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FINALLY! I wanted to do this for a year now. And we did it! Now TROMjaro is a lot better and much easier for us to maintain it. If you use TROMjaro you need to read this release's notes! Enjoy!

TROM

2022-09-23 02:08:13


A very important TROMjaro Release https://forum.tromjaro.com/t/tromjaro-2022-09-23/99

We worked a lot to make it so much easier from now on to keep your TROMjaro updated without making manual changes like you had to do before. This is mostly thanks to the wonderful @Roma and @Rokosun who did a wonderful job.

ENJOY! #tromlive

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This is a really important release because it makes everything so much easier for all TROMjaro users and for us.


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Peertube finally introduced in the release 2 things I asked for and really wanted joinpeertube.org/news#release-…

  • Autosync from youtube or other platforms
  • Ability to not allow resolutions higher than whatever you select as admin.

Awesome!

One little thing.... @PeerTube you have used a screenshot from our instance videos.trom.tf to showcase the old and new registration module. Ours as the "old" version. However we have a very customized theme so it does not make much sense to use our instance in that regards. Can be confusing. Just saying :D - Otherwise awesome job ofc!

We should update our instance soon!

@PeerTube

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TROM

2022-09-22 02:31:29


We are getting closer and closer to releasing a new TROMjaro ISO that will come with some really useful features for every TROMjaro user. In short, the changes we usually recommend for people to do (most of them at least) for each of our release, will be now pushed by us to everyone automatically. Thanks to @Roma and @Rokosun for the great work they've done for these past days.

As soon as we release this new TROMjaro ISO, the focus will shift once again on the TROM II documentary.

TROM is alive. And it has been since 2011. And we will continue to be. We plan a new TROM Meeting for the next year. We will let you know more details towards the end of this year. #tromlive


#tromlive

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Great amount of wok on TROMjaro these days. @Roma worked like nuts! Then @Rokosun came to help. Both fantastic creatures. Our scripts look way better now. Before we had to run them every few seconds (bad), now we trigger them based on relevant changes of the system. This result in instant actions.

So, let me repeat, we are able to sync the system's theme, icon pack, and font, across GTK, GTK + LIbadwaita, Qt, QT5, QT6, and Flatpaks (the ones that support it). This is USABILITY, not simply fancy shit. And it works. Instantly. Makes the desktop fuckin' sane.

So bloody happy with TROMjaro. It is unfortunate that so few people know about it...but well...we will try to make it more visible...what can we do!? :D

@Roma @Rokosun

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TROM

2022-09-16 23:57:48


Tio:
The wonderful Roma (a very special TROM-friend) is visiting us.

On top of having a great time together and very interesting discussions, we worked on TROMjaro these days a lot. We will release a new ISO soon that brings something we truly needed: packages for our scripts. We have a bunch of scripts for fixes, and for the layout and theme switcher. Now we won't have to ask the current TROMjaro users to do this or that change, everything will be directly pushed by us. We also fixed a few things and such.

We achieved a wonderful synchronization for theming. Basically now the theme, the icon pack, and the font sync across apps: GTK, GTK+Libadwaita, QT, QT5, QT6, flatpaks that accept theming. So awesome!

But the best part is that we can now improve these packages and push updates automatically to all users. Stay tuned for the release! And thank you Roma for being such a good human. A true human being :). #tromlive


#tromlive

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We are so close to fully finalize the creation of some very much needed packages for TROMjaro. We finished the packages for the TROMjaro Layout and Theme Switcher, and for our script fixes - tho needs to be tested more. Likely these days we will have a full suite of packages that are so needed for TROMjaro. For normal users it means that you do not have to manually update any of the scripts that we do/update/change. ;) - and for us it means easy and fast changes/updates.

This packaging is thanks to @Roma who is visiting me and on top of having a great time together, we also do these things :). Awesome human! 10/10! :)

@Roma

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We found some alternatives to contabo.com where we host our servers. Contabo is a cunt, to put it simply, forcing us recently to remove perfectly legal links and such. By the end of this year or beginning of the next we should start the move from contabo to another hosting. I'd like not to....but I am forced to. One particular provider seems quite good and a bit cheaper, we could expand our disk-space for trom.tf.

I am concerned with how to move it all when it comes to friendica or matrix....their databases are immense.....but will see when the time comes.

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Tio

Sounds great, however I looked at the prices and are quite high. To give you an example we pay some 32 euros a month currently for a 10 core cpu, 2TB of SSD, 1 GB connection and 64GB of RAM. We need a lot of disckspace since we provide a lot of free services via trom.tf. And we use some 30-40GB of RAM usually.

I'd love to use a hosting provider like you, but unfortunately I cannot afford right now... :(

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Here's an extraordinary story of how humans can help each other. No need to pay them. They will. Take care of humans, so we take car of us all. Ok, society?

Why are people still watching movies? Watch these real stories via documentaries if you want to watch something exciting, thrilling, mind-blowing, and so on. And REAL.

trom

2022-09-14 13:30:34


Newly added documentary on VideoNeat.com:

The Rescue: 54 Hours Under the Ground

After a freak accident, experienced caver George Linnane was left with multiple life-threatening injuries within Britain’s deepest cave system. This drama documentary set in the Brecon Beacons tells the story of his remarkable 54-hour-long rescue.

Watch it here:

videoneat.com/documentaries/23…


The Rescue: 54 Hours Under the Ground

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friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

These days I am spending quality time with @Roma and when I have some time I fix our websites for mobile screens. So far I fixed most of them. Should be done in a few days time with the rest. Recently I fixed:

Not perfect, but good.

