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Weird Keyboard Issue
by Jim Ruxton 12 Sep '24

12 Sep '24

I am having a strange keyboard issue and wondering if it could be a weird setting that got changed somehow. If I hold down my left shift key then press a letter while holding down the shift key, the first character typed is lowercase but all subsequent letters come out uppercase as expected. I can't figure out why the first character typed when holding down that shift key comes out lowercase. My right shift key works as expected., always producing uppercase while held down. I'm on Ubuntu 22.04. My keyboard hasn't always been like this. I can't figure out why this is happening and what has changed. Any thoughts? Thanks Jim

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Re: [GTALUG] OT: Shots fired - heads up
by o1bigtenor 11 Sep '24

11 Sep '24

On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 1:57 AM ac via talk <talk(a)gtalug.org> wrote: > On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:40:23 -0400 > Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk(a)gtalug.org> wrote: > <snip> > > I see nothing in email (whether in Google Groups, groups.io or a > > conventional list like GTALUG's) that isn't functionally done better on > > Reddit (which allows people to "upvote" the most useful contributions) or > > Discord (which includes streaming and virtual ad-hoc meetings) or > WhatsApp > > (which is super simple and most people have it anyway). All three of > these > > are free of cost to join or start a group of as many people as you can > > gather. Discord also supports Markdown formatting which is easier to do > > than the HTML in most emails. > > > > You're right, it is about the audience. > > I am over 40 and I use discord and read reddit each and every day... > > > BUT, in the groups, specially the larger one's it is not easy to > read/scan each and every post, more so, when, like in email, the thread > devolves from Google being listed for abuse TO where do I think Glug chat > should migrate to... I usually avoid even reading threads with many > replies as > I have no clue who would post anything useful, where in each reply (what I > would find useful, not the 'crowd' - I read upvoted drivel many times each > day > and every times this happens I am sure I lose a braincell and seriously > consider leaving whatever platform. > > In fact, if I had no interest in spam/abuse and email and only scanned the > first post in this thread, I would not be even reading any of this on other > platforms. > > I have also had this same discussion, in a few formats and it always ends > the > same way... (with everyone doing whatever they want to do :) ) > > > > As I said, this is a generational issue. > > hmm, maybe you are right, but maybe not for the reasons you think? > I recall my first 'smartphone' a Nokia brick, but I could ssh into my > servers (the Nokia had a shell) I could do IRC and so many things mobile. > I also recall using my own first self written App, 2008? (three years > after > selling the Linux distro I made) App's were so cool, and surely now > email would become useless. Point I am trying to make is that I > used to be one of the charge leaders on 'email is now finally dead' :) > > > Email works great for people over 40, because it's comfortable and they > > grew up with it. > > Maybe you are right. maybe email is also now comfortable for me. I did not > grow up with it though. I used IRC way before using email. Email always > seemed to 'clunky' and just too much :) > > > > For younger people who grew up with smartphones and apps it's a very > > different story. > > > maybe. but it does not mean that technically one should promote mobile > tech. > > we only now know that small kids should not have smartphones. we only now > know > about myopia and so many many other harmful effects of where tech has taken > humanity. We will also still be paying that Invoice. > > I could also argue that maybe younger people, Gen A for example, is not > even > going to use discord or reddit. They struggle to focus and/or read anything > over 120 characters. (In stating this, I am looking at actual eye tracking > data and analytic data) - When comparing data Gen X and Millenials have > the > longest attention spans. imo, discord users are, on average, younger than > reddit users. Much more still needs to be known, but the foundations > expose a trend. > > You should think about what this means? > > also, to add : The 'upvote' idea, the 'like' idea and the 'herd' has > advantages, > but as it turns out, has more disadvantages. > > this email has no "like' 'subscribe' 'upvote' 'downvote' and you have to > truly think about who the person is writing whatever and, if you have the > attention span, you have to really focus to understand what is being said > :) > > sure, hindsight is perfect. but even in knowing something, like planetary > change is going to extinct us faster, this does not change anything. > > maybe we are evolving ourselves into extinction as we are truly disgusted > at > our very nature and the herd is just the herd. > > and, btw, as there are useful things in the bottom post, I have left it > intact, for the record, email allows me to reply inline, snip stuff and > allsorts of other things which, depending on the platform, is either > impossible, or just too much of an effort and just to hard to do... > > Hmmmmmmmm - - - been following the thread - - - - I'm thinking that its not that email is dead or dying, its not that attention span has been decreasing (although not training ourselves to think and learn really is increasing the level of helplessness in our society) I think the real problem is that we have or are most definitely forgotten how to communicate - - - because we really don't!!! The idea with writing is that one can communicate - - - have worked with those that can read anything unless it is printed (wow - - - huge handicap!). Now one gets notifications for most everything - - - why - - - because it makes one feel good - - - is that what communication is all about - - - feeling good?!!? So - - - can we change the direction of the thundering herd? (I think that that is the crucial question - - in point of fact!) Regards

