Re: [GTALUG] When a web page goes to next level

Nice. Thanks for the pointer. The first one like this I was was from The Guardian. - Evan On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 2:39 PM Ron / BCLUG via talk wrote: > > CBC has a story up today (about "Buried rivers flow under Canadian > cities..."). > > Discover where ancient rivers flow under Canadian

[GTALUG] GPU for sale [was: GPU advice needed]

Hi all. On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 5:51 PM gs via talk wrote: > I don't think a $150 price premium is worth it for negligible performance > and cooling gains due to slight core/memory clock differences, > > https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/products/video-card/#c=499=price=1 > Geez, I forgot all about

Re: [GTALUG] GPU advice needed

Thanks! Too bad about the trade - Evan On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 8:19 PM Peter King via talk wrote: > On 3/29/24 3:36 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > > Hi all. > > Although I really don't want to, I need to upgrade the graphics card on my > main desktop. > I cur

[GTALUG] GPU advice needed

Hi all. Although I really don't want to, I need to upgrade the graphics card on my main desktop. I currently have an AMD RX 6600 but some of the applications I want to work with, notably in AI and content creation, either don't work well on AMD cards or not at all. For decades I've stuck to AMD

[GTALUG] Concert tickets for tonight, free

Hi. I have a pair of tickets to a concert tonight (March 22) by musician Dan Hill, tonight at Hugh's Room (Broadview south of Gerrard). We're sick and can't go. If you're sure you can use them let me know in private email (not to the list). First response gets them. - Evan --- Post to this

Re: [GTALUG] .local question (Off Topic: how did you acquire a /24?)

Interesting story; I just put my /24 block up for sale. I recall just asking U of T for it and they gave me one ... many decades ago, even pre-dating ARIN by a few years. So as a result, I've never had an ARIN agreement and don't even need one now to sell it. You might be surprised, but prices

Re: [GTALUG] meeting idea: AI Explorers' Reports

I have confirmed that Marcel Gagné will lead our March meeting on "Open Source AI", as was discussed at both the recent Friday and Tuesday discussions. It is an open question whether he should give a presentation, or simply lead a round-table with a brief introduction and a list of relevant topics

Re: [GTALUG] I asked Google's Gemini to compare iGPUs

My original Gemini search said nothing about DirectX or OpenGL. When I asked: How well do the two iGPUs support OpenGL and Directx I got this: Both the Intel UHD Graphics G1 in the i3-1005G1 and the Intel UHD Graphics > for 12th Gen Intel Processors in the i3-1215U boast *good compatibility >

Re: [GTALUG] I asked ChatGPT to compare iGPUs.

For what it's worth, I fed Hugh's question into Google Gemini and got this (including the formatting, this is just cut/pasted): Comparing integrated graphics (iGPU) in Intel Core i3-1005G1 and i3-1215U: *i3-1005G1 (Ice Lake generation, 2019):* - *iGPU:* Intel UHD Graphics G1 (32 Execution

Re: [GTALUG] RISC-V News

> > The ARM China thing was crazy (we don't understand the importance of > corporate seals in China). It has been resolved (that's an old article). > You missed the point. That was a close-to-home example but just one of many that, together with China's new and vague anti-espionage laws,

Re: [GTALUG] RISC-V News

wrote: > On Sun, 4 Feb 2024 at 16:53, Evan Leibovitch via talk > wrote: > > If the RISC-V design is open source, what is SiFive selling? > > RISC-V is an Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) - the binary code that > an assembler or compiler creates and is loaded and executed on

Re: [GTALUG] RISC-V News

On Fri, Feb 2, 2024 at 11:38 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > For serious applications, the openness RISC-V helps but doesn't make > everything > you need open and free. Or even available. You actually need chip > designs -- what SiFive sells. If the RISC-V design is open source,

Re: [GTALUG] RISC-V News

Interesting. Of course it is always useful to read beyond the cheery predictions. Buried under all the positive upward chart lines is the news (from the same publication) that a major RISC-V "pioneer" has just undergone layoffs (20% of engineering) and restructuring

Re: [GTALUG] war story: Brother printer won't turn on

I've had a CDP-L2520DW for at least a decade. Touch wood, no problems like this. FWIW, I've found Brother tech support to be quite helpful -- I used their chat-wirth-an-agent system instead of phone or email. The problem I had -- fuser related -- was solved quickly. While I have no idea where she

