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I will have to add 15 more minutes from the 3rd part to the 2nd part to make the 2nd part more relevant. They are almost complete in terms of the story-line (interview cuts) but prob need a day of work to make them better and trim them down. After that I need to "design" (edit) these 15 minutes and that may take me a week or so....maybe more!? I hope not.
For the 2nd part I need to design/edit 10 more minutes. That too may take me a week.
I think it is now reasonable to finish the 2nd and 3rd part by mid January at least (if I stretch it more than I am expecting now). Then I'll have 3 or so months to finish the last part of the documentary + improve a bit here and there the other parts. Plus make a trailer and add the sources....
Someone uploaded an 8h long video on our Peertube instance....good to see that it can handle even such extreme cases :D. I will push these trade-free services more and more once am done with the TROM II documentary. Eventually we should move the storage for our instance to an object storage solution. We will do the same for our Nextcloud instance and once we do that I hope to raise the storage from 5GB to something a lot more appealing like 50GB per user :D.
Telling you, we've done a ton with very little financial support. If we had some more serious financial support we could do a ton more. But it is fine, I will try to support myself and make these projects better and more compelling. It is a different story when you provide 50GB of storage for Nextcloud vs 5GB....
Anyway, I am working again on TROM II. I finished the coloring for now. Trying to finish the 3rd part this month. Let's see how it goes...
It is a trap! I collect your data and sell it to the local farmers :D
But yeah 50GB would be very appealing since 5GB is like "meh"...."I can't backup my stuff there, my photos and videos are more than 5GB...." but 50GB is really useful for lots of cases. Let's see....
TBH, I probably won't need more than 5 GB since I don't backup my media files in the cloud. And I think maybe it's the same for a lot of people with a limited bandwidth 🤔
Sure, and thats great :) - but prob many have a lot more files. Even now if anyone wants we can increase the storage space for them if they request that.
I will try to eventually move all of my 500GB of photos and videos to files.trom.tf via an object storage extension. This Photo App is now better than perhaps any Linux Photo Gallery apps out there.
We have updated our TROM Files https://files.trom.tf and now we provide a much better Photo Gallery app. An almost complete alternative to the Google Photos. You can sort your images in albums, sort by date, add tags, folders and more.
On top of that you can now directly edit your photos from the app itself:
You can add text, resize photos, add filters, tweak the brightness, contrast and the like.
We give 5GB for free for everyone. And if anyone needs more you can let us know. We do it trade-free of course.
Enjoy the beauty of Nextcloud!
PS: a few features are missing now, such as the ability to extract archives or convert videos. We will enable them as soon as they become compatible with this new version of Nextcloud.
A reminder that if you do not like Musk and his Twitter you can host Friendica, Mastodon, Pleroma or other such networks yourself via @YunoHost - start here yunohost.org. It is easy easy, you won't regret it. Ask around, I and others will help you out.
If this is too difficult, join the many instances out there. Start here for Friendica or here for Mastodon.
If you do not trust yet another boss to boss you around and tell you what you are allowed to do or not on the platform, and you are not skilled to create your own instance, then I and others provide managed instances. Basically you pay a monthly fee and have your own instance. I do this so I can support the 30+ free projects like tromsite.com or trom.tf.
@Tio Hi! Sorry to disturb you. I set up a new friendica site with yunohost today, but I'm having trouble adding contacts that need to approve request manually. When I first registered here in August this year, I seemed to have the same problem. However, I have since found that this issue has been resolved on this site. It seems that your site is also built with yunohost. Do you happen to know any clues on how to solve this problem? Thank you very much!
I do not know honestly. It could be about the processes that happen in the background maybe your server does not have enough resources to handle them all? Also depends what you mean by "having problems". Do you see any error? Anything like that?
@Tio I post it on support forum... letus.inspiredlife.fun/display… Maybe I can wait for some time then is just becomes OK... Anyway, thanks for your information :)
Excited to bring the new XFCE release to TROMjaro xfce.org/about/tour418 with our own tweaks and such. XFCE is such a wonderful desktop environment. And they are bringing a ton of new cool things, especially for the file manager that is now, in my view, by far the best file manager out there. I am already running many of these changes on my TROMjaro machine, for months, and all rock solid. Should release a new TROMjaro ISO this month or the beginning of the next.
I was trapped into a mystery for the past few weeks. You see, I like what Slimbook and Tuxedo provide for the Linux community in terms of making their laptops geared towards Linux. And I want to buy a new laptop. Now....their laptops look like identical twins. So I thought it is the same company that makes them but different brands. They confirmed this is not the case. One is a Spanish company, one is a German company.
Ok. Fine.
