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Tio

tio@social.trom.tf

A human who argues that trade is the origin of most problems. Don't believe me? Check out tromsite.com, videoneat.com, tromjaro.com, trade-free.org, tiotrom.com, trom.tf, and more.

On top of screaming about that, I also create a ton of trade-free projects.

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https://www.tiotrom.com/

Tio

2 days ago

Tio
2 days ago

The TROM Meeting is over. I will make a big blog post all about it because it cannot be condensed that easily. I am happy, and tired, and stressed, and honored, and all of these. In the next few days we have to deal with a lot of bullshit in terms of papers for Sasha, and also get some rest, I need to get back on track with the servers and updates and all. Plus a few personal issues we have to manage.

I still plan to release the documentary this month. I hope all will be ok for the release in terms of my personal life so that I can fully enjoy and focus on the release. #tromstuff

#tromstuff

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1 week ago

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TROM

2023-05-24 17:30:59

TROM Meeting:

A bunch of wonderful humans who came to visit us. People who help this project, and people who are very good friends. So calm, so nice, so human.

A huge thank you to them all. Too bad we could not gather all of them for the meeting. But we will do more.

We mostly meet in order to have some good time together but also to work on some TROM stuff. We will try to work on the transcriptions for the TROM II documentary and a few other things, will see.

Looking forward to release the documentary in June. #tromlive

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2 weeks ago

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Mortal Kombat 1 - Official Announcement Trailer - https://ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=UZ6eFEjFfJ0

Just a reminder that we live in a society where nudity and sex are seen as "bad", yet violent video games, that look more and more realistic, are ok. Youtube will ban a trailer for a game that's about a girl without a bra planting flowers, but will promote a game that's about some humans slicing heads, crushing skulls, and have bloody battles. Just watch the last bits of that video.

Again, I'd not care about this if it wasn't for the outrageous contrast with nudity and sex.

This society of humans would look so weird to any alien species.

Mortal Kombat 1 - Official Announcement Trailer

A new era has begun. It's In Our Blood. Discover a reborn Mortal Kombat Universe created by Fire God Liu Kang.

^{Mortal Kombat | Invidious}

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Blueberry

2 weeks ago •

I agree, but just saying that alien species may be exactly the same as us 🤔

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Rokosun

2 weeks ago •

@blueberry It would be so weird if life on 2 different planets evolved the same way, let alone have similar cultures and social norms. If we find an alien species that's exactly the same as us then scientists would be so confused 😅

@Blueberry

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Blueberry

2 weeks ago •

@futureisfoss yeah, it’s unlikely that they’d be exactly the same as us, but I just wanted to point out that aliens may not be any more reasonable or make any more sense than we expect them to be

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Rokosun

2 weeks ago •

@blueberry True, aliens may not be very smart or reasonable, we have no idea how they are. If you look at different cultures here on earth for example, you'll see that one culture may have their own myths and believes which may seem unreasonable to the other cultures and vice versa. So even tho aliens may not have the same social norms as us, its possible that they have their own equally unreasonable ones which may surprise people here on earth 🤔

@Blueberry

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Yuu☯️Yin

4 days ago •

@blueberry They would be different, their "physics" thus senses likely different too. Just maybe a similar society? Nobody knows...

@Blueberry

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Tycho Softworks

2 weeks ago •

and that too is a possible answer to the fermi paradox; aliens avoid humanity and expect it to die out on its own.

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Aaron

2023-05-18 19:44:04

Subtitles in french for the TROM 2 Trailer are done and available thanks to Florence from Canada 😀 https://videos.trom.tf/w/uzsWV9z42KKG61HduWrryW?subtitle=fr #tromwork

trom ii: a message to the aliens (trailer)
We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.
^{videos.trom.tf}

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2 weeks ago

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2 weeks ago

I think I fixed the laptop's trackpad finally. I updated my blog post https://www.tiotrom.com/2023/01/why-i-am-keeping-this-laptop/ see the very last update at the bottom. Basically I had to solder a piece of wire from the trackpad to a screw on the laptop. Scary thing to do but so far the trackpad works wonders. And it's been 3 days of many hours of use.

Fuck you Dell for selling these laptops with a fucked up trackpad for the past 2-3 years and not fixing it.

tio

2023-01-13 01:27:16

NEW BLOG POST:

Why I am keeping this laptop?

Read it on my website (recommended):

https://www.tiotrom.com/2023/01/why-i-am-keeping-this-laptop/

Or read it here:

This is it:

I needed a new laptop to get rid of my old one that was not portable. I made 3 posts already about this journey: 1, 2, 3 – so I will try not to repeat myself.

My mission: get a sturdy and powerful laptop that can last me for a decade. Upgradable and fixable in a reasonable manner. Big screen, yet portable. Do it!

After months of searching and thanks to Roma and Guil primarily, who donated 98% of the money for the laptop, I settled for the Dell Inspiron 7620 2-in-1 16 inches. It has a core i7-1260p – 12 cores 16 threads. An Nvidia MX550, 64GB of RAM and 4TB NVME. 4k screen, 16:10 aspect ratio.

I will tell you why I chose this one.

First let me tell you the negative parts of this laptop, since none can be perfect for me I guess. Then I’ll tell you why overall it is a great laptop for me.

What I don’t quite like.

The keyboard. You see I write a lot and I want a great keyboard. This one is too shallow. I miss the depth of the previous keyboard….but I guess I’ll get used to it eventually. The keyboard is also in German….since I bought the laptop from germany, ebay, second hand but unused. Basically brand new.

The Y and Z are switched but I chose a QWERTY layout in TROMjaro so despite showing differently, the letters are in a QWERTY format. I will try to also manually switch them but I am affraid not to break them.

I also kinda don’t like the arrow keys…

The up and down arrows are too tiny. This is a bad design on any keyboard.

