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This week we take your feedback give an update on Steve's son's server. We talk some Xsession woes, Noah gives you an update on access control and credentials, and Steve has some thoughts on Apple. -- During The Show -- 00:42 Intro Conference season Seasons of Life Each conference has something different 03:15 Steve's Audio Issues - bout10bucks Jellyfin and Kodi MKV containers What Steve was doing 06:22 Steve's Son's Server and other things - Norm Steve's son and Linux Parenting Applying pressure Noah's listening Audio Books Jupiter Broadcasting Darknet Diaries Steve's listening Jupiter Broadcasting Coder Radio Late Night Linux AI Fix Smashing Security Getting a company to open source code Open Source community can be hostile Gather info before hand What is the benefit to the company Licensing Linux Conference Talk 21:16 Charlie's Xsession woes - Charlie How to disable error generation into the xsession file What is an xsession file AI is good at parsing log files 25:41 News Wire Postfix 3.11 - postfix.org Handbrake 1.11 - handbrake.fr Digikam 9.0 - digikam.org Docker 29.3 - docker.com SQLite 3.52 - sqlite.org Rust 1.94 - releases.rs GTK 4.22 - gitlab.gnome.org KDE Plasma 6.6.2 - kde.org Nvidia 595 Driver - phoronix.com CIQ Kernel - yahoo.com ZeroRISC Crypto Stack - thequantuminsider.com Fake Laravel Packages - thehackernews.com RELIANOID Community Edition v7.9 - relianoid.com Austrumi 5.2 - ftp.linux.edu.lv CachyOS March 2026 release - cachyos.org T2 26.3 Desktop Edition - t2linux.com Nitrux 6.0 - nxos.org NemoClaw - cnbc.com Google Always On Memory Agent - venturebeat.com Database to Study Cancer - hopkinsmedicine.org 27:20 Access Control Credentials Wiegand and OSDP Flipper Zero Types of credentials TM Dallas Proxmark3 33:55 Steve's Apple Observations Cellphone in laptop form factor Eats into "low end devices" Unified memory and VRAM Developers already targeting Mac Cost to running Linux Linux's answer Developer angle 47:29 GrapheneOS & Motorola Annouced at Mobile World Congress Buying a Pixel to load other operating systems Android Authority.com Motorola News 51:00 Age Verification Built into OS California is requiring age verification in the OS What is expected of other operating systems Now is the time to speak up How it effects Linux itsfoss.com -- 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 Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard 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 Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies

This week Noah gives an update on the Chinesium access controller, Steve has a problem with 7.1 audio and works out a solution with Noah, and of course your feedback! -- During The Show -- 00:48 Intro Weather Snark 02:08 Game Server Access - David Proxy Wireguard Nebula Tailscale Put Linux on the Sophos Dynamic DNS Name Cheap Port Forwarding Swap the drive Docs.sophos.com 11:20 Static One Liners - Dominick Bunch of helpful tools and one liners Github Link Scope creep 13:53 Cat6 or 6a - Ted Always pull the latest Vertical Cable Fiber vs Ethernet Down sides of fiber (conduit) OCC Fiber DZ Cable 23:50 News Wire Firefox 148.0 - firefox.com Thunderbird 148 - thunderbird.net Postgres 18.3 - postgresql.org SciTE 5.6 - scintilla.org Dbeaver 26 - dbeaver.io GNU Groff 1.24 - lwn.net GNU Octave v11 - octave.org Shotcut 26.2 - shotcut.org Ardour 9.2 - ardour.org Calibre 9.4 - manual.calibre-ebook.com Linux EOL Dates Getting Pushed Back - social.kernel.org React Foundation - prnewswire.com GNU Hurd Kernel 64 bit - guix.gnu.org Mabox Linux 26.02 - lwn.net 4MLinux 50.1 - 4mlinux.com Omarchy 3.4 - github.com TheSSS 51.0 - 4mlinux.blogspot.com AV Linux 25.1 - heise.de Archbang 0103 - archbang.org PorteusX 2.6 - github.com Aeryn OS 2026.02 - phoronix.com BunsenLabs Carbon - bunsenlabs.org Tails 7.5 - tails.net Qwen3.5-Medium Performance - venturebeat.com Kali Linux & AI - linkedin.com 25:30 Steve's Audio Problems Loud sound effects, quiet speech Steve's approach Easy Effects Browser plugins Looking online Asking AI Tune the receiver Applying the solution multiple places Sound isolation Aurdor Carla Compressor x42 plugins Real time Kernel Easier than it looks Write in with your solutions! Kodi Plugins and settings Reddit Vero V 50:50 Access Control Update TM Dallas controller arrived Downsides/limitations Reader was "hot garbage" 54:07 Scale Scale is going on! -- 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 Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard 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 Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies

