Despite the fact that humans have created so much misery, so much destruction, so many mountains of waste, and wasted so many brains for the past thousands of years, there is some hope in sight. But to understand and harness that hope, they must take a giant step back and look at their society from an alien perspective.
They have to let go of what they think is normal and try to undress the layered society they have created, to see the naked reality behind it all. Only then can hope be understood. Only then, the understanding of hope can become the bedrock for change.
There is only one, and one only. A few kilometers of crust layered with a few kilometers of atmosphere. A seemingly endless variety of plants and animals. And yet, the 8 billion humans inhabiting it are naively ignoring the fragility of this ecosystem. If Earth was an island, it would be the only one in a vast empty ocean.
Humans are the rulers of this world, with no corner left untouched by them. Rulers who think that they might be exempt from the rest of nature. But the destruction of this habitat is starting to have consequences that are impossible to ignore.
Humans have value only if they are good players in this trade-based society. Millionaires and billionaires are popular and powerful. And people seem to care about them. But those poor fucks trying to escape the hell environment they are in, are just "causalities" that can be easily ignored. They are not valuable for this society anyway. Bye bye!
These next days I'll be busy with some personal stuff. I am taking an Open Water course - I wanna see the underwater world a bit. So I won't have as much time to deal with the documentary release and such. I also need to learn for this course not only dive. But it only lasts for a week or so. After that I'll try to do a TROMcast and push the documentary more. I already emailed a few people/orgs. No answer, as usual. But is fine. The message is real and important so I'll keep on TROMing :)
Basically now you can use other servers to do the transcoding, even your own local machine. This is insane! So amazing! I will have a deeper look into it.
Towards the end of this year, the version 6 will bring password protect option for videos, the ability to see thumbnails when hovering the playback bar, chapters, or the ability to replace a video with a new version!
This is how a video platform should be run. Kudos to this motherfuckers! They are the heroes of our society, together with the ones who volunteer themselves to make this world (offline or online) a bit better! We should force this society to provide humans with at least their basic needs as trade-free so that we can grow more of these projects. You need a fertile soil in order to grow stuff from it.
I know there are some scaling issues, i'm working on it (but not easy to investigate, as i have few feedbacks, and I can't make stress tests alone, my computer can only simulate 50 connections)
@John_Livingston first of all, position of life chat Average 16:9 video on average 16:9 screen just doesn't leave enough place for comfort chatting
Second issue I remember: on unstable connection chat frequently resets itself and loads again from scratch, it's just takes too long (little faster if you're logged in, but that's not always possible)
I recommended you to look on @owncast implementation, their chat is really good
I had some technical difficulties to improve this. For now, the chat is in an iframe (I don't know your background, sorry if it is too technical). This implies that I have little control on this.
I tried to get rid of the iframe several months ago. But I had issues with the AngularJS framework used by Peertube. It has some annoying side effects.
@mo So i postponed this dev. But I need to do it for some upcoming tasks. And once it is done, it will be simpler to position the chat (and even add an option for a floating chat window).
Sorry for the inconvenience. Not easy to work alone on such a project, when we must spend the majority of his time to search for funding. But good, news (and spoiler alert), i found someone to help me on the project!
I'd like to say that I felt a huge relief or happiness but the feelings were moderate at best. I sent a few emails to some people and orgs, let's see if the documentary reaches some. I am happy that we have 1k people subscribed to our newsletter and the "open email rate" is over 50%.
Anyway, these next days I'll focus on getting the word out about the documentary and see if we get any feedback. I also plan to make a TROMcast about it and I also work on a big article about the work that I did for the documentary and the reasoning behind the approach I have taken with it.
I also wanna focus on my personal life. Go out more, dive and see some sea creatures, and eventually stress about the money situation later this year :) .
But anyways, what makes me the happiest BY FAR is that this documentary IS DONE. And I can focus on new things. Maybe
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This is me after I released the documentary:
I'd like to say that I felt a huge relief or happiness but the feelings were moderate at best. I sent a few emails to some people and orgs, let's see if the documentary reaches some. I am happy that we have 1k people subscribed to our newsletter and the "open email rate" is over 50%.
Anyway, these next days I'll focus on getting the word out about the documentary and see if we get any feedback. I also plan to make a TROMcast about it and I also work on a big article about the work that I did for the documentary and the reasoning behind the approach I have taken with it.
