Community Coffee Break

Topics Discussed:

bp9
- Happy (belated) PI Day!
- Still having issues with his brand new Dell Laptop BIOS not recognizing his SATA drive.
- laptop will spin up the spinning SATA drive, no worries!
- Both spinning and SSD SATA drives do work in other laptops.
- Cannot get part number for SATA cable because laptop is too new yet.
- Welcomes new participant Brian Murray.
- bp9 likes Xubuntu because XFCE is supplied by default.
- Has seen longest uptime 300 days, but some distros need updates and reboots.
- Next coffee break will be at 5PM GMT because Europe switches to daylight savings time next week.

Solbu
- Louis Rossmann talks about what it takes to repair (apple) laptops
- they must open the laptop before they can tell you how long it would take to repair.
- Had longest uptime 895 days
- Had planned a reboot at 888 days after kernel update but data center had power outage at 886 days!

Doug
- Continuing saga of RasPi running Ubuntu MATE and Linux Mint.
- He can run Raspbian but then his Chrome browser will not update.
- He cannot run other distros reliably.
- Maybe time for another type of SBC? Maybe XU4? Talk to Bo at ameriDroid!

Peter
- Notes that bp9s audio turns into a Dalek every now and again. Banddwidth issues?
- Likes Linux Mint on his older PC that was previously running Win7
- Having issues with an electronic part that he bought through amazon.
- He has surface mount parts that he has to solder in and is not confident (neither is bp9)
- Wants to know about I2C to connect to another peripheral.
- bp9 has used it a bit on an Arduino. Check out Adafruit for libraries.

Brian Murray
- From Scotland
- Zoom won't work on his desktop, so he's using his phone.
- He missed last week because we sprang forward into Daylight Savings in USA.
- Europe springs forward next week, so Coffee Break starts at 5PM GMT next week.
- Has been watching Category5 Technology TV since 2008.
- Likes Linux Mint for Cinnamon window manager, but he thinks NVIDIA drivers are locking up his machine.
- Likes long uptimes; 30 days continuous run time is very common for him.
- Linux mint is running 80 days so far and uses apt because it is ubuntu and therefore Debian based.
- Since 2011-2018 has been an Apple/iOS user, but likes open source better.
- Apple stuff is expensive and you're sending all your data to Apple.