To add salt to the injury… this layer:

It is a layer of some sort of plastic/glass on top of the metal chassis, that is great for the touchpad but the edges are a bit sharp so when I type my arms get cut a bit in these edges….that happens when I sit on my desk. Like 99% of the time….

SO the typing experience is not that great. Not awful, and I will get used to it, but yeah….that’s the biggest downside so far.

Another slight discomfort: opening the laptop to upgrade was a scary experience. You have a few screws but once you start unscrewing them the top part of the bottom case starts to violently try to get out, and things are bendy and make noises. Maybe the captive screws on that side should not be fully unscrewed but loosen and then try to open the case little by little.

Like all laptops (almost) the bottom detachable case has plastic bits inside that clip into the laptop, and these are always sketchy…so I even broke 2 while opening it. Was not a great experience but I guess next time it will be easy. Luckily the entire laptop is made out of aluminium so even without these plastic things everything can close pretty tight.

It can be loud and it is a bit heavy. Having a dedicated GPU the fans will be pretty loud when you do intensive tasks, but probably that’s quite normal… Also it is heavy for a “tablet” and quite huge. So this is not really comfortable to use it like that. On the desk is properly fine.

Software-related issues.

Since this laptop is quite new, not even a year old, the hardware is not flawless with Linux. The worst of them all: the speakers will stop working after a few minutes of use. You have to restart pulseaudio for them to work again for a bit. Then they stop again. This seems to be a bug that was reported and should be fixed with newer releases of the kernel. I can easily put up with that since I never use the laptop’s speakers – I have external ones – but for most people this would be a reason not to use Linux on this laptop.

The Hibernate mode kills your laptop. I found out the hard way. I had to fix some bad sectors on the drive because it was not booting up anymore. Probably another issue that will be fixed in the near future, but for now no Hibernate mode. Suspend works ok tho.

If I turn the screen brightness down completely, from the keyboard, I cannot bring it up again. I have to shut down the laptop from the power button….that sucks.

The face recognition camera does not have any real support in Linux so that’s not usable….this is the case for all laptops as far as I know.

Closing the lid won’t respect the XFCE settings I setup for it, so it won’t turn off the screen, or lock, or else.

Basically, with Linux, this laptop is not easily portable. You can’t use the speakers, you can’t hibernate it, you can’t even close the lid to have it turn off the screen….

So, you may wonder, why did I keep this laptop if it has these issues?

First of all the software related issues will be fixed and they won’t bother me much at all. Pretty much every laptop I had to install Linux on, had some sort of issues like that. It is normal when you create an operating system for ALL laptops out there.

Second, the hardware-related issues are not that bad. I am getting used to the keyboard and I won’t have to open up the laptop that often anyway.

So, then, the good parts.

The build quality is great.

This is all metal. Slimbook for example felt flimsy, this one feels really sturdy. I can kill a human and a dog with this laptop and I am sure it will still work 😀. The hinges, metal, feel like they will last me a lifetime. It barely bends, no cracks, and feels really solid overall…

It is also super slim and of course bendable 360 degrees:

Look how great that looks. So thin, so portable. This is a lot more slim-book than the Slimbook one 😀. And the charger is also tiny compared to the Slimbook or my previous laptop:

The touchscreen is also a plus since I can test TROMjaro directly on my own machine.

Speaking of the screen, the screen is AMAZING. The blacks are so black that if I were to select a 16:9 instead of 16:10 resolution I can’t even tell since the black borders are as black as the screen’s chassis. The colors are vibrant and it looks amazing from all angles.

Also…am I crazy or 3-4k resolution is no different from Full HD!? I tested with this laptop and there is 0 difference in how it looks. That’s good since I can use the FullHD resolution and this improves the battery life. From my initial tests it can last some 5-6 hours on wifi doing things. Others have tested this and it can last some 20h if you are not connected to the internet and just watch local media.

When the speakers work they are very loud and sound great, despite only using 2 of them out of 4 in Linux…..when they will all work this laptop will sound amazing am sure.

The touchpad is great. Smooth, HUGE, and looks neat.

The glassy surface that cuts my arms while typing feels great when using the touchpad 😁

Speaking of looking neat, there is only 1 logo on the back.

And that’s not even that visible. I like that.

The port selection is perfect. On the left side you get an HDMI, normal USB, and two USB C / Thunderbolt – meaning they support any sort of connection basically.

On the right side you get another normal USB port, an audio jack, and a full SD size card reader.

So you can be sure that this laptop can connect to anything.

For example the way I set it up now that I have to work on TROM II and need a bunch of external stuff, I use a USB-C dock. It connects to the laptop into one of the USB C ports. One cable, mind you. This dock has the following connected to it: 3 HDDs totaling 14TB of data + my headphones + speakers + external microphone + mouse + external display + projector + 1GB Ethernet + power charging so that it also charges the laptop + webcam.

This is so amazing. It means I can quickly unplug one single cable and take the laptop. Then plug it in and all of those are connected.

The webcam is also better than your average laptop camera, like for example many times better than Slimbook’s. The built-in microphone I’ve heard is also very good but I have not tested it yet. The webcam also has a physical shutter so you can block it.

THE INSIDES!
I think this is the only laptop-convertible in the world that’s 16inches and has a 16:10 aspect ratio, is so slim yet all metal build, but allows you to replace the RAM and has 2 slots for it. This was a must for me. It was advertised as 32GB max, but I easily added 64GB of RAM. DDR4. And I upgraded the NVME M2 to 4TB.

To compare it now with the Slimbook Executive 16, that one costs 1.750 Euros with 16GB of RAM and 512GB SSD. Sure, the CPU is a bit better and the GPU much better (useful only if you play video games which I do not). This laptop, the Inspiron 7620 costed me 1.100 Euros and with 64GB of RAM + 4TB SSD around 1.700 Euros. MUCH MUCH MUCH better in all regards than the Slimbook offer.

