[kwlug-disc] Self-introduction

[Ron Singh]

Tom, c'mon down, the folks at KWLUG have been great at welcoming me,
helping me out when I am stuck, and generally are good eggs.

I run Mint 18.2 Xfce for my various Thinkpads(W520/X220/T201/X200)
dedicated to my fin work/IT work/personal stuff.
I use Mint 18.3 Cinnamon on a couple of i7 X230 units doing playback onto
large TVs. The kernel on these are deprecated to 4.4.
I use Debian 9(Mate) on an HP Zstation for my main job at a local IT shop,
big-a$$ed screen, 17". Works a treat.
I use for my LM 8.3 Mate for my KWLUG laptop, but will be changing that
toMajjaro I think for the Dec meeting, just to mix it up some.
Mein frau prefers the Mate edition of Ubuntu, she is more of a set and
forget sort of person. I like to pretend I have major control over what
updates are really relevant and least likely to break my installs, haha.

Tom,
in a terminal, type <sudo tlp-stat | less> and look at the output towards
the end where the status of TPSMAPI and TPACPI are listed, as in something
like this --

+++ ThinkPad Extended Battery Functions
tp-smapi   = active
tpacpi-bat = active

See if you get a status of something along the lines of "inactive", or "not
loaded" or something similar.

I dig where you are with being around folks, personally, if I can hide
behind some text on a screen or jawing on a cellphone, I am golden.
I would wager a goodly number of attendees are card-carrying introverts
too:-) Yaaa for Intros!

Come on by, the folks are welcoming, the presentations are quite rewarding,
very little downside.

I am still relatively  new to this here Linux thing and certainly even
newer to the KWLUG, but the fact that it has been around for so long(2001)
is a testimony to the quality of people who run it and who attend it. It
blows my minds the work put into it by Paul and Andrew, Georghe(sp?) and
all the rest whose names I cannot recall. Wish I could support the LUG more
meaningfully, just not sure how.

If a socio-phobic ego like mine can handle the scene at KWLUG, you CAN do
ii!
Smallish group, usually 15-20, not at all intimidating.
Come!

Thanks,

Ron Singh



On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 8:26 PM <tomg at sentex.ca> wrote:

> Quoting Ron Singh <ronsingh149 at gmail.com>:
>
> > Welcome!
>
> Thanks!
>
> > I am still relatively new at this at hjust under 2 years now, but the
> > transition has been smooth from W7/W10 by dint of dogged distro-hopping
> and
> > use/break of many cuts of GNU/Linux.
>
> So which one do you run now?
>
> > The folks at KWLUG have been truly helpful and very encouraging. wish I
> > contribute more.
>
> > I did try LMDE on baqre metal, metal being a Thinkpad X230, but the 4.9.x
> > kernel does not play well with the APCI and SMAPI files and I cannot use
> > TLP properly as a result. I cannot deprecate the kernel to something
> that I
> > know works, like 4.4, or more likely, I lack the chops to do so.
>
> Dude!  I've been wondering how to control the charging of the battery on my
> ThinkPad since I bought it, and less than 24 hours after signing up to this
> list I find out (TLP).  Thanks very much!
>
> Can you tell me how TLP doesn't work?  I just installed it yesterday with a
> 4.9 kernel and I haven't gotten any error messages yet, though I haven't
> tried anything.
>
> > Anyway, hope to see you at KWLUG tomorrow!
>
> Thanks for the invitation!
>
> I'm pretty nervous around people so I don't know if I'll go.
>
> Tom
>
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