This week we focus on your feedback! Questions about NextCloud, questions about best practices for remote storage, and of course the latest headlines from JT! -- During The Show -- Thermostat for Garage - Jayson Garage Heater Inside heat control Wireless vs hardwired Hydro radiant heat Home Assistant centralizes everything Venstar T7900 WiFi issues More Private AI? - Anon Training data Taking AI offline Duck AI techradar.com Immich & Other things - Fey Immich in the Oven's Household Noah's experience with updates Ente Having things come back up in order Backups vs Snapshots Offline backups Tape backups 3 - 2 - 1 strategy Mail-in-a-Box Self hosting password manager Nextcloud Alternative - HJ Default tuning is not great Trouble shooting can be difficult How Steve updates Noah uses a playbook Finding alternatives Add-ons "sell" Nextcloud News Wire OpenTTD 15.2 - tt-forums.net GNU Awk 5.4 - lwn.net Pipewire 1.6 - phoronix.com DNF 5.4 - phoronix.com KDE Plasma 6.6 - kde.org EasyOS 7.2 - bkhome.org SparkyLinux 8.2 - sparkylinux.org Xubuntu Wallpaper Contest - discourse.ubuntu.com Gentoo Moving to Codeberg - linuxjournal.com Cline CLI Attack - scworld.com SecureClaw - securityweek.com helpnetsecurity.com Buzzdetect - entomologytoday.org AI Slop Drowning Godot - pcgamer.com -- 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 Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard 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 Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies

-- During The Show -- 00:48 Intro No Steve this week Awesome piece of hardware 01:39 News Wire OpenVPN 2.7 - community.openvpn.net Mesa 26.0 - mesa3d.org KDE Frameworks 6.23 - kde.org Gnome 49.4 - gnome.org Vim 9.2 vim.org GNU Linux Libre 6.19 - fsfla.org GNU Binutils 2.46 - phoronix.com Tinycore 17 - tinycorelinux.net Debian 13.3 - voyagerlive.org Pear OS 26.2 - pearos.xyz MythTV 36 - mythtv.org Parrot 7.1 - linuxiac.com SSHStalker - bleepingcomputer.com LockBit 5.0 - helpnetsecurity.com GLM-5 - venturebeat.com 03:00 Chinesium Access Control Access Control Disclaimer 4 components in access control Power Controller Credentials and reader Locking mechanism Door monitors Embedded door sensor Amazon Use access control wiring Honeywell genesis wire Vertical Cable Run everything to a central place Avoid using cloud Use high quality equipment Adamsrite 7400 Securiton electromagnetic lock ASSA ABLOY Don't use odd credentials MIFARE Wiegand Mercury Access Controllers Access A1001 OSDP protocol Chinesium Access ControllerAmazon Chinesium Card reader Amazon Leosac 41:57 Ring and Flock cut ties "Familiar Faces" Flock Camera's Privacy concerns EFF -- 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 Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard 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 Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies

