NOTE: the Location URL for joining the group has been 'enhanced' to restore the original 16x9 aspect ratio of the tiles when using the Tile mode.
Time: This Saturday at 11:00AM Pacific Time
Location:
https://meet.jit.si/FeltonLUG#config.disableTileEnlargement=true
Possible topics to discuss:
1) Robby to discuss recording LUG for publishing.
2) Anyone want to explain the /boot/efi? We used to only need a 512 MBR. (Master boot Record). Now with /boot/efi a lot of space is used at the beginning of the harddrive.
3) Possible discussion on why Firefox is now a snap (benefits and trade-offs).
4) Linux Kernel 5.18 has been released. What are the new features?
5) Another handy utility is pdfgrep. It's a command line tool for using grep like search feature on PDF files.
6) Bye bye DuckDuckGo, Hello Startpage. Here is the deal breaker... DuckDuckGo has signed a deal with Microsoft and their deal prevents blocking Microsoft. Sooner or later you will find a result from DDG that will throw a page of irrelevant results back to you and tries to open itself on Bing! Can you spell "tracking deal?" Here is one person's opinion on the matter...
http://businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/duckduckgo-has-a-tracking-deal-with-microsoft-and-heres-why-no-one-is-happy-about-it-335450-2022-05-27
Bring your latest fun computer experiences, problems and solutions to the meeting.
Hope to see you there...
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