Re: [GTALUG] landline power [was Re: "AI" on getting correct technical answers]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 2:00 PM James Knott via talk wrote: > On 1/16/24 07:16, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > > CO-powered phones are still available > > Are they still CO powered? My home internet is still metered and charged as a DSL line (by Teksavvy), though I know my ne

Re: [GTALUG] Doctorow: "Sympathy for the spammer"

It is a good article but not universally true by a long shot, focusing on email-based activities. There are a number of scam-baiting channels on YouTube that lay bare the tactics of many phone scams, and I'm sorry but I'm not going to have much sympathy for those who aggressively harass people

Re: [GTALUG] landline power [was Re: "AI" on getting correct technical answers]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 2:46 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > (The old Bell system had large lead-acid batteries in the COs. Old handsets > were actually powered by the CO. Modern ones have their own power for > many functions. So we used to expect the phone to work during "hydro" >

Re: [GTALUG] Small typo on the Feb 2024's meeting title

On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 5:55 PM Myles via talk wrote: > On a side note, I'm pretty surprised that the website code base is still > working for you folks. > You're not alone. :-P -- Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch / @el56 --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org

Re: [GTALUG] "AI" on getting correct technical answers

On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 11:48 AM o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > Multi-factor authentication via SMS is an improvement in security. > > It is not the bee all and end all but it is better than just a password. > > So I am not sure about your comment about privacy and security. > My preferred 2FA

Re: [GTALUG] "AI" on getting correct technical answers

On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 8:14 AM Don Tai via talk wrote: The current social assumption made by companies is that all people have a > cellphone, all people know how to use them, and all people are almost > always connected. This is not the case for much of our society > The statistics are not on

Re: [GTALUG] "AI" on getting correct technical answers

On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 7:37 AM o1bigtenor via talk wrote: One doesn't use a cell phone (well I wouldn't) but a cellphone number is > demanded to verify one's identity. Without a working cellphone connection > one is today - - - a NON-person. > OK, what other ways of verifying identity would

Re: [GTALUG] "AI" on getting correct technical answers

On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 7:20 AM o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 3:06 AM ac via talk wrote: > > > snip > > > > And, it's just a generic LLM. I've heard experienced developers > > > saying surprisingly positive things about GitHub's Copilot for quite > > > a while now. > > >

Re: [GTALUG] AI - Llama 2 an open source AI that can run on a Raspberry PI

On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 7:31 AM Colin McGregor wrote: > > Okay, so obvious next question, what fully open alternatives are > currently available for Llama 2 and if there are none what can we do > to help create such an alternative? > Right now the community involved in advancing "Open AI" is

Re: [GTALUG] AI - Llama 2 an open source AI that can run on a Raspberry PI

On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 7:02 PM David Mason via talk wrote: > The things that make it not OSI compliant are: > 1) an application with more than 700 million monthly active users (i.e. > Google, Bing, Amazon, and Apple) require getting a licence > 2) some moral restrictions (like criminal acts) >

Re: [GTALUG] "AI" on getting correct technical answers

Just curious. Microsoft has force-fed a Copilot Beta button on my Windows box next to the search window. Isn't this supposed to be a chatbot fine-tuned to developer needs? Does anyone have experience with it? On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 3:42 PM Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > On 2024-01-13 10:30, Ron

Re: [GTALUG] AI - Llama 2 an open source AI that can run on a Raspberry PI

On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 10:47 AM Colin McGregor via talk wrote: > As noted last evening I am running the open source (but NOT GPL) Llama > 2 AI on a Raspberry PI 5. As discussed at the meeting Tuesday night, Llama 2 is *not* Open Source. It conforms to neither the OSI Open Source Definition

Re: [GTALUG] video: The Dark Side of Open Source

For what it's worth, the author of Thorium has made a reply which includes a public apology and explanation: https://alex313031.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-good-bad-and-ugly.html I'm using his Firefox clone, the Mercury browser, and am happy with it. - Evan On Sun, Jan 7, 2024 at 6:47 PM D. Hugh

Re: [GTALUG] meeting Tuesday?

