TROM

trom@social.trom.tf

This project argues that trade is the origin of most problems: from climate change to slavery, waste and pollution, corruption, crime, you name it. And if we understand the cause, we have a chance to come up with realistic solutions. We backup up these claims via documentaries, books and videos that are freely available for everyone.

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https://www.tromsite.com/

TROM

Wednesday, September 24, 2025, 8:34 AM

TROM
Wednesday, September 24, 2025, 8:34 AM

We have 2 new subscribers to our 200 for TROM campaign - tromsite.com/donate/

Thank Aaron and Wilf!

We need 9 more people in order to achieve our first goal: start a video series, bring back TROMnews and provide 20GB storage space for TROM Files for all users.

#opensource #foss #society #trom #tromsite #campaign #fedi

#opensource #foss #trom #tromsite #society #fedi #campaign

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Tuesday, September 23, 2025, 12:14 PM

TROM
Tuesday, September 23, 2025, 12:14 PM

Rebooting TROM! These are our goals if you can help:

We can increase the storage space for TROM Files up to 50GB for each user. We can start a new video series, bring back TROMnews, make an app for VideoNeat, and more.

We only need a minimum of help. A handful of people willing to donate 5 Euros a month.

Since we do not bullshit you with "you send us money and we will give you a special treatment" then it is harder to find people to help us since everyone is used to being "rewarded" for their help.

But we want to keep everything that we do trade-free for EVERYONE.

We could easily say "If you donate we will give you more storage space on TROM Files" or more advantages for any of our services.

But we NEVER did that, and NEVER will.

Therefore, if you see the value in what we do - and please see here tromsite.com/donate/ all of what we do (scroll down to see it all), then please support us with this campaign.

The hopes are low, but then the surprises can feel a lot better.

#linux #trom #tromsite #foss #fedi #alternatives #volunteer #help

#Linux #alternatives #foss #trom #tromsite #help #fedi #volunteer

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Sunday, September 21, 2025, 3:25 PM (Received Sunday, September 21, 2025, 3:37 PM) from Feed

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Sunday, September 21, 2025, 3:25 PM (Received Sunday, September 21, 2025, 3:37 PM) from Feed

Podcaster and journalist Gabriel Gatehouse sets out to solve the biggest mystery in tech, who is Satoshi Nakamoto, the elusive creator of Bitcoin? But Gabriel realises in fact he's on a much bigger story.

Seeking Satoshi: The Mystery Bitcoin Creator

^VideoNeat

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Sunday, September 21, 2025, 3:00 PM

TROM
Sunday, September 21, 2025, 3:00 PM

It is finally time to take care of TROM. The website got a bit updated/fixed here and there. We also updated the Donation page. There are 89 people who donate 5 Euros a month. Thank you so much!

Soon we will add goals to the donation page, and if we reach those we can release some new stuff and/or increase the storage for TROM Files for everyone and so forth.

If you can donate and support the so many projects we do, see tromsite.com/donate/

And check the main page if you want to see what we are doing tromsite.com/

#trom #volunteer #linux #foss #fedi #alternatives

#Linux #alternatives #foss #trom #fedi #volunteer

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Saturday, September 20, 2025, 10:52 PM

TROM
Saturday, September 20, 2025, 10:52 PM

We have managed to finally move from Gitea to Forgejo - git.trom.tf/ - thank you @Roma for doing it :).

But we had to move repo by repo so we could not move the users. Only 3 other users used our git, and all of them were not active for the past year. This TROM Git is pretty much exclusively used for our TROMjaro project, but anyone can request an account there and use it fully.

Now TROM.tf is fully moved to the new server!

#server #sysadmin #linux #git #forgejo #code #tromtf

#Server #Linux #code #sysadmin #git #forgejo #tromtf @Roma

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TROM

Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 7:14 PM

TROM
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 7:14 PM

Thank you Paul for the 15 Euros donation! tromsite.com/donate/

Every donation matters :)

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Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 12:57 PM

TROM
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 12:57 PM

We were able to finally move our entire TROM.tf to a new server. Some 2-3TB of data.

Old server: i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz, 8 cores, 32GB RAM, 2 x 1.8TB SSD. 46 Euros a month.
New one, same CPU but 1 x 1TB SSD + 2 x4TB HDD. 54 Euros a month.

We are using the HDDs as one, around 7.5TB of storage in total, for storing the data for Peertube and Nextcloud. This allows us to expand the storage for these ones 2-3 times more than on the previous server. Retrieving data from HDDs in this case is totally fine and we see no slow down of these services.

