Has anyone heard from Chuck? I regularly keep in contact with him
often by phone, but he stopped answering his calls and hasn't responded
to email. The last I spoke with him was Dec 28.
He moved to Oregon several years back and I don't have his street
address.
Brian
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Brian Lavender
https://www.brie.com/brian/
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
Gary, computers are hard and shouldn't be used by retired folks. :) Run it
like below, it will load last. Use AI for docs - much easier and faster
than our brains.
Type=idle
Behavior of idle is very similar to simple; however, actual execution of
the service program is delayed until all active jobs are dispatched. This
may be used to avoid interleaving the output of shell services with the
status output on the console. Note that this type is useful only to improve
console output, it is not useful as a general unit ordering tool, and the
effect of this service type is subject to a 5s timeout, after which the
service program is invoked anyway.
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.service.html
Kevin
We will meet at the Raley's on he mezzanine level at 630pm.
https://www.saclug.org/articles/2026/february-2026.html
This location is accessible via the SacRT Route 62.
See you there.
Brian
--
Brian Lavender
https://www.brie.com/brian/
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
I am mad. I bought a book about "Enshittification". The title pretty much says it all. I found a link from one of Brian's post about what is going on with X and the guy who is making a fork. It really changed my mind on forks being churn.
I'm looking into making my own disto. But that is just crazy ;)
But, don't look too hard, the kernel is turning into a piece of work too. How do you deal with that?
It's just IBM, and others, trying to make a buck off of something that they provide for free. I'm sure, at the end of the day, there will be some kind of subscription.
I'm glad you made it back. Sorry we didn't fix anything while you were away.
But, it is swimming against the current. Look at mailing list. I think they're generally great. What do people use now: X, Slack, Facebook, and their ilk. I like this list, and I'd really like to revive mailing list in general, but I don't know how LOL. And I feel warm knowing that we don't have a giant corporate overlord.
But, in our favor is that Wayland is really poor, right now. It is going to cost someone a bunch of money to fix that. And most of the user community is happy with X. So they are going to try to break X. Embrace, Enhance, Eliminate.
I'm keeping my eye on the X fork.
I think the kernel is only at the Embrace, Enhance step. But, somehow, someone, wants a subscription there.
It's nothing new. The room is cheap, but there is a resort fee that you don't get to know until it's too late. Fooled me once. I've never been back. But, I see that they are all doing just fine. Cable TV. This economic model has roots and most people don't care. Like they don't care how much the car cost, just what are the payments. The fact that they went from 3 year loans to 7 year loans doesn't seem to bother most people.
They are just getting around to implementing that model on Linux. And, this is the door they chose.
On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 05:46:05PM -0700, Linus Sphinx wrote:
> Been through hell, a coma, brain damage and climbed out of my grave to
> actually try some dev but first had to upgrade everything running Fedora in
> the house and just wanted to let you guys know I am not Ok with having this
> heinous incompatible garbage rammed up my ass. IS ANYBODY ELSE PISSED? We
> Linux users look like a bunch of pussies just letting this go by, we need
> to speak up loud and clear NOW. The desktop market was ours, MS screwed
> their users and committed suicide with Win 11. Does nobody remember the
> Year Of Linux Desktop? It was here, the world was ours, and our leading
> desktops decided to drive their dick in the dirt by killing off X11 after
> decades of working with everything. I smell a rat, somebody got paid to
> make sure that didn't happen. Violating the whole spirit of Unix, ending
> components and turning GDM into a monolithic POS. How the hell long was I
> out?
> [image: redcrap.png]
I didn't think playing BluRay on Linux was doable, yet I got it working!
I used the script `aacsdb-update.sh` to download the VUK for known
BluRay disks.
https://gist.github.com/CPT-GrayWolf/c26446298bc769238b349165a051e4b1
Plus, I installed the aacs packages.
```
sudo dnf install libaacs-utils libaacs-devel
```
# This allows Blu-Ray disks who's VUK is known
# to be played on systems using libaacs
Then, I set `JAVA_HOME` environment variable for my system.
```
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-21
```
Then I launched vlc and opened the disk (Top Gun) at /dev/sr0. It's
title is in the VUK database.
It plays!
More info on BluRay in Linux is available on the Arch site.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Blu-ray#Playback
Brian
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Brian Lavender
https://www.brie.com/brian/
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
Hi Folks,
I have some memory that I can't use, but may not be completely useless. If anybody is interested, speak up.
1 - 8GB PC3 10600 1333 MHz (2x4GB)
1 - 1GB PC3 1600 (1x8GB)
4 - 1GB PC2 6400 CL5
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Chris.
V:916.799.9461
F:916.974.0428
A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right.
Q: > Why should I start my reply below the quoted text?
Don't forget the social at Kupros this evening.
Brian
--
Brian Lavender
https://www.brie.com/brian/
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
I discovered that you can install custome kernel modules using secure
boot with Fedora.
https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Secure%20Boot
Brian
--
Brian Lavender
https://www.brie.com/brian/
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
Future meeting location ideas.
Does anyone hang out at the Raley's on the Freeport? They have the
mezzanine area. I was thinking we could do a social there. I realized
that I could actually bring another monitor and plug it into my system.
That way we could just have people on both sides of the table.
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Brian Lavender
https://www.brie.com/brian/
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
January General Meeting
We will continue at Kupros for January.
If anyone has a different location in mind for February, please let me
know.
https://www.saclug.org/articles/2026/january-2026.html
When: Tue January 20, 2026 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
Speaker: You
Location: Kupros
We will meet back at Kupros for this meeting! The last meeting we had,
some noted that it was too loud. I had been thinking about a different
location, but I didn’t investigate, so we will continue at Kupros
for now.
Bring your gadgets, laptop, etc., and we will discuss, evangelize and
strategize the upcoming meetings. We usually congregate on the second
floor. Look for a penguin printout or hackers with their laptops open.
Brian
--
Brian Lavender
https://www.brie.com/brian/
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