This week we talk music! Noah gets hands on with the Zynthian. Matrix is slowly taking over governments. The timing couldn't be better, Discord is requiring age verification. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro No Steve this week Call in! Join the GeekLab 01:30 Fun with Linux Audio - Wayne Helm Synth Vital Synth Tal NoizeMaker Cardinal Surge Synth LSP Plugins Calf Plugins Reaper ToneLib-GFX kxstudio repositories Struggle to get LV2 plugins to work Tal baseline MIDI Noah's light bulb moment Backing tracks Cloud based 16:16 Dell HDDs - TwoBit Never seen Dell requiring special drives Requirements by card and drive specs No longer using hardware raid HBA Mode Flashing HBA Firmware Buy pre-flashed card Use each drive as it's own raid array 20:16 News Wire GCompris 26 - gcompris.net LibreOffice 216.2 - documentfo8undation.org Ardour - ardour.org Calibre 9.1 - calibre-ebook.com Peazip 10.9 - github.com Linux 6.19 - lkml.org Oracle Linux 7 - oracle.com LiteBox - helpnetsecurity.com GoogleSQL - developer-tech.com Toyota Open Source Game Engine - techzine.eu Open Source Chest CT Model - nature.com 21:16 Zynthian Zynthian No Soldering Requires gentle "clock makers hand" Based on a Raspberry Pi Professional audio system How it's built First power up and usage 34:10 Matrix Protocol Matrix Protocol is taking over Digital sovereignty The Register Seems to solve problems Beeper 41:45 Discord KYC Requiring ID verification Discords background inference model Landscape for social media and connecting people Noah's story of connecting KNOX chat room gomuks The Register 51:20 Ring Camera's Search Party Ring has a history eff.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 Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard 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 Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies

This week John Terrill from Red Hat joins us to talk about branding in Open Source. Many projects don't have a unified communication strategy, but having one is important. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Steve is in Vegas Noah "getting deals" 04:37 Lossless Cut Reached for Avidemux Avoiding re-encoding Learning a new program Lossless Cut Webpage Lossless Cut GitHub 08:30 OmniTools Small docker image Does everything in the web browser OmniTools GitHub 12:43 NLSH For people who want to learn the CLI Translates natural language into CLI Making things easy can backfire NLSH GitHub 16:00 Xyops Features: Job scheduling Workflow automation Server monitoring Alerting Incident response Self Hosted Open Source Xyops 18:18 News Wire Squid 7.4 - github.com Openttd 15.1 - openttd.org Rust 1.93 - rust-lang.org GNU C lwn.net Extix - linux.exton.net Liya Linux 2.5 - distrowatch.com CachyOS 2026 - cachyos.org GNU Guix 1.5 - quix.gnu.org MxLinux 25.1 - mxlinux.org Crypto Thieves in Snap Store - helpnetsecurity.com Open Source Quantum Computer - uwaterloo.ca AI Weather Models - kqed.org Banks Prefer Open-Source - finainews.com Rack-Scale AI - theasset.com OIN 2.0 - yahoo.com 19:55 Python Built-in Web Server Use python to host a web server Used for file transfers Use case Steve's travel router 24:17 Proxy RCE - PSA Basics of the problem grahamhelton.com 26:30 Matter Camera 1920x1080 30fps Synology App to turn a phone into a camera linuxgizmos.com 30:06 MS Gives Keys to FBI Microsoft confirms they gave the FBI BitLocker keys ~ 20 requests per year Home users forced to upload keys Jump through hoops to avoid uploading Encryption is only as good as who holds the keys Pragmatism aardwolfsecurity.com ArsTechnica 35:20 Linux Continuity Continuity document merged into Kernel docs theregister.com 36:40 John Terrill PR in open source Branding open source One size fits all projects Extracting technical knowledge Technical accuracy How to talk with journalists Separating personal views from project views Negative coverage Messaging guidelines Branding and marketing Attracting media attention -- 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 Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard 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 Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies

This week we dig into the hardware shortage caused by AI, answer your questions, and dig into managing ZFS via the web! -- During The Show -- 00:45 Intro Cheap managed POE switch Switch hops 05:35 Certificates - Randy Step CA XCA Certificate Authority ACME LDAP Kerberos Steve's use of LDAP LDAP with PKI link ACME and Domain registrars dot tk Ansible collection 19:19 Ebook Management - Jeremy Steve went to audio books Calibre PDF manuals folder Audio bookshelf Paperless NGX 23:50 Light Sync - Peter UltraStar Deluxe Animux USBD_Syncer Doing events Why Noah likes Karaoke Effect of "shared experiences" Steve's Christmas tree lights DMX lighting WLED Project 33:03 News Wire Firefox 147 - firefox.com Thunderbird 147 - thunderbird.net Grub 2.14 - phoronix.com Gnome 49.3 - discourse.gnome.org Wine 11 - theregister.com Q4OS 6.5 - q4os.org Endeavour OS Genymede Neo - endeavouros.com Tails 7.4 - torproject.org Linux Mint 22.3 - blog.linuxmint.com BeaglePlay PowerVR - phoronix.com StackChan - cnx-software.com Mentra's Smart Glasses - engadget.com VoidLink - checkpoint.com darkreading.com csoonline.com Boltz-1 - labmanager.com Photoshop on Linux - videocardz.com No Commits to MySQL Repo - devclass.com Senate Inquiry - jdsupra.com EU Tech Sovereignty - cybernews.com biometricupdate.com 35:03 SysAdmins & Smartphones Lowering friction Graphical vs CLI Webzfs Exposing ZFS via Web UI Cockpit Putting Webzfs into Cockpit Write in! 43:43 New ESP32 ESP32-E22 Tri-band WiFi What is an ESP32 Steve's use of ESP32 Bandwidth Getting started with ESP32 linuxgizmos.com 48:05 AI Hardware Run RAM spikes 300%-400% SSD price spikes Fab Capacity Bitcoin effect ARS Technica -- 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 Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard 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 Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies

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 feedback Round 1 deployment recap Round 2 deployment recap Latest breakage Things Steve likes about Immich Ente 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 Doxygen 1.16 - doxygen.nl Windowmaker Live 13.3 - wmlive.sourceforge.net Budgie 10.10 - buddiesofbudgie.org Pentoo 2026.0 - pentoo.ch Nitrix 5.1 - nxos.org Debian 13.3 - debian.org Linux Mint 22.3 - linuxmint.com Bose Open Sources Speakers - designboom.com UAT-7290 - thehackernews.com GoBruteforcer - darkreading.com VoidLink - thehackernews.com NousCoder-14B - venturebeat.com Razer AI Kit - techpowerup.com 17:55 Caller Btrfs Assistant Restoring btrfs snapshots Base vs incremental snapshots Framework Knowledge Base 23:00 Music Production on Linux Started with misconception everything is for Windows and Mac Not many instruments are being made Hybrid pianos Stage pianos Pianoteq Virtual instruments Hammer graded controllers Semi weighted keys Synth Keys Akai Professional MPK Mini Plus Amazon VST3 MT Powerdrum Tal Base Line 101 36:50 Tape Backup Slow but reliable and cheap Tar command Data velocity Burn rate How to use tape Tools for data tapes Failure domain -- 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 Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard 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 Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies

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 Ncurses 6.6 - phoronix.com OpenTTD 15.0 - openttd.org QPrompt 2.0 - patreon.com Mkvtoolnix 97 - mkvtoolnix.download Privoxy 4.1 - sourceforge.net OpenBGPD 9.0 - bsdsec.net IceWM - debugpoint.com Devuan 6.1 - phoronix.com Manjaro 26.0 - manjaro.org Qwen Text to Image - venturebeat.com 27:07 Flatpak vs Packaged Software - Pete New contest! Steve uses packaged software Idea behind flatpaks Flatpak edge cases Install via AUR AppImages 37:16 Backup GrapheneOS - Domink Toilet backup strategy Plan to come back from scratch Contacts VCF file ADB Backup Guide ADB Backup Caveat 45:09 KVM Switch? - Jeremy Now use remote software Barrier Synergy Deskflow IO Gear KVM Rust Desk -- 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 Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard 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 Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies

