Ask Noah Show

This week CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE have formed OpenELA, we dig into the Libera chat / Matrix bridge issues, and we discuss choosing the problems you want to solve. -- During The Show -- 00:58 Pre-Show Steve's dead hardware Noah's type-C charger upgrade Noah's portable rack 06:40 Home Assistant - Curt Run on a re-purposed thin client Parkytowers (Parkytowers.me.uk) Parkytowers Wyse D10D (https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/wyse/d/d10d/) 10:38 HASSIO Feedback on Dimmers - Chris F. ESP32 dev is employed by Home Assistant Steve's experiances Z-Wave ESP32 Shelly 13:58 LXD Forked by Suse - Charlie Github (https://github.com/lxc/incus) FossForce (https://fossforce.com/2023/08/fork-of-lxd-lands-almost-immediately-as-a-linux-containers-project/) Canonical took over LXC 16:30 Normie friendly wiki with good searchability - Tiny WikiJS HackMD to WikiJS Steve and Noah don't use tags Git Backend 20:55 News Wire Open ELA - Open ELA (https://openela.org/news/hello_world/) Tails 5.16 - Tails (https://tails.net/news/version_5.1

This week Home Assistant accidentally takes over Noah's house, and Micah Pendleton returns to dig into specifics about professional video production on Linux. -- During The Show -- 00:58 Steve's Luddite Week Amazon return with no phone Society is going to requiring phones 05:00 VLANs - Norm Steve's VLANs VLANs 10 Admin 20 Guest 30 Production/Servers 40 Critical VPN back in Write back in! 07:00 Gary from Grand Forks Home Assistant news broadcast plugin Firefox video popout 12:00 X1 Carbon Issues - JJ4884 Set "Linux option" in UEFI Noah's is 6th Gen X1 Carbon 14:00 News Wire Asahi Linux's Flagshiop Distro - ARS Technica (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/asahi-linux-will-offer-a-flagship-fedora-remix-for-apple-silicon-macs/) Rhino Linux 1.0 - Rhino Linux (https://rhinolinux.org/news-6.html) Zorin OS 16.3 - ZDnet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/zorin-os-16-3-is-now-available-and-ready-to-make-using-linux-even-easier/) Nitrix 2.9.1 - nxos.org (https://nxos.org/changelog/release-announcement-nitrux-2-9-1/) CB

This week Noah lives off of a 37Ah battery, and the Rocky Linux team joins Noah and Steve to discuss their plans going forward to maintain a clone of RHEL! -- During The Show -- Running Off Battery 37Ah battery Point of the experiment Anderson Power Pole Vanomize (https://vanomize.com/pages/shop) Powerwerx (https://powerwerx.com/solar-portable-power) LiFePO4 Battery Modular/Form Factor Yetti 1500x (https://www.rei.com/product/184367/goal-zero-yeti-1500x-portable-power-station?) Noah's Science Project Case (https://www.amazon.com/Monoprice-Weatherproof-Hard-Case-Customizable/dp/B07XSCS9RT) Battery (https://www.amazon.com/LiFePO4-Battery-Perfect-Applications-Warranty/dp/B084DB36KW) Inverter (https://powerwerx.com/redarc-r122000rsna-2000w-inverter-rseries) Battery Charger (https://www.amazon.com/BikeMaster-TS0207A-Lithium-Battery-Charger/dp/B0167JU8VI) US Power Sockets (https://www.amazon.com/weideer-Industrial-Connectors-Adapter-Connection/dp/B092VQNKN7) PowerPole Panel Mount (https://powerwerx.com/panelpole-pa

Vojtěch Pavlík the General Manager for Business-Critical Linux joins The Ask Noah Show to discuss SUSE's plans to create a hard fork of RHEL and fill the gap created by Red Hat's recent changes. -- During The Show -- 01:45 News Wire Libre Office 7.5.5 - Document Foundation (https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2023/07/20/libreoffice-7-5-5-community-available-for-download/) Qt Creator 11 - Qt Io (https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-11-released) Inkscape 1.3 - Inkscape (https://inkscape.org/doc/release_notes/1.3/Inkscape_1.3.html) Neptune 8.0 - Neptune OS (https://neptuneos.com/en/start-page.html) Debian 12.1 - Debian (https://www.debian.org/News/2023/20230722) Debian RISC-V Support - Debian (https://lists.debian.org/debian-riscv/2023/07/msg00053.html) CIQ Partner Program - CIQ (https://ciq.com/blog/ciq-partner-program-the-power-of-collaboration-and-ecosystems/) Mesa Performance boosts - WCCF Tech (https://wccftech.com/intels-linux-vulkan-driver-to-boost-gaming-performance-up-to-12-percent-arc-gpus/) GeForce

