August 2024 Meeting

BELUG: Supporting Linux and open source for 20 years.

The next BELUG meeting is Tuesday, September 10th 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.

Last month Dave Compton gave a presentation on implementing a home lab he set up using a new book by Adam Monsen, Steadfast Self Hosting. This month Adam is going to talk about his book and his self hosting experience.

Here are some of the topics we covered in the August meeting:

Firefox and a more privacy conscious version called Librewolf.

We had another discussion about ventoy.

One of our members used a software defined radio, SDR, and Linux, to listen to the Blue Angles when they were here.

We discussed more photo management tools to get your photos out of the cloud:

• photosync-transfer-photos
• Photoview
• Photoprism
• Photoprism Documenation

ChangeDetection is a tool to monitor web pages for changes.

A New York City Linux group was discussing proxmox.

Our Raspberry Pi person, Bill, was testing out an M.2 HAT and found much greater files system access speeds as he expected.

A new visitor used GIS software and mentioned the open source tool qgis, used around the world.

We cover a wide range of topics and I hope you can attend our next meeting.