I also wanna focus on my personal life. Go out more, dive and see some sea creatures, and eventually stress about the money situation later this year :) .
But anyways, what makes me the happiest BY FAR is that this documentary IS DONE. And I can focus on new things. Maybe new videos, new books, new projects. Let's see. But for the time being let's try to tell people about this documentary because I think it is a very important one. Objectively so. What we present there is real and important. So please share the documentary!
Ok people, the documentary is finally available. Please keep your expectations low and keep in mind that this documentary is made mostly by one human being, with limited resources. We have not used any stock footage (except maybe 2-3) so everything you'll see is real and genuine.
Also, keep in mind that this is not the beginning or the end of anything, but a continuation of our work for this TROM project. We will create more materials and projects.
YEESSS!! Incredible job Tio!! I'm so happy that it's finally out, after so many years of nonstop hard work. An absolutely unbelievable amount of effort went into this documentary, and you can really tell. It is an amazing piece of work :)
Yaaay! Amazing news :smiling face with smiling eyes: From the bottom of my heart, congrats @Tio @Sasha @Georgi @Dima @Aaron. Finally, it's out! I can only envy those who will watch it for the first time :party popper: :partying face:
Russian subtitles are in progress, trying ma best to provide it ASAP :snail:
Like I've told you many times before, its still hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that this was all made by a single person! 😃 You are such an inspiration to me, and I hope others too will see the value in you and your projects ❤️
@bigworldsmallsasha @aaron @georgi @sober_pirate and Tio, all of you have such wonderful minds and incredible personalities, I feel honored to have found this project and become friends with you all. Much love, hugs for everyone 🥰 🫂
I worked on my website a bunch before the documentary release. Made pages for videos and projects and tweaked a few more things tiotrom.com/
It is great to have your own website really. Sure a federated account is great, but a website is really awesome. Can do anything you want with it. Also, independent.
Ok time to go to bed, tomorrow I should release the documentary,
So for the past year or so our Matrix server was not enable to help you recover your lost password. Therefore if you had an account with matrix.trom.tf and lost your password you were fucked. I am happy to say that this is finally fixed. I know, terrible thing, but it is fixed. I am also able now to access the admin backend and keep an eye on the users and delete any bots and such.
So all good!
In other news, we worked today to prepare everything for tomorrow's release. A few minor things to tweak but mostly all good.
It will be available for everyone, of course, and with proper English captions and sources. We are streaming it via our own video platform https://videos.trom.tf (Peertube) so there will be no censorship this time.
Keep in mind, this documentary style is very different from the first documentary. This is more of a "personal" documentary that revolves around 5 people, but it expands far more than just that, presenting an "overview" of our society from an alien perspective. Please keep your expectations low and keep in mind that most of the work was done by one single human being, from recordings to editing and so forth.
Also, we used no stock footage, so everything you see there is real. No fake bullshit.
The "star of the show" is a Dell Inspiron 7620 2-in-1.
So my laptop battery dropped 10% more in 2 days?
That seems a bit extreme....
So I did notice a drop in the battery performance over the past week or so. I used to be able to run it on battery for some 10 hours when watching local media, some 5-6 hours when using it normally over wifi, bluetooth, streaming, even doing some photo editing and such. Even with full brightness on in broad daylight doing stuff over wifi I could use it for some 5 hours.
Now? It's 4 or so hours when using it "normally". Dropped 1-2 hours on average. This is a bit extreme.
I wonder why...
For one this laptop is kinda hot most of the time. I have lots of things opened. So the temperature of the CPU/GPU is around 60-70 degrees on average. The laptop can be so hot it is uncomfortable to use it.
Second, I have charged this laptop via a USB-
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The "star of the show" is a Dell Inspiron 7620 2-in-1.
So my laptop battery dropped 10% more in 2 days?
That seems a bit extreme....
So I did notice a drop in the battery performance over the past week or so. I used to be able to run it on battery for some 10 hours when watching local media, some 5-6 hours when using it normally over wifi, bluetooth, streaming, even doing some photo editing and such. Even with full brightness on in broad daylight doing stuff over wifi I could use it for some 5 hours.
Now? It's 4 or so hours when using it "normally". Dropped 1-2 hours on average. This is a bit extreme.
