Many thanks to Rafael who became our 83rd supporter - tromsite.com/donate/ - some 100 more people needed to sustain TROM forever. 5 Euros a month is not a big amount and you will support a ton of projects - see the donation page for details.
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I will delay with the video series I wanted to make for TROM. I am working for a WebApe project/website, so it is what it is. If I had the minimum support that I need (see here tromsite.com/donate/ ) then I would focus 100% on TROM.
But the video series will come.... ;). That I know for sure!
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So today I made a poster for TROM II that I may release tomorrow or at the same time that I release the trailer. This week for sure. I've also worked on tromsite.com to get the release pages ready :P. Not public yet but did a lot of work today. 5 nonstop hours on my laptop, battery mode, and still 20% more battery left. Not bad at all considering that I pushed the CPU a little bit here and there.
Anyway we will try to release the trailer with several subtitles so maybe it will take us a few more days to do it. #tromstuff
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I have finished the bloody color correction for TROM II. Again. And you bet this is it. I can't handle it any longer. It is good. I'll make a big post about this "behind the scenes" work for TROM II, after I release it in June. The trailer is almost done too. Next week I will send the documentary to those who come for the TROM Meeting and to a few close friends. I will also release the trailer this next week.
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Today I felt inspired to work on the documentary trailer and I think I found a perfect combination. It gives me goosebumps and I watched it 40 times already haha. Only the backbone is made but that was the important part. I just got inspired and things worked great.... There is a particular song that many may not know, it is a few decades old, that kinda describes the society/world we live in. And that song, as you'll see is quite a powerful part of this documentary.
Anyway. Making some progress with the color correcting too and now I am more hopeful that i may finish the color correcting in a week and by mid May there will probably be a trailer released.
Let's see. But damn I am happy that I could put together something for the trailer, even if it is far from being done. We need a good and relevant trailer for this massive documentary. If most people would like this documentary even 20% as much as @Sasha @Georgi @Aaron and @Dima liked it, it would be a success.
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idk if using a green screen would have been better....but overall it is fine, even how it is now. I just have to accept that I can't make it "perfect" and that Kdenlive has a nasty bug that should be the reason not to continue this for more than a few days :D.
And yeah am telling you for sure that you wont pay attention to these things at all. Even I forgot completely when we were watching it last time with Sasha.
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I just spent 5 hours re-watching the TROM II documentary with Sasha :). That's it I won't watch it ever again. I watched it a million times by now haha. Am sooooo tired. But yeah I think the documentary is ok. Maybe good. Maybe great for some. IDK anymore. Can't wait to make it public. We at least spotted some errors that I have to fix. No big deal. Let's see if the rest will find anything new.
Anyway....good that it is done. #tromstuff
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These days I was "derailed" from the documentary work. I have some minor issues with my head holes (ears) and what bothers me the most is waking up early in the morning to go to the hospital. But also we have to deal with the paperwork for Sasha.....so my sleeping schedule got fucked up severely and I struggle to do the color-correcting for the documentary.
It is what it is. I will try to work more these days to see how it goes. I did a bunch of improvements but I'd like to do more. #tromstuff
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Part 4, the last part, of the TROM II documentary is done! Finally! I still have to check the final render tomorrow but that's only for video purposes to make sure all looks good. I struggled with this part a lot. I hope it makes sense and it is not boring.
I also realized that some interviews look kinda red-in-the-face and some yellow :D . And I may have to take a few days to fix that for all of the parts.
Let's see....
But yeah the documentary is done, except for what I just said.
My laptop also freezes for the past weeks, randomly, when I work on the documentary. I hope it won't go nuts now....maybe be software related, may be hardware although I cleaned it recently...
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AI spam is the real threat people are often overlooking when they talk about stuff like "AI takeover of humanity"
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Fast and Furious I finished 45 minutes for part 3 of TROM II. Yummy fast :) - some 15 minutes left but I may have to add some 5-7 minutes more to the mix from some leftover footage....In any case I am quite sure I'll finish it this week. Maybe even tomorrow if I am in beast-mode.
