TROMcall is officially added to trom.tf/ . This is a trade-free replacement for Zoom. Here it is call.trom.tf/ . Right now it may not work well with Firefox. Seems to only work with chrome-based browsers. #tromlive
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
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.
We're also planning to supported more features from the Android client: disappearing messages, private groups, forums, local network communication, and more!
Here it is a quick TROMjaro release with the awesome Layout Switch:
Six layouts:
- Windows - MX Linux - Unity - Mac OS - Gnome - TOPX
The switch is much faster and reliable than before. Thanks again to @Future is FOSS !!
From now one we hope no more big changes. Keep TROMjaro stable and awesome. The only big changes will be:
- Maybe moving from Firefox to Librewolf - Adding a few webapps for videoneat.com and such - Creating packages for all of our scripts (4-5 or so packages)
Ok. I was looking for a name for that layout....I am calling it TopX for now because idk how to call it - would be nice if we find a known OS that has a similar layout
This is the first time we are changing the default theme. From the beginning we have used the Vimix theme - more info here Vimix Theme – TROM-Jaro - and although the theme is great, it lacks proper support for XFCE and so certain elements were not properly designed, such as save/import windows for certain apps. It was also looking a bit outdated and “boring”. The new theme is called Skeuos and you can install it from the Add/Remove Software or from our library here
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With this update we are moving to a new and better theme, and we are solidifying our Layout Switch app to include several layouts.
This is the first time we are changing the default theme. From the beginning we have used the Vimix theme - more info here Vimix Theme – TROM-Jaro - and although the theme is great, it lacks proper support for XFCE and so certain elements were not properly designed, such as save/import windows for certain apps. It was also looking a bit outdated and “boring”. The new theme is called Skeuos and you can install it from the Add/Remove Software or from our library here Skeuos Theme – TROM-Jaro . This theme has a much better design, and buttons or other elements are nicer overall and stand out more. Here it is with the light version:
Lastly you can change the HUD theme too. Go to File System, then /usr/share/rofi/themes/ and open as root the file tromjaro.rasi. Replace all of its insides with this: <pre><code class="lang-auto">/* ========================================================================== Rofi color theme
We are getting more serious about the layout switcher. So instead of TROMjaro Classic and Modern, we are now switching to multiple layouts that replicate most well known and diverse layouts in the operating systems’ world:
The Unity design. Replicating what Ubuntu introduced a few years ago called Unity. It was a great desktop layout and we’ve been using it with TROMjaro as default from the beginning. You have 2 options: with or without global menus. Just so that we please everyone.
Side note: we have moved the window buttons to the right side and we do not merge the top window bar with the top desktop panel when windows are maximized. Why? For one because the new theme that we use does not have a theme for the top panel buttons and we may end up with different window buttons; second is that for many new apps, especially Gnome ones, there is no top bar for windows to begin with…and XFCE is switching to those kind of windows too…so it makes no sense to do this. And third, because on multiple screen setups this was kinda strange. Since it was a bit of a trick, and when a window was maximized it was not displaying the top bar, then the top desktop panel had to display some window buttons so that you can still manage that maximized window. But on multiple screens if you lacked the top panel on one of your screens then you would end up with a window that has no window top bar or buttons on that particular screen. So you had to use the main screen to control a maximized window.
In any case, if you want to bring that back it is damn easy.
A. Right click the top panel and add a new item called: Window Header Buttons. B. In Window Manager Tweaks select these two:
Top Left is Unity and you can have it with or without the global menus.
Gnome. With the bottom apps bar that auto-hides, top center clock, and all that. Windows. Replicating as much as possible a Windows like layout. 1 single panel. ChromeOS. Similar to the Windows layout but with the apps in the center.
These are the most diverse layouts out there and everything else seems to be a simple variation of these. For example if you want the Gnome layout but with the apps panel to the left and not bottom, all you have to do is right click the bottom panel and select it to be vertical, then move it to the left. I see no point at making any new layout if the differences between the new and the current are versions are very minute. But we may add new layouts in the future.
Ok. So how do you get this?
If you already have the TROMjaro Layout Switch then let’s properly remove that. Go to .local/bin/ and delete the TROMjaro Layout Switch file. Now go to your File System (open the file manager) and then to /usr/lib/vala-panel/. Open this folder as root (right click). See if there is any file called appmenu-registrar.OFF with the OFF at the end. If it is, delete it.