Thanks to that we enabled one more resolution, 480p, for our Peertube instance. 3 in total now. Will only be available for the newly uploaded videos.

We also have a new IP so emails can reach Gmail from our server, finally...but we have disabled "import with URL" for our Peertube to protect this IP from getting banned.

Overall it was a very difficult process to move to the new server and our TROM Git still cannot be restored....we need to fix

#Server #Linux #fediverse #trom #sysadmin

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Sunday, September 14, 2025, 11:07 PM

TROM
Sunday, September 14, 2025, 11:07 PM

Our Peertube instance will not work while we are moving the data file to the new server. Tomorrow hopefully we will have our Peertube located to the new server. 1.3TB of data had to be moved. Maybe the entire trom.tf server will be at the new location.

Hard to move this massive server but on it!

#server #sysadmin #trom

#Server #trom #sysadmin

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Sunday, September 14, 2025, 9:05 PM (Received Sunday, September 14, 2025, 11:06 PM)

Dima
Sunday, September 14, 2025, 9:05 PM (Received Sunday, September 14, 2025, 11:06 PM)

As some of you may know, at our last project in Hungary I felt down from the canoe :)
(It was my stupid fault - sorry Max :) ) Max was with me in it at that time.
We were all soak wet, but while falling I lost my tiny camera which was attached to my chest.
I couldn't find it anymore, so it stayed there in Hungary, ehh, more plastic in the water.

Anyway because of support on Patreon I was able to order a new one. It was actually first time I took money from Patreon account and I ordered a replacement camera. The good thing I lost only 1 half of the camera :) So I have to order only this part which is black in the picture. And the white one is camera controller from my original camera.

So it's arrived this week, I paid 250 euro just for that tiny black thingy - half of camera. But it's very essential for the videos I do, and i like how small and easy to

So it's arrived this week, I paid 250 euro just for that tiny black thingy - half of camera. But it's very essential for the videos I do, and i like how small and easy to attach it is (and easy to lost:))

Anyway without people donating and supporting Be Brave To Act, I wouldn't be able to replace this camera. So Thank you everyone!

September Updates :
It's been quiet I was editing feature documentary and now will start editing Albania project about sharks by-catch. Because of the bad weather all the time I had to cancel 2nd trip there.
Also Mara's back was injured so we have to stay at home, but now she is doing much better and recovering, so everything will be fine with her.

Next week we are going to Warsaw Poland, Mara will be doing vocal workshops there, and I will join some local clean up actions because next weekend is a World Clean Up Day! So all around the world millions of people are going out to clean the environment, you can also find some local clean ups in your area if you want. worldcleanupday.org/

Then week after we are going to Croatia I am trying to arrange a project there with cat sharks, we have to scuba dive to deep places and monitor shark eggs. But I am not sure if it's going to happen, but we are going to Croatia anyway, if not this project I will try to join some other.
That's the plan for September.

If you want to support us : patreon.com/BeBraveToAct

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Saturday, September 13, 2025, 8:28 PM

TROM
Saturday, September 13, 2025, 8:28 PM

From 14th to 18th of September we will try to migrate our Peertube to another server. One drive is failing on this server plus our IP is banned by Google, so we are attempting to solve more issues at once. Please try not to upload anything new on Peertube between these dates!

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Friday, September 12, 2025, 7:32 AM

TROM
Friday, September 12, 2025, 7:32 AM

A big thanks to Raimondas for the 277 Euros donation. A great surprise and very welcomed. I, Tio, will try to live with as little money as possible in order to keep on focusing on TROM. To have time for it and myself. To keep these projects alive. In a few weeks time I will post more videos about the way I live in a motorhome with very little money - see tromhome.com/ . And of course I will try to kickstart a new TROM video series soon.

Any donation counts tromsite.com/donate/

Thank you again!

#trom #tromsite #trade-free

#trade-free #trom #tromsite

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Wednesday, September 10, 2025, 12:35 PM

TROM
Wednesday, September 10, 2025, 12:35 PM

After years of trying to get TROMjaro on DistroWatch we are finally there distrowatch.com/table.php?dist… :) - Please leave a review if you use TROMjaro. We always keep TROMjaro up to date and provide support for it.

Very happy that it is listed on DistroWatch!

