[kwlug-disc] Topics for Monday's meeting

[Bob Jonkman]

Ron wrote:> I use TLP for tuning power use.

I want to know more. Future presentation, or indepth Q&A for Monday?

--Bob.


On 2020-10-02 4:30 p.m., Ron Singh wrote:
> Good idea.
> I have some questions that may elicit scoffs or rolling of the eyes, but I
> am as dumb as a stump and half as pretty, so here goes --
> 
> 1 - this is more of a need for a newbie tutorial(?), but I have a rough
> time having OSes in VMs(Virtualbox 5.2.x and 6.1.x) accessing my USB ports.
>        A tutorial would be good, although I am sure there are tutorials on
> YT, I haven't checked,
> 
> 2 - A discussion on dealing with the huge # of passwords we have these
> days(I am up to 328), other than using a tool such as Bitwarden. I like the
> idea of saving my 328 *partial* passwords and logins on a regular text file
> and even on hardcopy, and also saving them as my regular(but incomplete
> passwords) on Firefox. When it is time to login somewhere, FF has my
> credentials with a partial password and I type in my 9-character
> completion. Question is, what am I doing wrong with this technique? My
> 9-character "completion" is an absurd string that is indelibly stamped in
> my brain and mirrored in a poem with the cipher held by my wife.
> 
> 3 - LibreElec/Kodi for media playback. I hear terms like "sickbeard" and
> such from the cool kids. What I would like to have is some insight as to
> the right combo of OS/DE/Apps that can be stuck on a lowly Thinkpad T520 i7
> laptop w/ a 128G mSATA SSD and 2 pcs of  1TB Hitachi HDD(one is in the
> optical bay) for a real fine media playback unit. The media is mostly
> torrented H.265 stuff with some Amaz Prime. No Netflix or other paid
> services need to be supported. Of course, streaming YT media too which I
> would likely do in a browser anyway unless there is a YT app in Kodi that
> does it better.
> 
> 4 - I don't use desktops, haven't done so since 2005, much preferring
> laptops. I use TLP for tuning power use. I want better than just TLP. What
> combination of tools are needed to have meaningful increases of battery
> life? And especially running cooler? My world is non-stop Thinkpads, but I
> would think any solution(s) would be applicable to Dells, HPs and the like?
> 
> Feel free to send a virtual slap my way and tell me to go google it or
> watch some YT tutorials and I will slink away quietly.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ron S.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 9:54 AM Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <
> kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
> 
>> So Monday is our open roundtable. I am quite concerned that we will be
>> sitting in silence because nobody will volunteer questions to ask.
>> Could we be sneaky and seed the conversation with some initial
>> questions to discuss? If you have something then let me know.
>>
>> - Paul
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