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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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