The way I moved our entire #yunohost server from one bad drive to another was a lot easier than using the Yunohost backup and restore methods.

Our server has 2 drives. 1 x Nvme of 1TB (where we store Yunohost basically and boot from it), and 2x 4TB HDD merged into a single 8TB one, where we host the data for our Peertube and Nextcloud.

The Nvme was dying.

Solution? ddrescue!

Basically I booted into a rescue system (debian) via Hetzner's dashboard. Made sure the Nvme was unmounted. Mounted the 8TB HDD. And created an image file of the entire system of the bad Nvme to the 8TB HDD. Took around 2 hours.

Then asked the Hetzner team to replace the Nvme. Now again boot into recovery mode and simply restore the image to the new Nvme.

Worked like a charm! Restored everything...partitions, databases, driver's IDs....all!

4-5h to move it all. Sure more hours in total but the image creation and restoration was not long.

Rebooted and we are back!

It was much easier than to restore 10+ applications with huge databases.

So now our TROM.tf is back with our services....Nextcloud, Peertube, Friendica, and more....

I so recommend this approach if you are in a similar situation!

#ddrescue #linux #servers #sysadmin #fedi #fediverse

Exactly 2 years ago on the 4th of November we bought a camper:

Was the biggest thing I ever bought, in all regards. By the time we bought the camper I felt a bit less excited since I spent so much time looking for one.

We spent some 2 years saving all we could to buy it.

I had dreams about what life could look like from now on. I was so excited to improve this tiny home, and then go places.

It did not end up like that. In 2 years we only went out for 5 months in total. The rest Sasha had to work and we had other things to do. 3 months in one go, then 1 month and another.

But we still managed to see amazing places. To me it feels like at least 5 years have passed since then. So many memories. My life changed so much since then.

I could not have predicted that in less than 2 years Sasha would cheat on me and then break up with me. I was concerned that she may not like this lifestyle and would consider it "boring" and she would leave eventually, but not like this...

Now I am by myself in the camper, surrounded by all sort of problems with my family, dealing with the breakup, etc.. I love this camper and I made it so cozy. It is my safest place.

I hope at one point I can continue my adventures by myself and .zip the past few years. Archive them. And move on.

Is just so sad that we really didn't give this lifestyle a proper chance and things ended up so ugly.

Such a shame....such a shame....

I can't wait for one day to restart my camper adventures and go to see amazing nature places....mountains, caves, lakes, beaches...hike, snorkel, stay lazy in the sun or in the mountains. I miss that...

These days I have to help my parents and plan around that. In the meantime I do some maintenance work for the camper and I will do my best to make more videos for RideWithLess. Also, I want to start a new video series for TROM - I am always sidetracked with that because of problems problems....

These days I fluctuate between terrible depression and sadness, to a bit of hope usually at night when everyone is asleep and I can stay at the computer and plan a bit for a positive future...dream....

My goal is to travel with my camper and do amazing online projects for TROM (write, produce, create more services, etc.). Maybe organize a yearly Trade Free event. At the same time go explore the wonderful natural world. It is doable but I need to solve many problems currently, and also try to make some money if possible to sustain this lifestyle.

But at least I have the lovely camper and a little financial support via TROM.

#spain #nature #camper #motorhome #travel

People are upset about #proton wanting to use AI more, to cut on costs, make more profits...well, I am not at all. Anyone who trades their product/service is subject to its bad influences. Trade is the origin of most problems as I wrote in this book tromsite.com/trombooks/#flipbo…

The longer you play the Trade Game, the more chances to become a shithead. A profiteer. An ego-maniac. One who cares more about making a profit than anything else.

There is a reason why I so desperately talk about "trade trade trade" and how this is an awful game. It is indeed the origin of most of our problems. But too few are listening.