If you never heard of TROMjaro here is the main website tromjaro.com/

#linux #arch #tromjaro #manjaro #distrowatch #distro #trade-free

#Linux #manjaro #trade-free #distro #arch #TROMjaro #distrowatch

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Tuesday, September 9, 2025, 9:03 AM

TROM
Tuesday, September 9, 2025, 9:03 AM

We got another 255 Euros secret donation. WOW! Thank you so much especially now when we will have to move trom.tf to another server it helps a TON. No words to describe how helpful these donations are. Many many thanks! tromsite.com/donate/

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Rokosun

in reply to TROM Tuesday, September 9, 2025, 9:13 AM

Hard to describe how wholesome it is to get unexpected support from people like that, it's truly motivating to keep up the fight and continue our work.... And yeah the server migration thing is hard, let's just hope you can do it without much fuss 🤞

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Tio

in reply to Rokosun Tuesday, September 9, 2025, 9:19 AM

Exactly. Also the server move is expensive, for me at least. But now I can use some of the money for it. I was planning for a fundraiser but now seems to be fine. :)

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TROM

Monday, September 8, 2025, 8:57 PM

TROM
Monday, September 8, 2025, 8:57 PM

Thank you Maria so much for the 100 Euros donation! So much needed now! We will get a LOT more active with TROM starting this month! tromsite.com/donate/

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Monday, September 8, 2025, 11:33 AM

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Monday, September 8, 2025, 11:33 AM

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack

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YEAR: 2025 | LENGTH: 1 part (65 minutes) | SOURCE: BBC

description:

An intrepid expedition onto and into the Greenland ice sheet with three of the world’s leading experts as they try to answer the urgent question, how fast is the ice melting? Greenland’s inland ice is hostile, wild and unpredictable, but making observations and taking detailed measurements on the ground is essential to fully understanding what is happening there.

Director Lars Henrik Ostenfeld travels to Greenland with the scientists as they brave storms and climb deeper into the constantly shifting glaciers than anyone before them to gather the precious data that will help predict the future.

BBC Four - Into the Ice

Three scientists go on an expedition to Greenland to find out how fast the ice is melting.

^BBC

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Sunday, September 7, 2025, 9:42 AM

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Sunday, September 7, 2025, 9:42 AM

Louis Theroux: The Settlers

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Monday, September 1, 2025, 10:47 PM

Tio
Monday, September 1, 2025, 10:47 PM

Hungary Boats - videos.trom.tf/w/mgifnovz7TRm3…

We've joined Plastic Cup in Tisza river in Hungary. 15 teams on a boats made out of trash for 5 days going down the river. But it's not about speed, it's about collecting trash. Team which collects the most trash wins the race.
In this video we share our experience of joining this competition first time, our struggles and accomplishments.

#volnteering #bbta #nature #plastic #pollution #hungary

#nature #pollution #plastic #Hungary #bbta #volnteering

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Saturday, August 30, 2025, 11:28 AM

TROM
Saturday, August 30, 2025, 11:28 AM

One of our storage units for the trom.tf server is failing. We will have to replace it or move to a new server. Mind you in case trom.tf goes offline these days. Before we migrate we will let you know, but if the drive fails suddenly...

We have backups for everything so don't worry.

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Friday, August 29, 2025, 8:26 PM from Feed

TROM
Friday, August 29, 2025, 8:26 PM from Feed

Just the normal Manjaro Stable updates. Keeping our TROMjaro updated that’s all. Grab it from here.

TROMjaro 2025.08.29

^{TROMjaro Forum}

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Tio

Tuesday, August 26, 2025, 9:02 PM

Tio
Tuesday, August 26, 2025, 9:02 PM

Half a year update. Fun. Depressive. New. Terrible. ? - tiotrom.com/2025/08/half-a-yea…

I went from excitement to depression, to interesting times and then absolute terror. What next?

#trom

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Dima

in reply to Tio Wednesday, August 27, 2025, 6:33 PM

Crazy situation with you father Tio. I didn't expect it to be so dramatic. Not sure what to say. It doesn't look that he could be completely cured or get much better. Hopefully he will be able to manage it somehow. Maybe there is some medicine which might help, or some therapies. Anyway, all the best for your father.

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Tio

in reply to Dima Wednesday, August 27, 2025, 9:46 PM

Thanks Dima. We will see for now is nothing much we can do but take care of each other, try to have some nice time, keep him more mentally engaged. Truth is he is not diagnosed with dementia or anything like that. But he has these brain holes and for sure his behaviour worried us for the past years a lot. Also idk about his heart issues but we are very careful and try to take care of this situation.

