Ask Noah Show

This week we dig into what it takes to get started and involved in Open Source. You can do it in your community, in your city, or in your area. If nothing like that exists in your area, join us at one of the upcoming community conferences! -- During The Show -- 00:51 Polar Vortex Polar vortex collapse Audio bookshelf python code 03:02 Steve's Immich Journey - Stephen Storage templates (https://immich.app/docs/administration/storage-template/) Asset types and storage locations (https://immich.app/docs/administration/storage-template/) Makes sense from programming perspective Not knowing what to look for 10:38 Cheap Card for AI - Joshua Driver issues Quadro performs a little better Stay away from Tesla cards RAM and CUDA cores Stay away from Intel and AMD 16:10 Seafile help? - Tyler Context path Help available in Geeklab 20:25 Church A/V - Emmanuel RJ6 Quad Shielded Cable RESI (https://resi.io/) OBS and Owncast (https://owncast.online/) NDI Camera Aida Camera (https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1697374-REG/

This week Noah and Steve describe their geek weekend. Steve teaches Noah about containers, and takes on a cool ZFS on boot project! -- During The Show -- 01:00 Steve's Trip Went up North to visit Noah and Altispeed 02:22 Nextcloud on VMs - Bradly Nextcloud works better on VMs NFS challenges Give MariaDB lots of memory This is how enterprise deploys things All in one falls over Struggled to get real time collaboration to work Pass a zvol through to the VM S3 storage Ceph (https://docs.ceph.com/en/quincy/start/)/Gluster (https://www.gluster.org/) is complicated but most robust Pass a block device not another QCOW2 file 13:52 3D printing experience - Jeremy Prusa MK4S, open source friendly Handheld Framework Case (https://www.printables.com/model/1051411-framework-portable-handheld-case-beth-deck-rev-15) Creality 6 SE Creality Ender 3 Fully open vs high end 3D printers Cloud dependant 22:52 AI for interviews - Avri Interview Coder (https://github.com/ibttf/interview-coder) Red Hat interview story Kid using hotel

We go live from Witchia KS and learn how a NewSpring Church is using free and open source technology to advance their mission. Ilan from SCaLE joins us to discuss the upcoming conference! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Special Guest Elon from SCALE Talks for everyone at every level Live podcast panel Co-Located Events There are things for kids! SCALE wants people to help people find their next roll Advice for first time attendees Evening activities Any advice for attendees Promo Code NOAH 18:00 News Wire Plasma 6.3 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.3.0/) KDE Frameworks 6.11 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/6/6.11.0/) Gnome 47.4 - discourse.gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-47-4-released/27093) TRX & Tomb Raider II Adds Linux Support - gamingonlinux.com (https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/tomb-raider-ii-open-source-re-implementation-adds-linux-support/) Netrunner 25 - netrunner.com (https://www.netrunner.com/netrunner-25-shockworm-released/) EndeavourOS Mercury

This week Noah gives an update on EndlessOS and why it might be the default go-to operating system for new users. Ai scams are getting worse, and the Ashi lead dev stepped down. -- During The Show -- 00:50 EndlessOS Customized Gnome Installer Doesn't allow the user to hurt themselves Intuitive interface Remote Desktop RDP Reasonably Secure Last OS left on a computer 12:09 News Wire Thunderbird 135 - thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/135.0/releasenotes/) Firefox - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/135.0/releasenotes/) Curl 8.12 - curl.se (https://curl.se/ch/) Sysvinit 3.14 - github.com (https://github.com/slicer69/sysvinit/releases) MKVtoolNix v90 - bunkus.org (https://www.bunkus.org/2025/02/2025-02-08-mkvtoolnix-v90-0-released/) Calibre 7.25 - calibre-ebook.com (https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new) LibreOffice 25.2 - wiki.documentfoundation.org (https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/25.2) Ardor 8.11 - ardour.org (https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html) Tails

