My Pixel 4a got an upgrade to Android 14. But not from Google who dropped support for this phone recently, but from @CalyxOS ! Imagine that. Huge kudos to the Calyx team and a big middle finger to Google by making humans buy new phones every year and rendering the old phones obsolete just because of no software updates.
In a trade-based society all humans care is about their trade advantages. Fuck Google with their Pixel 8 software support till 2030. That's a marketing nonsense. They should be ashamed for even releasing yet another phone that's exactly like the previous one, and making their old phones obsolete by refusing to push updates to them.
A few months in and I love CalyxOS. Everything works great. My phone is ads and trackers free. A true trade-free OS for the phone :).
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hmm my TROMjaro is freezing randomly, several times a day for the past week or so. Probably has to do with some recent updates but I am baffled since I tried different kernels, I also tried the NVIDIA open source or proprietary drivers, even removed it altogether. This is a terrible bug/situation for anyone..... It is true that I install too many packages to test for TROMjaro and do so many experiments on my system, but I'd like not to reinstall the OS now...
Gthumb cannot start anymore due to some "segmentation fault (core dumped)". Kdenlive doesn't start duet to some weird error "kf.service.sycoca: The menu spec file ( "" ) contains a Layout or DefaultLayout tag without the mandatory Merge tag inside. Please fix it."
IDK what is happening... :D
I may have to start all over and reinstall. But it would be terrible to reinstall TROMjaro to then have it freeze again.
Damn...
EDIT: Could be the BIOS. I updated. Let's see....
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@PeerTube we have released our documentary exclusively on Peertube and only there, in June. It is 5 hours long, 4 parts, and we worked 3 years to make it. Here it is https://videos.trom.tf/w/p/fVpfZ9VfWrWawHkggKi7Wz
Please consider adding it to your https://joinpeertube.org/#find-peertube-videos website as a showcase of original Peertube releases if you think it is worth it. We have it subtitled in a few languages already and it is basically about why the bad things that happen in the world (where do they originate from), but also about how we could maybe change that. It is about open source, volunteers, and overall treating people as humans and helping them. To help each other.
Please consider it and maybe our instance too - https://videos.trom.tf - dedicated to science/technology/activism.
TROM II: A Message to the Aliens (documentary)
We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.videos.trom.tf
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Can someone please tell spain and the people living there that it is not normal to stay inside with your winter coat and shoes on and be cold when outside are 10 degrees? In Romania we stay in a tshirt inside when outside there are -10 degrees or less.
INSULATION! That's the difference Spain!
It is amazing to me how Spain, and other tribes too, waste so much energy and people feel uncomfortable too, just because they do not insulate their houses. We have put carpets in the entire house here in Spain, use a gas heater in the day time or go on the terrace if it is sunny since it is much warmer than inside, and have fluffy clothes designed for the winter that we use inside. And still it is COLD and uncomfortable!
It is insane. Inside humidity is being created and thus a lot of mold. We have to clean and paint.... It is a disaster Spain!
Overall a massive waste of energy and a lot of discomfort.
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I understand your perspective Tio, but it is crucial to avoid generalisations about an entire country based on your personal experience on the Girona coast. Spain is diverse, with significant climatic variations between regions. In addition, preferences and practices in climate management can differ considerably.
It is true that in some areas, such as the Girona coast, the climate is more temperate compared to colder places such as Romania. This can influence people's heating habits and needs. Rather than assuming that the experience in Girona reflects the reality of the whole country, it would be more accurate to recognise the climatic and cultural diversity of Spain.
Personally I think that sometimes it would be better to let that frustration out by talking face to face with a person, a friend possibly. I say stupid things a lot of times because I need to discharge my frustration but I don't post it on the internet.
Your example is really exaggerated. Songs and podcasts are an entirely different thing. You are comparing a 3 minutes audio that is meant to make you dance or sing, with an hour long mouth-talking audio?
Movies and documentaries at times overlap like in the case of the above example which tries to "teach" you about that scientist. And overall their format is very similar in many regards. Stories that you follow. In that regards yes, I find movies (most of them) boring and useless. Reality is far more complex and interesting.
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Oh wait, are people still eating 3 meals a day? I've only eaten 2 meals a day for the past....idk....2 decades? :D - and everyone I know probably.... I think 3 meals a day is too much. In fact there is a positive outcome to eating less. You age slower ;).
Anyway, yeah people are being poorer it seems. Prices are rising. Thank God for the mighty Economy and the fantasy money we worship :)
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Why We’re Still Trapped on Twitter
It's no secret that Elon Musk has absolutely tanked Twitter, so why haven't we all left? Despite the site becoming an apocalyptic hellscape, there's a surpri...YouTube
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!Friendica Support Out of curiosity is there a way in Friendica to ONLY allow the friends to comment on your posts? I know that basically anyone can regardless, but to never be visible to you almost like anyone who is not your friend, is IGNORED. I think that could be a great way to deal with the trolls and for big accounts to better manage their mental health.
EDIT: I created this issue https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/13650
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Just thinking, if I don't want non-followers to comment, why would I want to post publicly?
Because you may simply want others to see your posts but not want to see their responses to it. Like I can make a Wordpress blogpost and do not allow anyone to comment. At times this is useful, especially when you may get invaded by trolls.
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From now on, and for the next few weeks, I will work on adding a lot more apps to our TROMjaro APPS library https://www.tromjaro.com/apps/ - lots of cool apps :). But takes some time because for most of them I am designing an icon that will be part of the Zafiro icon theme pack (so that we contribute to this open source icon pack - we already made hundreds of apps so far), but I also need to test more these apps, make screenshot for them and all that.