But Tuxedo told me their Infinity series, which I was keen to buy, was not made out of magnesium alloy like they advertise on their website, but made out of plastic and the magnesium alloy is steamed onto it.
But look, the Slimbook looks identical:
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I was trapped into a mystery for the past few weeks. You see, I like what Slimbook and Tuxedo provide for the Linux community in terms of making their laptops geared towards Linux. And I want to buy a new laptop. Now....their laptops look like identical twins. So I thought it is the same company that makes them but different brands. They confirmed this is not the case. One is a Spanish company, one is a German company.
Ok. Fine.
But Tuxedo told me their Infinity series, which I was keen to buy, was not made out of magnesium alloy like they advertise on their website, but made out of plastic and the magnesium alloy is steamed onto it.
But look, the Slimbook looks identical:
Even inside, ports, specs, weight, EVERYTHING! Yet the Slimbook people told me: no no, our is FULLY metal. No plastic what-so-ever in the chassis.
Which one was right? Me, CONFUSED.
If they are so identical they must come from the same manufacturer....right? I then watched this video review of the Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 14 and bellow someone comments that they basically buy these laptops from a Hong Kong manufacturer named TONGFENG Computers....and Tuxedo confirmed in the reply:
Now you can go on the TONGFENG Computers website and you'll see those laptops hk.tongfangpc.com/thin-6h1-ser… - they are identical to the Slimbooks and Tuxedo ones.
I asked the Slimbook folks if they get them from there and rebrand them, but they said:
I'm sorry, but due to company policy, which I'm sure you understand, we do not provide that information.
At least I like that Tuxedo seem more honest in that regard. Maybe because they had to respond to the claim publicly!?
Now on the TONGFENG website they claim that these 16inch laptops are "all metal design":
Look, it is not a bad thing ok!? Of course these are not German or Spanish manufacturers, these are German/Spanish companies that buy laptops and rebrand them. Then they sell them. However Tuxedo advertises the laptops as "made in Germany":
So, my thoughts are these: both Tuxedo and Slimbook buy their laptops from the TONGFENG Hong Kong company. They simply deal with the software side of things to make them more Linux friendly, and do some custom chassis/keyboard prints. After testing the Slimbook Executive 16 my feeling is that Tuxedo seems more on the honest side of things and those laptops are made out of plastic with magnesium alloy steamed onto them. They are not bad at all, and I may buy a Tuxedo eventually if I can't find better alternatives.
But they for sure seem not honest to me. None of them to be honest. If Tuxedo tells me one thing but one their website they write another....or if they say their laptops are "made in germany" while they are not....then....you get the idea...
I do not trust any company. Period. They are entangled with whatever they trade so they can never be reasonably honest. Maybe Tuxedo and Slimbook do want to do good things and I still have that hope. Overall maybe they are nice people, but they for sure are shady, here and there at least.
In a trade-based society humans will sell you anything, and wrap it to appear as if they do so because they care. It is an old tactic. But they need to care about their profits too, more so. So don't simply take it for granted when these Open Source driven companies tell you that they are there to do a good thing for the Open Source. Be skeptical of their claims.
Both the Slimbook and Tuxedo people provided a great email support for my questions. All are nice. The Slimbook Executive 16 was very well put together, but probably not by the Slimbook team, but the Hong Kong one. I am still tempted to buy a Tuxedo to test it, these next months, but don't expect much honesty from companies in general.
Or that they claim their laptops are made out of magnesium alloy when in fact are plastic with magnesium alloy steamed on them? Something they confirmed to me several times over email.
Not bad laptops at all, but deceiving practice in my view.
They’re not rebrands, they’re chassis from other companies, they assemble the computers entirely in Germany, AFAIK. As per the magnesium, I don’t know the difference between an alloy or vapor bonding. Not issues at all for me, especially after using these devices, I can attest if their quality.
Well at best they are "assembled in Germany" but not "made in Germany". If that's not deceiving...
And I wonder if they are even assembled more than changing the ram, ssd, or the motherboard. Like add them to chassis. In any case maybe we can tag @TUXEDO Computers to clear some things up...
Except regional labels like that can be more or less permissive. Like Swiss Made for watches doesn’t mean everything has to be made in Switzerland. Maybe Made in Germany doesn’t require to be that strict either, while still being allowed to use that term. In any case, I don’t give a crap about that stuff, what matters is the quality of the final product!
Except regional labels like that can be more or less permissive
Yeah well I care more about why would you try to use that label anyway. Marketing I suppose.
don’t give a crap about that stuff, what matters is the quality of the final product!
Of course the quality matters, but being deceptive is a red flag. Are they also deceptive about the materials used for the laptop? Or other things? idk...