The only way around this is to create Trade-Free services. Like we provide via TROM.tf. We provide file hosting, file sharing, social platforms, video platforms, and so much more. And they are all trade-free, meaning you do not have to give us ANYTHING in order to use them. And so we have ZERO incentive to create shitty services. ZERO.

That's the way.

No "small and honest" business can stay small and honest. They have to pay employees, hardware, rents, etc.. They are entangled with you, the user, who needs to pay them else they are fucked. They need to grow, and lying is a short path to that. Cut costs, abuse their employees, hype their products, etc..

So yah, you want trade-free services? Check our directory of trade-free services and organizations directory.trade-free.org/

Rant done.

#email #protonalternative #foss #fedi #fediverse #trom #tromsite #ai #artificialintelligence #protonai

The same way that prisons are like fast-food restaurants, a cheap “solution” to a problem that is not even understood, the educational system is similarly a failure. Not a place to educate really, but a place where teachers are workers who get a monthly salary, and the kids are being livestocked through a mix of facts and classes, with grades and groups. A precursor to becoming workers. Most students will forget most of what they’ve learned the moment they finish school.

School is also a place to leave your kid while you go to your job, every day, 5 days a week. Babysitting pretending to be something of a higher value. Unfortunately.

Since everything needs to be mass produced in our Trade-Based society, graded, sold and quantified, prisons and schools have emerged as part of the production chain of services, where humans are treated like pieces of meat that need a score. A grade, a sentence, a label.

It is not the fault of teachers or students, but of society itself.

Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…

#school #education #prisons #educationalsystem #trom #tromarticles

I had this thought these days that people, just like products nowadays, have become of a poor quality.

I had a bike when I was 10. Well built one. It was of one of my older cousins. And I think he also got it from his father or something. We used to share bikes, clothes, furniture and more over generations. Today, most products are shit. They break fast, have unnecessary features, are outdated by software limitations, etc..

I think people are the same. Think relationships, no one seems to have the patience to build serious relationships. Just like you change your phone every other year you change your partner too. Shallow values, mindset of a consumer. if your browser is slow you get annoyed and want another new device. Is indeed harder to figure out why your browser was slow and fix that. Maybe install an adblcker, maybe install another browser? But changing the phone is something this society encourages all to do.

If your partner is not fun anymore you think, maybe is easier to hit that Tinder and find a new one, and throw into the trash the many years you spent together. The solution to your problem is rather a temptation created by a consuming society. You get a new boy or girl on Tinder, and one more, and is fun...for a while...then you realize is all shallow and you hit your head on to the same problems.

Your new phone you realize is not much different from your old one. And you always want a newer one. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me always, shame on the society.

Products are bad nowadays because of the incentive of this trade society. Make more, sell more. If you made great bikes or phones that are upgradable you may be out of business if people do not need to renew them. Same with people, this environment of Instagram, fake lives, tiktoks, shorts, busy worker life, dating apps, silly tv shows, made people shallow, little patience, no substance in their brains. If something is not working well in your view, get a new one.

So yah, I feel like people are of a very poor quality nowadays. They cannot commit to something long term, you cannot trust them, they break easily.

Just a thought I had....

#rant #people #relationships

So is a very weird mix in Catalonia, Spain, Romania or everywhere else. People migrate due to economic reasons mainly, they work for less, do not speak the local language in many cases, do not care about the local culture, they just want to make a buck. Others come in for holidaying, to consume the tribe. Some locals take advantage of them, abuse the migrants at times, make money off of tourists, then complain about them, and so forth.

They start to blame each other and in the process the visual and cultural differences are easy targets: those Mexicans stealing our jobs, those dirty Gypsies, those stupid brown people, the Romanian thieves, the arrogant British tourists!

What is clear is that if people were to have a decent life, the Catalans, the Gypsies, the Mexicans, the Romanians and the rest, then there will be a lot less people migrating and “stealing” the locals’ jobs or committing crimes, and thus less of this forced mixing of cultures. Less consumerism, and thus less tourism, less short term rentals. And if people were not to be workers for most of the year, then them holidaying could be more spread-out through the year, not creating the insane tsunami of tourists in July-August in all of Spain, and probably all over the world.