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Windows eats Fedora installation sticks
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 10 Sep '24

10 Sep '24

Old news, I know. But I've been burned again. A Fedora installation USB stick, prepared by dd-ing the .iso file onto the raw stick works fine. But if you have that stick in the computer, and Windows sees it, it will drop a few bytes on it. The result is that the stick cannot be used to boot Fedora (until you rewrite it). Sheesh. Why did it happen to me, when I know of the problem? To run the stick, during power on, I have to hit a key to get into the choose-a-device-to-boot-from menu. It's a race, and sometimes I lose.

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Tom's Hardware: "AMD announces unified UDNA GPU architecture — bringing RDNA and CDNA together to take on Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem"
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 10 Sep '24

10 Sep '24

<https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-announces-unified-udna-…> This seems important to me. I lost a lot of interest in playing with AMD GPU Computing when consumer cards were no longer supported by AMD's computing stack. Unfortunately, it is clear that this unification will take years because there are GPUs in the product pipeline that haven't got the memo. I found one particular paragraph disappointing: The company also remains focused on ROCm despite the emergence of the UXL Foundation, an open software ecosystem for accelerators that is getting broad support from other players in the industry, like Qualcomm, Samsung, Arm, and Intel. ROCm seems to be to be an imperfect emulation of CUDA. How is that going to be a winner?

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OT: Shots fired - heads up
by ac 10 Sep '24

10 Sep '24

Usually when google or microsoft does really weird stuff the large RBL do not penalise them the same as everyone else. But, it seems the tide may be shifting... Just today, Microsoft has been sending out these "we have videos of you doing weird sexual stuff and pay money" and Google cloud has been sending out UBE to literally purchased/stolen/trojan data (and maybe doing other stuff that I do not knwo of or do not have data for - for the two mentioned things I do have my own hard data...) So microsoft has picked up some serious listings today but what is interesting is that SpamCop has now started listing @google servers I know that many on this list trust & use @google, but heads up: Me for one, drop (silently) on spamcop listing... (so some things from some @google places will not be read and may just disapear into /dev/null) example: https://multirbl.valli.org/lookup/209.85.166.74.html Hopefully both huge players will step up and take actual action against their (sometimes large corporate) abusers, but probably not. Notably the past few weeks many interesting things have been happening in the Interent abuse field, I see that many services are publishing data, downgrading and treating large esp's like everyone else... I read in a thread here recently that email is dead, I have been hearing that same thing for 30? years now and always for different reasons. But volumes of actual transactional email has seen exponential growth, year on year, with not even a hint of any decline in the growth itself. What has declined in email is some application stuff, like mailing list usage. In many areas use has grown, notably 2f, id and business use has risen, (among some uses) anyway ymmv.

