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Meeting #4

> 2025-11-20

Two new members joined — Oscar and Don. Whit continued the Linux deep dive from last meeting, demoed Ollama running a local LLM with a browser UI, and introduced the group to self-hosting philosophy. New members got the SSI mission overview and heard pitches for both active project ideas.

3 attendees(Whit, Oscar, Don)
##topics covered
  1. 01.New member intros — Oscar (bagging) and Don (gas), both new to SSI
  2. 02.SSI mission recap for new members — exploring tech, building tools for the store
  3. 03.Linux deep dive continued — Omarchy, Arch Linux, Wayland/Hyprland tiling window manager
  4. 04.Proton — Valve's compatibility layer for running Windows games on Linux
  5. 05.WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) — running Linux inside Windows as an alternative
  6. 06.Ollama demo — running llama3 locally, no internet required, no data sent to third parties
  7. 07.Open WebUI — browser-based chat interface for local LLMs running at localhost
  8. 08.Self-hosting philosophy — owning your stack, privacy trade-offs vs cloud AI tools
  9. 09.ChatGPT and Google privacy concerns — data harvesting, terms of service, training on user prompts
  10. 10.PewDiePie's self-hosting journey referenced — moving off mainstream platforms
  11. 11.3D printing and Raspberry Pi projects — hobbyist hardware in the self-hosting ecosystem
  12. 12.RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) — augmenting local LLMs with custom knowledge bases
  13. 13.Cooking Connections recipe history project pitched to new members
  14. 14.Volunteer & community opportunity board explained to new members
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