This week Alma has big news, Slackware hits 30 years, we give you an update on Beeper, and Noah found his new favorite Matrix client! -- During The Show -- 01:00 Audio Success Story - Ricky Yamaha TF1 Mixer No news is good news Worked great! 04:30 Adam follows up (remote desktop) - Adam Any desk no longer available via flatpak 06:25 Remote options with no monitor? - Ian Pi KVM BLI KVM (https://www.ebay.com/itm/166209691975?hash=item26b2dea147:g:7aoAAOSwInJko9ef&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4MloAfNFq9gLe5T4FCZ9qN19JWvO1UC2MBT%2FF654cWLlzyacNc50fQl6iWH8xPjs7tkwSw0oyVjEzgC8fNJxhMeby%2BLJdj2Uroor9tKcIHv8Abk0Rl6HnwFlZ1SdQMqtZQkgaekXkd5A4a6qAlGnff%2FcTUUZ6LXLILRDvUSfpYQCxB0FO122K3wmZI%2B%2BizAyN73OBLDZlZIovZtDIXEy%2F8LwCpoTYYM2wffIx%2BBwrCuUJJ15Rtc8eTEczrM7WJIF3eq7sZzfGiM2p42n8Yn3WCq70N2ceWRrkCHiopKaZr74%7Ctkp%3ABFBM9oKAuK1i) 10:20 News Wire Slackware Turns 30 - IT Pro (https://www.itpro.com/software/open-source/slackware-celebrates-30-years-in-the-linux-distribution-world) Linux Mint 21.2 - Linux Mint (https://www.linuxm

This week Bradley Kuhn from Software Freedom Conservancy joins Ask Noah to discuss the Red Hat situation and what if any GPL violations there are. Read Bradley's Blog Post Here! (https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jun/23/rhel-gpl-analysis/) -- 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/344) 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 discou

Micah Pendleton - Owner & Producer of Caution Glass joins The Ask Noah Show to discuss professional video production on Linux! -- During The Show -- 00:45 Happy 4th of July 01:20 Old Desktops - Mike Where to donate old desktops? Check around in your community Free Geek (https://www.freegeek.org/) Reach back out to us 05:32 RLT-SDR (Ham radio) - Agustin New Hams can be obnoxious Listening is great! Remote Ham Radio (https://www.remotehamradio.com/) SDR Receivers 10:40 Remote Desktop - Adam Rust Desk (https://rustdesk.com/) Anydesk (https://anydesk.com/en) Simple Help (https://simple-help.com/) 15:15 News Wire Firefox 115 ESR (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-users-windows-7-8-and-81-moving-extended-support) KaOS 2023.06 (https://kaosx.us/news/2023/kaos06/) Peppermint OS Bookworm (https://peppermintos.com/2023/07/peppermint-os-debian-release/) Nitrux 2.9.0 (https://nxos.org/changelog/release-announcement-nitrux-2-9-0/) GNU Linux-libre 6.4 (https://www.fsfla.org/pipermail/linux-libre/2023-June/003525

Mike McGrath joins the Ask Noah Show to discuss the changes Red Hat is making in how they make their source code available. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Arch Keyring Fix - Bloominstrong at the bottom of /etc/pacman.conf Include "SigLevel = Optional TrustAll" under core and extra Update the keyring -Sy archlinux-keyring Confirm each new key Remove "SigLevel = Optional TrustALL" run pacman -Syu 03:05 Church Streaming - John Wired vs WiFi video OpenLP (https://openlp.org/) WimpysWorld OBS Portable (https://github.com/wimpysworld/obs-studio-portable) FreeShow (https://freeshow.app/) OBS Project (https://obsproject.com/) Ask Noah Show Ep 341 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/341) Confidence monitor Stream Deck Bitfocus (https://bitfocus.io/companion) vdo.ninja (https://vdo.ninja/) Scale Engine (https://www.scaleengine.com/) Own Cast (https://owncast.online/) 10:30 Web Platform? - Brian Go Hugo (gohugo.io) 12:30 Mumble Caller - JMP.chat & Linphone - Naelr Setup Linphone with JMP.chat Send ? in cheogram chat reset sip

