One of our disks on the server where trom.tf is hosted, is failing. We need to urgently move to a new server. Please if you use our trom.tf services mind you that your data may be lost in the migration process if you will use our services today.
We hope to finish the entire migration before tomorrow.
Our Peertube instance will not work while we are moving the data file to the new server. Tomorrow hopefully we will have our Peertube located to the new server. 1.3TB of data had to be moved. Maybe the entire trom.tf server will be at the new location.
As some of you may know, at our last project in Hungary I felt down from the canoe :) (It was my stupid fault - sorry Max :) ) Max was with me in it at that time. We were all soak wet, but while falling I lost my tiny camera which was attached to my chest. I couldn't find it anymore, so it stayed there in Hungary, ehh, more plastic in the water.
Anyway because of support on Patreon I was able to order a new one. It was actually first time I took money from Patreon account and I ordered a replacement camera. The good thing I lost only 1 half of the camera :) So I have to order only this part which is black in the picture. And the white one is camera controller from my original camera.
So it's arrived this week, I paid 250 euro just for that tiny black thingy - half of camera. But it's very essential for the videos I do, and i like how small and easy to
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As some of you may know, at our last project in Hungary I felt down from the canoe :) (It was my stupid fault - sorry Max :) ) Max was with me in it at that time. We were all soak wet, but while falling I lost my tiny camera which was attached to my chest. I couldn't find it anymore, so it stayed there in Hungary, ehh, more plastic in the water.
Anyway because of support on Patreon I was able to order a new one. It was actually first time I took money from Patreon account and I ordered a replacement camera. The good thing I lost only 1 half of the camera :) So I have to order only this part which is black in the picture. And the white one is camera controller from my original camera.
So it's arrived this week, I paid 250 euro just for that tiny black thingy - half of camera. But it's very essential for the videos I do, and i like how small and easy to attach it is (and easy to lost:))
Anyway without people donating and supporting Be Brave To Act, I wouldn't be able to replace this camera. So Thank you everyone!
September Updates : It's been quiet I was editing feature documentary and now will start editing Albania project about sharks by-catch. Because of the bad weather all the time I had to cancel 2nd trip there. Also Mara's back was injured so we have to stay at home, but now she is doing much better and recovering, so everything will be fine with her.
Next week we are going to Warsaw Poland, Mara will be doing vocal workshops there, and I will join some local clean up actions because next weekend is a World Clean Up Day! So all around the world millions of people are going out to clean the environment, you can also find some local clean ups in your area if you want. worldcleanupday.org/
Then week after we are going to Croatia I am trying to arrange a project there with cat sharks, we have to scuba dive to deep places and monitor shark eggs. But I am not sure if it's going to happen, but we are going to Croatia anyway, if not this project I will try to join some other. That's the plan for September.
From 14th to 18th of September we will try to migrate our Peertube to another server. One drive is failing on this server plus our IP is banned by Google, so we are attempting to solve more issues at once. Please try not to upload anything new on Peertube between these dates!
@lps Yep, we use Linode Object Storage, and it works great. Pretty much any S3-compatible provider should work, although you may have to deal with specific quirks of the provider to get it working.
Object Storage is a lifesaver, basically allows us to scale up and host vast amounts of video for relatively little cost.
@lps I think we’re on the 5TB tier. Yeah, it’s a bit expensive, but it gives us some room to grow. Definitely look around and compare services!
One thing that we do with onboarding new users is to point them towards our OpenCollective page, which helps offset the cost significantly. It’ll become more of a headache as the instance gets bigger, but Object Storage solved a lot of long-term problems for us.
A big thanks to Raimondas for the 277 Euros donation. A great surprise and very welcomed. I, Tio, will try to live with as little money as possible in order to keep on focusing on TROM. To have time for it and myself. To keep these projects alive. In a few weeks time I will post more videos about the way I live in a motorhome with very little money - see tromhome.com/ . And of course I will try to kickstart a new TROM video series soon.
Started my solo motorhome journey :) . Maybe for a few weeks, maybe for a few months. We will see.
I am attempting to reboot myself and TROM. Let's see...
