May 2021 – LinuxLUGCast

23May

Episode 172 (possibly nsfw)

by pshaffer8 Podcast

Welcome to Episode 172 the LinuxLUGcast

We are an open podcast/LUG that meets at 9 PM EST every first and third friday of the month using mumble.
We encourage anyone listening to join us and participate on the podcast. Check out https://www.linuxlugcast.com/ for the server details.

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Free your vacuum from the cloud
https://valetudo.cloud/

OpenSurface RT
https://openrt.gitbook.io/open-surfacert/

Raspberry Pi Codecs
http://codecs.raspberrypi.org/license-keys/

Danny Meeks:
https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/05/10/hybridos-is-an-open-source-operating-system-designed-for-smart-iot-devices-and-cloud-computing-environment/

Danny Meeks:
https://9to5mac.com/2021/05/12/linux-kernel-5-13-rc-brings-official-support-for-apples-m1-chip/

Danny Meeks:
https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/05/17/why-you-should-request-open-source-software-for-your-iot-devices/

Danny Meeks:
https://fossbytes.com/exa-linux-command-ls-alternative-features/

Danny Meeks:
https://hackaday.com/2021/05/17/telemetry-debate-rocks-audacity-community-in-open-source-dustup/

Danny Meeks:
https://www.pine64.org/2021/05/19/femtostar-taking-aim-for-the-stars/

Blaine Clark:
Notes and questions on a new Asus installation.
I just purchased an Asus laptop, an F512J. I intended to install LMDE4 immediately and made a USB image. Info told me to hold the F2 key as the unit was powered up to access the BIOS. This worked as expected. I disabled Secure Boot, set boot order and attempted to boot up. Hang. I pressed the power button and the boot process jumped just a bit. Everything hung again. I pressed the power button again and nothing. I held it and forced a shutdown. Tried booting again. Same. For a test I made a LM Cinnamon 20 USB and attempted another boot. The boot completed but just into the install it stopped too, but with a message about RST needing to be disabled. I got into the BIOS but there was no option to disable the RST. I did some checking into RST then got into the SATA settings and changed that to AHCI. LMDE4 still wouldn’t boot, but LM 20 was OK again and I completed the installation without a hitch. I’m in the process of getting it tuned to my specs now and not having any further issues.
I had checked the .iso files and I had tried the USBs on my ancient Toshiba to make sure they were good images and they both booted with no troubles on the Toshiba.
Any ideas on getting LMDE to boot and install? LM C 20 is fine, but I’d much rather have LMDE for my full time runner. I’ve been using it for the last year and I’ve grown attached to it.

next recording date will be June 4, 2021
Our music is “Downright” provided by Klaatu and Broam
We would like to thank Delwin for the use of his mumble server.
Finally we would like to give a special thanks to Fatherfinch, Fweeb, Dave Morris and Tony Beemus for all their help and support over the years.

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9May

episode 171

by pshaffer8 Podcast

Welcome to Episode 171 the LinuxLUGcast

Danny Meeks:
https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-21-04-is-here

Danny Meeks:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/linux-fellow-bans-university-contributing-kernel

Danny Meeks:
https://www.pine64.org/2021/04/22/its-time-infinitime-1-0/

Honkeymagoo:
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2021/04/oh-my-git-is-open-source-game-for.html?m=1

Dale:
I bought a System76 Pangolin laptop in March. All AMD graphics and Ryzen cpu. I am getting use to using Pop!_OS 20.04. I haven’t used a Gnome based desktop in a decade or so.

Dale:
https://blog.system76.com/post/648371526931038208/cosmic-to-arrive-in-june-release-of-popos-2104

Dale:
I am considering using Next Cloud hosted or self hosted on Linode. I want an off site backup and to sync files. I have also seen YouTube videos on SyncThing so I am open to it.

Fweeb:
https://www.ddcutil.com/
This was, in part, because I set up a new monitor. Using Barrier (https://github.com/debauchee/barrier) to have a single keyboard and mouse is great, but changing inputs was a right pain. Found a way with ddcutil to also control that from my keyboard. A couple key things to note:

It’s a really good idea to get the i2c-dev module automatically loaded, otherwise ddcutil doesn’t work much.
Thing is, that module loads with root permissions, but fortunately ddcutil ships with a way around that: https://www.ddcutil.com/i2c_permissions/
With that done, changing inputs (among other things) can be done right from the command line. I’ve set up aliases in my .bashrc and also set some key bindings in Enlightenment

Fweeb:
I got a 7″ touchscreen for a Raspberry Pi. Combine that with a bit of 3D printing and point the browser to my NextCloud instance and I have a little kitchen kiosk with a cookbook and a calendar. Posted a photo on the MeWe group.
Links to stuff to print for it:

Fweeb:
Also, I got a whole new laptop. An Acer ConceptD 7. Pretty sweet machine. Installed Arch on it (of course). Actually tried out using the new guided install script. Took a couple tries, thanks to issues with RST and setting up partitions with encryption… but eventually got it to work. Still refining a bit, but everything works. And I took this opportunity to use Pipewire. That works too.

Danny Meeks:
https://f-droid.org/packages/de.micmun.android.nextcloudcookbook/

Danny Meeks:
https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/04/rocky_linux_wouldbe_centos_replacement/

joe
https://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/bandit1.html

next recording date will be May 21, 2021
Our music is “Downright” provided by Klaatu and Broam
We would like to thank Delwin for the use of his mumble server.
Finally we would like to give a special thanks to Fatherfinch, Fweeb, Dave Morris and Tony Beemus for all their help and support over the years.

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