Past meeting: April 1, 2024 at 7PM.

About 7 people showed up. We had an open meeting. Highlights included how to setup Synaptic to run without root privileges. Dave mentioned policykit as possible solution outside of using sudo. Tim mentioned Farm Bot and open source solution for gardening. Matt mentioned a few cool places to code for profit. He mentioned indie hackers…

Meeting Notes: Annapolis Linux Group Date:April 7, 2025 Location: Barnes & Noble (in person) Attendees: John Tim C. Dave Bob Jimmy Discussion Highlights: The group enjoyed a lively, in-person discussion covering a range of tech topics. Raspberry Pi was a central topic, with members sharing experiences and ideas for projects. Bob showcased his impressive find:…

Attendees Dave D. Bob Leroy Brad B. Theodore K. (host) Discussion Topics SSD Questions Leroy inquired about SSDs. It appears some people recommended: To leave 20% of a SSD void of formatting for performance reasons. It appears this was a legacy recommendation which may not apply with modern day SSD driuves. Meeting Notes Brad B….

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We logged on the usual way, webcams flickering on one by one. Tim Cash came on with the look every sysadmin knows well, his 14TB drive had gone silent with no warning. That kicked off a lively discussion. People talked through TestDisk for pulling back partition tables and PhotoRec for the brute force approach of…

Date: Past meeting notes 09/09/24 Attendees: TC, LeeRoy, Dave, Bob Topics Discussed Correction from Previous Meeting Bob acknowledged he misspoke previously Confirmed Minh was correct about oxidizing issues Hardware Issue: Copper Conductor Oxidation Affecting Raptor Lake Intel processors Possible manufacturing or quality control problem Impact on many PC machines Boot Partition Issue Bob mentioned a…