Notices by Tio (tio@social.trom.tf)
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Tio (tio@social.trom.tf)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 15:44:53 UTC 
Tio
My laptop came! It is a keeper. I will make an in-depth review of it today/tomorrow or the following days. I am moving all of my stuff over to it. But yah I LOVE it. Finally! 😀 -
Tio (tio@social.trom.tf)'s status on Monday, 31-Oct-2022 03:32:31 UTC
Tio
@santiago Is is metal build? -
Tio (tio@social.trom.tf)'s status on Monday, 31-Oct-2022 03:08:41 UTC
Tio
@santiago These are mostly made for military, first responders, and such I believe. A bit extreme for normal use in my view. But interesting nevertheless. -
Tio (tio@social.trom.tf)'s status on Monday, 31-Oct-2022 02:48:57 UTC
Tio
@santiago Yup looks very good but ofc 500 Dollars is quite a lot for what I'm eyeing 😀 . Also, again, metal build partially or? -
Tio (tio@social.trom.tf)'s status on Monday, 31-Oct-2022 02:37:02 UTC
Tio
@santiago I've heard of Vaio too. Is there a very cheap model you'd recommend? -
Tio (tio@social.trom.tf)'s status on Monday, 31-Oct-2022 02:19:22 UTC
Tio
I was so impressed by that Fujitsu laptop that I convinced my parents to replace their shitty full-on plastic and hard-to-open and upgrade laptops with those Fujitsu ones. My father will have that 100 Euro model I was writing about. And my mother a similar model but with 8GB of RAM, 180 GB SSD and a core i5-4a. For 200 Euros. So almost double the power. In the same format. We should get it this week.
Basically my father's laptop has a core i3 processor with 2 cores and 4 threads. I upgraded it to 8GB of DDR3 (had 1 more stick at home). Plus used his SSD from the old laptop. All for 100 Euros, 1 year warranty, and a few spare parts from the old laptop. The laptop is half metal and seems quite solid. It is damn fast with TROMjaro and basically if you want to open tens and tens of tabs, watch any video file, listen to music, even do photo editing and some video editing, or play some old school games, this laptop is perfect. I mean my father basically visits some websites, listens to some music at times, watches some live TV, and plays Solitaire and the like. For him this laptop is fantastic. More than he needs.
My mother's laptop looks exactly the same (just a few color differences), but has 8GB of RAM and if I can upgrade I will to 12. I have some RAM sticks around from old laptops. Has an SSD, and core i5 with 2 cores and 4 threads. Better than the i3. On this laptop you can do all of the above and even play more recent and decent games, and for sure do video editing and all that. For her this is more than enough. All for 200 Euros plus 1 year warranty.
Overall, and so far, I love these laptops. Super easy to upgrade, fix, and clean. Took me some 10 minutes to access the Disk and RAMs from my father's old computer, but around 20 seconds for the new one. That's the difference. Not only they are easy to fix, repair, and upgrade or clean, but they are sturdy enough. Top lid and top part where the keyboard is are metal.
They are also very Linux friendly. Everything works out of the box. The screen is decent. No webcam tho. Perhaps that's better for privacy, they don't use webcams anyway.
Anyhow, I love these laptops for the package: good build quality, easy to deal with them, linux friendly, and cheap as hell. 300 Euros for 2 laptops + 1 year warranty is not at all bad, -
Tio (tio@social.trom.tf)'s status on Sunday, 23-Oct-2022 01:45:46 UTC
Tio
A few things I noticed now that I make a documentary and rely on footage from the world-wide-web: - Vertical videos destroyed the video format. I find it difficult to find proper videos documenting, say, natural events. Or any kind of events. It is awful. Unusable mostly. Floods? Hurricanes? How the fuck can you tell the impact when you film vertically? No way.
- Internet searches suck! Google, DDG, SearX, Youtube, Twitter, you name it....they always push for non-relevant yet popular results, instead of relevant ones. Last night I was searching for the first United Nations Climate Change conference. I wanted footage from there. No way to find it on Youtube. It is the 1995: COP 1, Berlin, Germany. I searched for an hour. I finally came across, via other searches, to the Associated Press YTB channel and there I could find something....
- Important videos or content is very unpopular. I was looking at some of the important UN video announcements of years of work about climate change. They make them straight to the point....and have a few thousand views, or hundreds....
