Stay tuned for a new TROMnews! :) - today or tomorrow. I worked so hard today to bring it back, and bring it in a new more interesting way :P #tromstuff
TROMnews needs a revamp....and that may take some time...unfortunately the plugin we used before stopped working so there are no more "news"....I am trying to fix it these days and move to another plugin which may be a good idea anyway since I wanted to get rid of the plugin that we originally used.
Man it is a shame that I cannot get enough financial support for TROM, because I could focus on these things fully, and do more....let's see how this year's going to be, but I need to focus on making some money somehow. If there were were 200 people to donate 5 Euros a month tromsite.com/donate/ I could relax and focus on these tools. I could create new video series, new projects, and scream more. Plus do new things with the project.
Sometimes I feel guilty for not doing more, but then I have to remind myself that I can't fully focus on TROM with 300 or so Euros a month.
Anyway, it is also that I was crazy busy with learning for the driving school. I should go for the bloody writt
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TROMnews needs a revamp....and that may take some time...unfortunately the plugin we used before stopped working so there are no more "news"....I am trying to fix it these days and move to another plugin which may be a good idea anyway since I wanted to get rid of the plugin that we originally used.
Man it is a shame that I cannot get enough financial support for TROM, because I could focus on these things fully, and do more....let's see how this year's going to be, but I need to focus on making some money somehow. If there were were 200 people to donate 5 Euros a month tromsite.com/donate/ I could relax and focus on these tools. I could create new video series, new projects, and scream more. Plus do new things with the project.
Sometimes I feel guilty for not doing more, but then I have to remind myself that I can't fully focus on TROM with 300 or so Euros a month.
Anyway, it is also that I was crazy busy with learning for the driving school. I should go for the bloody written exam in a week or two - am waiting for them to call me to basically go for it. From what I've heard it is quite hard to pass that exam in Spain and many need to try 2-3 times (more money, more time). But let's see....they tested me with 2 random exam tests today, at the driving school, and I passed them perfectly fine. But will see about the real exam.
I think the difference between a cult and a religion is the number of followers. If Islam or Christianity were to have a few thousand members (a little minority) we would 100% consider them cults. And terrible/crazy/primitive ones for that matter.
We've updated our TROM Videos too. Now Peertube has more cool features like the storyboard - you can hover with your mouse over the seekbar of a video and see thumbnails. Pretty nice!
We are currently generating the thumbnails for all of our videos (may take a while to finish), but any new video uploaded from now one will have this feature.
You can also add chapters to your videos and more. Awesome job @PeerTube !
From now on we will post a "must watch" documentary from VideoNeat on our Peertube's homepage - videos.trom.tf so make sure you check that out and subscribe to our VideoNeat channel - videos.trom.tf/c/videoneat/vid…
This year we will try to focus on the content for our TROM Videos and bring new creators, plus create new videos ourselves too.
So please, if you can, help us here tromsite.com/donate/ - we only need 160 more people to donate 5 Euros a month to support TROM forever.
Another great video by @Dima - you know that when he releases a new video, it is a good and important video, about good people doing good things. Great job man! Keep on exposing these heroes trying to do some good in this fucked up world. But also, it is great to see that you do not forget to mention that it is this society of trade that makes us do these terrible things. It is important to not forget where the infection starts....
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Another great video by @Dima - you know that when he releases a new video, it is a good and important video, about good people doing good things. Great job man! Keep on exposing these heroes trying to do some good in this fucked up world. But also, it is great to see that you do not forget to mention that it is this society of trade that makes us do these terrible things. It is important to not forget where the infection starts....
