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UUID
by Brian O'Keefe 10 Aug '25

10 Aug '25

Hello All I'm revisiting an issue I expressed many months (if not years. I have an ASUS laptop in which I wanted to install a 500GB SSD in the vacant bay. I said at the time that the motherboard is up side down so I can't remove the existing drive (a SSD PLUS M.2 NVMe^TM SSD,) and replace with the 500GB SSD drive. I was able to get the regular SSD into the bay and plug it in. It shows up in the BIOS as two separate UUIDs (I have a bootable 313 GB partition and a free space 193 GB partition. When I choose to try and boot the 313 GB partition the computer reverts to the drive stick. I checked the UUIs and the 313GB has a different UUID than the internal stick drive but the same as the 193 SSD. So for some reason, even though I change the boot order so the 313GB boots, the computer reverts to the onboard UUID and boots that. I don't know how the 193 GB drive got the same UUID but it did. When I boot the computer I get the option of booting Ubuntu 20.04 but 16.04 is also listed. That is the 313 GB which I was planning to wipe and install 25.04. Perhaps I can wipe it with GParted and try installing 25.04 on it. Sorry about the long screed! I'd love to get the 313GB to boot 25.04 so I can see if it works on the old cloned 313GB drive with 16.04. If that worked I'd have a current back-up (I have one, the unbootable 313GB drive which won't boot). I would then upgrade the 313 GB drive after cloning the onboard drive. If the cloned 313GB drive updated then I would have my current mountains of data on the 313GB drive. But if it won't boot now why would it boot later, after all of the work? Many thanks if anyone wants to help. If not I completely understand Best Brian

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anyone want a UPS [White Rock]
by art＠pin2.io 19 Jun '25

19 Jun '25

Hi NMGLUG folks, I have an APC Back-UPS 900 to get rid of. Any takers? It does need a new battery, but just takes a single 12V alarm system battery, which is pretty cheap on Amazon. I'm in White Rock. Best, -Art

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checking mail delivery (spf)
by Jason Schaefer 05 Jun '25

05 Jun '25

Hi All gmail is now requiring either spf or dkim to pass for mail delivery. I've added spf so list messages should get through to all you gmail users. Let me know if you don't get this message. lol Jason

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Today's GLUG meeting moved to Casa Bonita Restaurant
by Geoff Chesshire 05 Jun '25

05 Jun '25

Hi All, Ozomatli is having a huge concert at the railyard starting at 5:30 pm today. Because of noise and parking issues, Jason and I decided to move today's GLUG meeting to the Casa Bonita Restaurant at 1814 2nd St. This used to be the original location of the Second Street Brewery, where we used to have GLUG meetings. Sorry for the short notice! Geoff

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Join the End of 10 Campaign – Help Users Transition from Windows 10 to Linux
by finnjan＠tuta.io 31 May '25

31 May '25

Hello Everyone, I’m reaching out on behalf of the End of 10 campaign, a community project from an enthusiastic group of free and open source software communities and repair café initiatives. Check out our campaign website here: https://endof10.org We would like you to join us by listing your place on the campaign website! See the end of this email for information on how to get listed. Our goal is to help Windows 10 users keep using their current machines even after Windows 10 support ends on October 14th this year. How? By installing Linux. We’re building a growing network of local repair cafés, Linux User Groups, independent computer shops, community events, and more from all over the world that want to help people make the switch. We already have over 100 places and events in dozens of countries listed on our website. Microsoft is nudging users to replace perfectly functional hardware, but most machines still have plenty of life left. With a modern Linux distribution and a bit of guidance, anyone can keep their computer fast, secure, and out of the landfill. This is more than just a tech issue — it’s an environmental one, too. When support ends, up to 250 million devices could become e-waste, just because of software. That’s a staggering amount of waste we can help prevent simply by helping people switch to free and open source software. We'd love to have you listed on our website so more people around the world know where they can get in-person support. Don't hesitate to be in touch if you have any questions. Best, Finnjan _How to get listed?_ Send an email with your info in the following format to endof10(a)lists.posteo.de: For the place: { "name": "Example Repair Cafe", "url": "https://example.com/", "streetAddress": "Musterstraße 123", "postalCode": "12345", "addressLocality": "Musterstadt", "addressRegion": "Musterland", "addressCountry": "DE", "latitude": 12.345678, "longitude": 12.345678, "email": "example(a)example.com", "telephone": "+491631737743", "openingHours": "Mo,Tu,We,Th 09:00-12:00", "estimatedCost": "Free"} For an event: { "name": "Example Event in Germany, 10am to 1pm CEST (UTC+2)", "startDate": "2025-05-01T10:00:00+02:00", "endDate": "2025-05-01T13:00:00+02:00", "description": "We install Linux together.", "inLanguage": "de", "url": "https://example.com/", "streetAddress": "Musterstraße 123", "postalCode": "12345", "addressLocality": "Musterstadt", "addressRegion": "Musterland", "addressCountry": "DE", "latitude": 12.345678, "longitude": 12.345678, "email": "example(a)example.com", "telephone": "+491631737743", "estimatedCost": "Free", "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode"} Read more or submit a merge request directly via: https://invent.kde.org/websites/endof10-org

