Rarely some app does not work for some reason. I try to debug it and report to the devs, but installing the flatpak version of the app almost always fixes any such issues....just saying...luckily in TROMjaro you have access to flatpaks by default, alongside repos and aur.
Now I am getting too many "friends" on Friendica. I will have to ignore a lot of them as much as I can, else the newsfeed becomes a mess. But it is good to know there are so many people in this fediverse.
I think the worst by far are the accounts that post in more than 1 language. It becomes a mess. With the Friendica's language filter this can be more manageable. A translator could also be helpful.
Apparently today was my birthday. I have become 34 years old. Sounds old to me, but also uninteresting.The only time I still enjoyed celebrating my birthday was when I was 14. 20-bloody-years-ago. But after that I hated it. I don't like to be put in the center of attention, especially for such a shallow thing. Then, why should I celebrate the fact that I get older?!
This is me when I was 14. Waiting for my friends to come for my birthday. Lots of them came..
They gave me many perfume bottles... It was fashionable in 2002.
Anyway. My parents still force me to semi-celebrate it because they buy me a cake and such. It is fine. I am ok with this. But I really hate these events overall. Weddings, birthdays, baby showers, new year, I hate them. I think it is because they are mainly a mindless and consumerist events. Why drag these into today's world? Why don't we celebrate the fir
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Apparently today was my birthday. I have become 34 years old. Sounds old to me, but also uninteresting.The only time I still enjoyed celebrating my birthday was when I was 14. 20-bloody-years-ago. But after that I hated it. I don't like to be put in the center of attention, especially for such a shallow thing. Then, why should I celebrate the fact that I get older?!
This is me when I was 14. Waiting for my friends to come for my birthday. Lots of them came..
They gave me many perfume bottles... It was fashionable in 2002.
Anyway. My parents still force me to semi-celebrate it because they buy me a cake and such. It is fine. I am ok with this. But I really hate these events overall. Weddings, birthdays, baby showers, new year, I hate them. I think it is because they are mainly a mindless and consumerist events. Why drag these into today's world? Why don't we celebrate the first time we discovered exoplanets? Neutrinos? The theory of evolution? These are the events we should celebrate every year.
In any case, I wanted to share some things about me that I think are mighty weird for today's normality, now that I am saying I do not like celebrating my birthday nor do I care about that.
So. Here are some facts about me:
I do not celebrate anything. I do not care. But I like to have fun of course. I was/am usually the one having more fun than the rest.
I do not "go out". I've been to bar/restaurants maybe 100 times in my entire life. I hate these places. Expensive, shallow, fake, annoying. I do not care about them. I love "going out" tho, in nature, for a walk, with the bike, for a swim, at the beach, mountain, etc..
I do not drink alcohol. I never did. I tried it tho. I do not like the taste or the side-effects. Actually I only drink water for the past 4 or so years because of my stomach issues.
I never did any drugs. But I am ok with trying some in the future. But just trying.
I rarely listen to music and I do not like a particular genre, tho I sometimes prefer to listen to "soundtracks" from documentaries or movies. Hans Zimmer and the like.
I do not watch movies. None. I cannot. I used to be a movie addict but then I discovered "reality". Tho I watch tons of documentaries that are a lot more fun and interesting, and real, than movies.
I do not pay for any subscription to anything. No Netflix, Spotify, no anything like that. Except paying for the servers we have for TROM.
I do not use Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, Tiktok or anything of the sort. And youtube I watch through Invidious. I use Friendica and Peertube tho.
I rarely if ever use my phone. My phone is a 2015 Samsung S7 and I see no reason to change it. It was my 2nd smartphone ever. I use it to check the weather and pay with it. That's all. Well and for Signal to talk to my parents. Else is like a credit card with a watch and a weather app. A thick one.
I do not have a driving license.
I rarely if ever had a girlfriend. Thanks to @Sasha now I have a great one haha. I never felt the need. I was always happy with being alone. Even now, being alone is fine for me. I never mind that. I am never in need of having people around me really....
