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Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Kit
by Aruna Hewapathirane 11 Aug '20

11 Aug '20

Hello, I stumbled across this recently: https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/ I can use some guidance and advice from folks who have experience with Raspberry Pi's. What I read so far looks good but I have questions. If 'you' were to use a Raspberry Pi as a desktop replacement which one would you recommend? Is there a major difference in response times between the 4Gb and 8Gb models ? How hot does the unit become ? Does it require an add on fan shim ? Or will work fine without one ? How easy or difficult would it be to boot off an external hard disk as compared to the SD card that comes with the Pi ? Any other things to watch out for and be aware of before I purchase ? Instead of buying the kit would it be cheaper to buy each item separately from different vendors ? Thanks - Aruna

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Drafty Etherpad for August meeting
by Christopher Browne 10 Aug '20

10 Aug '20

I have seeded it with a bunch of things I saw over the last month that seemed interesting. https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/gtalug-august - There have been some "asks" about what to consider using as Keybase got bought out - Keybase did a bunch of things, so there's no one straightforward answer to that - There's a guy at U(T) that blogs about sysadmin matters, and so I tossed in some leading questions - It's August. There's yet another reimplementation of grep :-), this time in C++ - There have been ongoing conversations about building Pi desktops. That seems like an interesting thing to collect some information on. -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"

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C.H.I.P. rides again - maybe
by Stewart C. Russell 09 Aug '20

09 Aug '20

Pocket Popcorn Computer — https://popcorncomputer.com/ — looks like it's relaunching the old C.H.I.P. There might even be a PocketC.H.I.P. with a proper keyboard.

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Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL
by Russell Reiter 08 Aug '20

08 Aug '20

This is sad. But the article is an interesting backgrounder on the internal chaos thats leading up to this. "They said that OS development was knocked down to lowest priority,” Ryan noted. It says it right there. That may explain quite a lot, not just about RHEL’s direction but also Fedora’s. We see more vendor tie-in/lock-in, more software patents (monopoly) and not much of real value." IBM is Already Gutting Red Hat and Firing Employees Without Warning, Jim Whitehurst Isn’t Even Using GNU/Linux | Techrights http://techrights.org/2020/08/02/red-hat-layoffs/ Russell

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Fwd: Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL
by Russell Reiter 06 Aug '20

06 Aug '20

Sorry but it would be helpful if offlist responses were labeled and trimmed post's were noted, just for the sake of lessing confustion, if anything else. For some reson my MTA missed a response post to the list and this one is not labeled offlist, that part is kind of an informal protocol as I recall. Sorry I'm a little confused, are you saying that skepticism about IBM's > intentions is not the same as skepticism about Redmond's, simply because > that it would be conspiracy theory to suggest that IBM would not tell > everybody about the eventual business plan, at the same time. > I'm saying that I don't trust the source -- based on crackpot comments from the past, bolstered by recent conversations with RH employees saying the claims were utter shit. - Evan -- Russell

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Fwd: Looks like IBM is planning to eliminate RHEL
by Russell Reiter 06 Aug '20

06 Aug '20

On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 9:44 AM Evan Leibovitch <evan(a)telly.org> wrote: > I've spoken to some actual Red Hat employees who they said the article has > been widely circulated and has served as a good laugh. No booms are being > lowered that they're aware of and morale remains decent. > > I'm wary of the source based on Dr. Ray's previous articles.He's obsessed > with Microsoft (such as an article that claims Richard Stallman's > successor at the FSF is a Microsoft stooge > <http://techrights.org/2020/08/06/fsf-microsoft-github/>) and the site > has an ongoing series called "Billwatch > <http://techrights.org/billwatch-resurrected/>". Another recent example > is an article headlined > "People Who Believe Global Warning is a ‘Hoax’ Are the Types Who Might > Think Microsoft Really Loves Linux > <http://techrights.org/2020/07/31/the-microsoft-hoax/>". > > Anyway, you get the idea. Healthy skepticism about Redmond's intentions > are healthy, but not when pushed to conspiracy-theory levels. And now the > same treatment is being applied to IBM. > Sorry I'm a little confused, are you saying that skepticism about IBM's intentions is not the same as skepticism about Redmond's, simply because that it would be conspiracy theory to suggest that IBM would not tell everybody about the eventual business plan, at the same time. Whatever Dr. Roy has written previously, he did mention in the article it takes a couple of years for each departmental shakeup. In my understanding of this it usually takes quite some time before all departments are fully shook. Kind of like government that way. > > Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada > @evanleibovitch / @el56 > > -- Russell -- Russell

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DSL to wifi
by Astrid R 05 Aug '20

05 Aug '20

Hello, I'm just looking for someone in downtown Toronto to change the settings on my laptop from DSL to wifi. I can only pay up to $40. I could meet anywhere public roughly between Ossington, Broadview, Bloor and the lake, weather permitting. If the restrictions would make this impossible then it will have to be in the hallway of my apartment building near Cabbagetown. Thanks.

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OpenEmbedded Happy Hours
by Nicholas Krause 04 Aug '20

04 Aug '20

Greetings All, Hopefully everyone is staying safe. The OpenEmbedded project seems to be having happy hours every few weeks or once a month going forward. This also will include people on the Yocto Project side as well. Here is a link to the calendar page: https://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Calendar The next one is tomorrow so sorry if this is late for that. However the next seems to be on the 26th of August at 5pm, I've not checked which time zone there using through. It may interest some people here to intend particularly if your in the embedded space or are interested in the ARM embedded ecosystem. Take care and stay safe, Nick -- Fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism. - Thomas Nagel

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urgent: Red Hat distros have an update that renders some systems unbootable
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 01 Aug '20

01 Aug '20

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5272311 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/07/red-hat-and-centos-systems-arent-bo… Don't do upgrades to Fedora, RHEL, CentOS until you read those. This seems to have bitten me, making one of my routers (running CentOS 7). I'm still not sure if this is what has happened to my system. The symptoms looked like an SSD failure: nothing past POST on the screen. So I spent a fair bit of time trying to work around the loss. Now that I've seen this error report, I will redirect my efforts

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Re: [GTALUG] web hosting question
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 31 Jul '20

31 Jul '20

| From: ac via talk <talk(a)gtalug.org> Just to make sure that people know some of your odder statements are grounded... | oooh, just when they said not to open those nice packets of seeds sent | from China... now there are boxes of pandora's... In the news, some US and now Canadian folk are getting unmarked packages of seeds, apparently sent from China. They are being advised NOT to plant them. Last I heard, "they" didn't know what kind of seeds they were. | luckily for us Pandoras box is fiction, like that preacher doc, with | the demon sperm and the myriads of nephilim all around us waiting to | pounce (as the Noah flood apparently did not "take out the nephilim" ) Donald Trump Jr. got suspended from twitter for 12 hrs for promoting a video from a group of doctors promoting hydroxychloroquine. His father retweeted other's tweets of the same video but has not been suspended. <https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/28/trump-coronavirus-misinfor…> The doctor in the video has blamed demons (as AC describes) for illnesses. President Trump strongly complemented the doctors wisodm or something (you can never tell whata Trump is actually saying). <https://www.thedailybeast.com/stella-immanuel-trumps-new-covid-doctor-belie…> So AC didn't make this stuff up.

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