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This week Noah and Steve dig back through 2023 and give you a Home Automation Year Roundup! We look at your questions throughout the year and evaluate how we would answer those questions today! -- During The Show -- Future Home Automation 5 inch tablets M5Stack Speakers Steve's 2023 Purchases Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 (Amazon) (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09KXTCMSC) Sonoff S40 Lite Zigbee Smart Plug (Amazon) (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09LV53X62) Zigbee 2 Channel Smart Relay (Amazon) (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B979N75C) Eco-Worthy Linear Actuator (Amazon) (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NM8H5PA) Aqara Door Sensor (Cloud Free) (https://cloudfree.shop/product/aqara-door-and-window-sensors/) Aqara Temperature Sensor (Cloud Free) (https://cloudfree.shop/product/aqara-temperature-and-humidity-sensor/) WiFi vs Zigbee High Availability GHome Smart WO2 Smart Outlet (Amazon) (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09JZBJPS4) Shelly Plus 1 (Shelly) (https://www.shelly.com/en-us/products/shop/shelly-p

This week we dig into feedback from someone looking at a new IT job, Steve gives an update on trying to maintain a presence on a platform that doesn't want him. -- During The Show -- 00:55 Bad Hardware Day Motherboard swap PSU modular cables Fan controller magic smoke Bent CPU pins 06:48 VMs and Storage - Joe Advantages of separating OS and Data Joe's GitHub (https://github.com/JoeMrCoffee/NextCloudDockerCompose) IX Systems and 45 Drives Use JBOD not Raid ZFS needs direct access HA (High Availability) 15:40 VM Storage Question - Rod iSCSI ZVols as block devices QCow2 file Dedicated disks 9p driver (https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9p) virtio drivers Nothing wrong with NFS ifnotify 22:53 Printer Questions - Eddie Good experience with HP Printer Tools/Jet Direct Mostly moved away from LPD/LPR IPP is where things are headed Immutable distros only support IPP For best results go through add printer dialog 28:15 Comments From New IT Person - Joshua Start with pain points Start with your pain points Document ex

This week Till Kamppeter joins The Ask Noah Show and we talk about open printing. We answer your questions, and if you were hosting your Matrix instance with EMS we'll walk you through the latest announcement. -- During The Show -- Feedback about BT extension EP 351 - John Cheap phone watch Disdain for any kind of phone Kid Friendly Distro Feedback - Jeremy PFSense + pfBlockerNG Canadian Block Lists GitHub (https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts) Will this work with DNS over TLS? Null out IPs Linux Smart Phones - Sandro Linux is coming to the mobile game 10 years late Some of the "Linux Mobile OSes" use an Android shim to talk to the hardware GrapheneOS has been great A few small issues Current hardware is under powered DBs for Home Lab - Sandro Pass the vdev directly into the VM OpenWRT Home Router - elguaje3ero OpenWRT (https://openwrt.org/toh/start) Sophos XG135 Ebay Link (https://www.ebay.com/itm/186136266565) News Wire Qubes OS 4.2 - Linux IAC (https://linuxiac.com/qubes-os-4-2-0-rolls-out-with-dom0-rebas

This week Noah and Steve discuss picking out a vHost and considerations for deploying it into production. -- During The Show -- 02:00 Types of AI Amount of compute required is astronomical Foundational model vs tweaking 05:55 Kid Friendly distro? - Chris Endless OS (https://www.endlessos.org/) What age to give kids a computer Why give a kid a computer Why Endless OS OpenDNS Filtering 14:13 Serial Connection To Proxmox VMs - Michael Client Setting Host Setting Enable the serial console Proxmox Wiki (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Serial_Terminal) 17:15 pfSense blocking active connections - Bradly Stateful firewalls don't break active connections/sessions 21:00 News Wire EXT4 Corruption Bug - LWN (https://lwn.net/Articles/954285/) Gnome 45.2 - Gnome (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-45-2-released/18358) Libreoffice 7.6.4 - Libreoffice (https://www.libreoffice.org/download/release-notes/) Jellyfin Android TV App - Jellyfin (https://jellyfin.org/posts/androidtv-v0.16.0/) Jellyfin Roku App - Jellyfin (https://jel