Lastly the power button it is also a fingerprint reader:

And I managed to make it work in TROMjaro – wasn’t that difficult. How amazing that now I can unlock the computer with the fingerprint and works perfectly fine. Or when I install new packages….FINGERPRINT! NO more typing my very long admin password 😀.

OVERALL.

For 1.700 Euros I got a great laptop. It has a big and amazing screen, great port selection, fantastic build quality, great touchpad, good webcam and mic, ok upgradability and repairability, great CPU and good GPU. Touchscreen, bendable 360 degrees, consumes less energy than the Slimbook, small power charger (USB C), great price overall. In time I’ll get used to the keyboard too and the software related issues will be fixed.

Ok ok, a very long post…..but to me this machine is important since it allows me to do the so many projects I am doing. It is an extension to my brain. So it matters to me.

Now I plan to give my old laptop to a dear TROM friend who has helped the project a lot for the past year or two. If I manage to send it to the other side of the globe somehow to not break our pockets. I want to give my older stuff to others who can use it for longer.

I will try to get “laptops” out of my head and in a week or so to focus again on TROM II. I spent a lot of time searching for a good laptop and I feel like I have finally found it. It is time to move on 😀

UPDATE

I wanted to post an update about the laptop now that I’ve used it for a bit.

I got used with the keyboard. Of course this was meant to happen. I still think is not the greatest keyboard I’ve used but it is ok. You don’t think about it after some time. I also managed to physically switch the Y and Z keys without breaking them 😀

Now everything seems more “natural” in terms of typing.

However the trackpad makes some rattling sounds when I use the laptop in bed. Almost like it is a tiny bit loose. I may try to fix that another time.

Build quality is not as great as I thought.

I opened the laptop today to properly look inside. I have to say it was easier to open than before, as I was expecting, but still not a great experience. The worst is what I discovered…I realized that yes the laptop is a metal built BUT inside where the hardware is, there is a plastic mesh/backbone where everything is held into place…which means the screws are screwed into the plastic, and so are the hinges. Watch this video to see my disappointment:

I was and still am very disappointed. I did not realize that the first time I have opened it. Thing is even if I did, I cannot find a better laptop overall. From the screen size, to the ports, outside chassis, specs….cannot….so it is what it is. But it is deceiving and stupid to make a metal chassis but not have the components screwed into it. Now I will have to be extra careful with this laptop to not break the plastic….my worst nightmare. I have used it today all day while sitting in bed and felt very sturdy and all that. So I hope it will be ok and last me for a long time. And if not I can later on sell it and hopefully Framework can make some 16inch ones so I can grab one of those.

Don’t get me wrong, the laptop feels very well built, but now that I know how it is screwed inside, I will be more careful with it.

It is many times better than my previous laptop so….that’s great.

Software issues?

Almost no more software issues. Everything was fixed with the new 6.1 kernel and with the 6.2 one the 2 speakers out of 4 that do not work now, will also work. So yeah, as I was predicting, in Linux is not a big deal if some hardware does not work ok. It will in the near future especially when we talk about a newly released laptop.

I LOVE the fingerprint reader. Install/remove packages, unlock the computer, are done in a split of a second now. The fingerprint reader works like a charm and I will add a package for it for the next release of TROMjaro and a tutorial about how you can enable it.

The rest?

The screen is wonderful. FullHD or 4k look the same so I use it in FullHD. The laptop is fast, allowing me to compile a new TROMjaro ISO in some 15 minutes compared to 50 minutes before. The mic and camera are good. The speakers very good and I could only test it with 2 out of 4. The battery is ok…nothing special about it.

I made a shitty quality video about it today to show the laptop a bit and the fingerprint reader 🙂 – I am lazy to record it properly but here you go:

Overall.

I cannot find a better laptop for my needs now. This one is indeed great. Even if the insides are plastic….it is ok (at least I hope so). Having this portable laptop is fantastic and 64GB of RAM + 4TB NVME are heaven for me haha.

I should leave this behind and work on TROM II, to finish it in 2-3 months. 😉

LAST AND SMALL UPDATE:

Today I got another kernel update and all speakers work. 4 speakers. They sound great for a laptop. Very loud, very clear. Very happy about that. Also, am less and less disappointed about that plastic inside. The laptop feels sturdy so I hope all will be ok.

Touchpad issues update

After 2 months of use there are 2 issues with the touchpad. Mind you I rarely use the touchpad so perhaps these are much bigger issues for most people than they are for me. But there is a fix for them.

The noises, the rattles.

From the beginning I noticed that when I use the touchpad it made a sound when I tapped it to click. As if it is not screwed well into place. And after a while it gets annoying and more noisy. Basically the touchpad is a bit lose. To fix this I had to add some paper tape and some sticky foam pads. Here is the video:

As you can see this requires a little bit of effort since you have to test and see what works best for you. The other issue is that if you fix it you may make it too stiff and if you are used to push-to-click instead of tap-to-click it may become annoying. Mine is a bit too stiff but I much rather prefer that. I never push-to-click on the touchpad. Tapping is much easier for me.

The electrons are mad.

One HUGE issue with this trackpad is something I’ve read about before buying it but I did not think it would happen to me. Basically the mouse pointer would jump chaotically on the screen when you used the touchpad, or click, it was a mess. There are many forum posts about it and this is the main reason people return these Dell 7 thousand series back. I finally found this forum thread where people discovered that there is an issue with the grounding and static electricity building up. So basically a hardware issue. Funny enough if you were to create a friction between your palm and the touchpad for a few seconds, it would work again.

The real solution is to create a better connection between two pieces of metal on the touchpad. And so I did:

I hope it will work from now on, if not I’ll try to connect those bits better.

Yeah for such an expensive laptop you expect better. But I am happy that these are the only issues I experienced so far and are quite easy to fix. Overall the battery is very good, the build quality is great, the speakers are ok, the keyboard is fine, the port selection is bloody useful, and the screen is AMAZING. I love it.

It is powerful enough for me for the many years o come, it is portable, and overall I love it.