That’s not deceptive, that’s a term they might be legally allowed to use. Just like “Made in France” here: people know it doesn’t mean every si file thing came from France.
Nah that's naive. Let's be honest. If they say on their main page "made in Germany" but it is made in Hong Kong, that's objectively deceptive. If I order from China, via Amazon, a pair of headphones, then I paint them and put a logo on them and say they are made in Spain, that would be deceptive at best.
Again, nothing wrong with the laptops being made in Hong Kong. And they seem good quality. But what they do in terms of marketing is deceptive at best.
From what I know, they pick all the components that go inside, they assemble them, they test the hardware, etch the keyboard layouts and logos, develop drivers or improve on existing ones, and work on their own suite of software to enable it to work well with the device. That’s more than enough for me to differentiate their devices from just rebranding!
Interesting. Every-time I clicked that link it redirected me to the homepage. So it seems that if you select EN for your website, then click that "made in germany" it basically sends you to the same EN homepage.
Now that you sent me the link directly it worked. But it is only in German.
I have translated it but the translation is not great I suppose. From what I understood you guys are choosing the hardware that is most compatible with Linux (although Nvidia is notoriously not very compatible). And then you develop some software for it as seen here github.com/tuxedocomputers
I understand that the hardware is ordered from companies such as Tongfang, assembled there or at times in Germany. You also provide a repair shop for these laptops.
Did I get it right?
If so, I think the wording is misleading. These laptops (the hardware) are not "made" in Germany, but at best "assembled" in germany together with some basic software support.
Would it be more fair to change that and say "Assembled in Germany with custom-made software support"?
I think many people would feel outraged if Apple advertised on their website "Made in the USA". Even tho Apple, from my knowledge, designs some components themselves and do most of the software for their products. Still, you can't call that "Made in the USA" because it is not made in the USA. At best "Designed, developed and assembled in the USA". I hope you get my point.
If you hadn't bought this up then I would've for sure thought that Tuxedo and Slimbook makes their own hardware from the ground up, makes sense why the Slimbook people don't want to provide you that information. But to be fair, designing & making laptops from the ground up is expensive, so its not a bad thing what they're doing in terms of improving linux compatibility. I just wish they were a bit more honest about what they're doing.
BTW, That company's name is TongFang, not TongFeng.
Yeah that's what I don't like if they give the impression that they make these laptops. Call me crazy but if I see on a website that sells laptops "Made in Germany" I would expect the laptop to be made in Germany....
I wonder if they just customize the laptops a bit and resell them, at least that's what I get from that YouTube comment. If this TongFeng company sells completely assembled laptops then why does Tuxedo & Slimbook have to reassemble them? That youtube comment mentioned they do keyboard lasering and chassis logo printing, maybe that's what they're referring to as "assembling" ? 🤷
TBF, their work on software and all is great, its just that there's not enough transparency from their part.
Even if they assemble in Germany it is misleading to say "Made in Germany". Their software work is all good, and all that. Great that they contribute the the FOSS community. But I still think putting "Made in Germany" on their main page is misleading. And I am quite sure it is done consciously since people associate germany with well-made products. So I believe they use that as a marketing strategy.
And just to say this, I do not want to "stab" Tuxedo or anything like that, but if I see such practices I will be vocal, regardless if they also do some good for the Open Source world.
> Even if they assemble in Germany it is misleading to say "Made in Germany".
This maybe a bit subjective, because there are many steps involved in manufacturing something. When that TongFang company says that their product is made in China, they probably mean its assembled in China, I'm not sure if all the individual components are made in China itself. Or maybe it is, IDK 🤷
Also its good that you are vocal about such things, I don't think you're being rude, its honest criticism.
It baffles me that it can be subjective....if you say "This laptop is made in Germany", but you order the hardware (and perhaps entire laptops) from somewhere else (regardless where), then it is beyond me how that sentence makes any sense. Maybe that Hong Kong company also orders parts from somewhere else, regardless I was talking about "not being made in Germany" but at best "assembled and customized in Germany".
My experience with this world tells me that this is a marketing scheme.
Of course the hardware has to be made in the country at least, but the framework and stuff could be imported from other parts and assembled there, I think that's how most products are made, rarely a product is made entirely in one country. I don't think Tuxedo & Slimbook could claim they make the laptop themselves, since its made by the TongFang company. So that is probably a marketing scheme like you say, they make it appear like they build their laptops from the ground up.
I made a blog post a few days ago when I received my Slimbook Essential 16 and basically I was not happy with it. Now things have changed, some of them 180 degrees. But still not enough to keep it.
Why? How?
