[sf-lug] Notes regarding Jit.se meeting of SF-LUG on 2 January 2022 and more

[tom r lopes]

On Wed, Jan 5, 2022, 1:54 PM Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com>
wrote:

> Hi LUGers,
>
> I was second to the meeting.  Tom was setting up and I was bit delayed
> by household chores.
>

I was roasting a turkey. I had a frozen turkey in my freezer for a while
and thought the few hours being home for the Jitsi meeting would be enough
time for cooking. So a week defrosting in the fridge and it was ready.

>
> Ken came along and eventually demoed his Intel Stick which seems to have
> trouble with
> video on Jit.se but worked.   Video quality was low.
>
> Victor showed up by 1108 But he went off to cook his breakfast. He
> returned about 1135
> Took off again about Noon for real life.
>
> Tom took the occasion to demonstrate his Larkbox while Ken set up his
> Intel stick
> It seems capable but Tom is disappointed in speed of disk access.
>

It seemed to lag. Wondered why since it had an SSD. Looking at properties
from the command line it was listed as a SATA drive. Confused me because it
is in an M.2 slot. But the documentation states that the slot has SATA
only. Strange because the bios setup shows nvme options. Also shows front
and back camera settings, so I'm thinking that Chuwi used a board design
for a tablet then adapted it to a desktop.


Eventually Tom disassembled his Larkbow on screen and reassembled it by 1300
> when the meeting ended.
> This points out a problem with small form factor boxes in that expansion
> or upgrading
> of the base system is quite hard to achieve.
> Well all I did was comment and find URLs so that Tom could see a video
> of the disassembly
> and reassembly of the Larkbox.
>

I was trying to see if there was an actual pci slot inside. For example
maybe the wifi card is in a m.2. But from disassembly I see it is soldered.
I really hate videos for things like this. Text and pictures is so much
faster to look at.

Thomas
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