That’s all I hope.

Touchpad update

The electric tape solution didn’t work at all. In a day or two it went back to how it was. Since then it became worse and worse. The trackpad/touchpad was unusable. I then decided to go for the soldering. I really didn’t want to do that to my laptop but I did it. For details see this forum post. I did a really bad job at soldering because I was tired and the bits I was soldering to on the trackpad were so tiny. I did that some 3-4 days ago and since then the trackpad works like a charm. I still can’t believe it. This really stressed me out and made this laptop unusable as a laptop really, unless you always have a mouse with you.

Anyway, so far it works perfectly fine and I really hope this did it. It is the solution that everyone recommends.

The laptop itself is great. Very well built, amazing screen, very good speakers, powerful and all of that, so I would not know what else to buy if it wasn’t for this one, so I am beyond happy if this issue is finally solved….

As for the rattling I realized that the simplest solution is to put a paper tape between those two little metal things and the laptop’s chassis. So that when they touch they make a lot less noise.

So bellow those as you see in the photo, I added one piece of tape. Now all is fine.

So right now the laptop is well and dandy. I love it overall considering the alternatives. I really hope this is the last update.

Re: Running List of Inspiron 7610 Touchpad Issue Posts
Ok, I'll have a go at a how-to, sorry I didn’t take any more photos when I did the fix. My touchpad is still perfect after more than a week.
^www.dell.com

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Tio

3 weeks ago

Tio
3 weeks ago

47% of all internet traffic came from bots in 2022 https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/99339-47-of-all-internet-traffic-came-from-bots-in-2022

That's kinda shocking....

I wonder what's the motivation behind these bots? I bet it's not the incentive for humans to trade, and thus consume, and thus want more, and thus aquire more, and thus steal, and thus deceive, and thus create these bots...

#TradeRuinsEverything #tromstuff

47% of all internet traffic came from bots in 2022

A new report reveals that in 2022, 47.4% of all internet traffic came from bots, a 5.1% increase over the previous year.

^{Security Staff (Security Magazine)}

#TradeRuinsEverything #tromstuff

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Roma

3 weeks ago •

Mindblowing. It will only continue to increase, I assume. The internet becomes more and more about advertisment, promotion and selling shit now. Bots can be very effective in that regard and other scams of course.

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Tio

3 weeks ago

Same way trade pushed humans to consume forests, and mountains of resources, and other creatures to deplete populations, and in the process create a lot of waste, the internet is now the new territory of exploitation. Very predictable when you understand how the force of trade operates and incentivizes humans. Terrible.

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Roma

3 weeks ago •

Abso-fuckin-lutely. Just to imagine amount of the resources and energy are spent to support them bots, just scamming and advertising. Insane! What a fucking waste..

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Yuu☯️Yin

4 days ago •

@esh How do you define trade again? For me it about energy/matter, socioeconomic status, power, resources, ... inequality. And trade is just a means for that.

@Roma

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Roma

19 hours ago •

Trade is one the method to distribute scarce resources between people, I would say. It has played a defining role in human societies evolution. But unfortunately, at current moment it became a global foundation and most influencing force affecting people lives and behavior. Even if at this level of development we can provide more and more resources in abundance for all people, it still has to be profitable, to be traded to keep the system work. And I would argue that status, power and inequality, all are actually by-products of trade. Artifitial limits, exagerrated marketing, false values are also helping in creation inequality or such concepts like "status", which is used mainly to trade even more "deluxe" stuff to obtain those "statuses". An entire TROM project, which is led by @Tio is about that actually, how trade might be the origin of the most problems humanity faces nowadays and what are the alternative methods of distribution (like trade-free) that may be applied to societies to make them saner and more sustainable.

@Tio

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3 weeks ago

Tio
3 weeks ago

Hi Russian Federation, so what are you trying to do to tromjaro.com?

Blocked 144 attacks over the last 10 minutes.....

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Roma

3 weeks ago •

Oh shit. Can be a testing for vulnerabilities and backdoors. Better to block the address entirely if you have any tools for that.

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Tio

3 weeks ago

Yeah actually this is not unusual unfortunately. I do have automated tools that will block these IPs. It is just sad to see this predatory incentive. Especially for projects like ours that are already struggling to keep afloat. I also know that you're around so in case shit hits the fan, I know who to call 😁.

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Roma

3 weeks ago •

Yeah.. There are entire farms of people doing this kind of scam as a daily job. It isn't uncommon that entirely volunteered projects and even famous non-profit organizations suffer from hacking and losing access to their networks or crucial data. Those fuckers just don't care. An opportunity to steal something that can be used for other harms is what has meaning to them. Force of trades has no mercy here as well 😞

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Tio

3 weeks ago

Exactly. I just shared a post about 47% of all internet traffic in 2022 being from bots....what else can be said....

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Roma

3 weeks ago •

I also know that you're around so in case shit hits the fan, I know who to call 😁.

Who you gonna call? 👻 🚫 Anytime, mi amigo 😁

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Tio

3 weeks ago

😆

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3 weeks ago

Tio
3 weeks ago

It is very likely that the TROM II trailer that we also posted on youtube and facebook was not "promoted" to the users/followers because we used "bad" words in it, such as "fuck" or "climate change", the latter is (from my knowledge) suppressed because of "conspiracy theories" or being a "controversial" topic. But you never know with these networks.

This can never happen on Peertube. At least not for now, and if it will and some instances could auto-block the distribution of some videos based on such keywords, would be a fuckery.

I don't care anymore. I do the things I find important to do, and use the words I want to use. Am not a prostitute to try and "play by the rules of the game". Better reach a few people in the way I want them to see the content, rather than censor and distort the content in order to reach more people.

#tromstuff

#tromstuff

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3 weeks ago

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Alexio

2023-05-13 15:00:35

I played the TROM II trailer as part of my presentation about TROM.tf at a conference in Romania

Yesterday I played the TROM II trailer and mentioned TROM.tf as part of my presentation about the Rapid deployment of self-hosted cloud platforms for open-source web applications at a conference in Romania.

