August 2023 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Hierarchical note taking, Joplin, Trilium, browser extensions, etc..

by Tim Keller

At last night's meeting, a new attendee brought up a problem she was having and one of the solutions that got bandied about was Joplin. After doing some research, this might be my new note taking app. Another very interesting FOSS tool out there is called "Trilium" https://github.com/zadam/trilium As much as I like google's keep.. I'm fully aware that google capable of just pulling the rug out from under me in a moment's notice. I've spun up U22.04.3 server and I'm going to tinker with Joplin and possibly Trilium and let people know what I think of them. Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

Aug. 12, 2023

Re: Reminder! Meeting tonight at Technocopia! Time: 7pm!

by John Stoffel

Oh, another thing we talked about at Dinner afterwards was Core Rope Memory on the apollo spacecraft. Here's a fun read for all you techies out there: http://www.righto.com/2019/07/software-woven-into-wire-core-rope-and.html And in general, this is a great blog as well. Also, look at the "Curious Marc" youtube channel if you get a chance. Amazing work on bringing back old Apollo Comms and other old hardware. John

Aug. 11, 2023

Re: Reminder! Meeting tonight at Technocopia! Time: 7pm!

by David Glaser

John, Good summary. Thank you. -David On 8/11/2023 8:49 AM, John Stoffel via WLUG wrote: > Guys, > > I hope the remote crew found using the Owl to be helpful and useful. > Technocopia is a bit louder than other spaces we've used, but the > energy is just great. > > [snipped a lot of text] -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com

Aug. 11, 2023

Re: Reminder! Meeting tonight at Technocopia! Time: 7pm!

by John Stoffel

Guys, I hope the remote crew found using the Owl to be helpful and useful. Technocopia is a bit louder than other spaces we've used, but the energy is just great. Some of the discussion subjects last night included: - using emacs to interface into a system to track documents and meta-data. This is a personal issue for me too since I have close to 30 years of emails to search through at times. I use a tool called 'glimpse' which is old. Think of it as grep on steroids. First you have to index your docuemnt store, then you search against the index. It does support re-indexing and updating, so you don't have to do a full scan again. Someone mentioned "booyah" as an alternative, but I think that's a false lead. Glimpse is in alot of linux distros, or you can find the source (or a version of the source) here on github: https://github.com/gvelez17/glimpse/tree/master - We then talked about how do you group documents once you've indexed them, since you'd like to find similar documents. This is a hard thing to do. I've been looking on and off for over 15 years and haven't found anything good yet. I'll keep looking, and would love to see other solutions. I don't want something in the cloud, I'd prefer a CLI based interface, and some way to tag or annotate docs with metadata. IDeally in an automated way, but I personally haven't found anything quite yet. I should try to write something, but elisp (or lisp in general) just doesn't grok in my brain. I could try something in perl or python I guess. Lots of tools there. - Thne Kevin hijacked the meeting and gave us a demo of BowlerStudio, which is just amazing work from (mostly) Kevin in terms of what it offers. Very cool. https://commonwealthrobotics.com/ to do a download and run some tutorials. I hope to get around to this in the future myself. - We also talked about how to pass through NVidia graphics cards into VMs, so you can get better rendering performance, and all the issues, tradeoffs and outright problems of doing this. So anyways, a good meeting, lots of random talking and networking. Hope more can make the next meeting in september in person! John

Aug. 11, 2023

Re: FYI - Article about Framework brand laptop

by Robert Krawitz

On 8/10/23 19:54, Aljerin Butler,Jr. via WLUG wrote: > Need help with that job search What does that have to do with my comment? > On Wednesday, August 9, 2023 at 05:46:57 PM EDT, Robert Krawitz via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > On 8/9/23 12:23, John Stoffel via WLUG wrote: >>>>>>> "Dennis" == Dennis Payne via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org <mailto:wlug@lists.wlug.org>> writes: >> >>> I preordered a Framework 16 laptop. The hope is that I have a job >>> before the full bill is due. I managed to get into Batch 3 (late >>> Q4). They are currently up to Batch 10. >> >> I've been seriously impressed by those laptops. I'd personally want >> to get an AMD CPU if I could, and when I could. Not in the market >> right now since $WORK gives me a laptop to play with.... > > Definitely looks interesting. It would be really interesting with a 4K screen and plenty of storage > bays (would really like some SATA options for my existing SATA 2.5" drives).

