Ask Noah Show

What is the role of tape backup in 2026? Should ZFS be used on tape? Steve takes us back to his days at IMAX and gives us some things to think about when using tape. We answer your questions, take your feedback -- During The Show -- 00:50 Immich - Greg Immich (https://immich.app/) feedback Round 1 deployment recap Round 2 deployment recap Latest breakage Things Steve likes about Immich Ente (https://ente.io/) experience Rising tide, iron sharpens iron Everyone hits problems sometimes 11:50 General Show Feedback - Pete Thank You feedback Buying Expedition 33 Noah purchased Expedition 33 "Little Noah" and budget Using external disks for games 16:28 News Wire Curl 8.18 - curl.se (https://curl.se/ch/) Doxygen 1.16 - doxygen.nl (https://www.doxygen.nl/manual/changelog.html) Windowmaker Live 13.3 - wmlive.sourceforge.net (https://wmlive.sourceforge.net) Budgie 10.10 - buddiesofbudgie.org (https://buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/budgie-10-10-released) Pentoo 2026.0 - pentoo.ch (https://pentoo.ch/isos/Release/Pentoo_Core_am

This week we dig into how a dead hard drive took Frigate out, answer your questions, and start a new challenge for the new year. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Sticky Things and Bug reports Electric Dirt Bike Validating work Picking and offering boats Hosting in home lab 10:00 Frigate Frigate drive failure 4 TB drive died Frigate setup Swapping drives and power on hours Running drives into the ground Replacing drives Motion detection 20:06 News Wire Shotcut 25.12 - shotcut.org (https://shotcut.org/blog/new-release-25.12.30/) Ncurses 6.6 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ncurses-6.6) OpenTTD 15.0 - openttd.org (https://www.openttd.org/news/2026/01/01/openttd-15-0) QPrompt 2.0 - patreon.com (https://www.patreon.com/posts/qprompt-2-0-147192236) Mkvtoolnix 97 - mkvtoolnix.download (https://mkvtoolnix.download/windows/releases/97.0/) Privoxy 4.1 - sourceforge.net (https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/files/Sources/4.1.0%20%28stable%29/) OpenBGPD 9.0 - bsdsec.net (https://bsdsec.net/articles/openb

This week Steve reviews Expedition 33. We take your feedback, and Steve builds a new PC and talks motherboard. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Profanity Kids language Stripping profanity and vulgarity MonkeyPlug (https://github.com/mmguero/monkeyplug) Motherboards and RAM prices ASRock ASUS 18:04 News Wire Lua 5.5 - lua.org (https://www.lua.org/manual/5.5/readme.html#changes) Ruby 4.0 - ruby-lang.org (https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/12/25/ruby-4-0-0-released/) QEMU 10.2 - wiki.qemu.org (https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/10.2) Pinta 3.1 - omgubuntu.co.uk (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/pinta-3-1-released-new-axonometric-grids) Voyager 13.2 - voyagerlive.org (https://voyagerlive.org) Nobara 43 - nobaraproject.org (https://nobaraproject.org/download.html) Porteux 2.5 - distrowatch.com (https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12688) Parrot 7.0 - parrotsec.org (https://parrotsec.org/blog/2025-12-24-parrot-7.0-release-notes/) PostmarkOS 25.12 - postmarketos.org (https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/12/23/v25.12-r

This week Noah and Steve work on Steve's house, a new automated lock system goes in, some new structured wiring goes in, and we talk about automating your Christmas tree. -- During The Show -- 00:48 Intro Happy Christmas Kids and presents Quests at Steve's Steve's Christmas tree Steve on a Mac 16:20 Feedback You start the conversation Send in an email success stories problems you can't solve suggest a topic 18:00 Switch Bot A room to keep dogs and kids out of Why Switch Bot? Gold tier certified by Home Assistant Value of talking with others How to evaluate "the line" The "delta" Gratitude 36:17 Structured Wiring 2 Recessed outlets with Ethernet 2 Projector rooms The Smart Home Hookup (https://www.thesmarthomehookup.com/) The Smart Home Hookup Youtube (https://www.thesmarthomehookup.com/) Playing D&D with the family Lay of the land Running Cat6 SDI Video/Audio Belden Cables (https://www.belden.com/products) Vertical Cables (https://verticalcable.com/) HDMI Decimators Keystones 55:57 News Wire Darktable 5.4 - d

