LUG meeting Saturday, May 18, 2024

[glenn]

The May meeting of the Carson City Linux Users Group will be Saturday, May 18, 2024 at 12:45 PM, at Computer Corps.

4630 US-50 E,Carson City, Nv. at 12:45 PM. Don't be late as the door will be locked at 1:00 PM. Check in for a visitor pass is at the side entrance thru the door marked Office, not at the store entrance.

Lunch will be provided for those that can make it at 12:00 PM

--glenn

[LukeT]

See you guys there!

[tonyg_s]

Hey, thanks for the reminder.
I'm going to be out of town so will see you all next month.

Tony

[steve]

Agenda items planned are:

News and items of interest

    Forum site implemented at https://carsoncitylug.org/mybb  Thanks Glenn!

    Ubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" released on April 25th

    Fedora 40 released on April 23rd

    Linux 6.9 released on May 12th

    Other items of interest

Follow up to Previous Items

    Linux kernel sound issues with an HP laptop

    Hardware Internet Protection Device

    Roundcube update

    NVME to USB enclosure update

    July meeting alternatives

SBC (Singe-Board Computer) Showcase

    CasaOS on Dell 7040 mini pc vs. RPi - Jim

Online security practices with Linux

*  Launchpad and PPAs

*  checksums and hashes

*  passwd and shadow files

    ssh

        password

        keys and public-key cryptography

        seahorse

    https

    password managers

        KeePassXC

        Bitwarden

    totp

        OTPClient

    passkeys



Any other business that arises



*  Topics previously covered

[rons]

Steve, Really good meeting today. Lots of great discussion. Thanks. Ron

[steve]

Glad you enjoyed it!  Next month we'll probably have Patrick install LineageOS on a phone if he can make it.  I've still got installing a Windows app to run under Lutris (Wine) on my list of future topics as well.

[brew]

Just as a follow-up, we had a short discussion about the Brave web browser at Saturday's meeting.   I installed it as a test on my Windoze system, and it is cool, so far.  I'll put it on my production Linux laptop, and start using it exclusively.

[nan60]

Brave is an interesting browser, I'd honestly recommend against using it. It's a chromium wrapper with wierd crypto garbage. I've always considered it the crypto bro web browser and refused to use it because of that. It's fingerprinting OOTB is really great though, but Firefox with Arkenfox or LibreWolf will be just as good honestly. To each their own, but I'd stay away from it. Always seemed sketchy to me. If you do use it though, I'd read through some of the stuff they've done in the past first just so you know what you're getting yourself into.

[steve]

As you say, Brave is an interesting browser.  Christy suggested it to me several months ago, so I have been considering it as a chromium-based alternative to Firefox.  I currently use Firefox with uBlock Origin and JS Toggle (and other plugins) as my main browser and this works well for me and my workflow.  When I looked at LibreWolf awhile back there was some limitation or restriction (I don't recall what now) that did not work out for me, but it may work fine for you.  I have not looked at Arkenfox, so I can't speak to that.

Firefox has some limitations, generally related to playing restricted streaming content (i.e., dishanywhere in my case) or with using passkeys, so I have been looking at chromium-based alternatives, which better support some of these use cases.  Brave seems to be the best alternative, given that other chromium-based browsers will be dropping support for plugins such as uBlock Origin in the near future and Brave natively supports this functionality.  As to the crypto, I think it is just a way to monetize the platform and my understanding is that it is not a requirement to participate and can be ignored or disabled.  Just my 2 cents.

[brew]

OK, understand all info shared so far.

  As to the crypto stuff, that's tied to Brave Rewards and I am blithely ignoring it :-)

  I completed the Linux install on my Ubuntu 22.04 "production" laptop.  All is well, EXCEPT, Brave does not know how to import my Firefox data.
Not a biggie, since I do not store passwords ( I tend to carry the laptop around, and well, I might *misplace* it), but I do have a few bookmarks that I will recreate by hand.