## Reset panels and windows xfce4-panel -r >/dev/null 2>&1 xfwm4 --replace & xfce4-panel & sleep 5 && notify-send "$choice was enabled"
</code></pre> Save. Now right click the file, then properties, and then Permissions, and check “Allow this file to run as a program”.
Next go to .local/share/applications/ and search for a file named TROMjaro Layout Switch. Delete it. We do not need that. Create a new empty file in that folder called layout-switch.desktop and add these to it:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.1
Type=Application
Name=Layout Switch
GenericName=Layout Switch
Comment=Change how TROMjaro looks like. Make it look like Unity, Windows, Gnome, and so forth.
Icon=layout-switch
Exec=layout-switch
Categories=DesktopSettings;GTK;Settings;X-XFCE-PersonalSettings;X-XFCE-SettingsDialog;XFCE;
Keywords=settings;layout;toggle;switch;
Now we should add a custom icon for the app. Grab it from here and put it into the folder .local/share/icons/Zafiro/apps/scalable/.
Lastly you have to grab the profiles that we have created from here and add them all in .local/share/ in a folder called tromjaro-layouts.
That’s it!
Now you can find the Layout Switch app in your apps and in the Settings Manager. It looks like this:
This is a big topic and I am not going into it right now. You can read more about it here. But basically Gnome is pushing a new way to create apps for their Gnome desktop, and this basically forces these apps to have 2 themes, the ones of Gnome, on every system. Dark and Light. So when any of these apps update to this new Gnome workflow, they look like this on any system:
They do not respect the theme at all. Not the theme, not the buttons. Imagine having 3 buttons for your window system, to the left side, in a particular order. Well these new apps do not give a shit and will have their defaults, like say 1 button to the right. This is infuriating since it breaks the way the Linux system works in terms of usability. If I want a particular theme then every app should respect that. With TROMjaro we struggled to make pretty much 95% of all apps out there, if not more, respect the system’s theme. This is a greater consistency than Pop OS, Ubuntu, KDE Plasma, and most other distros. Read more here.
But we found a hack. At least for now. And that white sheep from the above photo looks like this with our hack:
It respects the theme as it should! However not the window buttons position and type… In this example we are talking about the Touchpad Gestures app, originally named Touche. To fix it go to Menu Editor and search for it. Then in the Command box add this:
sh -c 'env GTK_THEME="$(xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/ThemeName /l)" touche'
From now on, if you see any app that is not respecting the theme, try to do just that. Say the Gnome Calculator that we have installed as default in TROMjaro will switch to this new Gnome workflow. Search for it in the Menu Editor or simply from the apps menu right click it and edit. See how it is called in the Command box:
Then add the above code sh -c 'env GTK_THEME="$(xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/ThemeName /l)" touche' and replace touche with that name. Such as sh -c 'env GTK_THEME="$(xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/ThemeName /l)" gnome-calculator' .
We will try to fix more and more such apps, but it is not ok…for now at least we found a hack…
Add the App Finder back.
We added back the useful xfce4-appfinder. The apps menu that you see on the panels is very useful, but for keyboard centric humans it is useful to press a keyboard key and have the apps and a search bar to the center of the screen, as such:
We have also integrated the custom searches that you can find in the apps menu and can read more about here. Here they are (all have to be added with Type - Prefix as such):
Although TROMjaro does not rely on the terminal, why not have a great one anyway!? You can read here all of the cool stuff about this:
Colors
Colors are enabled by default where possible so that its easy on your eyes. Pacman command & Man pages will now be colorful and easier to read
Syntax highlighting
Syntax highlighting is enabled by default in zsh, this makes your command line very user friendly
vim keybindings
There is an optional vim mode for users who like vim keybindings. This setting is disabled my default, but you can easily enable it by uncommenting the line that says vim_mode=True.
Maia prompt
The new prompt in zsh is simplistic and user friendly. It also gives you info about the exit status of the previous command. If the command completed successfully, it’ll look normal but if the previous command completed with errors then your prompt shows red, and at the right edge of your terminal you can see the exit status inside square brackets [].
Powerful history management
History beginning search is enabled by default, that means if you type something like echo in the terminal and then press the up arrow, it’ll search for previous commands from your history that starts with echo and move through them. If you don’t type anything or if your cursor is at the beginning of the prompt, then moving up through history works like normal. If you want, you can override this behavior even when you have something typed - just press shift + up arrow instead of simply up arrow. All of these same things apply to the down arrow as well ofc
Duplicate entries won’t be saved in history, this will reduce storage space and make it easier to browse through your history. Also, commands starting with a space won’t be saved in history, this can be useful for you in situations where you don’t want a command to be saved in history.
