[NCLUG] Tuesday July 9th, 2019 NCLUG Meeting

[Sean Reifschneider]

I've had similar browser problems to Jim, and maybe 6 months ago I set up a
chrome plugin that "suspends" tabs that are in the background for a while.
You can click them and they reload, which helps dump the tabs that have
adverts and stuff running in the background. I believe that is called The
Great Suspender.

I more recently installed a plugin that just closed tabs after I haven't
accessed them in a while. It keeps a list of the tabs it has closed, and
uses LRU to close them. I can get the name when I'm at work if anyone is
interested.

On Tue, Jul 9, 2019, 19:38 Bob Proulx <bob at proulx.com> wrote:

> jdewitt at verinet.com wrote:
> > What: Tuesday July 9th, 2019 NCLUG Meeting
> > When: Tuesday July 9th, 2019, 6pm
> > Where: Fort Collins Creator Hub,
> >   1304 Duff Dr Unit 15, Fort Collins, CO; map:
>
> Initially we simply gabbed among the group for the first 15 minutes.
> A good meet and greet.  Then I was asked about a portable folding
> bluetooth keyboard I bought recently.  Passed it around.  Although if
> I had known it would be of interest I would have brought my
> collection of show-n-tell folding and small keyboards.
>
> We then talked about the problem of email delivery ending up into
> people's Junk folders.  What can be done to improve the delivery into
> people's Inbox and not their Junk folders.  And to be clear these are
> individual human to human email messages and not unsolicited bulk
> email.  Various discussion and suggestions.  However no clear solution
> appeared.
>
> More discussion of web URLs, UTF-8 names, unicode, and much too much
> for me to capture here.
>
> Brian was good enough to show us excursions into his DIY doorbell
> camera project.  First was Linux From Scratch.  They contain much good
> reference material, HOWTOs, and tutorials on the deep details of
> building an Operating System distribution.  Good stuff.
>
>   http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
>
> Then Brian talked about how he manages his IoT devices.  Including
> Raspbery Pis and Arduinos.  He liked Tiny Core Linux which is smaller
> than even DSL.
>
>   http://tinycorelinux.net/
>
> DietPi.  The Diet Pi web site among other things says, "DietPi is a
> extremely lightweight Debian OS. With images starting at 400MB, thats
> 3x lighter than 'Raspbian Lite'."
>
>   https://www.dietpi.com/
>
> Then Brian said the excursions above brought him to "the final
> solution" for his DIY Maker doorbell camera.  Instead of having the
> doorbell that is outside the house and may be stolen connect to a WiFi
> access point with the WiFi passphrase required to be available he
> would reverse the order.  He would have the doorbell device host a
> WiFi Access Point and then will have a server system inside the house
> in a more secure area connect to the doorbell.  Then if the doorbell
> device is stolen they don't have any special access to the WiFi
> network in the house.  A very interesting solution!
>
> Then we moved on discussion of slow devices.  And hot devices.  James
> had a Samsung Evo SSD that had been installed as an encrypted drive
> for his system.  But for whatever reason it was running very slow.
> Very slow being in the neighborhood of 60MB/s.  (I am getting 266MB/s
> on my ten year old laptop for comparison.)  A strange failure mode
> because it didn't fail it succeeded but very slowly.  He replaced it
> with a new Samsung Evo SSD and then was getting around 260MB/s with
> the new drive.
>
> However the Lenovo W510 laptop with the new SSD runs very hot.  Of
> course everyone suggested cleaning, hairballs, heat sink compound, and
> other things.  One problem process seems to be both Firefox and
> Chromium with tabs open.  Browsers are continuously updating may tabs
> and wasting cpu.
>
> Then those that wanted to continue the discussion adjourned to
> Coopersmith's for dinner.
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