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This week we talk about Bolt graphics, a new graphics start up that is working on a graphics card with upgrade-able memory for a competitive price. A software developer has released an open source alternative firmware for the Nest v1 and v2 thermostats, and of course your questions! -- During The Show -- 00:45 Intro Dakota's weather 01:51 Email! - William Listener recommends porkbun (https://porkbun.com/) Mailbox.org (https://mailbox.org/en/) Simple Login (https://simplelogin.io/) DuckDuckGo Email Alias (https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/email-protection/duck-addresses) Proton's built in features Reasons for protecting privacy Privacy.com (https://www.privacy.com/) 11:25 Data Science & Self Hosting - Annon Value based approach Consenting data collection Tool vs Pillar A job can be a tool Get a job in a different field hadoop Nextcloud Anti Virus Network Protection Medical Science Red Hat data sciences 22:15 News Wire LXQT 2.3 - lxqt-project.org (https://lxqt-project.org/release/2025/11/05/release-l

This week Steve describes what happens when you put Ai in a vacuum cleaner, give it a task, then break the charger. We catch up on your feedback questions, and of course the weekly news! -- During The Show -- 00:48 Intro Choosing what to say yes to 01:43 Cell Phone Fail Over - Brandon Redundant Internet MaxxKonnect (https://maxxkonnect.com/) ISP Negotiation 08:44 IPFire - Frederick PFSense just works Network effect OpenWRT UI/UX Design Steve's migration to OPNSense Tracking online devices 17:40 Converstaion about FastMail - Josh Steve's experience Noah's experience 22:22 Paul Reflects on discussions - Paul Struggle with value of 11 inch framework 23:28 MP3 Audio Processing - Bob Compression Dynamic Range FFMPEG ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -filter:a loudnorm output.mp4 27:55 Question about TrueNas, Frigate and Tailscale - Chris TrueNAS "X Factor" Use Ubuntu vs TrueNAS Cockpit networking Tailscale known bug 38:23 News Wire Exim 4.99 - exim.org (https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20251028.114149.3bf19800.en.html) S

This week Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément from Canonical joins Noah and Steve to talk about Ubuntu Summit 25.10. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Steve's TV Falling asleep to TV LG OLED 55A1 06:05 Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément What was out there Ubuntu CDs Working for Google Promotion Committees Putting on a Conference Abdula Developer Library Google to Canonical Ubuntu Summit Dreamworks MoonRay Microsoft & WSL Thinking Fast and Slow Reach out to people The Canonical Office 39:32 News Wire Peazip 10.7 - peazip.github.io (https://peazip.github.io/changelog.html) Calibre 8.13 - calibre-ebook.com (https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new) Squid Proxy 7.2 - github.com (https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/releases) Less 685 - greenwoodsoftware.com (https://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less) Digikam 8.8 - digikam.org (https://www.digikam.org/news/2025-10-19-8.8.0_release_announcement) Gnome 49.1 - gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-49-1-released/31977) Thunderbird 144 - thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/

This week we answer your questions, then dig into OpenShift vs. Kubernetes operators, give some updated options for email hosting, and talk about the dangers of Ai. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro AI war stories Content Warning Dangers of AI AIs are sycophants 10:00 News Wire ClamAV 1.5 - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/clamav-1-5-0-released) Wireshark 4.6 - wireshark.org (https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-4.6.0) KDE Frameworks 6.19 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/6/6.19.0) Qt 6.10 - qt.io (https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.10-released) 6.16 - kernelnewbies.org (https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.16) NordVPN - techradar.com (https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-services/nordvpn-just-made-its-linux-gui-app-open-source-and-theres-more-on-the-way) T2 25.10 - level1techs.com (https://forum.level1techs.com/t/t2-linux-25-10-never-obsolete-keeps-32-bit-and-big-endian-risc-alive/238216) Ubuntu 25.10 - canonical.com (https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-25-10-questing-q