I wonder why...
For one this laptop is kinda hot most of the time. I have lots of things opened. So the temperature of the CPU/GPU is around 60-70 degrees on average. The laptop can be so hot it is uncomfortable to use it.
Second, I have charged this laptop via a USB-C dock that delivers 60W to the laptop, while normally the charger delivers 65W. I've read that this should not impact the battery life, but idk....
Lastly, these stats about the total capacity of the battery cannot be that exact....it dropped 10% after I rebooted the laptop, but I normally only reboot it once a month or less, so maybe it showed the 93% capacity wrongly for the past month or more.
Anyway, if I would complain about this laptop I'd say:
gets very hot
the battery seems to lose capacity super fast
the chassis of the laptop is "too sharp", more than you imagine, making it uncomfortable to handle; that chassis is also a bit bendy...makes some noises when you handle the laptop
it is kinda heavy overall
you have to solder something inside your laptop to make your trackpad work
repairable on paper, but kinda terrible in practice...not comfortable to open this laptop and replace stuff
But hey, I still like it....is kinda thin, powerful, dual RAM slots, 4TB of SSD, amazing screen, good keyboard, great trackpad after you make it work; great port selection, good webcam, and the build quality is still quite good overall.
But fuck, I hate that the battery is getting so bad suddenly...
I ordered a laptop fan stand, to put my laptop on while I'm on my desk...and I'll try to charge it with a more powerful charger. I know there are "good practices" to preserve the battery like only keep it charged between 20% to 80% and so forth....but what's the point of having a laptop if I have to do it like that? I want to use this thing in a way that is comfortable for me.
Anyway. It is what it is....
This week I will release the documentary so I'll focus on that.
If it's hot like that and you're losing battery capacity quickly, it's failing and needs to be replaced:( I had a similar issue w my son's laptop not too long ago.
Nope....no warranty....bought it from ebay second hand, but not-used. So I can't use any warranty. Even if I had I would not send this laptop back since it is my main machine - I manage some 40 websites and so many things from this machine. Thanks for the input tho, I will probably replace the battery this year if I can find one.
See how awesome this is. LibreOffice in the cloud with collab editing tools (writer, spreadsheets, presentations, diagrams). Plus a Notes app, plus a powerful Photos app that allows you to organize your photos and videos and even edit them.
TROM Files can preview PDFs and multiple 3D file formats. And it has a built-in Music App so you can listen to your music/podcasts.
It's all about those files, and they are all encrypted. We have no clue what you are hosting with us.
So on my Inspiron 7620 laptop the battery capacity dropped to 93% only after half a year of use. Is this normal? To me it sounds quite extreme to have a 15% capacity loss a year.... And I did not even use my laptop like most people do. Most of the time my laptop is plugged in.
That actually may be because of many different reasons. In general, what I've noticed is that these numbers aren't that accurate and heavily depend on the manufaturer implementation (battery controller) and way how the capacity calculated. For example, on manjaro forums some people assumed that it's some sort of protection mechanism, when you keep your laptop plugged in too often:
Some people suggest, it might be also the heat and room temperatures affect the capacity, so it's a vast amount of probabilities here. I have my phone battery capacity meter stuck at 83% for more than a year and it still work pretty much the same as new. I think, it's really hard programmatically to prescisely calculate such a thing, so I would not rely on these numbers in general.
If you still worry about the battery, I'd suggest you to keep looking if there would be the sudden drops in real charge percentage, while you're on t
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That actually may be because of many different reasons. In general, what I've noticed is that these numbers aren't that accurate and heavily depend on the manufaturer implementation (battery controller) and way how the capacity calculated. For example, on manjaro forums some people assumed that it's some sort of protection mechanism, when you keep your laptop plugged in too often:
Some people suggest, it might be also the heat and room temperatures affect the capacity, so it's a vast amount of probabilities here. I have my phone battery capacity meter stuck at 83% for more than a year and it still work pretty much the same as new. I think, it's really hard programmatically to prescisely calculate such a thing, so I would not rely on these numbers in general.
If you still worry about the battery, I'd suggest you to keep looking if there would be the sudden drops in real charge percentage, while you're on the battery. Especially, at low charge around 20-10% or sudden laptop shutdowns because of the discharges, even though it was enough charge. This is usually a common indicator for all Li-Ion type batteries when they have to be replaced soon.
