A bunch of atoms that are curious about the world, but furious about the society. We should help all humans to have a decent life without any strings attached, so that we can understand us, the atoms, and the rest of the universe. And create a smarter and saner society.
Since 2005 I make documentaries, write books, and enable many trade-free platforms for everyone.
We tested our TROMjaro on several macbooks from 2013-2014 so we’ve installed some drivers for the wifi card and such. www.tromjaro.com
TROMjaro is very easy to use and we even have a Layout Switcher to make it look like MAcOS if you so like it. See the homepage where we explain it in detail.
@Canadian_Cabinet www.tromjaro.com/ - you can try our distro. Based on Manjaro it has all you need to just use it. Enabled the Chaotic AUR repos, flatpaks, and our repo, thus you can find any linux app via one single place. Click and install. Plus we have a list of some 700 curated apps on our website www.tromjaro.com/apps/ - apps that are trade-free. Meaning no BS, no freemiums, no limitations, purely free apps.
We made TROMjaro back in 2018 and kept it up to date since, plus developed our own tools like a Layout and Theme Switcher. See the homepage to get a more detailed idea about it.
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@eddie_of_ny MagicEarth is superior from my tests. Better in all regards in terms of navigation: from the UI to the maps, voices, detection of radar, heads up when you speed up too much. Overall I managed to switch to it after so many years of being unable to find a Google Maps alternative. But truth is if you want to find an exact place to go, and then maybe parking and what not, google maps is still far superior. Has a lot of info about a lot of places. But in terms of navigation MagicEarth is superior in my view.
https://searx.neocities.org/ most search engines get recognized in Firefox. Simply visit the link then right click the url and you should see a menu entry like: Add Searx as your search engine.
@sic_semper_tyrannis Oh nice! I’ll have a deeper look. Thx
@TheDarkBanana87 As far as I know they have been bought by an ad-company en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startpag… - but SearX supports Startpage too. Just without the BS. I cannot trust any company honestly. They are incentivized to kinda lie and exaggerate. And search engines ran by companies…are terrible. If their business model is to sell you ads, they will track you one way or another, and if not today, they will do it next year.
Searx does not share users’ IP addresses or search history with the search engines from which it gathers results.
- read more here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searx and see the source code here github.com/searxng/searxng
@squid I use it daily. We ran an instance too. It is simply great. As good as Google, DDG, and the like are, since it is using them.
@squid True…Harder now to add a custom search engine unless you visit it and then click the url on top to get a dropdown to add it…but manually adding it is hard.
Speaking of search engines I highly recommend searx.neocities.org/ - it randomly uses the best Searx instances. No ads, no tracking…
@BobIsMyManager @Ephera Probably should be better than this, but for sure an instance needs to be very open about this practice.
@BobIsMyManager @Ephera Yes this is a decent start and I wonder too if it is automated. It should. Plus, if there is a new block, should create a notification for all users by default I would say.
@Ephera But my point is that this practice is harmful for the fediverse as a whole. Non transparent, decided for thousands of users, shallow decisions in many instances. To move from one federated platform to another is not as easy as you make it sound. I know, I have done that and I also manage a few instances. So this is a non-solution.
The solution is to, for one, make all instance-level blocking of users or other instances transparent and notify all users when any future such decision is taken. And second, try not to panic. It is fine. Words, no swords, we are dealing with. Users have a lot of control over that they see. Teach them to exercise that. This is a far better approach.
@Ephera People keep on saying that…same with those who keep on saying: if you do not like google, use bing. Don’t like Facebook? Use Twitter. And they are blind to the point that’s being made.
@poliverso Yeah I wish there were better tools for the admin…I get you. And thank you for the nice words!
@poliverso I see…we have over 600 and over 50 accounts that auto-post from RSS sources…I didn’t seem to get any heads-up as if we were spamming…but well that’s gone now anyway…
@poliverso Yeah but I think admins should chill a bit. Else they will ruin the fediverse. How many users you have?
@poliverso This is why the admins should stop banning left and right. Let the users decide. So what if I see lots of posts form you instance!? I, personally can block or ignore, but not as an instance admin to do that for so many users. This is why I keep on insisting that admins should block users/instances for all of their users. It is a very bad practice. In any case, I hope your instance didn’t get to be very damaged.
@Charger8232 TROMjaro is a trade-free Linux distro. Meaning you do not have to trade your data, attention, or currency in order to use it and its apps. meaning, no ads, no bs free trials, no data collection and all of that crap. We also have over 700 curated trade-free apps at www.tromjaro.com/apps/ that you can install directly from the website.
We have a trade-free VPN, and a content blocker in order to stop the ads and tracking system wide.
On top of this TROMjaro is super easy to use and easy to customize. Please see the homepage www.tromjaro.com