[00:46] <FreeB3ar> hello
[05:35] <valorie> hi FreeB3ar
[05:35] <valorie> happy 2016
[07:40] <FreeB3ar> Hello valorie
[07:40] <valorie> how are you, FreeB3ar?
[07:40] <FreeB3ar> Cold,you?
[07:40]  * valorie is enjoying 2016 so far
[07:41] <valorie> we were at our cabin in the mountains for the new year, and it was COLD there
[07:41] <valorie> warmer here
[07:41] <valorie> are you in the Seattle area?
[07:41] <FreeB3ar> That sounds splendid. 
[07:41]  * valorie lives about an hour south
[07:41] <FreeB3ar> Nah, I'm in Gray's Harbor County.
[07:42] <valorie> beautiful country down there
[07:42] <valorie> cold blowing in, eh?
[07:42] <FreeB3ar> My room has no heat aside from a candle and my computers which don't put out that much when it's cold.lol
[07:42] <valorie> yikes
[07:42] <valorie> time to compile something big!
[07:43]  * FreeB3ar giggles
[07:43] <valorie> my old laptop would get so warm compiling amarok
[07:43] <FreeB3ar> Perhaps I should. Hmm. But what?
[07:43] <valorie> something you want to test, or work on?
[07:43] <FreeB3ar> I used to adore amarok. Now I mainly use Clementine.
[07:44] <FreeB3ar> As if I have time..
[07:44] <valorie> I got started working in KDE by testing and then writing for Amarok
[07:44] <FreeB3ar> oh wow. :)
[07:44] <valorie> play on your strengths
[07:45] <valorie> mine were: being a beginning, and being a good writer
[07:45] <FreeB3ar> I never figured out KDE 4 so that's when I switched to XFCE.
[07:45] <valorie> so you run xubuntu?
[07:45]  * valorie is a kubuntero
[07:46] <FreeB3ar> With 15.10 I actually switched from that to regular Ubuntu and hated Unity still so I've only installed Cinnamon so far to check it out VS my LMDE netbook.
[07:47] <valorie> I don't like unity either, but I've been a KDE fan from linux day one
[07:47] <valorie> which was Mandrake, back in the day
[07:48] <FreeB3ar> Ah,I remember Mandrake.
[07:49] <FreeB3ar> I think I used KDE with Sabayon nearly a decade ago. Wow, it's been that long,eh?
[07:49] <valorie> I'm loving plasma 5
[07:50] <FreeB3ar> 5
[07:50] <FreeB3ar> ?!
[07:50] <FreeB3ar> muhstaguts...when did that come out? I'm so out of the loop.lol
[07:51] <valorie> I've been using it as a beta for almost a year before Kubuntu released it by default
[07:51] <FreeB3ar> hm.Well then..
[07:51] <valorie> first I used the neon repo which installed in /opt
[07:52] <valorie> we're about to release 5.5
[07:53] <valorie> a bit late, but we'll get there
[07:53] <FreeB3ar> Maybe I should check it out again.
[07:53] <valorie> costs nothing to burn a liveUSB
[07:53] <FreeB3ar> Any idea if KDE runs smooth-ish-ly on Win7/8.1/10?
[07:53] <FreeB3ar> If you've got one that is. :P
[07:54] <valorie> sure
[07:54] <valorie> Qt 5 is lighter on the system
[07:55] <valorie> well, you can burn a DVD then
[07:55] <valorie> I think it's always good to "try before you buy"
[07:55] <valorie> so to speak
[07:55] <valorie> make sure that your equipment works, etc.
[07:56] <FreeB3ar> Good! My old beaver beast box only has 4GB.Eventually I may max it out at 32GB if I've got the money to spare.
[07:56] <FreeB3ar> Hey,My equipment is working well thank you.
[07:56] <valorie> I mean in a Kubuntu session
[07:56] <valorie> nothing against your equipment
[07:57]  * FreeB3ar giggles.
[07:59] <FreeB3ar> So tell me about these meetups.
[07:59] <valorie> we usually meet in Seattle, unfortunately
[07:59] <valorie> long drive for ya
[08:01] <FreeB3ar> I hear it's about five hours...and I drive an Explorer so lol@gas
[08:01] <valorie> sometimes we meet in a makerspace, and have presentations
[08:01] <valorie> sometimes just at a pub and eat and drink beer
[08:01] <FreeB3ar> hey that's pretty cool. I used to go to the nyc2600 meetings but it was never anything fancy.
[08:02] <valorie> coolest thing about it is that somebody else started it
[08:02] <valorie> :-)
[08:02] <FreeB3ar> hahah
[08:02] <valorie> oh, were you asking about the KDE meetups?
[08:02] <valorie> or ubuntu
[08:02] <FreeB3ar> I didn't even know about the KDE meetups.
[08:03] <valorie> because the local KDE folks are active
[08:03] <FreeB3ar> I'm fresh in WA. Been here less than two weeks.
[08:03] <valorie> and I'm not saying that ubuntu people aren't, but somehow we don't manage to meet up for like 2 years
[08:03] <valorie> except at linuxfest northwest
[08:03] <FreeB3ar> hah wow.
[08:04] <valorie> even the portland people come north for that
[08:04] <FreeB3ar> We need to really get people using GNU/Linux..
[08:04] <valorie> have you come to it before?
[08:04] <FreeB3ar> Nope. My buddies have gone.I've only been to a few HOPEs.
[08:04] <valorie> http://lfnw.org
[08:05] <valorie> every april in Bellingham
[08:05] <valorie> we (KDE) had a table at HOPE when it was in Seattle
[08:05] <valorie> a year or so ago
[08:05] <valorie> that was fun
[08:05] <FreeB3ar> That's a false HOPE if it's not at Hotel Penn.
[08:06] <valorie> oops, I meant LISA
[08:06] <valorie> I've never been to HOPE
[08:06] <FreeB3ar> It's awesome.
[08:08] <valorie> SCALE is coming up in a few weeks, but somehow I can't make myself go down for it
[08:08] <valorie> family stuff happening here
[08:09] <FreeB3ar> awh
[08:09] <FreeB3ar> There are so many events I've never heard of.
[08:11] <valorie> https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/13x/its-scale-13x-slated-february-2015
[08:12] <FreeB3ar> Ohh CraigsList...giving away free horse manure..
[08:13] <FreeB3ar> Free kids too.