These days I'll also work with Roma to make a few packages for TROMjaro for our scripts Something I wanted to do for so long. If we do that I will be over the moon happy.

Next week I hope to start the work on TROM II again! #tromlive

#tromlive @Roma

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Someone who wants to join our Friendica instance asked me if ours is blocked by other instances. Well...see folks!? How can I know!? On the fediverse any admin can block any instance without you and me having a clue if, what and when they do so.

I keep on telling you, this practice is ruining the fediverse as a whole. It is almost like burning down forests becasue you found some weeds.

We need a way to know who blocked what. Not only what my instance blocked, but what instances blocked mine.

However the best practice is not blocking instances at the admin level, EXCEPT when an instance is clearly full of spam-bots. Let the users decide for themselves what they want to block. There are many proposed solutions out there as to how we can deal with unwanted content, such as: disable the global timeline, shorter lifespan for remote items (so you don't really host any remote content), blocklists enforced by admins but that can be overwritten by users, or adblock-like lists that any user can easily apply for themselves.

Be smart, federated people! Think long term, not short term.

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Kings and Queens are an insult to humanity. We are all humans. We are all important in our own way. We should work together and see each other as one species. Social classes, queens, bosses, rich people, doctors, celebrities....are all imagination. Human imagination. Some posses some skills (true), and we should focus on that (such as doctors), but it is mostly a sick game of labels in a messed-up society.

Wake up, reality is calling! #tromlive

#tromlive

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I see on my fediverse newsfeed that so many people mention apple and a new iphone release. Is that time of the year (of half a year?), ha!?

Both apple and the people getting sucked into this retardation, are victims of a trade-based society that went berserk. Toasters with touchscreens, that's the society we live in. And humans call them choices and variety. Idiocracy 3.0. Cars with a different paint, chocolates in different shapes. Bless you humans, you are the laughingstock of the universe.

EDIT: If their official presentation ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=FT3ODSg1GF… does not feel like a parody to you, then something is wrong with you.

Introducing iPhone 14 Pro | Apple

iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max coming soon. What lies beyond a traditional smartphone? Let’s find out. This is iPhone 14 Pro. It starts with the Dynamic Island, an interactive place that bubbles up alerts, notifications, and activities.
Invidious

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Tio

There is barely anything "useful" in new releases of phones compared to previous models. Especially if you look at how the vast majority of people use these devices.

Satellite whatever functionality is barely useful for a rare bunch of cases, for a tiny/minuscule amount of people who probably use proper equipment if they are so adventurous, not rely on apple.

I still have my samsung galaxy s7 with that fancy detector for your heartbeat and oxygen levels in your blood. My doctor told me to shove it up my ass because is not useful in any way.

Companies, like any merchant, try to sell new models and add features that are not useful, or very rarely used if ever, just to sell more shit...

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friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Tio

Yeah well the people in the comments may say some negative stuff about this, but the truth is most are flocking to buy it....

About that car crash safety feature...I think they just wanted some BANG for their video promo. Is there any research to show that such a system can save people's lives? If that was the case cars would have have this a long time ago. Like what data does it transmit and to where?? That weakly built iphone would disintegrate into a car crash anyway....gimmick!

In TROM II I made a compilation with such stupid things to show how there is no innovation...just eggs with wigs. Same shit, different paint. And they add these gimmick "features" because they need to sell more of their shit so they have to invent useless features...

Predictable...

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It's stupid but nowadays most companies are not trying to sell useful hardware. The point is to make you feel cool and smart because you belong to an elite community. That'd be ok if the selection was made on your needs or skills mastering but the reality is that you just need money to offer yourself access to these groups. What matters is how you can show your (sometime fake) richness to others while pretending to not doing it.

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A new TROMjaro ISO is out with integration for our trade-free library and videoneat. Access hundreds of trade-free apps and many hundreds of documentaries and courses, as trade-free of course. forum.tromjaro.com/t/tromjaro-…

We wanted to do this for quite some time and now we had the time to do it. And works quite well. Check it out! #tromlive

#tromlive

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So this month I am focused on the software side of TROM. Towards the end I will get back on TROM II tho. And I will struggle to push my focus more and more away from the software to the content. Not that the software world isn't great, but it was never meant to be taking so much of the TROM space. And we've done a lot in that area, and what we have no is working great and we may even add new stuff.

But I truly need to focus on the content, on what TROM really is about! It is great that we have money to stay away from trading for almost a year or so. Ofc idk what we'll do after and any donations will add up to prolonging this time that we have. But I have now all of the resources I need to finish TROM II. And that's relaxing. #tromlive

#tromlive

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Ok I am convinced now, there are tons of peertube accounts made by bots, for the sole purpose of posting comments on random videos with scammy links. I need to go and clean our instance but is damn hard....because i cant look at their comments...so probably I will send an email asking suspicious accounts to contact back and explain why they have an account with our instance....it is damn difficult....

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LUT: Fedora Silverblue 36 (disaster) videos.trom.tf/w/63GF5v7pQZ6PG…

I do not want to give a feeling like I am bashing all distros via this channel, but some are not very good in terms of usability. This one in particular was a disaster...however I am not bashing them just pointing out what they can improve. Watch and judge.

LUT: Fedora Silverblue 36 (disaster)

Fedora Silverblue is a big failure based on my usability tests. So bad that I wonder if I did not make any mistake and this distro is not even meant for desktop use. I hope I did not.
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