Today, on the second day of the conference, I presented again TROM.tf and YunoHost. I also had the opportunity to talk about trade-free, the TROM documentaries and the TROM tools during the Q&A about my presentation.

#TROMedu

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3 weeks ago

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TROM

2023-05-12 18:59:48

TROM II: A Message to The Aliens (trailer)
https://videos.trom.tf/w/uzsWV9z42KKG61HduWrryW

Now in 8 languages: Russian, Romanian, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, German, Greek and Traditional Chinese. Enjoy!

A big thank you to all of those who have helped with the subtitles and are still helping! #tromlive

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3 weeks ago

Tio
3 weeks ago

This is a very long but very good video about why these recent AI hype is a craze "The AI Mind Virus" https://ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=3oS9UG1U2N0

The fear we should fear is not some super-intelligent AI, but what this trade-based society pushes people to do with these tools: more scams, more fake shit, more nonsense content, more hype, selling more shit and so forth.

#TradeRuinsEverything #tromstuff

The AI Mind Virus

Go to https://ground.news/ordinary to avoid media bias, manipulative algorithms, and know where your news is coming from. Check it out for free or subscribe for unlimited access through my link if you support the mission as much as I do.

^{Ordinary Things | Invidious}

#TradeRuinsEverything #tromstuff

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3 weeks ago

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Sasha

2023-05-11 19:39:06

I made another thumbnail for the TROM 2 trailer 😀

https://videos.trom.tf/w/uzsWV9z42KKG61HduWrryW

#tromshare

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3 weeks ago

Tio
3 weeks ago

I have uploaded the trailer to our old Facebook page too, and our Youtube channel. Just because it is a very rare evet so in case anyone still follow us there. Let me tell you....Facebook is such a clusterfuck. I already knew that but I did not get to interact with it for a long time now. To simply add a video and a description is a mess. A million buttons, a million popups, a million boxes. Promotions and ads everywhere, and all of the crap. If people call that a "social network" they might as well call a Mall a "family home".

Friendica compared to Facebook is haven on earth. A pure social network.

So after I uploaded the trailer on FB and clicked "publish" the post popup disappeared and I was lost. I waited for like 10 minutes and I wanted to post again because I could not find that post....to then see that it was posted after those 10 minutes out of the blue. Took a while and no notification....so terrible.

Youtube is also a mess. An ad-video-platform where the focus is on clicks, views, how to monetize, where to put the ads, how to engage and all of this crap... show more

#TradeRuinsEverything #tromstuff

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2023-05-10 14:50:31

TROM II: A Message to The Aliens (trailer)

We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires. Climate change? Who cares!

A one-marble world, floating in a giant soup of stars and planets, clustered in donut-shaped galaxies.

What are these humans living for?

In a 5 hour, 4 parts documentary, we try to explore their world, to understand what makes them human, what makes them enslave their kind, destroy their habitat, and be unaware of their place in this universe. But also what makes them so special.

Through the lives of 5 humans, we look at the culture that creates them, their struggles growing up on this planet, and where they are headed toward.
Watch it here: https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2/

TROM 2
TROM II: A Message to the Aliens Year: 2023 / Duration: 4 parts, 5 hours We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.
^TROM

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TROM II: A Message to The Aliens (trailer)
https://videos.trom.tf/w/uzsWV9z42KKG61HduWrryW

#tromstuff

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I think I could do a very relevant review of Kdenlive after I publish the documentary. I worked with Kdenlive for the past 2-3 years to make a 5 hour, 4 parts documentary. I learned a lot and probably I can have a relevant opinion about it overall 😁. It was interesting to make a documentary with a FOSS video editor, and I am very proud to have used it overall 😁.

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It was a beautifully hectic day for the past hours. Bunch of people jumped to help with making subs for the TROM II trailer. We already have it in Romanian, Russian, German and Portuguese. Tomorrow we will probably have it in Catalan and Spanish, plus perhaps French too. Awesome! Wonderful people. Oh, and they all loved the trailer so much I am again quite surprised. Anyway, the goal is to make the trailer available tomorrow. #tromstuff

#tromstuff

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2023-05-09 18:25:44

The trailer for TROM II is done. We are now working on making a few subtitles for it. Maybe we will release tomorrow! A huge thanks to everyone who is helping with the subtitle making, and if you want to help please use our Matrix chat https://matrix.to/#/#translation:matrix.trom.tf #tromlive

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Did you know that Kdenlive has a mindblowing text-to-speech feature now? I tested it for our trailer. 99% accuracy. I am amazed! This gives me a lot of confidence that we can do the transcriptions with timestamps and all that for the entire documentary, quite fast. Just WOW!

Here's where these so called AI systems are helpful, not the nonsense hype around them. #tromstuff

#tromstuff

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2023-05-08 11:59:44

TROM II: A Message to the Aliens (official poster)

The documentary will be released in June. The trailer will be available this week.
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So today I made a poster for TROM II that I may release tomorrow or at the same time that I release the trailer. This week for sure. I've also worked on tromsite.com to get the release pages ready 😛. Not public yet but did a lot of work today. 5 nonstop hours on my laptop, battery mode, and still 20% more battery left. Not bad at all considering that I pushed the CPU a little bit here and there.

Anyway we will try to release the trailer with several subtitles so maybe it will take us a few more days to do it. #tromstuff

#tromlive

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I have finished the bloody color correction for TROM II. Again. And you bet this is it. I can't handle it any longer. It is good. I'll make a big post about this "behind the scenes" work for TROM II, after I release it in June. The trailer is almost done too. Next week I will send the documentary to those who come for the TROM Meeting and to a few close friends. I will also release the trailer this next week.

