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This week Mike McGrath from Red Hat joins us and we talk about RHEL AI, quantum computing, and we get an update as to where Red Hat landed with all the licensing drama from a few years ago. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Real ID Real ID Act from 20 years ago Problems with Real ID Canadian Central Government Alternatives to Real ID Surrendering information "Be Your Real Self" Government creating problems they can solve No one wants to admit they are wrong EFF.org (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/security-theater-realized-and-flying-without-real-id) 12:57 News Wire Firefox 139 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/139.0/releasenotes/) Firefox shutting down Pocket - mozilla.org (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket) Linux 6.15 - kernelnewbies.org (https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.15) Most of WSL Open Source - zdnet.com (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-finally-open-sources-most-of-windows-subsystem-for-linux/) NixOS 25.05 - nixos.org (https://nixos.org/blog/announcements/2025/nixos-2505/) RHEL 10 - redhat.com (https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux-10) AlmaLinux 9.6 - almalinux.org (https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-05-20-almalinux_96_release/) Fedora Removes X11 - pagure.io (https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3408) Karton - blogs.kde.org (https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/18/gsoc-2025-project-intro-developing-karton-the-kde-virtual-machine-manager/) SMB Server Zero Day - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/linux-kernel-zero-day-smb-vulnerability/) Devstral - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/mistral-ai-launches-devstral-powerful-new-open-source-swe-agent-model-that-runs-on-laptops/) LlamaFirewall - helpnetsecurity.com (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/05/26/llamafirewall-open-source-framework-detect-mitigate-ai-centric-security-risks/) Woodpecker - siliconangle.com (https://siliconangle.com/2025/05/21/operant-ai-launches-woodpecker-bring-open-source-red-teaming-ai-cloud-environments/) 14:25 Mike McGrath - VP of Software engineering Have things calmed down? Red Hat and Communities RHEL 10 RHEL Lightspeed Mike McGrath's background Lightspeed vs Search Engine CentOS Stream SIGs & community Upstream and CentOS Stream RHEL AI RHEL AI "developer license" How is AI effecting RHEL? Is the OS a "bootloader" for AI? Agentic AI Post Quantum attacks 39:33 OPNSense What Steve and Noah run at home Netgate/PFSense have done shady things ycombinator.com (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36489192) reddit.com (https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/ssk8zj/til_in_2017_pfsense_netgate_had_to_hand_over/) PFSense Requires an account to download Can't virtualize Can't between CE and Appliance Starts at ~$1000 Many devices failed, soldered in Netgate hardware doesn't meet PFSense Standards Zero Support No update cadence Can't reliably automate PFSense OPNSense Fork of PFSense Much nicer interface DHCP backend switching Always moving forward Hardware device doesn't have weird VLAN bonding Newegg (https://www.newegg.com/p/22Z-007C-003M8?Item=9SIAK3UGAF5164) Up date cadence Shop and kids router changed over Steve's attempt to migrate -- 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/443) 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 Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies...

This week we're live from Red Hat Summit! We talk security, evolving threats, and Steve gives an update on his journey with his new graphics card. -- During The Show -- 01:30 Vincent Danen - VP of Product Security You can secure your own data on premise Cloud you loose some control Supply chain attacks Where do you get your news? Hacker News Naked Security IBM security feed The Register AI for security Agentic workflows AI attack vectors "Slop squatting" Sanitizing AI input Guard rails 23:48 News Wire Calibre 8.4 - calibre-ebook.com (https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new) Nmap 7.96 - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/nmap-7-96-launches/) Mesa 25.1 - plamolinux.org (https://plamolinux.org/posts/2025-05-07-plamo-8.2-released/) Linux Kernel 6.15 - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/07/linux_kernel_drops_486/) Plamo Linux 8.2 - plamolinux.org (https://plamolinux.org/posts/2025-05-07-plamo-8.2-released/) Rust Sudo & Ubuntu 25.10 - discourse.ubuntu.com (https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/adopting-sudo-rs-by-default-in-ubuntu-25-10/60583) Deepin Desktop Removed From openSUSE Repos - opensuse.org (https://security.opensuse.org/2025/05/07/deepin-desktop-removal.html) Fedora 42 WLS - theregister (https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/07/fedora_42_wsl2_official/) ClickFix - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-now-testing-clickfix-attacks-against-linux-targets/) NordVPN Linux GUI - computerweekly.com (https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Open-Source-Insider/NordVPN-goes-full-GUI-on-Linux) Fake AI Videos & Noodlophile - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-ai-video-generators-drop-new-noodlophile-infostealer-malware/) Reachy 2 - infoq.com (https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/05/huggingface-reachy-robot/) OpenVision - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/new-fully-open-source-vision-encoder-openvision-arrives-to-improve-on-openais-clip-googles-siglip/) Open WebUI - reddit.com (https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1kfhkal/open_webui_is_no_longer_open_source/) 26:00 Steve's GPU Travels Swapped the graphics card Custom Arch install GPU requires beta drivers ZFS on root and boot menu beta drivers require newer kernel DKMS Nvidia drivers Flatpaks are broken Picking the problem you want to solve What would you change? 36:48 Flatpak Problems Flatpaks use drivers Some launched some didn't Can't find some files on the system 42:50 Solar Panels - Tony Solar on a vehicle is great! Product vs system 12v vs 24v Jackery Inverter vs Micro Inverters Brands for a "product solution" Anker EcoFlow Make sure to get a LFP (LifePO4) model HQST PV Panels (https://hqsolarpower.com/products/solar-panels/) Monocrystalline 9BB or 10BB HQST MPPT Charge Controller (https://hqsolarpower.com/20a-mppt-solar-charge-controller-with-parallel-charging-bluetooth) 20 amp, consider the 60 amp LiTime (https://www.litime.com/) Pick a "Self Heating" SOK Battery (https://www.us.sokbattery.com/) Metal case batteries can be "rebuilt/repaired" Brands to consider Victron Epoch Battries (https://www.epochbatteries.com/collections/rv-van-camper-lithium-batteries) Renogy (https://www.renogy.com/) Brands listed above Brands to avoid GoalZero Any "Chineseium" 48:50 Cassette Tape Restoration - William Professional Services Local University Reach out to Noah/Altispeed -- 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/442) 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...

