Yes that video was amazing, very well done. It is always people not cars that save Earth, and if those people are not getting the bare minimum of help and support they need then we should fix that first!
@sober_pirate@social.trom.tf BTW, there was no description under that video, maybe you forgot to put that on Peertube? Anyway, just wanted to let you know.
Many thanks to everyone to is still supporting TROM financially - tromsite.com/donate/
We ask for 5€ donations if anyone can help, to distribute the financial burden and not rely on a few individuals. There are 83 people supporting us monthly. If anyone thinks this project is worth supporting please see the donation page and help. There we explain all what we do.
Humans are a bunch of ants. They are great at creating rockets and all sort of tech. But can be total idiots at the same time.
Mixing religion with "we are all one and have to take care of each other" is like shitting on a cake. It really is not necessary. It is obvious we are all one. Reality showed us that in so many ways. That's powerful! Not your stupid silly religion or holidays.
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Thank you Ondine for becoming our new TROM supporter tromsite.com/donate/ - it is so motivating to see new people supporting TROM. Makes you want to put more effort into it, create new things, etc.!
If we get 12 more people to donate 5€ a month we can do these:
We will start a video series for TROM, similar to the books' content. We will bring back TROMnews because the world needs a good news website. We will increase the TROM Files storage space to 20GB for all.
EDIT: I decided to delete the fundraiser. I do not want to ask money for this. I will buy it myself so to not put any pressure on me for making any videos or pressure on anyone else to donate. It is ok.
For the past 1-2 years I have been massively struggling in terms of "what to do". I want to DO, I want to say a lot of things like I've been saying for the past decade via videos and books, but I want to have a different approach to things. I would like to find the positive, scientific, smart approach.
We have so much shit in our world: wars, inequality, stupid people, AI slop, consumerism, it is fucking overwhelming. And it is so tempting to get angry at
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EDIT: I decided to delete the fundraiser. I do not want to ask money for this. I will buy it myself so to not put any pressure on me for making any videos or pressure on anyone else to donate. It is ok.
For the past 1-2 years I have been massively struggling in terms of "what to do". I want to DO, I want to say a lot of things like I've been saying for the past decade via videos and books, but I want to have a different approach to things. I would like to find the positive, scientific, smart approach.
We have so much shit in our world: wars, inequality, stupid people, AI slop, consumerism, it is fucking overwhelming. And it is so tempting to get angry at all of this and shout angrily at the world. And this is what I felt like doing. But maybe I can approach things from a more positive perspective. Something different!
Anyway, besides managing our TROM projects I would like to create more content and I am playing around with video.
Listen, most of the time you do not need a special equipment to start something. You wanna run? You do not need running shoes! You wanna make videos, make them with what you have! The content matters.
BUT.
My camera is my Pixel 6a and in low light (inside the motorhome where I plan to shoot) it is potato quality. I tried and tried and I do not like it at all. Plus I cannot see the screen when recording so I do not know when the phone stops recording, which it does very often due to overheating. So I gave up filming a bunch of times.
Anyway, it is a pain for me to record. To give it a try...
Sold my kayak and want to buy something with the money.
My family gifted me an inflatable kayak a few years ago. But lately we did not use it much and since we live in a motorhome we cannot take it with us. I managed to sell it for 180€ and I was thinking to convert that into getting something for me that can be useful. To regift the gift.
So then I found this really great camera: Osmo Pocket 3.
The camera.
I was not aware of this camera format up until a few weeks ago. I watched so many reviews. Basically it is a great camera that films super well in low light. It is small and so easy to use. Has a lot of accessories and features that can make the recording so easy. Like it can track you, has an amazing lavmic, it is so small and can even be connected with the computer and used as a webcam.
Anyway, I really like this camera and I think it can help me give it a try at making videos.
The camera is 2 years old and I am buying it second hand. But it is still expensive for me. It costs around 300€ without the lavmic and a few accessories. I have the kayak money and if I get any support here I could buy it. I will buy it eventually regardless, but I was thinking to make this campaign in case anyone wants to help.
