[lug] (Virtual) BLUG is ON! Thursday April 9th, 2020 @ 6:30PM (MDT!)

Fri Apr 10 15:39:00 MDT 2020

> In my entire 25+ year history of using Linux I've not expected anything
> new to me to 'just work' on my first try. I've hoped for it and been
> surprised by it, and sometimes it happens. But, I'm always setting aside
> significant time to learn how to get something working and update, tweak,
> or debug Linux to accommodate it.
>

Just to make it clear, the problem is not spending a lot of time. The
irritating thing is that AFTER you spend lots of time and make it to work,
they break it and you have to start again.

> While Linux in areas like high performance computing, services and
> embedded devices has definitely succeed over alternatives, the Linux
> desktop marketshare appears to be stalled or shrinking. Other than personal
> politics, I just don't really see any reason to use it. Even in my case,
> most of what i do is now terminal based or browser based and I can't
> identify any GUI apps on Linux that are best of breed over Windows or Mac.
>

About about:

- multi desktop switch? The ones on Windows are practically non-existent
and the ones on Mac are arguable extremely poor.
- terminal? I haven't tried one on Windows so I do not know for sure but it
used to be very poor. On a Mac I have not found EVEN ONE terminal which
supports everything that even in the oldest xterm worked out of the box.
For example, keyboard shortcuts for moving one word at the time, go to the
start or end of the word or doing copy-paste correctly. The best one I've
found on Mac is terminus and even that has troubles with navigation when
using VI or VIM (can't find the bug reports at the moment, but can dig them
out if you really care)

Best,
Davide

> For that reason, I'm very happy to have programs like Zoom that work well
> on *my* Linux system. I recognize they're supporting a minority of users
> and that has a cost to them. It lets me be the black swan and use an OS I'm
> comfortable with along side other peers who are on Windows, Mac or phones
> and don't care about all this politics. We can all join a zoom and get on
> with life and that's important to me.
>
> I have empathy for your frustration with Zoom because if our LUG meetings
> were in some open source program that required a lot of effort to get them
> to work, I would probably pass on the effort to debug it too. Or I'd
> procrastinate or wait for it to be fixed. But invest a lot of time.. just
> like you I think I'd say nope: move on to something else.
>
> M
>
> On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 08:03 -0600, Davide Del Vento wrote:
>
> From Friday the 3rd to the day before yesterday, I attempted to use Zoom
> many times, mostly for job-related meetings, but also for a few other ones
> (e.g. music lessons). I missed two work meetings and spent an inordinate
> amount of time trying to fix the issues (I think those are now resolved,
> and might have been their clumsy attempt to mitigate zoombombing and the
> security issues that were made public just before the problem occurred).
> Yet, I am still really angry at that company. I initially resolved to not
> use Zoom anymore at all, but then I "relaxed the policy" to give it a try
> for anything I really care about. However, my "policy" is to never ever
> spend more than 90 seconds on each device. If it doesn't work out of the
> box, try another device. It did not work out of the box on bionic, I do not
> know why and I do not care. It did work on Android. If I run out of
> devices, I am just resigned to miss the meeting. Life is too short to deal
> with such a stupid company.
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 9:15 PM Maxwell Spangler <lists at maxwellspangler.com>
> wrote:
>
> What doesn't work on Linux?
>
> Zoom? I was using Zoom on Fedora 31 tonight.
>
> Curious.
>
> On Thu, 2020-04-09 at 19:06 -0600, Davide Del Vento wrote:
>
> FWIW it does not work on a Linux workstation, but it does work on Android
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 6:04 PM Dan Mackin <dan.mackin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Our feature presenter's slides are here:
> https://www.varrazzo.com/psycopg-boulder-2020/#slide1
>
> Dan Mackin is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
>
> Topic: April 2020 Boulder Linux User's Group
> Time: Apr 9, 2020 06:30 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)
>
> Join Zoom Meeting
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>
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> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 1:47 PM Jeffrey S. Haemer <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Go Dan!
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 10:37 AM Dan Mackin <dan.mackin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey y'all!! Thanks for your patience as I worked up a plan! We've got a
> fantastic speaker lined up for our online MeetUp tonight! ...although maybe
> I should say "tomorrow afternoon" as our speaker will be casting all the
> way from New Zealand!!
>
> I know we've got folks on this mailing list in all sorts of different time
> zones, so for further clarity, official BLUG start day and time is:
> 2020-04-10T00:30Z
>
> DETAILS
> - I will send out a Zoom link to this mailing list (and to the folks that
> have RSVP'd "Yes" on our MeetUp page) at 2020-04-10T00:00Z. The meeting
> link won't be active until 2020-04:10T00:30Z. I'll have the waiting room
> feature enabled so you'll need to be admitted into the Zoom. Please be
> patient as I let y'all in and make sure you use whatever name you'd put on
> your name tag if we were meeting in person as it'll help me facilitate
> questions, discussion, etc.
> - We'll mingle, chat and fiddle with A/V while waiting for folks to join
> the meeting and I'll get started right at 2020-04-10T01:00Z.
> - You'll all enter the room on mute by default. You should be able to
> unmute yourself at your leisure but remember: Mute's your friend when it
> comes to good group video chat etiquette.
> - I'll get us started, we'll do group intros, and then I'll introduce our
> speaker for our feature presentation: A live presentation on how Python and
> PostgreSQL interact using psycopg2, the most used Postgres database driver
> for Python! We will touch basic topics like, basic Python objects,
> interaction with a database session, data adaptation, and security by
> avoiding things like SQL injection attacks.
> - Our presenter, Daniele Varrazzo, has offered to provide the slides
> ahead of the meeting, just in case we have technical difficulties! I'll
> send a link to those when I send out the Zoom link.
>
> Yes, we will have a give away "raffle" at the end. No, I'm not able to
> GrubHub everyone food and beer. Logistical nightmare! I know not everyone
> likes Zoom. Sorry. In the event Zoom becomes unusable across the board,
> I'll send out a backup Hangouts link to this list (and to the folks that
> have RSVP'd "Yes" on our MeetUp page). Oh, and if anyone's lost on the
> timezone thing... we're starting at our normal day/time. Our MeetUp site
> should list this accurately as well:
> https://www.meetup.com/Boulder-Linux-Users-Group-BLUG/)
>
> See y'all soon!!
>
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 12:23 PM Dan Mackin <dan.mackin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> LUGers!
> Yuppers... we'll have a vBLUG MeetUp Thursday evening. I'll have more
> details for y'all on the event soon but wanted to let you know so as you
> could keep your calendars clear...
>
> Looking forward to seeing y'all via videoconference!!
> -Dan
>
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