Speaking of that I do not like meeting people that much. I prefer avoiding that. Except when it is for TROM-friends :P. I also do not like small talk, and I am not interested in people's stories...
I only lived in 2 places. I never traveled. And I am fine with that. You think the world, not feel the world anyway. However Sasha will probably take me out there in the nature world because I'd be curious to see some stuff.
I only eat a few types of food because of my stomach.... Chicken, eggs, potatoes, tomatoes and bread. That's mostly it. I eat at least 2 eggs a day. I feel like I am 24% chicken by now. I used to eat lots of different foods...but my stomach can't handle most.
I never ever had any job. But I worked a lot for TROM and similar projects.
I do not have any vices, except maybe that I buy some specific sweet things for like 2 euros every other day.
Video Games. I do not play them. At all. I used to when I was in school. I see no point now. Waste of time. I do like to play some "offline" games tho. Involving balls :) and rackets and such.
Although I am from Romania and know Romanian, I really don't like talking Romanian. It has become more difficult for me to express myself in that language. I feel like English is my main language now.
I hate scheduling things. I never do that. I hate calendars for that reason. My perfect day is to wake up and have no plans. And then I'll do stuff. Because I do not lack ideas or motivation.
Ok I will add this to my Tinder profile. In the weirdos category.
But well, I like my life. I am really happy as long as I have enough money to support a basic life for myself and Sasha. Actually money is my only problem. If I had 1k Euros guaranteed a month for the rest of my life, I'd be the happiest and most engaged human out there :). Because I do not need much. I don't want any new gadgets, go to any fucking paris-nonsense-thing, expensive shit, and such. The natural world is an amazing place to think about and admire. And the projects I am doing are my babies. I love them.
I know people who have plenty of money but have no clue what to do with themselves. That is scary to me. I am happy that at least I am not like that at all. I know what I want to do. I do not get bored or confused. So yeah....trying to make some money now to support my trade-free work and my very basic lifestyle.
Phones, clothes, houses, cars, online fame....are a scam. Happiness is a state, not an object. Chase the state, not the object(s).
As for celebrations....whatever....if you like them I am not there protesting against you. And I can be part of some, is fine but not that comfy for me. But I would not be the one initiating them. I wish humans would become a saner and smarter species and celebrations would have some bloody meaning, more than let's buy more shit, or let's celebrate someone's "name", or any crappy idea.
Me and a lot of people I know lost our interest for birthday celebrations after reaching a certain age, its not weird at all. At home sometimes if we feel like it we might buy a cake on birthday, but we won't invite anyone and there won't really be any other celebrations. Also I had a high school teacher who used to say that he doesn't understand the point of celebrating birthdays because it just means we're getting one year closer to death, lol. @bigworldsmallsasha
> Phones, clothes, houses, cars, online fame....are a scam. Happiness is a state, not an object. Chase the state, not the object(s).
I think a lot of people would find this helpful. Try to figure out what brings you to the state of happiness, it could be simple things like listening to your favourite song, going for a walk, learning about something that interests you, spending time with your loved ones, etc. And it'll be different for everyone. @bigworldsmallsasha
Look at peak retardation ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=9Puu3IlhtZ… - humans playing some retarded silly games on their phones, to earn some cryptocurrency, to then be able to buy some real stuff. This is real!
This is what happens when humans really believe that we have to always trade....there is no other way of distributing the amounts of waste or the abundance of shit we have produced...NAH. Better make humans do any fucking silly thing, to engage in trading, so that they can make it in this world.
Tellin' you again: trade is the origin of most problems. It is a religion. #tromlive
VICE News' Krishna Andavolu travels to the Philippines to learn more about the play-to-earn gaming phenomenon that has taken the country by storm, which critics say is potentially exploitative.
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
So, we got to know and learned about the amazing open-source and sharing/gift-economy approach that comes with so many advantages. However, we will learn tha...
So the next TROMjaro ISO will ship with some new cool things like a Theme Switcher, a simple app to send files without limits via p2p to anyone, an app to control other desktops from your own (like teamviewer but trade-free), a calendar with to-dos and alarms and events and such.....part of XFCE....and a few improvements.
