Transportation. In Germany they came up with a plan: pay a monthly fee of about 50 Euros and have access to all of the public transport across Germany. Lately they proposed that if you are to “surrender” your driving license, you can get access to all of that for free. (source). Now this, if properly …
I am quite sure that what prevents me from going into a deep depression is my workaholism. I am always busy with things, some new, some old, some experimental. I always want to do new projects, write, create, enable. The fact that soon after I released TROM II, a 3 years work, I jumped into …
Just bashing the billionaires and big corporations, is shortsighted. People think that Musk, Bezos, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and so on are now the “evil” that we should stand against and defeat. In truth these entities are no different from most humans living on this planet and most companies. It is just that some are bigger …
Did you ever realize that the most popular browser in the entire world, is made and controlled by an ad company? And the most popular search engine….Same goes for the most popular “social networks”. And mobile operating system…. Insane…. And now Google, who has the power to change the internet for the worse, is trying …
We need 200 people to support TROM forever. And they only have to give us 2 cups of coffee a month. See this – https://www.tromsite.com/donate/Listen, for more than a decade we have created a lot of materials and tools. On the Donate page you can scroll through a summary of that. There is 1 human …
I bought a Dell Inspiron 7620 2-in-1 (mouthful) some 6-7 months ago. Took me many months to choose a laptop and this one was the best for me. It is a 16` 16:10 with a powerful CPU and a good GPU. The screen is amazing, the keyboard is very good, and the chassis is aluminum. …
The situation with the trade-free instances like Invidious, Nitter, and Teddit. As some of you already know, these pieces of software act as an interface for the big ad-platforms like Youtube, Twitter and Reddit. They remove the ads, trackers and all of the bullshit, and let you see the content. Now YouTube is banning the …
6 months to record the interviews 40 hours of interview recordings3.3 terabytes of project files13.000 media files used3 years in the making FIRST: In these 3 years I did a lot of other things. From moving all of our websites to an unmanaged server (and that requires you to become a server admin), to …
Why this may be the last TROM Meeting and why it was fun, and tiring, and stressful, and overall wonderful :).
I donated my old laptop to a dear friend who also helps with the TROM project. I used this laptop for many years but I needed a more portable one and luckily others helped me buy a better one for myself. I am happy to know that my dear friend the laptop, that helped me …