I was visiting conservation organization "Carpathia" in Romania. They're doing so many different activities to preserve and restore nature and wildlife. Bringing back European Bison's, restoring and rewilding forest, support local community, do all kind of monitoring activities for wildlife. And much much more. To find out more about Carpathia - carpathia.org/
Thank you Tio. In this situation it's so absurd that people have to buy the forest to keep it alive or pretend to be hunters. It shouldn't be like that at all, it shows how rigid and fucked this system is. Carpathia is awesome organization and they came up with such creative ideas, but it's sad that in order to keep something alive you have to buy it. And you don't buy it for yourself, that's actually will benefit everyone. absurd... #fucktrade
Even I forget that I released a massive documentary some months ago...and that I worked so hard on that. I honestly forget about that quite often and deep down I feel a bit frustrated and sad that I do not do more. But maybe I just forget that I have put so much effort into that and perhaps that drained me of energy. Of course I am crazy busy with the driving license now and am doing other things in the background for TROM, but I need to remind myself that I've done a lot to scream, and I will do more, but I cannot be always like a machine that never stops. So I need some more time to get myself back on track and create new things, scream more and in different ways, and so forth.
I am trying, but the world in which we live is like a bullet-train of nonstop things happening. Most of them are idiotic and ugly. So most people are trapped in this race. Myself included many times. That's why I forget about the documentary.
Wars, disasters, debates, problems, noise. Too much
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Even I forget that I released a massive documentary some months ago...and that I worked so hard on that. I honestly forget about that quite often and deep down I feel a bit frustrated and sad that I do not do more. But maybe I just forget that I have put so much effort into that and perhaps that drained me of energy. Of course I am crazy busy with the driving license now and am doing other things in the background for TROM, but I need to remind myself that I've done a lot to scream, and I will do more, but I cannot be always like a machine that never stops. So I need some more time to get myself back on track and create new things, scream more and in different ways, and so forth.
I am trying, but the world in which we live is like a bullet-train of nonstop things happening. Most of them are idiotic and ugly. So most people are trapped in this race. Myself included many times. That's why I forget about the documentary.
Wars, disasters, debates, problems, noise. Too much noise. And not much progress into any saner direction.
I ponder sometimes if I should stop trying, and live a quiet and simple life and not give a shit. I don't know...it is hard to imagine that "me". I started my "online activism" back in 2007 or so. That's a scary 17 years ago. And the world has only gotten worse. So why continue I ask myself....
Maybe I just need to recharge myself this year and change my personal life quite a bit. To then have some new energy and motivation to do more, and newer. But also different.
It is also really difficult to try and manage all of these projects and the stuff that I do, with 20% of what I need financially in this trade world...if at least I had enough support to keep me afloat, I could have the confidence of doing more, and doing other things too in this direction.
For now I will be busy with the retarded driving test for the next 1-2 weeks. Then if I manage to pass the exam, it should be easier. I will have to wait a few months for the practical test (driving) but I am quite sure I can take that one. So let's see how I organize myself and the TROM projects for the next months. I will post updates on my Friendica if course.
take some time off... The world will keep falling down, don't worry about that. It's better not to burn out, spent some more time outside with Sasha, travel more. Then you will also have fresh perspectives and new ideas. You don't have to run all the time... You only hurting yourself without any reasonable results, you've done more than enough already.
Am so busy and tired of the driving test bullshit....I will make a video about the retardation at some point....but man...thousands of questions that no one driving a car can ever pass. No driver I tested so far passed any test.
The image is a composite - I took separate photos for each with the telescope and the phone. The original photo looks something like this through the binoculars:
But you can zoom into the first photo and you can even see Jupiter's moons :)
There are 4 services that we use for TROM.tf via @YunoHost that are either broken or not updated in some time. I will try to look more into, but these are :
If anyone can help out that'd be awesome, because it would help us all. If not at least support Yunohost financially if you can afford that donate.yunohost.org/
Yunohost is a fantastic project that allows us to provide so many trade-free services for everyone.
I hope they/we can find a solution for these packages....
Big thanks to those who support our 200 for TROM donation campaign https://www.tromsite.com/donate/ - there are 44 people donating 5 Euros a month and we need 200 in total. We provide a lot of materials and tools - see the donation page. Your support allows us to keep these alive and relevant, and if enough support to continue to produce more.
