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Reminder! Meeting tomorrow!! Location: Technocopia, Topic: Going rogue.
by Tim Keller 02 Dec '24

02 Dec '24

Hey Gang! Location: Technocopia, 44 Portland St. Worcester MA. Date: November 21st, 2024 Time: 7PM Topic: Going rogue. I know, a flashy title to draw you in! Let's be frank, the digital landscape is looking a bit bleak right now. More and more, I'm finding myself not that interested in posting anything about myself or my family because I don't need some AI algorithmically categorizing me. Even this email I'm sure is being analyzed by google.. gmail is free for a reason.. I had an idea and that was this. Would people be interested in a mastodon server running inside a tailscale mesh? Or some other service, like IRC or https://revolt.chat/ or I'm sure other people have other great ideas. My plan is to show off a pi running mastodon and/or revolt with tailscale. I'd love to hear people's thoughts about this. If people even think the tailscale stuff is needed. So that's my thought for what we might talk about. As usual, there will be dinner afterwards and I'm sure we'll keep talking. See you there! Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Looking for anti-virus suggestion
by THE HAMMER 02 Dec '24

02 Dec '24

I've got a friend who is looking to get a new laptop running Windows for his wife. He's asked me what virus protection should he get. I have no idea what's good nowadays. I would guess Windows Defender is built is, but can anyone advise me as to if he should get something more?

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Tomorrows meeting will also have a virtual component
by Tim Keller 22 Nov '24

22 Nov '24

Hey Everybody, Sorry about that.. Yes, we will also have an online meeting! At the usual spot as well: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Reminder! WLUG meeting next week!!
by Tim Keller 14 Nov '24

14 Nov '24

Just in case people forgot.. WLUG will be on the 21st! I hope to see you there!! Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Does Poxmox Virtualize H.264 encoding
by Kevin Stratton 10 Nov '24

10 Nov '24

I occasionally use OBS studio as a screen recorder in my main OS and my CPU is a little light for CPU encoding of video. I have been considering using Proxmox as my hypervisor in place of Virtualbox on my single desktop. Does anyone have any idea if proxmox provides virtual H.264 hardware encoder support like there is a virtual device for keyboard and mouse? From what I have been able to determine, I can not use a pass-through unless I get a second video card, and I suspect there will be other limitations. Right now, I can not get another video card due to a shortage of PCIe slots, $$ and power supply capacity .

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Software to write books
by hammerron 28 Oct '24

28 Oct '24

Probably a couple years back, I think Tim might have mentioned a software program that was used by many people to write and edit books with. I think the perk was that it was easier to work with the font types than it was in Microsoft Word or Libre Office. Would anyone recall what software that was? Ron

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Shifting next meeting down a Thursday.
by Tim Keller 23 Oct '24

23 Oct '24

I have a conflict on the 14th so I'm shifting the meeting down to the 21st. For topics, I was thinking about talking about searx, the self hosted search aggregator. Later, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Stuck in traffic
by Tim Keller 11 Oct '24

11 Oct '24

I'm currently stuck in traffic I should be there for about 7:10

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Reminder! WLUG Meeting tonight! Topic: ZFS!
by Tim Keller 10 Oct '24

10 Oct '24

Time: 7pm Date: Oct 10th, 2024 Location: Technocopia, 44 Portland St. Worcester MA Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Topic: Zettabyte File System (ZFS). I thought I'd give a quick demo of ZFS, what it is and how I'm using it in an enterprise environment. I'll create some filesystems, do some hacky stuff with them, etc.. As usual, I'm sure we'll chat about lots of other stuff as well.. I hope to see you there! Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Meeting tomorrow!! Oct 10th 2024!
by Tim Keller 09 Oct '24

09 Oct '24

Hey Everybody! Sorry for the late notice.. Frankly our entire house was under the weather with covid.. it sucked. But we're all negative and feeling better! We've got a meeting Tomorrow at Technocopia! Date: Oct 10th 2024 Time: 7PM Location: 44 Portland St Worcester MA Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Topic: TBD.. Would be interested in me doing a ZFS demo? Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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