Episode 118

Welcome to Episode 118 of the LinuxLUGcast

We are an open podcast/LUG that meets at 9 PM EST every first and third friday of the month using mumble.

If you would like to join us all you need to do is install a mumble client on your computer or mobile device, go to linuxlugcast.com to get the server details, then just join us in the “LinuxLUGcast” room. If you do not want to participate, just listen you can connect to the mumble server, go into the “listening booth” room. If you need help configuring your mumble client there is a “How to” on  our site explaining how to configure the desktop client.

If you have any questions, comments, or topic you would like us to discus and are unable to join us during the live show on you can send us feedback at feedback@linuxlugcst.com
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Show Topics

FiftyOneFifty:  Gaming PC showed up https://www.walmart.com/ip/Refurbished-Hp-Elite-Gaming-Computer-Nvidia-GT-1030-SFF-Quad-I5-3-1Ghz-8Gb-500Gb-Win-10-WiFi-HDMI/105464507?athcpid=105464507&athpgid=athenaItemPage&athcgid=null&athznid=PWVAV&athieid=v0&athstid=CS020&athguid=0f407228-fb8-1681bf5b02a064&athena=true  GeForce GTX 1050 (1030 advertised).  Passive cooling, but no exteral power required.  Added 4TB drive, 1/2 to Fedora, 1/2 to TrueOS, trying to make Grub see TrueOS.  Installed Mate desktop, but it doesn’t come up as a choice.  Do have “Gnome Legacy”, just as good.  Haven’t gamed yet, but speed blows away my i3s.
Got 4G booster antenna, needed SMA to TS9.  Got adapter, no signal, even seemed like modem broke.  Re-ordering.

TrueOS recomends Refind boot manager  for multi-boot on UEFI https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/REFInd

Not necessarily FOSS:  James Veatch videos on YouTube — Scamming e-mail scammers
Using nVidia crypto currency specific cards (no video output) as GPUs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY4s35uULg4

neandergeek
posted a link to a inexpensive reburb Intel Chromebook
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X131e-11-6-LED-Chromebook-Intel-Celeron-Dual-Core-4GB-16GB-SSD-/362292612213?hash=item545a528c75

created his own podcast client fp_pod
https://github.com/rkline1963/fp_pod

Honkeymagoo:
search apt in launcher on chrome os
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/01/chrome-os-apt-search-in-launcher

terminal based mattermost client
https://github.com/matterhorn-chat/matterhorn/releases/tag/50200.1.1

Home automation server
https://www.home-assistant.io

true os handbook dual boot
https://trueos.org/handbook/dualboot.html

Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8812AU 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WLAN Adapter in linux fix
https://askubuntu.com/questions/991643/rtl8812au-usb-adapter-driver-issues

Joe
Punisher season 2 opened up today.
https://github.com/alexa-pi/AlexaPi/wiki/Installation

https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-docker

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Venue-128GB-Wi-Fi-Black-i3-4gb-with-keyboard-Windows-10-touchscreen/113363563659?epid=219507472&hash=item1a64feb48b:g:Ku0AAOSwZs1b5zZM:rk:6:pf:0&LH_BIN=1

https://www.ebay.com/itm/DELL-VENUE-PRO-11-7130-I5-4300-YCPU-1-6GHZ-4GB-RAM-NO-STORAGE/254080524081?hash=item3b28611f31:g:ziAAAOSwf29cQh7h:rk:2:pf:1&LH_BIN=1&frcectupt=true

Our next recording date will be Feb, 1 2019

Our music is “Downright” provided by Klaatu and Broam

We would like to thank Delwin for the use of his mumble server, and for the bot module to find the next recording date ll you need to do is type .ns in our irc channel.

We would also like to thank “000webhost” for web hosting

Finally we would like to give a special thanks to Kwisher, Faherfinch, and Tony Beemus for all there help and support over the years.