The Discussion: The entire meeting consisted of a lively, informative, off-the-cuff discussion about what we are doing and programs we use. We started talking about complete backup, recovery and rescue software.  Borgbackup can be used with Relax and Recover for… Read more2024-11-09 Meeting

The Discussion: It was a perfect Saturday to have a slow, friendly chat about what we’re doing and reminiscing about northern Michigan. We talked a bit about SEMCO, a local computer user group that primarily focuses on Windows.  They do… Read more2024-08-12 Meeting

The Discussion: We talked about AI and fake news, and found the factcheck.org as a great resource, especially around election time. Next  RustDesk was the big topic, which is useful for remote access to Linux, Windows and Android (yes, even… Read more2024-09-14 Meeting

The Discussion: We started with an amusing “show and tell” session about our high-tech flashlights. which diverged into multi-voltage USB-c chargers and digital USB testers. Dennis talked about the ssh regression issue and included a link which briefly describes it…. Read more2024-08-10 Meeting

The Discussion: We had some fun at the start of the meeting trying to determine why a recently updated Windows 11 computer wouldn’t open web pages, even though the Linux computer beside it worked flawlessly.  Since “ping 8.8.8.8” worked, we… Read more2024-07-13 Meeting

The Discussion: We talked about the various Linux distros that we use and the advantages of each one.  Of particular interest were the spinoffs from Arch Linux for the desktop and Nix for servers. We then proceeded to the topic… Read more2024-06-09 Meeting

The Discussion: Most of the discussion centered around AI.  We talked about the various providers including ChatGPT and Gemini.  Pat gave a great explanation of LLM (Large Language Models) and how they can improve AI responses for certain types of… Read more2024-05-11 Meeting

The Discussion: We had a good discussion about various topics including: Craig Maloney tribute airline ticket scam mysterious email from sendgrid.net browerguard from malwarebytes vpns prevent man-in-the-middle attacks the Texas groundwater aquafier using a wifi router to share a separate… Read more2024-04-13 Meeting

The Discussion: We had a good discussion about various topics including: How to troubleshoot a microphone using Jitsi on Firefox TPM vs. Secure Boot Check for presence of a Trusted Platform Module in Linux (dmesg | grep -i tpm) Lynis… Read more2024-03-09 Meeting

The Discussion: We had a long a varied discussion about various topics including: Recent short-lived glitch on the mdlug.org server Using dosbox to play older DOS games, like The Incredible Machine Dictation software, which converts speech to text Vocal keyboard,… Read more2024-02-10 Meeting