After that the focus will be to first make a transcription of the entire monster, to then have others translate it into several languages before the release. Ideally at the beginning of June we will release it on our Peertube with a Spanish, Romanian, and Russian subtitles. Maybe more. Maybe French and German too. Let's see.

#tromstuff

#tromlive

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"Google safe browsing" sounds like "Church safe childcare". We all know what they do "behind the curtains"...

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taking a stab at Google and religion at the same time, I'm impressed 😁

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4 weeks ago

They both fully deserve it 😁

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Oh look this crystal clear natural pool is really cool https://rdt.trom.tf/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/133jgtt/a_crystal_clear_pool_in_the_enchanted_river_in/

Too bad that the moron filmed vertically. I will never get used to this retardation of filming vertically, especially for these situations. Vertical videos + the "shorts/tiktok" style = idiocracy. 😁

A bit of any is fine, but anything more than a bit is just the narrowing of the human brain, literally 😁. need to recommend again this documentary https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/ 😀

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I see you're still not giving up on the vertical war, haha 😁 Also I should see that idiocracy movie sometime, just cause its referenced everywhere now, lol 😆

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1 month ago

I won't back away! I'll stand vertically against the vertical videos.

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Today I felt inspired to work on the documentary trailer and I think I found a perfect combination. It gives me goosebumps and I watched it 40 times already haha. Only the backbone is made but that was the important part. I just got inspired and things worked great.... There is a particular song that many may not know, it is a few decades old, that kinda describes the society/world we live in. And that song, as you'll see is quite a powerful part of this documentary.

Anyway. Making some progress with the color correcting too and now I am more hopeful that i may finish the color correcting in a week and by mid May there will probably be a trailer released.

Let's see. But damn I am happy that I could put together something for the trailer, even if it is far from being done. We need a good and relevant trailer for this massive documentary. If most people would like this documentary even 20% as much as @Sasha @Georgi @Aaron and @Dima liked it, it would be a success.

#tromstuff

#tromlive @Georgi @Sasha @Dima @Aaron

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I am completely losing my mind over the "color correcting" bullshit for TROM II. 5 people, recorded over some 6 months period. For each we recorded 2-3 days, for me a few weeks probably. Each recording was some 3 hours long. We had to pause every 20 minutes because the camera was overheating.

Now the idea was to have everyone filmed on a dark background. We had a dark piece of material behind us, but a small room, and powerful lights. That created a non-dark background. At times it looked grey, at times blueish, at times brownish....

Combine all that with so many interruptions while filming over a period of months, and of course you realize that you can't have the lights placed in the same way. So you end up with some interviews being super exposed, some having different shadows, etc.. Georgi had a very white tshirt which made the lights reflect back a lot making her face washed out; I had a dark-blue shirt which made it so difficult to try and make the background pitch dark....

Also, people change colors while recording...Sasha for example has bright red cheeks at times 😀 - it is a feature of her own genes. haha. So at times she is normal looking, at times very red in one cheek. And so on....

And my task was to make them all look like it is ONE recording since I often switch between recordings in the same scene.....

And I did it but I made us all kinda darkish and Sasha's cheek overexposed 😀).

Now combine this with the fact that originally I did the color correcting on my old laptop that had an LCD screen, and later on, I did it on the new laptop that has an OLED screen and I realized that some things looked very different. I had to redo this so many times. Also when I do color correcting at daytime vs night things look different....

I am going INSANE. And for what? The message matters....

Oh and add to it that Kdenlive is buggy when it comes to this so pretty often when I color correct it ruins the entire documentary and I need to move the clips (tens at times) from one track to another...it really fucks the entire documentary.

And I have to do this for a 5h documentary.

This is not healthy. I will give it 2-3 more days to see if I can do something, if not I'll probably give up and leave it as it is. I am telling you this is something no one notices unless you start to talk about it, then you start to notice some things. And if you want to "correct" that, then you fall into this black hole where there is no end in sight in terms of what and how you can improve.

#tromstuff

#tromlive

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Damn that sounds frustrating. Do you think it would've been better if you used a green screen or something? As a viewer I don't care much about what the background is, just that the people in foreground are clearly visible. And if you think people won't notice it unless someone points it out then that's probably true, minor details like colors go under the radar while watching a 5 hour documentary, so unless something's really bad and sticks out to the viewer you shouldn't worry about it 😀

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idk if using a green screen would have been better....but overall it is fine, even how it is now. I just have to accept that I can't make it "perfect" and that Kdenlive has a nasty bug that should be the reason not to continue this for more than a few days 😁.

And yeah am telling you for sure that you wont pay attention to these things at all. Even I forgot completely when we were watching it last time with Sasha.

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Share the waste!

I donated my old laptop to a dear friend who also helps with the TROM project. I used this laptop for many years but I needed a more portable one and luckily others helped me buy a better one for myself. I am happy to know that my dear friend the laptop, that helped me make 80% of the TROM II documentary, and trom.tf, and tromcasts, tromjaro, and so many books, and so on, now has a new home 😀

Others helped me, I am helping others too. We should all help each other. We should share the vast amount of stuff we have in this world, rather than keeping that stuff around and not use it, or throwing it into the garbage.

I too often see these in the town I live in:

Massive waste of stuff. Unacceptable!

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So, I like a lot Kdenlive and am proud to have used it fully for the TROM II documentary. I will praise it more when after the documentary is released. BUT.

Here's a very tiring and frustration situation for me: @Dima correctly pointed out that the interviews are mostly very darkish. An easy fix tho. But Sasha's recordings are over saturated and it just so happens that this girl has these pretty red cheeks (haha) when she is excited, stressed, or drunk. And her cheeks go on and off, from red to pale, for the hours of recordings that we did. To make her look natural I have to tune down just that one cheek. At Dima's advice I started to use masks in Kdenlive and almost frame by frame track her cheek and tune it down. Very time consuming, but seems to be worth it.

I color corrected this documentary so much I feel like passing out at this point.

Back to my frustration.

