November 2021 Meeting

The topic of the night is home automation for Christmas decorations.

Here are some of the topics we discussed:

We continue to discuss different distribution including using the Raspberry PI as a desktop pc and the delayed Steam Deck which will run linux:

• https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=rebornos
• https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/10/22774888/steam-deck-delayed-two-months-february-2022-launch-shipping
• https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/08/valves-upcoming-steam-deck-will-be-based-on-arch-linux-not-debian/

We discussed a 4tb flash drive from wallmart for $38. I got one and it looks nice. It is split into to 2tb drives and is slow. Not bad for $38

We discussed a top like bandwidth monitor, bmon

We also mentioned the secure token, YubiKey