First of all, I need to take into account a few external factors: 1. I am in the middle finishing the TROM II documentary. I did not want to distract myself from it until April or so. I need to finish until May. The only reason I bought this laptop was because of a limited 150 Euros discount. 2. I work on many things, servers, stuff, including WebApe and I may have to take 2 new WebApe projects this month. Not a great idea to be distracted by a new laptop now. 3. I have TB of data and hundreds upon hundreds of packages and custom config files....moving them over to the new laptop will take me many many days.
Ok. What's up with the Slimbook.
The build quality I am still not 100% liking it.
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I made a blog post a few days ago when I received my Slimbook Essential 16 and basically I was not happy with it. Now things have changed, some of them 180 degrees. But still not enough to keep it.
Why? How?
First of all, I need to take into account a few external factors: 1. I am in the middle finishing the TROM II documentary. I did not want to distract myself from it until April or so. I need to finish until May. The only reason I bought this laptop was because of a limited 150 Euros discount. 2. I work on many things, servers, stuff, including WebApe and I may have to take 2 new WebApe projects this month. Not a great idea to be distracted by a new laptop now. 3. I have TB of data and hundreds upon hundreds of packages and custom config files....moving them over to the new laptop will take me many many days.
Ok. What's up with the Slimbook.
The build quality I am still not 100% liking it.
I got used to it. It still feels more like plastic than metal to me, feels super light and all of that, however using it for the past days I realized it is very well built (put together). Not bending, no flexing....really good. I opened it up after they allowed me to, and that made me like it much more. Inside, everything is well organized and very well put together. Feels more like a metal build now to me that I opened it up.
It is also fantastic that you can put up to 64GB of RAM and has 2 M2 slots that support at least 4TB if not 8...This is crucial for my needs. Also opening it up was so easy, I loved it. Unscrew a few screws and that's it, the bottom cover can be easily removed. Great job with that!
Despite this, I am concerned that being so light and plasticy-feel, it will easily be damaged in time. But being so light is fantastic in terms of portability. Speaking of that, the charger is massive and will annoy you if you want this to be portable, which kinda makes it being so light, less relevant. If this had an AMD processor it would have made a lot more sense since right now the battery is not that great. Overall will last some 4-5h and I've been using the Slimbook app that allows you to switch to an energy saving profile. If you use the Nvidia card, even a bit, it drops down to half. Considering that batteries degrade quite fast, this is not a great beginning.
That keyboard...
I type a lot (I write books) and I need a decent keyboard. The keys are a bit too shallow for me, it feels a bit weird to type, but the worst part is that some key symbols are not centered as mentioned previously. After a few days of use I still did not get used to this. It looks weird especially at night when they are lighten-up. Looks like the laptop is tilted one side. The keys feel a bit "cheap" and not that "fun" to type on. Plus I HATE the numpad...I'd love a normal keyboard...big keys...centered....
The camera is usable or bad, like it is the case with most laptops. But probably no one uses them since all laptops have shitty cameras. And the speakers are ok.
That touchpad!
I hate touchpads - I can never use them. But Slimbook made me love their touchpad. It is an amazing experience. Smooth, glassy, HUGE. Makes it so easy to use it, even for someone like me not used to them. Great job with that. Tho, again, even that is a bit not centered which looks weird....
What about that screen?
At first I hated it because I thought it as washed-out. And it was, compared to my laptop and Sasha's. But then I realized it was like that only when it came to blue-purple....the rest looked great. Just so happened that the default TROMjaro wallpaper was the most obvious in that regard. I then compared the Slimbook screen with our phones and other screens and it seems that my and Sasha's laptops are the ones adding more contrast at times, for blue and purple. Anyway, the colors are probably more accurate on the Slimbook after all, but yeah many screens, many color variations...
In any case I ended up LOVING the screen. 16'' and a 16:10 aspect ratio, with those thin bezels makes the perfect screen for me. For video editing, designing books, websites, you name it. Awesome. I can't go back to any screen after this experience. So much so that this will be the first thing I'll look for in a laptop.
A beast. But does it matter?
The core i7-12700H + Nvidia 3050ti make up for a great (on paper) hardware. However for the day to day use, even for me doing so many things at once, it makes exactly ZERO difference. Even on my laptop I can have hundreds of tabs opened, watch stuff, edit, whatever. Could make a difference in terms of video editing and code compilation. Unfortunately in Linux the GPU is almost never used. All in all, great hardware, but unless you do heavy video editing, code compilation, or game, you don't need this.
Speaking of hardware....from my tests there is almost zero difference between a normal SSD that has like 1GB speeds r/w and these new M2 that have many GB speeds. Unless you posses hundreds of GB of media and copy them frequently....there is no difference. Just marketing.