We still have a few older videos to post before I will start to post videos that are more in sync with our lives in the motorhome :) tromhome.com/ but I will make more and more useful videos about living in this kind of way. I have lots of tips to offer :D
After years of trying to get TROMjaro on DistroWatch we are finally there distrowatch.com/table.php?dist… :) - Please leave a review if you use TROMjaro. We always keep TROMjaro up to date and provide support for it.
Very happy that it is listed on DistroWatch!
If you never heard of TROMjaro here is the main website tromjaro.com/
San Salvador de Cantamuda: We found a fossil forest and the weather was cold and rainy. Nothing very eventful. Just a few more days of our motorhome adventures. But super cool to see these imprints that are many millions of years old. A book of earth 😃
San Salvador de Cantamuda: We found a fossil forest and the weather was cold and rainy. Nothing very eventful. Just a few more days of our motorhome adventures. But super cool to see these imprints that are many millions of years old. A book of earth :)
We got another 255 Euros secret donation. WOW! Thank you so much especially now when we will have to move trom.tf to another server it helps a TON. No words to describe how helpful these donations are. Many many thanks! tromsite.com/donate/
Hard to describe how wholesome it is to get unexpected support from people like that, it's truly motivating to keep up the fight and continue our work.... And yeah the server migration thing is hard, let's just hope you can do it without much fuss 🤞
Exactly. Also the server move is expensive, for me at least. But now I can use some of the money for it. I was planning for a fundraiser but now seems to be fine. :)
Thank you Maria so much for the 100 Euros donation! So much needed now! We will get a LOT more active with TROM starting this month! tromsite.com/donate/
YEAR: 2025 | LENGTH: 1 part (65 minutes) | SOURCE: BBC
description:
An intrepid expedition onto and into the Greenland ice sheet with three of the world’s leading experts as they try to answer the urgent question, how fast is the ice melting? Greenland’s inland ice is hostile, wild and unpredictable, but making observations and taking detailed measurements on the ground is essential to fully understanding what is happening there.
Director Lars Henrik Ostenfeld travels to Greenland with the scientists as they brave storms and climb deeper into the constantly shifting glaciers than anyone before them to gather the precious data that will help predict the future.
Fuente De, Picos de Europa. We took a cable cart to see the top of the mountains. What amazing views! Looked like a volcanic mountain with ice tops 😃. We also hit our motorhome again 😦.
But overall our experience in Picos de Europa was fantastic!
Fuente De, Picos de Europa. We took a cable cart to see the top of the mountains. What amazing views! Looked like a volcanic mountain with ice tops :). We also hit our motorhome again :(.
But overall our experience in Picos de Europa was fantastic!
We've joined Plastic Cup in Tisza river in Hungary. 15 teams on a boats made out of trash for 5 days going down the river. But it's not about speed, it's about collecting trash. Team which collects the most trash wins the race. In this video we share our experience of joining this competition first time, our struggles and accomplishments.
We've joined Plastic Cup in Tisza river in Hungary. 15 teams on a boats made out of trash for 5 days going down the river. But it's not about speed, it's about collecting trash. Team which collects the most trash wins the race. In this video we share our experience of joining this competition first time, our struggles and accomplishments.
We've joined Plastic Cup in Tisza river in Hungary. 15 teams on a boats made out of trash for 5 days going down the river. But it's not about speed, it's about collecting trash. Team which collects the most trash wins the race. In this video we share our experience of joining this competition first time, our struggles and accomplishments.
One of our storage units for the trom.tf server is failing. We will have to replace it or move to a new server. Mind you in case trom.tf goes offline these days. Before we migrate we will let you know, but if the drive fails suddenly...
A week or so ago my Dell laptop started to not charge from time to time until it stopped charging. The laptop has 2 USB-C ports for charging and both died. I checked and only one worked for data transfer. I could not find a solution. You know I am the “computer repair guy” normally and I fix people`s laptops but this time I could not fix mine.
Look at this: No way I can fix these and not destroy the laptop. They make these impossible to repair for normal folks and too expensive to send for repair anyway. Likely would have cost me hundreds of euro in Spain and would take a long time.
