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A big thank you to @Rafa Peris for the 260 Euros donation! Much much appreciated. This guy is amazing overall. He has always helped TROM with the Spanish translations and continues to do so as much as he can. Now he helps the project financially too. Can't thank you enough Rafa, hermano! :)
We are working hard to finish the TROM II documentary before May, and in May we are planning a TROM Meeting with a bunch of close TROM friends. We may create videos and brainstorm about the future of this project. We will update you all via our Friendica page as always.
Stay engaged! #tromlive
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Our donation campaign for the TROM Laptop is now done thanks to the ~600 Euros donation from an anonymous donor. tromsite.com/tromlaptop/
A massive thanks to everyone who donated! It will help me, Tio, manage the TROM stuff in a more relaxed and sane manner. Make things easier for me and more flexible. Allowing me to "go out there" at one point, and take my TROM work with me.
Again, massive thanks to everyone who supports this project! #ลงromlive
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$649 Dyson Fan vs. $15 Walmart Fan: The Hard Truth ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=dS0oFmzU06โฆ
We live in the Bullshit Society, where new products are being made for the purpose of being made. To trade. Often these products are pointless. Like the example above. A classic fan vs a "modern" one that costs 50 times more. Despite this, the classic fan is better at....well...cooling you down. And yet, these nonsense products are advertised as better.
As long as we live in this trade based society we will be flooded by such nonsense. Wasted resources. Pointless products. Wasted lives in the end. Both for those making them, and those using them.
We need to move away from this cancerous trade-based society. #tromlive
$649 Dyson Fan vs. $15 Walmart Fan: The Hard Truth
When I was young, I was a little obsessed with how cool Dyson fans were. But are they actually worth that amount of money? In this relatively silly video, I'm going to compare it to my $15 Walmart fan with wind speed and sound level tests! Dyson PurโฆMark Spurrell | Invidious
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If Jobs Were Honest | Honest Ads ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=Ul7Y3pZyfMโฆ
A good one! #tromlive
If Jobs Were Honest | Honest Ads
What if jobs and employers were honest about the kind of work you'll be doing? Roger Horton investigates. SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://goo.Cracked | Invidious
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By the way ... you can see the extend of this resiliency here:
ft.com/content/de808736-2e05-4โฆ
"Twitter rival Mastodon rejects funding to protect non-profit status
Fast-growing open-source microblogging site has seen a surge of interest since Elon Musk took over Twitter"
;)
From my knowledge both websites are managed by the same person. And yes, of course, adding those logo-ads on the joimastodon and the documentation website is different from adding ads to the main mastodon instance, but it is a hint as to where the mentality is. As in, they are ok to accept "sponsors" that are companies, and reward these sponsors by giving them some ad space.
The post above is not about this, mind you. But about the real possibility of monetizing the fediverse too.
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@TROM Update; right now you can still see the remnants of someone trying to forcefully commercialize just a part of the #fediverse..
Here it started; techhub.social/@cloy/109598814โฆ but it's already gone.
Here you can see the local copy still saved on my home instance. friendica.utzer.de/display/118โฆ
And here is how it ended:
Newly added to the Trade-Free Directory:
Ultimaker Cura
Cura is an open source slicing application for 3D printers. It was created by David Braam who was later employed by Ultimaker, a 3D printer manufacturing company, to maintain the software. Cura is available under LGPLv3 license. Cura was initially released under the open source Affero General Public License version 3, but on 28 September 2017 the license was changed to LGPLv3. This change allowed for more integration with third-party CAD applications. Development is hosted on GitHub. Ultimaker Cura is used by over one million users worldwide and handles 1.4 million print jobs per week. It is the preferred 3D printing software for Ultimaker 3D printers, but it can be used with other printers as well.
#3d-printer-slicing-application #slicing-software
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directory.trade-free.org/goodsโฆ
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TROMjaro 2022.12.21 (the big XFCE release)
This is it folks, XFCE - the desktop manager that we use for TROMjaro - has had the big release. Two years in the making. And it is very exciting yet very unexciting. And thatโs great actually.TROMjaro Forum
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Newly added to the Trade-Free Directory:
My Brain
Open-source, All-in-one productivity app for Tasks, Notes, Calendar, Diary and Bookmarks.
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directory.trade-free.org/goodsโฆ
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We have removed the Twitter connector from our TROM Social social.trom.tf now that Twitter blocks the accounts posting URLs from these alternative social platforms like the fediverse. See this.
The feature was not working properly anyway.
It is time for people to realize that these platforms like Twitter, Youtube, Facebook and the like, are not social platforms, but ad platforms, and that there are real alternatives out there. We have moved out TROM presence from the ad-platforms some 2 years ago to:
Friendica - social.trom.tf/profile/trom
Peertube - videos.trom.tf/c/trom/videos
Feel free to join us there and/or follow us. #tromlive
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Unfortunately it is way more sinister than just selling ads. These platforms collect and sell user data. A famous example of malicious misuse of such data is the #CambridgeAnalytica scandal where #Facebook user data was abused to manipulate political decisions:
investopedia.com/terms/c/cambrโฆ
Cambridge Analytica
Cambridge Analytica is a now-defunct consulting company that specialized in using data science methodologies to support political campaigns.Jason Fernando (Investopedia)
Newly added to the Trade-Free Directory:
Pulsar
A Community-led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor, built on Electron, and based on everything we love about our favorite editors.
We designed it to be deeply customizable, but still approachable using the default configuration.
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Pulsar
A Community-led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor, built on Electron, and based on everything we love about our favorite editors. We designed it to be deeply customizable, but still approachable using the default configuration.Trade-Free Directory
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We have updated our TROM Files files.trom.tf and now we provide a much better Photo Gallery app. An almost complete alternative to the Google Photos. You can sort your images in albums, sort by date, add tags, folders and more.
On top of that you can now directly edit your photos from the app itself:
You can add text, resize photos, add filters, tweak the brightness, contrast and the like.
We give 5GB for free for everyone. And if anyone needs more you can let us know. We do it trade-free of course.
Enjoy the beauty of Nextcloud!
PS: a few features are missing now, such as the ability to extract archives or convert videos. We will enable them as soon as they become compatible with this new version of Nextcloud.
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Newly added to the Trade-Free Directory:
tmux
tmux is an open-source terminal multiplexer for Unix-like operating systems. It allows multiple terminal sessions to be accessed simultaneously in a single window. It is useful for running more than one command-line program at the same time. It can also be used to detach processes from their controlling terminals, allowing remote sessions to remain active without being visible.
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Newly added to the Trade-Free Directory:
KeeWeb
KeeWeb is a free and open-source password manager compatible with KeePass, available as a web version and desktop apps. The underlying file format is KDBX (KeePass database file).
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directory.trade-free.org/goodsโฆ
Newly added to the Trade-Free Directory:
PrusaSlicer
PrusaSlicer takes 3D models (STL, OBJ, AMF) and converts them into G-code instructions for FFF printers or PNG layers for mSLA 3D printers. Itโs compatible with any modern printer based on the RepRap toolchain, including all those based on the Marlin, Prusa, Sprinter and Repetier firmware. It also works with Mach3, LinuxCNC and Machinekit controllers.
#3d-printer-slicing-application #slicing-software
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Rokosun
in reply to TROM • • •The time, energy, skills and resources spend on designing and making these fans could've been spend on something actually useful for our society, but how can that be when their sole purpose is to trade and make more money for themselves ๐คฆ
You forgot the hashtag #TradeRuinsEverything
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Adam Kieliลski
in reply to TROM • • •Well, unless the price difference is THAT high. I'm ready to pay 5 times more, not 50.