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Can jitsi show avatar photo?
by LeRoy Diener 25 May '21

25 May '21

Hi NMGLUG folks, I'm wondering if this feature exists in jitsi or if it may be possible to request this feature from the jitsi developers. The feature I'm looking for is the ability to have a photo displayed instead of a letter during the time when the camera is disabled and when there is no screen sharing. The problem with showing a letter is that it seems impersonal and unprofessional. When the internet connection is slow or unreliable, a solution is to turn off the camera. This is a feature which is available on zoom and other video conferencing platforms, but I haven't been able yet to find it on jitsi. I have friends who I've gotten to use jitsi, but some switch back to zoom or something else specifically for this feature. Thanks in advance, LeRoy -- There is something glorious birthing within all of us. (New for 2021) I am the Love of God, no matter what. LeRoy Diener 213-LEROYIZ 213-537-6949 www.leroydiener.com/

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Re: [nmglug] (no subject)
by Ted Pomeroy 13 May '21

13 May '21

NMGLugers, Thanks for the heads up, Art. I hope some of us can meet virtually as posted on our website. I can add a little about webcams, which was briefly mentioned last meeting and I would like to hear from somebody about the issues Mark G. raised about tracing crash reports and user reports of "not working" systems. I would guess that system freezes and crashes are a mystery to some of us, but the system logs might be a way to get some clarity. See you tonight. Thank you, Ted P On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 9:15 PM Art Barnes <art(a)pin2.io> wrote: > Hi all – > > > > Fyi, I’ll be missing the next few virtual meetings as I’m following along > with Hackaday’s Antenna short course. Link for the interested: > https://hackaday.io/course/178490-introduction-to-antenna-basics. > Lectures are available free on YouTube after the fact. > > > > Cheers, > > -Art > _______________________________________________ > nmglug mailing list > nmglug(a)lists.nmglug.org > http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org >

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(no subject)
by Art Barnes 12 May '21

12 May '21

Hi all – Fyi, I’ll be missing the next few virtual meetings as I’m following along with Hackaday’s Antenna short course. Link for the interested: https://hackaday.io/course/178490-introduction-to-antenna-basics. Lectures are available free on YouTube after the fact. Cheers, -Art

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stress test laptop to see if will crash - tips?
by Mark Galassi 08 May '21

08 May '21

I sometimes get reports from my students that the laptops I lend them have started not working. When I get them back I boot them and they seem to be OK. I have gone and run the classic unix "crashme" program to stress them with load and threads and memory access, but they go along nicely. I wonder if anyone has a favorite program to stress the system, disk, display, memory, CPU, ... Display seems important: sometimes the problems I've seen had to do with the video drivers trying to use advanced hardware features that are not well supported.

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[ABQLUG] Monthly meetup is scheduled for this Tueday at 6PM (virtually)
by ABQLUG 03 May '21

03 May '21

Fellow NMGLUGers, The monthly Albuquerque Linux User Group (virtual) meetup is on schedule tomorrow, May 4th 2021 at 6:00 pm. Here is the link you can use to join the virtual meetup: https://live.abqlug.com/MayMeetup If you're going to use a desktop/laptop, all you should need is a modern web browser to join the online meeting. If you are going to use a smartphone, you will want to install the Jitsi-meet app, and then set the Jitsi-meet server to live.abqlug.com. If you would like more information on how to attend the meetup, please visit: https://www.abqlug.com/attendee/ Tests can be performed here: https://test.webrtc.org/ If you're having issues using a microphone or camera, you might have to make sure that WebRTC is enabled in your browser if you have "locked down" your browser. If WebRTC is working, you should be able to complete a Microphone and Camera test. The meetup will likely end around 8pm or before. ~ Jared

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recommendations for $400 laptops to run GNU/Linux?
by Mark Galassi 27 Apr '21

27 Apr '21

Dear nmglug-ers, I'm about to have 11 students in the upcoming Institute for Computing in Research internship program (https://computinginresearch.org/) purchase laptops to run a GNU/Linux distribution. We subsidize them for up to $400 on these laptops. In the first two years things went OK but with some problems: most of the laptops ended up being $400 plus something, straining our budget, and some of them had annoyances with microphone and wifi drivers. Does anyone keep up to date on best laptops for the linux kernel in various price ranges? Any advice? And there is also always a question running in the back of my head: would anyone know how to find a local (or global) business that might subsidize the laptops for our students? I keep thinking that there must be some way to get Lenovo or some other company to either give away some laptops, or to sell us a $560 laptop for $400 -- we are a very deserving non-profit, after all. Unfortunately so far my attempts at following the chain of companies to their educational outreach people have turned out to be time-consuming dead ends.

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Pandoc Markdown
by Art Barnes 15 Apr '21

15 Apr '21

Hi all, Apologies for running late again. For folks who are interested, here’s the link for Pandoc: https://pandoc.org/ And here’s the link for Pandoc-flavored Markdown: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#pandocs-markdown One thing I’d left out today about Pandoc is that if you need to create a bibliography, it can include a Latex Bibtex file with the –bibliography command-line option. Cheers, -Art

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[ABQLUG] In person meetup scheduled tomorrow
by ABQLUG 05 Apr '21

05 Apr '21

The Albuquerque Linux Users Group will be meeting in person tomorrow, April 6 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm. The location for the venue is going to be at Candelaria and 4th St. Spots are limited, so email community(a)abqlug.com ASAP to reserve your spot. Hope to see you there! ~ Jared

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Meeting tonight 5:30 to 7pm MDT
by Ted Pomeroy 02 Apr '21

02 Apr '21

NMGLUgers, tonight we switch to this alternate Thursday. The Virtual meeting is on, Virtual <https://meet.jit.si/nmglug>; this does not prevent any sub-groups from gathering as they may prefer. Our topic is "Replace Excel with RStudio" presented by Art B. So join us and here why this might work and feel free to opine on useful spreadsheet applications, but with a broader view after we hear from Art. See you later. Thank you, Ted P.

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[ABQLUG] In person meetup scheduled April 6th!
by ABQLUG 29 Mar '21

29 Mar '21

Fellow NMGLUGers, ABQLUG will be hosting it's first 2021 in-person meetup. April 6th from 6pm-8pm. Do not expect this to be streamed over video. The location for the venue is going to be at Candelaria and 4th St. Spots are limited, so email community(a)abqlug.com ASAP to reserve your spot. We will provide some food and some desert. Please consider bringing some snacks or money to help payback some of the volunteers. We plan on having some Raspberry Pi demos and some games planned too. Sorry the details are vague. Some of the details need to be finalized still. ~ Jared

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