These days I will have some time for TROM and its baby projects. #tromlive
TROMjaro's new Theme Switcher - dark/light + 10 color schemes for each. Besides it is our Layout Switcher. @Rokosun is the one helping with the technical side of this. So far from our tests it works great. A few inconsistencies here and there but overall it is awesome! #tromlive
You will be able to click any color combination from the list and change your theme based on the color accent and dark/light mode. And unlike Pop OS, Deepin, Ubuntu, Gnome and the like, our Theme Switch changes the theme for some 90% of all apps out there, compared to some 10-20% for these other distros.
!Friendica Admins I recently updated to the latest Friendica stable see social.trom.tf/friendica and I see this "database version is 1452/1452, the post update version is 1452/1427". Why is the post update version 1452/1427? Is this normal?
I upgraded Friendica to the latest stable release. And will try to keep it on this stable release. Hopefully @YunoHost will follow suite and update their package that is more than a half a year behind the stable release. I hope all will work well.... #tromlive
#PeerTube v4.2 is out! 😍😍😍 ▪ editing videos from the web interface ▪ detailed viewers stats for videos ▪ ability to adjust latency during a live broadcast ▪ saving each permanent/recurring live streaming session as a replay on a new url ▪ edit video subtitles directly from the web interface Discover improvements and new features of this latest version on joinpeertube.org/news#release-…
I hope Peertube will allow us, the admins, to stop people from uploading 2k or 4k videos, also at 60fps...like...this is overkill. Unless you have a 4k screen and have filmed with a proper, thousands of euros camera, there is no difference between that and a full HD video, especially when it gets super compressed on any hosting platform. It is unreasonable to have a 3 minute video be 1GB in size. It is insanity. Especially for free Peertube instances hosted through donations....
I will open a Peertube request for that if there isn't any....
So shouldn't all Wordpress plugins also be open source (GPL) and make their source code available for public viewing? How come companies sell premium wordpress plugins when they build upon Open Source software? I've read a lot about it but I am still confused.....
Aren't the plugins made of separate files that are run by WP? If yes, then they most probably don't include any of WP source code, so I guess the plugins themselves don't need to be GPL'ed, right?
I do not think so. Isn't it basically like saying that any .gitignore file should be GPL'ed because one needs git to run it and git is under GPL? Or any bash script because bash is under GPL?
Thank you Guillaume for the 250 Euros donation! This is fantastic! It may add up a bit to speeding up the TROM II documentary work comeback. If we had enough money we would resume the work on the documentary. And we wok on achieving that. Thank you to everyone who still donates via Patreon or Liberapay. You can do so here https://www.tromsite.com/donate/ #tromlive
This post is getting shared like crazy for the past hours....that's great! Would be awesome to get some projects through it. I already almost completed 3. 15 or so more left :). After that no more. I am 1 human I can't do a proper job if I take more than 20 or so. Anyway, thank you all for sharing it!
We also have trom.tf/ where we provide trade-free services such as Friendica, Nextcloud, Jitsi, Peertube, and more.
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This post is getting shared like crazy for the past hours....that's great! Would be awesome to get some projects through it. I already almost completed 3. 15 or so more left :). After that no more. I am 1 human I can't do a proper job if I take more than 20 or so. Anyway, thank you all for sharing it!
We also have trom.tf/ where we provide trade-free services such as Friendica, Nextcloud, Jitsi, Peertube, and more.
I am releasing a new project to, hopefully, make some money so that I can support our TROM project and myself. This is it -->> webape.site/
So. I provide managed instances for Mastodon, Peertube, Nextcloud, Friendica, and a few other services. On top of this I am making any kind of website in Wordpress. This is my "skill" and so I will try to make some money like this. I have to, I have no choice.
But listen.
I am not making a "business" out of this. I want to do a decent job at it, so I will only take 20-30 projects. Enough to sustain myself and have the time to focus on TROM, plus be able to properly manage these paid-for websites.
