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Re: Windows 10 to Linux Repair Event
by Tim Keller Oct. 4, 2025

Oct. 4, 2025

Hey Jack! An event like this would right up WLUG's alley! Our next meeting is scheduled for the 9th. I unfortunately have a family even on the 18th and will be out of town, otherwise I would be there in spades. One of things that WLUG started out doing was "install fests" where we helped people get Linux on their desktops! We *just had a meeting* so I'd be amenable to moving the meeting to the 16th to help prep and make bootable media if that would help. I'm absolutely horrified by the immense amount of e-waste this debacle is causing, all in search of the mighty dollar.. Thanks, Tim. I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers". On Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 3:57 PM Jack Frimet <jfrimet(a)pirg.org> wrote: > Hi Tim and WLUG, > > My name is Jack Frimet, and I'm with PIRG, a consumer advocacy group > working on the Right to Repair. You may have heard from Eric Sutman, but we > are hosting an event at Technocopia on 10/18 (International Repair Day!), > where we are working to save computers impacted by the End of Windows 10 by > switching them over to Linux. > > We need some volunteers to help with actually working on the computers, > and I figured this seems right up your group's alley! I'd love to set up a > time to chat with any of WLUG's organizers to gauge interest in > volunteering for this event! Feel free to send me an email or give me a > call at 845-637-9633. > > Best, > Jack > > -- > > Jack Frimet > Right to Repair Associate > jfrimet(a)pirg.org >

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Looking for Locality Info of Apatite Specimen
by The Hammer Sept. 27, 2025

Sept. 27, 2025

Hello, I am wondering if anyone might be able to guide me at to the specific locality of a blue apatite specimen that I have. The Label says "Blue Apatite XL New York" The specimen is about an inch across at its widest point. Ron

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Sorry about the A/V troubles..
by Tim Keller Sept. 19, 2025

Sept. 19, 2025

Last night because I had the presentation full screened I failed to see that the audio had dropped out. For the next meeting I'm going to bring a dedicated laptop whose sole job is to be the "meeting" laptop that just drives Jitsi. As an aside, I'm glad everybody liked the presentation. I'll put my slides up somewhere sensible. Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Reminder!!! September 18th WLUG Meeting! Topic: Tailscale / Nebula
by Tim Keller Sept. 18, 2025

Sept. 18, 2025

Hey Everybody, We've got a meeting THIS Thursday! Time: 7pm Date: September 18th, 2025 Location: Technocopia, 44 Portland St. Worcester MA. Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Topic: Why Traditional Network Security is DOOMED! In this talk, I'll explain how we've *done *modern network security, and why tools like tailscale / headscale / nebula largely nullify some of this security. For those of us who are network / security administrators I'll talk about what we should be looking for, and I'll also show off how these technologies are amazingly useful. I will be definitely demoing Tailscale as I'm a daily driver of it and provided it doesn't break my existing stuff I'll show off Nebula. I'm sure this is going to foster a lively discussion about networking, firewalls, security in general and what security on modern networks is going to have to look like to address these new technologies. As usual after the meeting we'll go get some dinner and keep talking. I hope to see you all there! Later, Tim. -- 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, Sept 18th, 2025!
by Tim Keller Sept. 8, 2025

Sept. 8, 2025

Hey Everybody, Our next meeting is the 18th of September! I'll be giving a talk on tailscale / headscale and possibly nebula if I have time. The working title for the topic is "Traditional Network Security is DOOMED!" Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Next meeting will be the 18th, not the 11th.
by Tim Keller Aug. 28, 2025

Aug. 28, 2025

Hey Gang! I've got a conflict on the 11th, so I'm moving the meeting to the 18th. My plan is to talk about Tailscale / headscale and nebula to build secure networks that don't require punching holes in firewalls, etc. Let me know if you know of similar tech and I'll try to talk about that as well. Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Spectrum, Recursive dns and interception of root authoritative DNS
by steve＠patternsoft.net Aug. 27, 2025