This week we dig into why and how Canonical designed and implemented Matrix. Noah gives an update to his solar project, and discovers some open source solutions for solar! -- During The Show -- 00:48 Olympia Mike Insperation ANS 439 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/439) Sorting out details Please give us feedback! Pair with homeless shelter Pair with food bank Technical details Windows 10 deadline coming Lowering friction 09:55 Solar Camera Update Panel brings in enough power Switch arrived, worked great SolarPoint Had to RMA Will R&D Issues with SolarPoint Renogy Charge Controller Victron Push the Victron Connect App Victron has a commitment to open source Victron GX controller Bare wire ends GX software on a raspberry pi 23:20 News Wire Calibre 8.4 - calibre-ebook.com (https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new) Nmap 7.96 - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/nmap-7-96-launches/) Mesa 25.1 - plamolinux.org (https://plamolinux.org/posts/2025-05-07-plamo-8.2-released/) Linux Kernel 6.15 - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/07/linux_kernel_drops_486/) Plamo Linux 8.2 - plamolinux.org (https://plamolinux.org/posts/2025-05-07-plamo-8.2-released/) Rust Sudo & Ubuntu 25.10 - discourse.ubuntu.com (https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/adopting-sudo-rs-by-default-in-ubuntu-25-10/60583) Deepin Desktop Removed From openSUSE Repos - opensuse.org (https://security.opensuse.org/2025/05/07/deepin-desktop-removal.html) Fedora 42 WLS - theregister (https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/07/fedora_42_wsl2_official/) ClickFix - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-now-testing-clickfix-attacks-against-linux-targets/) NordVPN Linux GUI - computerweekly.com (https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Open-Source-Insider/NordVPN-goes-full-GUI-on-Linux) Fake AI Videos & Noodlophile - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-ai-video-generators-drop-new-noodlophile-infostealer-malware/) Reachy 2 - infoq.com (https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/05/huggingface-reachy-robot/) OpenVision - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/new-fully-open-source-vision-encoder-openvision-arrives-to-improve-on-openais-clip-googles-siglip/) Open WebUI - reddit.com (https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1kfhkal/open_webui_is_no_longer_open_source/) 25:18 Minimalism Minimum viable battle station Tails (https://tails.net/) Reproduce-ability Linux Fest Northwest Laptop NixOS re-install Can't auto mount usb drives Dark theme 31:00 Matrix Interview Nils Buchner Matrix rabbit hole Ubuntu & Matrix Chat Ubuntu Juju setup Other Setup methods Where can Matrix grow/improve? Next steps for the Ubuntu Matrix server? Matrix clients Element (https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/element/) Cinny (https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/cinny/) Nheko (https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/nheko/) Matrix client matrix (https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/) Network effect Distros installing matrix clients 43:00 Juju & Charms Interview Merlijn Sebrechts Juju and Charms Abstraction Code re-use Where Juju and Charms work well Knowledge needed Making better charms 52:20 Continue Being a Petri dish Ansible is the biggest hammer Nix Juju -- 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/441) 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...

This week Noah tells the story of how Altispeed built a solar system for a remote camera for a daycare. Tiny joins to discuss the value of metric and why he believes Victoria Metrics does it better. -- During The Show -- 00:55 Graphics Cards When do you update graphics cards Watching prices, trying to buy Bought 5060ti Quadro P6000 Sold in 2 Min What is driving the cost? Over Time "Unplugging" Mature Leaders High Intensity/Surge Seasons Talking through movies 16:05 Solar Camera System Camera's on a playground Trenching and conduit Hanging wire from utility poles Shed with no power or network Solar powered camera setup Greentech Renewables (https://www.greentechrenewables.com) Noah's Battery Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKNJ5ZBP?) LiTime (https://www.litime.com/products/litime-12v-100ah-lithium-lifepo4-battery) Unifi SunMax SolarPoint Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Sunmax-SolarPoint/dp/B0965KBVFM/) Trouble shooting, lay it out first Nano Beams 5AC Axis Camera Industrial 24v Switch Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BWN147HZ?) Enphase System Metrics, data nerds Victoria Metrics (https://victoriametrics.com/) Victoria Metrics Docs (https://docs.victoriametrics.com/guides/) Grafana (https://grafana.com/) Solar Cable Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09BYGJGTB?) MC4 Crimper Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKTFRSZ4?) HQST Solar (https://hqsolarpower.com/) SOK Battery (https://www.us.sokbattery.com/) Victron Charge Controllers (https://www.victronenergy.com/solar-charge-controllers) 48:30 Sustainability ANS 424 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/424) Reproduce-ability Minimalism Access Control System News Wire Deluge 2.2.0 - deluge.readthedocs.io (https://deluge.readthedocs.io/en/deluge-2.2.0/) OpenZFS 2.3.2 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.3.2-Released) Bleachbit 500 - bleachbit.org (https://www.bleachbit.org/news/bleachbit-500) Thunderbird 138.0 - Thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/138.0/releasenotes/) Firefox 138.0 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/138.0/releasenotes/) QBittorrent 5.1.0 - qbittorrent.org (https://www.qbittorrent.org/news) Redis Open Source Again - thenewsstack.io (https://thenewstack.io/redis-is-open-source-again/) Tails 6.15 - torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-6_15/) 4MLinux 48.0 - 4mlinux-releases.blogspot.com (https://4mlinux-releases.blogspot.com/2025/04/4mlinux-480-stable-released.html) Commodore OS 3 - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/06/commodore_os_3/) AnduinOS - zdnet.com (https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-windows-11-like-linux-distribution-is-aimed-squarely-at-developers/) Malicious Go Modules - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/malicious-go-modules-deliver-disk.html) AI Threat Defense - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/rsac-2025-cisco-and-meta-put-open-source-ai-at-the-heart-of-enterprise-threat-defense/) Meta's AI Model Goes to Space - fb.com (https://about.fb.com/news/2025/04/space-llama-metas-open-source-ai-model-heading-into-orbit/) Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-V2 - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/nvidia-launches-fully-open-source-transcription-ai-model-parakeet-tdt-0-6b-v2-on-hugging-face/) LTXV-13B - siliconangle.com (https://siliconangle.com/2025/05/06/lightricks-shakes-ai-video-creation-powerful-open-source-model/) Linux Inside MS Excel - tomshardware.com (https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/developer-gets-linux-running-inside-microsoft-excel-mostly-for-fun) -- 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/440) 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...