Aug. 11, 2023

Re: FYI - Article about Framework brand laptop

by Aljerin Butler,Jr.

Need help with that job search? Al Butler On Wednesday, August 9, 2023 at 05:46:57 PM EDT, Robert Krawitz via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: On 8/9/23 12:23, John Stoffel via WLUG wrote: >>>>>> "Dennis" == Dennis Payne via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > >> I preordered a Framework 16 laptop. The hope is that I have a job >> before the full bill is due. I managed to get into Batch 3 (late >> Q4). They are currently up to Batch 10. > > I've been seriously impressed by those laptops. I'd personally want > to get an AMD CPU if I could, and when I could. Not in the market > right now since $WORK gives me a laptop to play with.... Definitely looks interesting. It would be really interesting with a 4K screen and plenty of storage bays (would really like some SATA options for my existing SATA 2.5" drives). _______________________________________________ WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/ZQB52…

Aug. 10, 2023

Reminder! Meeting tonight at Technocopia! Time: 7pm!

by Tim Keller

Hey Everybody, We've got a meeting tonight! Location: Technocopia in Worcester: 44 Portland St, Worcester, MA 01608 Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA As for a topic, I haven't really thought one up, but I'm just sure stuff will come up! I'd love people's ideas for what to install on a chromebook that's no longer taking updates.. Bunsenlabs looks promising.. I'll bring snacks and refreshments and afterwards we'll head off for dinner! Later, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

Aug. 10, 2023

Re: Meeting Aug 10th at Technocopia at 7pm!

by THE HAMMER

Sadly, I will not make it. If I can might pop in virtually for a bit at least Ron ________________________________ From: Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2023 5:26 PM To: Worcester Linux Users' Group General Discussion <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> Cc: Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> Subject: [WLUG] Meeting tomorrow at Technocopia at 7pm! Hey Everybody! I know we were just there.. but getting back onto our schedule of the 2nd Thursday of the month means we'll eventually have two meetings close together. Date: August 10th, 2023 Time: 7pm Location: Technocopia in Worcester: 44 Portland St, Worcester, MA 01608 Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA As for a topic, I haven't really thought one up, but I'm just sure stuff will come up! I'd love people's ideas for what to install on a chromebook that's no longer taking updates.. Bunsenlabs looks promising.. I'll bring snacks and refreshments and afterwards we'll head off for dinner! Later, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

Aug. 10, 2023

Re: Meeting tomorrow at Technocopia at 7pm!

by Kevin Stratton

I hope to make it to the virtual site. My linux interests are broad. It is just a hobby, not my vocation. On 8/9/2023 5:26 PM, Tim Keller via WLUG wrote: > Hey Everybody! > > I know we were just there.. but getting back onto our schedule of the > 2nd Thursday of the month means we'll eventually have two meetings > close together. > > Date: August 10th, 2023 > Time: 7pm > Location: Technocopia in Worcester: 44 Portland St, Worcester, MA 01608 > Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA > > As for a topic, I haven't really thought one up, but I'm just sure > stuff will come up! > I'd love people's ideas for what to install on a chromebook that's no > longer taking updates.. Bunsenlabs looks promising.. > > I'll bring snacks and refreshments and afterwards we'll head off for > dinner! > > Later, > Tim. > > -- > I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their > constituents as "consumers". > > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list --wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email towlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > Create Account:https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ > Change Settings:https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ > Web Forum/Archive:https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org…

Aug. 10, 2023

Re: Meeting tomorrow at Technocopia at 7pm!

by John Stoffel

>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > Date: August 10th, 2023 > Time: 7pm > Location: Technocopia in Worcester: 44 Portland St, Worcester, MA 01608 > Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA I'll be there tonight, looking forward to it! > As for a topic, I haven't really thought one up, but I'm just sure > stuff will come up! I'd love people's ideas for what to install on > a chromebook that's no longer taking updates.. Bunsenlabs looks > promising.. Dang, I could have taken my in-laws' old 32bit Chrome book which I just retired to use as a demo. It's a ten year old machine which just worked for my mother-in-law for years. Best investment I ever made computer wise. Well... I got alot of use out of my Amigas too. :-) > I'll bring snacks and refreshments and afterwards we'll head off for > dinner! Great.

Aug. 10, 2023