Immich provides a consistant photo experience across devices, and across family members. This week Noah and Steve give you a deep dive into Immich. We answer your questions, and give you a brief look at news from this week. -- During The Show -- 00:52 Steve's review process Two different review styles It's like a BBQ Gril 02:30 OpenShift In Labs - Ole Fine for home use Learn how to rebuild the cluster Treat it like an enterprise product OpenShift can be heavy 10:00 Continuing Computerized Car Convo - James Remote car take overs are a problem Auto makers are more aware now Cars are drive by wire now 13:56 Episode 414 - Max Nano is for gentlemen Vim is for ninjas Automation shortcuts on iOS Things can be hit or miss on iOS 18:30 News Wire Gparted Live 1.7.0 - gparted.org (https://gparted.org/news.php?item=257) Binutils 2.44 - lists.gnu.org (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2025-02/msg00001.html) Thunderbird 134.0 - thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/134.0/releasenotes/) Ar

This week we dig into your feedback, talk about an FPGA Playstation, and talk about Chinese AI. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Weather Unusual warm spell Extreme weather gear 03:00 Photos! - Anthony Flatbed scanner Handheld scanner Don't like the "scanning services" Epson Perfection Resolution of source material Canon LIdi Stay away from phones Make sure you have enough bandwidth 11:15 ttyusb - Jason Udev rules Ask an LLM 13:21 Cheque printing - Micah Use a template Quick Books Online 16:32 Questions - Atypical HACS (https://hacs.xyz/) Steve pulls several things from HACS BMC control in Home Assistant You do over extend yourself Can be deeply rewarding Have a prioritizing plan 25:36 News Wire MySQL 9.2 - mysql.com (https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/9.2/en/news-9-2-0.html) Dovecot 2.4 - dovecot.org (https://dovecot.org/mailman3/archives/list/dovecot-news@dovecot.org/thread/UYNR6GBP25XEGFCS633SWPR4HXV3NSS3/) Ventoy 1.1 - ventoy.net (https://ventoy.net/en/download.html) Gnome 46.8 - discourse.gnome.org (http

This week we dig into your questions, and talk about Nvidia's new AI rig. -- During The Show -- 00:56 George From NYC Used computers for a church Lenovo laptops and Thinkcenters Dell Optiplex Ebay Made in the last 4 years Make sure they have TPM 2.0 04:50 Noah's new toy Flipper Zero (https://flipperzero.one/) Electronic multi-tool Had to legitimately bypass access control Read and emulate RFID and NFC Lots of Apps 08:58 HVAC - Ziggy Zigbee timer system? Wouldn't put the timer on device Steve's solution Why timers? 14:20 Battery Pack - Erik Anderson Power Pole Deep Cycle SLA INIU 100w Type C Dewalt Battery Adapter (https://www.amazon.com/Converter-Battery-Adapter-Regulator-Terminal/dp/B0CQJDGQDB) Offical Dewalt USB C Adapter (https://www.dewalt.com/product/dcb094k/20v-maxflexvolt-5-amp-usb-charging-kit?tid=577811) 83w 12v USB Outlet (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B1DHNLDS?ref=fed_asin_title) 21:40 NFS vs S3 for Home Lab - Brendan Recoverability Added complexity Would lean away from S3/Minio Hard to recover broke

This week we get an update from the Ovens Data Center. Steve migrates a box from Ubuntu to Red Hat, and of course we answer your questions! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Deadly cold weather Oven's data center update Spending "cloud money" on local media 05:55 Custom RHEL ISO ISO build system Red Hatters building all kinds of custom ISOs Why a custom ISO Red Hat Doc (https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/composing_a_customized_rhel_system_image/index) Why switch to RHEL Professional Linux support Mixed environment? 20:20 CES POE powered TV ArsTechnica Atricle (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/01/the-8-most-interesting-pc-monitors-from-ces-2025/) Basecase (https://getbasecase.com/) Crowd funding Questions about interfaces Powered over barrel connector Very expensive 29:58 News Wire Firefox 134 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/134.0/releasenotes/) Flatpak 1.16 - github.com (https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/1.16.0) KDE Frameworks

