Check out the library's GNU+Linux loaner laptops Wednesday

[Billy Croan]

Our next meeting is Wednesday August 3rd at the downtown public library.

Library staff will come by early on to tell us about a free event that
happens to be going on before our second August meeting with music and free
'mocktails'.  So I guess we can give our normal bartender the night off on
the 16th.

I also heard about free take-home Chrome-book (Linux based) laptops that
the library is offering, and I think I might check one out before the
meeting this week so we can all take a look at it.  I'm curious just how
much admin access they grant on the things.  They come with their own 4g
LTE modems.  We shouldn't reinstall them, but can they boot a usb live
linux distribution, for example?  Can they act as a gateway for a home
network?  Can you install your own Chrome extensions, and how smoothly do
all of your settings/customizations 'just work' when you log in for the
first time?

We'll pass one around August 3rd and look at what it can do, and if you
like it, you can pick up your own downstairs to bring back within 3 weeks.

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Nicole Brewer <NicoleBrewer at kclibrary.org>
Date: Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 2:17 PM
Subject: FYI - event before 8/16 meeting
To: Billy Croan <Billy at croan.org>


Hey Billy!



I’m going to swing by at the beginning of the meeting this Wednesday to
share that we have an event at 5:30pm before your Tuesday 8/16 get together
that you all are welcome to. Free music and mocktails! If for some reason
I’m not able to make it up there, the event information is below. See you
then!



https://kclibrary.org/events-activities-calendar/adults/music-mocktails-farewell-summer-reading-happy-hour?delta=0


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