Ask Noah Show

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

This week Aaron Prisk and Jason Nucciarone join the program to talk about Ubuntu Summit 2024. We dig into your feedback and talk about the benefits of immutable operating systems. -- During The Show -- 00:55 Intro Steve's WiFi issues Printer issues Nextcloud issues 07:46 Arch and Mandatory Access Control - Baker Why Steve chooses Arch Arch doesn't enable "auditing" in the kernel Other Mandatory Access Control SELinux Will tell you what to do Don't shut it off Permissive Mode Arch is the most "vanilla" distro Things do break in Arch, and other distros Consider Arch 17:42 Printers - Rabin Steve uses Brother printers Till Kamppeter ANS 368 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/368) Buy Brother Use IPP/IPPS 20:56 Charlie Asks The Audience Self Hostable Web based CRM Designed for both IT professionals and tradesmen Can: Assign Staff Assign Jobs List Stock Quote Job/Task Invoice Produce list of stock which is needed to buy as stock is low/empty Easy Appointments (https://easyappointments.org/) InvenTree (https://github.

This week we dig into the Verizon outage. We'll talk about why and how you can host your own communication infrastructure, so an outage is less detrimental to your life! -- During The Show -- 01:35 Notes with sync? - Jou Jou How Steve takes notes Standard Notes (https://app.standardnotes.com/) Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/) Simple Mobile Tools (https://simplemobiletools.com/) Fossify (https://www.fossify.org/apps/) Nextcloud Notes app Collabra 09:12 Listener Reacts To Distros - Aaron Issues with Ubuntu Go for Fedora Endless OS Write in with your Ubuntu issues Mind Drip One Offline Windows Setup (https://docs.minddripone.com/Windows/windows-11-offline-setup/) 15:27 Audio Issues Mixer died Loaner from company Got the board fixed Sample rate changed Sample rate manually fixed and digital recorder back in production 17:48 News Wire Firefox 131 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/131.0/releasenotes/) FFmpeg 7.1 - ffmpeg.org (https://ffmpeg.org) GnuCash 5.9 - gnucash.org (https://www.gnucash.org/n

We struggled again this week with audio. We appologize for any inconvinence for skipping / low pitched audio This week Steve shares his distro hopping adventures! Noah and Steve are both skating towards the same end goal. They are going about getting there different ways. -- During The Show -- 00:45 Steve's Distro Hopping Steve's distro journey Deepin Desktop vs Deepin Distro Deepin Desktop mix of Gnome and KDE Commercial vs Steve's desktop implementations Unique monitor setup What Noah wants in a computer Reinstall with the niceties Pop!_OS & Cosmic experience Deepin is Chinese Arch & Deepin DE KDE experience KDE can always recover Latte-Dock (https://github.com/KDE/latte-dock) Arch is the nerd safety OS Lots of distros, what's missing 44:00 News Wire SparkyLinux 7.5 - sparkylinux.org (https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-7-5/) ZorinOS 17.2 - zorin.com (https://blog.zorin.com/2024/09/19/zorin-os-17.2-has-landed/) MXLinux 23.4 - mxlinux.org (https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-23-4-libretto-now-available/) Linux Libre 6.11

AUDIO THIS WEEK HAD A SAMPLE RATE ISSUE. SORRY FOR IN INCONVENIENCE. -- During The Show -- 00:52 Steve's WiFi We think its fixed! Noah brought lots of gear Replaced some hardware 02:41 Recovery after power surge - David Cattle not Pets Steve's Nextcloud experience Noah's laptop approach 09:43 Communications App Upheaval - Charlie There is a war on encrypted messaging Courts are making decisions 12:45 Listener Responses To Listener (cameras in home) - Chris UniFi Wave Pico system 13:51 News Wire AlmaLinux Certification SIG - almalinux.org (https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-09-10-announcing-new-certification-sig/) Wine 9.17 - gitlab.winehq.org (https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-9.17) Samba 4.21 - samba.org (https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.21.0.html) Rust 1.81 - blog.rust-lang.org (https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/09/05/Rust-1.81.0.html) GNU Nano 8.2 - lists.gnu.org (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2024-09/msg00001.html) Firefox 130 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en

This week we dig back into home automation, we talk a bit about choosing cameras for a large camera system, and of course we answer your questions! -- During The Show -- 00:52 Intro Home automation Weekend of learning 03:48 Monitoring Remote Location (Cameras) - Rob Powerline adapters might work Ubiquiti Nano Beam Synology Surveillance Station (https://www.synology.com/en-global/surveillance) Frigate Do not put the NVR on the internet Privacy File server upload Home Assistant events 17:18 Camera Systems for Tribal Lands - William NDAA compliant cameras and NVRs ReoLink NVR banned ReoLink Cameras depends - bad idea NDAA compliant brands 360 Vision Technology (360 VTL) Avigilon Axis Communications BCD International Commend FLIR Geutebrück iryx JCI/Tyco Security Mobotix Pelco Rhombus Systems Seek Thermal Solink Vaion/Ava WatchGuard Main 3 NVR in use Exac Vision Avigilon Milestone NDAA conversation Noah's favorites Axis FLIR #### 25:09 Charlie Finds e-ink android - Charlie Boox Palma (https://shop.boox.com/produ

Why do you use Linux? Why do you want to use Linux? This week Noah and Steve dig into their technology past and reflect on why a technologist would choose Linux and Open Source over the proprietary alternatives. -- During The Show -- 01:08 Why I Use Linux - Ryan Opened my eyes Wide open Allows me to choose how to use my computer 02:40 405 Error "Method Not Allowed" DICOM Software requires activation activation server went away Online Game Activation direct to drive companies take the game with them Memories taken Steve's Story Windows put you in a sandbox Linux is nerdy and different Unix philosophy 2 parts Linux and Open Source Reading source code Windows got better then worse 2 main professional automation systems Build systems independently then tie together Ruling things out X10 zigbee Ruled in ZWave Shellys Home Assistant update broke Orbit Panels Breaking the automation network out Shelly integration methods Steve's Parent's Setup RaspberryPi with Home Assistant ESP8266 with door sensor 42:48 News Wire

This week Steve gives a deep dive into his adventures with Frigate, an open source NVR software. -- During The Show -- 00:46 Orbit Panels Installed at home First professional install Smart home issues 03:03 Oreon Desktop The Register (https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/20/oreon_lime_desktop_almalinux/) Distro based on Alma Linux Hard to get commercial Linux desktop right Oreon Project (https://oreonproject.org/) Company has support Focus on the desktop Has lots of extra packages/software Focus on stability 10:08 Serpent OS 9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/serpent-os-gears-up-for-alpha-release-enables-framework-13-and-flathub-support) Serpent OS Alpha release Ikey Doherty 11:55 Cosmic OS 9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/system76-launches-pop_os-24-04-lts-with-cosmic-alpha-desktop-environment) Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha release of Cosmic Desktop Built for users System76 Cosmic (https://system76.com/cosmic) Easy to switch between traditional and tiling desktops Give System76 constructive feedback Available for m