I've been hoping that someone else could answer. I have some other news that I'll share in another email here. I have multiple people wanting to talk about interesting stuff... just not next Tuesday night. Does anyone here have any topics they'd like to talk about? Please? On Sat, Jan 6, 2024

Re: [GTALUG] short window on a great deal for a mini PC

On Sat, Dec 30, 2023 at 4:03 PM William Park via talk wrote: > How do you add more space to this kind of mini PCs? USB/harddisk > enclosure? NAS? > Of course they'll work with NAS. Local space is boosted by adding a 2.5" drive, and/or by upgrading its M.2 SSD from the pre-installed 500MB to

Re: [GTALUG] Exim vs Postfix [was: Local-only mail server]

Wow this takes me back. I haven't had to deal (much) with mail-agent comparisons for more than a decade. I've worked with both for both Exim and Postfix, long ago and far away. Based on my memory: Exim is more monolithic and quite a lot easier to understand for an SMTP newcomer to admin while

Re: [GTALUG] update with a new question, is since I am going to sayal anyway...is ot: sort of, is it really impossible to get real cable anymore?

Hi again, There appear to be two brands of ATSC converter available. The Mediasonic models we have discussed to date are available at Amazon and ... as far as I can tell ... nowhere else. There is another brand, Proscan, whose model PAT102-D converter appears to have the same features as the

Re: [GTALUG] since I am going to sayal anyway...is ot: sort of, is it really impossible to get real cable anymore?

On Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 3:08 PM Scott Allen via talk wrote: > On Thu, 7 Dec 2023 at 14:52, Karen Lewellen > wrote: > > Then, as is just asked, I am confused as to what makes the GE solution > > better. > > So am I. You would have to ask Evan why he thinks it's better. Personal experience. The

Re: [GTALUG] since I am going to sayal anyway...is ot: sort of, is it really impossible to get real cable anymore?

Hi Karen, Sayal doesn't carry the ChannelMaster, but it does appear to have a good antenna of a slightly different, and actually better, design for only $25: https://shop.sayal.com/products/arn-270 Here is the Amazon entry for the same model, out of stock and more than triple the price that it

Re: [GTALUG] AI Alliance

I've been saying for some time that GTALUG badly needs a serious conversation on scope and focus. With the merger with CLUE nearly complete, we have a national scope. But also, we need to look further than just Linux IMO as, outside of the business desktop, that battle is over. We now need to be

Re: [GTALUG] ot: sort of, is it really impossible to get real cable anymore?

Hi again, On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 12:40 PM Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: > First, I am not 100% certain that all analog or standard definition channels > are gone, unless that has happened since 2022. > Looking at TV Fool data for postal code M1M, your closest analog signal is channel 22,

Re: [GTALUG] ot: sort of, is it really impossible to get real cable anymore?

> > The connection from the ATSC box from Karen's TV can be done either by > coaxial cable (and both devices will need to agree on Channel 3 or 4 using > physical switches) or by an RCA-to-RCA video cable. > Clarification. The RCA-to-RCA solution works but it's more than just a video cable. That

Re: [GTALUG] ot: sort of, is it really impossible to get real cable anymore?

Synopsis: I think you've just re-complicated something that took a while in this thread to simplify. And buying a new TV is not considered an option, the roughly $100 solution being proposed is expensive enough. On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 11:19 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk < talk@gtalug.org>

Re: [GTALUG] ot: sort of, is it really impossible to get real cable anymore?

There are some very extensive video courses available, starting with this single six-hour video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWbUDq4S6Y8 Just searching for "Linux masterclass" there will reveal multiple playlists of videos from which you can choose what suits you best. As for

Re: [GTALUG] ot: sort of, is it really impossible to get real cable anymore?

On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 5:01 PM Karen Lewellen wrote: > Okay Evan, > Let me walk through this completely. > 1, because my television does not include either digital, or HDMI built in > will I also need an HDMI to RCA adapter to connect say this last antenna? > The antenna has a coaxial cable

Re: [GTALUG] ot: sort of, is it really impossible to get real cable anymore?

On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 4:25 PM Scott Allen via talk wrote: > On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 at 16:13, Don Tai wrote: > > Your TV is NTSC. Sadly you will need a new TV. > > Or, as I said, an ATSC tuner box. The average price seems to be about > $50. Best Buy has one on sale for $43. > >

Re: [GTALUG] ot: sort of, is it really impossible to get real cable anymore?

On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 4:06 PM Scott Allen via talk wrote: > As for an antenna, many stores that sell TVs will also sell antennas. Walmart > has them. Best Buy has them. This is not my experience. Off-the-air tabletop antennas are a niche product. The only one that Best Buy has in stock

Re: [GTALUG] ot: sort of, is it really impossible to get real cable anymore?