This week Noah and Steve talk about their home labs and keeping on top of the projects! 03:26 News Wire Roundcube Next Cloud Merging - Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Roundcube-Nextcloud) Pipewire 1.0 - ZDnet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/pipewire-1-0-linux-audio-comes-of-age/) GitLab (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/releases) MKVtoolnix 81.0 - MKVtoolnix (https://mkvtoolnix.download/doc/NEWS.md) DigiKam 8.2 - DigiKam (https://www.digikam.org/news/2023-12-03-8.2.0_release_announcement/) Plasma 6 Beta Milestone - KDE (https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/beta1/) Cinnamon - Its Foss (https://news.itsfoss.com/cinnamon-6-0-release/) Steam Survey - Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Linux-November-2023) Tails 5.20 - Tails (https://tails.net/news/version_5.20/index.en.html) Vigil LLM Scanner - Help Net Security (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/11/29/vigil-llm-security-scanner/) Nous Hermes 2 Vision - Venture Beat (https://venturebeat.com/ai/new-open-source-ai-visio

This week Steve goes through his data migration story at his house. What things should you consider before moving large datasets around, and what things need to be taken into account for a solid backup plan? -- During The Show -- 01:52 Home Automation Leak Detection - Jeremy You can't really Using cameras 08:06 mmWave sensor update/comparison Seedstudio mmWave Sensor (https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/mmwave_human_detection_kit/) Space for other sensors Way better than a PIR sensor Aqara Water Sensor (https://cloudfree.shop/product/aqara-water-sensor/) 11:19 Point of sale gear? - Charlie Odoo (https://github.com/odoo/odoo) Open Source POS (https://github.com/opensourcepos/opensourcepos) UniCenta (https://unicenta.com/) Squirrel Systems (https://www.squirrelsystems.com/squirrel-pos-for-hotels) 13:28 Succession Planning - David Password dump Bitwarden Network diagram with pictures Good documentation Techy friends Dave Ramsey - Legacy box Legacy Folder Data, external drives 23:23 Odoo for Accounting and Bookkeeping -

This week Simon Quigley, the release manager for Lubuntu joins Ask Noah to talk about the 24.04 release! We give you some gift ideas for the geek in your life, and of course we answers your questions. -- During The Show -- 00:55 Gratitude Gratitude is good for your health Reduces stress Can be measured in as small as a few weeks Noah's thank full for Friends willing to help For profit companies contributing to open source Developers who donate their time As we get older, gratefulness grows Steve's thankful for Ability to learn from open source code Hardware that "just won't die" 09:00 Geek Gift Recommendations MokerLink Switch (https://www.amazon.com/MokerLink-Managed-Ethernet-Auto-Negotiation-Bandwidth/dp/B0C53H61LN) Seagate 20TB HDD (Amazon) (https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-ST18000NM000J-Internal-Surveillance-Supported/dp/B09MWKXR2T) Seagate 20TB (Newegg) (https://www.newegg.com/seagate-exos-x20-st20000nm007d-20tb/p/N82E16822185011?Item=N82E16822185011) Seagate Iornwolf BackBlaze Drive Review (https://www.ba