Unfortunately the donations I get from TROM are barely enough to keep me afloat, else I would not ask for this.
I am also not going to promise I will make some videos for TROM like I have planned, but something I will make with this camera for TROM.
Huge post.
That's all. If anyone can help thank you a lot and I much appreciate you. I am trying to keep myself sane and the TROM projects relevant.
In the meantime I am working on stuff for TROM and when I get the money to get the camera, I will get it and try to make some videos.
This year somehow my volunteering projects are going very slow. Yet many things happening in a different direction.
1 - From Today 10 of my series will be broadcasted as Season 1 Series on ECOFLIX. That's the funny AI banner they made, and they just published first Episode - watch.ecoflix.com/programs/be-… Ecoflix - is a Non Profit Streaming platform, in the style of Netflix, but all of the revenue , 100% of it goes into Nature and Wildlife conservation. I am also not getting paid by them. Anyway I am quite happy to have my series there, as it's a place for people which already have interest in nature conservation. And also although there are subscriptions, you can watch everything for free there.
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This year somehow my volunteering projects are going very slow. Yet many things happening in a different direction.
1 - From Today 10 of my series will be broadcasted as Season 1 Series on ECOFLIX. That's the funny AI banner they made, and they just published first Episode - watch.ecoflix.com/programs/be-… Ecoflix - is a Non Profit Streaming platform, in the style of Netflix, but all of the revenue , 100% of it goes into Nature and Wildlife conservation. I am also not getting paid by them. Anyway I am quite happy to have my series there, as it's a place for people which already have interest in nature conservation. And also although there are subscriptions, you can watch everything for free there.
2 - We just got back from Climate Pact Conference in EU Commission in Brussels. We were traveling on a night train from Vienna to Brussels. 1100 km, yet it's the most green way to travel. I wish I would take trains much often going to the projects, but unfortunately the prices are insane for the min Europe. Return tickets for 2 persons costed us 650 euro! And it was standard cabin, not lux! It's 16 hours drive in one direction. Ryanair would cost us 100 euro. And only because organizers paid for our travel and wanted to choose the most green method we were able to take train. It's a shame to be honest, when there is such price difference. Regardless of how much I love earth and planet, if I have to pay myself I would taken airplane. Trains in Europe should be properly subsidized and offer affordable prices.
Anyway in EU Parliament we played a concert with the sound of the whales and dolphins we've been recording throughout last few years. + On a large screen I was showing many BBTA videos from our expeditions, and shoots of cetaceans and also shoots from Grind in Faroe Islands. I spoke about Ocean conservation, Cetaceans, threats to them, their conservation and what anyone can do. The were issues with the sound, they haven't done proper live stream and many things went wrong, but at the end we delivered the message and many people were touched by it. That's the most important. I will try to make a short video when I get some video files fro organizers.
3 - On 9th April in Montenegro there will be a movie night with 3 of my videos which I filmed with ngo DMAD in Turkey. They will be presentation about Cetaceans, their work and show 3 of mine videos
Ecoflix should stop making these AI-thumbnails because is quite ridiculous :)). You already make very good thumbnails maybe tell them to use them...they are real not AI generated.
100% about trains and generally public transport. No way people will use them when they are several times more expensive than planes. And planes need a lot of fuel, airports, security, etc.. In terms of resources a lot more expensive, but not money....such a shame.
But anyway great to see you do these things too. Although I have little hope in these gov organizations at least maybe you get some eyeballs to see you stuff and maybe make new connections that can help you in the future. Would really like to see a video about your presentation.
Great about Montenegro too!
Also I see a bit more support on Patreon? Even if it is a tiny bit, if it grows maybe it is a good sign. Very far from what you would need to even pay for a bus ticket probably :D but maybe if you continue bit by bit you'll get more support. It is fucking hard but who knows...
Yeah, these AI thumbs are ridiculous :) I actually specially made thumb for each episode, as they require that, but then they changed them :)
I also don't have any hope for this GOV organizations, especially after the conference , but even before. It's just talking and discussing and talking and again discussing, and then symposium and few online meetings.