Actually I'd say I have confirmed, for me at least, that fullhd screens are almost identical to any K screen for a 16'' screen. M2 SSDs are as good as SSDs for pretty much most uses. And the difference in power (GPU and CPU wise) only matters for specific tasks. The vast majority of those are ok for the vast majority of people.
Marketing....
Summary.
The Slimbook Executive 16 - things I like: - lightweight, easy to carry around - very well built - great screen - amazing touchpad - great hardware - perfect ports availability and slots - easy to open and upgrade
Things I did not like: - feels more like plastic than metal - massive charger - overall bad keyboard - not a great battery life - bad webcam in dimmer conditions - bloody full of stickers - extremely expensive
For 1750 Euros (1600 with the discount) I would definitely want a fully aluminum build, a good keyboard, and a decent battery. Maybe even a fingerprint reader....could be cool to have that and super useful.
I want to mention something unique and special about Slimbook: their support. You can talk to humans there, and they are super friendly. Many thanks for putting up with my many questions and helping me out. Stellar support.
Where from here?
I would like to see other laptops too. Lately I found 2 candidates but of course I will look for more. For example I found the Dell Inspiron 16 to be a great choice:
Comes in different hardware variations, even with AMD for some. That keyboard looks amazing from photos (no numpad). Centered touchpad and huge. All aluminium built, thin, even tho heavier.
The downside, max 34GB of RAM and I think max 3TB of SSD....fuckers...You can change these yourself but what I realized is that the vast majority of these well-built laptops have the RAM and storage soldered into the motherboard. No way to upgrade them. Such a fuckery.
Anyway, the second exciting choice is the Dell Inspiron 16 2 in 1: Not as powerful as the Slimbook, but a lot more than mine. Can transform into a tablet and has a touchscreen. Although I may not use any, it is likely more solid since it is built for this. Sasha's is similar to this, but at 13'', and I love it.
This one too has a 32GB RAM and 2TB SSD limit...
I can find these on ebay from 800 Euros to like 1.400 Euros. Much cheaper than the Slimbook. Even new are not more expensive than the Slimbook Executive 16.
Anyway, I will package the Slimbook and send it back. Then I'll focus on TROM II and these next few months I'll look to see if I can find better alternatives. There is a slim-chance I will buy the slim-book again :) . It was very interesting to have it around to test, and i went from "I won't keep it" to "I'll keep it" a day after another. Last night I was almost sure I'll keep it. But I do not want to rush with this since it is an extremely expensive thing for me to buy. I don't want to regret my decision.
Honestly if this Slimbook had a powerful AMD and was around 1k Euros, I would not have thought twice.
Quick background: I want to buy a laptop that is really well built, easy to upgrade and repair, and portable. Has at least a 16inch screen and a decent battery, plus a good keyboard.
Some 2 weeks ago, after spending many weeks searching for a good laptop, I finally decided to order the extremely expensive Slimbook Executive 16. I was at first more inclined to buy the twin from Tuxedo because it was black and I could buy it without Nvidia, so much cheaper.
BUT.
The Tuxedo people told me that although on their website it says:
These laptops are actually made out of plastic and that magnesium alloy is steamed on the chassis themselves. What!? I made sure I got it ... show more
Quick background: I want to buy a laptop that is really well built, easy to upgrade and repair, and portable. Has at least a 16inch screen and a decent battery, plus a good keyboard.
Some 2 weeks ago, after spending many weeks searching for a good laptop, I finally decided to order the extremely expensive Slimbook Executive 16. I was at first more inclined to buy the twin from Tuxedo because it was black and I could buy it without Nvidia, so much cheaper.
BUT.
The Tuxedo people told me that although on their website it says:
These laptops are actually made out of plastic and that magnesium alloy is steamed on the chassis themselves. What!? I made sure I got it right so I asked them to confirm several times. And they did. At best their website is dishonest, at worst they want to trick you. Which one is it? You decide.
Now, because TUxedo and Slimbook provide laptops that are honestly almost, if not entirely, identical (just check all of their models - chassis, hardware, sizes, etc.) I asked the Slimbook people if theirs are also plastic with coated magnesium alloy. They confirmed at least 10 times I think, that this is not true. Theirs are purely metal: aluminium+magnesium alloy, as stated on their website.
I decided. Slimbook.
It arrived:
Took a while but it arrived. I live in Spain, they ship from Spain, 5 hours away from where I am. Ok. Anyway.
