Tuesday August 13h, 2024 NCLUG Meeting

[Bob Proulx]

j dewitt wrote:
> What: Tuesday August 13h, 2024 NCLUG Meeting

Mory brought in a pair of monitor display glasses.  These were pretty
cool.  They were 280p display in what looks like a pair of stylish Ray
Ban sunglasses.  Though it requires a cable from the earpiece off the
back to a phone.  It is only a display.  It needs to be cabled to
something which will drive it.

Brian mentioned that he is moving to test driving a MS-Windows system
running WSL2 in order to see if it can better meet his needs.  (I
screamed "Nooooo!" as I am sure you knew before I even said it.)  I am
sure Brian will give us a report after he has done it for a while.

Mory called the meeting to order after much random discussion.  A call
for short topics.

Kyle talks about having purchased an Intel PCI-e A770 graphics card
to use as an auxilary compute engine.  He is using it for video
transoding offloading the work from the main graphics card.  A cost
effective way to get some more grunt applied to video transcoding.

Phil has bought a Tesla and is now managing the charging in conjuction
with his solar panels with Home Assistent.

Evelyn and Mory went to the Hackathon in Denver last week.  Both gave
their perspectives on the event.  Sounded like fun.

This diverged into another chaotic long running discussion.

Bob was crewing CANDAK Cycling Around North Dakota a bicycle tour.
This included 7 nights of camping on the tour.  We had three quite
cold nights in the tent down to mid 40sF in temperature.  I froze on
those nights!