Yeah, I would love to see video from presentation tambien :) but they fucked up live stream :( It was the most important part for me, to have such video. ANyway I am waiting if they could get some footage for me, as they had video guy there as well.
Patreon - yes, but it's still I got only 47 euro a month :) In average I spent 300 euro per 1 video, that's only my expenses if I count all the videos I did last year and divided on all the money I spent. That's also excluding food and other small things, mainly just transport and nightstay. And even that in most of the cases I am trying to get very very cheap, like staying at friends, asking for NGO's to provide stay and food etc. Normally price would be much more.
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Yeah, these AI thumbs are ridiculous :) I actually specially made thumb for each episode, as they require that, but then they changed them :)
I also don't have any hope for this GOV organizations, especially after the conference , but even before. It's just talking and discussing and talking and again discussing, and then symposium and few online meetings.
Yeah, I would love to see video from presentation tambien :) but they fucked up live stream :( It was the most important part for me, to have such video. ANyway I am waiting if they could get some footage for me, as they had video guy there as well.
Patreon - yes, but it's still I got only 47 euro a month :) In average I spent 300 euro per 1 video, that's only my expenses if I count all the videos I did last year and divided on all the money I spent. That's also excluding food and other small things, mainly just transport and nightstay. And even that in most of the cases I am trying to get very very cheap, like staying at friends, asking for NGO's to provide stay and food etc. Normally price would be much more.
I really hope to get more supporters, but that' on the verge of impossible :)
Also man I've red your post yesterday, sorry to hear that, i was thinking to comment something, but then at the end not sure what else I can say. Just keep going and hopefully your father will become better. Also your health man. Take care
The biggest evidence that our trade-based society is fucked is the fact that people like you are struggling to find enough donations, not even covering the cost of making these videos. People who do good things for the world are constantly disincentiviced to keep doing these. And speaking of incentives, that train ticket price is absolutely insane, can't think of a bigger incentive to make people choose airplane over trains.
Yah this AI shit drives me insane...views views views, but how about the quality of them. If people are not bothered by fake thumbnails or videos then their "viewer quality" is already pointless.
Sad to see this but well....
And these conferences are like that and I feel EU is a master of talking and not doing anything.
And I was thinking you must spend even more per 1 video since you have to travel a lot. But 300 is also 9 times more than you get on Patreon...I hope you can get more but for that you have to sustain yourself for the foreseeable future. Until there are more people getting to know your work and decide to support you. The endless struggle.....
Yah about my situation is fine...not much to say for me either for now. Am trying to record some videos these next weeks see if I can do that and hope that my parents will be ok.
These motherfuckers put some weird screws on this electrical heater so you cannot open it unless you have a very specific screw driver. Absolutely criminal behavior. But I understand it. You have to trade in this world in order to survive and thrive, and so these tactics can create advantages for you: the heater breaks, people buy a new one. Done. More profit.
If we can't change the incentive we cannot change these behaviors.
These motherfuckers put some weird screws on this electrical heater so you cannot open it unless you have a very specific screw driver. Absolutely criminal behavior. But I understand it. You have to trade in this world in order to survive and thrive, and so these tactics can create advantages for you: the heater breaks, people buy a new one. Done. More profit.
If we can't change the incentive we cannot change these behaviors.
These motherfuckers put some weird screws on this electrical heater so you cannot open it unless you have a very specific screw driver. Absolutely criminal behavior. But I understand it. You have to trade in this world in order to survive and thrive, and so these tactics can create advantages for you: the heater breaks, people buy a new one. Done. More profit.
yeah, I had similar issue last week, trying to open a laptop, also had to buy overpriced screwdriver just to be able to do it. Exactly it should be illegal to put such screwheads.
In Chennai, a megacity of over 11 million people, floods and cyclones are becoming more frequent. We came here to help plant urban forests, restore lakes, and rewild parts of the city — using nature to reduce flooding and protect communities. But when the cyclone Ditwah arrived, the city was put to the test.
