We have created a page where we list all of the abuse that happens against TROM.tf, when we are forced to remove certain services or pages. Please check it here - https://trom.tf/take-downs/ #tromlive
Awesome Kdenlive release kdenlive.org/en/2022/08/kdenli… - added support for animations and such. Really awesome project! #tromlive
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Made another video for LUT: Manjaro Plasma 21 (meh) videos.trom.tf/w/6E6nUsD24xjP2…
Testing Manjaro Plasma was a mess...quite inconsistent and difficult to test overall. Better than Ubuntu tho. Plasma wants to do a lot, but by doing so it messes things up. This video may seem all over the place, I am sorry, but it was because of the nature of this distro.
The hosting company:
The complaint seems to be solved; thus, we have closed this case and no further steps are requested from your side at the moment. If we should receive further complaints about your used services, we will contact you again.
The good news is that for now our server is ok. The bad news is that we can be bullied into removing links, even if it is illegal and unfair. And our complaints are not heard by the Contabo company.
I will voice more about this later on, or the days. We will make a page on trom.tf where we showcase all of such requests and our dispute with them. Our fight with this insane world. Changing the hosting provider won't work, since pretty much all will bend like that.
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How we theme TROMjaro - forum.tromjaro.com/t/how-we-th…
I finally made this article! Detailing how we do it.
How we theme TROMjaro
Pretty much all distributions that I personally tested, and I tested a lot of them, fail to properly apply a system theme for most applications. Actually I know no one that does a great job.TROMjaro Forum
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I hope you release the new code soon, this code looks a bit ugly for my OCD, lol 😁
But it works, so its fine I guess 
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"DaVinci Resolve 18: The Best Free Video Editor" - ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=XyzO2MTKwY…
That's the title of the video. MMMnot! It is not free. You have to trade your currency to unlock features. This is "freemium". Not free. You get a sample of the software so that they make you buy the full version. Classic marketing scheme.
The word "free" used again to mean very little if anything.
Just a scam.
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I use it at work every day, there is really nothing coming even close available on Linux. And I really tried to make alternatives work. Yes, it’s freemium by design – but if the standard version is sufficient and standalone, then just the fact that there is a pro version doesn‘t make the free version any less free of charge. In my opinion. It‘s not that there are any „buy me now“ ads or anything like that.
So the strategy is clear, it is a lesser product to make you buy the full one. It is what it is, let's admit it. Freemium. So they should call it as such.
In terms of them pushing the PRO version on you, I only tested it a bit, but from what I know you are very limited in the "free" version in terms of what files you can import or what types you can export into, or resolutions. Also effects, transitions and such are mostly for the pro version.
I work on a 6h documentary in Kdenlive for the past 2 years. It is amazingly great. You can do a lot in it. Maybe Davinci is better in some regards, but if you can give me some examples I'd be curious to know....
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A reminder for future self: go out from time to time! :D - many times I find myself trapped into the computer world, swimming in tromjaro, trom.tf, trom 2, discussions, etc.. And then I wonder why I get a bit angry and uncomfortable at times. The beach is 5 min away. Go fuckin swim there! :)) Makes a big difference. So for all of you who are like me and are sucked-into the computer world, go in nature from time to time. It helps your mind. And leave the phone at home. :) - May feel uncomfortable to unglue from that screen, but do it! ;)
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We just released a new TROMjaro ISO forum.tromjaro.com/t/tromjaro-… #tromlive
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Here's an update about Libadwaita and how Gnome still tries to convince everyone that what they do is ok because theming is broken - theevilskeleton.gitlab.io/2022… read the "Custom Themes in Qt Also Have Issues".
Now here is how we fixed that on TROMjaro - forum.tromjaro.com/t/libadwait…
As you can see, all good. Everything looks great on TROMjaro. I do not know any distro that is able to handle theming as well as we do. Not to brag about, because this is not a competition. But we struggle to make this work. I will make an article today all about how we do it.
Basically here's how KWrite (a KDE text editor) looks on KDE that has QT5CT enabled:
This is on Mate Cinnamon:
And here on TROMjaro:
But read the article update from the forum to get more context.
@TheEvilSkeleton :silverblue: 's examples from this article theevilskeleton.gitlab.io/2022… are easy to fix. The issue is with the ones who create the distros for not providing proper theming support. How come we can theme pretty much all apps, perfectly, at TROMjaro? See forum.tromjaro.com/t/no-we-can… a response to your article.