Remember, among many things, we provide a video platform with unlimited uploads for anyone, a file hosting platform with 10GB of storage for any user that registers, a social network and a chat platform. Also a Linux Operating System. A lot, and for everyone. So please, consider donating 5 Euros a month if you can. It is the only amount we accept.
This post is a little later than I wanted it to be, because where I live just got buried under 24" +/- of snow and I haven't had internet for a couple of days. So, here we go:
Disclaimer: The day after I downloaded and installed TROMjaro, a new ISO was released. I downloaded and installed that new ISO because some changes were made and I wanted to be as current as possible for this post.
1: TROMjaro is not a beginner's distro. There are some things that need to be set up after install, and if you don't know how to go about it or where to find the setting before hand, you're going to have a bad time. CUPS for using your printer is a prime example. Like most things ARCH/ ARCH based, this is an RTFM moment.
2: TROMjaro is pretty privacy foused. Not on the level of Whonix or Tails OS (obviously), but the preinstalled software is all centered around not collecting any of your data. Even the customized Firefox is configured to block all ads, most tracking cookies, and browser fingerprinting. If that isn't enough, there is a preinstalled VPN that is beyond simple to use.
3: This distro is seriously snappy and light weight. None of the customization done to XFCE lags it down. Processor and RAM loads for daily usage on my machine are around 10% or less, which is actually pretty incredible considering I'm running a Ryzen 5 and 8 gigs of RAM on an HP Pavilion business class laptop with built in graphics.
4: There is NO BLOAT. "Out of the box", TROMjaro doesn't give you a bunch of useless software to clean out because you aren't going to use it. That's pretty much unheard of with most distros.
5: Speaking of software.... Between the Add/remove software app that has the AUR, Chaotic AUR, and Flatpak already enabled and set up, as well as TROM's Trade Free Software web app, it's pretty much impossible to not find the software you need for your specific use case. It's almost impossible to find any other distro that does all that work for you, though.
6: This distro is gorgeous. Seriously. Out of the box, the theming makes TROMjaro a pleasure to look at. The only things I've changed are switching to a different pre-installed wallpaper,and the Mac OS layout.
7: The Layout Switcher is one of the coolest things I've seen from a distro in a long time. I usually spend a bunch of time customizing a desktop environment to my liking after installing a distro. For the first time since I switched to Linux ( some time around Windows 8 - 8.1) , I haven't had to do that. Which is awesome.
8: "The Trade Free Apps" has got to be one of the best curated FOSS repositories I have ever seen. Currently there are 700+ pieces of software there, from video editors to matrix clients, none which collect data or have any telemetry. It's truly incredible.
I'd Like to be able to say "Now on to all the bad things about TROMjaro", but I can't. At least, not yet. I haven't had anything that I would consider a major issue. A lot of work has obviously gone in to the development of TROMjaro, and it shows. I think I've found my new permanent daily driver distro,
I should've had recorded and made a documentary about my and Sasha's situation...4 years now and we still did not get any papers for Sasha. We've been through so much shit you can't imagine....just to let us live together. Now we thought that's it, finally, we paid a lawyer to submit all of the papers, I have a "job", and we were told that in 2 or so months we will have an answer. That was in September last year....
We contacted the lawyer today and we were told .... "Oh can take up to 7 months..." - fuck them. These robots...
I bet most people have no clue about how fucked up it is. To basically not be able to stay together unless you have a lot of money. Insane. And this is EU....Spain, wow civilizations. Fuck them, primitive tribes.
Maybe we will piece together the entire story with the little footage we have, and release a sort of documentary at one point. Because this is insanely ridiculous....
Oh man the prison earth video is spot on..... If you don't have enough money/status then you can't visit most places or stay with people you love in those places, you don't realize how fucked up it is until you experience it first hand.....