Automatically cd into typed directory
You can move to a directory just by typing the name of it, no need to precede it with the cd command before it. This makes it a little bit faster for you to navigate inside the terminal.
Online cheat sheet !
We’ve added a function called chtsh in zsh that uses the cheat.sh/c/releases.rss project to get a cheat sheet of the commands you want. For example, if you wanna know the basics of the command ffmpeg, you can just type chtsh ffmpeg to get a cheat sheet showing you the most common use cases of that program. Please note that this requires an internet connection to work.
Aliases
We’ve added in some aliases by default that we think are useful. cp & mv commands will prompt you before overwriting a file, and rm will prompt you once before removing more than 3 files, or when removing recursively - This is to prevent users from accidentally doing something they don’t want. ls, df & du commands will use human-readable sizes. Commands are also Colorized where possible
Auto-completion
Advanced tab completion - This is an amazing feature, but its a little hard to explain in words. Try typing ls in your terminal followed by a space, then press the tab key twice to get inside the menu. Now you’re free to move around this menu using arrow keys ! When you find the file/folder you want, just press enter to type it out.
You may have noticed this already, but tab completion is case insensitive and would also include hidden files. This makes it more user friendly.
zsh-autosuggestions plugin will show you automatic suggestions from your history based on the words you type. If its showing you the correct suggestion you want, just press the right arrow key and it’ll automatically type that out for you.
And here’s how to do it. Step by step.
1. Change cursor shape & colors like shown in this video:
2. Create a file in your home directory called “.zshrc”.
Make sure it has that dot in front of the name. Add this to the file: <pre><code class="lang-auto"> `# Enable vi mode - you can uncomment the line below to enable vim keybindings`
My tiny hope for creating a different world, moving past this trade-based bullshit society, is shattered every time I see people talk about web3.0. The idea of integrating trade directly into the web. Humans used to trade sheep for shoes. The labor for clothes or whatever. Later they invented a currency to make more complex trades possible. They then got so retarded that they started to trade currency for currency.
And the motherfuckers invented the web, a digital space where things don't really exist. They can be replicated. If I have a photo or a book or whatever in this universe, I can share it with anyone and create endless copies.
And now this motherfuckers think that .... well .... let's make these endlessly replicable things unique and thus scarce. Let's NFT the world!
Bravo Internet Archive for imagining this wonderful world of the abundant internet transformed into a shit hole - blog.archive.org/2022/01/
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My tiny hope for creating a different world, moving past this trade-based bullshit society, is shattered every time I see people talk about web3.0. The idea of integrating trade directly into the web. Humans used to trade sheep for shoes. The labor for clothes or whatever. Later they invented a currency to make more complex trades possible. They then got so retarded that they started to trade currency for currency.
And the motherfuckers invented the web, a digital space where things don't really exist. They can be replicated. If I have a photo or a book or whatever in this universe, I can share it with anyone and create endless copies.
And now this motherfuckers think that .... well .... let's make these endlessly replicable things unique and thus scarce. Let's NFT the world!
Bravo Internet Archive for imagining this wonderful world of the abundant internet transformed into a shit hole - blog.archive.org/2022/01/11/im…
I mean the internet is already a shit hole. And whoever sells digital stuff is part of the shit hole. That's the hard truth. Yeah this society forces you to sell your digital stuff, but at least admit that. Admit it that this is a retardation of our species.
We will trade likes for photos, digital goods for other digital goods. Endless trading into nothingness. More jobs!!! Yay. We have an abundant world of physical goods already, and no doubt of digital goods. And yet humans still think that we have to trade for these. The economy is a religion folks. The biggest on earth.
When is the next rocket launch ? I may sneak in so I get sent into space. This species is retarded no end. #tromlive
Its sad to see projects like Internet Archive supporting web3.0, trade seems to be so integrated in this system that we can even call it trade2.0 instead, lol 😂 I also would like to sneak into a rocket and leave this shitty place, haha.