This week it's all about your feedback! We answer your questions, and dig through your problems! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Hallucinating 03:45 Friso from Mumble Moving all chats to one application Matrix Server Bridges Beeper Messages not flowing Self hosting beeper bridges E2EE 12:05 Security Cameras - Dustin Used Axis cameras Reolink Camera's POE Ethernet only models Some models require Reolink app for first setup Doorbell camera Steve's "doorbell camera flow" Surveillance Station Get one drive Reduce frame rate Weeks worth of footage Axis camera 2035 or 2036 Axis P3367 Write back in! 24:04 Laptops - Dasgeek Framework 12 Framework 12 vs Framework 13 25:45 News Wire Proxmox Mail Gateway 9.0 - helpnetsecurity.com (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/06/proxmox-mail-gateway-open-source-email-security-solution) GnuCash 5.13 - gnucash.org (https://www.gnucash.org/download.phtml) GNU Octave 10.3 - octave.org (https://octave.org/news/release/2025/10/01/octave-10.3.0-released.html) OpenSSL 3.6 - openssl

F-Droid is going away if Google continues down the path of requiring that developers register their apps through Google. Jellyfin has a big update, and Steve joins the program from Texas and shares about what he's doing there. -- During The Show -- 00:52 Intro Steve remote from Texas Talking to a someone in the same space Advantage of Face to Face 08:15 Operese Windows 11 requires certain hardware Microsoft will play games with Windows 10 updates Windows to Linux migration tool Use case Codeberg (https://codeberg.org/Operese/operese) YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YUkD5oslmc) Nixbook (https://github.com/mkellyxp/nixbook) vs EndlessOS Immutable Distros Alloy (https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/) Tailscale 21:50 News Wire GNU Coreutils 9.8 - gnu.org (https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html) Postgres 18 - postgresql.org (https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-18-released-3142) GROOT Robot Model - yahoo.com (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-launches-open-source-ph

This week Noah and Steve dig into an npm attack that Red Hat has issued an alert for. We talk about small and portable laptops, and of course answer your questions. -- During The Show -- 00:52 Intro ZFS Win Meld (https://meldmerge.org/) Domain knowledge scaling 07:32 NPM Supply Chain Attack No compromised packages used in Red Hat software NPM and Node.js What the malicious code does Red Hat is on top of it Reaction to finding a compromise Red Hat Article (https://access.redhat.com/security/supply-chain-attacks-NPM-packages) Aikido Article 1 (https://www.aikido.dev/blog/popular-nx-packages-compromised-on-npm) Aikido Article 2 (https://www.aikido.dev/blog/npm-debug-and-chalk-packages-compromised) Aikido Article 3 (https://www.aikido.dev/blog/s1ngularity-nx-attackers-strike-again) 18:21 Registrar - Josh CloudFlare PorkBun (https://porkbun.com/) Great Nerds 21:47 Small Laptop - Ziggy HP ProBook Noah's GPD Pocket v1 Surface Pro 1 Dell Latitude 2 in 1 StarLabs Star Lite (https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starlite)

This week Noah and Steve talk about a brand new virtualization front end of KDE. They dig into the new law that governs ISP bulk contracts, and dig into the cooling efficiency of data centers. -- During The Show -- 00:52 Intro Un-usual weather Noah's air conditioner problems Electricity cost and AI Electricity cost and crypt mining 10:45 KDE Karton Native Virtual Machine Manager Libvirt VirtManager Cockpit Open Shift & Kubernetes linuxiac.com (https://linuxiac.com/kde-virtual-machine-manager-moves-forward/) 25:45 Jonathan Riddell Leaves KDE Jonathan's Blog Post (https://jriddell.org/2025/09/14/adios-chicos-25-years-of-kde/) Linux IAC Article (https://linuxiac.com/jonathan-riddell-leaves-kde-after-25-years/) KDE on the Steam Deck KDE and the start of Ubuntu Nokia Different priorities from current KDE maintainers 31:09 News Wire Freetype 2.14 - freetype.org (https://freetype.org/index.html#news) Curl 8.16 - curl.se (https://curl.se/ch) Samba 4.23 - samba.org (https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.23.0.ht