While I'm not surprised that every stage of the game is about paying or delaying justice and caring... and then them doing more of the same... which in a paying system is endless paying with less caring again...
So while i know and see the bad constantly, I see we have constantly get rid of the idea of state 'help' in our heads in that circle and even birth certificates etc that put claim on our body / spirit (or the children as we give it to them).
Eventually we have to undo it ALL probably by reducing contact and less funding them every year of our lives.
To expect 0 from them and even expect them never to care seems true. It's so far gone (even hospitals cheating those who think it's free while paying insurance / tax for subsidies for meat / eggs industry / cruelty and giving cholesterol etc that goes back to treating illness but not the cause / the loop itself).
Business is Bad loops.
So not just another documentary maybe, something more which I know you have done already but every now and again we have step up (AGAIN) and feel proud for doing it. I don't have all the answers or maybe I do that you need to twist in your own way.
So "NO MORE MONEY" - yes. And NOW MORE FUNNY PAPER "WORK".
That's my main message.
Below is just more since I visit your stuff occasionally. So if personal help with can be offered (not just money) then you can involve others and better loops of better people.
I know you have done a lot and it's like asking someone to put a bar of weights "a little bit more" but given the right exploring together we can absolutely smash our limits and find people.
I like your stuff, I think it's always about how to do the 1 more "level up" and moral "power up" even though you're already living the way.
Examples to PUSH FORWARD MORE;
1. Home-birth baby no certs / no giving baby to state. 2. Get out of city trap/pay zone 3. Your own Couchsurfing-style / custom made "circle of chat" platform for people living the way or actually creating trust socially
(e.g. Mastodon is not doing this it's just a empty social platform without anyone working on *socially increasing trust* or *growing better people*). Work on that (again see you are but refresh me also since I check every few years when I reach a dead-end when interaction stops for helping <--- which I think is the main clincher to aim for).
Online chats and circles as part of living and growing people NOT money is a big part of finding the way..
Happy to talk and you can visit / live here for a while (EU).
Above concrete list of ideas are actually to work a on a solution a bit more meta than the usual complaining (rightly complaining but just complaining doesn't work always) and beyond displaying more of the same hate, something loving / exploring... less begging / expecting from bastards (the wrong people) and finding more the good.
It's the brutal branch of evolution that we came from and still just have to find a way to face it (comfortably or otherwise) and even wear it down / withdraw contact / silently boycott.
Again happy to talk more personally and even help... we need to really work on something more weekly daily even if not directly in contact, keeping it all funneled in knowing in the background it's all coming back to us. (for example Trade-Free but finding away more than money to give back which talking to Alexio wasn't really clear so I just left it as is). We have to channel each other even if you think I'm not that important and even if it's not clear at first what people are doing as WE also make each other (left to state we make shit).
So ridiculous how people think that they are "free", when in fact we are all imprisoned by rules and laws, many of which are entirely harmful and primitive.
So ridiculous how people think that they are "free", when in fact we are all imprisoned by rules and laws, many of which are entirely harmful and primitive.
When nine-year-old Maya Kowalski was admitted to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in 2016, nothing could have prepared her or her family for what they were about to go through. As the medical team tried to understand her rare illness, they began to question the basic truths that bound the Kowalskis together.
@gnutelephony This is just inhumane..... There is no other way to describe it and I'm so sorry you had to go through that. Often times when people bring up issues regarding racism and such I've never seen many of them mention this one, maybe there needs to be more awareness about this issue 'cause it's an important one.
Am excited about the motorhome life :D - I was dreaming about it since forever and now there are some chances we may be able to do this by the end of this year. To basically move into a motorhome full time.
It excites me because there are 2 things that I love to do: 1. to work on these online projects like TROM and overall the computer world. I love it, it is my universe :). And 2. I love to see new places. Nature specifically. It feels like you live longer if you do that I think.
