This may be overwhelming but take it easy. Step by step. Get used to it. You'll see the benefits for sure!
You see, people think that we should dream about a Resource Based Economy, follow TVP or the like. Let's build a new society, a city, a community...
Ok, go about doing those, although they seem quite unachievable. Society doesn't change like that, it evolves, and emerges. We have to focus on what the problem is, not what the solution is, because solutions follow problems. And they are multiple.
In any case, if we do not take care of people's brains then we go nowhere. If most people spend their time on facebook, twitter, youtube, netflix, and the like, consuming like consumers, trading their attention and overall brain for nonsense content, then we cannot build anything. We cannot even start a discussion about creating a different society.
So here's where TROM comes in and helps. Since the human brains are mostly exposed to the online world, we are building a different online world for these brains.
Listen! Here's how you can take care of your brain and your friends' brain.
1. Start with your device. If you use a mobile phone then we can't help you for now, but maybe in the near future. For now you can replace your computer operating system with TROMjaro. https://www.tromjaro.com/ . This operating system is fast, easy to use, customizable, stable, and removes all of the bullshit. No more ads, trackers, no more trades. It comes with a plethora of useful tools and features out of the box. It is the basis of your digital world, the foundation.
Use our library of trade-free apps if you are searching for a particular app tromjaro.com/apps/. Click install. That's all!
2. Read our books. They are well sourced and a direct attack to and a dissection of this society. tromsite.com/books/ . Click and read. You can also download them in PDF.
3. Watch our videos. We put a ton of effort into these and are on the same par with our books. tromsite.com/videos/ . Click any and play.
4. Stay informed with sane news. tromnews.com/ - we put a lot of effort into this one to bring you nonstop news from all around the world. No political bullshit. There are several sections there so you can also watch a ton of curated educational videos, amazing photos of our world, and more. Use TROMnews as your daily brain food.
5. Give up movies and switch to documentaries. If you think this is irrelevant, stupid, or boring, then you do not understand how important it is to fill your brain with real and awesome information. Documentaries are not boring if you watch the right ones. Reality is unbelievable. And important. Via videoneat.com/ we make thousands of such materials available as trade-free. We have documentaries and courses. Give them a try. We hand curate them.
We even have a Smart TV that takes these materials and streams them nonstop. See videoneat.com/tv/
6. Give up these ad-platforms that call themselves as "social networks" like facebook, twitter, youtube, and the like. If you want to create posts and share with friends, keep in touch with them and all that, use our social platform social.trom.tf/ . No ads no bullshit. You are in control. Learn more about it here trom.tf/social/. And if you want to upload your science/technology/activism videos use our video platform videos.trom.tf/ . Again, no ads no bullshit. No trades. The more you spend your time on those ad-networks, the more mush your brain becomes, thirsty for consumerism, lacking awareness, not understanding what is happening in the world, and wanting more nonsense content. Don't let that happen! This move can seem hard, but do it! Else you'll become like the rest.
7. Give up the basic internet tools you are using that are consuming yourself. Slack, Google services, search engines, etc. See our trom.tf/ where we have a ton of such alternatives that work great. Also see our Trade-Free Directory directory.trade-free.org/ where you can search for more such tools. From messengers to search engines, you name it!
You TZM, TVP, and the like people, use the TROM decentralized chat chat.trom.tf/ instead of the BS Discord, use our Files files.trom.tf/ for your documents and collaborations, use our Send to send files send.trom.tf/, and so forth. We built these tools for you and everyone else.
Ok.
We do a massive amount of work to create a different world for the brain. One that's realistic, honest, smart, sharp, alert, and one that can see the world for its amazingness, and the society for its awfulness.
If you do not get why this is important, then you don't get it. We run this entire alternative digital universe with some 200 Euros a month...so if you can help us keep it, please also consider a donation - tromsite.com/donate/
I am stuck I can't work on TROM II because Kdenlive refuses to open my project. Waited for more than 10 hours...I will wait more. The Kdenlive team said they improved that and the way to test is to open my massive project with their latest appimage nightly build, then save the project and open again. But 10h in and still doesn't open...I will wait until tomorrow...what can I do!? #tromlive
yeah but they kinda discovered a bug and they are trying to fix it now. They sent me some fixes that make it open in 1-3 minutes now. But I am waiting for some proper fixes.
Trying manyver.se - a neat scuttlebutt client! This is the proper way to go when it comes to connecting people. No servers, peer to peer. Still kinda experimental but that's one social network I am comfortable using 100%. It is me in control all the time. It is the next evolution form the Fediverse. Maybe they could even make the two communicate idk :D. Also, so awesome that in TROMjaro all I have to do to install is search for it in Add/Remove software. And that's how I also get updates...so easy. And people think Linux is difficult or you have to use the terminal. mnot...