But on a positive note, @aral made web0.small-web.org/ and its showing that there are saner people here too. I hope people realize the truth and move to a truly decentralized internet without of all the corporate trade BS like Meta @tio @yogthos
Yeah I think IPFS and the like can deal with such things. There are ofc all kinds of ways to label unique content inside of a system. But to push for NFTs and to think it is ok for people to keep on trading their digital nonsense or whatever sense, it is wrong. You fail to see the greater and more important influence of all that, that ruins our entire world and ourselves.
It is just the game of trade. Regardless if this is china, us, cuba, europe... Humans have become insane because of this trade environment and they still want to trade, without asking what's the purpose of trade in the first place. If we have an abundance of stuff, why keep on trading useless shit just to keep us in the game.
Trading makes us change this for that like the players of the monopoly board game. And we then become profiteers, charlatans, and mindless creatures that all they care is to trade. And make some profits. This mindset is what drives the problems we see in the world today, where instead of NFTs humans trade endless and useless digital stuff, clothes, useless gadgets, and so forth, with no regard for their brains, or this planet. I wrote a book all about this craziness tromsite.com/books/#flipbook-d…
So if humans are going to promote the same mindset in the online world, which they do, then we move the shithole from offline to online.
so you don't want to live in a world where the friction for sending money to people is basically zero which would drastically increase the velocity of money in the western world and lift tons of people out of poverty as well as opening to doors to every internet user from a *consumer* into a *creator* where they can make a living as a self-employed entrepreneur without having to get permission from any corporation, government, or bank to do so?
That's the blind mistake, right there. You brush aside the extraordinarily bad and powerful effects of trade, and choose to look at some positive aspects of it. These "creators" are also consumers. You create THIS, then you get THAT in return. Usually a currency. Now your incentive is to spend THAT. And so we are creating the wonderful world that we see today, only that you want it all to happen with nonsense nfts, and cryptocurrencies. And they won't even remove any middleman. Anyone today can basically build a website and sell their stuff there, but do they? No. They flock on fb, amazon and the like.
Will they flock on massive and centralized nft stores/communities in this grand future you imagine? Probably yes.
As for "lift tons of people out of poverty" we should do that, not by enslaving them and forcing them to trade this for that, but to simply help them. We throw 40-50% of all edible food today while 9mil people die of starvation. These, yearly. We throw 500 cruise-ships of clothes and 350 cruise-ships of electronics every year. In Europe there are 3 times more
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That's the blind mistake, right there. You brush aside the extraordinarily bad and powerful effects of trade, and choose to look at some positive aspects of it. These "creators" are also consumers. You create THIS, then you get THAT in return. Usually a currency. Now your incentive is to spend THAT. And so we are creating the wonderful world that we see today, only that you want it all to happen with nonsense nfts, and cryptocurrencies. And they won't even remove any middleman. Anyone today can basically build a website and sell their stuff there, but do they? No. They flock on fb, amazon and the like.
Will they flock on massive and centralized nft stores/communities in this grand future you imagine? Probably yes.
As for "lift tons of people out of poverty" we should do that, not by enslaving them and forcing them to trade this for that, but to simply help them. We throw 40-50% of all edible food today while 9mil people die of starvation. These, yearly. We throw 500 cruise-ships of clothes and 350 cruise-ships of electronics every year. In Europe there are 3 times more empty homes than homeless people. We have to get our heads out of this society for a bit, to think more wisely about ourselves and our future.
> You brush aside the extraordinarily bad and powerful effects of trade, and choose to look at some positive aspects of it.
On a scale of 1 to 5 what would you say is your skill of understanding the intricacies of global macroeconomics? Because statements like this resonate with people who only scratch the surface.
You are aware that in China simply by moving the majority of all monetary transactions from physical to digital with zero fees has completely transformed the country since they started this initiative in 2014, right?
China's doing $52 trillion!!!! in digital payments. Their GDP is ~$15T. Their velocity of money is off the charts.
USA's doing $7T in credit cards, $98B in mobile payments, and ~$300B in Venmo/Zelle. USA's GDP is about $20T.
Worldwide all credit cards combined is only $35T. So China internally is doing about 1.5x the entire world. This builds an extremely healthy economy and provides opportunity and speeds up wealth generation massively.
So obviously China's smashing our economic growth simply by removing the friction
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> You brush aside the extraordinarily bad and powerful effects of trade, and choose to look at some positive aspects of it.
On a scale of 1 to 5 what would you say is your skill of understanding the intricacies of global macroeconomics? Because statements like this resonate with people who only scratch the surface.