-- During The Show -- 00:50 Christmas Break Got to dig in to personal projects 02:22 YouTube Aggressive IP Bans YouTube starting to ban even home IPs Pinchflat (https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat) Feed YouTube a login cookie Not doing anything from your own IP GitHub Link (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/11868) Google went to court to shut down yt-dlp This is the next step If you don't own it, you're SOL Javascript is open source 15:00 News Wire Sysvinit 3.13 - github.com (https://github.com/slicer69/sysvinit/releases/tag/3.13) Peazip 10.2 github.com (https://github.com/peazip/PeaZip/releases/) GE-Proton 9.22 - gamingonlinux.com (https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/ge-proton-9-22-released-with-lots-of-game-fixes-for-linux-steam-deck/) Berry Linux 1.40 - berry-lab.net (https://berry-lab.net/changelog.html) Pentoo Linux 2025 - pentoo.ch (https://www.pentoo.ch/downloads) SparkyLinux - 7.6 sparkylinux.org (https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-7-6/) Nobara v41 -nobaraproject.org (https://nobaraproject.or

This week we do live troubleshooting on the air with a listener, dig into permissions, ACLs, and talk about the software we didn't know we couldn't live without! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Merry Christmas! People are generous Steve's Christmas Plans Red Hat Rewards 02:20 TrueNas ZFS Replication Problem Drivers Permissions Unable to chmod 777 as root ZFS allow command No AppArmor Feature flags ZFS send/receive in verbose mode File system locked Remount the file system GID UID Jellyfin wants to be user ID Can create and delete but not change permissions ZFS ACLs ZFS ACL and Share ACL Send/Recive doesn't strip ACLs 14:15 Open Source Software Recommendations pluja/whishper (https://github.com/pluja/whishper) Super Productivity (https://super-productivity.com/) Firefox Multi Account Containers (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/) Flameshot (https://flameshot.org/) Frigate (https://frigate.video/) Eye Of Gnome (https://help.gnome.org/users/eog/stable/) ErsatzTV (https://ersatz

This week Eric Hendricks joins us to help us solve problems, and bring some insight to RHEL 10 beta! -- During The Show -- 00:52 Intro Eric Hendricks ITGuyEric Red Hat Technical Marketer Fedora Podcast Host Steve's PSA - Spook (https://spook.boo/) Entities Other problems Help Steve Out - Firefox and authenticated proxy Mac OS breaking open source Gatekeeper 20:05 Threema for Messaging - Michael Technology is a tool for relationships Paid app Designed for private communication Checks a lot of boxes Network effect threematrix (https://github.com/bitbetterde/Threematrix) not updated recently Beeper 31:30 7 Inch Touch Screen Make the touch screen the primary display USB cable emulates a mouse Crash cart tech 35:07 News Wire Gnome 46.7 - gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-46-7-released/25560) KDE Frameworks 6.9 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/6/6.9.0/) KDE Gear 24.12 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/gear/24.12.0/) XFCE 4.20 - github.io (https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_

This week Chinese hackers penetrated 8 US cell phone providers. They used the backdoor the US Government asked them to put in to perform the atack. With Chinese hackers potentially still in US networks, the FBI is advising the public to adopt encryption - the same technology the FBI has long demonized. -- During The Show -- 00:51 VoxelLibre Ansible Playbook Kids wanted Luanti (https://www.luanti.org/) Server and VoxelLibre (https://github.com/VoxeLibre/VoxeLibre) Minetest changed and broke automation Flatpak and Snap Obtaining Snap version Steve's Solution Potential for problems 13:52 Steam Lan Transfer Speed - Charlie No experience with LAN transfer speed limit Look inside of Steam Check for router/switch/bad cable Check for a system bottle necks 17:21 Internet Phone System - Jon Steve's IP phone system attempt Altispeed got out of doing phones Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) FreePBX (https://www.freepbx.org/) Unix Surplus (https://unixsurplus.com/) Grandstream GRP2612W (https://www.amazon.com