This week Alex joins Noah and Steve and brings his expertise as a professional pilot to discuss problem solving and a systematic approach to troubleshooting. -- During The Show -- 00:52 Intro Weather Basement hammock Special Guest Alex - Professional Pilot 03:03 Kagi Serach - Fred Google's diminishing search Kagi Search (https://kagi.com/) Twit TV Link (https://twit.tv/posts/tech/breaking-free-google-how-kagis-paid-search-model-revolutionizing-web-experience) DuckDuckGo Perplexity Kagi vs searxng (https://github.com/searxng/searxng) Paid models 08:55 Domain Registrar - AtypicalKernel GoDaddy No Human support Very hard to recover access NameCheap (https://www.namecheap.com/) Has DynDNS Gandi (https://www.gandi.net/en) Best for weird TLD Registar4Less (https://register4less.com/) Dirt Cheap Cheap Email hosting Delegation of control Amazing Customer Service 16:40 Everyday lessons from a pilot Professional standards Checklists Knowledge for knowledge sake Documentation Acceptable procedures Communication Using ch

This week Noah and Steve dig into the announcement that Google will verify the government identity of all Android developers, and not just those publishing on the Play Store. Google intends to verify developer identities no matter where they offer their content, and apps without verification won't work on most Android devices in the coming years. -- During The Show -- 00:48 Steve's Idea Pre-Show as a presentation Honesty and Vulnerability 04:06 Android Developer Verification Verifying all developers First smartphone We gave up administrative access Mass adoption Privilege escalation Breaking things to make them work Effect on self hosting Large apps vs small apps KYC - Know Your Customer SSL Government ID vs Screen Name 3 Glowing Stores ArsTechnica.com (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/) 26:35 iPhone Trash 1.2 million kilograms of ewaste Owning your tech The Register (https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/02/apple_ios_26_waste/)

Steve talks about his struggles with Immich, Noah walks through his adventures with OpenWRT. -- During The Show -- 00:58 Steve's Immich War Story Updated Immich 2 Choices to repair Knowing things are down 07:15 LubeLogger & Ansible - Aaron LubeLogger Ansible (https://codeberg.org/aaronvonawesome/ansible-role-lube-logger) Mechanical mindset Playbook setup Tracking vehicle maintenance Dealership perks 14:00 Networking Suggestion & AI Question - David Zyxel AP Dell r420 with dual e5-2430v2 PCI generational lock if it doesn't fit in vram, no point disable hyper threading Bottle necks 21:20 ZFS On Removable Device - Chris ZFS send/receive bit-rot rsync Diverse hardware/software Better hardware Odroid Used Ebay 1 Liter PC USB HDDs are low quality RFC 6214 Pigeons instead of AI 36:42 News Wire Firefox 142 - firefox.com (https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/142.0/releasenotes) Thunderbird 142 - thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/142.0/releasenotes) Libreoffice 25.8 - documentfoundation.or

This week we talk about the ethical use of Ai and the blurring between humans and code. We take your feedback and answer some questions about VoIP & SIP. -- During The Show -- 00:55 Dangers of AI AI ethics Leveraging AI responsibly Humans take the easiest path Noah's kid's and AI ANS AI adventure Notebook LM Ask Noah Show AI summary AI is only getting better Guard rails Effects of AI on the brain Guy who leaves his wife for AI Politeness and AI 23:54 News Wire Cmake 4.1 - cmake.org (https://cmake.org/download) Rust 1.89 - releases.rs (https://releases.rs/docs/1.89.0) GCC 15.2 - gcc.gnu.org (https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-announce/2025/000189.html) Peazip 10.6 - github.com (https://github.com/peazip/PeaZip/releases/tag/10.6.0) Handbrake 1.10 - handbrake.fr (https://handbrake.fr/news.php?article=59) Audacity 3.7.5 - audacityteam.org (https://support.audacityteam.org/additional-resources/changelog/audacity-3.7.5) Calibre 8.8 - calibre-ebook.com (https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new) KDE Frameworks 6.17.0 - kde

