The Emmabuntüs collective is an informal group of people which was formed around a project based on the use of a Linux distribution called Emmabuntüs developed to simplify the reconditioning of used computers donated to humanitarian associations, in particular to Emmaüs communities ( hence its name) and encourage the discovery of Linux by beginners, but also extend the lifespan of the hardware to limit waste caused by overconsumption of raw materials.
This project started from the observation that distributions, even the simplest to use, do not take into account the overall needs of a very large audience who do not want to have to configure their machine. The proof is that the Install Parties are always full despite the ease of use, and the public, after coming the first time to install the machine, returns for additional installations.
With Emmabuntüs the initial goal was not to provide a distribution based on Ubuntu for download to everyone, but to sell reconditioned machi
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Emmabuntüs
The Emmabuntüs collective is an informal group of people which was formed around a project based on the use of a Linux distribution called Emmabuntüs developed to simplify the reconditioning of used computers donated to humanitarian associations, in particular to Emmaüs communities ( hence its name) and encourage the discovery of Linux by beginners, but also extend the lifespan of the hardware to limit waste caused by overconsumption of raw materials.
This project started from the observation that distributions, even the simplest to use, do not take into account the overall needs of a very large audience who do not want to have to configure their machine. The proof is that the Install Parties are always full despite the ease of use, and the public, after coming the first time to install the machine, returns for additional installations.
With Emmabuntüs the initial goal was not to provide a distribution based on Ubuntu for download to everyone, but to sell reconditioned machines based on Emmabuntüs to a very large public coming to buy machines from donations within the community. Emmaus of Neuilly-Plaisance . Since February 2016, all versions of Emmabuntüs have been based on Debian and XFCE .
The Emmabuntüs collective adheres to the manifesto of the Emmaus movement , however, to date it is not officially recognized by this movement. Some members of the collective volunteer in Emmaüs communities.
Goal of the project The action of the Emmabuntüs collective goes beyond the creation of a GNU/Linux distribution , the goal that we are pursuing is the establishment of structures to help with the reconditioning of machines for humanitarian associations and to encourage other people to follow our approach to help fight against the following three scourges:
• Poverty among certain segments of the population, by providing new sources of income to humanitarian associations thanks to the sale of these machines • The digital divide in France and in the world, particularly in Africa, by distribution of a supplemented distribution of free data • Waste caused by overconsumption of raw materials, by extending the life of computer equipment
Now fully subtitled into Spanish, making it available to many millions of people who only speak spanish. All thanks to the wonderful Rafa and Vicky, and Cesar.
The amount of work to subtitle such a documentary in a professional way is quite intense and these people are doing it without asking anything in return. That's how we all should be. To do the things we feel are important and not worry about how to survive on this planet.
If you want to help us translate the documentary in more languages please contact us. tromsite.com/contact/
Thank you Georgi for becoming one of the 200 for TROM! tromsite.com/donate/ - There are 39 people who donate 5 Euros a month to support TROM forever. In small steps we may reach the goal eventually.
Mind you we only accept 5 Euros donations and only from 200 people so that we keep it small and sustainable. Please consider becoming one of these wonderful people. Of course, if you can afford it.
This month we will do a live TROM-Cast all about the future plans for the next year. Stay tuned!
Thank you S. for becoming one of the 200 people that we need to support TROM forever. See tromsite.com/donate/
Actually S. had a lot of issues donating since his Mastercard refused the donation. After weeks of trying to figure out what is the issue he finally went to the bank and asked to allow for European payments. And then it all worked fine.
A few people tried to donate to our campaign using Mastercards and the donations failed. Now we know why. Some banks refuse these sorts of payments. If you can, please go talk to your bank to unblock these payments.
Much thank yous for supporting TROM financially. You support a lot of projects!
