Much respect for @Dima - videos.trom.tf/w/t6WMuqkdS5wAy… - he continues to do these really well made and important videos. It is important to highlight the so many volunteers who are trying to fix the natural world, as much as they can.
We build artificial islands for pelicans - here's why
I went to Bulgaria to join conservation project of Dalmatian pelicans. It's international effort to reduce threats and improve their habitat in Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria & Greece.
Project website : life-pelicans.com/ Some footage of pelicans : Damyan Petkov Thumbnail picture : Maxim Yakovlev
thanks! well that bear is actually in a zoo-like enclosure where you can go with your car and see them. Not the best environment for wild animals....but I liked that photo....
Take the telescope phone mount and attach it to the binoculars, and then you can take some cool shots with your phone :). Mind you these are tiny binoculars that we got from someone, not some pro-ones.
Here's a very cool documentary videoneat.com/documentaries/25… - a massive research center on the ice. 10 years of preparations, scientists from all around the world. No competition, no bullshit. Pure science. Explorers. Thinkers.
That's how we all should be. To go explore, discover, solve problems.
Unfortunately they were there to research the impact that humans have on the climate....so this is not about exploring as much as it is about figuring out how fucked we are when it comes to the changes in climate.
Anyway, this is a great documentary to also showcase the potential that humans have to organize themselves and do a lot of important work, regardless of the tribe they were born into.
The fact that humans have weapons that are meant to kill their own kind, is a sign of primitivism. It is a sign of a failed society. Regardless if they even use them or not.
If we cannot solve conflicts within our human society without killing other humans, then we are a failure. That, in a situation in which we have more than enough resources to provide everyone with whatever they need and most of what they want.
Now fully subtitled into Spanish, making it available to many millions of people who only speak spanish. All thanks to the wonderful Rafa and Vicky, and Cesar.
The amount of work to subtitle such a documentary in a professional way is quite intense and these people are doing it without asking anything in return. That's how we all should be. To do the things we feel are important and not worry about how to survive on this planet.
If you want to help us translate the documentary in more languages please contact us. tromsite.com/contact/
Thank you Georgi for becoming one of the 200 for TROM! https://www.tromsite.com/donate/ - There are 39 people who donate 5 Euros a month to support TROM forever. In small steps we may reach the goal eventually.
Mind you we only accept 5 Euros donations and only from 200 people so that we keep it small and sustainable. Please consider becoming one of these wonderful people. Of course, if you can afford it.
This month we will do a live TROM-Cast all about the future plans for the next year. Stay tuned!
Actually S. had a lot of issues donating since his Mastercard refused the donation. After weeks of trying to figure out what is the issue he finally went to the bank and asked to allow for European payments. And then it all worked fine.
A few people tried to donate to our campaign using Mastercards and the donations failed. Now we know why. Some banks refuse these sorts of payments. If you can, please go talk to your bank to unblock these payments.
Much thank yous for supporting TROM financially. You support a lot of projects!
My Pixel 4a got an upgrade to Android 14. But not from Google who dropped support for this phone recently, but from @CalyxOS ! Imagine that. Huge kudos to the Calyx team and a big middle finger to Google by making humans buy new phones every year and rendering the old phones obsolete just because of no software updates.
In a trade-based society all humans care is about their trade advantages. Fuck Google with their Pixel 8 software support till 2030. That's a marketing nonsense. They should be ashamed for even releasing yet another phone that's exactly like the previous one, and making their old phones obsolete by refusing to push updates to them.
A few months in and I love CalyxOS. Everything works great. My phone is ads and trackers free. A true trade-free OS for the phone :).
Part of that has to do with the fact that the Calyx team has a lot of members on it that also work on @LineageOS, which (through predecessor CyanogenMod) has been the ROM that's been the longest in the Android modification game.
haha yea. Have a Pixel 4a since a few years that runs calyx since the day I got it. Was in this consumer circle headspace of "shit I need to buy a new phone soon" even though mine is still fine. Imagine my joyful surprise when my phone just Autoupdated to android 14.
Been using Calyx on my Pixel 3 for over a year now and it's really a godsend. And they will support fairphone 5 - I will ride this pixel until it dies and by that time the FP with Calyx will be an option. Very grateful for Calyx's good work in providing viable alternatives to Google's cesspool :)
Here's a photo of Jupiter through my Pixel 4a and Celestron SLT 130 telescope. I can do better probably and this is with no enhancing, straight out of the phone:
Just a start... :D - I will try to do better. But you can still see some color and the stripes.
hmm my TROMjaro is freezing randomly, several times a day for the past week or so. Probably has to do with some recent updates but I am baffled since I tried different kernels, I also tried the NVIDIA open source or proprietary drivers, even removed it altogether. This is a terrible bug/situation for anyone..... It is true that I install too many packages to test for TROMjaro and do so many experiments on my system, but I'd like not to reinstall the OS now...
Gthumb cannot start anymore due to some "segmentation fault (core dumped)". Kdenlive doesn't start duet to some weird error "kf.service.sycoca: The menu spec file ( "" ) contains a Layout or DefaultLayout tag without the mandatory Merge tag inside. Please fix it."
IDK what is happening... :D
I may have to start all over and reinstall. But it would be terrible to reinstall TROMjaro to then have it freeze again.
It seems to be the new kernel 6.6 .... interesting. It works perfectly fine with the older LTS 6.1 kernel.... At least in Linux you can change the kernels very easily.
The previous 2 are also subtitled into Spanish. There is only 1 more part left and we will have it all in Spanish. You can watch the documentary here https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2/
@PeerTube we have released our documentary exclusively on Peertube and only there, in June. It is 5 hours long, 4 parts, and we worked 3 years to make it. Here it is videos.trom.tf/w/p/fVpfZ9VfWrW…
Please consider adding it to your joinpeertube.org/#find-peertub… website as a showcase of original Peertube releases if you think it is worth it. We have it subtitled in a few languages already and it is basically about why the bad things that happen in the world (where do they originate from), but also about how we could maybe change that. It is about open source, volunteers, and overall treating people as humans and helping them. To help each other.
Please consider it and maybe our instance too - videos.trom.tf - dedicated to science/technology/activism.
We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.
@Dima does a fantastic job at highlighting the good people that still live in this backwards trade society and why they are struggling to do the good things that they do. Imagine doing good things like saving turtles, and not only that you are not helped in this society, but face many roadblocks.
Dima keep on doing your important work! Your videos are much needed for everyone to understand the struggle the volunteers have to face, but also to understand that people are motivated to do good things. We just have to enable that by helping them.
If people had access to at least their basic needs as trade-free, we would see a lot of change happening.
Thank you to everyone who is supporting our TROM project via donations. Currently we have 36 people supporting our 200 for TROM cause https://www.tromsite.com/donate/ - basically we need 200 people to donate 5 Euros a month to support TROM forever. Distributing the toll we put on everyone to make the project sustainable.
You support some 20 websites and a lot of digital materials, plus future projects. See the main website https://www.tromsite.com and the tools that we have.
It would be amazing to achieve this goal and it is not an unrealistic one. Thousands of people use our tools and websites.
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