This week we talk about Proton's new 2fa app, a new kernel that has been released and of course your feedback. -- During The Show -- 00:54 Intro Kids carry plague 02:15 Networking - Fred OpenWRT on Ubiquity Gear If it's not local, You don't own it OpenWrt One (https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one?s[]=openwrt) 05:53 Video Calls - Mike Nextcloud Home Assistant Voice Preview (https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/) Sip Trip Phone (https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/sip_trip_phone) 12:29 Networking - Charlie UniFi Blog Post (https://blog.ui.com/article/introducing-unifi-os-server) How Noah thinks it through Steve's approach Closed source is a place holder This is a good thing 17:45 Continuing Cisco Conversation - Michael Podcast (https://pca.st/episode/82676b1b-49b5-4155-b462-8b9d81ff6197) Juniper JCNIA Repo (https://github.com/rikosintie/JNCIA) Juniper DevOps Repo (https://github.com/rikosintie/Juniper-DevOps) DevNet Associate Certification (https://github.com/rikosintie/DevNetAssoc) CookBooks (https://github.com/r

-- During The Show -- 00:50 Thank Fullness Thank you for everyone willing to help with Steve's WiFi OpenWRT One 02:22 Pulling Info from Cisco - Michael Discovery GitHub (https://github.com/rikosintie/Discovery) Never done subnets in the field Can rent an entire Cisco lab GNS3 (https://www.gns3.com/) Updates are expensive Ubuntu 4 Network Engineers GitHub (https://github.com/rikosintie/Ubuntu4NetworkEngineers) 11:01 Alternative for Find My Device - Charlie FMD Android (https://gitlab.com/fmd-foss/fmd-android) Noah and Steve's use case 13:57 Sharing Important Information - Brian Noah's first experience with cordless phones The porting story JMP.chat (https://jmp.chat/) 21:49 Proclaim (software) Alternatives? - Jason FreeShow (https://freeshow.app/) Ubuntu Studio Broadcast appliance ansible playbook (https://gitlab.com/altispeed/public/ansible/templates/playbooks/streaming-deploy) OpenLP (https://openlp.org/) 28:15 Notification Priorities - Tiny Everything is a room Palm 100 (https://www.gsmarena.com/palm_phone_

This week Noah heads to Open Sauce in San Fransisco to explore the world's biggest celebration of makers, creators, and inventors. Steve takes us through his hardware troubleshooting steps, and we give you an update on some of the projects we're working on. -- During The Show -- 00:00 Intro Noah and Steve discuss VLAN trunking challenges with Cisco switches and Linux servers. Cockpit as a persistent solution for Linux VLAN and bridge configuration. Lessons learned: understanding how sub-interfaces filter VLANs from trunk ports and a look at network configuration troubleshooting. 07:22 Linux and Open Source News Linux reaches 5% desktop market share in the U.S. per StatCounter; U.S. federal analytics report over 6%. Calibre 8.7, Blender 4.5 LTS, Relandroid 7.7, Sparky Linux 7.8 released. Intel officially shuts down Clear Linux OS. Swiss manufacturer launches Grit 98M, an open source blade for wind turbine material science. AWS announces Bedrock Agent Core for open source enterprise AI agents and launches Kiro,

This week Bitcoin hit a new all time high! We talk about the practical implications of getting into the BTC ecosystem. Marco Bill, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer from Red Hat joins the program. -- 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/449) 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

