{"id":1173,"date":"2025-08-04T20:23:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T01:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annapolislinux.org\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2025-08-04T20:23:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T01:23:33","slug":"meeting-minutes-08-04-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annapolislinux.org\/?p=1173","title":{"rendered":"Meeting minutes 08-04-25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- WordPress-friendly HTML for Linux Users Group Meeting --><\/p>\n<h2>Today&#8217;s Linux Users Group Meeting Highlights<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tailscale VPN<\/strong> &#8211; Discussed this VPN solution for secure networking and remote access. Check it out at <a href=\"https:\/\/tailscale.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tailscale.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Hugging Face<\/strong> &#8211; Explored this platform for LLM (Large Language Model) software that provides access to a comprehensive collection of AI models<\/li>\n<li><strong>Book Recommendation: &#8220;A Thousand Brains&#8221; by Jeff Hawkins<\/strong> &#8211; Covered this fascinating read about how human brain models differ fundamentally from current AI approaches to intelligence<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ethernet to USB Adapters<\/strong> &#8211; Reviewed hardware options for network connectivity, particularly useful for devices lacking built-in ethernet ports. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=ethernet-to-usb+adapter&#038;crid=1B0GL3GSSLKTK&#038;sprefix=Ethernet-to-%2Caps%2C106&#038;ref=nb_sb_ss_p13n-pd-dpltr-ranker_1_12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Browse options on Amazon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>MakeMKV for Video Archiving<\/strong> &#8211; Demonstrated this tool for backing up and archiving video content, noting that while it&#8217;s not open source, it can be easily installed via <code>sudo snap install makemkv<\/code><\/li>\n<li><strong>NAS (Network Attached Storage) Solutions<\/strong> &#8211; Discussed storage options for large media collections, with Dave sharing his setup using 20TB Western Digital Red drives for his extensive video library<\/li>\n<li><strong>Libby App<\/strong> &#8211; Introduced this digital library app for accessing ebooks and audiobooks through your local library system. Available at <a href=\"https:\/\/libbyapp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">libbyapp.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>These topics covered a nice mix of networking, AI\/ML resources, storage solutions, and digital media management &#8211; great variety for the group!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Linux Users Group Meeting Highlights Tailscale VPN &#8211; Discussed this VPN solution for secure networking and remote access. Check it out at tailscale.com Hugging Face &#8211; Explored this platform for LLM (Large Language Model) software that provides access to a comprehensive collection of AI models Book Recommendation: &#8220;A Thousand Brains&#8221; by Jeff Hawkins &#8211; [&hellip;] <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/annapolislinux.org\/?p=1173\" title=\"Permanent Link to: Meeting minutes 08-04-25\">&rarr;Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapolislinux.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapolislinux.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapolislinux.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapolislinux.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapolislinux.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/annapolislinux.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"https:\/\/annapolislinux.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapolislinux.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapolislinux.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapolislinux.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}