Tio

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A bunch of atoms that are curious about the world, but furious about the society. We should help all humans to have a decent life without any strings attached, so that we can understand us, the atoms, and the rest of the universe. And create a smarter and saner society.

Since 2005 I make documentaries, write books, and enable many trade-free platforms for everyone.

Earth

@tio:matrix.org

https://www.tiotrom.com/

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Our world:

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!

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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 :)

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@PeerTube has added remote transcoding! These people are amazing! joinpeertube.org/news#release-…

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.

PeerTube news | JoinPeerTube

Discover the latest PeerTube news, the YouTube decentralized alternative developed by Framasoft.

^JoinPeerTube

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Is Peertube an IOS application and is it Voiceover accessible? It sounds pretty cool from what I am reading here. Is it like YouTube?

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in reply to Nick's world 2 years ago

It is a platform that can be installed on a server. For example ours is at videos.trom.tf/

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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

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look at the CMB there. This I respect very much; I see you are a person of culture as well

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TROM II: A Message to the Aliens (2023)

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.

Watch it here tromsite.com/documentaries/tro…
Download it from here tromsite.com/save/

We hope this documentary can provide something valuable for you.

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in reply to Tio 2 years ago

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 🥰 🫂

@Georgi @Sasha @Dima @aaron

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Thank you so so much!

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in reply to Tio 2 years ago

Congrats @Tio and the gang ! Eager to watch it !

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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,

2017-05-11 20:22:46

NEW BLOG POST:
Home
Read it on my website (recommended):
tiotrom.com/
Or read it here:

TIO
^TIO

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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.

#tromstuff

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> our Matrix server was enable to help you recover

I think you meant to say "unable" here

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What would I do without you!? :) Thanks!

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2023-06-19 15:16:29

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The TROM II Documentary will be released tomorrow at https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2/
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.
Ok. We hope you'll get some value out of it.
#tromlive

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2023-06-19 08:49:59

Some fediverse instance admins: “How cool, Meta invited us to the adult table.”
Yes, they did.
Because you’re what’s for dinner.
#fediverse #mastodon #meta #Project92 #BigTech #SiliconValley #SurveillanceCapitalism

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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-

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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.

Fuck you battery! You cunt!

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in reply to LPS 2 years 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.

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@lps it sucks to loose battery so quickly for a new laptop, hope you can fix this without much trouble.

@LPS

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2023-06-17 23:00:28

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We've updated the presentation page for our TROM Files https://trom.tf/files/
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.
Take advantage of it!
#tromlive

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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.

@Roma what you think, is this normal?

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quora.com/Is-it-good-to-keep-l…

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thanks yes i eventually read that. seems that maybe it is normal...

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Roma

in reply to Tio 2 years ago

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:

forum.manjaro.org/t/battery-ma…

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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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!

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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.

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Yeah my laptop runs kinda hot....50-60 on average. 80 when I stress it.....maybe I should put a fan to blow air to it....

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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.

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Thanks I will consider it for sure.

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2023-06-16 18:47:18

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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
And join our TROM Files here https://files.trom.tf
You get 5GB of space and we can increase up to 20GB if you need more.
#tromlive
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Nextcloud: Nextcloud Office - Self-hosted online office suite (Jos Poortvliet)

Nextcloud Office - Self-hosted online office suite
Nextcloud Office is a powerful online office suite with collaborative editing and supports all major document file formats
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2023-06-15 23:25:38

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Some TROM.tf cleanup:
- 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.
More cleanup to follow!
#tromlive
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2023-06-15 15:31:02

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Quote of the day.
We care about producing more and more stuff, regardless of what impact that has on human lives or the environment. We call that "the economy".

Planet Earth.
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My brain vomiting

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.

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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 :)

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Thank you guys, you are very nice.

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2023-06-13 01:59:02

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It is extremely unlikely that anyone has the time to finish any subtitles for the documentary in a week or so, before we release it. But I think it is totally fine to release the documentary together with proper english captions plus full transcriptions, so that after the release anyone can jump in to create subtitles.
We will make sure to have everything well organized in order for anyone to get involved collaboratively. Unfortunately we cannot find a proper collaborative tool for subtitling that is trade-free, so we will probably use amara.org.
We can say with certainty that the documentary will be fully released the next week. But we do not know the exact day.
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2023-06-12 15:26:01

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Quote of the day.
We do not care if you are a good human being, all we care is if you can trade and what you can trade. Jesus, Superman, and the like, would have to have side-jobs or rely on donations if they were to survive in our trade-based society.

Planet Earth.
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Quote of the day.

If you refuse to be part of the trade society, say you refuse to trade your work and you give it away for free, because you want to be a good human, you are fucked. Unless you get support from other human beings, voluntarily, you could basically die. End up in the streets, be unable to feed yourself, and survive overall.

Planet Earth,

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our trade-based society doesn't care about how much value you create, they only care how much money you make. And if you don't make enough money then you're fucked, there are no good support systems for people, no safety nets. So people are forced to work a paid job under the threat of poverty, they don't have a choice. How on earth can people consider these inhumane things as normal is beyond me, and yeah volunteers like yourself are struggling because of it.

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2023-06-10 22:49:41

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The listing of sources for the TROM II documentary is done! They are categorized into Footage, Music and Sources. And there are a lot of them. Now the only thing left is to finish the transcriptions entirely. @Sasha, @Tio and @Rokosun are working on that. The first and third part are already done. And the rest will be done in just a few days time.
@Georgi @Alexio and @Roma are already working on the translations.
We will release the documentary before the end of this month regardless if we have any subtitles ready or not.
#tromlive

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