May 2024 Meeting

BELUG: Supporting Linux and open source for 20 years.

The next BELUG meeting is tomorrow, Tuesday, June 11th at 6:30pm.

The in-person location is at the North Bellevue Community Center:

 North Bellevue Community Center 
 4063 148th Ave NE 
 Bellevue, WA. 98007

Please come early, if you can, to help set up the room.

The meeting will follow our normal format with introductions all around, collecting technical questions to answer later, then any presentations, and finishing with our best answers to the technical questions.

Follows are the notes I took about our May meeting.

Netboot - iventoy is possibly the easiest way to use.

Backups including rescuezilla, borg backup, cloud storage with hetzer.

One of the member got a cheap retro gaming device and had fun playing old 2D games on batocera Linux.

For hardware hacking check out the flipper zero.

Long range networking with LoRa.

We discussed installing large language AI models on your own machine,

We discussed a system to send you system notifications, nfty.

Jellyfin, a media player.

Why you might need to transcode your media.

Our very own Kevin Korte gave a talk at Libra Planet about AI but the video is not out yet. In the Q and A he had a nice discussion with Richard Stallman.

We do cover a wide range of topics.