The previous 2 are also subtitled into Spanish. There is only 1 more part left and we will have it all in Spanish. You can watch the documentary here tromsite.com/documentaries/tro…
There is only one, and one only. A few kilometers of crust layered with a few kilometers of atmosphere. A seemingly endless variety of plants and animals. And yet, the 8 billion humans inhabiting it are naively ignoring the fragility of this ecosystem. If Earth was an island, it would be the only one in a vast empty ocean.
Humans are the rulers of this world, with no corner left untouched by them. Rulers who think that they might be exempt from the rest of nature. But the destruction of this habitat is starting to have
@PeerTube we have released our documentary exclusively on Peertube and only there, in June. It is 5 hours long, 4 parts, and we worked 3 years to make it. Here it is videos.trom.tf/w/p/fVpfZ9VfWrW…
Please consider adding it to your joinpeertube.org/#find-peertub… website as a showcase of original Peertube releases if you think it is worth it. We have it subtitled in a few languages already and it is basically about why the bad things that happen in the world (where do they originate from), but also about how we could maybe change that. It is about open source, volunteers, and overall treating people as humans and helping them. To help each other.
Please consider it and maybe our instance too - videos.trom.tf - dedicated to science/technology/activism.
We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.
The usual Manjaro Stable updates plus switched to the new 6.6 Linux Kernel (Long Time Supported). How to do that if you are a TROMjaro user? Simple! Open the Kernels: Click the install button for the kernel 6.
@Dima does a fantastic job at highlighting the good people that still live in this backwards trade society and why they are struggling to do the good things that they do. Imagine doing good things like saving turtles, and not only that you are not helped in this society, but face many roadblocks.
Dima keep on doing your important work! Your videos are much needed for everyone to understand the struggle the volunteers have to face, but also to understand that people are motivated to do good things. We just have to enable that by helping them.
If people had access to at least their basic needs as trade-free, we would see a lot of change happening.
@Dima does a fantastic job at highlighting the good people that still live in this backwards trade society and why they are struggling to do the good things that they do. Imagine doing good things like saving turtles, and not only that you are not helped in this society, but face many roadblocks.
Dima keep on doing your important work! Your videos are much needed for everyone to understand the struggle the volunteers have to face, but also to understand that people are motivated to do good things. We just have to enable that by helping them.
If people had access to at least their basic needs as trade-free, we would see a lot of change happening.
In the summer I was in a tiny Italian island Lampedusa. It's right next to the Tunisia and it have very important Turtle Rescue Center. Unfortunately it was closed because of the scam of the person who was managing the premises. This video is my story about Daniela and what happened with the rescue center. I was there filming video episode for Equestrio Foundation who was supporting and funding Lampedusas Turte Rescue center for several years. And they kindly allowed me to make and publish my own video about this situation.
Thank you to everyone who is supporting our TROM project via donations. Currently we have 36 people supporting our 200 for TROM cause tromsite.com/donate/ - basically we need 200 people to donate 5 Euros a month to support TROM forever. Distributing the toll we put on everyone to make the project sustainable.
You support some 20 websites and a lot of digital materials, plus future projects. See the main website tromsite.com and the tools that we have.
It would be amazing to achieve this goal and it is not an unrealistic one. Thousands of people use our tools and websites.
@PeerTube has released a new major version of their video platform software framablog.org/2023/11/28/peert… - these people are amazing and are making Peertube the best video platform software in the world.
We will try to get new creators to our instance videos.trom.tf from now on, because what we lack is content. Everyone flocks to Youtube because "everyone is there" and youtube allows them to make money off of their videos (a very bad incentive). Even the people who complain about how there is no online privacy anymore, and hate ads and data collection (basically hate these online trades and their side effects), are still in a bondage relationship with these monsters. They are enslaved to them. But they and us, have to find the willpower to ditch the old world and create the new one, be it online or offline.
Be brave people, have the guts, and prioritize Peertube over Youtube! Else we cannot change anything....