@Alexio made an open "pub" so you can get in touch with us. Basically for us to connect to this network you have to either have someone's contact or join a "pub". Here it is trom.club/
A new TROMjaro ISO is out forum.tromjaro.com/t/tromjaro-… - and we've added back the Classic layout in a smart way. Anyone can switch between them with a click. Thanks to @Future is FOSS for helping out with this. We may improve it in time, but so far so good. #tromlive
A new TROMjaro ISO is out. I still hope to reach more stability in terms of releases. Meaning, to release less often and with less changes. But all of what we do is improvement and making TROMjaro better.
Added to display the title of the playing video for our Smart TV videoneat.com/tv/ + time-stamp and a progress bar. So that you know what documentary is streaming and how far in the documentary it is streaming. Super cool. Maybe we can improve the way the titles are displayed but for now I think this VideoNeat TV is a really great idea! Thanks to @Alexio who inspired this idea! #tromlive
I remember the times when it was a cool idea to rent your computer's power to help the world solve some problems... techradar.com/news/forget-cryp…
But now the idiots are mining a currency with these computers. How telling of our trade-based society. Instead of doing something real and useful in this world, we are tricked by the currency which should, in theory, bring us the valuable things. But it does not. Humans chase the spear that allowed them to hunt and thrive, and collect spears now but don't do anything useful with them. We have more than enough food and stuff to provide for us all. No need for spears or currencies.
A trade-free video hosting platform for science/technology/nature videos in the English language. You do not have to trade your currency, data, attention, freedom or anything else, in order to use it.
We are releasing a new experimental feature for VideoNeat.com - The True Smart TV https://www.videoneat.com/tv/ - Designed to make people smart, not to collect their data or steal their attention.
All of the VideoNeat library condensed into a single thing. Enjoy growing a human mind, so we can prosper as a human species and move beyond this primitive trade-based society.
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Here's the TROMjaro layout toggle we re working on:
Basically you'll be able to switch between the TROMjaro Modern with global menus and looking more like Unity, to TROMjaro Classic - without global menus and looking more like Windows.
With just one click. We can, in time, make several such layouts based on the same principle. We can even make it so that with one single click you transform your desktop into MacOS with themes and icons and all that. Not sure if it is worth it, but just saying that we can....
We work on some new cool things for TROMjaro like bringing back the Modern and Classic layouts and a way to switch between them in seconds. I really like TROMjaro and XFCE is really great. So customizable and yet not overwhelming. I took some break from TROM II these days but will get back to it very soon. #tromlive
It is an upside battle to grow a project like TROM. Back in 2011 I thought I'll make that massive documentary and I'm done. I'll forget about this retarded society. 10 years later and many hours of videos and thousands of pages of books + a ton of projects + and so many discussions, and I feel like I am in the same position as 10 years ago, only that now it is far more difficult to make people see this society for what it is.
The Internet camouflaged the trade society into something that looks cool and free. And abundant, and so new and fancy. People are so confused today, they think facebook, youtube and the like are free. Ads are part of their life and they do not see that as trading their attention, and data collection is the default. Jobs are rarely if ever questioned and money is only vilified by the crypto enthusiasts who are completely hypnotized by this new shinny money.
Capitalism, communism, other isms, seem to have been reinforced in people's heads over the past 10 years, despite them all being a mush of nothing-ideas.
Netflix, Spotify, and the like ta
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It is an upside battle to grow a project like TROM. Back in 2011 I thought I'll make that massive documentary and I'm done. I'll forget about this retarded society. 10 years later and many hours of videos and thousands of pages of books + a ton of projects + and so many discussions, and I feel like I am in the same position as 10 years ago, only that now it is far more difficult to make people see this society for what it is.
The Internet camouflaged the trade society into something that looks cool and free. And abundant, and so new and fancy. People are so confused today, they think facebook, youtube and the like are free. Ads are part of their life and they do not see that as trading their attention, and data collection is the default. Jobs are rarely if ever questioned and money is only vilified by the crypto enthusiasts who are completely hypnotized by this new shinny money.
Capitalism, communism, other isms, seem to have been reinforced in people's heads over the past 10 years, despite them all being a mush of nothing-ideas.
Netflix, Spotify, and the like taught people that it is ok to pay for digital content, despite us being able to replicate it endlessly. This is a very depressing situation when even the digital and overly abundant and easily replicabale world is now traded and made scarce.
I am having discussions with people like I was having 10 or 15 years ago, who still believe people are greedy, and their understanding of this world is that capitalism is bad and needs to be "regulated". Same chewing gum, chewed by different people. No one asks simple questions like wtf are we doing on this planet. Do we really need jobs? Money? Ownership? In a society of so much abundance do we still have to play the same silly trade game? What is capitalism?