This week we dig into the VMware situation that's leading to companies across the companies dumping VMware. -- During The Show -- 01:11 lacucaracha123456 - Pixel Screen Repair Screen repairs require heatguns and prying them apart Check Batteries Plus Check ebay for repair services 03:48 DNS - Aryeh Enabled and working fine for Steve Hairpin NAT Tiny from the GeekLab says: "Blocky and Adguard Home support DOH and DOT" 07:55 User Response Windows S - Michael Windows Support Link (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/switching-out-of-s-mode-in-windows-4f56d9be-99ec-6983-119f-031bfb28a307) Only seems to work if Windows 10 key is in the motherboard Level of friction Microsoft is placing in front of users 11:25 Photos/Backups on a VPS? - Charlie Crunch Bits (https://crunchbits.com/) Spider Oak (https://spideroak.com/) More value in spending "streaming money" on storage encrypt locally GPG VeraCrypt CryFS Kopia (https://kopia.io/) BorgBackup ZFS send and receive 25:25 News Wire Rust 1.83 - rust-lang.org (http

This week Noah and Steve outline where you should leverage automation and rely on it, and when it's good to have a backup plan. -- During The Show -- 02:00 Podcasting 2.0 Podcasting is changing Thank you 05:00 Retro Tink RetroTink designed for retro gaming 06:22 Luanti Mine Test Blog (https://blog.minetest.net/2024/10/13/Introducing-Our-New-Name/) $2.5B paid for Minecraft celeron55 took on the challenge of making a similar game MineTest took over in Noah's house MineTest expanded way beyond just a Minecraft clone Luanti (https://www.luanti.org/) Voxel Libre (https://github.com/VoxeLibre/VoxeLibre) 16:00 When to Automate A different way to tackle the problem Automation vs by hand Nix Maintaining old versions Learning something new vs using what you know Shifting paradigms 38:30 Windows S Mode People have tremendous patience for MS but not Open Source Windows S mode only allows software from the MS Store Requires purchasing a key 43:30 Microsoft 360 Outage Service announcement delayed No one at Microsoft to com

Mike McGrath joins the program and we get an update from Red Hat. This week we dig into week 2 of Steve's Desktop Linux struggle. -- During The Show -- 01:00 Hex OS - Craig Self host Files Pictures Home Assistant Jellyfin Wants a GUI Like the idea of ZFS Snapshots Go simple You should know how to fix things Cockpit 11:25 News Wire Wordpress 6.7 - wordpress.org (https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-6-7/) Postgres 17.1 - postgresql.org (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/17.1/) Peazip 10.1 - github.io (https://peazip.github.io/changelog.html) DigiKam 8.5 - digikam.org (https://www.digikam.org/news/2024-11-16-8.5.0_release_announcement/) Systemd 256.8 - github.com (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/tag/v256.8) Linux 6.12 - lwn.net (https://lwn.net/Articles/997958/) GNU-Linux 6.12 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Linux-Libre-6.12) Quadruple Workqueue Concurrency - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Workqueues) Q4OS 5.7 - q4os.org (https:

Tim Flink, a Senior Quality Engineer from Red Hat joins us to talk about AI on Fedora. This week Noah and Steve talk about their struggles with the Linux Desktop. -- During The Show -- 02:30 Helping a Non-techy friend - Sleuth The plan Locked down second hand Android device Ting Flex plan Tracar (https://www.traccar.org/) JMP.Chat Sim Plan Mint Mobile Steer people away from sms/calls Matrix Telegram etc 08:47 News Wire Calibre 7.21 - calibre-ebook.com (https://download.calibre-ebook.com/7.21.0/) Cmake 3.31 - cmake.org (https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/release/3.31.html) Curl 8.11 - curl.se (https://curl.se/ch/) Scraperr 1.0 - github.com (https://github.com/jaypyles/Scraperr) LXQT 2.1 - lxqt-project.org (https://lxqt-project.org/release/2024/11/05/release-lxqt-2-1-0/) Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 - ubports.com (https://ubports.com/en/blog/ubports-news-1/post/ubuntu-touch-ota-6-focal-release-3942) Debian 12.8 - debian.org (https://www.debian.org/News/2024/20241109) Torvalds 2.6% Performance Patch - theregister.com (ht