If a small distro like TROMjaro can fix the theming then any distro could do the same. I'll be waiting for that article you're gonna write, users can follow along and fix theming for themselves, but this really should be fixed by the distro developers so that users don't have to worry about these things.
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Is TROM II holding me back!? Feels like that from time to time over the last 2 years or so. Although there should be no rush and I should enjoy life more. I'd love to get back at writing books...writing books is a lot more direct and fast and saner. Video editing looks a lot more cool and interesting after it is done, but conveys a lot less info than a book - meaning I could write a huge book in about a year, but would take me several years to make a documentary that conveys a lot less info than that book.
Anyway...
In other news tomorrow I plan to release a new TROMjaro with a fix for KDE apps in terms of theming - we are making our Theme Switcher even more "complete" + A new music player. I'll explain it all in the release notes and I will poke even more at libadwaita. :D
Hey people, I am starting a new Peertube channel (yeah, exclusively on Peertube) called: Linux Usability Test, or LUT. I test Linux distributions in a more objective way and give them a score. I look at file support, theme support, apps support and settings support.
Here is the first video - > videos.trom.tf/w/rVbS33bfaDRxy…
You can subscribe to my channel here videos.trom.tf/c/lut/videos or follow via lut@videos.trom.tf
Please share if you think it is relevant. I have more videos that I've done and I will publish soon!
LUT: Ubuntu 22.04 (bad)
Linux Usability Test Today we test Ubuntu 22.04 to see how usable it is. And it seems not very...videos.trom.tf
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Those are not really objective measurements though. You give 40 points out of 120 to supporting flatpaks and appimages, 20 to support 4 (randomly chosen?) rare apps; that's already half of the points.
The settings you chose to highlight are also very much based on your personal experience.
Gestures are more important than keyboard shortcuts? Theming is much more important than window management?
I don't think there can be such objective measurements though, everyone has their own favourite workflows.
So it is OK to use your favorite measurements of an OS's functionality, just don't call that objective :)
If you look at most other linux reviewers then they don't even have a scoring system like this, and its objective because these are things we can test on the OS itself, like checking to see if it can open a file for example. So overall I think this is a more objective way of testing distros than how most other reviewers I've seen do it.
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Yes. But it is far too cluttered and too many options for what we need at TROMjaro. We have it in our library tho tromjaro.com/cantata/
Matrix finally works! It was indeed postgres (database) that took a while to fully update. Now all seems fine. Thanks @YunoHost !
The big trom.tf update seems to be fully done now. All of our services seem to work well. If you find any errors or anything "suspicious" let us know. Thank you Yunohost and thank you Debian! #tromlive
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So all of our TROM.tf services seem to work now, except our Matrix server...no chats folks...I suspect the database is still migrating from PostgreSQL 11 to 13 but it is a super slow progress. Our Matrix database is 77GB in fucking size...I've heard Matrix will push some updates this year that will speed up matrix in some regards by almost a thousand times. Which is crazy...can't bloody wait!
So for now we have to wait and see. I asked for help already but it is too late and developers sleep at this time :D .
Stay calm and try to fix things :) #tromlive
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Sure but it provides video/audio calls, audio notes, markdown support with easy to use buttons for it (we use it a lot for code sharing), big file sharing capabilities, spaces, threads, reactions, and the userbase....i mean it is what i use to keep in touch with many open source projects....
They said Matrix will be improved hundreds of times by the end of this year so let's see...
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The YNH upgrade is not going so smooth for trom.tf. I was expecting that. Matrix, Searx, Invidious and a few more services are not working anymore. Trying to fix them. Other services need some tweaks to properly work...may take me hours to fix everything. But I am prepared. I will feed myself just in case :) #tromlive
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Sustainable business is like dry water. Never going to happen. There is no sustainability when you always have to sell sell sell. Or trade trade trade.
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I agree. And for now I chose the least possible bad business, which is a business that tries to help our environment by using money they get through trade to replant spekbooms and other stuff.
But I'd love to be able to not work for a company because I need the money.
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Surprisingly we were able to upgrade to the latest Debian and YNH, a big update, all of our TROMsite websites in less than an hour. No error, everything smooth. Yunohost is not a company but a project supported through donations. And they do a fabulous job! The real test is the trom.tf server with over 20 services....we may update it tomorrow! We will let you know. #tromlive
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in reply to Tio • • •it's amazing how a motivated team that are passionate about a project can be so much more efficient than a commercial project. How many people, for example, do you think work on an adobe application?
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