You are aware that in China simply by moving the majority of all monetary transactions from physical to digital with zero fees has completely transformed the country since they started this initiative in 2014, right?
China's doing $52 trillion!!!! in digital payments. Their GDP is ~$15T. Their velocity of money is off the charts.
USA's doing $7T in credit cards, $98B in mobile payments, and ~$300B in Venmo/Zelle. USA's GDP is about $20T.
Worldwide all credit cards combined is only $35T. So China internally is doing about 1.5x the entire world. This builds an extremely healthy economy and provides opportunity and speeds up wealth generation massively.
So obviously China's smashing our economic growth simply by removing the friction on payments and charging zero fees -- something we will never see our government or private sector do.
This is the future we need to get to or we will end up with war against China as they take over the world with their Belt and Road Initiative. The solution is a worldwide open crypto network, not China's closed RMB that will soon be a fully digital CBDC.
This is the future we need to get to or we will end up with war against China as they take over the world with their Belt and Road Initiative.
Well that summarizes how far deep into the religion of economics you are and how you obviously understand how such power like China, is to be feared. You brag about their economic growth (imaginable currency growth), and at the same time fear their expansion.
China is one, if not the most, polluting and waste creating tribe int the world. Not to mention their gov control powers or billionaires and inequality it has created. The tens of millions of empty homes, the oppressed minorities there. I don't think you chose your example right.
You want to see my arguments as to why this trade based society is such a shithole?
If you measure the success of humans via a currency, then you are sadly lost. Reality is not close to you. Success should be in how many people have access to their basic needs for free; how much or little are humans stressed; their health, the state of biodiversity on this planet, the knowledge humans have about reality (from atoms to galaxies), how good they are with each other, how much free time they have, and so forth.
Relationships, trees and rivers, curiosity and exploration, helping others, better health and so forth, are real values. Trade gave rise to currencies, and currencies have value only inside of a trade system. Like a painting being more expensive than saving 1000 cancer patients, a car more expensive than an entire forest, and so forth.
Yeah NFTs are the craziest shit ever, I can't believe people are falling for this 🤦♂️
I think Meta is the manifestation of it all, a big corporation with the only goal of profit in mind, is promoting NFTs, what could go wrong ? Not to mention its one of the most privacy invasive and addictive platforms ever, there's lot of issues with this...... @aral @yogthos @tychosoft
There, from my perspective, is to a world where trade is obsolete. Meaning no currencies in any form or other trades. People's needs are met trade free and we rely mostly on "volunteers" for all aspects of our society. And I argue that this is not far fetched in the books above or in many at tromsite.com/books. We provide examples of how millions of volunteer humans are already the backbone of many parts of our society already, and so forth.
Of course that's not a scientific claim. I do not want or like to trade. Same as millions of people nowadays. And the rest are forced to. Our behavior comes from the environment we grow into. The better and more caring the env, the better and more caring the humans. The more competitive the env, the more competitive the humans. And so on.
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Web: scientist trying to link two documents together
Web 2.0: greedy fuckers trying to make a billion dollars
web3: greedy fuckers trying to make a billion dollars while burning down your habitat
web0: a timeless and ongoing attempt to unfuck things and move forward in a way that enables individuals to seize the means of communication. If we succeed, no one makes a billion dollars but we protect these fragile things we call human rights and democracy.
Sorry for the late response. Well, then we are doomed :D haha Look at those crypto trolls. I assume that between them are pple with high IQs. But who lack essentials soft skills. People who don't even consider the golden rule. Folks which rather should use their time and skill for something useful. But prefer to stay in Platos cave, knowingly follow illusions. (1/2)
The internet used to be a decent collection of nice html sites with relevant info on lots of stuff, made by hobbyists and ICT students. Sure, there was a lot that you couldnt find, simply because it wasnt on there. But I still prefer the early days over the hellhole it is now. Lots of info now, but also lots of society wrecking evil bullshit. And decent info hidden behind paywalls, cookie screens, popups for subscription to newsletters, popups to make you disable your adblocker or else... 😭
A new TROMjaro ISO is out with some great changes/improvements. The post is huge - forum.tromjaro.com/t/tromjaro-… . New and more modern theme, new Layout Switch with 5 layouts and a fix for the stupid libadwaita. Plus @Future is FOSS made our terminal super duper cool. Tomorrow I won't be home most of the day so I hope all of the release notes are ok, but I doubt....I had way too many things to keep an eye on and take notes about..