Hi Karen, On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 12:44 PM Karen Lewellen wrote: > While I do have personal and professional interest in Boston and Detroit, that > you are getting Buffalo might make this a worth while experiment, even if > it just gets me through the Holidays. I do occasionally find this of

Re: [GTALUG] ot: sort of, is it really impossible to get real cable anymore?

One option available to some cord cutters is going back to the antenna. I have one on my rooftop and it does quite a good job of picking up Toronto and Buffalo channels, which I find preferable to the Robellus options for two reasons: - The off-air signal is not compressed so it can be

Re: [GTALUG] Linux Unicorns

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 3:51 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | Old Unicorns came from different times. 25 years ago, it wasn't obvious that > Linux would be where it is (and isn't). > | > | Speak for yourself.  > | > | I was kinda certain that Linux would overtake Unix early in its life;

Re: [GTALUG] Linux Unicorns

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 3:51 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > There is room for innovation in infrastructure but it is hard to become a > unicorn there since the area is mostly occupied by giants: > Almost by definition, infrastructure cannot and should not be a place for disruptive

Re: [GTALUG] Linux Unicorns

On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 12:19 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote: It seems to me that Linux has won and been commoditized on the server side. > No high-level discussion needs to address this. Several distros are good > enough and almost interchangeable in abilities. >

Re: [GTALUG] Browsers (and Thorium to be specific)

e same dev has done the same to Firefox, called Mercury <https://thorium.rocks/mercury> - Evan On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 10:45 AM ac via talk wrote: > On Fri, 24 Nov 2023 10:24:20 -0500 > Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > > > So ... nobody uses Thorium? > > > i am hav

Re: [GTALUG] Browsers (and Thorium to be specific)

So ... nobody uses Thorium? On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 4:21 AM Ron / BCLUG via talk wrote: > Don Tai via talk wrote on 2023-11-23 15:46: > > > I by default don't run JS, and then with the Noscript plugin, grant js > > access. Many sites will block you without JS running. Though I depend on > > FF,

[GTALUG] Browsers (and Thorium to be specific)

Hi all. I've been a happy (sorta) user of Firefox for a long long time but I found I have needed a Chromium-based backup because there are some sites that Just Won't Work under FF. Blank white screens, hanging, missing frames, the problem varies but it never exists on Chrome or Edge. (Sorry,

Re: [GTALUG] (very off topic) torque spec of impact wrench

Congrats! On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 12:16 AM William Park via talk wrote: > Solved! I bought $56 "Litheli" cordless impact wrench from Walmart. > It's slightly lower torque than what's sold at Amazon, but can't > complaint about the price, though. I think, it was caused by surface > rust

Re: [GTALUG] "RISC-V technology emerges as battleground in US-China tech war"

On Sat, Nov 4, 2023 at 9:29 PM Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > At least the values you get if you search google says it is at 1.412 billion > and growing at 0.1% as of 2021 (not negative). Forecast that it might > drop to 1.31 billion by 2050, so the slowing growth is

Re: [GTALUG] (very off topic) torque spec of impact wrench

Probably obvious question: Have you applied a good penetrating oil (like Liquid Wrench)? That has saved my behind with rusted bolts on more than one occasion. On Fri, Nov 3, 2023 at 3:08 AM William Park via talk wrote: > Hi (another very off topic), > > Wheel bolts on my VW are seized pretty

Re: [GTALUG] "RISC-V technology emerges as battleground in US-China tech war"

On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 8:12 AM Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: Of course China has 1.5 billion people. Actually, not of course. It's 1.28 and shrinking, being officially bypassed this year by India as the world's most populous country. Credible research suggests that

Re: [GTALUG] "RISC-V technology emerges as battleground in US-China tech war"

On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 2:32 PM Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > > > It is true that ARM's ownership has allowed the US government to make > > things very difficult for Huawei. No wonder China likes RISC-V. > I would be willing to bet the various law makers are taking advice from > Arm, Intel

Re: [GTALUG] (very off topic) where to buy old AM/FM receiver?

On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 1:31 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > I don't know if this phono pre-amp is any good, but its from an OK brand. > It currently costs $29.99. There is a newer model with two vacuum > tubes(!). > < >

Re: [GTALUG] (very off topic) where to buy old AM/FM receiver?