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Hola y'all!
by Don Crowder 27 May '25

27 May '25

I don't think I've seen a post on here in months. Is there anybody left on this list? I'm fairly active at Bear Canyon Senior Center (I host a ukulele club there and my name is on the wall in the computer lab for Linux support). A friend from there emailed to ask me for advice on switching to Linux - like many folks he's had it "up-to-here" with the Windows 11 debacle - and of course I offered to help him in any way I can but I wanted to refer him to a LUG email list, which was an invaluable resource to me in the early days of my own Linux experience but I'm not sure there still an active list anywhere near Albuquerque. What say? Don Crowder

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Mtg. Tomorrow, 02/13/2025
by Ted Pomeroy 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

NMGLugers, We meet tomorrow, see: https://nmglug.org/ for details. I don't think I have broken anything lately, though I have read a LinuxMint article about reducing writes to ssd. I changed several Firefox settings and I will see if I notice any changes in behavior. A friend sent this: "Why do astronauts use Linux?" Answer: "They cannot open Windows in space." Sure enough. Maybe see you tomorrow. Thank you, Ted P.

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Is this email list still used? yt-dlp error ...
by LeRoy Diener 22 Jan '25

22 Jan '25

Hi NMGLUG folks, I haven't seen emails from this list for a while. Is the list still being used? If anyone reads this, I have a question about yt-dlp. In the past few days, I've gotten this error "ERROR: [youtube]: Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot." Has anyone encountered this? What is the solution? Verbose version: I used youtube-dl for a while and switched to yt-dlp when functionality dictated. I've been using yt-dlp for years, and it works great. For the past year, I've downloaded youtube playlists, and it's worked great with a CLI command something like yt-dlp --playlist-start 1 -- playlist-end 999 -f 140 youtubePlaylistLink A few days ago, I started getting the "sign in" error randomly for about half of the videos in the playlist. Here's how I know it was random. 1) When repeating the command for the same playlist, each time it downloaded about half of the videos, but which ones downloaded was different. or 2) If I repeated the same command in the same folder for a playlist with about 20 videos, the first time, about 10 downloaded, the second time, 10 said "already downloaded", about 5 downloaded and about 5 gave the "sign in" error. After a few more iterations, all 20 downloaded. That was a few days ago. Today, I tried to download a playlist of 11 videos and got the "sign in" error for all 11 with zero successful downloads. So, it's getting worse. I searched and found: https://discuss.techlore.tech/t/youtube-breaks-third-party-clients-once-aga… https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10128 https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10798 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79049216/yt-dlp-error-sign-in-required-… https://www.redditmedia.com/r/youtubedl/comments/1e6bzu4/ytdlp_error_sign_i… https://msfn.org/board/topic/186439-youtube-sign-in-to-confirm-you%E2%80%99… I'm not sure which approach might work well. Any thoughts? LeRoy -- There is something glorious birthing within all of us. I am the Love of God, no matter what.BSA LeRoy Diener 213-LEROYIZ 213-537-6949 https://leroydiener.com

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next meeting 11/21
by Ted Pomeroy 18 Nov '24

18 Nov '24

NMGLUGers, I have been talking to another member and we plan to review the LinuxMint Cinnamon desktop at Thursday's meeting. See https://nmglug.org/ and look for meeting time/place in right hand column. The many differences between Xfce4 and Cinnamon came to the fore and so we will look just at Cinnamon for Thursday night. I wonder if knowing that the icons merely call functions makes it easier for me to change from one system to another. People now use hieroglyphs to navigate phones and computers, so words get in the way. Or do they? Many serious tech workers eschew the GUI and just work via terminal. It is more direct, clear and precise. Anyway, a few of us do use the graphics and multi-purpose angle of computing, despite changing times and styles. For instance see this Decline of General Purpose <https://cacm.acm.org/research/the-decline-of-computers-as-a-general-purpose…> article to get one perspective or come up with your own. I hope to see a few of us at the next meeting, Ted P, Santa Fe

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Cookbook, 2005,
by Ted Pomeroy 18 Oct '24

18 Oct '24

NMGLUGers, I have a copy of the "Linux Cookbook," Carla Schroder, O'Reilly, 2005. Is anyone interested in taking this off my hands? I have stopped reading or referring to it. I can re-cycle it as waste paper, but I wanted to se if any history fans want it for the niche it filled for several years. Let me know if you want it and will either meet me at the NMGLUG meeting on 10/24 or will pay postage and packaging to get it to you via mail or some other means. It is in "good" condition: cover is intact, there may be some markings inside, but not too many. I have modernized all my work to systemd based versions and find information I use via rtfm or the Internet. I consider myself a personal workstation user, so I'm not too demanding. Therefore I don't need complex scripting or other deep techniques for what I do, which the "Cookbook" provided in great detail. Thank you, Ted P

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