So idk...we will see....I dont want to stress myself or us too much over things we cant do much about, if possible.

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Rokosun

in reply to Tio Wednesday, August 27, 2025, 8:23 PM from Fedilab

@Tio

I knew little bits about what you were going through these last few months from our conversations on matrix, but reading this blog post is what really gave me the full picture.

First of all I wanna say great job on building that wooden house, that looks like a lot of work but I hope you enjoyed the process.

I feel so ashamed to even admit I was watching some silly old comedies to get myself out of the mess. I felt like I failed after so many years where I kept myself alive and awake.

BTW this was kinda funny to read, man you talk about watching movies like some hardcore Christians talk about watching porn lol 🤣

@Tio

I knew little bits about what you were going through these last few months from our conversations on matrix, but reading this blog post is what really gave me the full picture.

First of all I wanna say great job on building that wooden house, that looks like a lot of work but I hope you enjoyed the process.

I feel so ashamed to even admit I was watching some silly old comedies to get myself out of the mess. I felt like I failed after so many years where I kept myself alive and awake.

BTW this was kinda funny to read, man you talk about watching movies like some hardcore Christians talk about watching porn lol 🤣

But in all seriousness let me tell you that I can totally relate with that feeling of darkness and depression when being exposed to people's "normality" like you say. I usually try to ignore these things for the most part and it's not very often I go out to interact with people, but sometimes you get confronted with that reality and it can push me into that depressive state when that happens.... It's a totally different experience when you're having to watch movies to escape the reality like that, this is not like watching something you enjoy for fun once in a while but for you the goal is to escape - yeah terrible feeling I know......

People are the same: jobs, family, money, watch tv

BTW, isn't this statement true for people everywhere not just Romania? I can see maybe the things you miss from being in a more "developed" country like better healthcare and education, but I think the above statement is true for most people on a global scale. I have a feeling that perhaps when we're in our hometown we get exposed to these things a lot more, by interacting with our family or people we know there.

And now about your father... I knew about the fainting and his hospitalization and all that 'cause you've told me before, but I did not realize how nerve wracking that experience must've been for you until I read this blog post. What you went through on that airplane is a literal nightmare scenario, and then the Uber drive and everything - man I don't know how I would've handled it if something like that happens to me, I might get a panic attack or something lol 😅 Anyway, I'm glad that you were able to get him to a hospital safe, let's hope there won't be any more serious issues like this in the future.....

It's an incredibly sad thing to watch your parents age out like this, I feel so sad every time I think about how much healthier they used to be and how they will continue to age as time goes on.... And yeah dementia is a real bitch man, I hope we make some progress in the science of how to treat this disease or prevent it from happening.

And I'm glad to hear that after going through all of these stressful experiences you were finally able to get back to your motorhome and get some sleep for yourself. And don't worry man we will for sure reboot TROM back to life! 🙂 You are not alone in this fight 😉

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Tio

in reply to Rokosun Wednesday, August 27, 2025, 9:34 PM

First of all I wanna say great job on building that wooden house, that looks like a lot of work but I hope you enjoyed the process.

haha yes it is because I know that movies get you out of the real world, and I hate that. Maybe it is hard to understand me and why I regard watching movies as being so bad. Not all movies are bad ofc, and is not always a bad thing, but the culture around movies and their influence coupled with the zombiffied state of most people today, make me hate it.

BTW, isn't this statement true for people everywhere not just Romania? I can see maybe the things you miss from being in a more "developed" country like better healthcare and education, but I think the above statement is true for most people on a global scale.

It is but as I said in the post there everything is so much more obvious. You have to live that to understand.

And thanks for the nice words man! Yah my father is ok now, but idk...he does not seem to me to be doing that well cognitively. We got him a tablet and we are installing

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Rokosun

in reply to Tio Thursday, August 28, 2025, 6:14 PM from Fedilab

@Tio

but the culture around movies and their influence coupled with the zombiffied state of most people today, make me hate it.

Yes I totally understand this, I feel like most of the "highest grossing" movies are just made using the same formula again and again - it is kinda like the junk food of content, you won't see actual creativity or get any insight from such films. But I don't consider "highest grossing" as a good criteria for picking movies to watch, actual good films tend to engage your mind more - makes you think or feel something so deeply, sometimes change your perspective about something. But yeah such movies don't give you that escape from reality, so if people want to turn off their mind they watch these formula movies - this is the saddest part to me, the fact that people are so tired and stressed out from work and everything that they often feel like they need an escape.....

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