So frustrating since it works just fine with the battery but I CANNOT charge it! WTF.
So I decided to drop this laptop for good and go for a much cheaper one. You see this 1.200 Euros Dell laptop that I had for the past 3 years had a bunch of issues anyway
1. From the start the trackpad did not work. I had to solder a wire inside of it to make it work. Insane!
2. The battery dropped to some 50% capacity in less than 2 years.
3. It was hard to open and overall not very well built (I realized that in time because in the beginning I thought it was very well built).
4. Lately some keys on the keyboard stopped working unless you really press down on them hard.
6. It was getting crazy hot. In the summer I could not hold it on my lap. And it was designed by a moron who thought sharp corners are cool…
I feel bad that I spent so much money on it. Overall I was happy with it, especially the screen, but the above issues were not easy to accept.
ThinkPad P1 Gen1
I have very little money and I thought why not buy a cheap ThinkPad. My sister has a small ThinkPad Yoga that she bought second hand a few years ago from ebay. And I LOVED it. The build quality, THAT keyboard….how easy it is to open and upgrade.
I was in a rush since I had no laptop anymore and after 2 days of searching I found the ThinkPad P1 series. 15.6inch screen, great keyboard, and very good specs. I was lucky to find it for 300 Euros on Wallapop (second hand store).
Here is why I LOVE this laptop and why it is better than that Dell.
Build quality.
This is properly built not a gimmick like that Dell that had a metal chassis but inside all plastic. This one has a metal alloy inside. Feels a lot more robust. And no sharp corners. I can easily handle this laptop.
It is the same size and weight as that Dell. It is quite thin and has all of the ports you need. I also like that it opens flat like this. IDK why but I always hated when laptops only open half way through. Overall it feels very well made.
Easy to upgrade.
Which one looks better organized inside? Clearly the bottom one, ThinkPad. 2 fans that keep this laptop a lot cooler than that Dhell. I could easily add my 64GB of RAM and it has TWO, THWO M2 slots! Wow. Dell only had one. I added my 4TB on one slot and kept the 512GB it came with for system backups. I always wanted to Tmeshift my system backups to a different drive and now I can do it easily.
To open this ThinkPad you only need to remove 7 screws that are held captive to the bottom chassis “plate”. With the Dell it was a bit awful. Tiny screws that you can lose and a lot of sweat to lift that base. Noises, cracks…bad.
Multiple charging options.
Their proprietary charger port plus 2 USB-C. In case any stops working (DELL!!!) you have another way to keep the laptop charged.
That keyboard!
Wow. You have to use these ThinkPad keyboards to understand what a good fucking keyboard is. Most laptops wanna be thin and have almost touch-based keyboards. They suck. This one feels like you gave your fingers a comfy chair. For someone like me who writes a lot, a keyboard is more important than other things.
LOVE IT!
Performance?
Everyone is obsessed with numbers and names. This new CPU X12Nm V2! Bla-bullshit. Marketing nonsense.
Ok look at the numbers. The Dell had a Core i7-1260P with 12 cores and 16 threads. This ThinkPad has a Core i7-8850H with 6 cores and 12 threads.
On paper the Dell is some 40% better than the ThinkPad. In practice I notice NO difference. Yes I only got the ThinkPad for a day, but the only CPU intensive tasks I do are multitasking (doing now, no difference), compiling the TROMjaro ISOs (now takes 10-20 minutes longer), and video editing in Kdenlive where I use proxy videos anyway so the CPU is barely used. Perhaps when I render videos it would take a bit longer. But just a bit.
The rest is total BS – just marketing. I do a lot of things including VMs, and my CPU is bellow 6%.
Where I was held back a bit was the video card from Dell. An Nvidia MX550 with just 2GB of RAM. ThinkPad uses an Nvidia Quadro P2000 with Max-Q Design. Kinda similar but it has 4GB of RAM. I could not run some Language Models for translating stuff in Kdenlive with the 2GB of RAM GPU from Dell, so this one should help.