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Rokosun

1 month ago •

So does this mean you still have to work on the documentary for color correction? I thought you were finished.

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1 month ago

I thought so too but it is Dima's fault! haha. No but he is right he sent me some samples of how I should do it better and in some cases it is a big difference. It is fine. I may release it in June anyway for a plethora of reasons so that I do not rush with it. But if so I'll send it to you and a few other close friends in May anyway.

I want to talk to the trom friends maybe it is a good idea to release it with a few subtitles, meaning in a few languages.

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Rokosun

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Yeah there's no need to hurry with this, most of the main work has been done so that's great.

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1 month ago •

It would be a pleasure to help with russian subs 😉

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1 month ago

Ohhh I was about to just ask you that hahaha. That'd be fantastic! See this post https://social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc44-1364-4977-9084-9a1658658130

TROM

2023-04-26 19:12:16

TROM II Documentary Updates and Release

By @Tio

I've sent the documentary to those who were part of it. They all watched it and provided a ton of feedback. What was absolutely surprising to me were their reactions overall. I am still unable to compute why they thought so positively about it. You see I have edited this documentary a thousand times so I was unable to understand it anymore. I did not know if it makes sense or not.

So maybe it is good?

I can tell you that their comments range from "Tio deserves and Oscar" haha, to "this documentary is a masterpiece", to "it's a brilliant work" or "the best documentary ever". This seems quite a lot for me to digest but they keep on telling me that. @Georgi watched it first, she could not wait, and digested it in one go sending me tons of feedback while watching it.

She bought a pizza and she said she was so captivated she could not eat much hahah.

@Sasha came in the second place but just 1 hour later than Georgi haha. She 'forced' me to re-watch it all in one go 😁. She was so amazed and happy she kept on telling that to me, to the point of me being confused and thinking that she exaggerates. I even asked her to please not exaggerate. haha.

Don't be deceived!

Now, please do not let these feedbacks, some of which were public, influence you when you'll watch it. These people took part in the documentary, they agree with these ideas, and we are very close friends. I keep on saying to lower your expectations even now when you see these first reactions. Please! I am 1 guy, with 1 laptop, and this is the first time I had to record for a documentary and do it in this fashion. Put it into that perspective please. Their reactions and feedbacks are valuable (very much) but I do not want to make people have big expectations from this documentary.

Ok. So these guys also had a few criticisms but way less than I expected. Some 6-7 people watched it and 2 said there are a few "boring" moments in the first part of the documentary. Others said that was their favorite part and not boring at all. One said in the last part we repeated a few things, quite a minor offense ;). Lastly @Dima had some good inputs about the colors of the recordings. Most are ok, but they need to be improved and I am doing it now (again....I improved the colors so many times idk what colors are anymore haha).

But that's all the criticism so far.

The PLAN.

On 20th of May we have that special TROM Meeting. We had one in 2019 after I released the book The Origin of Most Problems. It was great to see all of these wonderful brains together.

For TROM II I still have to do a few things: color correct that may take a week or some 10 days; make a trailer - and I want to make a very good one so this can take a week or more; make a poster (easy); do the sources (time consuming); prepare tromsite.com for the release.

With these being said, I should not force myself to do all of those before the May meeting and quickly release just before that. I want to enjoy that meeting and not think about the release. Plus would be fantastic to make an english subtitle that we can then translate in several languages and release TROM II with them. Wouldn't it be better to release TROM II in a few languages? I think so.

Therefore when we meet in May we can also work on some of these things. Let's do this well!

Release.

I think the best would be to release in the beginning of June. With a good trailer, in multiple languages, better color correction, and all that. This is entirely doable. I do not know the exact date, but should be in the first half of June FOR SURE!

I am quite excited about the release 😀. And I may try to make the trailer in May. Will keep you posted!

#tromlive

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Oh awesome new improvements to the latest Kdenlive https://kdenlive.org/en/2023/04/kdenlive-23-04-0-released/ 😀 - so happy to see the nested timelines, the auto-generated subtitle tool that I may use for TROM II to make the ENG subtitle, and the effects and all that. Awesome!

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Sasha with her wonderful review haha. I am surprised that she liked it so much since I can't have much of an opinion about it after editing and watching so many times.

Sasha

2023-04-23 13:06:58

I have a new favorite documentary!!! TROM II: A Message to the Aliens 😀

I think @Tio deserves an oscar for this one! 😀 The documentary hasn’t been released yet, but I got to view it last night hehehe 😁. It is 4 parts, about 5 hours long, and I watched it in one go, staying up until about 6AM and I couldn’t get my eyes off the screen.

I think Tio did an absolutely fantastic job and it’s really hard to believe that this doco was a one-man job.
I’ve seen him struggle with this documentary for the past 2-3 years. At first, he started to make a script and put a bunch of footage together, then he scrapped that idea and decided to interview 4 people (Dima, Aaron, Georgi, and me) + himself. Tio came up with all the questions, hoping to present his view of the world through our answers, combining our general knowledge of the world with our life stories.

We spent months filming these interviews (at night with bright lights and a black background- which later made it challenging to edit). After all the filming was done, Tio had dozens of hours of footage, all scattered in different interviews, between 5 different people. Imagine trying to create a story out of that. Little by little he went through the footage and created a story that pins our world and our human society to the backdrop of the universe, combined this cosmic perspective with 5 personal stories, demonstrated how we, humans, are influenced by our environment, and how so much of this environment is permeated by trade. Then he demonstrates some of the immense problems this has caused, and introduces a new idea on how to tackle those problems.

And of course, to make all of this, he used footage from many many documentaries, movies, video clips, etc. Finding the right footage was a huge challenge (he didn’t use any stock footage) + combining all of this with great music + many editing effects, and a lot more. All in all it was a massive challenge and Tio really nailed it. I am so proud of him 😀

Can’t wait for TROM II to be released to the public!!!!