I tried to provide really cheap and very "tempting" offers, if anyone is interested, since I will only post once about this on my profile, the rest go on the Federated profile of the project -->> social.trom.tf/profile/webape
Here is what I offer:
Mastodon:
Peertube:
Nextcloud:
Wordpress:
I can setup huge instances up to 25TB of diskspace. And provide support over email or chat (Matrix).
If you think anyone may be interested, give it a share.
We are getting close to 600 registered users for our Friendica instance. Nice. I hope people are using it, not just register and forget about it. I for one use it daily. It is awesome.
These weeks I worked a lot on 3 projects for WebApe, 2 websites for educational institutions and transferring a nextcloud account of some 3.000 users to the WebApe servers, again from an educational institution. In a week or so I should be less busy with this since I will finish the 3rd one. But ofc I will manage, update, add new features to all of them in time. After that I need to hunt for more websites to make. Let's see...
This month I will release at least one new TROMjaro ISO with some new apps additions; I will upgrade Friendica to the latest and add new documentaries to VideoNeat; plus I plan to make a new TROMcast about "jobs". It is possible that this month @YunoHost will push the big update we are all waiting for, moving to Debian 11....this is scary to me because I have s
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We are getting close to 600 registered users for our Friendica instance. Nice. I hope people are using it, not just register and forget about it. I for one use it daily. It is awesome.
These weeks I worked a lot on 3 projects for WebApe, 2 websites for educational institutions and transferring a nextcloud account of some 3.000 users to the WebApe servers, again from an educational institution. In a week or so I should be less busy with this since I will finish the 3rd one. But ofc I will manage, update, add new features to all of them in time. After that I need to hunt for more websites to make. Let's see...
This month I will release at least one new TROMjaro ISO with some new apps additions; I will upgrade Friendica to the latest and add new documentaries to VideoNeat; plus I plan to make a new TROMcast about "jobs". It is possible that this month @YunoHost will push the big update we are all waiting for, moving to Debian 11....this is scary to me because I have so many servers running YNH and so many apps...will see how it goes....will take it slowly...make snapshots, I have backups...lets see...
I am happy we now have 947.87 GiB free for TROM.tf. Contabo.com is still a very cheap hosting solution.
We have expanded the storage space for our trom.tf server by 400 more GB of SSD. This means that we now have some 800+ free GB of the server. That's great. Should be fine for this year at least. Thank you to everyone who still donates to TROM. #tromlive
This is the list of the apps I use the most on my Linux machine.
1. Firefox.
I have multiple windows, each with multiple tabs, on different workspaces...This is what you'll see on my computer if you were to look at it, a Firefox window or two. Inception:
I have it heavily customized and I won't tell you how but it is quite the same as we have it default in TROMjaro. So if you are curious install TROMjaro :D.
I tried many browsers but Firefox is still my favorite as long as I keep it tweaked as I do. I see no ads, I use Libredirect to not even visit the popular websites like youtube, twitter and the like. I therefore use trade-free instances of those. Anyway, Librewolf seems to be a candidate for me in the future, but for now I'll stick to Firefox.
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This is the list of the apps I use the most on my Linux machine.
1. Firefox.
I have multiple windows, each with multiple tabs, on different workspaces...This is what you'll see on my computer if you were to look at it, a Firefox window or two. Inception:
I have it heavily customized and I won't tell you how but it is quite the same as we have it default in TROMjaro. So if you are curious install TROMjaro :D.
I tried many browsers but Firefox is still my favorite as long as I keep it tweaked as I do. I see no ads, I use Libredirect to not even visit the popular websites like youtube, twitter and the like. I therefore use trade-free instances of those. Anyway, Librewolf seems to be a candidate for me in the future, but for now I'll stick to Firefox.
I tried so many notes apps, but I need one that can sort my notes in folders and sub-folders that are easily accessible. Plus support basic text formatting/lists + code. Zettlr supports Markdown and a WSYIWYG editor for it so all looks neat.