First impressions were that it does not feel like a sturdy laptop. I have 2 to compare it with. First is my plastic laptop. Slimbook feels sturdier than my laptop. Second is Sasha's laptop which is a 13inch fully aluminium laptop. Slimbook feels like plastic compared to that one. I can beat you with Sasha's laptop for sure, and I could even kill you with it, then I am quite sure it will probably still work. But I can't do that with Slimbook. Yes magnesium alloy is lighter than aluminium, but idk...it feels like a well built plastic laptop to me. Which is not a good thing for me since I want a very s sturdy one.
So, the way it is built, for me, is not what I was looking for. I am inclined to believe this is "a plastic laptop with magnesium alloy steamed onto it", like the Tuxedo folks were saying. Call me crazy but I won't be shocked if the Slimbook people willingly or not misinformed me about their build quality.
Funny that they have a sticker that says "Protected by Magnesium". Protected...hm....
I don't know but if I were to sell laptops that are fully metal built, I would advertise that like "Chassis made out of aluminium and magnesium alloy!". Again, maybe this is a conspiracy I am creating inside my head but things smell fishy to me.
The keyboard is a bit odd. Some key symbols are not centered yet others are...
Not something that bothers me too much, but still an odd thing to see.
The charged is a fat-charger for a slim-book :)
It is massive. That makes this laptop not very portable since the battery form my initial tests, is not great with that Nvidia card. Maybe lasts for 2-3h...maybe a bit more. Maybe it is normal for such a powerful machine.
The worst part: the screen colors are washed out. Look:
I do not care about little differences, but this is a massive difference. My old laptop has a more contrasty look, a lot more. Slimbook is super washed out. I tested on Sasha's laptop and her screen is almost identical with mine. So idk which screen looks more like most screens out there, but for sure I prefer my old laptop screen and Sasha's screen. If two screens from two different laptops look a lot better than the Slimbook's one, maybe it is the Slimbook that's not doing well.
And this is awful because I checked the documentary I just edited the colors for, and on my screen and Sasha's looks great, on Slimbook looks not that great....what is it happening? Maybe this model has a fucked-up screen!? IDK...but this is the worst thing for me, something that if not fixed I will return the laptop. I can maybe put up with the rest, but not with this for sure.
Speaking of screens. You know I've been saying that 2k 3k 4k screens are a BS marketing unless we talk about very large screens and content to match that screen. Well...Slimbook has a 16inch 3k screen. If I switch between 3k and fullhd I can't really tell any difference. Maybe my eyes are not the best, but I feel like this is just a BS marketing thing.
Now...the screen size is perfect for me. I love the 16:10 aspect ratio. I love how light it is. I like how it looks and I despise those many stickers. The webcam is decent, the speakers are great. I can't open it to look inside because they added a sticker to one of the screws to stop you from doing that and I am concerned I can't return it if I open it up. Speaking of that, the bottom part of the chassis feels like pure plastic to me. Quite flimsy even when it is attached to the laptop.
Overall this laptop is a monster in terms of hardware. That's fantastic. But the build quality, although not bad at all, is not at all a sturdy one in my view. I would feel concerned to carry this laptop around for long. The battery is not great at all and if you leave it on the bed for example, the laptop gets super hot super fast.
I will test it for longer but so far idk what to say....because on one hand I LOVE the screen size and the overall size and weight of the laptop. But at the gigantic price of 1750 Euros....(sure I got it 150 euros cheaper), but at that price you expect a fantastically well built laptop that will last you for a decade. At least that's how I think.
Maybe that's how laptops are built nowadays....light, seem fragile....maybe I will keep it eventually. But idk...if not I will return it and search for a new one next year after TROM II is done. I may be inclined to go for a good Thinkpad or older models that were better built.
Let's see if Slimbook will convince me to keep it....I kinda doubt....
> The battery is not great at all and if you leave it on the bed for example, the laptop gets super hot super fast.
I just want to share a small tip here. Speaking from experience, I can say that its a very bad idea to use your laptop on bed, I've seen a laptop literally turn itself off because of overheating. Most laptops have their vent holes on its bottom and you have to make sure they're not closed off, so a flat and sturdy surface is always preferred.
Sorry that the RSS and Twitter integrations have not worked for social.trom.tf for the past month or so....but the next Friendica release should help fix these. Hopefully something that will happen this month....
Tomorrow I will release a new TROMjaro ISO. Just to keep it updated. Maybe I will also add a few new little features, will see. Still waiting for the new laptop and am soooo excited :) - it may even come this week. Probably will take me a week to migrate all of my stuff to it. Again, I am so thankful to Roma for making this possible. Am thinking to even "invest" a bit more into it and buy a 4TB m2 SSD and move my entire TROM II project to the laptop to get rid of all of those pesky external drives plus make it all much faster...will see....