Sucks...
But well, I created an alternative universe for myself via our TROM tools, via RSS, and the like. -
Tio (tio@social.trom.tf)'s status on Sunday, 23-Oct-2022 01:42:01 UTC
Tio
I think most tech is bullshit. 4k screens, multi-camera phones, new gadgets. Bullshit. I have a 6 year old laptop, and an external monitor someone threw away. I have a 30 Euro 18 buttons mouse, from a non-brand, and a 20 Euro pair of headphones that are some 5 years old. All good. Am working on a multi hour documentary with these. My phone is 7 years old. My desk is made out of an old closet. My electric scooter is 8 years old. Not made out of an old closet!
Audio systems....bullshit. Microphones...mostly bullshit. Cameras, pretty bullshit.
What I mean is the difference between brands and prices is almost non-existent in terms of quality + what you do with them matters. The reason people are obsessed with these is because companies are great at selling illusions and useless features, plus blowing out of the water tiny miniscule differences to make them look important. Hard truth to swallow if you are a techy-guy/girl. But that's the truth. -
Tio (tio@social.trom.tf)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Nov-2021 10:12:21 UTC
Tio
@futureisfoss @FediFollows @PaulaToThePeople @fediblockFor example, an admin might not want to pay for costs of federating spam, so it is fine to warn them about spam instances.Spam is different. Instance admins are ofc free to ban anyone or anything, but they should make these decisions transparent. However banning entire instances should be the last resort. A better alternative is to not allow global feeds for example. -
Tio (tio@social.trom.tf)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Nov-2021 10:10:44 UTC
Tio
@futureisfoss @FediFollows @PaulaToThePeople @fediblock And exactly that's the issue. Bad practice. What is the point of the fediverse if instance admins can block your access to other instances? Federation should be a protocol (activitypub) and should connect anyone who uses the protocol. As simple as that. You provide a communication tool, and whatever users communicate with each other and post, is their own "business". -
Tio (tio@social.trom.tf)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Nov-2021 10:09:55 UTC
Tio
@futureisfoss @FediFollows @PaulaToThePeople @fediblock The fact that you can, in theory, pack your bags and move, is not a reason to ignore the above points, You give too much power and responsibility to a very small number of individuals (admins) and that cannot be sustainable or fair. Like I do not care about nudity and I do not regard it as an "issue", since that's beyond ridiculous. But then what if your league of "lets ban certain instances" decides to ban my instance simply because I allow others to post nudity? Then you "punish" all of us for that? Will this league-of-federated-gentleman become more and more powerful and we have to bow to it so we are not banned?
Sorry but this is ridiculous. To punish lots of individuals at once by punishing instances, when anyone on the fediverse can easily block anyone they want. -
Tio (tio@social.trom.tf)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Nov-2021 10:08:29 UTC
Tio
@futureisfoss @FediFollows @PaulaToThePeople @fediblock If you start to blame the instance admins for the content of the users on their instance, you do two very bad things: - You create a mini-facebook out of all instances, and transform admins into biased owners of these communication platforms. Giving so much power to admins cannot result into anything good. They will be biased, users will be pissed.
- No one human can manage tens of others, let alone hundreds or thousands. You put too much pressure on instance admins.
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Tio (tio@social.trom.tf)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Nov-2021 10:08:27 UTC
Tio
@futureisfoss @FediFollows @PaulaToThePeople @fediblock Yah p2p social networks are the best option, but still experimental. However if we let this mentality of "admins are responsible for the content of the users" on the fediverse, then it will migrate to such p2p platforms too. -
Tio (tio@social.trom.tf)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Nov-2021 10:07:04 UTC
Tio
I think it is a bad idea for instance admins (fediverse) to ban entire instances. Unless there is a very very very serious motive behind it. And make it public when you do. Because this will cut ties with those instances and the users from your own instance will be unable to reach anyone from those banned instances. This is a dangerous game that many on the fediverse are playing. They seem to not grasp the consequences.
If we ever ban any instance then we will first announce it to all of our users, and then make it public. But unless there is severe spam flooding our servers, I do not see a reason to do that.
Users can block other users and for some federated networks they can block entire instances. Let the users decide! Not a handful of "admins". #tromlive
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