This week we dig into "Nixbook", a Linux distro designed to make old laptops into Chromebooks. Noah fell down the Nix rabbit hole, and of course we answer your questions. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Generosity Experiencing generosity A bunch of computers about to flood the market 03:50 Mike Kelly (Olympia Mike) Used laptop during Covid19 Became known for used laptops Company gifts used laptops Closing the technical divide Updates Package Confusion NixOS Olympia Mike's nixbook (https://github.com/mkellyxp/nixbook) How to help out Powerwashing 13:15 Noah's Nixbook Experience Give Noah a toy and remove distractions for 5+ hours Throw out everything you know Where NixOS fits Rollback functionality Going to drive Nixbook till hitting a roadblock Can't live in a flatpak world Ansible is the hammer that hits the most nails How long to get up and running on Nix Have to adopt the "nix way" NixOS Flakes (https://nixos-and-flakes.thiscute.world/introduction/) Nix Language (https://nix.dev/tutorials/nix-language) 31:25 News Wire Nginx 1.28.0 - unit.nginx.org (https://unit.nginx.org/news/2022/unit-1.28.0-released/) GCC 15.1 - devclass.com (https://devclass.com/2025/04/28/gnu-compiler-collection-15-1-released-cobol-support-improved-rust-compatibility-concerns/) Cosmic Alpha.7 - blog.system76.com (https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-7-never-been-beta) QEMU 10.0 - qemu.org (https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/10.0) Chainguard $356M Raised - bankinfosecurity.com (https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/chainguard-raises-356m-to-protect-open-source-supply-chain-a-28075) Open Source 5G/6G Software - breakingdefense.com (https://breakingdefense.com/2025/04/pentagon-seeks-open-source-software-for-5g-6g-networks/) Crux 3.8 - crux.nu (https://crux.nu/Main/ReleaseNotes3-8) Archcraft Prime ISO - wiki.archcraft.io (https://wiki.archcraft.io/news/49-news-release) 4mLinux 48.0 Stable - 4mlinux.com (https://4mlinux.com/index.php?page=home) Openmandriva 6.0 - wiki.openmandriva.org (https://wiki.openmandriva.org/en/distribution/releases/omlx60/new) Kali Linux Warning - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/linux/kali-linux-warns-of-update-failures-after-losing-repo-signing-key/) Attack of the Vsock - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/critical-linux-kernel-flaw/) ARES Robot Data Platform - a16z.com (https://a16z.com/ares-an-open-source-platform-for-robot-data/) Qwen3 - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/alibaba-launches-open-source-qwen3-model-that-surpasses-openai-o1-and-deepseek-r1/) 33:00 Community How your self branding and its effects Noah's experience with a young man Noah's negative experience People remember how you make them feel and that reflects on communities There is what is said and what is received How to deliver messages Dinner example 41:20 OsmAnd - Richard Garmin Device Waze OsmAnd (https://osmand.net/) Fdroid OsmAnd (https://f-droid.org/packages/net.osmand.plus/) 45:28 Drive Rotation Off site backup - Kevin The back up plan you understand is the best Not doing anything un-usual A few concerns Hardware cycling HDD destruction -- 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/439) 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 Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at]...

-- During The Show -- 00:48 Intro Missing Steve 01:55 Auto Updates? - Charlie Installing Linux on a Pixelbook Go Desktop vs laptop Being in the moment Noah's laptop strategy PineTab 2 (https://pine64.com/product/pinetab2-10-1-8gb-128gb-linux-tablet-with-detached-backlit-keyboard/) Google hardware Re-purposing Google hardware Github.com (https://github.com/yusefnapora/pixelbook-linux) Auto updates, EndlessOS 13:02 FreePBX - Zack What to consider when backing up Bash and FW Console Sleuth's Solution Backups are specific to the data type Use the built in backup and export functions 22:35 News Wire MySQL 9.3 - dev.myssql.com (https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/9.3/en/) Peazip 10.4 - github.com (https://github.com/peazip/PeaZip/releases/) Gnome 48.1 - discourse.gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-47-6-released/28414) Gnome 48.1 - discourse.gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-48-1-released/28424) LXQT 2.2.0 - lxqt-project.org (https://lxqt-project.org/release/2025/04/17/release-lxqt-2-2-0/) Ubuntu 25.04 - canonical.com (https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-25-04-plucky-puffin) Fedora 42 - fedoramagazine.org (https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-42/) Manjaro 25 manjaro.org (https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-25-0-zetar-released/177008) NX App Hub - x.com (https://x.com/Nitrux_NX/status/1912102771458711737) Easy OS 5.9 - bkhome.org (https://bkhome.org/news/202504/easyos-kirkstone-series-maintenance-release-59.html) XorDDos - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/experts-uncover-new-xorddos-controller.html) BPFDoor - securityweek.com (https://www.securityweek.com/enhanced-version-of-bpfdoor-linux-backdoor-seen-in-the-wild/) 23:34 Steve's Backup and ZFS Adventures Data should be in 3 places New server Running data and power Existing data sets Encrypting the data Snapshots Block Cloning Nesting and inheriting encryption attributes What would you do differently if you could start over Take-a-ways How long until you "trust" the new backup system? 43:50 OpenWrt One OpenWrt One (https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one) Great build quality Multiple ways to power WiFi off by default Has a console port Really impressed 48:28 Switching to Cloud Companies moving to Azure to avoid Redmond markups Companies starting to re-consider moving to cloud Windows still entrenched 3 People running thousands of VMs and containers -- 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/438) 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 Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

