Greetings List Lurkers, The snow has returned with a vengeance...
That said we are gonna do what all Vermonters do, which is to ignore it. Our meeting tonight will take place at the regular time and place at the York Library. So I have to add to our endless project list the configuration of Libre Elec. As we told the tale last week... To repeat, one week ago Saturday night was quite an event. My beloved wife and I are down in the media room watching old BBC Procedurals. Poirot finishes and a message originating from the ROKU box says you have to agree to a contract modification. You have no choice but to say "Yes". At first I thought it a malicious hack of my ROKU converter... Later I discover that ROKU is attempting to make me agree to a contract under duress. This is causing a bit of a stir... For more information please see: https://community.roku.com/t5/Community-discussions/Discussion-Roku-Dispute-Resolution-Term-Update/td-p/950649 ...our response to this is... Dave and I found a pi 4, loaded the FOSS Libre Elec media player, and I ended up with working Netflix and YouTube by suppertime...the bad news is that YouTube eventually punked out. Once we have all this FOSS TV under operational control I am gonna suggest that UVM Fablab: https://uvmfablab.net/workshops-for-the-uvm-community/ Do a workshop on how to do this. Wish us Luck. I did get google drive hooked to the Libre Elec to my Google Drive (big win for me:^). Later this afternoon I am working on Visual bash scripts for Libre Elec and getting back to getting Google Drive to behave at a command line. This may involve a script to test and consistently mount your Google Drive, but right now it is not consistent, I am working on it and may have something prior to the meeting... This is all based upon my critical goal which is to get my currently used version of zope2 running in a container... Progress to date has most to do with developing these tasks: 1. Container management loading and persistence 2. Getting the right version of Python running and finally... 3. Coerce zope2.10 to run in this container. 4. Load the right data.fs file... 5. Reproduce-ability This bit of programming is dramatized in the ongoing Visual Bash script: http://docbox.flint.com:8081/visual.bash#MyOwnPersonalVersionOfHell God help me... In addition I have concocted the following new script: lxcycl.sh - The LinuX Container CYCle (http://docbox.flint.com:8081/docker#LinxXContainercYCL) This is an attempt to recursively encapsulate the tools you need to perform docker based development. These unworthy efforts is up on GitHub as I finished mercilessly editing lxcycl.sh. Please pull it and fix it. ...so more about these foolish ideas (like going up against ROKU) this Monday evening at 6PM. This all adds up to our centralizing and convocating at the York Branch Library this evening. That said, come in remotely and bring this and any other problems and questions and we will do our thing! This evening beyond the Library face-2-face & gizmo-2-gizmo, we shall use jit.si/bosi to connect. Feel free to click the following link to join... Come on to Jitsi at 6PM! Feel free to click the following link to join the meeting: https://meet.jit.si/bosi Let me know if this works for everyone... ===== Just want to dial in on your phone? Dial-in: +1.512.402.2718 PIN: 1992759198# Note that this dial worked with devastating effect from the road... Click this link to see the dial in phone numbers for this meeting https://meet.jit.si/static/dialInInfo.html?room=bosi Kindest Regards, Paul Flint