The fact that I can add the type of code, is useful because it automatically uses the proper colors for it, making it easy to understand it. Since it saves everything as individual markdown documents then it is easy to backup and move to another Notes app if needed.
Because it is so easy to use, and is p2p. So no limitation in terms of how much you can share and with whom. I share files with my friends like this, and it is so fast. The only difficult part is setting up the Send and Receive folders between you and your friends, mostly because you may get confused by that. The way I do it is to create a Sync folder. There I make another with the name of the friend: Sasha. And then inside this 2 more: Send and Receive. I share them both with Sasha and the Receive is set as "receive only", the other one as "send only". DONE. Now copy the files into the Sasha-Send when you share with her, and look in Sasha-Receive when you get files from her. Easy and reliable.
I screenshot a lot. To showcase bugs with the software, or for posts like this, and so on. I cannot find anything close to Flameshot. Press one keyboard key then drag the area you want to screenshot.
And you also have access to quick tools for blurring parts of the image, add arrows, and more. Then CTRL + S to save or CTRL + C to copy it. Done! Cannot live without this app.
If you customize it a bit can look sleek. I absolutely love and need the "open in new tab" feature because many times I want emails to be stored in tabs so I can reply later. I cannot do email without this feature.
1 file with all of my passwords. Encrypted with a master password. Stored locally. Perfect. KeePassXC simply works...stores all of my passwords.
If I lose this file I do not know any passwords. But is fine I have it backed-up in multiple locations. The integration with Firefox is decent and at times fails. So is not ideal when you want to save new passwords when you register on some websites....but is fine....
I have a mouse with 18 buttons. I use them all. But I also use global mouse gestures and it makes things so much easier. People who do not use this, have no idea what they are missing :D.
The default SMPlayer looks like crap. But installing some skins and tweaking it a bit and looks like this:
Everything I throw at it, it plays. You can tweak the seekbar as you want (easily), and setup it any way you want. Has hardware acceleration, and a ton of features. I have been using it for so many years and I tried so many other video players. For me nothing beats SMPlayer.
Out of all image optimization tools nothing beats Imagine. Not very well known but damn good. Easy to use and reduces the size of photos while keeping the quality. The best of any I have tested, by a lot!
The other notable mentions are: Blanket because I need some background sounds when I sleep... :D, Element + Signal as my chats; I use Gnome Boxes to test TROMjaro or other distros, and Meld to check between versions of files; I use Shotwell for my photo albums, Inkscape and Krita for image editing, and Kdenlive for video editing. Lastly, Private Internet Access is my default VPN, Vorta + Timeshift is the way I backup my files, and Peek helps me video record my desktop when I need to make a short video.
That's it! :) If you want, tell me what are your top apps that you use. I'd be curious to try them out.
I used to use Opera when I was on Windows but I since forgot about it...is Opera open source?
As for emailing I truly need a graphical interface I simply cannot function in the terminal and VIM confuses me a lot :D . I know that there are superhumans like you, @Rokosun is one of them too, who can deal with such "let's not use the mouse and click" sort of things :P. It is great that there are options for everyone.
Yes I saw that. I am aware not to blur anything that if unblurred can be a disaster for me. So even if all of the above photos from the post get unblurred is fine. Thanks for the headsup tho.
One thing about the fediverse is that there are many people who post in at least 2 languages. So my newsfeed is flooded with gibberish I can't understand, making me less motivated to use that. I can ignore these people but I'd rather not. It is also that Friendica's Language filter does not work anymore for me. So if that's fixed then it is better, although you still see collapsed posts. Maybe would be nice to have a way to remove them entirely.
In any case it is a very odd situation to see so many people posting in both english and their main language. Usually it is English + German or English + Spanish.
Yup that's great! Friendica also has a filter for the language but it stopped working that's why I suddenly felt flooded by posts in languages I do not understand :D.
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I think a lot of people would find this helpful. Try to figure out what brings you to the state of happiness, it could be simple things like listening to your favourite song, going for a walk, learning about something that interests you, spending time with your loved ones, etc. And it'll be different for everyone.
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