It is more work than you may think.
Consider a donation if you can, to support all of the work we are doing for TROM - https://www.tromsite.com/donate/
Thanks! #tromstuff
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This is a photo I took tonight (unedited, straight out of the Pixel 4A):
I have made a lot more such photos for the past few days and learned how to make longer timelapses. I will make an article about it all soonish :).
I so love it. To reveal the universe. To do it yourself. There, where you are staying :). I love the night sky simply because there is no sky anymore, it suddenly is the outside world. A world we cannot ever experience more than being touched by a few photos reaching our eyes and devices. Beautiful and hard to believe this is all real. At times I feel like I am going crazy....
Most people live their day to day lives having no clue that these things are real...
Only a little bit edited - colors and such.
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We went out again with the telescope and we saw Saturn, Jupiter, and parts of the Milky Way. Here are some photos - astonishing that they are made with a phone (Pixel 4A 4G).
Me and Sasha:
Edited a little bit the colors, light, and details. But not that much, a few minutes editing.
An "arm" of the Milky Way:
Improved a bit the colors and contrast. Not by much.
Our TROM telescope (no editing):
And the coolest of them all, Georgi with a head-lamp :)
No editing, straight out of the phone, believe it or not.
Am impressed. So fucking cool: great experience to enjoy the night sky with our own eyes and a telescope, and low effort great photos :).
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Took a photo last night of the sky and I just fucking realized that I captured the Andromeda Galaxy by mistake!
If you zoom in you can see it a bit. WOW!
Tonight I will go out to take a bunch of photos, this time in RAW, to see what I can capture :D. These things excite me so much! These fucking things are real. HOW!?
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My astrophotography adventure has begun :D - @Roma pay attention :)
Just took a photo now, from our terrace. Half Moon and with light pollution. Not ideal at all.
Device: Pixel 4A
The unedited JPG from the Pixel:
Awesome! No work, just let the phone do its thing.
Now here's the RAW from the Pixel 4A, that I edited for 20 minutes in Darktable:
The sheer number of stars is unbelievable! And the core of the MilkyWay was on the opposite side of the planet....imagine how it would look like when the core is visible and the moon is "invisible"!
I LOVE this! This is reality folks! Above our head.
So from now on I have setup my Pixel to take both RAW and JPEG. Just in case I wanna retouch some photos :). How awesome!
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The Smartphone World and how I cope with it - https://www.tiotrom.com/2023/11/the-smartphone-world-and-how-i-cope-with-it/
This is my 20 years journey into the world of the phone. I was here when it started, I was amazed by it, then angry at it. And now I found a way to tame it. To transform my phone into my friend, and protect myself from the pile of shit that the phones are streaming on a daily basis into people’s brains.
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I can relate to that so much.
Your solutions and alternatives are jewels.
Thanks!!!
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At the risk of seeming persnickety, I must remark that the pile of poop streaming into people's brains first streamed *out* of someone else's brains. Cheap and easy electronic communications have allowed those with shit for brains to influence and taint the rest.
The big tech mafia and the government mafia start out promoting delusive nonsense to get people supporting their agendas. After time, they start believing their own delusions, and so the gaslighting and insanity grows worse. In time a culture grew in which most people had their beliefs formed from popular opinion, rather than personal inquiry. Almost everything commonly accepted as true today is half-truth or outright nonsense.
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 :).
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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.
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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.
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@Aaron gave me his old Pixel 4a 4G and now I am doing the unthinkable: I am changing my phone! For the first time since 2016. I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 since 2016 and because I do not use my phone that much I did not care. But now that I have a new-old phone, I will go for it. Especially since my S7 started to crumble.
I have already installed CalyxOS on the Pixel and so far so perfect. I will make a detailed article about it all, but yah....happy to use an unused device and make good use of it! :)
It even has an Astrophotography mode so I can already start with that. Here are some quick samples form not-so-great-days to take such photos:
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!Friendica Admins Is it really ok to have over 100.000 Inspect deferred worker queue? Everything on my instance works great, but that number is immense. These are the deferred ones https://paste.trom.tf/ejuhetucoc.apache - I still do not understand if it is fine and I should ignore them or there is something I can do about them.
EDIT: I have submitted an issue here https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/13570 - can be helpful for others too,
Massive Deferred worker queues · Issue #13570 · friendica/friendica
I want to figure out what's up with this. I have over 100.000 processes in the Inspect deferred worker queue for the past may many months. Here are some commands I used from this issue #13241 : sel...GitHub
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@Tio interesting, many contact related tasks, updates and create, wonder why those get deferred.
But I am of no help here, just curious like you.
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Deferred tasks are background tasks that failed for an external reason (remote contact not reachable for example) and will be retried at a later date, with increasing delay each subsequent retrial. As a result they don't take up any resources while they're waiting for their due date.
Via https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/13570#issuecomment-1774329350
That's very good to know. External reasons.
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Well first of all I am using a daemon and not cron jobs via this tutorial https://nequalsonelifestyle.com/2022/08/04/setting-up-friendica-daemon-systemd-service/
Then In /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/50-server.cnf and add Under [mariadb]:
\#enable the old query optimizer setting
optimizer_use_condition_selectivity = 1
optimizer_switch = 'rowid_filter=off'
You can also add to the same file under mariadb and mysql:
innodb_buffer_pool_size = 20G
innodb_log_buffer_size = 256M
innodb_log_file_size = 1G
innodb_write_io_threads = 16
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