This week we take a look at in in-vehicle OS that Red Hat is working on. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro 4th of July Mall of America "Patriots" continue "celebrating" 02:30 Graphic Cards and Distros Arch Linux brand new 5050TI Just waited and problem fixed it's self Bought a 5060TI 07:20 Certificate Management Certificates life going to 30 days or less Ansible AWX Semaphore (https://semaphore.io/) Had to fix some issues 12:35 Kubernetes - Nick Need to know how it works, Thanks! Not understanding technology creates problems Framework - David Laptop sizes Power requirements Steam deck 20:12 News Wire GNU Cash 5.12 - gnucash.org (https://www.gnucash.org/download.phtml) GNU Bash - omgubuntu.co.uk (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/bash-5-3-new-features) PERL 5.42 - perl.org (https://perldoc.perl.org/perldelta) DigiKam 8.7 - difikam.org (https://www.digikam.org/news/2025-06-30-8.7.0_release_announcement/) Geany 2.1 - geany.org (https://www.geany.org/news/geany-21-is-out/) Amarok 3.3 - nerds.xyz (https://nerds.

This week we discuss a proposal in Fedora 44 to remove support for 32 bit libraries. We address your Kubernetes questions and talk about 2-in-one laptops with touchscreens! -- During The Show -- 00:54 Intro VLANs on Linux Trunk into V-Host Not using NetPlan Using bridges to different ports 11:23 Kubernetes - Nick Steve and Open Shift The disconnect If you bring it, you are "the guy" You need to understand what you are running Write back in! As nerds we need to pull back the covers 21:00 How Noah got started with Linux Got it working Company paid to train Noah 22:42 News Wire xfsprogs - lwn.net (https://lwn.net/Articles/1026870/) Cryptsetup 2.8 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cryptsetup-2.8-Released) Docker 28.3 - docs.docker.com (https://docs.docker.com/engine/release-notes/28/) Rust 1.88 - releases.rs (https://releases.rs/docs/1.88.0/) Mir 2.21 - app.daily.dev (https://app.daily.dev/posts/mir-2-21-released-with-cursor-scaling-mouse-keys-support-dj8rkcvxb) Firefox ESR 140 - mozilla.org (https://

This week we ask the question, when is it okay to leverage technology you don't understand, and when should you work to acquire the underlying domain knowledge? -- During The Show -- 00:52 Intro Cut from the same cloth 02:12 When to Leverage Tools Will always be jobs for deep understanding Lets Encrypt shortening life of certs AWX story Why AWX Short term damage control Advice for someone else You have to understand the manual process Is it still possible to dig down? Clicking through UI skill set How much time do you spend down the rabbit hole 23:09 News Wire Open ZFS 2.3.3 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.3.3) Open ZFS 2.2.8 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.2.8-Released) Darktable 5.2 - darktable.org (https://www.darktable.org/2025/06/darktable-5.2.0-released/) QtCreator 17 - qt.io (https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-17-released) Nano 8.5 - gnu.org (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2025-06/msg00003.html) MKVToolNix 93.0 - mkvtoolnix.download (https://m

-- During The Show -- 00:52 Intro Being around people can be draining SELF presentations Steve helping Noah get into "hosting" Strong personalities No Windows "badge of honor" New streaming and recording system 10:10 NixOS Feedback - Eloy Vimjoyer Video YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEovNpg7J0M) udiskie NixOS Package (https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=25.05&show=udiskie&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=udiskie) Home Manager Eloy's NixOS Config GitHub (https://github.com/egara/nixos-config) Brick wall head banging NixOS experience 17:14 UPS - Tobias Grid tie solar systems Smaller UPS causing breaker to flip Chicken UPS UPS may not be needed PDU with "protected" power switch Not all UPS will solve power surges APC "800lbs Gorilla" Consider the cost and ability to replace UPS battery CyberPower 15A Rackmount PDU Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/CyberPower-CPS1215RM-Basic-Outlets-Rackmount/dp/B00077IG3O) APC Line Interactive CDW (https://www.cdw.com/product/apc-smart-ups-1500va-l