In essence, it is not the fault of the Catalans, or the immigrants, or my fault, or anyone’s fault. It is this society that transforms us into consuming working idiots who then mix and clash with each other.

Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…

#immigration #spain #catalonia #culture #trom #tromsite #tromarticles

Back in Spain for almost a week now. A huge difference compared to Romania. At least here people are much nicer, you can go for walks in nature....etc...

But, still I feel like I am sucked into a black hole of problems. Days feel shorter and darker. Maybe because there is less light too, so literally darker as well. But time passes by so fast the older you get. And more problems the older you get.

Will try to do my best to stabilize my life and work on TROM again, but honestly it feels like endless roadblocks in my way.

Some nights I look at park4night at the places we've been to with Tortuge (the camper)...wonderful memories. That life ended up so fast and abruptly. And in such a shitty way. My dream was to go travel with Sasha with the camper, create a yearly trade-free event, write more TROM Articles, make more videos, go volunteer, have a diverse and meaningful life, for both of us. I was so close to that, then it fell off a cliff.

I am trying my best to still dream about such a lifestyle even if it is just me. But now with my father having a lot of health problems, my parents now in Spain, the future is something that scares me and I refuse to think about. For context my father had 5 strokes in 1 year. He has severe problems with understanding where things are in space, recognizing objects, difficult to orient himself....can barely speak, cannot read or write, very difficult to use his hands....basically needs constant care and my mother who is almost 70 cannot by herself take care of him. We got them to Spain, were able to rent a flat for 6 months because in Spain renting long term is a wet dream....everyone only rents for the season. Maximize the profit, of course. Bless the Trade Society.

We have a lot of plans to do and problems to solve.

I wonder how to find happiness in such a situation. And where.

At least I am lucky that the human invented world, the bullshit jobs, money, ownership, nationalities and countries,, all of that is not all it is. In fact is a simplistic and primitive world that humans have invented. I am lucky that the real reality of atoms, evolution, galaxies and quasars lets me feel part of something special and important. It would be hell on earth if all it was, was the human world.

At least this fact keeps me afloat.

Is been 3 days since I stopped taking my sleeping pills. At least that is an improvement. However I feel like I would start using them again...

Anyway, my life sucks but I have to fight to not let it suck for too long, else what's the point....will do my best to focus on TROM....videos, a new article about AI. Will try!

Rant done!

But is not only poor people coming to “your tribe”, taking “your jobs” by working for less and in poorer conditions. The tourists are the other kinds who come to “your tribe”, not giving much of a shit about your culture and language, or even the environment. They come to “visit”, eat, have fun, take advantage of a tribe. Consumers, consuming, as we all are in this society. But also to take a break from their eternally-enslaved worker lives.

For example in Barcelona the locals feel a deep anger towards the tourists:

videos.trom.tf/w/usbuKr8CVjgv8…

Is normal to be angry when you cannot even rent a place to live in since the rents are insanely expensive, all due to short term rentals for tourists. I know it very well. I lived for 15 years in a small coastal town 2h North of Barcelona. It is IMPOSSIBLE to rent long term here. It is all for tourists. I am not a Catalan, but I can see how such situations make us think of “us vs them” again, and play very well into the separation of people into groups, which will lead some towards nationalism, and politicians will take advantage of that.

Catalonia, like all of Spain, relies so much on tourism to make money. So weirdly enough, the industry is feeding a lot of Catalans in the process. They can hate on the tourists, but they also rely on them a lot. Same way that the Catalans take advantage of people like my father who are vulnerable, so they will pay them less and work them more. Just to make a profit.

Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…

#catalonia #catalunia #culture #trom #tromsite #tromarticles #barcelona #tourism #inequality #rents #spain