[GLLUG] GLLUG still alive?

[David Geary]

Surrey LUG is still active. I have been to one of their meetings
(relatively) recently at Burgh Heath.

https://surrey.lug.org.uk/

The meeting location moves around, so check the website (or notification if
subscribed to the mailing list).

As for 'we won', this is false. Just because many people no longer care,
doesn't mean we are free to use our devices as we wish. In this respect we
are losing.
iPhones and iPads (in)famously restrict their users to only be able to
install apps from the Apple app store. Surface tablets are the same, except
they are locked to Microsoft instead of Apple.
Android respects its users more in this respect allowing 3rd party app
stores such as F-Droid (f-droid.org), but the list of devices supported by
LineageOS (https://lineageos.org/), a free as in freedom version of Android
and the successor to CyanogenMod, is far smaller than expected for 'we won'
to be true.
Secure Boot (Restricted Boot) means that it is harder for users to run
non-Microsoft operating systems on PCs.

Many tasks that were traditionally performed by apps are now offered as
services which has nothing to do with software freedom, but raises other
issues, such as privacy.
The use of non-free network services is listed as an anti-feature of some
apps on F-Droid Android App Repository.

--
David Geary


On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 5:44 PM Polarian via GLLUG <gllug at mailman.lug.org.uk>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have been looking through the archives and have seen that there has
> been only a few posts to the list in the past year.
>
> I notice one thread (apologies for creating a new one) on how the list
> has been quite [1].
>
> I have looked through the website [2] however the posts end at 2017,
> and the IRC channel is back on freenode, before freenode fell and
> libera took over, so I am unsure this channel is still around.
>
> I have been checking out London (and surrounding areas) lug's but all
> of them seem dead, gllug seems to be the most lively at a few emails
> this year :P
>
> I have checked:
>
> - Brixton [3], no mailing list link, no website link
> - Watford [4], listed as London for some reason despite being
>   Hertfordshire, however it has no website, and the mailing list has
>   been completely dead since 2017 (7 years!)
> - Hertfordshire [5], lug marked as inactive, mailing list exists
>   however obviously dead due to [6].
> - Peterborough [7],
>
> --
> Polarian
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>
> [1] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/gllug/2024-July/083541.html
> [2] http://gllug.org.uk/
> [3] https://lug.org.uk/lugs/London/Brixton/
> [4] https://lug.org.uk/lugs/London/Watford/
> [5] https://lug.org.uk/lugs/East/Hertfordshire/
> [6] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/herts/2023-June/002006.html
>
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