This month's Albuquerque Linux User Group hangout will be held virtually
on the first Tuesday of this month. April 5 2022, at 6:00 pm.
Here is the link you can use to join the virtual meetup:
https://live.abqlug.com/AprilMeetup
If you would like more information on how to attend the meetup, visit:
https://www.abqlug.com/how-to-attend/
If you're having issues using a microphone or camera, you might have to
make sure that WebRTC is enabled in your browser. Especially if you have
"locked down" your browser. If WebRTC is working, you should be able to
complete a Microphone and Camera Test with the link above.
You can test your setup here:
https://test.webrtc.org/
The meetup will likely end around 8:00 PM or before.
Hope to see you there!
~ Jared
Dear nmglug,
We will be giving our summer interns a $400 stipend to get a computer.
Last year y'all sent me to the Asus VivoBook Ryzen 3 at this link:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/ASUS-VivoBook-F412-14-FHD-AMD-Ryzen-3-3250U-AMD-…
and it worked out wonderfully for our students.
With a year passing, does anyone know if there's another contender in the < $400 space now?
I have several used monitors that I want to get rid of.
1. Asus VH222 monitor
2. Asus VH248 monitor
3. 20 year old 15"? Dell VGA and DVI (no hdmi input)
4. Polyview V17D VGA and DVI (no hdmi input)
Anyone want these before I haul them off to recycling?
Mars
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NMGLUGers, We do have a meeting this week, still virtual till we plan
otherwise. See https://nmglug.org/meetings/ for the link to the 'virtual
meeting place'. Schedule: Thurs. April 28th at 5:30pm, MDT, till about 7pm.
We recently exploded my ignorance of the politics at the Free Software
Foundation. I did re-view the video on the "State of Free Software" and
found the overall tone to be negative. There were several "Thou shalt not
..." recommendations, not commandments, but mainly what not to do. I can
see this as an impediment to progress, and fun, at this point in time with
the multitude of hardware and software combinations out there.
On the other hand The Linux Foundation is also moving ahead:
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation
through open source, today announced the first round of keynote speakers
taking the stage at Open Source Summit North America, June 21-24, in
Austin, TX and virtually. To Register:
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/registe…
The preliminaries are posted and the actual event is very nearby, so maybe
some of our locals will be interested. Much of this is specialized, but it
all seems more creative and positive, at least in the announcement blurbs.
I have been working on a 2010 Mac Pro Tower, proprietary hardware, highly
tweaked in manufacture, but running Xubuntu tolerably. It is like a
modification of a Mac Truck to do family driving: over elaborate and over
powered. I note that newer machines are lighter and faster. The absence of
hyper-threading is compensated by over-clocking the multiple cores. They
are kept cool by one or two of the six fans in the box. It works, but is it
efficient or necessary? Perhaps you are making progress on more interesting
combinations of hardware and software.
Thank you, Ted P
NMGLUGers, "The state of the free software movement":
Richard Stallman will be speaking about the free software movement and your
freedom. His speech will be nontechnical, admission is gratis, and the
public is encouraged to attend online.
Location: Online at fsf.org/live.
Time: 14:00 EDT/12:00 MDT (18:00 UTC)
And
Our next GLUG Meeting <https://nmglug.org/events/glug-meeting-2-2022-04-14/>
will take place at a virtual meeting place <https://meet.jit.si/nmglug>,
located at World Wide Web on 14 Apr 2022 at 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm, MDT.
Hope everyone has been working on a free software project or sharing free
software in their neighborhood.
Thank you, Ted P