This week Noah and Steve talk about migrating subnets from a smaller one, to a larger one. What things should you think about, how should you approach the problem, and tools should you know about. -- During The Show -- 01:43 MARS/MS-DMT On Linux? - Klaus Never used MARS 02:57 Using Chrome Extension of IE requirements - Glenn ANS 361 ~25:14 Min (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/361) IE Tab Extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ie-tab/hehijbfgiekmjfkfjpbkbammjbdenadd) Pull things to modern Frigate (https://frigate.video/) 06:18 Veracrypt, bash and ACLs? - ST Bash history program Add the following to your ~/.bashrc ``` Avoid duplicates HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:erasedups When the shell exits, append to the history file instead of overwriting it shopt -s histappend After each command, append to the history file and reread it PROMPTCOMMAND="${PROMPTCOMMAND:+$PROMPT_COMMAND$'\n'}histor ``` Original Stack Exchange Post (https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1288/preserve-bash-history-in-multiple-termin

Noah heads to Riga Latvia to explore the amazing work the Ubuntu community is doing! Canonical restructured the former Ubuntu Developer Summit to have a wider reach! Jon Seager the VP of Engineering joins the program to explain that effort and how Canonical is serving the broader open source ecosystem. -- During The Show -- 01:07 RTSP Latency - Joey Axis M3065 (https://www.axis.com/products/axis-m3065-v/support) NDI Video (https://ndi.video/) Sony Handycams STI Video converters Decimator (https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1333958-REG/decimator_dd_dmon_quad_3g_hd_sd_sdi_quad_split_multi_viewer.html) HDMI Ballen (https://www.amazon.com/164-Feet-Extender-Single-Option-EX-165C/dp/B01GYH8DOM) Ebay (https://www.ebay.com/itm/225848477676) 08:53 Sensitive Client Data - Tiny Secure Mail Nextcloud Call them 14:00 News Wire Linux 6.5.10 - Kernel.org (https://www.kernel.org) Itanium removal - ARS Technica (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/next-linux-kernel-will-dump-itanium-intels-ill-fated-64-bit-server-cpus

This week we talk about some home assistant updates, the ability to stick markdown docs together, and as always your questions and feedback! -- During The Show -- Intro Noah's LFNW experience NextCloud Fedora on Macs Voice on Home Assistant Talk Home Assistant Voice on Home Assistant Talk Selfhosted 108 (https://selfhosted.show/108) YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzgYYkOrnhQ) Home Assistant Blog (https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/10/12/year-of-the-voice-chapter-4-wakewords/) Zigbee adventures Z-Wave, ESP32, Shelly Fireplace Chicken Coop 18:18 PiKVM vs iDrac - Chris iDrac lots of options weird things PiKVM one and done consistent iLO 21:47 I3 vs Sway - Josh I3 was in the installer Not opposed to Sway YMMV PKCS11 provider 25:14 IP Camera Help? - William Used Axis Camera (https://www.ebay.com/itm/305230528059) PDF Doc (https://bus-sitech.de/mt-content/uploads/2019/02/navod-hikvision-url-streaming-en.pdf) rtsp://admin:12345@IP:Port/Streaming/Channels/ID/?transportmode=multicast Frigate (https://f

This week Senator Kevin Cramer joins The Ask Noah Show and we discuss net neutrality! It's a more complicated and nuanced issue than most people give it credit for. Our access to the internet these days is like running water. -- During The Show -- 01:50 Senator Kevin Cramer Interview Common Carrier - treat all traffic equally Net Neutrality - ISPs must treat all traffic equally History 1934 Title 2 1980 Computer 2 Policy 2002 Cable Broadband gets an exemption 2005 All ISPs ARE NOT common carrier 2015 ISPs ARE Common Carrier (Gov Take Over) 2017 Ajit Pai repeals net neutrality If the infrastructure has been subsidized by tax dollars, should that infrastructure be common carrier? Would it make more sense for this to be under the FTC rather than the FCC? What would you say to people who only have one good choice for internet? Ma Bell Sweet Heart deal Chevron doctrine Openness principles throttling blocking price discrimination Blocking World of War Craft ISP deals with apartment complexes to block other provider