This week on Ask Noah we dig into Cosmic desktop and talk about what to do when self hosting goes wrong! -- During The Show -- 01:48 Cosmic Desktop - Dan Cosmic will be the desktop for System76 computers Built for System76 Cosmic DE still Alpha/Beta Been running Cosmic for over a month 07:38 Caller KVM/VirtManager performance Virt IO Drivers Correct ZFS block size for QCOW2 Synchronous vs Non-synchronous writes ZFS Intent Log (SLOG/ZIL) 64k Record size Turn on virtualization in UEFI Enable "write a shift" Check the cables 16:50 Cosmic Desktop - ZFS - Rob Hardware HDD Failure after re-silvering Preventing bit rot 3 disks vs 2 disks ZFS Send/Receive vs Rsync Sanoid (https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid) Limit the bandwidth Total data vs Total Bandwidth Synology is not open source Just install an OS and packages 30:55 Zed Editor Website (https://zed.dev/) Steve uses Nano not Vim or Emacs Thoughts on IDEs? VSCode and VSCodium Electron Lots of extensions Failed to get to the website AI is not appealing Written i

This week Robie Basak joins Noah from the Ubuntu Summit and gives an introduction on how to get started contributing to Ubuntu. -- During The Show -- 01:26 HexOS - Craig Start with the Command Line When is a GUI appropriate Start with make a ZFS pool make a samba share Help us understand your goal What is HexOS Ubuntu and ZFS DKMS kABI Advantages of TrueNAS Snapshots Send/Receive 1 Click Re-silvering 17:08 Questions about HDMI switch - Andy Theater Receiver Decimator (https://www.amazon.com/Decimator-DMON-QUAD-SD-SDI-Multi-Viewer-Outputs/dp/B072NGFDMR) 21:14 News Wire SQLite 3.47.0 - sqlite.org (https://sqlite.org/releaselog/3_47_0.html) Peazip 10 - github.io (https://peazip.github.io) Jellyfin 10.10.0 - jellyfin.org (https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-release-10.10.0/) EasyOS 6.4 - puppylinux.com (https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=12973) Gnome 47.1 - gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-47-1-released/24670) Tor Browser 14.0 - torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-b

This week Steve gives a deep dive into Widevine Encryption. We love encryption when it protects our data, but what do we do when encryption prevents us from doing the things we want to do over the internet? -- During The Show -- 00:50 Which is easier kids or dogs? 01:57 Succession Planning - Steve Secure vs accessible Steve's plan Infrastructure as code Critical path continuity Nix maintains old packages Techie friends Sleuths setup/plan data separation Noah's plan 20:29 News Wire Solus 4.6 - getsol.us (https://getsol.us/2024/10/14/solus-4-6-released/) Sysvinit 3.11 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/SysVinit-3.11) Calibre 7.20 - calibre-ebook.com (https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new) Ardour 8.10 - ardour.org (https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html) Wine 9.20 - gitlab.winehq.org (https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-9.20) ReiserFS Removed in Linux 6.13 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-To-Drop-ReiserFS) RHEL AI 1.2 - zdnet.com (https://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hat-r

This week Noah and Steve dig into thoughts for light switches if you're starting from scratch. Do you work in a small closet that's been turned into an IT room? Noah gives you a recommendation for a small portable travel laptop stand. With under a year left to switch to Windows 11, there's a surprise at how many people have yet to upgrade. We talk about why that is. -- During The Show -- 01:07 Caller Would you still go with lutron? ZWave kit GE & Brighton How Noah looks at automation Lutron RA2 (https://www.lutron.com/en-US/products/pages/wholehomesystems/ra2select/overview.aspx) Zwave and Home Assistant Industrial system design Shelly Pro (https://us.shelly.com/collections/all-products?filter.p.m.custom.filter_technology=LAN&filter.v.price.gte=&filter.v.price.lte=) Orbit Panels (https://orbitpanels.com/) 11:26 Journal Block Device not loaded - John May be using a file system with out journalling May be using a file system Lynis can't detect GitHub Issue (https://github.com/CISOfy/lynis/issues/1508) 13:25 Tho