BELUG meeting Tuesday, September 10th, 2024 at 6:30pm

[Steve Herber]

BELUG: Supporting Linux and open source for 20 years.

The next BELUG meeting is Tuesday, September 10th at 6:30pm.

The Zoom link, with password, is:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/131116407?pwd=OFkwZzZWMVhDdlhMTU91K2lOVkQvZz09

Meeting ID: 131 116 407
Passcode: 117647

The in-person location is at the North Bellevue Community Center:

North Bellevue Community Center
4063 148th Ave NE
Bellevue, WA. 98007

Please come early, if you can, to help set up the room.

The meeting will follow our normal format with introductions all around,
collecting technical questions to answer later, then any presentations,
and finishing with our best answers to the technical questions.

Last month Dave Compton gave a presentation on implementing a home lab he set
up using a new book by Adam Monsen, Steadfast Self Hosting. This month Adam is going
to talk about his book and his self hosting experience. This is a link
to his book:

https://selfhostbook.com/buy/

Here are some of the topics we covered in the August meeting:

Firefox and a more privacy conscious version:

https://www.mozilla.org
https://librewolf.net/

We had another discussion about ventoy:

https://www.ventoy.net

One of our members used a software defined radio, SDR, and linux, to
listen to the Blue Angles when they were here:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=linux+sdr

We discussed more photo management tools to get your photos out of the
cloud:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/photosync-transfer-photos/id415850124
https://photoview.github.io/
https://www.photoprism.app/
https://docs.photoprism.app/getting-started/

A tool to monitor web pages for changes:

https://changedetection.io/

A New York City linux group was discussing proxmox:

http://www.nylug.org/
https://www.meetup.com/nylug-meetings/

Our Raspberry PI person, Bill, was testing out an m.2 HAT and found much
greater filesystem access speeds as he expected. This is one:

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/m2-hat-plus/


A new visitor used GIS software and mentioned the open source tool qgis,
used around the world:

https://www.qgis.org/

We cover a wide range of topics and I hope you can attend our next meeting.

Cheers!
Steve Herber her...@herber.us cell: 425-281-0355
Software Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services