Aug. 27, 2025

Hey all. I was wondering since were all? Worcester or surrounding and dealing with Spectrum as an ISP, if you’ve run into the same thing I have in the last few months. I used to, as you’ll see soon, run unbound as a recursive DNS server in my home network to cache and limit external DNS queries that was the forwarder behind Pihole. It worked great for a very long time. But a few months ago, my internet went down, and It turned out to be non cached dns queries starting to fail. I realized in logs that unbound was getting errors reaching out to dns servers and disabled it until I could investigate instead forwarding to cloud flare temporarily. Now that I have had time to research and investigate, I have found that at least SOMETHING is intercepting my my queries to authoritative DNS servers when I reset unbound and it throw’s away the response because they aren’t “AA” status responses and it never caches the root dns and therefor won’t resolve anything. I come to find out the “authoritative” servers are responding with a status of RA which means it’s not the actual authoritative service when I query manually, dig @198.41.0.4 . NS +norecurse an actual authoritative, and that this is most likely a change Spectrum has made. Has anybody else ran into this? Is it actually Spectrum. I guess I haven’t dug far enough yet to see if its may be a firmware update to my router, UDM PRO yet. Still working on that, but though I’d ask this group first before I dig into that and save myself the time and go straight to ISP workarounds. Thanks in advance! Looking forward to our next meeting!! Steve

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Reminder! WLUG Meeting tomorrow!! Topics: pi5 nvme support, backups, general discussion
by Tim Keller Aug. 14, 2025

Aug. 14, 2025

Hey Everybody! We've got a meeting tomorrow, Thursday, August 14th, 2025 at 7PM! Location: Technocopia, 44 Portland Ave Worcester MA. Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA I'm sure we'll have our usual A/V antics.. Topic: pi5 nvme support, backups, round table. I recently had a hardware failure that exposed that my backup solution wasn't that great. This spurred me to get a solution for backups. With a trusty pi5 and some nvme's I've setup a "burp" backup server. I'll show off the pi5 with an nvme or dual nvme setup running Rasbian with ZFS and burp. Then from there I'm sure we'll stray into other topics and I expect the conversation to get lively. As usual, we'll head out for dinner afterwards and keep the conversation going. Later, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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WLUG Meeting August 14th 2025 Topics: pi5 nvme support, backups
by Tim Keller Aug. 11, 2025

Aug. 11, 2025

Hey Everybody! We've got a meeting this Thursday, August 14th, 2025 at 7PM! Location: Technocopia, 44 Portland Ave Worcester MA. Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA I'm sure we'll have our usual A/V antics.. Topic: pi5 nvme support, backups, round table. I recently had a hardware failure that exposed that my backup solution wasn't that great. This spurred me to get a solution for backups. With a trusty pi5 and some nvme's I've setup a "burp" backup server. I'll show off the pi5 with an nvme or dual nvme setup running Rasbian with ZFS and burp. Then from there I'm sure we'll stray into other topics and I expect the conversation to get lively. As usual, we'll head out for dinner afterwards and keep the conversation going. Later, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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m.2 for pi5!
by Tim Keller July 27, 2025

July 27, 2025

I recently got all the bits so that I can stick a 1TB nvme on my pi5! it almost makes it feel like a "real" server. I'll probably bring the whole contraption with me for the next wlug meeting! Oh and yes.. I'm using ZFS for the filesystem! Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Re: m.2 for pi5!
by Gregory Boyce July 26, 2025