We recently released a 5 hours documentary exclusively on Peertube. See videos.trom.tf/w/p/fVpfZ9VfWrW… . The diskspace is quite cheap nowadays plus you can host it locally on your computer via Yunohost. We run Peertube plus several other services (nextcloud, matrix, and so forth) via trom.tf with around 40 Euros a month for unlimited bandwidth and some 4TB of SSD storage. We have thousands of videos on our Peertube instance and overall thousands of people use our services
There’s nothing else like it. Chris Packham reveals the epic, 4.5-billion-year story of our home – from its dramatic creation to the arrival of human life… and whatever’s next.
Our TROMjaro trade-free apps library now displays an excerpt for all of the apps in the library for the APPS main page:
This has been requested for years now and we finally did it. It is indeed super useful to know what these apps are about from the main page, without having to open them.
We have removed Paypal from our donation options for our 200 for TROM campaign tromsite.com/donate/ because it was not working properly and because Paypal was not supporting recurring donations without a card anyway, therefore you were still forced to use a card for creating a donation. Therefore we are now relying one Stripe for the donations, which works perfectly fine. Anyone who has a credit card can donate to our ongoing campaign.
Those who are still donating through Paypal can still donate, so no worries about that. But if you can switch to Stripe it would be more reliable. Simple log in to tromsite.com/access and under the Donor Dashboard change the payment option. In case you need help contact us via tromsite.com/contact/
And a lot of thank-yous to those who support TROM via our campaign. We are still in need of a lot more support so if you can, please consider a donation.
We have scheduled one new trade-free app a day for tromjaro.com/apps/ for the next 42 days. A lot of great apps. Keep an eye on it :). You can follow here too tromjaro.com/follow/
This is not a real human, it is an "AI Model". Meaning, a computer generated image/persona. And this "model" has over 120.000 follows on Instagram. The creators of "it" are making thousands of euros a month from advertising products via the "model". Basically generating new images with the same creature, but wearing different brands and so forth. (source)
Many people are aware of this, and yet still "follow" these "AI models". Probably humans are already used to live in a fake online world where even the humans are so filtered you can rarely depict any reali
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This is not a real human, it is an "AI Model". Meaning, a computer generated image/persona. And this "model" has over 120.000 follows on Instagram. The creators of "it" are making thousands of euros a month from advertising products via the "model". Basically generating new images with the same creature, but wearing different brands and so forth. (source)
Many people are aware of this, and yet still "follow" these "AI models". Probably humans are already used to live in a fake online world where even the humans are so filtered you can rarely depict any reality from their online lives.
This insanity can be easily understood and predicted if we understand this trade-based society where everyone is forced and incentivized to trade. Every piece of technology will be used for trade purposes. In the process a lot of waste and idiots are being created. Unfortunately.
It is all about trading this for that. This gives rise to consumption, to privacy invasive devices, to pollution and slavery, to what many call as capitalism. But the word "capitalism" gives too much credit to this primitive society where the main practice is that of trade. This is why we avoid to use that term in our TROM materials. It is deceptive and loaded with preconceptions.
> Aitana, an exuberant 25-year-old pink-haired woman from Barcelona, receives weekly private messages from celebrities asking her out. But this model is not real, she was created by her designers using AI.
The fact that people were asking her out means that they didn't disclose she was an AI generated image, so it's possible people started following her thinking she's a real person.
This is not an isolated case. I do not remember the exact documentary on VN about this, but should be there :). People follow these "AI models" even when they are told they are AI Models. Maybe the people you mention were not aware these were Ai Models.
ANDHERI HILFE – with the poorest in India and Bangladesh
Currently (2023) we support about 80 projects in India and Bangladesh and reach more than 1.300.000 people. Our projects target the problems which are most urgent and implement solutions which have a sustainable impact. We always address the poorest and most disadvantaged people. All our projects aim to open new opportunities for the people so that they can develop their own skills and use them. Five major targets shape our work: to strengthen rights, to promote education, to faciliate health, to secure independence and to protect the environment and the climate.
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