This week we dig full force into some interesting listener questions. Noah talks about an open source hardware synth, and Steve walks through some of his hardware choices to help you! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Weather Cooling IT rooms in winter 05:00 Printers, DVD ripping and more - James Steve has 2 brother printers Auto Duplexing Separate printer and scanner Large business grade units Ask Noah Show 368 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/368) All in One Brother DCP-L2640DW Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CPLFTPCV) Budget Brother HL-L2460DW Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CPL2N5H6) Monochrome Brother HL-6210DW Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CGC9HPNH) Color Brother HL-L3280CDW Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFD1G1VT) Trouble with auto duplexing Stay away from Lexar HP printers Manually add the printer Change to Jetdirect or IP printer Pay attention to exact model or most similar When it goes wrong, it goes really wrong Your mileage may vary Canon Color Image Class LBP622Cdw Amazon (http

This week Steve puts his Debian powered Christmas tree up. He walks us through enterprise deployment and the failures of Firefox enterprise, and Noah builds a Raspberry Pi powered piano!

This week Steve takes us through his journey with Enty and Immich. Plex makes their users pay a monthly fee, and Steam releases a new SteamBox console. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro How was your week Watching sales Smart TVs WebOS 07:21 Mac Feedback - Gregory Network Effect "Comforting Mac Feels" Pavu Control (https://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/) OBS (https://obsproject.com/) Stewardship 11:32 Mac Feedback - Patrick Pragmatic approach Steve's thoughts Treating windows like an appliance Making the FOSS path easy 18:15 Succession Planning - Dominik Suggestions Design your home so it works without automation Have a HDD with important data Have migration plan in place Struggling with massive amounts of data Steve's documentation journey Criticality 30:33 News Wire Gnome 49.2 - gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-49-2-released/32730) Tmus 3.6 - proxmox.com (https://www.proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/proxmox-backup-server-4-1) Snort 3.10 - github.com (htt

Steve gives a deep dive into some of the struggles he's working through in his house. Google has pulled back on their plans to require developer verification. -- During The Show -- 00:45 Intro Passing the show through AI Immich Breaking changes 07:54 Steve Rants Show How it came about 09:45 Google and Side loading ANS 457 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/457) Google backs down How to Geek (https://www.howtogeek.com/google-is-backing-down-android-sideloading/) Hiding the setting Best of both worlds Explaining walled gardens Why walled gardens are bad Bubble level app (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.woheller69.level/) 18:32 When is a Mac appropriate? Supporting a power user Specialty scanner Asked the AI Accidentally uninstalled mesa Trouble shooting When is a Mac appropriate? Mac's don't fix problems Mac myths "solving the problem" Network effect Apple print dialog Making the open source path easy SimpleHelp (https://simple-help.com/) PiKVM (https://pikvm.org/) Tailscale (https://tailscale.com/) Windows k

This week Steve and Noah talk about the things you didn't know you knew about Linux. Scott Jenson joins the program to talk about principals of UX/UI design. -- During The Show -- 00:52 Self Hosting After Death - Michael Steve's thought process Important things Home Assistant (https://www.home-assistant.io/) Mealie (https://docs.mealie.io/) Frigate (https://frigate.video/) Steve's plan Draw.io LLMs No desire to be trained Open Source Documentation Noah's plan Self hosted vs Cloud Techie Friends 12:21 Scott Jenson - UX/UI Design Product Strategist For Home Assistant and Mastodon Scott's Website (https://jenson.org/) Coloring outside the lines Mobile vs Desktop Desktop UI shortcomings UX in Audacity and Penpot (https://penpot.app/) Where can UX designers grow? Articulating the business use case Ink & Switch (https://www.inkandswitch.com/) 18:23 News Wire Nano 8.7 - gnu.org (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2025-11/msg00002.html) Thunderbird 145 - thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thu

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