CyberPunk SUX?!#$%#^

ID: CYBERPUNK_SUX-LOG_0001
Type: meetup
Date: 2022-11-06
Location: KAPiTAL


### Recap

Our first event went well enough to consider it some value of success. 
Some people  who were not directly invited and even a total stranger showed up.
The later human heard of it via the following discussion group:

- Anti Tech Bro Tech Bro Club
- https://www.reddit.com/r/berlinsocialclub/comments/wkvdn3/anti_tech_bro_tech_bro_club_a_space_to_think_and/

The ATBTBC seems to share some our sentiments about current tech landscape. 
People specifically liked the following aspects of our event format:

- General purpose tech subculture vs. traditional single topic (Android, Matrix, Bitcoin, etc...)
- Not an evening drinking oriented event

Verdict: people asked to do another event


### Content

- Learn: Setup Raspberry Pi 4 connected to a TV to watch film
- Film: Hackers, 1995
- History: discussed film and how it weathered the test of time


### Notes

Getting audio and video to play from Linux on any screen is always an
entertaining bit of performance art / theater. After an hour tinkering and
debugging we proceeded with the follow defects in our setup:

1. Use of external speaker (as opposed to HDMI) audio due to what seemed to be
a faulty HDMI-micro adapter which doe not pass audio to HDMI.

2. About 2% of Pi screen being chopped off due to ignoring of overscan settings

A few suggestions we did not try

- https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=245656

We only tried up to `24` pixels, perhaps a higher number would have worked.

```
overscan_left=50
overscan_right=16
overscan_top=16
overscan_bottom=16
```

Perhaps using `xrandr` might have done something

```
xrandr --output HDMI-1 --size 1280x720 --panning 1280x720 --transform 1.064,0,-48,0,1.07,-28,0,0,1
```

If the event continues and moves between venues perhaps a ready assembled Pi
with multitude of connectors would be best idea.