I wish people would stop putting themselves and others in little tiny boxes like: white, black, american, european, male, trans, gay, straight, this or that. We are all humans and we are having very similar needs and facing very similar challenges.
We should act like a species. The human species. And these non-important labels should not even matter.
We should raise kids as HUMANS. Make them aware of the fascinating world we have discovered, or the problems we face in our society. Should be that simple and would cut off the nonsense debates about gender, sex, sexuality, identity, race or whatever other crap. No one should care what you fantasize about, what you fuck, how you dress, how you look and all that in the first place.
I agree with you if the little box is what keeps you far from other little boxes, but in the system in general we need to recognise those categories.
This useful to contrast discrimination based on those categories and empower the people that inherit them. After the system has been "rebalanced" then we can treat each other the same as humans
I ddin't know how to say, that's imprecise you're right. I wanted to say that you see yourself in those labels (because you choose to or you simply are)
This makes sense, but it can also backfire like a self-fulfilling prophecy, giving too much importance to these labels can make people prejudice (knowingly or unknowingly). So maybe its better to focus on our similarities instead of our differences. @tio
Agreed on. It's just a bit sad that our society right now is creating label after label ... So it would be nice to treat humans as humans, as long as they are kind to each others.
But i guess someone need time and understanding to get to these point nowadays. If you are raised like that - you are lucky, but at the same time often disappointed from real life.
Nonetheless ... Let's act proper and life the ideal as long as it's possible.
@Rokosun beautifully put my friend! I keep telling the same in years already: let's look for what brings us together as Humans rather than what makes us alien to each other. Sadly the societies are super successful in exactly the opposite.
It horrifies me when I hear stories from americans about their experience with the healthcare system. It is awful. You are a client there, not a patient. And even when you have a great healthcare insurance you still have to pay tons of money, even for going to the emergency room. And stories about how bad of a job doctors are doing there - of course, not all.
In any case, I am so grateful for the Spanish healthcare system where I am a patient. Not a client. I go there, they take care of me. Yes, sometimes it is slow and annoying because the GP does not give you enough attention at times, but hey it is entirely free (and side note: it is even slower I've heard in the USA....). Anyway, I feel safe and relaxed because of the healthcare system in Spain. So happy that I get access to this system. Everyone should have access to healthcare as trade-free. No need to give anything in return for that service. The fact that this is not the case, says a lot about our society.
And America....dear fuck, what's the point of all of that "wealth", the weapons, the cockyness, the money,
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It horrifies me when I hear stories from americans about their experience with the healthcare system. It is awful. You are a client there, not a patient. And even when you have a great healthcare insurance you still have to pay tons of money, even for going to the emergency room. And stories about how bad of a job doctors are doing there - of course, not all.
In any case, I am so grateful for the Spanish healthcare system where I am a patient. Not a client. I go there, they take care of me. Yes, sometimes it is slow and annoying because the GP does not give you enough attention at times, but hey it is entirely free (and side note: it is even slower I've heard in the USA....). Anyway, I feel safe and relaxed because of the healthcare system in Spain. So happy that I get access to this system. Everyone should have access to healthcare as trade-free. No need to give anything in return for that service. The fact that this is not the case, says a lot about our society.
And America....dear fuck, what's the point of all of that "wealth", the weapons, the cockyness, the money, the popularity, the fame and all that, when you treat your own citizens as intruders who do not deserve to be helped when they are in pain and suffering. Imagine having a terminal disease and dealing with two worries in America: 1 that you will die, and 2 how much would the medical expenses be and what's the impact on you and your family. Terrible!
I think I have finally achieved what I wanted with the coloring madness I tried to fix in regards to our TROM II interviews....I will probably make a post soonish about it all because it may be interesting to some. The entire next week I will have a sort of break, so I won't do much for TROM II or any of our projects. My laptop probably will arrive after this week anyway, and I will have to spend a few days migrating my stuff to it in case I decide to keep it. Hopefully no more "coloring" work....I just want to continue with the work on the documentary and finish the 3rd part either by the end of December (ideally) or mid-january,
Then I'll have January, February and March to finish the last part. And April to do a few improvements to the other parts, add some sources and make a trailer.
Still waiting for my Slimbook Executive 16 to arrive. They have to assemble it and all that. Am excited to see and test it. Ofc if I do not like the build quality I will return it back and buy something else. Probably will arrive next week. Again a massive thanks to @Roma who made this more possible. I would have bought the laptop even if I did not raise any money, but probably a much cheaper one, however Roma's massive donation is basically what made the laptop campaign make sense tromsite.com/tromlaptop/ - else....well.....it is really not reliable anymore for me to rely on donations....