Also I changed the TROMjaro.com homepage a bit to reflect the new changes - tromjaro.com/
And the entire website's colors....was difficult. To reflect the new theme because our website and OS are having the same design.
Lots of work today :D. Ok. I love TROMjaro. Bye. #tromlive
With this update we are moving to a new and better theme, and we are solidifying our Layout Switch app to include several layouts. A new theme This is how TROMjaro looks like now: This is the first time we are changing the default theme.
This may be overwhelming but take it easy. Step by step. Get used to it. You'll see the benefits for sure!
You see, people think that we should dream about a Resource Based Economy, follow TVP or the like. Let's build a new society, a city, a community...
Ok, go about doing those, although they seem quite unachievable. Society doesn't change like that, it evolves, and emerges. We have to focus on what the problem is, not what the solution is, because solutions follow problems. And they are multiple.
In any case, if we do not take care of people's brains then we go nowhere. If most people spend their time on facebook, twitter, youtube, netflix, and the like, consuming like consumers, trading their attention and overall brain for nonsense content, then we cannot build anything. We cannot even start a discussion about creating a different society.
So here's where TROM comes in and helps. Since the human brains are mostly exposed to the online world, we are building a different online world for these brains.
Listen! Here's how you can take care of you
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This may be overwhelming but take it easy. Step by step. Get used to it. You'll see the benefits for sure!
You see, people think that we should dream about a Resource Based Economy, follow TVP or the like. Let's build a new society, a city, a community...
Ok, go about doing those, although they seem quite unachievable. Society doesn't change like that, it evolves, and emerges. We have to focus on what the problem is, not what the solution is, because solutions follow problems. And they are multiple.
In any case, if we do not take care of people's brains then we go nowhere. If most people spend their time on facebook, twitter, youtube, netflix, and the like, consuming like consumers, trading their attention and overall brain for nonsense content, then we cannot build anything. We cannot even start a discussion about creating a different society.
So here's where TROM comes in and helps. Since the human brains are mostly exposed to the online world, we are building a different online world for these brains.
Listen! Here's how you can take care of your brain and your friends' brain.
1. Start with your device. If you use a mobile phone then we can't help you for now, but maybe in the near future. For now you can replace your computer operating system with TROMjaro. tromjaro.com/ . This operating system is fast, easy to use, customizable, stable, and removes all of the bullshit. No more ads, trackers, no more trades. It comes with a plethora of useful tools and features out of the box. It is the basis of your digital world, the foundation.
Use our library of trade-free apps if you are searching for a particular app tromjaro.com/apps/. Click install. That's all!
2. Read our books. They are well sourced and a direct attack to and a dissection of this society. tromsite.com/books/ . Click and read. You can also download them in PDF.
3. Watch our videos. We put a ton of effort into these and are on the same par with our books. tromsite.com/videos/ . Click any and play.
4. Stay informed with sane news. tromnews.com/ - we put a lot of effort into this one to bring you nonstop news from all around the world. No political bullshit. There are several sections there so you can also watch a ton of curated educational videos, amazing photos of our world, and more. Use TROMnews as your daily brain food.
5. Give up movies and switch to documentaries. If you think this is irrelevant, stupid, or boring, then you do not understand how important it is to fill your brain with real and awesome information. Documentaries are not boring if you watch the right ones. Reality is unbelievable. And important. Via videoneat.com/ we make thousands of such materials available as trade-free. We have documentaries and courses. Give them a try. We hand curate them.
We even have a Smart TV that takes these materials and streams them nonstop. See videoneat.com/tv/
6. Give up these ad-platforms that call themselves as "social networks" like facebook, twitter, youtube, and the like. If you want to create posts and share with friends, keep in touch with them and all that, use our social platform social.trom.tf/ . No ads no bullshit. You are in control. Learn more about it here trom.tf/social/. And if you want to upload your science/technology/activism videos use our video platform videos.trom.tf/ . Again, no ads no bullshit. No trades. The more you spend your time on those ad-networks, the more mush your brain becomes, thirsty for consumerism, lacking awareness, not understanding what is happening in the world, and wanting more nonsense content. Don't let that happen! This move can seem hard, but do it! Else you'll become like the rest.
7. Give up the basic internet tools you are using that are consuming yourself. Slack, Google services, search engines, etc. See our trom.tf/ where we have a ton of such alternatives that work great. Also see our Trade-Free Directory directory.trade-free.org/ where you can search for more such tools. From messengers to search engines, you name it!