Singpolyma from JMP.chat joins Ask Noah to discuss the public launch of JMP.chat! -- During The Show -- 01:40 JMP.Chat 6 Years in Beta Lots of work Always over delivered Singpolyma from JMP.Chat The history of JMP.Chat Why is JMP.Chat for geeks? De-coupling number from a device Financial model Beta Price Extension Pricing Porting Multi Account Cheogram App Desktop Apps Movim (https://mov.im/login) Gajim (https://gajim.org/) Dino (https://dino.im/) Beagle (Mac) (https://beagle.im/) Snikket (https://snikket.org/) JMP.Chat Matrix Bridging/Integration Porting numbers out 46:44 News Wire Distro Box 1.5 - GitHub (https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/releases/tag/1.5.0) Tails 5.14 - Tails (https://tails.boum.org/news/version_5.14/index.en.html) Nvidia Driver - Nvidea (https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/205464/en-us/) SparkyLinux 7.0 - Sparky Linux (https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-7-0-orion-belt/) Ultra Marine Linux 38 - Ultra Marine (https://ultramarine-linux.org) OpenVPN 2.6.5 - OpenVPN (https://com

This week we dig into professional video capture, a new NextCloud alternative, and SSH key pairs! -- During The Show -- 00:30 Support the show Sound board repair cost ANS is an investment Phone call & Mumble best Email and Chat bot Multiple points of view are great 06:45 Steve's Home Assistant Experience Network attached storage 10:05 Help with key pairs - Emmanuel Add the SSH key to your key file Gravitational Teleport (https://github.com/gravitational/teleport) Hardware token (SoloKey, OnlyKey) LDAP 16:40 Pydio Next Cloud Substitute - Ahmed Pydio (https://pydio.com) Libre Self Hosted (libreselfhosted.com) 20:55 Capture Card - Michael Scale-ability PCI Bus/Lanes Quad Bus USB Card (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WCQ64RN) Elgato Capture Stay away from HDMI STI Black Magic not the best under Linux Chinesium STI Capture Card (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08WHR3RV2) Decimator (https://www.amazon.com/Decimator-MD-HX-Converter-Scaling-Conversion/dp/B00QPRGGCS) Proxmox vs Libvirt vs Ovirt Hosting contain

This week we're live from SELF! We talk about the conference and the PineTab2! -- During The Show -- 00:45 SELF SELF is special Community is special Live Coverage Everyone is back Join us on Matrix 04:48 Distro Chooser Container Technology Trading pain points Distro Chooser (https://distrochooser.de/) About section FAQ section Reviews/Feedback 13:32 News Wire InkScape v1.3 Beta InkScape (https://inkscape.org/news/2023/05/30/inkscape-reveals-tools-organizing-efficiently-beta/) Immutable Ubuntu Desktop Ubuntu (https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-core-an-immutable-linux-desktop) NixOS 23.05 Discourse (https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-23-05-released/28649) BlendOS 3 BlendOS (https://blendos.co/blend-os-v3/) MIDI Update Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/MIDI-2.0-Support-Linux-6.5) RISE Project Tech Crunch (https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/31/the-linux-foundation-europe-launches-rise-the-risc-v-software-ecosystem-project/) Tuxedo Updates Beta News (https://betanews.com/2023/06/02/tuxedo-gemini-gaming-workstation-

Matt Hicks the CEO of Red Hat joins the Ask Noah Show to discuss his hands on approach in his leadership role! -- During The Show -- 00:45 SELF SELF is special Community is special Live Coverage Everyone is back Join us on Matrix 04:48 Distro Chooser Container Technology Trading pain points Distro Chooser (https://distrochooser.de/) About section FAQ section Reviews/Feedback 13:32 News Wire InkScape v1.3 Beta InkScape (https://inkscape.org/news/2023/05/30/inkscape-reveals-tools-organizing-efficiently-beta/) Immutable Ubuntu Desktop Ubuntu (https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-core-an-immutable-linux-desktop) NixOS 23.05 Discourse (https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-23-05-released/28649) BlendOS 3 BlendOS (https://blendos.co/blend-os-v3/) MIDI Update Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/MIDI-2.0-Support-Linux-6.5) RISE Project Tech Crunch (https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/31/the-linux-foundation-europe-launches-rise-the-risc-v-software-ecosystem-project/) Tuxedo Updates Beta News (https://betanews.com/2023/06/02/t