This week we dig into how you can host your own 5G and Ubuntu's new certification program! -- During The Show -- 00:45 Technology Another Way Cell Phone sales and inventory Market uncertainty Erasing a phone Moving to GrapheneOS Used equipment Fdroid (https://f-droid.org/) Opportunities to move people to open source Routes to take 14:00 News Wire OpenSSH 10.0p2 - openssh.com (https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html) OpenSSL 3.5 - github.com (https://github.com/openssl/openssl/releases) GNU Coreutils 9.7 - gnu.org (https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html) Pinta 3.0 - pinta-project.com (https://www.pinta-project.com/releases/3-0.html) OpenELA Leapp - techzine.eu (https://www.techzine.eu/news/devops/130476/openela-introduces-leapp-project-for-in-place-upgrades-of-enterprise-linux/) Linux Mint OEM Support - linuxmint.com (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4825) Asahi Linux Roadblock - appleinsider.com (https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/04/08/asahi-linux-m4-support-hits-a-roadblock-because-of-apple-silicon-changes) Proxmox VW 8.4 - proxmox.com (https://www.proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/proxmox-virtual-environment-8-4) Archbang 0904 - sourceforge.net (https://sourceforge.net/projects/archbang/files/ArchBang/archbang-0904-x86_64.iso/download) Feren OS 2025.03 - feren-os.com (https://medium.com/feren-os/feren-os-2025-03-minor-rebase-update-for-feren-os-f82ce0a47a52) Pardus 23.4 - pardus.org (https://pardus.org.tr/en/pardus-23-4-changelog/) SparkyLinux - sparkylinux.org (https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-7-7/) MX 26.3 - mxlinux.org (https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-23-6-now-available/) Particle OS - itsfoss.com (https://news.itsfoss.com/systemd-particle-os/) Malware "Patches" - darkreading.com (https://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/open-source-poisoned-patches-infect-local-software) Slopsquatting - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/) Luminary Cloud and Honda's AI Model - engineering.com (https://www.engineering.com/luminary-cloud-releases-open-source-physics-ai-model-with-honda-nvidia/) 15:50 Canonical Certifications Adriana Frick's Story Why Adriana left tech BGP What did the creation process look like? Defining standards Making it measurable Proving skills How did you learn what employers want Mauricio Buschinelli's Story Verifying completion of a task What does the test look like Easter Eggs through out As close to real as possible Care about outcomes Accessibility Testing (https://ubuntu.com/credentials) A lot more coming 41:00 5G Cellphone companies want to be at the tower 5G Hardware Entire stack is open source Provisioning Sim Cards Roaming Charmed Ether SD Core 50:00 FCC Licensing Not a walk in the park FCC starting to require receiver registration Spectrum is crowded -- 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/437) 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 Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

This week Steve builds a backup server, and tells us how and why! -- During The Show -- 01:13 GrapheneOS & Teams - Kevin Needed unsandboxed play services Broke on the next update This problem reported across OSes (https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/all/new-ms-teams-version-not-working-getting-error-no/8a4e48a0-e97b-47f6-9ab9-4c82bc8ba768?page=1) People reported needing to install "the framework" Apps stay in their sandbox Use app in a web browser 06:26 VMs - Mike Covered later in the show 07:35 searXNG - Donald More than a proxy Better results than other search engines 10:00 News Wire Curl 8.13 - curl.se (https://curl.se/ch/) GnuCash 5.11 - gnucash.org (https://www.gnucash.org/download.phtml) GNU Nano 8.4 - lists.gnu.org (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2025-04/msg00001.html) Apt 3.0 - debian.org (https://tracker.debian.org/news/1635519/accepted-apt-300-source-into-unstable/) Thunderbird 137 - thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/137.0/releasenotes/) Firefox 137 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/137.0/releasenotes/) KDE Plasma 6.3.4 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.3.4/) Rust 1.86 - releases.rs (https://releases.rs/docs/1.86.0/) Qt 6.9 - wiki.qt.io (https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_6.9_Release) Nvidia PhysX and Flow - wccftech.com (https://wccftech.com/nvidia-physx-and-flow-are-now-fully-open-source/) Outlaw Malware - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/outlaw-group-uses-ssh-brute-force-to.html) Open Source Malware Index - infoworld.com (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3953841/sonatype-warns-of-18000-open-source-malware-packages.html) ProteuX 2.0 - github.com (https://github.com/porteux/porteux/releases/tag/v2.0) New Fedora Project Lead Jef Spaleta - fedoramagazine.org (https://fedoramagazine.org/introducing-fedora-project-leader-jef-spaleta/) 11:30 Interview Jon Segar VP of Engineering at Ubuntu uutils coreutils Licenses Growing the Ubuntu Community Feature parity & rough edges Default in 25.10 build Memory safe languages Moving people's cheese 23:00 Steve's Off Site Backup Backup server in an out building What's the most important thing Swim lanes Breaking things down Nextcloud island Containers vs VMs Nginx vs Apache Managing and backing up data Storage, NFS vs Direct Block access Sanoid (https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid) Supermicro motherboards iDrac, IPMI, PiKVM SOC vs standard system backup server considerations Moving Home Assistant from dev to prod -- 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/436) 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 Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed) Special Guest: Jon Seager.