Thanks a lot for the detailed info! I did notice a slight decrease in battery time while using the laptop. Now is like 5 or so hours, before maybe it was a bit more. But it is true my laptop is kinda warm all the time, at times very hot. Does not help that now is fucking hot in here.....
I guess I will have to replace the battery in a few years time anyway.
Thanks a lot again, and useful link to the manjaro forums!
Very welcome, as always! Yeah.. unfortunately, lithium batteries don't like heat at all and tend to degrade faster in the hot environments. From what I understood, working temperatures higher than 35C may affect the capacity directly, slowly decreasing it or it just discharges quicker than usual, even after full charge (absolute limit of the temperature is 60C, though it is totally not recommended). However, I hope, yeah, your battery shouldn't require a service that soon.
Or I would recommend something like this coolermaster.com/catalog/coole… It's around 20 euros on amazon. Using a similar thing myself, since I have heavy workloads for my working laptop sometimes and it heats a lot too.
We moved from OnlyOffice to Collabora (Libreoffice) for our TROM Files. It is nicer, more simple, no BS integrations with 3rd parties like google and the like. No worries, there is compatibility between the files created with OnlyOffice and Collabora. Read more about the Nextcloud Collabora integration here https://nextcloud.com/office#nextcloud_tab1
- We will remove https://sketch.trom.tf/,https://diagrams.trom.tf/ and https://office.trom.tf/ . These services already exist via our TROM Files https://files.trom.tf/ . No point in wasting server resources for the same services. - We closed any new registrations for https://git.trom.tf/ . This service can be easily abused and we do not have the resources to deal with that. We accept new registrations but only for "friends". For people who we know or we can check to make sure they will not abuse the service. - We will remove https://meme.trom.tf - Probably no one uses that little service anyway.
I may take some radical decisions this year, such as removing some trom.tf services that are difficult to manage and also put a toll on the server, together with closing down the registrations for our Peertube. Matrix is a service that I consider shutting down, or at least close the registrations. It eats up a lot of the server power and I cannot deal with the bots there.
The monthly donations for TROM are so low that soon they won't even cover the server costs. So I cannot upgrade our servers to allow others to use our services. Our Nextcloud may also be limited...
On top of this I want to remove any other project or materials that are not relevant anymore.
Plus remove myself from the TROM-chats. This eats up my life....and for what!?
I am so tired....I want to do stuff and put them out there. I don't want to argue on chats about whateverthefuck, I don't want to make captions for a documentary that I work on for 3 years, I don't even help with that since I am already depleted of energy to work on this documentary. I don't want to deal with any subtitles fo
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I may take some radical decisions this year, such as removing some trom.tf services that are difficult to manage and also put a toll on the server, together with closing down the registrations for our Peertube. Matrix is a service that I consider shutting down, or at least close the registrations. It eats up a lot of the server power and I cannot deal with the bots there.
The monthly donations for TROM are so low that soon they won't even cover the server costs. So I cannot upgrade our servers to allow others to use our services. Our Nextcloud may also be limited...
On top of this I want to remove any other project or materials that are not relevant anymore.
Plus remove myself from the TROM-chats. This eats up my life....and for what!?
I am so tired....I want to do stuff and put them out there. I don't want to argue on chats about whateverthefuck, I don't want to make captions for a documentary that I work on for 3 years, I don't even help with that since I am already depleted of energy to work on this documentary. I don't want to deal with any subtitles for it or any video. Or translations and the like. I understand that these are important for some people, but I should not deal with any of these...
Basically I want to create stuff in my loneliness: documentaries, videos, books, etc.. And then have 1-2 people around who can help me a bit with the proofreading, review of the sources, and things like that. Then I'll make these available and open one single door: TROMcast. For anyone to be able to criticize the stuff that I release, since my goal is to present factual information. So that's how I see things now: Me creating stuff and sharing it on tromsite.com. Then do a TROMcast whenever a few people want to challenge any of the things presented in whatever I have released.
I want to have time to focus on my personal life. Go see some nature, some creatures, or just stay and relax and not manage 40 websites. I'd rather write more books than provide "yet another" instance of whatever....
I want to learn more about the world too...