What I need is a lot of is RAM. And I am using the same 64GB from the Dell. Also same M2 drive.
The screen is indeed better from the Dell one. That OLED…but this one is not at all bad. After a few minutes you cannot tell one from another. You simply adjust.
So I bet performance wise I will notice no difference, and this is the key. All of those CPU and GPU names make no difference. The real use is important.
Cheap is better!
When this laptop released some 5 years ago it was selling for around 2.000$. Now you can grab a good second hand one for around 3-400 Euros. In a way the advantage of this endless consuming society is that they release so many new models making the “old” ones very cheap very fast. So you can buy them second had and in very good working quality.
Before I was very concerned for my laptop since I paid so much money and I thought if I lose it I am fucked. But now, is fine. If I lose it or it breaks, I can get the same one for a few hundreds of euros.
Not so much stress as before.
Linux rocks!
The fact that I simply put my M2 driver with TROMjaro in the new laptop and booted into it, and all worked as before, is pure Linux magic. I had to do nothing except reinstall something for the finerprint reader. It means I can take that drive of mine of 4TB and put it into any machine really, and have my own stuff there. Making it my own.
Fucking amazing!
Overall
The speakers are decent, I managed to make the finerprint reader work which is fantastic, the keyboard is sane and in English, no nonsense keys, and the webcam is decent for a laptop. (when you are prompted to use the fingerprint a little light turns on – neat)
In BIOS you can also change the FN and CTRL keys since for some reason ThinkPad Thinks it is a good idea to put the FN key where most laptops put the CTRL key. At least is easy to switch.
So overall a very cheap laptop and very good. If this one breaks at least I know I can cheaply buy another one like this, put my drive and RAM into it, and that`s it.
THANK YOU!
I made a donation campaign for this laptop and raised the money within hours. Thank you to those who donated. Thank you very much. My laptop is so important for me – allows me to do all of these TROM projects.
Many thanks!
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After a week I still love it :). I love how they use these little lights to tell you if your mic is on mute, your FN key is active, audio on mute as well, and so on. Really handy honestly. And the little red dot from the lid, on the back. When it goes on and off slowly it means the computer is in standby mode. SUPER HELPFUL for my needs since at times I felt like my laptop wont go into standby when I close the lid. Now I know. The typing is great. But the letter G on the keyboard needs to be pressed a bit more to work…tried to fix it but likely nothing to do…is ok. I am getting used to it.
The battery is quite ok, and the screen….well it is fine but I miss the OLED a lot….the colors on this one are washed out, like on most laptops. But well…is fine.
I started to video edit on it. So far seems like before in terms of speediness. Made a new TROMjaro ISO, super fast as before. I cannot tell the difference.
So I can fully say that this 300 Euros laptop, that was actually 260 Euros and the rest taxes and transport fees, is as good as that 1.200 Euros Dell I had. This is fantastic!
Oh and I finally feel like I have a laptop that I can carry around with me….no sharp edges and a bit lighter. Love it!
I recently bought this laptop that has a touchscreen and a fingerptint reader. Both help me make TROMjaro better. For my laptop the fingerptint reader works, but you have to set it up, and that’s not the prettiest, however not that difficult either.
La Picota - we paid 8 Euros a night to park here. And we stayed for 3 nights. Trust us, we are very cheap people, so this must have been a fantastic place if we were keen to pay for it. Close to the parking was a "mythological" forest and at the end of it the most amazing view of Picos de Europa. Down the other way there were a bunch of beautiful waterfalls.
La Picota - we paid 8 Euros a night to park here. And we stayed for 3 nights. Trust us, we are very cheap people, so this must have been a fantastic place if we were keen to pay for it. Close to the parking was a "mythological" forest and at the end of it the most amazing view of Picos de Europa. Down the other way there were a bunch of beautiful waterfalls.
La Picota - we paid 8 Euros a night to park here. And we stayed for 3 nights. Trust us, we are very cheap people, so this must have been a fantastic place if we were keen to pay for it. Close to the parking was a "mythological" forest and at the end of it the most amazing view of Picos de Europa. Down the other way there were a bunch of beautiful waterfalls.
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