So idk why I haven't used the Wordpress Gutenberg editor more. Seems more legit, almost no ads and bs freemiums, tons of blocks....I have used Elementor to build most websites by now....and that is really useful but tons of "freemium" BS everywhere in the backend of WP. Thta's one thing I dislike about our websites that are built on Wordpress but with many trade-based tools...Maybe in the future I should do a massive cleanup and rebuild all websites using only Gutenberg and trade-free plugins. Maybe I should create a demo WP site and play with that....hm....yeah....
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This is a show from a few days ago from the little town I live in:
It used to be this:
So messy.
Great! It seems that the world is starting to replace fireworks shows with drone shows. No more noise pollution, smoke, waste from
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This is a show from a few days ago from the little town I live in:
It used to be this:
So messy.
Great! It seems that the world is starting to replace fireworks shows with drone shows. No more noise pollution, smoke, waste from the burned fireworks, and so forth. Sounds much much better!
Here's a more advanced and cool example:
But I am concerned they will use them to also display some ads, like brands and promote shit...
Oh wait, they already do it!
FUCK.
Above Sydney so that everyone can see them...and loud music....so still noise pollution. What about those batteries and components for these thousands of drones that are used for such shows? Where do they go after not working anymore? Probably land-fields...
Ok ok....I know, nothing can end up well in a trade-based society. Everything gets traded, and thus marketed. Nothing is what it seems. A drone show is not just a drone show, it is an opportunity to advertise. A book is not just a book, it is an opportunity for the author to buy a new car. A piece of software is not just a piece of software, it is a way for the developer/company to collect more data, to then transform that into currency, to then transform that into holidays, houses, and fancy shit and so on for themselves.
This is the most fundamental thing that everyone should understand about our society, that we are forced and incentivized to trade. Very few people can afford to, or are willing to do things for the sake of doing things. And of course this creates a very messed-up society when you do something in order to get something else. We did that in school where the goal was to get good grades to pass the exams. Most kinds would cheat, not learn anything, because the goal was not to learn. And so it goes for our society...the goal is not to write books, do drone shows to protect the nature, create a PDF converter or whatever. Nah....
So we should not be surprised that everything goes to shit. Pollution, waste, bad products, scammy services....
On a positive note, I'm happy they're getting rid of fireworks, I hated the loud noise, the smoke and everything. I've never seen a drone show before, so it'd be nice to see that one day.
But yeah I knew trade would get in the way, #TradeRuinsEverything - this is why we can't have nice things. So does this mean I have to watch ads in the f**king sky now ?! Why is no one talking about this ?
I was watching this video ytb.trom.tf/8eRsbv-rsU8?t=204 and I just saw something that tells us a lot about our society. Click it to see the exact moment. Got it?
I bet @Nick @ The Linux Experiment won't say any "bad" words in his family-friendly videos, but is completely ok to showcase a brutal murder/stabbing in a realistic-game. That's fine. Boobs, genitalia, bad! Even if they are in the same digital game-like format. Killing? No issues.
Mind you I do not blame anyone. I am fine with the naked body, and I am not put off by brutal games. But in our society, somehow, nakedness, sex, and the like are so taboo. Youtube will probably take his video down if that scene would have been a sex scene in a similar game.
I wrote 3 short digital books about this subject if anyone is interested:
This is not about the guy behind the video. He makes very nice Linux videos, although a ton of ads and sponsored content overall :D. Anyway I thought I should mention this because it is both hilarious and shocking. #tromlive
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I get you. But this is more directed to the way society views these. I am glad to hear you do not see any issues with bad words or nudity. I am sure many need to censor these for not having their videos taken down or demonetized.
Its a weird society we live in right ? There are so many such unexplained cultural things in our society, and when you think deeply about such things you understand that there's no real reason for it to be like that except cultural upbringing. I hope that people be more tolerant about these things in the future.
In this video series we will explore TROMjaro in more depth. Today we are looking at how easy it is to customize TROMjaro with just a few clicks. Our Layout and Theme Switcher apps make it quite straight forward. We are also talking about why the theming is broken in Linux and how we kinda fixed it for TROMjaro. #tromlive
Yeah well I don't want to be a youtuber for sure hahah. I can for sure make much better videos, but I do not want to spend too much time on this. I'd rather work on TROM II. Anyway. Can be interesting for others to watch them.
- We've added tasks.trom.tf/ - a complete Trello trade-free alternative. - We've added sketch.trom.tf/- a simple and useful online sketch whiteboard. Draw together with others and share your drawings. - We've added another one scratch.trom.tf/ geared towards learning programming and creating animations. - We moved yt.trom.tf to the original ytb.trom.tf. Do not worry, they are linked so it does not matter which one you use.
As you can see we are adding new trade-free services. Thanks to the people who donate to TROM. Now we have 27 trade-free services that are well maintained. So if you can, please donate to TROM here tromsite.com/donate/ to keep these services alive and relevant, and add more in the future.
We will make some "info" pages for some of these newly added services, soon. Enjoy! #tromlive
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Here's a wonderful documentary! I wish to see more of these. Instead of nonsense Jurassic Park, how about such documentaries that are based on reality? You know...reality is mind-blowing...and it is, well...real! #tromlive
The documentary follows dinosaurs recreated with computer-generated imagery living around the globe in the Late Cretaceous period, 66 million years ago (Maastrichtian). It set out to depict dinosaurs using current palaeontological research such as feathered dinosaurs.
Here's me telling people again why Friendica is awesome:
Connect with pretty much anyone on the Fediverse: Mastodon, Peertube, Pleroma, Lemmy, you name it!