Now that I finished the documentary maybe is time for me to sing off in many ways. Sometimes I have this strong feeling of shutting down my laptop and never open it. And just live. In the moment. Go climb some trees, go for a swim, or just stay and wonder about the universe and read some books about it.
Maybe I'll change my mind about some of these things, but for sure I am overwhelmed ... you try to write books, source them, proofread some that others write, design them, publish them, make podcasts about them; make documentaries, record, edit, make captions or check them, release, deal with the feedback; make a custom linux distro and provide technical support, update it, do releases, fix issues with packages, curate hundreds of apps....Or make a documentary website, find new titles, add them, make sure they have a trailer, make sure people can access them....Or provide some 25 instances via trom.tf....customize them, update the servers, backups, bla bla bla bla....and so on....
Ok I'll stop. But this life is not healthy for me.
@Tio The most hardworking person I know doesn't work for money/profit and he's constantly struggling to stay aflot in this world, just shows you where the priorities are for our society.... And I just wanna make one thing very clear here, your health & wellbeing should always come first above all else, over the years I've seen you many times burn yourself out with work, I'd much rather see you drop some of these projects and be relaxed than see you struggling like this. Take care of your wonderful mind because people like you are such a rarity in our world ❣️
yeah absolutely. Tio is the most hardworking, genuine, and most underappreciated person I've ever met or have even heard of :) I'd say it's a good idea to drop some of the projects that put too much toll on you, and have some time to relax and enjoy life while you have it :)
LPS
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Carlos Solís
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in reply to Carlos Solís • • •PeerTube
in reply to Carlos Solís • • •Yes it does... so yes it is; I guess?
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Peter Mount
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PeerTube
in reply to Peter Mount • • •@peter @csolisr
As it is a brand new feature, feedbacks, bugreports, and anything that can help us improve on it will be welcomed with huge gratitude.
Enjoy!
Carlos Solís
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in reply to Tio • • •Moana Rijndael 🍍🍕
in reply to Tio • • •but will it bring working live chat for streams..? Please...
@peertube
PeerTube
in reply to Moana Rijndael 🍍🍕 • • •There already is a chat plugin for live streams, developed by (the amazing) @John_Livingston 😉
Moana Rijndael 🍍🍕
in reply to PeerTube • • •i know, we use it regularly on xxivproduction.video😉
@tio @John_Livingston
John Livingston
in reply to Moana Rijndael 🍍🍕 • • •@mo
Have you issues using it?
I know there are some scaling issues, i'm working on it (but not easy to investigate, as i have few feedbacks, and I can't make stress tests alone, my computer can only simulate 50 connections)
Moana Rijndael 🍍🍕
in reply to John Livingston • • •@John_Livingston first of all, position of life chat
Average 16:9 video on average 16:9 screen just doesn't leave enough place for comfort chatting
Second issue I remember: on unstable connection chat frequently resets itself and loads again from scratch, it's just takes too long (little faster if you're logged in, but that's not always possible)
I recommended you to look on @owncast implementation, their chat is really good
@peertube @tio
John Livingston
in reply to Moana Rijndael 🍍🍕 • • •@mo
Thanks for the feedbacks. Will try to improve this very soon.
@owncast @peertube @tio
Moana Rijndael 🍍🍕
in reply to John Livingston • • •@John_Livingston tnx
@owncast @peertube @tio
Moana Rijndael 🍍🍕
in reply to Moana Rijndael 🍍🍕 • • •@John_Livingston also, position can be worked around by opening iframe in new window, but... that requires knowledge and not oblivious
@owncast @peertube @tio
John Livingston
in reply to Moana Rijndael 🍍🍕 • • •@mo
I agree.
I had some technical difficulties to improve this. For now, the chat is in an iframe (I don't know your background, sorry if it is too technical).
This implies that I have little control on this.
I tried to get rid of the iframe several months ago. But I had issues with the AngularJS framework used by Peertube. It has some annoying side effects.
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@owncast @peertube @tio
John Livingston
in reply to John Livingston • • •@mo
So i postponed this dev. But I need to do it for some upcoming tasks. And once it is done, it will be simpler to position the chat (and even add an option for a floating chat window).
Sorry for the inconvenience. Not easy to work alone on such a project, when we must spend the majority of his time to search for funding. But good, news (and spoiler alert), i found someone to help me on the project!
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@owncast @peertube @tio
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