This week we give an update on the journey with GrapheneOS. -- During The Show -- 00:58 Intro Cold weather Do I shovel snow? 01:36 Thank you! - Nick Steve knows A LOT about kubernetes Tell us what about kubernetes do you want to learn? 2 Camps of people How deep will Steve go 06:57 GraphenOS - Craig Noah's experience/device Samsung made an un-rom-able US version Carrier's load an OS when you boot their sim card Noah's Pixel 8a Why no financial apps Inherent insecurities in phones Niche vs common target Phones can "walk off" Rouge Pixel, video file, audio file, etc Even normal people with a stock phone struggle Pixel 6A as a work phone Being attached to "glowing bricks" Authenticator apps WiFi only/no sim Google Account requires logging in on a stock device Navigation Here WeGo Maps Notifications Micro-g Persistent Notification Browsers Firefox Vandium Be prepared for hiccups Nitro Phone Make sure the bootloader is unlocked Naomi Brockwell TV Block Phone Tracking (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPnFJ8PeSsY) Naomi Brockwell TV Main Site (https://www.nbtv.media) Vehicle Tracking 50:45 Linux Wins! - Dan Combat Studies Group (https://combatstudiesgroup.blogspot.com/) Re-purposing computers for re-use 52:35 News Wire XZ Utils 5.8.0 - github.com (https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/releases/tag/v5.8.0) Shotcut 25.03 - shotcut.org (https://www.shotcut.org/blog/new-release-250329/) Android Development Going Private - arstechnica.com (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/google-makes-android-development-private-will-continue-open-source-releases/) Kaos 2025.03 - kaosx.us (https://kaosx.us/news/2025/kaos03/) Zorin 17.3 - zorin.com (https://blog.zorin.com/2025/03/26/zorin-os-17.3-is-here/) Linux Lite 7.4 - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/linux-lite-7-4-final-released/) Q4OS 5.8 - q4os.org (https://www.q4os.org/blog.html#news250327) EU-OS - linuxjournal.com (https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/eu-os-bold-step-toward-digital-sovereignty-europe) OpenAI Open Weight Model - wired.com (https://www.wired.com/story/openai-sam-altman-announce-open-source-model/) -- 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/435) 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 Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

This week Steve and Noah give you tips on hosting your first home server. -- During The Show -- 00:58 Intro Minimum Viable Battle Station Pelican 1620 Cases XREAL Air 2 (https://us.shop.xreal.com/products/xreal-air-2) Ergonomics 09:52 Home Server Questions - Dan Noah's first homelab Pick an OS with low churn, long term OS Generational upgrades Experiment in VMs Starting with a VM host Starting with a file server Don't put 30 drives in one box Noah's vs Steve's approach Do it, Document it, Blow it away, Do it again Know the thing before you automate Low level tech roles being handed to other business people Playbooks Ansible Steve's OpenAudible-TO-AudioBookShelf (https://github.com/stratus-ss/OpenAudible-To-AudioBookShelf) 48:06 Kubernetes - Jeremy Kube Dev Lab (https://www.kubedevlab.com/docs/tutorials/kubernetes-cluster/) Steve's K8s Labs (https://github.com/stratus-ss/k8s-labs) 50:32 News Wire Calibre 8.0 - calibre-ebook.com (https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/seventeen) Linux 6.14 - lkml.org (https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/3/24/797) Gnome 48 - gnome.org (https://release.gnome.org/48/) Blender 4.4 - blender.org (https://www.blender.org/download/releases/4-4/) Zulip 10 - zulip.com (https://blog.zulip.com/2025/03/20/zulip-10-0-released/) EndeavorOS Mercury Neo - endeavouros.com (https://endeavouros.com/news/mercury-neo-with-linux-6-13-7-and-arch-mirror-ranking-bug-fix/) Finnis 125 - finnix.org (https://blog.finnix.org/2023/03/28/finnix-125-released/) Serpent OS Rebranded to AerynOS - fossforce.com (https://fossforce.com/2025/02/before-it-even-gets-a-stable-release-serpent-os-changes-its-name-to-aerynos/) Rocky Linux Security - fossforce.com (https://fossforce.com/2025/03/rocky-linux-from-ciq-hardened-takes-enterprise-linux-security-to-the-next-level/) Chimera Linux Drops RISC-V - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/19/chimera_linux_riscv/) Albabat Ransomware - infosecurity-magazine.com (https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/albabat-ransomware-linux-macos/) Hornet Security Module - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Hornet-Linux-LSM) 3 AI Projects Donated to Linux Foundation - thenewstack.io (https://thenewstack.io/ibm-to-donate-three-ai-related-projects-to-the-cncf/) Trend Micro Open Source - prnewswire.com (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/trend-micro-to-open-source-ai-model-and-agent-to-drive-the-future-of-agentic-cybersecurity-302405393.html) Hugging Face Blueprint - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/hugging-face-submits-open-source-blueprint-challenging-big-tech-in-white-house-ai-policy-fight/) AlexNet Open Source - spectrum.ieee.org (https://spectrum.ieee.org/alexnet-source-code) Open Source Worth 8.8 Trillion - heise.de (https://www.heise.de/en/news/Harvard-study-Open-source-has-an-economic-value-of-8-8-trillion-dollars-10322643.html) hbs.edu (https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-038_51f8444f-502c-4139-8bf2-56eb4b65c58a.pdf#page=31.22) 52:15 Private Search Engine? - Atypical Kernel SearXNG (https://docs.searxng.org/) -- 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/434) 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 Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux...