I will add one more possible excellent source if you're in no rush, though to some this might be a bit morbid. But hey, it's Halloween. As people downsize or die, the contents of their homes are often put up for auction and very good older equipment can be had for extremely good prices. This

Re: [GTALUG] WikiConference North America is in Toronto next month

Thanks! Just registered. I have a login but haven't created/edited many pages. Even if I can't attend all of it, it's a worthwhile contribution. (The Paypal converted amount was $35 CAD.) On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 11:05 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote: >

Re: [GTALUG] US urged to ban RISC-V

It may be harder to do than they think. The RISC-V consortium moved its HQ from the US to Switzerland, anticipating that the US could be an unreliable host. And it's not like this is a Chinese chip; it's being developed by an international team. What irks the US is that the Chinese cannot be

[GTALUG] Do you use Diaspora or Threads?

Hi all. I'm compiling a comparison chart for the major various Xitter alternatives, including Mastodon, Bluesky and T2/Pebble. I don't use Threads or Diaspora and am asking for a little help

Re: [GTALUG] brands matter; Lenovo's brands

On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 10:09 AM Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > > Recall that in the 90s and 00s, HP, IBM and Dell (well DEC which was > > eventually consumed by Dell via Compaq) > > No, DEC went to Compaq went to HP where the itanium love finally killed > the Alpha.

Re: [GTALUG] brands matter; Lenovo's brands

The more this thread continues the more I am reminded about the role of inertia in branding and marketing. Gaining a new customer (ie, getting them to switch brands) is a lot harder than keeping existing ones, especially in mature markets. It's why many big scummy companies treat you like dirt

Re: [GTALUG] brands matter; Lenovo's brands

On Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 1:12 PM Peter King via talk wrote: > A few years ago one of my desktop units failed. I replaced it with a > miniPC, a minisform model I put more RAM and two 2TB SSDs into, and it runs > just fine. Maybe that is the way to go. > For many uses this works just fine. The

Re: [GTALUG] brands matter; Lenovo's brands

I forgot to mention. One area where branding can come in handy is in identifying a niche in which the brand establishes a reputation for expertise. If running Linux and having it explicitly supported by your hardware is critical to you, then you are part of the market that brands such as Tuxedo

Re: [GTALUG] brands matter; Lenovo's brands

Disclaimer: I have an MBA in marketing. I studied this stuff at length. On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 12:01 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > Brands matter. More to the point: SOME brands matter. And they matter to varying degrees. Search for anything on Aliexpress and

Re: [GTALUG] USB to Ethernet Dongles WAS: Debian Linux as-a-router Guide

On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 9:56 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > Notebooks are almost supplanting "regular" PCs. > IMO we're well beyond the "almost" in that statement. COVID led to work-from-home which necessitated laptops for employees in the services sector. Even though the COVID threat

Re: [GTALUG] Landline and Bell revisited.

> > Doesn't Bell have a department for helping people with medical issues? > Seems to me they used to. > Reading the original post would remind one that Karen has already had multiple interactions with Bell. Most have been negative, and she has referred to some as "retaliatory". In other words,

Re: [GTALUG] Landline and Bell revisited.

On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 1:36 PM Dhaval Giani wrote: > Forgive me for insisting that technical curiosity take a back seat to the >> real-world medical needs of people. But I will insist. This is a real >> problem, not an experiment nor a business decision. >> > > Then this is not the right venue

Re: [GTALUG] Landline and Bell revisited.

On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 1:12 PM James Knott wrote: > And if Bell is no longer able to provide the service she wants. > Wants? WANTS?!? We're not talking about call-display here. This is about connectivity for medically-necessary equipment. Sigh. Bell broke it. Bell needs to fix it. Full

Re: [GTALUG] Landline and Bell revisited.

On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 12:50 PM Dhaval Giani wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 9:36 AM Evan Leibovitch via talk > wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 11:40 AM James Knott via talk >> wrote: >> >> >>> > Bell faces human rights complaint over allega

Re: [GTALUG] Landline and Bell revisited.

On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 11:40 AM James Knott via talk wrote: > > Bell faces human rights complaint over allegations of inaccessibility for > blind customers > > https://globalnews.ca/news/9373449/bell-human-rights-complaint/ > > This is about what Bell is not providing, even though other

Re: [GTALUG] Landline and Bell revisited.

Hi Karen, The CRTC is a cruel joke for consumers. It's far too industry-friendly and has allowed Robellus to get away with awful shenanigans and anti-competitive behavior for decades. While it offers a path to complain, I would not expect such a complaint

[GTALUG] Interesting new chapter in the RH/CentOS saga.