Works with pretty much any Mastodon App since it uses their API.
You can connect your Wordpress with it, and cross post to your blog. I do that regularly. And works great. YOu can also do the other way around: take any "source" you want and tell friendica to repost new posts to your profile.
You can schedule posts too.[[i]]You can follow any website that has an RSS.
You can connect with Twitter and follow people from Twitter and interact with them like you do on Twitter.
You can compose huge posts with inline media + do basic text formatting.
And a lot more, but these are the very cool ones I can remember now. Here's a more in-depth presentation trom.tf/social/ and here you can join our instance social.trom.tf/ . We have custom themes :). That's all! #tromlive
Whenever I'll have some money to buy a new laptop I will never ever buy one in a plastic case. I am tired of gluing it everywhere...I need a metal, durable one. It is a huge waste to make these devices so poorly built because then people throw them away simply because of the casing, not the hardware. My laptop is open 24/7 and I use it at max, so it stays in 1 single place. I almost never close the lid. If I do, I am afraid it will break. It cracks and bends and all that....really shitty quality.
ASUS GL753VD-GC003 - they advertised it as "metal body", but when I got it it was only the top part of the fucking lid hahahaah. I was ok with keeping it since I could not find a cheaper one for those specs.
Yeah...well...you know ads, marketing....these people are not stupid when it comes to selling shit. They are excellent at that. That is, idiots in general, but smart merchants. :D
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Here's a positive documentary. Fixing aging is something I am fascinated with. It is perhaps the biggest problem for any human, since we are all dying...the somewhat positive thing is that some humans are working on fixing aging, and there are some very interesting results. I recommend!
Improved tromnews.com/photos/ and tromnews.com/finteresting/ - hopefully now loads better. I was using rdt.trom.tf for reddit RSS sources but I switched to rss.trom.tf. Seems to work better. TROMnews is such a great tool. News, Videos, Photos, and so on. The best and most interesting of the web. #tromnews
Improved the Contact form on tromsite.com/contact/ - now it is mandatory to select a project because many times we get emails and they are confusing since people go on this page from any other of our projects. We only have 1 contact form for all of our projects so it makes sense to have a way for people to select what project they are contacting us about. #tromlive
So if you work 8h a day, but well you wake up 1h in advance, come home 1h later. 10-11 hours a day with everything else....then wtf life is this? This trade-based society is pure insanity. To force humans to work all of their lives, and for what!? Unless we decouple people from trading for their existence, nothing will change. No bullshit "mandatory X hours max a day". No one can respect that when you are hungry and you will make compromises. Fuck it. Forget about these nonsense ideas. Paperwork.
You wanna give people some sort of power to make choices for themselves? Provide them with their basic needs as TRADE-FREE. Either directly or give them a UBI sort of thing. Else the slave humans cannot say "Uhm...I do not accept you working me 12h a day for 5 Euros an hour!". No one can say that. Only those decoupled from reality and not understanding what poverty and abuse is, think that humans have choices in today's world. They do not.
Well most jobs are either not essential (as proven with COVID lockdowns) - as if it was not obvious before that - or being kept for the reason of employing people (think of how much we can automate still).
In any case, humans should NOT be forced to trade in order to live, in a society of tremendous abundance and waste. This is pure evil.
The TROMsite server is up for now.... together with all of the websites. I still got no answer from Contabo (the hosting provider) about the cause of it....will wait and see.... #tromlive
At times I get annoyed, even angry, because of so many things that I have to manage. I really don't like when there are so many things I have to deal with. Over 30 websites/projects....Something does not work with Jitsi, maybe Friendica doesn't send messages, hey the server's email may not work....fuck Matrix is slow, damn an update broke 10 worpdress websites at once :D ....
Today I have to fix a few of these, and update VN, and more...I want in 2-3 days max, to deal with my TROM todo list, to then focus more on WebApe. Then at the end of this month I need to plan ahead about TROM II. This also pisses me off so much....I worked like crazy for TROM II and had to interrupt it...I WANT to get back to it. #tromlive
Watch it trade-free at: https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/22857/fast-fashion/ Fast fashion has radically transformed the textile industry. These days, 56 million tons of clothing are sold every year.
The way I make my Friendica profile be more relevant: I choose to let anyone follow me by default (why not), but I only follow whoever I want. Before I only accepted friend requests. If I approved they could follow me and I could follow them. But then I ended up accepting them all and my feed was full of things I was not interested in. So yeah, anyone can follow me, but I am gonna follow manually whoever I find interesting. Choices! :)
Anyone can follow me here without me having to manually accept their requests, I think that's how mastodon is by default. Now I try not to follow too many people because its difficult for me to keep up with my timeline, I miss a lot of posts. So I've made some lists in mastodon to categorize accounts into different types of interests like FOSS, privacy, science, photography, etc. This feature makes it easier to browse through these posts, on Friendica they call it groups instead of lists.
We are trying to move our Invidious instance from ytb.trom.tf to yt.trom.tf - from YTB to YT basically. @Alexio hosted YTB for many months now because of a failure to run smoothly on our trom.tf server. So we are testing it once again and probably keep it on the trom.tf server. Test it if you want. #tromlive
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in reply to Tio • • •On a positive note, I'm happy they're getting rid of fireworks, I hated the loud noise, the smoke and everything. I've never seen a drone show before, so it'd be nice to see that one day.
But yeah I knew trade would get in the way, #TradeRuinsEverything - this is why we can't have nice things. So does this mean I have to watch ads in the f**king sky now ?! Why is no one talking about this ?
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