This week a community resource fell offline unexpectedly. Members from all over the internet banded together to restore a community resource! -- During The Show -- 01:00 Intro Noah brought the warm weather back We need your feedback Join Geeklab (https://matrix.to/#/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) Tag Marlin 04:10 Smart Watches Original pebble inventor New pebble smartwatches available for preorder ArsTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/new-pebbleos-watches-with-more-battery-and-familiar-looks-are-up-for-preorder/) Steve's smartwatch use case Noah's watch Pine Time (https://pine64.com/product/pinetime-smartwatch-sealed/) Fitness Features Eric Migicovsky doesn't stick with companies AsteroidOS (https://asteroidos.org/) BangleJS (https://banglejs.com/) 28:32 News Wire GIMP 3.0 - gimp.org (https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/) Digikam 8.6 - digikam.org (https://www.digikam.org/news/2025-03-15-8.6.0_release_announcement/) Peertube 7.1 - joinpeertube.org (https://joinpeertube.org/news/release-7.1) Gstreamer 1.26 - freedesktop.org (https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.26/) KDE Frameworks 6.12 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/6/6.12.0/) End of Nouveau OpenGL Driver - itsfoss.com (https://news.itsfoss.com/mesa-zink-nvk-switch/) Debian Bookworm 12.10 - debian.org (https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/#:~:text=Debian%2012.10%20was%20released%20on,release%20and%20the%20Release%20Notes.) Ubuntu's Rust Coreutils - ubuntu.com (https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/carefully-but-purposefully-oxidising-ubuntu/56995) GitHub Actions Hack - infoworld.com (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3847178/thousands-of-open-source-projects-at-risk-from-hack-of-github-actions-tool.html) Open Source OSV Scanner - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/google-launches-open-source-osv-scanner/) Linux Kernel Use-After-Free Vulnerability - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/poc-exploit-released-linux-kernel-vulnerability/) Kagent - thenewstack.io (https://thenewstack.io/meet-kagent-open-source-framework-for-ai-agents-in-kubernetes/) Tencent Open Source Model - bloomberg.com (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-18/tencent-touts-open-source-ai-models-to-turn-text-into-3d-visuals) Mistral Small 3.1 - techzine.eu (https://www.techzine.eu/news/applications/129697/mistral-ai-unveils-small-powerful-and-open-source-ai-model/) - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/mistral-ai-drops-new-open-source-model-that-outperforms-gpt-4o-mini-with-fraction-of-parameters/) 29:50 Linuxrocks.online Outage Noah's travel story Awake for 30+ hours Wakes up to DMs, emails, online posts, etc Linux Rocks server is down Linux Rocks server grew organically Moved into Altispeed Egan MN data center SSH connected but then kicked you out Altispeed got pulled into it User wasn't in the libvertd group Organic way information spreads on the internet Glad to see people calm down after learning someone is in the hospital Linux Rocks is now monitored by LibreNMS Michael is donating a new server Thank you for polite and kind notification To those not so kind, please consider what you are getting for free Reddit post (https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/1jblofg/linuxrocksonline_been_down_for_nearly_48_hours/) Everything was documented 49:45 Continuity Plan Reach out to Nerd friends Interest Old laptops show up on Noah's desk Enabling people through technology -- 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/433) 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)...

This week the news of an "ESP backdroor" spread around the internet like wildfire. We dig into the technical details as to what happened, and what if any, the risk is. -- During The Show -- 00:52 Intro Thank you for visiting at Scale Weather Cutting Silicon Wafers YouTube Video (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WHmRj2mZ-dk) Sleuth - Live Ham Radio Liscnse Address requirement ARRL Privacy (https://www.arrl.org/fcc-licensee-privacy) Private Mail Box Nomads With a Purpose (https://www.nomadswithapurpose.com/south-dakota-residency-full-time-rv/) Dakota Post (https://www.dakotapost.net/) America's Mailbox (https://americasmailbox.com/south-dakota-residency/) QSL Cards 09:15 HVAC follow up - Ziggy Boiler Heat Equipment Interface Module How boilers work ESP32 Pull the old thermostat Be careful making changes on the boiler Venstar Thermostats (https://venstar.com/thermostats/colortouch/) Honeywell Intrusion (https://www.amazon.com/Honeywell-Intrusion-TH6320ZW2003/dp/B07H5FR7WL/) 21:49 Fedora on PI Boot Problems - Mark Other people report Fedora "hangs" on Raspberry Pi 4 Try it on another pi Raspberry Pi 5 27:16 News Wire Samba 4.22 - samba.org (https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.22.0.html) Pipewire 1.4 - gitlab.freedesktop.org (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/releases/1.4.0) Thunderbird 136 - thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/136.0/releasenotes/) Firefox 136 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/136.0/releasenotes/) Ubuntu Touch OTA 8 - ubports.com (https://ubports.com/en/blog/ubports-news-1/post/ubuntu-touch-ota-8-release-26) ExTix 25.3 - linux.exton.net (https://linux.exton.net/extix-25-3-kde-plasma-and-the-ubuntu-desktop-together-with-waydroid-waydroid-lets-you-launch-a-complete-android-system-on-linux-with-gapps-build-250305/) Tails 6.13 - torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-6-13/) Garuda Linux Broadwing - opensourcefeed.org (https://www.opensourcefeed.org/garuda-linux-broadwing-release/) Malicious Go Packages - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/seven-malicious-go-packages-found.html) Alibaba qwq - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/alibabas-new-open-source-model-qwq-32b-matches-deepseek-r1-with-way-smaller-compute-requirements/) Light-R1-32B - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/new-open-source-math-model-light-r1-32b-surpasses-equivalent-deepseek-performance-with-only-1000-in-training-costs/) EFF Rayhunter - eff.org (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying) 28:38 Software Freedom Conservancy Interview Denver Gingerich - Director of Compliance OpenWRT One (https://sfconservancy.org/activities/openwrt-one.html) Powered over PoE $10 of purchase price goes to OpenWRT Target audience Un-brickable Made by BananaPi 36:10 Considering OpenWRT One Steve for family? On par with any consumer router OpenWRT vs OPNSense Very well put together 39:35 ESP32 "Backdoor" The basics Wireless has to talk What the company did opcode3f Undocumented Commands 0xFC30 - Register Read 0xFC31 - Register write 0xFC32 - Set MAC Address 0xFC07 - Write Flash 0xFC08 - Read Flash 0xFC0E - Send LMP Packet (different layers of the bluetooth stack) What they are not telling you Much to do about nothing Ycombinator.com (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43330331) Espressif Response (https://www.espressif.com/en/news/Response_ESP32_Bluetooth) Dark Mentor (https://darkmentor.com/blog/esp32_non-backdoor/) 46:37 Vizio Lawsuit SFC filed Oct 19 2021 Vizio tried to move the lawsuit Going to trial in this year in Oct SFC became a hardware manufacture to avoid fighting these lawsuits 51:00 Steve's eBook Tinkering Started to help ChrisLAS Extending 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/432)...