Kdenlive has a weird bug with the text tool that makes the entire Kdenlive project freeze. And you can only kill that process and restart it over again. Kinda pissed me off today :D. Crashed at least 20-30 times on me. I could report it but I don't even have time for that now, I work work work.
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The second part, the huge one, of the TROM II documentary is done! Man that was a lot of work to fix/improve some stuff.
I can't fit the entire timeline in one screenshot but here it is:
2 more parts left. And these ones, from what I remember, are a lot less work. They are together as lenghty as this second part so there is a good chance I am done with them all in less than 10 days.
Excited to be done with it!
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A new TROMjaro ISO is out forum.tromjaro.com/t/tromjaro-… - with a few minor fixes and a lot of updates coming from Manjaro's Stable. I love it when we do not have to do anything new to TROMjaro. It just works and that's it. Functional, user friendly, and I'd say beautiful :).
Also, how wonderful that now we are not blasted with spam-accounts on our Peertube instance. A simple solution I asked Peertube for, improved the situation immensely. A simple form when registering forcing everyone to say why they want to join. And their accounts are held for approval. This way I can filter out most spambots. Beautiful!
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50% of TROM II, second part, done :). This part is the biggest and probably the hardest to finish the editing for. But in just 2 days I checked and fixed 50 minutes. This is much faster than I expected. But I worked like a motherfucker these past days. Maybe I'll take it easier tomorrow.
We've also git a really nice feedback for TROMjaro - see this forum.tromjaro.com/t/introduct… from this very nice human.
So happy about that! #tromlive
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in reply to gme • •Hetzner seems to be the only viable option but I've heard horror stories from people using it too. And the sad thing is that I do not have a business, I do not make any money, I provide free services for people, and materials. So I have these servers for other people basically, and yet I am treated like that.
Contabo has shockingly low prices, and shockingly terrible "customer support" and overall relation with the "customers".
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in reply to Tio • • •Take this for what it's worth but I moved all my servers off of Linode when they were bought out by Akamai over to Hetzner. Most of my servers are in Falkenstein Germany, and a few are in Seattle. When possible I'm using ARM64 servers (only available in one data center last I checked). Hetzner has been very good both service wise and customer service wise. But I use auto-pay and have all charges going to my credit card. In all I spend about 100€ with them a month. I also have one Contabo server (my mail server) and I've been loathe to move it over to Hetzner because ... knock wood ... anybody that runs a mail server knows this ... my subnet is not blocked anywhere. It's $15 a month for the server. I could probably pay less at Hetzner but honestly I'm afraid to "fix something" that's not "broken" there.
But you're the 2nd person in about as many months where I've read horror stories from Contabo or about the way Contabo has treated a customer. You're the first I've heard where Contabo flat out refused to sell any servers to, too.
I had been looking to diversifying
... Show more...Take this for what it's worth but I moved all my servers off of Linode when they were bought out by Akamai over to Hetzner. Most of my servers are in Falkenstein Germany, and a few are in Seattle. When possible I'm using ARM64 servers (only available in one data center last I checked). Hetzner has been very good both service wise and customer service wise. But I use auto-pay and have all charges going to my credit card. In all I spend about 100€ with them a month. I also have one Contabo server (my mail server) and I've been loathe to move it over to Hetzner because ... knock wood ... anybody that runs a mail server knows this ... my subnet is not blocked anywhere. It's $15 a month for the server. I could probably pay less at Hetzner but honestly I'm afraid to "fix something" that's not "broken" there.
But you're the 2nd person in about as many months where I've read horror stories from Contabo or about the way Contabo has treated a customer. You're the first I've heard where Contabo flat out refused to sell any servers to, too.
I had been looking to diversifying my server deployments and using Contabo more because I really want to deploy some servers to Canada and Hetzner doesn't have a Canadian presence and OVH flat out won't sell me any VPSes in Canada since I'm a US citizen.....
So..........
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in reply to Roma • • •With banks in many countries no reason is code for money laundering, since laws often make it illegal to tell someone that they're under investigation.
For example under UK law it's a crime carrying a maximum 2 year prison sentence.
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