BELUG meeting Tuesday, June 11th, 2024 at 6:30pm

[Steve Herber]

BELUG: Supporting Linux and open source for 20 years.

The next BELUG meeting is tomorrow, Tuesday, June 11th 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.

Here are the notes I took about our May meeting.

Netboot - iventoy is possibly the easiest way to use:

https://www.iventoy.com/en/index.html


Backups including rescuzilla, borg backup, cloud storage with hetzer:

https://rescuezilla.com/
https://www.borgbackup.org/
https://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/servers/backups-snapshots/overview/

One of the member got a cheap retro gaming device and had fun playing
old 2d games:

https://batocera.org/
https://www.google.com/search?q=inux+retrogaming+gameboy+advance+aliexpress

For hardware hacking check out the flipper zero:

https://www.google.com/search?q=flipper+zero

Long range networking with LoRa:

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Next-LoRa-Ready

We discussed installing large language AI models on your own machine:

https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile?tab=readme-ov-file

We discussed a system to send you system notifications, nfty:

https://ntfy.sh/

A media player:

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/installation/linux/

Why you might need to transcode your media:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=linux+why+to+transcode

Our very own Kevin Korte gave a talk at Libra Planet about AI but the video is
not out yet. In the Q and A he had a nice discussion with Richard Stallman:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kevindkorte_what-is-the-impact-of-artificial-intelligence-activity-7156783160586895360-J6bi
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=richard+stallman+libre+planet+2024&ia=web

We do cover a wide range of topics.
I look forward to our meeting Tuesday.

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