Looks like SUSE, Oracle and CIQ (parent company of Rocky Linux) are joining forces to address the recent policy changes at Red Hat that affected CentOS. https://openela.org/news/hello_world/ This will be interesting to follow. Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch / @el56 --- Post to

Re: [GTALUG] [offtopic] Opinions on Freedom Mobile, please

On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 6:33 PM BCLUG via talk wrote: > > What phone do you have? Bear in mind, not all plans support it. > > Pixel 4a. > Pixels and iPhones tend to be very well supported for this. Koodo supports Pixel 2 or newer, running Android 8 or newer. I was doing some more research -

Re: [GTALUG] [offtopic] Opinions on Freedom Mobile, please

On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 8:41 AM James Knott via talk wrote: > On 2023-08-03 04:31, BCLUG via talk wrote: > > I wish I could remember the procedure I followed to enable WiFi > > calling, but am drawing a blank. > > What phone do you have? Bear in mind, not all plans support it. > Most of the

Re: [GTALUG] [offtopic] Opinions on Freedom Mobile, please

On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 4:32 AM BCLUG via talk wrote: > > My one burp is that I'm having an issue turning on Wifi Calling, seems > > to be a handshake issue between phone and carrier. Will investigate. > > I wish I could remember the procedure I followed to enable WiFi calling, but > am drawing

Re: [GTALUG] [offtopic] Opinions on Freedom Mobile, please

EPILOGUE: Made the switch. Fairly seamless. The two people on staff (Steeles/Dufferin location) were knowledgeable and set things up seamlessly. I confirmed that I had (and was able to use) cell coverage in the subway stations and tunnels between Pioneer Village (Steeles) and Wilson. My one burp

Re: [GTALUG] [offtopic] Opinions on Freedom Mobile, please

On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 5:59 AM BCLUG via talk wrote: > And one thing I really appreciate is that Wind Mobile would throttle users > when they hit their data caps instead of charging a fortune for overages. > I'll always appreciate that. > I associate the Wind brand with the former Egyptian

Re: [GTALUG] [offtopic] Opinions on Freedom Mobile, please

On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 8:42 AM James Knott via talk wrote: Bell, Rogers and Telus have all said the BAI network was inadequate for them > to use. Rogers has committed to sharing their network with competitors, > but the discussion is how. According to this Global News article

Re: [GTALUG] [offtopic] Opinions on Freedom Mobile, please

On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 11:55 PM bitmap wrote: > You can indeed get data on the subway but only at the stations, not > between them while underground. > As I mentioned, they claim coverage in two parts of the Line 1 tunnel : - The

[GTALUG] [offtopic] Opinions on Freedom Mobile, please

Hi all. I was more than a little ticked off to discover that Telus has no plans to offer 5G to its mid-brand Koodo customers, even though its flagship Telus and low-end Public Mobile brands already have it. Now that Freedom Mobile is owned by Videotron, perhaps Canada's least-awful telco, I had

Re: [GTALUG] Favorite desktop manager?

If pronounciation was an irritant they would have saved a lot of the hand-wringing by just putting an acute accent on the "e", as in, "MATÉ". Yes, I know it was invented in Argentina where the accent isn't used. But if creators were at all concerned about global pronunciation and knowing there is

Re: [GTALUG] zero [was Re: Favorite desktop manager?]

I find an interesting-tho-trivial bit of culture shock in going between North America and elsewhere (generally, in my experience): floor designations in buildings. In North America the "first floor" of a building is usually considered to be where the lobby and ground exit is located. Elsewhere,

Re: [GTALUG] Favorite desktop manager?

> On Wed, 26 Jul 2023, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > > > https://gilesorr.com/wm/table.html > This kind of resource never fails to intrigue me, and it reminds one of the big weak spot of FOSS development that has been with us from the very beginning. In FOSS, developers write stuff that scratches

Re: [GTALUG] Red Hat Paywall...

On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 7:04 AM BCLUG via talk wrote: > Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote on 2023-07-04 03:39: > > > 4. I see an opportunity for SUSE which maintains both an > > enterprise-Linux focus and good community relations. Are they up to > > it? As a lo

Re: [GTALUG] Red Hat Paywall...