July 26, 2025

Gotcha, that makes sense. Voting from NVMe has worked out great for me, other than the issue choosing the root filesystem. Greg On Sat, Jul 26, 2025, 8:45 AM Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Personally, I have linux running on the sd card and I'm using the nvme for > storage. Though now I want to do some experiments with having it boot > directly off the nvme.. > > I do like that the pi5 has a bios ypu cam interact with. > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM Gregory Boyce <gregory.boyce(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Can I ask what method you used for installing Linux on it? >> >> I've got an NVMe drive in my pi5 as well, but all of the images I've seen >> expect to be dd'ed onto the device rather than a traditional install, which >> makes choosing a different filesystem or using LVM difficult. >> >> I've been planning on sitting down and doing a debootstrap based install >> at some point, but if you've found something easier I'd love to hear it. >> >> On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> >> wrote: >> >>> I recently got all the bits so that I can stick a 1TB nvme on my pi5! >>> it almost makes it feel like a "real" server. >>> I'll probably bring the whole contraption with me for the next wlug >>> meeting! >>> >>> Oh and yes.. I'm using ZFS for the filesystem! >>> >>> 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 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/MKDKR… >>> >> >> >> -- >> Greg >> > > > -- > I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their > constituents as "consumers". >

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Fwd: m.2 for pi5!
by Tim Keller July 26, 2025

July 26, 2025

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Jul 26, 2025, 8:44 AM Subject: Re: [WLUG] m.2 for pi5! To: Gregory Boyce <gregory.boyce(a)gmail.com> Personally, I have linux running on the sd card and I'm using the nvme for storage. Though now I want to do some experiments with having it boot directly off the nvme.. I do like that the pi5 has a bios ypu cam interact with. On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM Gregory Boyce <gregory.boyce(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Can I ask what method you used for installing Linux on it? > > I've got an NVMe drive in my pi5 as well, but all of the images I've seen > expect to be dd'ed onto the device rather than a traditional install, which > makes choosing a different filesystem or using LVM difficult. > > I've been planning on sitting down and doing a debootstrap based install > at some point, but if you've found something easier I'd love to hear it. > > On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> > wrote: > >> I recently got all the bits so that I can stick a 1TB nvme on my pi5! >> it almost makes it feel like a "real" server. >> I'll probably bring the whole contraption with me for the next wlug >> meeting! >> >> Oh and yes.. I'm using ZFS for the filesystem! >> >> 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 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/MKDKR… >> > > > -- > Greg > -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Re: m.2 for pi5!
by Robert N. Evans July 23, 2025

July 23, 2025

I have a similar system. With Raspberry Pi OS, I used their imager to put the OS on an SD card. Booted the Pi5 from that card and manually transferred the file systems to the NVMe drive. I used GPT and have lots of multiboot possibilities via an autoboot.txt file in the firmware filesystem... rob@d5:~ $ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS nvme0n1 259:0 0 476.9G 0 disk ├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 1G 0 part /boot/firmware ├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 1G 0 part ├─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 1G 0 part ├─nvme0n1p4 259:4 0 1G 0 part ├─nvme0n1p5 259:5 0 1G 0 part ├─nvme0n1p6 259:6 0 1G 0 part ├─nvme0n1p7 259:7 0 1G 0 part ├─nvme0n1p8 259:8 0 1G 0 part ├─nvme0n1p9 259:9 0 1G 0 part ├─nvme0n1p10 259:10 0 8G 0 part [SWAP] ├─nvme0n1p11 259:11 0 31G 0 part / ├─nvme0n1p12 259:12 0 31G 0 part ├─nvme0n1p13 259:13 0 31G 0 part ├─nvme0n1p14 259:14 0 31G 0 part ├─nvme0n1p15 259:15 0 31G 0 part ├─nvme0n1p16 259:16 0 31G 0 part ├─nvme0n1p17 259:17 0 31G 0 part ├─nvme0n1p18 259:18 0 31G 0 part ├─nvme0n1p19 259:19 0 31G 0 part └─nvme0n1p20 259:20 0 180.9G 0 part /Data -Bob Evans -----Original Message----- From: Worcester Linux Users' Group General Discussion <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> Sent: Jul 23, 2025 1:48 PM To: Worcester Linux Users' Group General Discussion <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> Cc: Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com>, Gregory Boyce <gregory.boyce(a)gmail.com> Subject: [WLUG] Re: m.2 for pi5! Can I ask what method you used for installing Linux on it? I've got an NVMe drive in my pi5 as well, but all of the images I've seen expect to be dd'ed onto the device rather than a traditional install, which makes choosing a different filesystem or using LVM difficult. I've been planning on sitting down and doing a debootstrap based install at some point, but if you've found something easier I'd love to hear it. On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org (mailto:wlug@lists.wlug.org)> wrote: I recently got all the bits so that I can stick a 1TB nvme on my pi5! it almost makes it feel like a "real" server. I'll probably bring the whole contraption with me for the next wlug meeting! Oh and yes.. I'm using ZFS for the filesystem! 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 (mailto:wlug@lists.wlug.org) To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org (mailto:wlug-leave@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/MKDKR… -- Greg