We're live from SCaLE this year, and a panel joins us to learn more about how Ubuntu is trying to reach the next generation. -- 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/431) 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 Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

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/aida_imaging_hd_ndi_cube_full_hd_ndihx.html) Scarlett2i2 Knock Off (https://www.amazon.com/Interface-Recording-Podcasting-Noise-Free-Wrugste/dp/B0DPHSDLG7) 25:38 News Wire Fish Shell 4.0 - fishshell.com (https://fishshell.com/blog/new-in-40/) DBeaver 25.0 - dbeaver.io (https://dbeaver.io/2025/03/02/dbeaver-25-0/) Emacs 30.1 - masteringemacs.org (https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/whats-new-in-emacs-301) KDE Plasma 6.3.2 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.3.2/) EA Open-Sourced More - theverge.com (https://www.theverge.com/news/621397/command-conquer-open-source-ea-red-alert-renegade-generals) Nextcloud Hub 10 - nextcloud.com (https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-hub10/) Nvidia Linux 570 Drivers - nvidia.com (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/241089/) Open-Source Nuclear-Fusion Plans - wsj.com (https://www.wsj.com/articles/german-startup-publishes-open-source-plans-for-nuclear-fusion-power-plant-7b2b6241) Black Duck OSSRA - securitymagazine.com (https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/101420-open-source-software-vulnerabilities-found-in-86-of-codebases) Auto-Color Malware - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/02/new-linux-malware-auto-color-grants.html) OpenSSF Initiative - devops.com (https://devops.com/openssf-defines-baseline-for-securing-open-source-software/) WhisperCat 1.4 - github.com (https://github.com/ddxy/whispercat/releases/tag/v1.4.1) Wan 2.1 - reuters.com (https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/alibaba-release-open-source-version-video-generating-ai-model-2025-02-25/) 27:52 Getting Involved in Community Steve and resumes Be prepared to talk about what you say you know Better to say "I don't know" than lie or fake it A wall of text does not help Bold important things Demonstrate your skills Blog Code repository Website Be willing to make compromises Don't chase a position Get involved with a local group Non-Profits Church Linux Group Business Group Lead with Generosity Jab Jab Jab Right Hook Be prepared to "un-sexy work" -- 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/430) 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 Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah -...

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 kiosk 29:52 Forwarding SMS - PIX Beeper (https://www.beeper.com/) 32:50 Matrix Foundation How Matrix and Element started Matrix foundation split from Element/New Vector Matrix foundation lost half their budget $100,000 needed by March 31st Been providing bridges and matrix.org server Donate Now (matrix.org/support) Advocate or run your own server $610k Needed annually Blog Post (https://matrix.org/blog/2025/02/crossroads/) Matrix State of the Union YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NQeE_Rm6as) 38:42 Steve's Trip 3 Laptops and mango server Steve leaving Fedora Encrypted laptop policy LUKS with ZFS on root AI trouble shooting Steve and containers at Altispeed Steve at the Church -- 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/429) 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 Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

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 - endeavouros.com (https://endeavouros.com/news/our-new-iso-release-is-here-meet-mercury/) openSUSE Switches to SELinux - opensuse.org (https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/G3W5NIY3OKRBHPHWTPYEUPSS4LKZN77N/) Two New OpenSSH Vulnerabilities - blog.qualys.com (https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2025/02/18/qualys-tru-discovers-two-vulnerabilities-in-openssh-cve-2025-26465-cve-2025-26466) Hackers Taint Open Source - nknews.org (https://www.nknews.org/pro/north-korean-hackers-taint-open-source-code-to-steal-crypto-and-developers-data/) Ernie AI Open Source - reuters.com (https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/baidu-make-ernie-ai-model-open-source-end-june-2025-02-14/) 20:00 New Spring Church Patrick from New Spring Church How do you start at a new client? Discovery session Assumed knowledge Assumed the role with electrician background Custom LED work Addressable LED strip DMX King (https://dmxking.com/) QLC+ (https://www.qlcplus.org/) Raspberry Pi Mean Well Power Supply (https://www.meanwell.com/) How do you get the most out of consultants Building a team and launching careers 43:00 Immich! - SkoobaSteve Read only access Made Steve find all the photos 46:00 EndlessOS Feedback - Avri Parental Controls RDP on Gnome/Endless 47:45 Wedding Invitations - Agustin Hugo Gath.io (https://gath.io/) 49:20 Hardware recommendations - Ron Ebay - read carefully HP ProLiant MicroServer -- 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/428) 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 Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

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 6.12 - torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-6-12/) Porteux 1.9 - github.com (https://github.com/porteux/porteux/releases) Slackware based Porteux has released version 1.9 ELF/Sshdinjector.A!tr - csoonline.com (https://www.csoonline.com/article/3816998/new-trojan-hijacks-linux-and-iot-devices.html) CISA Orders Federal Agencies to Fix Flaw - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-orders-agencies-to-patch-linux-kernel-bug-exploited-in-attacks/) Beelzebub - helpnetsecurity.com (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/02/10/beelzebub-open-source-honeypot-framework/) OpenEuroLLM - infoq.com (https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/02/open-euro-llm/) Reasoning Model s1 - ceotodaymagazine.com (https://www.ceotodaymagazine.com/2025/02/open-source-ai-model-s1-developed-for-less-than-50-challenges-industry-norms/) 14:32 AI Makes Scams Worse AI being used to get hired, to steal information Video interviews are glitchy and odd Answers to questions are right out of OpenAI and ChatGPT Problem will get worse before it gets better Companies will respond by not hiring remotely The Register (https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/11/it_worker_scam/) 24:28 AI Safety Competition heating up Need to foster AI, not restrict it Open Source AI China isn't going to back down Are we out of our depth with AI? Can't put the gene back in the bottle 34:40 Microsoft Office 365 Co-Pilot Users must act or pay more 2025 version of Clippy Microsoft is getting more aggressive Imagine if everything was "opt out" Can only opt out by "canceling subscription" Misleading marketing Non-CoPilot plans only available for a limited time 43:07 Ashi Linux Dev Steps down Still plans to contribute Ashi Linux is important Apple removed barriers to run Linux Linux worked pretty well on Intel Macs T2 Chip T2Linux New Apple chip Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-Lead-No-Upstream) 51:30 Lossless-cut Avidemux (https://avidemux.sourceforge.net/) Lossless-cut (https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut) -- 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/427) 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 Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah -...