So if I can combine the two....I would be the happiest. For that a motorhome would be perfect. Go with your home, slowly, see new places and relax, but also have the home with you to work on your stuff.
Am so excited I could not sleep these past weeks very well, because I have too many thoughts about it.
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Am excited about the motorhome life :D - I was dreaming about it since forever and now there are some chances we may be able to do this by the end of this year. To basically move into a motorhome full time.
It excites me because there are 2 things that I love to do: 1. to work on these online projects like TROM and overall the computer world. I love it, it is my universe :). And 2. I love to see new places. Nature specifically. It feels like you live longer if you do that I think.
So if I can combine the two....I would be the happiest. For that a motorhome would be perfect. Go with your home, slowly, see new places and relax, but also have the home with you to work on your stuff.
Am so excited I could not sleep these past weeks very well, because I have too many thoughts about it.
This is one that I like:
Small, 5 to 5.5m long. Consumes less fuel, and yeah is oldish but we cannot afford new one and I try to not buy new stuff anyway. The bed on top is huge, for 2 people, as big as the one we have now. And with the bed on top you have more space inside. So I can work on TROM ;). Make a little office.
I was surprised to calculate how much would cost us to live (per month) in a motorhome, since that would be less than what we pay now in a shared house with my parents. But anyway, I am researching more and try to tame my enthusiasm. When we will do this I'd like to make videos for my personal Peertube channel to share our experience, expenses, and all that. You can subscribe/follow here videos.trom.tf/c/tiotrom/video… tiotrom@videos.trom.tf
But yah....I hope this dream of mine will become reality and we will have our TROMhome that we will also use to meet with people, do TROM screenings, events, and more. :)
This year is going to be interesting for me :). But first I need to take that damn driving exam.
Also been a vague dream of mine for years. I met someone before who lived and worked out of a van while doing their PhD, and seemed to have a great setup for it. My sister and her boyfriend also have quite a nice camper van setup with solar panels and could ask them for tips if interested. Good luck and can't wait to see how you get on with it!
I will be mighty busy with the driving school exams and such for this rest of the month. So the work I do for TROM should be a bit less. But I am trying to film some stuff for a future video, about these stupid tests and all that. Will see. #tromstuff
This documentary is crazy. To think that this is happening in 2024 is insane. People treated like slaves in concentration camps, brainwashed to extremes.
Marc-André Leclerc climbs alone, far from the limelight. The free-spirited 23-year-old makes some of the boldest solo ascents in history. With no cameras and no margin for error, Leclerc’s approach is the essence of solo adventure.
TROMjaro 2024.01.07 (and a longish article) forum.tromjaro.com/t/tromjaro-… - improvements to our Layout Switcher thanks to @Rokosun and new default apps ;)
TROMjaro Layout Switcher revamp In this release we are bringing the new TROMjaro Layout Switcher. @rokosun rewrote the entire application in the Nim programming language with use of owlkettle library for GTK.
Is there a way to force a system upgrade to the current ISO version? sudo pamac upgrade gave me the updated Layout Switcher, but nothing else covered in your article.
This is a rolling release so no need to upgrade to any new version, you'll get the right updates directly to your system. The other changes are not that important I'd say and can be easily done by anyone who reads the release notes. Like in this release we replaced some default apps and I linked to the ones that we replaced so you can simply install them. But that's all.
So I replaced SMplayer with Celluloid, Gnome Usage with Resources, GUV with Cameractrls, and qTox with Jami. It is very very rare that we replace our default apps. So no, you do not have to do anything other than keeping your system updated and install whatever apps you want form the ones we replaced.
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in reply to Tio • •In this situation it's so absurd that people have to buy the forest to keep it alive or pretend to be hunters. It shouldn't be like that at all, it shows how rigid and fucked this system is. Carpathia is awesome organization and they came up with such creative ideas, but it's sad that in order to keep something alive you have to buy it. And you don't buy it for yourself, that's actually will benefit everyone. absurd... #fucktrade
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