You TZM, TVP, and the like people, use the TROM decentralized chat chat.trom.tf/ instead of the BS Discord, use our Files files.trom.tf/ for your documents and collaborations, use our Send to send files send.trom.tf/, and so forth. We built these tools for you and everyone else.
Ok.
We do a massive amount of work to create a different world for the brain. One that's realistic, honest, smart, sharp, alert, and one that can see the world for its amazingness, and the society for its awfulness.
If you do not get why this is important, then you don't get it. We run this entire alternative digital universe with some 200 Euros a month...so if you can help us keep it, please also consider a donation - tromsite.com/donate/
I agree with these points. But let's not forget we can't change people by naming and shaming. I'm Dutch, so I'm used to direct criticism, it's part of our culture. But some people tend to shy away when you address their ways as bad (such as not using open-source). I hope I'm wrong of course and we can just tell people to use something that aligns with our RBE goals without drama. But humans are emotional beings :)
How many people are involved with TROM? You're doing a lot!
I understand that we have to be nice and friendly. And I'd say 99% of the time we have this attitude via TROM. But at times a more strong-worded post may do more good than harm. I am sorry you or others may have felt a bit attacked by this post. It was not meant to be like that. Just to be a more direct and honest one.
We are doing these tools for many years now and maybe at times it is a bit frustrating to see that even groups like TZM or TVP seem to not take advantage of them. We get a lot more involvement and interest from people outside these groups. Perhaps it is a lack of understanding on both or at least one side. TROM focuses on a problem while these other orgs seem to focus on a solution. One that is ill defined and so far non existent. Fresco via TVP was always, from my understanding, focused on a problem. This entire monetary system. His RBE idea was, from my understanding again, just a way to showcase that in theory we could ditch the monetary system for another system. But the important message was the problem. So TROM tries desperately to talk about the proble
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I understand that we have to be nice and friendly. And I'd say 99% of the time we have this attitude via TROM. But at times a more strong-worded post may do more good than harm. I am sorry you or others may have felt a bit attacked by this post. It was not meant to be like that. Just to be a more direct and honest one.
We are doing these tools for many years now and maybe at times it is a bit frustrating to see that even groups like TZM or TVP seem to not take advantage of them. We get a lot more involvement and interest from people outside these groups. Perhaps it is a lack of understanding on both or at least one side. TROM focuses on a problem while these other orgs seem to focus on a solution. One that is ill defined and so far non existent. Fresco via TVP was always, from my understanding, focused on a problem. This entire monetary system. His RBE idea was, from my understanding again, just a way to showcase that in theory we could ditch the monetary system for another system. But the important message was the problem. So TROM tries desperately to talk about the problem, and in the same time create and promote solutions that are a vessel for information in that regard.
So we strongly argue that trade is the origin of most problems (not money as Jacque or others were pointing at - trade is far more encompassing); and we create trade-free goods/services to both help people and help spread that original message of " trade is the origin of most problems ". And I do not think groups like TVP or TZM understand this approach or see it that relevant. They seem to focus on an idea like RBE, that seems "out of this world".
Ok. Long post. How many people are involved with TROM? A handful. Very few actually.
impressive that you are able to do all this with a handful of people!
forum.tzm.community and meet.tzm.community are my efforts to change TZM more towards open-source. Practice what we preach. The server also runs on renewable energy.
I think activism is luxury. People need to have the time and energy to work on it. For some it's a bridge too far to switch to open-source software and decentral platforms. It's very sad. Also since some people stick to Discord. We should do better.
Oh that's very nice! We should then keep in touch. We do a lot in that regard. We have a ton of tools and such. We can help each other ion that regards ofc. I like that you have Jitsi Meet on your server, it is something we do not have. We are on Matrix so if you wanna join our Discussion chat here matrix.to/#/#chat:matrix.trom.… - we can give you some tips if you want, and help here and there to setup some open source services on your server.
We see the value in the open source not simply because it is open, but because many such projects are trade-free. They do not want anything in return from you, the end user. And that creates better incentives overall.
hi! Sorry for the late response. I was super busy with work.
Let's indeed keep in touch! I'll install a Matrix client this week so that we can chat. I now use Element, which uses the private server from work. Multi account is not yet supported, so I'll use a GNOME Matrix client to connect with the regular Matrix network I guess.