This week a special guest joins The Ask Noah Show to discuss how approachable and easy Framework is making the purchase and maintnece of a modular laptop. Matthew Miller joins the program and we talk Fedora! -- During The Show -- 00:30 LFNW Conference is re-scheduled (early next year) All other activities still going on 02:30 Framework Laptop Impressions First impressions Saw them in the wild Watched other manufactures make parts 06:05 Framework Owner Interview 13 years old House rules Previous laptop - ThinkPad X270 What led you to Framework? What were your first impressions? How did the purchase day go? Why the DIY route? Order experience Very well organized packing Storage Everything is labeled First Power On OS - Kubuntu What is it like using it? X270 to Framework Comparison What distros have you tried? Kubuntu Ubuntu Arch Long term expectations? Who is the ideal Framework customer? Gaming? Framework videos, labels, QR codes Any improvements on modules? disassembling What is the feel like? Over all 0-10?

This week we dig into single board computers, has the Raspberry Pi lost it's way? The new Pi 5 is out but is it too expensive? Intel sold the NUC line to Asus, and of course we take your feedback, answer your questions. -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/358) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of th

This week Noah and Steve dig into the BEST way to automate presence detection in home assistant. We answer your questions, and Francis Chow joins the program to chat about in vehicle operating systems! -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/357) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! A

This week Noah and Steve dig into motion detectors for Home Assistant, some exciting new features for Matrix 2.0 that have landed, and of course your questions! -- During The Show -- Enjoying Tech Personal bleeding over to professional Communication Skills 04:36 Cloning SSDs - Kris Why did snapshots not work? Immutable OS Automate environment rebuild Ansible Snowflakes Work out of VMs Clonezilla 16:19 Can you save Ring locally? - HJ Ring warrant-less access Do Not Buy Ring Axis A8105 (https://www.axis.com/products/axis-a8105-e/support) Amcrest Doorbell (Amazon) (https://www.amazon.com/Amcrest-Doorbell-Weatherproof-Wide-Angle-AD110/dp/B07ZJS3L5Y) 21:00 Plug for Gathering - Steve Netreo Nugget (https://go.netreo.com/nugget-2023) 22:40 Penguin Prince Open Source "V Tubing" software Vpuppr (https://github.com/virtual-puppet-project/vpuppr) 26:42 Old Sticky Tablet - Twobit 70% or higher Isopropol Aclchol 28:40 News Wire Gnome 45 - Gnome (https://release.gnome.org/45/) Nano Pro Gen 12 - Tuxedo Computers (https://ww

What if you could purchase a computer built like a Mac but run a free and open source operating system on it that you can't break, would you buy one? Steve and Noah discuss the Malibal, and an immutable distro with Flatpaks that "just works" -- During The Show -- 00:58 Intro Steve's Nvidea Issue trouble shooting process root cause = it's dirty why dig for the root cause Good News! Axia fixed our board! 06:50 Google Ad Policy - Ahmed Google ads used for phishing Google ads placement confusing Why google don't clearly label ads 12:05 TPM & Drive Encryption On Fedora - Tiny Clevis (https://github.com/latchset/clevis) SystemD Cryptenroll Fedora TPM Blog Post (https://fedoramagazine.org/automatically-decrypt-your-disk-using-tpm2/) Fedora Security Keys Blog Post (https://fedoramagazine.org/use-systemd-cryptenroll-with-fido-u2f-or-tpm2-to-decrypt-your-disk/) 15:09 Linux Mint Issues - penguin prince Maybe re-seat things? 15:55 Current Grafana Setup - Tiny Current Usage Network CPU RAM Disk Matrix database Added to An