In Chennai, a megacity of over 11 million people, floods and cyclones are becoming more frequent. We came here to help plant urban forests, restore lakes, and rewild parts of the city — using nature to reduce flooding and protect communities. But when the cyclone Ditwah arrived, the city was put to the test.
In Chennai, a megacity of over 11 million people, floods and cyclones are becoming more frequent. We came here to help plant urban forests, restore lakes, and rewild parts of the city — using nature to reduce flooding and protect communities. But when the cyclone Ditwah arrived, the city was put to the test.
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The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2025, and was released on October 3, 2025, by 8 Above.
librarians are incredible people. They not only have a working knowledge of most every book (source) in their collection but also of what is not there, what they want and what (if anything) to avoid. And they are enthusiastic to help you find whatever interests you.
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That is great and frustrating at the same time. This "enshitification" is totally a natural result of trading stuff. There is 0 difference between supermarkets putting a 5.99 price on food, or putting candies where people stay in line to pay, or deceiving people with those old ads on TV, and Facebook, Youtube and the like adding clickable ads in the middle of a video or making it play the next video automatically, or not making it clear what is a post what is an ad....
These are trade-based goods and services, and for them to sell, you have to engage in these "marketing" practices.
THIS IS NOTHING NEW!
Pretty much all companies and individuals do these in order to sell shit. All need to be biased towards their own business. Even the local small businesses are doing it. Everyone does it.
So instead of selecting a few of the most outrageous practices, call them shitty, and point the finger at them, better do 2 things:
Understand why these products are "shitty". It is trade, the need to trade, that makes people put more ads, collect more data, etc..
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That is great and frustrating at the same time. This "enshitification" is totally a natural result of trading stuff. There is 0 difference between supermarkets putting a 5.99 price on food, or putting candies where people stay in line to pay, or deceiving people with those old ads on TV, and Facebook, Youtube and the like adding clickable ads in the middle of a video or making it play the next video automatically, or not making it clear what is a post what is an ad....
These are trade-based goods and services, and for them to sell, you have to engage in these "marketing" practices.
THIS IS NOTHING NEW!
Pretty much all companies and individuals do these in order to sell shit. All need to be biased towards their own business. Even the local small businesses are doing it. Everyone does it.
So instead of selecting a few of the most outrageous practices, call them shitty, and point the finger at them, better do 2 things:
Understand why these products are "shitty". It is trade, the need to trade, that makes people put more ads, collect more data, etc.. Currency, data, or attention trade.
Simply make 2 categories: trade-free and trade-based. If a product or a service is trade-free, it means it does not want anything from you, the user. Not your data, not your currency, not your attention. Therefore why would it want to make that product or service shitty?
Makes no sense.
We made a book all about that - tromsite.com/trombooks/#flipbo… and guess what? It is trade-free. Read it online or download it.
Side note....I like Louis but for fucks sake man start prioritizing a Peertube instance and post there rather than on the "shit" youtube....
That video was so genuinely funny I was laughing my ass off 🤣 Truly refreshing to see something like this in this day and age. And I gotta say the Norwegian government is pretty badass for doing this! Let's hope more governments follow suit 🤞
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
Thank you Jean for becoming our new 5€ a month supporter tromsite.com/donate/ !!
And thank you to everyone who supports TROM financially. We do a lot of projects. We provide a Friendica instance and have over a thousand users, a Peertube instance with unlimited uploads, a Nextcloud instance providing 10GB of space for everyone and a full Office Suite...a custom Linux distribution, a documentaries-based website...
See our donation page how many things we do. And we will do more!
The usual Manjaro Stable updates plus a fix to the “speed dial” addon for Firefox that got updated and removed all of our custom bookmarks and added a Google search.
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in reply to Tio • • •@sober_pirate
Yes that video was amazing, very well done. It is always people not cars that save Earth, and if those people are not getting the bare minimum of help and support they need then we should fix that first!
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Rokosun
in reply to Rokosun • • •@sober_pirate@videos.trom.tf
@sober_pirate@social.trom.tf BTW, there was no description under that video, maybe you forgot to put that on Peertube? Anyway, just wanted to let you know.
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