I agree on what you say about open-source. But let's not forget that much work is done by Intel, RedHat, IBM, etc. It's not purely trade-free :) It can be though
For example we contacted TZM, Peter Joseph, and others to ask them to move from the ad-networks to the networks we have that are trade-free. But no response. And I think they do not see the value in this. We have to showcase to the others that there are trade-free alternatives out there and maybe we can build more of them. But if you guys and others fighting this nonsense society, feel it is difficult to merely change your online presence to a saner alternative, how can we change this society? I am glad to see you on the Fediverse. What is the TZM Community Forum?
So in essence if we bring people to these alternative networks we also make a point about how facebook and the like are "bad" and why they are "bad" (because you have to trade with them - your data, attention, currency - and this incentivizes them to do a lot of "bad"); and at the same time we showcase that we can create trade-free social networks that are decentralized. We showcase how alternatives do work. Not to mention that we can keep people a bit more sane by nit having to use those ad-networks.
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The TROM documentary is trying to present, in a simplistic way, the world in which we, human beings, live. We try to present the world that was discovered so far through the lenses of science: from the evolution of everything (including us) to the monetary system (the game we currently play), to a different kind of world that we could build for the benefit of us all, then back to Earth. We are trying to present alternative solutions to current problems and take into account the future, which promises to be more than interesting. An informative documentary, perhaps shocking and disturbing to many, depending on how you digest the information. The documentary is divided into chapters and sub-chapters due to the documentary’s excessive length (14 hours) and all the parts are connected so we recommend that you see them in order.
We are releasing a new experimental feature for VideoNeat.com - The True Smart TV https://www.videoneat.com/tv/ - Designed to make people smart, not to collect their data or steal their attention.
All of the VideoNeat library condensed into a single thing. Enjoy growing a human mind, so we can prosper as a human species and move beyond this primitive trade-based society.
Romania has a small population, at some 20 or so million humans. Some 30% are fully vaccinated against COVID 19. Today they reported 574 deaths. 528 of them were unvaccinated. 46 vaccinated but 43 of them were already very sick with other diseases. (source)
At this moment Romania has the second mortality rate in the world. (
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Romania and COVID, a case of mistrust perhaps.
Romania has a small population, at some 20 or so million humans. Some 30% are fully vaccinated against COVID 19. Today they reported 574 deaths. 528 of them were unvaccinated. 46 vaccinated but 43 of them were already very sick with other diseases. (source)
At this moment Romania has the second mortality rate in the world. (source)
Romania was one of the first tribes to start the vaccination campaign, and has more than enough vaccines for all of its population. Also, the vaccines are free for everyone.
Romania is also one of the most corrupted tribes in Europe, despite being one of the most religious tribes in Europe.
All of this may tell us two important facts:
1. Religion clearly doesn't make you a better or a smarter human. 2. Despite having access to free solutions (like a free vaccine), and a lot of information (data) to showcase that vaccines are safe, the mistrust in companies and governments is going to trump over there.
We cannot simply create a better society by enforcing rules and laws, and force people to do this or that. We cannot rely on laws the same way we cannot rely on religion to make a population more trustworthy and honest. And we can't simply explain to people how safe vaccines are (for example) when we know very well that companies and governments lie all the time.
Romanians are not less educated than Spaniards. At least we cannot say that when it comes to how vaccines work and how safe they are. And yet in Spain the vaccination rate is at about 80% and deaths at about 20 per day, with a population 2-3 times the one of Romania. In other words we can clearly see that the death rate is in direct relation to vaccines administration. "Fake news" works the best with a population of people who mistrust official sources of information such as governments.
It is a sad truth, but comes from a fucked up society. It is easy to accuse these people and call them primitive and uneducated, but very likely their hesitancy comes from mistrust not miseducation. #tromimg
Folks we are going to update our social.trom.tf at around 00:00 Madrid time, on 20th. meaning in a few hours from this posts. We advise you to not use much any of our services in that period of time since they may be down or we may have to restore some server snapshots in case the update and restore of our social.trom.tf will fail. #tromlive
On 14th at 21:00 Madrid time we will have a very interesting live:
In this TROM-Cast we will discuss The Internet. What is the Internet and what does it do to our lives? Is it just merely a reflection of our trade-based society, but this time we trade more with our data and attention rather than our currencies?
We are thrilled to have Cory Doctorow. From his Wikipedia page: Cory is a "blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licences for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics."
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