I mean except a few (3 or so) close TROM friends who have helped enormously for the past years, and maybe 50 or so people who contributed a little here and there monthly, there is no financial help. We get some 250 Euros a month from 30 people, and some 200 of this is by 1 human haha. So yeah, we used
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Still waiting for my Slimbook Executive 16 to arrive. They have to assemble it and all that. Am excited to see and test it. Ofc if I do not like the build quality I will return it back and buy something else. Probably will arrive next week. Again a massive thanks to @Roma who made this more possible. I would have bought the laptop even if I did not raise any money, but probably a much cheaper one, however Roma's massive donation is basically what made the laptop campaign make sense tromsite.com/tromlaptop/ - else....well.....it is really not reliable anymore for me to rely on donations....
I mean except a few (3 or so) close TROM friends who have helped enormously for the past years, and maybe 50 or so people who contributed a little here and there monthly, there is no financial help. We get some 250 Euros a month from 30 people, and some 200 of this is by 1 human haha. So yeah, we used to get over 1k a month in donations to support TROM. Not anymore.
Reason?
I suspect a bunch of reasons such as the fact that nowadays people are blasted with all sorts of micropayments and donation schemes, subscriptions and the like. When I started this years ago, donating seemed like a noble thing to do to support a project. Nowadays donating means you get access to whatever shit the "sellers" provide. You don't "support", you want the perks and "early access" shit or whatever. The notion of "donating" has become almost meaningless and pointless.
Me and Sasha will try to make money ourselves and support these projects, so for now we are ok. But it is for sure a bit depressing to see that you provide tons of free stuff: from books and videos, to online services and so on; and despite thousands using these things, only a handful help you financially to sustain these projects.
Anyway, I am continuing the work and maybe through WebApe I can sustain it in the long run. Will see ;)
Especially now that a bunch of those providers do not accept new subscriptions. We too have a limited number of available subscriptions since we cannot scale up, but we could provide some 20-30 probably.
Let me tell you I am so sick of color-correcting....I hope tonight's render of the first part is the final one in terms of color correcting. I should really fucking stop. Hopefully tomorrow I can apply these changes to the second part and won't take me too long....this starts to bother me :D
At the beginning of december I will take a week break or so....
Oh and cannot wait for my laptop to arrive. Hopefully this next week. And let's see how distracted I'll get by that....
I still hope to finish the 3rd part by the end of this year.....
When I was little I somehow opened up my TV's display settings and accidentally changed something, I think it was color saturation or brightness or something, I'm not sure. Anyway, now my TV looks kinda weird, it didn't look like how it used to be and I could tell the difference. I tried so hard to undo these changes and go back to the old look, but little me couldn't do it. But here's the interesting thing, after a couple of days I got used to the new look and it became the normal for me 😅
True I agree. Is just that my idea was to film us on a completely black background for consistency, and to do some editing stuff like adding things on that background when we talk. And the issue was that almost all of us are on light-ish backgrounds and different colors and such....I will make a post to showcase these days. I wanted to make it look ok, nothing crazy. But am getting there....
I have to setup 2 Mastodon instances/servers these days for WebApe. That's good, both for me because I get more financial help, and for the fediverse overall I suppose. Helping others migrate to this network.
I plan to eventually team up with @Aaron and get financial support via WebApe to be able to continue our work on TROM, while at the same time providing these sort of federated services for those who are ok to pay for them.
I was talking at one point with @Cleo of Topless Topics about making a Peertube instance for nonsexual nudity - like be geared towards that - since nudity is something people are so afraid of and we should educate them a bit that it is ok. Tits and dicks, butts and legs, vaginas and all that. :) I think could be a good idea. Something you can't do on youtube and may be able to on other platforms that are either full of
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I have to setup 2 Mastodon instances/servers these days for WebApe. That's good, both for me because I get more financial help, and for the fediverse overall I suppose. Helping others migrate to this network.
I plan to eventually team up with @Aaron and get financial support via WebApe to be able to continue our work on TROM, while at the same time providing these sort of federated services for those who are ok to pay for them.
I was talking at one point with @Cleo of Topless Topics about making a Peertube instance for nonsexual nudity - like be geared towards that - since nudity is something people are so afraid of and we should educate them a bit that it is ok. Tits and dicks, butts and legs, vaginas and all that. :) I think could be a good idea. Something you can't do on youtube and may be able to on other platforms that are either full of ads or you have to pay a subscription. But via WebApe you only need someone who is willing to pay for one of our subscriptions to then open up the instance for everyone.
I am even thinking to kickstart it for free and get support via donations since it is a unique video platform I guess. Moderated, educational, sane.
Rokosun
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