This week Lamine Lachhab the Chief technical officer for the Scottish government joins the Ask Noah Show and we discuss open source and open data with the Scottish government. -- During The Show -- Last Week Electrical storm took out the studio Telos (https://www.telosalliance.com/) was amazing! Sorry about last week 01:50 Secure Phone and Apps - Larry Unplugged Up Phone (https://www.unplugged.com/upphone/) Great website Say the right things No details Start with GrapheneOS (https://grapheneos.org/) or LineageOS (https://lineageos.org/) 07:30 Kdenlive Snaps vs DEB - Rick Snap version of Kdenlive Unstable Similar experiences Altispeed has largely switched to Flatpak Like the idea of sandboxing Possible advantages of universal packages Please report upstream 16:48 Zyxel Switch - Charlie Zyxel Switch No support contracts Good "budget brand" Zyxel went down "cloud rabbit hole" TP Link makes good stuff Amazon Link (https://www.amazon.com/12-Port-Gigabit-Managed-Multi-Gig-XGS1210-12/dp/B084MH9P8Q/) 20:48 News Wire

This week we dig into the Asus Ally. We'll tell you about an awesome all-in-one content production studio that works FLAWLESS on Linux, and of course your questions go to the front of the line! -- During The Show -- 03:30 Self Hosted IMAP backup - Sebastián Steve would call Noah Mail spooler Local Thunderbird 08:53 General Feedback - DJ Americas Mailbox for friendly CMRA/PMB privacy/opsec 11:42 News Wire FreeSpire 9.5 FreeSpire (https://www.freespire.net/2023/05/freespire-95-released.html) TinyCore 14 Tiny Core Linux (http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,26201.0.html) Firefox 113 MOzilla (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/113.0/releasenotes/) Haiku & RISC-V RISC-V (https://landscape.riscv.org/card-mode?selected=haiku) BcacheFS Kernel.org (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230509165657.1735798-1-kent.overstreet@linux.dev/T/#mf171fd06ffa420fe1bcf0f49a2b44a361ca6ac44) OpenVPN 2.6.4 OpenVPN (https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/Downloads) Royal Ransomware Group Data Center Knowledge (https://www.

Passkeys are finally here to replace your passwords! What are your boundaries when choosing to support or to avoid companies? As always, your questions go to the front of the line! -- During The Show -- 01:30 ZFS Questions - DJ Drive Slot hosting ZFS.rent Niche of a niche Bare Metal Altispeed 08:20 Note Taking - Erik Standard Notes Joplin Technical debt Will the team be more effective? Evaluating/Bolting things on 17:08 NFS Stability - Jacob SystemD vs AutoFS Fstab Tuning NFS Noah's NFS Arguments 127.0.0.1:/path/to/data /local/mount/point nfs auto,nofail,noatime,nolock,intr,tcp,actimeo=1800 0 0 22:05 AOSP Projects & Tensions - Sunjam There are 10 parts to every story Open Source remains unaffected Pit tour story 27:00 News Wire Linux 6.4 RC1 lkml (https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/5/7/206) GCC 12.3 GNU (https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2023-May/241261.html) ClamAV 1.1.0 ClamAV (https://blog.clamav.net/2023/05/clamav-110-released.html) QT Creator 10.0.1 Qt IO (https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-10.0.1-released) Par

Does the perfect self-hosted Google Photos replacement exist? A free and open source ChatGPT clone is available, we'll show you a site designed to help hone your IT skills, and legislation in the EU might be a threat to open source! -- During The Show -- Photo Management Kenny Schmidt from Altispeed What where you using? What prompted the move? What solutions did you consider? NextCloud Memories (https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/memories) Piwigo (https://piwigo.org/) Photo Prism (https://www.photoprism.app/) Immich (https://github.com/immich-app/immich) Made by an electrical engineer Come a long way Checks all the boxes Better than Google Photos Getting Setup 15:45 News Wire Photon OS 5.0 Github (https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/What-is-New-in-Photon-OS-5.0) GNOME 44.1 Gnome (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-44-1-released/15092/1) Open Razer 3.6 Github (https://github.com/openrazer/openrazer/releases/tag/v3.6.0) Ardour 7.4 Ardour (https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html) Nitrux 2.8 Linux IAC (https://linuxiac