Google makes the news this week in one of the largest cases in history over meaningful competition. Do we need the regulation to stop Google? Ubuntu will start allowing you to use a TPM chip for encryption, plus your livestreaming, ZFS, and VPN questions are answered! -- During The Show -- 02:00 Matrix Server Digital Ocean was too expensive Registrations closed Registrations to reopen soon Geek Lab.ninja Live Stream/Chat (https://live.minddripone.com/) 04:22 Live Streaming Baseball? - Matt Bring everything Laptop Camera Internet Access Ubiquity Nano Beam Extremely line of sight Scale Engine (https://www.scaleengine.com/) VDO.ninja (https://vdo.ninja/) OwnCast (https://owncast.online/) Laptop+C920 STI Run away from Logitech Mevo 15:15 ZFS Questions - Tim Noah's mini server ZFS is easy on Ubuntu Setup ZFS on some old drives Put your data on something you understand Setup ZFS on virtual machines Don't use virtual drives with ZFS in production Steve's laptop abuse Noah's laptop VMs Install ZFS on Ubuntu sudo apt

This week we dig into your feedback, and EG Nadhan, the Global Chief Architect Leader, CTO joins the program and we discuss current and future roles of RH Chief Architect. -- During The Show -- 01:40 Noah Triple Failure Power Surge Nothing is working Switch Died - Replaced Cable Modem dead - ISPs Problem Backup failed half way through Check lists and Run Book (QRH) 09:00 Steve's Ask of the Audience How to keep smart watch connected to phone Bluetooth repeater/extender? Other wearable device? 13:22 FOSS Camera System? - Will Axis Cameras Home Assistant App experience Synology NVR Zone Minder (https://zoneminder.com/) Shinobi (https://shinobi.video/) Frigate (https://frigate.video/) 25:58 Help with KVM? - Joe Gnome Boxes Virt Manager Cockpit Machines Red Hat Cockpit Machines Article (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/manage-virtual-machines-cockpit) Fedora Cockpit Machines Documentation (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-server/virtualization/vm-management-cockpit/) 32:45 Hardware Reverse Engineered to

-- During The Show -- 00:58 Intro Viral videos YouTube Profiling Rich Men North of Richmond - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Men_North_of_Richmond) 04:17 Chat Programs, Kid access etc - Semantic Scholar Beeper Kids on platforms Affects of 'screens' Kids & Technology 12:12 Just thanks - Entransic Thanks for the show! 12:30 Soldering Iron? - Charlie Soldering irons peak Pinecil (https://pine64.com/product/pinecil-smart-mini-portable-soldering-iron/) Can take a while to get TS100 and TS101 Runs off 12v Adjustable temp 16:36 News Wire Linux Turns 32, Linux 6.5 - OMG Ubuntu (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/08/linux-kernel-6-5-features) Bohdi Linux 9 - Bodhi Linux (https://www.bodhilinux.com/release/7-0-0/) Mageia 9 - Mageia (https://www.mageia.org/en/9/) QEMU 8.1 - Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/QEMU-8.1-Released) GNU Coreutils 9.4 - Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Coreutils-9.4) ClamAV 1.2 - ClamAV (https://blog.clamav.net/2023/08/clamav-120-feature-version-and-111-102.html) F

This week Noah and Steve take you down the journey of two open source guys using open source day in and day out for their lives. Is it perfect? No there are rough edges, but why do they make those choices? What's the appeal to freedom and stability? -- During The Show -- 01:10 Caller - Johnathan Arkansa Display video streams rpisurv (https://github.com/SvenVD/rpisurv) 05:45 Beginner Distro? - Walking Penguin Everyone faces different paper cuts Arch Linux - high learning curve, Powerful Endless OS (https://www.endlessos.org/os) Immutable/hard to break Immutable OSes Search/Community base Ubuntu Mate (https://ubuntu-mate.org/) Shaves off many rough edges Made for non-techies Fedora (https://fedoraproject.org/) Flatpak first Red Hat standard desktop Fedora KDE (https://fedoraproject.org/spins/kde/) Kubuntu (https://kubuntu.org/) Rust Desk (https://rustdesk.com/) AnyDesk (proprietary, cloud based) 19:55 Linux Bat Command Cat command with extras OS Technix (https://ostechnix.com/bat-a-cat-clone-with-syntax-highlig