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Reboot required questions
by The Hammer July 16, 2025

July 16, 2025

I usually run any updates on my Linux machine after I'm done using the machine for the day. Sometimes the update the system says "reboot required" At that point I close the active window. Hit restart, let the machine start up, reboot, and then I sign in again before shutting down for the night. My question is: can I instead just shut down and wait until the next day to start up the computer? (I've read on line that I need a "proper" shut down. With all the text flashing at hyper speed I wonder if I do shut down or even start up properly) Ron

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Sorry about the A/V issues last night on Jitsi..
by Tim Keller July 11, 2025

July 11, 2025

To our members on the Jitsi call, sorry. Last night was *rough.* we tested stuff at our end and the issue was definitely at the Jitsi side of things. We may have to explore a different platform for the virtual meetings.. Thanks for the patience. Tim.

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Sox question
by gmcaplan＠gmcaplan.org July 10, 2025

July 10, 2025

Hi Folks, I have tried to get an answer to this question thru Stackexachange, but they give me bureaucratic reasons why this question does not qualify for an answer. Maybe one of you can give me some guidance. Here is the question: I am running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I use this command line to record from either Line In or microphone: sox -t alsa default \Desktop/FTC/RecdMsg$(date +"%Yx%mx%dx%Ix%Mx%Sx%p")x1.mp3 A cable is always plugged into Line In. If I plug a microphone into the Front Microphone connector, this command line records from the mic. If I physically unplug the mic, I can record from Line In. I hope someone can help me: a. Create a similar command that always records from Line In b. Create a similar command that always records from Front Microphone c. Create a command that asks me which input I want to use Thank you. George Caplan email: gmcaplan(a)gmcaplan.org

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Reminder WLUG Meeting tonight! Topic PiHole / Cadoodle!
by Tim Keller July 10, 2025

July 10, 2025

Hey Everybody! We've got a wlug meeting tonight! Time: 7pm Date: TODAY!!! July 10th, 2024 Location: Technocopia, 44 Portland Ave. Worcester MA Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Topic: Ad blocking and CAD! I'm going to give a quick demo of a PiHole server I literally built this afternoon running on a Pi5. Pi-Hole is DNS blackholing software that drastically reduces how many ads get served to your browser! Cadoodle! Kevin has finally gotten Cadoodle to a place where he wants to show it to the world so we're going to let him show off his great piece of software! As usual, we'll go out to dinner after the meeting and keep up the conversation! Later, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Meeting THIS WEEK, July 10th, 2025! Topic: ?TrueNAS? Pi Kiosk displays?
by Tim Keller July 10, 2025

July 10, 2025

Hey Everybody! We've got a meeting this week! Date: July 10th, 2025 @ 7PM Location: Technocopia, 44 Portland St. Worcester MA. Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Topic: I could talk about TrueNAS if people were interested in that, otherwise, this might be a bit of a freeform meeting. The other thing that I've been doing lately is turning Pi's into kiosk displays.. but that's going to take about 10 minutes to explain.. If someone has something they really want to talk about let me know! As usual we'll head off to dinner afterwards and 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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Reminder!!! Meeting tomorrow night! Topic: Nix
by Tim Keller July 8, 2025

July 8, 2025

Just a reminder that we've got a meeting tomorrow night! Date: June 12th, 2025 Time: 7pm Location: Technocopia, 44 Portland st. Worcester MA Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Topic: Nix Package Manager Presenter: Xavier Ruis Fellow WLUG member Evan White has asked his friend Xavier to speak at WLUG and he's graciously agreed. Xavier Ruis is one of the organizers of the Boston Typescript club and will be giving a talk about the Nix Package manager! https://nixos.org/ Nix is a packaging system that allows for the creation of "declarative builds and deployments" It works on all the distros as well as the NixOS linux distribution. Afterwards we'll head off to dinner to continue the conversation! I hope to see you there! Tim.