This week the EARN-IT Act is Back! For the third time Senators are trying to push through the EARN-IT Act. Steve and Noah take you through this, as well as your questions! -- During The Show -- 01:15 Steve's Home Automation Sonoff Zigbee 3 Integration issues Problem Solved! Zwave fairness Hindsight recommendations 07:50 Listener Responds about journal - Bhikhu Life O Graph (https://lifeograph.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page) Jrnl (https://jrnl.sh/en/stable/) Pepys (https://lukebriggs.dev/projects/pepys/) Almanah_Diary (https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Almanah_Diary) Monkkee (https://monkkee.com/en) India App Ban (XDA) (https://www.xda-developers.com/all-chinese-apps-banned-india/) 10:11 Cookbook Application? - Jim Don't mind repeating questions Gourmand (https://github.com/GourmandRecipeManager/gourmand) Tandoor (https://docs.tandoor.dev/) 14:58 Which AP? - James Stick with U6 Pro U6 Lite ok U6 Long Range total rip off 16:50 News Wire Proton 8.0 Twitter (https://twitter.com/Plagman2/status/1648029861032890368) QEMU

This week Noah and Steve dig into the RESTRICT Act and the DATA Act! Your questions, your thoughts go to the front of the line. -- During The Show -- 01:30 Encrypted Journal? - Matt EncyptPad (https://github.com/evpo/EncryptPad/releases) Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/) Standard Notes (https://standardnotes.com/) Too tied to a service Separate the app from the encryption Vaults 10:45 Traveling Mailbox - Joey Local USPS unreliable USPS knows its a PMB 12:50 Alternative to GraphineOS - Vincent eOS (https://e.foundation/) 15:45 News Wire Deepin 20.9 BBS Deepin (https://bbs.deepin.org/en/post/255228) Firefox 112 Mozilla (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/112.0/releasenotes/) Digikam 8.0 Digikam (https://www.digikam.org/news/2023-04-16-8.0.0_release_announcement/) LXQt 1.3.0 LXQT (https://lxqt-project.org/release/2023/04/15/release-lxqt-1-3-0/) Proton 8.0 Gaming On Linux (https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/04/valve-rolls-out-proton-80-to-further-improve-steam-deck-and-linux-gaming/) FerretDB Info World (https:/

This week Google is killing some of their cloud services rendering some hardware devices useless bricks, we follow up on our Graphene discussion from last week, and of course your questions are at the front of the line! -- During The Show -- 01:14 Graphene OS - Chris Audio Issues Google Maps & Android Auto Three buckets Everyday bucket (Samsung S10) Personal device (Graphene OS) Private device Magic Earth Maps (https://www.magicearth.com/) Organic Maps (https://organicmaps.app/) Samsung flashing issues 11:05 Graphene OS - Ronald Thanks for walking the walk 11:55 Phone Tracking App? - Kevin OwnTracks (https://owntracks.org/) Location Sharing in Element Element Blog Article (https://element.io/blog/element-launches-e2ee-location-sharing/) 14:45 LoRa instead of Zigbee - Charlie Check out ESP8266, nRF24 , 433Mhz , 915Mhz, Lora and Express LRS Wireless actuator for home automation 433MHz/868MHz/915MHz (https://yewtu.be/watch?v=z2QEYJtNpEc (Radiocontrolli)) Transmitting an Alarm Signal with LoRa (600m)! Improving m

Week one is in the books on GrapheneOS. Noah gives the deep dive on his experience and moves the needle on Steve's skepticism. -- During The Show -- 01:30 Home Assistant on Immutable OS? - Panzer Steve likes Coreos Appliance approach Spouse factor (KISS) Ziggbee 07:55 Shout out for Heads OS - Charlie HeadsOS (https://heads.dyne.org/) 08:50 User responds to listener / SMS 2 factor? - Joey PiHole Block List (https://github.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/blob/master/SmartTV.txt) SMS 2FA & JMP.Chat 10:50 Router Questions - Vladimir Ubiquity Gear limited Controller must be online UniFi U6 Netgate Devices Protectli (https://protectli.com/) Fanless Case is a heat sync Sophos SG210/SG180/SG115 off ebay Fixable Noise 18:50 News Wire GNU Cash 5.0 Its Foss (https://news.itsfoss.com/gnucash-5-0-release/) OBS Studio 29.1 Beta OBS Project (https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/obs-studio-29-1-beta.165547/) Ubuntu Cinnamon Ubuntu Cinnamon (https://ubuntucinnamon.org) Blender 3.5 Blender (https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Referenc