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

[Bobbie Sellers]

On 1/8/22 16:12, tom r lopes wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2022, 1:54 PM Bobbie Sellers 
> <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com <mailto: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

	Text is faster but harder to find in these video-oriented days.  	Video 
was what the search engine found for me.
I should have asked for the Larkox owner's manual.

	I was looking at a page with pictures of the various SSD physical 
formats.  M2 SATA is specifically SATA only so it is what
you got.  Tablet design maybe but I would expect in that case it
would be soldered in place looking more like a "stick of gum".

	Bobbie