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WLUG.. Already?!? Yup! June 12th 2025 Topic: Nix Package Manager, Presenter: Xavier Ruiz
by Tim Keller June 9, 2025

June 9, 2025

Hey Everybody! Fellow WLUG member Evan White has asked his friend Xavier to speak at WLUG and he's graciously agreed. Xavier Ruis is one of the organizers of the Boston Typescript club and will be giving a talk about the Nix Package manager! https://nixos.org/ Nix is a packaging system that allows for the creation of "declarative builds and deployments" It works on all the distros as well as the NixOS linux distribution. Here's all the vital details! Date: June 12th, 2025 Time: 7pm Location: Technocopia, 44 Portland Ave. Worcester MA Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Afterwards we'll head out to dinner and continue the conversation. 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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Reminder!! Meeting This Thursday!! May 29th, 2024 Topic: Mini-PC, QLC+
by Tim Keller May 27, 2025

May 27, 2025

Hey Everybody! We've got a meeting this week! Time: 7pm Date: May 29th, 2025 Location: Technocopia Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Topic: BeeLink Mini-PC Presenter: John Stoffel. Long time WLUG member John Stoffel has graciously agreed to show off his new, small, but mighty desktop. We'll put it through its paces with a couple quick demos and tests. Along with his mini pc, he's also got QLC+ lighting control software and an LED instrument with RGBW Leds in it to demo and show off it being controlled by a linux system. QLC+ has slowed down in development lately, but it's an interesting alternative to QLAB when you don't have a Mac, and Qlab only runs on Macs. As usual, we'll head off for dinner afterwards to keep the conversation going. Later, Tim.

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Meeting this week, May 22nd at 7pm! Topic: Mini PC!
by Tim Keller May 22, 2025

May 22, 2025

Hey Everybody! We've got a meeting this week! Date: May 22nd Time: 7PM Location: Technocopia Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Topic: Mini-PC.Long time WLUG member John Stoffel has graciously agreed to show off his new, small but mighty desktop. We'll put it through its paces with a couple quick demos and tests. We'll likely get OpenWebUI running on it, as well as Cadoodle. I recently started (trying!) to use a glove80 keyboard so I'll bring that along so people can give it a try as well. As usual, we'll head off for dinner afterwards to keep the conversation going. Thanks, TIm. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Let's not be stupid.. Moving the meeting to the 28th.
by Tim Keller May 21, 2025

May 21, 2025

John texted me this morning that there's a nor'easter on the way. The weather people, who are using Linux to run the large models are predicting heavy rain and winds, localized flooding, etc. I care more about the members of this group than keeping to a schedule. I think it makes sense to move the meeting to the 28th.. Stay safe everybody! Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Next month meeting date, some input needed.
by Tim Keller May 2, 2025

May 2, 2025

Next Month on the 2nd and 3rd Thursdays I have conflicts. So.. the next possible Thursday would be the 22nd.. Another option is that we shift the meeting to Wednesday for this month on the 14th? I know that isn't an "Free Hack" day at Technocopia, but I think we can work something out. What would people like to do? Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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IPv6, are you using it, should we be using it?
by steve＠patternsoft.net April 12, 2025

April 12, 2025

I’ve been adding more and more matter/thread devices to my home and since I’ve seen more local ipv6 addresses I’ve tried enabling Ipv6 fully. BUT, Ive had struggles adding matter devices. Is this just older hardware choices like we have to create a 2.4 GHz only network? Is the world of devices not yet ready for IPv6? What are your thoughts on it? Steve Thibault

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