#trom #tromlive

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I just spent 5 hours re-watching the TROM II documentary with Sasha 😀. That's it I won't watch it ever again. I watched it a million times by now haha. Am sooooo tired. But yeah I think the documentary is ok. Maybe good. Maybe great for some. IDK anymore. Can't wait to make it public. We at least spotted some errors that I have to fix. No big deal. Let's see if the rest will find anything new.

Anyway....good that it is done. #tromstuff

#tromlive

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2023-04-22 16:42:40

Finally the TROM II documentary is done and it was sent to the ones who took part in it for review. From now one there will be no change, unless they notice anything that is REALLY REALLY bad and needs to be fixed. Or typos.

4 parts, some 5 hours long. Soon we will make a post about it and about when we plan to release it.

Stay tuned and follow us on the fedierse trom@social.trom.tf or via our updates https://www.tromsite.com/live/

#tromlive

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Roma

1 month ago •

Wow man, that’s wonderful news! 😱 Congrats you with finishing it, that was the truly TROMendous work! 😁 Hope can watch it all soon!

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1 month ago

haha tromendous. that was so funny. thanks a lot man! will send it to you very soon ;)

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These days I was "derailed" from the documentary work. I have some minor issues with my head holes (ears) and what bothers me the most is waking up early in the morning to go to the hospital. But also we have to deal with the paperwork for Sasha.....so my sleeping schedule got fucked up severely and I struggle to do the color-correcting for the documentary.

It is what it is. I will try to work more these days to see how it goes. I did a bunch of improvements but I'd like to do more. #tromstuff

#tromlive

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It's all about that trade.

When I scream about how trade is the origin of most problems, some people think that I am crazy and I exaggerate. Well either read the thousands of pages I wrote so far or watch the tens of hours of videos that I made, or here's another clear example:

I and Sasha. Much love. Love love, you know. We are together for the past 3 or so years. All we want is to stay on this planet somewhere. Can we? The answer is no. It is yes. It is maybe. It is confusing. Is it any answer?

After going through the bullshit of the marriage ritual, and went to lawyers here in Spain and all that, we still didn't figure that out until today.

Ok so listen. If you want to be able to stay in Spain, 2 humans that is, one of you is a resident in Spain and an EU citizen, one an American citizen, here's what you have to do:

Prove that you are together and you love each other.
That's it. Now you can live he

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Reading that long blog post about your marriage was like going through an emotional roller coaster, I don't know how many people could relate to it but I was definitely able to feel your pain there.

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i think more fundamental is inequality. As entities only have power over another based on inequality. Trade is a means to raise inequality. And why inequality exists? Well, existing entities use other existing entities (life or not), and thus decrease or remove their existence, to maintain their own existence and prosperity.

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Ok I can finally confirm the documentary is all done. I checked the last part, all good. I am only fixing the colors for some interviews. This is my task for the next few days. #tromstuff

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Part 4, the last part, of the TROM II documentary is done! Finally! I still have to check the final render tomorrow but that's only for video purposes to make sure all looks good. I struggled with this part a lot. I hope it makes sense and it is not boring.

I also realized that some interviews look kinda red-in-the-face and some yellow 😁 . And I may have to take a few days to fix that for all of the parts.

Let's see....

But yeah the documentary is done, except for what I just said.

I really hope the color-fixing won't drive me crazy, but I will do my best to be done in just a few days time. Then send it to all who were part of the documentary. Let's see how it goes....

My laptop also freezes for the past weeks, randomly, when I work on the documentary. I hope it won't go nuts now....maybe be software related, may be hardware although I cleaned it recently...

#tromstuff

#tromlive

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One of the things I submitted for Peertube to implement is responsive embeds (and I also provided the solution - the code). I am so happy to see it implemented and working in Peertube!

From what I know even Youtube lacks this feature. I so love it because it makes it so much easier to embed videos in your websites. And yes I still have my own website here https://www.tiotrom.com and I always post there whatever is relevant 😀. And cross post from Friendica to my WP whenever I make a bigger and more important post. And yes you can vice-versa follow me via tio@www.tiotrom.com (my federated WP handle).

Oh and ofc you can follow my website via RSS or email too - all links here https://www.tiotrom.com/follow/

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When videos like this https://ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=d7-EhGIeGUs tell you that Manjaro is not stable, or that mixing AUR with repos is bad, or that Manjaro packages "beta" software, please be skeptical. I have been using TROMjaro which is basically Manjaro Stable with some custom stuff to it, for several years now. My laptop never shuts down. I edit videos (like I work on a multi hour documentary for the past 2-3 years), I edit photos, I write books and I design books, I manage servers, I make websites, I consume a lot of media too like documentaries and such. I test thousands of apps for our TROMjaro library and I do the updates the same day they are released.

With all that being said, despite a few apps from AUR that may not work here and there, the rest is flawless. We use XFCE as the desktop env so that helps to make it more stable.

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Ranking Linux Distributions for 2023: not your average tier list!

Download Safing's Portmaster and take control of your network traffic: https://safing.io Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedocomputers.

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I tried TROMjaro and thought it was really nice, despite the fact that I just don't click with XFCE. It is probably the nicest looking XFCE I've seen.

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Today I was a bit in the mood to work again on the documentary. I finished 55 minutes in total now. Still some 25 minutes to improve. Thing is it seems that I got a bit lazy towards the end of the documentary when I made it and I left a few parts that are not as good in terms of video editing as I would want to. They are too simple....

I am also trying to add a few more minutes to it. Even record something new, for like 3 minutes. I tried today and I recorded 20 minutes. No good. I need 3 minutes! No more! 😁

I have tortured myself with this documentary beyond belief haha. I will NEVER make a project that lasts more than a few months to finish. NEVER. At least not in the next decade! It is really tiring.

I just kinda hate myself for not putting more work into this last part, at least towards the end of it in some parts. And now I need to work a lot more than I expected. It is also frustrating to know that there are only some 25 minutes left....the rest is done. But annoying 25 minutes!

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