My take: 1. I wouldn't go as far as "I saw this coming", but I have long suspected that the IBMification of Red Hat was far from complete -- layoffs, CentOS Stream, now this. RH employees that I know describe a hard shift in corporate culture. And I don't think they're done. It

Re: [GTALUG] Toshiba Satellite L500 rejects Linux

I'm not sure that it's a portable-media issue. My first instinct is to try a distro that specializes in older HW such as Puppy. That should be installable to and bootable from a USB stick. If that works it could easily be a wonky Secure Boot implementation. If your preferred target is Debian,

Re: [GTALUG] The good old days of oreilly.com

oreilly.com has been a subscription service for a while. Searching for Oreilly books on Amazon or Chapters will yield some results, though most of what they've produced in the last five years seems to be selling for CAD$70 or more. GitOps Cookbook: Kubernetes Automation in Practice

Re: [GTALUG] wireless to ethernet adapter suggestions?

I don't have a deep background on this, but based on what you described I *think* that what you're looking for is called a "wireless bridge". This is the opposite of an access point. When doing an Amazon search, one of the items that came up is primarily used as a wifi signal booster, but also

Re: [GTALUG] Update borked my system

EPILOGUE apt -f install and apt autoremove both reported that everything was fine and that I was up-to-date (except for more than 20 packages "held back"). Sometimes I find Linux troubleshooting a useful mental exercise. Not this week. Downloaded the latest KDE Neon onto a USB stick. Backed up

Re: [GTALUG] Update borked my system

On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 7:51 AM Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > > Did you try 'apt -f install' to see if it can fix the problems? > No, that's first on my list to do. I also wonder what the heck Ubuntu has done to apt, because that's not what > apt's output is normally

Re: [GTALUG] Update borked my system

Hi, Bob. On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 12:08 AM Bob Jonkman via talk wrote: > To drag a window without toolbars press ALT and drag the window from its > middle. > First thing I tried; this has worked for me before, not this time. IMnsHO there should be no way for programming APIs to remove vital

[GTALUG] Update borked my system

Hi all. Wondering if anyone can help with this. A power glitch happened while I was updating a KDE Neon system and on reboot all sorts of things are wonky. KDE starts up fine on bootup but there are no window toolbars. All apps load at the upper right of the screen and can't be moved because

Re: [GTALUG] analog land line phone service in Toronto?

Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch / @el56 On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 11:49 PM Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: > Certainly hope finding an HDMI video input to RCA output converter will be > less complex. > Would one of these work?

Re: [GTALUG] analog land line phone service in Toronto?

On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 8:20 PM James Knott via talk wrote: > > What is so special about this phone that it can't be used with the > emulated POTS service? Has anyone even tried? > According to the original post, the answer is yes and there are problems. > I am using the same phone I was

Re: [GTALUG] analog land line phone service in Toronto?

On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 4:00 PM Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: > Evan, I did not get your post, but will go back and hunt my inbox. > Is your suggestion that techsavvy might have an emulator that might be > more friendly to my equipment? > Not quite. I was saying that Teksavvy uses different

Re: [GTALUG] analog land line phone service in Toronto?

Hi Karen, If the problem is that your new location can be served by analog but Bell refuses to sell it, you may have luck with Teksavvy which I use for my home landline. They wholesale the analog service from Bell for a home phone product. On Teksavvy's website at

Re: [GTALUG] Ubuntu Pro - a new, non-optional walled garden from Canonical

It's become interesting to follow what appears to be a re-invention of the model taking place as CIQ seeks to be for Rocky Linux what Canonical was for Ubuntu (hopefully, better!). There are, to be sure, significant differences between the two pairs' interrelationships; but it

[GTALUG] GTALUG update

Hi all, I just wanted to bring some news and issues to your attention. *1) Face-to-face meetings* We're looking to get back to having real meetings again, with eye contact and projectors and all that. The space we have had at TMU (formerly Ryerson) is still on offer, though now the facility

Re: [GTALUG] Weird pivot from the Linux Foundation: Overture Maps Foundation

>From the FAQ: Data contributed to ODbL licensed datasets will be contributed under both > the ODbL and CDLA permissive v2. Contributions to CDLA permissive v2 > datasets will be contributed under the CDLA permissive v2. > I don't know these licenses. Are they open enough such this project's

Re: [GTALUG] Weird pivot from the Linux Foundation: Overture Maps Foundation

They compete with LPI, and we're a member. No surprises here. Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch / @el56 On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 11:16 AM Dave Collier-Brown via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > That seems odd: OSM is used legally in Garmin products, as per >

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