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/) Archbank 2701 - sourceforge.net (https://sourceforge.net/projects/archbang/files/ArchBang/archbang-2701-x86_64.iso/) KaOS 2025.01 - kaosx.us (https://kaosx.us/news/2025/kaos01/) Parrot 6.3 - parrotsec.org (https://www.parrotsec.org/blog/2025-01-31-parrot-6.3-release-notes/) Nitrux 3.9 - nxos.org (https://nxos.org/psa/psa-nitrux-3-9-0/) Ai2 Tulu 3 405B LLM - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/ai2-releases-tulu-3-a-fully-open-source-model-that-bests-deepseek-v3-gpt-4o-with-novel-post-training-approach/) EU Investing 56 Million - bestofai.com (https://bestofai.com/article/the-eu-is-betting-56-million-on-open-source-ai) Small 3 - zdnet.com (https://www.zdnet.com/article/mistral-ai-says-its-small-3-model-is-a-local-open-source-alternative-to-gpt-4o-mini/) Oumi - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/ex-google-apple-engineers-launch-unconditionally-open-source-oumi-ai-platform-that-could-help-to-build-the-next-deepseek/) 20:18 Immich Review Story behind Immich Why Steve deployed Immich Been in use for 3 months Does what the tin says Min of 2 CPUs and 4GB RAM Can be resource intensive Using containers for everything Critical Path/Knowing how things work Official install is via docker compose env file Documentation is pretty good Impressed by Immich's development and progress Interface is great Great for finding pictures Global hotspot map Tagging Facial and object recognition How Immich puts files on the file system Metadata isn't shared between users De-duplication and stacking Partner Sharing Highlights old photos Feature rich compared to google and apple photos Strong emphasis on privacy Good mobile app No E2EE Wouldn't expose this to the Internet Hasn't overcome muscle memory Developer's don't consider it "production ready" Backing up Exit strategy -- 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/426) 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 Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

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 (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-46-8-released/26405) Gnome 47.3 - discourse.gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-47-3-released/26411) Wine 10.0 - gitlab.winehq.org (https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-10.0) Linux 6.13 - lkml.org (https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/1/19/281) GNU Linux-Libre 6.13 - fsfla.org (https://www.fsfla.org/pipermail/linux-libre/2025-January/003569.html) Rockoon - businesswire.com (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250128753886/en/Mirantis-Launches-Open-Source-Software-that-Streamlines-OpenStack-Management-on-Kubernetes) Solus 4.7 - getsol.us (https://getsol.us/2025/01/26/solus-4-7-released/) BloodyAD - helpnetsecurity.com (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/01/28/bloodyad-active-directory-privilege-escalation/) Deepseek's New Models - hackaday.com (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/27/new-open-source-deepseek-v3-language-model-making-waves/) CISA Alert Power Grid PLC's put online Massive Change in Tech Industry Meta content moderation Deep Seek Hireing practices CISA (https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/01/16/cisa-and-partners-release-call-action-close-national-software-understanding-gap) CISA PDF (https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2025-01/joint-guidance-closing-the-software-understanding-gap-508c.pdf) 32:11 Thunderbird Notifications Desktop notifications Matrix included 33:42 Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5090 very expensive Good GPU for AI/ML New Thermal Grease Different drivers for Quadro cards 40:30 FPGA Playstation One Emulator Clock speed Emulators get close enough Today's games will not be playable in future Industry has a cycle ArsTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/01/new-fpga-powered-retro-console-re-creates-the-playstation-one-cd-rom-drive-optional/) 47:50 DeepSeek DeepSeek Chinese AI DeepSeek claims to train on a fraction of time and money Worry is that it will over take US models Steve uses perplexity (https://www.perplexity.ai/) Real concern is great reduction required training resources -- 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/425) 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 Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux)...

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 broken S3 file system It's ok to play with technology 28:21 Nextcloud Office - IK All-In-One master container Steve's attempt Not all Docker containers are official 33:52 News Wire Dillo 3.2 - github.io (https://dillo-browser.github.io/release/3.2.0/) OpenZFS 2.3 - github.com (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases) Rsync 3.4 - samba.org (https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.4.0) Linux Mint 22.1 - linuxmint.com (https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_xia.php) Rhino Linux 2025.1 - rhinolinux.org (https://blog.rhinolinux.org/news-17) TuxCare Now Offering EOL MS Support - fossforce.com (https://fossforce.com/2025/01/tuxcare-stops-microsoft-from-killing-net-6-0/) Merit Systems Trying to Fund Open Source Devs - cnbc.com (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/16/merit-systems-raises-10-million-from-a16z-blockchain-capital.html) MiniMax Models - scmp.com (https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3294900/chinese-ai-start-minimax-releases-low-cost-open-source-models-rival-top-chatbots) 35:00 Ebook 2 Audio Book Ebook2Audiobook (https://github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook/blob/main/README.md) Uses "local AI" Many types of text input Runs on CPU or GPU Surprised at the quality Steve's kid's apprenticeship Society has developed an aversion to anything "hard" Teaching the value of work and learning 42:00 Getting Started with AI What is AI? Math coprocessors CPUs are "generalist" processors GPUs are "specialized" processors CUDA Cores NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip (https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/project-digits/) 3 Classes of GPUs Design software story Project Digits (https://newsroom.arm.com/blog/arm-nvidia-project-digits-high-performance-ai) LMStudio.at (https://lmstudio.ai/) GPT4All (https://docs.gpt4all.io/) TecMint.com (https://www.tecmint.com/ai-for-linux-users/) -- 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/424) 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 Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)