordpress websites too. Their price is really cheap compared to other similar services.

You can find them on the fediverse at @webape

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TROM.tf updates:

- We've added https://tasks.trom.tf/ - a complete Trello trade-free alternative.
- We've added https://sketch.trom.tf/- a simple and useful online sketch whiteboard. Draw together with others and share your drawings.
- We've added another one https://scratch.trom.tf/ geared towards learning programming and creating animations.
- We moved yt.trom.tf to the original ytb.trom.tf. Do not worry, they are linked so it does not matter which one you use.

As you can see we are adding new trade-free services. Thanks to the people who donate to TROM. Now we have 27 trade-free services that are well maintained. So if you can, please donate to TROM here https://www.tromsite.com/donate/ to keep these services alive and relevant, and add more in the future.

We will make some "info" pages for some of these newly added services, soon. Enjoy! #tromlive
Keep on tromming, you guys rock ! 😃

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These days/weeks we will add a few new services to https://trom.tf/ - stay tuned! ;) #ŧromlive

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Daily reminder that if you are not allowed to live on planet earth, unless you trade for that (your time, energy, skills, attention, etc.) then you are a slave to the trade system. You are as free as an inmate is, bounded by the rules of the prison. Stay furious! #

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You got the hashtag wrong, lol 😁

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Thank you so much Florin for the 100 Euros donation! Such a great help. Any money that flows to our TROM project, is used for our project one way or another. You support over 30 websites. https://www.tromsite.com/donate/ Much appreciated for your support Florin! #

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Well done, I wish you the best of luck!

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Oh nooooo DuckDUckGo is doing shady things and lets Microsoft track you via their Ad Partnership...so shooocked! https://www.reviewgeek.com/118915/duckduckgo-isnt-as-private-as-you-thought/

I kept on saying to people that DDG is a potential risk simply because it engages into TRADES. They wanted you, the user, to click their ads. And all of the "but hey we don't track you at least..." was of course a marketing strategy. Selling their search engine to these "privacy oriented" folks. Privacy-washing. Even tho I was not aware of this practice I was kinda sure they will eventually fuck things up, simply because whenever you engage into trades, sooner or later you will fuck things up.

So yeah, it seems this theory of trade, it being the originator of most problems, still holds very much true. I do not trust any trade-based service. Period. #
SearX. Our instance is at https://search.trom.tf/. Also here's a list of trade-free ones https://www.directory.trade-free.org/tag/search-engine/
It is basically a browser for their search engine. And yes they do these shady things and more.

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Our TROM.tf server's diskspace is getting kinda full. We have a ton of services so this is to be expected. We are trying to be more restrictive with our Peertube instance so that we may be able to remove more content that does not fit the thematic. When we reach 80% diskspace full we will need to do something about it.

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We can migrate our Peertube storage to an object storage. Maybe we will do a campaign to raise the funds for that. May be as low as 250 Euros for a year of 2TB storage. That is twice as much as we have for Peertube right now. And we can free up some space on the server for Nextcloud and other services. Right now Peertube takes up about 70% of the storage on the server.
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I really enjoyed this new documentary about George Carlin https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/22838/george-carlins-american-dream/ - I was waiting for the release for a year now. Carlin, towards the end of this life, started to stab the society more and more, making really good points about the retardation of it all. A few people that I really liked and had an influence on my views are Jacque Fresco, George Carlin, Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman. I 100% recommend this documentary! #

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I finally had the time to release a new TROMjaro ISO https://forum.tromjaro.com/t/tromjaro-2022-05-19/74 - enjoy #

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We re-installed TROMjaro on @Sasha 's laptop. She was using the old Gnome version. All worked great. So smooth. Only 2 errors that were not as important but we fixed them and seem to be related with calamares + BTRFS. This and this.

But yeah. TROMjaro is still maintained and improved. And works great.



Our trade-free operating system. I encourage you to try it too! :) #

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The ice melting cult


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Newly added to the Trade-Free Directory:

Pencil2D

Pencil2D is a free and open-source 2D animation software for Windows, macOS and Unix-like operating systems. It is released under the GNU General Public License and uses the Qt framework. It is used for making cartoons using traditional techniques (tracing drawings, onion skinning etc), managing vector and bitmap drawings.

It allows saving the animations in its own native file format, as well exporting it as a sequence of images in PNG, JPEG, BMP or TIFF format, and also in a video file in AVI, MP4, WebM, GIF or APNG format.

#2d-animation-software

More here:

https://www.directory.trade-free.org/goods-services/pencil2d/

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The trade-free app of the day:

Peazip

https://www.tromjaro.com/peazip/

PeaZip free file archiver utility, open extract RAR TAR ZIP files

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I think I finally cracked that part of TROM II that got me stuck for like 2 days :D . Tomorrow I shall continue the work.



And Kdenlive works great so far. Smooth and all that. #tromlive

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Call me crazy but I still think that these morons, all of them, created a very tense situation with the war in Ukraine and it is likely to blow up into something significant.



I predict WW3 in the coming months/years :D .

But hopefully I'm very wrong. I am continuing my work on TROM as usual tho. Despite these thoughts that I have. I, for sure, want to make a TROMcast about the situation and we are trying to invite some people who are close to the conflict. Let's see.

#tromlive

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I was starting to miss watching TROMcasts, so it would be nice to see one these days 🙂

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The role of trade in war


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TROMcall is officially added to https://trom.tf/ . This is a trade-free replacement for Zoom. Here it is https://call.trom.tf/ . Right now it may not work well with Firefox. Seems to only work with chrome-based browsers. #tromlive

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I wonder why its not working properly on firefox. Does anyone else here had issues with jitsi meet on firefox ?

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Probably a yunohost packaging issue. Some ports are not open and such....we are discussing this on a github issue.

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What can we do, individually, to better distinguish factual news from fake news?

https://www.tiotrom.com/2017/06/dealing-fake-news/

Very well written article that goes deep into all the important points. I read this a while ago, thought I'd share cause its a vital thing to know in today's society.

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Our custom searches for TROMjaro - https://forum.tromjaro.com/t/custom-searches/50

From the menu or app finder, you can easily search for news online, images, videos, scientific articles, or even to download files. All trade-free. check it out! #tromlive

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Today we're excited to release a very first beta release of the new Briar Desktop: https://briarproject.org/download-briar-desktop/

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Just like the now deprecated Briar GTK, it supports private chats via the Internet. It's currently only available for Linux, but more platforms will follow in the future.

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We're also planning to supported more features from the Android client: disappearing messages, private groups, forums, local network communication, and more!