These are taboo questions that only seem to trigger emotions and not real discussions.
I spent so much time crafting the materials I have produced over the years, trying to dissect this society. I became obsessed with sourcing all of my claims over and over again, from reputable worldwide sources. But despite all that, despite these materials changing some minds here and there, for me personally nothing changed. The same silly discussions with normal people, who probably know how this society works by watching some movies or reading a book or two that are popular on amazon.
I am still here. And I am still listening to any criticism. But damn, it is hard when you start the same discussions over and over again for years and years. Trying to explain the same things..."No John, humans are not fuckin born greedy"...."No Emma, capitalism is not different from the implementation of socialism or communism.."...."No Mike, we can't fuckin regulate businesses and make them behave well."..... And, again, I detail these all with examples in our books....
Anyways....at times I feel down, very down, sucked into a black hole. If I could leave this planet I would. I'd take a few people and leave. #tromlive
Released a new TROMjaro ISO. Out of Beta, new apps menu, plus online searches from the menu itself. And a few more little things. forum.tromjaro.com/t/tromjaro-…
From now on I really hope to release it a lot less often and with less changes. The ISO works great and all is fine....we don't need so many releases or changes :).
We are getting TROMjaro out of Beta. Not that it means much, but just so that people understand that it is stable enough. So this is the first non-beta release that comes with a few changes and explanations.
Today I am closing down musikwave.com. I started this website a few years ago just so that I could listen to music, ad-free. And for others who want that too.
Oh and I think we fixed the issue with my computer freezing every 2 or so days. The XFCE devs helped with that. Was an easy fix and it was because of the window composer + nvidia....always nvidia...now all seems to work well.
Although I have to give up the TROMjaro Classic since it is too much work for me, the TROMjaro Modern (or the default one) will come with a proper APPS menu + WebApps integration, so anyone can make a webapp in seconds. Plus online integration with the menu so you can search for online videos, locations on the maps, download files, news, wikipedia, and so forth. All via our trom.tf services! #tromlive
"A man was beaten to death after allegedly attempting to commit a sacrilegious act at the Golden Temple in Amritsar." aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/19/…
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"Footage showed the man jumping over the rail and into the temple’s central enclosure, where the holy book Guru Granth Sahib is kept, and picking up a sacred diamond-encrusted sword."
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“While the employees were taking him to the office, some of the other devotees present in the shrine beat him up so much that he died upon reaching the office,”
Now let me translate it in proper language: a bunch of primitive children, killed another kid for touching their toys. Because they think that their toys are so important they do not have to be touched.
Replace "holy, religious, guru" with "crazy". Or "insane". Or "primitive". Your choice.
2021 folks...12 thousand years since the agricultural revolution. 300 since
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"A man was beaten to death after allegedly attempting to commit a sacrilegious act at the Golden Temple in Amritsar." aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/19/…
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"Footage showed the man jumping over the rail and into the temple’s central enclosure, where the holy book Guru Granth Sahib is kept, and picking up a sacred diamond-encrusted sword."
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“While the employees were taking him to the office, some of the other devotees present in the shrine beat him up so much that he died upon reaching the office,”
Now let me translate it in proper language: a bunch of primitive children, killed another kid for touching their toys. Because they think that their toys are so important they do not have to be touched.
Replace "holy, religious, guru" with "crazy". Or "insane". Or "primitive". Your choice.
2021 folks...12 thousand years since the agricultural revolution. 300 since science became a thing. James WEBB telescope is about to launch in a few days, trying to spot the first stars in our Universe....and yet these things still happen.
Go kill yourself society, you are very drunk and primitive. #tromlive
I really love TROMjaro. It is getting better and better. Thanks a to to @Future is FOSS who is helping a lot with a bunch of things, like custom scripts or testing it. Such a great human! Also thanks to @Alexio who mirrors our ISOs in multiple locations!
I have 80 new apps on the "to add" list to our library at tromjaro.com but I'd like for us to make custom icons for these too, like we did for them all, so that we also expand the Zafir icons theme more....but who can help with that!? Maybe I'll start to make some. Will see.... #tromlive
I didnt think that 32GB of RAM + 36GB of swap, wont be enough for my needs.....but it seems I max them out pretty quickly. Kdenlive eats around 20GB of RAM....when I work on TROM II. Plus a lot of other stuff I am doing....interesting...is software getting too bloated for our needs? Wasn't I working on the first TROM documentary with 512MB of RAM? And also just doing computer stuff with that...We have better computers nowadays but is the software worse? Plus websites and all that? Interesting... #tromlive
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