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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Hi NBLUG, <br>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Although I
remember seeing the article in the PD about Darin Chong's
business, CuneXus Solutions, I don't remember meeting him or
seeing his name around much. Apparently, he was pretty well
known before he passed away this week and worked for Redwood
Credit Union for many years. Which then got me wondering how
much open source software a large, local financial institution
like RCU uses in their operations... any ideas?</font></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><a
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href="https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/santa-rosa-tech-founder-darin-chong-50-was-a-leader-at-work-and-in-the-co/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/santa-rosa-tech-founder-darin-chong-50-was-a-leader-at-work-and-in-the-co/</a></font></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">I also saw
that the PD was trying to reach out to local employees of
Twitter about the recent changes surrounding the now completed
sale of the company to Elon Musk and specifically his plans to
cut roughly 3,700 jobs at Twitter and require remote employees
to return to the office: <br>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><a
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href="https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/tell-us-are-you-a-twitter-employee-recently-affected-by-changes-at-the-com/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/tell-us-are-you-a-twitter-employee-recently-affected-by-changes-at-the-com/</a><br>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">I also heard
back from someone at DeepNet (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://deepnet.com/" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://deepnet.com/</a>)
about possibly using their office space for future indoor
meetings. Apparently, they have moved into their new Santa Rosa
offices on Cleveland Ave pretty recently. While they are still
getting settled, this person seemed to think that future NBLUG
meetings being held there were a possibility, but not before
2023. So we may have another option for indoor meetings besides
Round Table Pizza...</font></p>
<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">I'm still
hoping that someone else will contribute to the same Thunderbird
variable width bug report that I contributed to and maybe get
little bugs like this that have turned off a surprising number
of users over the years, but still persist - <a
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href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1773184"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1773184</a><br>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">I'm still not
sure how many NBLUG folks use Thunderbird, but I now realize
that using it as an email client is not nearly as common in the
open source world as I had assumed...</font></p>
<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">I have also
tried to drum up attention for the LineageOS bug on the Libera
IRC that is still affecting my ability to utilize the always-on
VPN with my Sonic VPN via OpenVPN for Android on my OnePlus 6T.
I am experiencing the same problem with the 9/29/22 update to
LineageOS 19.1 as this bug report (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://gitlab.com/LineageOS/issues/android/-/issues/5231"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://gitlab.com/LineageOS/issues/android/-/issues/5231</a>),
although I have a different device (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://download.lineageos.org/fajita/changes/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://download.lineageos.org/fajita/changes/</a>).
It looks like these changes (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_frameworks_base/+/323146/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_frameworks_base/+/323146/</a>)
are responsible for the problem. This bug report may be related
(<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://gitlab.com/LineageOS/issues/android/-/issues/5179"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://gitlab.com/LineageOS/issues/android/-/issues/5179</a>).
All 3 devices are different manufacturers Xiaomi (<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/apollon/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/apollon/</a>),
Google (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/taimen/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/taimen/</a>),
and OnePlus (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/fajita/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/fajita/</a>),
so the problem seems widespread within LineageOS, but I don't
know anyone outside of Derek and I that use LineageOS within
NBLUG. <br>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Maybe some of
the laid off Twitter employees will have some free time on their
hands...<br>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Over and out,
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Brad <br>
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