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Re: [GTALUG] Windows eats Fedora installation sticks
by Howard Gibson 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Hugh, Some sticks out there have a read-only switch. Maybe you need one of those! -- Howard Gibson hgibson(a)eol.ca http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson On Wed 04/09/24 11:43 AM , "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" talk(a)gtalug.org sent: Old news, I know. But I've been burned again. A Fedora installation USB stick, prepared by dd-ing the .iso file onto the raw stick works fine. But if you have that stick in the computer, and Windows sees it, it will drop a few bytes on it. The result is that the stick cannot be used to boot Fedora (until you rewrite it). Sheesh. Why did it happen to me, when I know of the problem? To run the stick, during power on, I have to hit a key to get into the choose-a-device-to-boot-from menu. It's a race, and sometimes I lose. --- Post to this mailing list talk(a)gtalug.org [1] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk Links: ------ [1] mailto:talk@gtalug.org

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Junk Independence Day, Sept. 22
by Scott Sullivan 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

Just a heads up, Hacklab is having it's next JID event later this month. Junk Independence Day Sunday September 22 2PM – 6PM https://hacklab.to/archives/junk-independence-day-5/ -- Scott Sullivan

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Re: [GTALUG] Recommendation for a media center front end?
by Howard Gibson 08 Sep '24

08 Sep '24

BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; } On Sun 08/09/24 2:01 PM , Steve Litt via talk talk(a)gtalug.org sent: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk said on Sun, 8 Sep 2024 01:55:12 -0400 (EDT) >I hate top posting. I recommend only quoting what's relevant to your >message. And quoting in chronological order. Putting the burden on >the reader isn't a good idea in a mailing list (there are more readers >than writers). Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Top posting with full quoted text retention is for CYA in business situations. Mailing lists are a collaborative mind meld like would be conducted around a table if we were in person. Around a table replies certainly don't come before earlier statements, and if you had to rehash every single bit of the conversation just to make an additional point, progress would be impeded by more than an order of magnitude. SteveT I find it difficult to not top post at the moment because Primus' service is messed up and their POP mail is not working. I am accessing it through webmail. The webmail puts my signature at the top of the screen, with the quote down below. There is no command that shortens lines. I suspect I am in rich text (HTML?) mode whether I like it or not. Sending emails in a professional association, I caught crap for bottom posting. The other people were just not used to it. This may be part of Microsoft's determination to change user interfaces in all their applications. Another thing I cannot do with Primus webmail is show email chains. Microsoft Outlook does display that. The problem with bottom posting is that a lot of people do not delete the lines they are not replying to. You scroll down to read the original message, the first reply, the second reply, the third reply, and so on down to some literary gem like "fuck you asshole", probably spelled wrong. There's fifteen minutes of your life you will not be getting back. -- Howard Gibson hgibson(a)eol.ca http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson

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Re: [GTALUG] Recommendation for a media center front end?
by Alvin Starr 08 Sep '24

08 Sep '24

On 2024-09-08 06:15, ac via talk wrote: > On Sat, 7 Sep 2024 22:46:40 -0400 > Alvin Starr via talk<talk(a)gtalug.org> wrote: snip >> I have a mythtv front-end running on a RP 4-B. >> It is OK for my 1080 TV so long as I don't try to run h265 encoded videos. >> > +1 > > I do not have any h265 encoded media but what is the issue? (is it slow or > choppy or does it not work at all? - the rb4-b specs says it supports hevc?) > It is slow with lots of pauses depending on the complexity of the images. I believe that the issue is there is no GPU based decoder for h265 so it falls back to the CPU and that is just not fast enough to do a full 1080P file. -- Alvin Starr || land: (647)478-6285 Netvel Inc. || home: (905)513-7688 alvin(a)netvel.net ||

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Kanban suggestions?
by Evan Leibovitch 04 Sep '24

04 Sep '24

Hi all. I'm looking for a tool to help with project management, specifically to do with content creation. I have a fair bit of experience with Trello and some with Asana, but am wondering if people have experience with any of the FOSS alternatives. There are quite a few project management options, but none of them seems to specialize on Kanban. I'm able to self-host on an Ubuntu server but a cloud service would be nice; remote access is a really-nice-to-have but not a deal-breaker. Does anyone here have any experience using Tiaga or OpenProject? Thanks for any answers... -- Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch / @el56

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