BELUG meeting Tuesday, August 13th, 2024 at 6:30pm

[Steve Herber]

BELUG: Supporting Linux and open source for 20 years.

The next BELUG meeting is tomorrow, Tuesday, August 13th 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.

Dave Compton is giving a presentation on implementing a home lab he set
up using a new book, Steadfast Self Hosting. This book is by our own
Adam Monsen, from SeaGL.

https://selfhostbook.com/buy/

I am looking forward to this presentation and I hope to have Adam give
a presentation next month.

Here are the links from the July zoom meeting chat:

Image storage:
https://immich.app/
https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Photos/b?node=13234696011
https://www.photoprism.app/

UW surplus:
https://facilities.uw.edu/uw-surplus/store

LibrePlanet:
https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Main_Page
https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/tag/libreplanet-2024-video/

AI:
llamafiles are cool because they don't require an environment, they can just run by themselves
https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Llama-2-7B-GGUF
https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile

Emacs:
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eglot.html

More surplus information:
https://serverpartdeals.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badblocks
https://www.goharddrive.com/

UEFI security problem and alternative bios options:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb3Q-CkXfVw
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/tool/minimum-platform-architecture-open-source-uefi-firmware-for-intel-based-platforms.html

https://www.wimsbios.com/
https://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/sortdate/bios_cmos.html
https://libreboot.org/docs/install/
https://biosites.com/
https://www.coreboot.org/
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/programmable/683536/current/compiling-the-uefi-in-the-linux-environment.html

More photo software:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminar_Neo

And software options:
https://alternativeto.net/software/quickbooks/?platform=linux
https://alternativeto.net/platform/linux/
https://www.capterra.com/

E-ink displays:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Ink
https://www.makerguides.com/interfacing-arduino-to-an-e-ink-display/

A link to our parent group:
https://www.kegs.org/

COBOL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL

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

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