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 Motherboards and RAM prices ASRock ASUS 18:04 News Wire Lua 5.5 - lua.org Ruby 4.0 - ruby-lang.org QEMU 10.2 - wiki.qemu.org Pinta 3.1 - omgubuntu.co.uk Voyager 13.2 - voyagerlive.org Nobara 43 - nobaraproject.org Porteux 2.5 - distrowatch.com Parrot 7.0 - parrotsec.org PostmarkOS 25.12 - postmarketos.org Elementary OS 8.1 - elementary.io MinIO in Maintenance Mode - infoq.com KawaiiGPT - opensourceforu.com Z.ai - businesswire.com Chatterbox Turbo - the-decoder.com 18:57 Listener responds to self hosted - Josh Setup SSO PocketID Hesitant to adopt passkeys Argument for and against passkeys 26:41 Email Archiving for Privacy - Dominik Why you should archive email Plain text vs Mbox/PST imapsync GitHub Email threat model 32:54 Expedition 33 Expedition 33 Doesn't have an "agenda" Story of small Indie team If you apply yourself, you can succeed Awards Sales Live action adaptation Game play and Story are amazing It's a sad game Amazing music AI controversy AI vs human work Proper use of AI tools -- 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 Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard 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 Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies

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 The Smart Home Hookup Youtube Playing D&D with the family Lay of the land Running Cat6 SDI Video/Audio Belden Cables Vertical Cables HDMI Decimators Keystones 55:57 News Wire Darktable 5.4 - darktable.org Kdenlive 25.12 - kdenlive.org OpenShot 3.4 - openshot.org OpenZFS 2.4 - github.com GNUCash 5.14 - gnucash.org Nvidia Linux 590.48 - phoronix.com Linux 6.17 EOL - 9to5linux.com RELIANOID 7.8.0 - relianoid.com SparkyLinux 2025.12 - sparkylinux.org Easy OS Excalibur 7.1 - puppylinux.com Emmabuntus Debian Edition 6 - emmabuntus.org Solaris 11.4 - blogs.oracle.com FreeBSD 15.0 - freebsd.org Rust CVE in Linux - itsfoss.com Senate Intel Chair - cyberscoop.com Beavertail Malware - scworld.com Open-Source Protein Co-Folding Model - nvidia.com Bloom - siliconangle.com CUGA - infoq.com Nemotron AI Models - finance.yahoo.com -- 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 Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard 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 Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies

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 All in One Brother DCP-L2640DW Amazon Budget Brother HL-L2460DW Amazon Monochrome Brother HL-6210DW Amazon Color Brother HL-L3280CDW Amazon 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 Scanner Brother ADS-1200 Amazon Containers vs Codecs MKV vs MP4 Avidemux Ripping as ISOs vs video files MakeMKV MakeMKV Docker Image # sudo modprobe sg services: makemkv: image: ghcr.io/jlesage/makemkv:latest ports: - "5800:5800" volumes: - "./makemkv:/config:rw" - "./storage:/storage:ro" - "./output:/output:rw" security_opt: # Fix for apparmor enabled systems - apparmor:unconfined environment: - USER_ID=1000 - GROUP_ID=1000 devices: - "/dev/sr0:/dev/sr0" - "/dev/sg0:/dev/sg0" Christmas movies Handbrake FFmpeg Transcoding Run controller at each site Ubiquiti Cloud Key Lots of problems OVH server Put basic auth in front Inbox Zero Paperless NGX Dump to eml file then import into special Thunderbird 45:14 News Wire Firefox 146 - firefox.com Thunderbird 146 - thunderbird.net KDE Frameworks 6.12 - kde.org Cinnamon Desktop 6.6 - itsfoss.com Mir 2.25 - github.com Rust 1.92 - blog.rust-lang.org AerynOS 2025.12 - phoronix.com Kali Linux 2025.4 - kali.org Pop!_OS 24.04 - itsfoss.com PearOS - pearos.xyz MaboxLinux 2025.12 - maboxlinux.org Papermoon - thenewstack.io 01flip Ransomware - esecurityplanet.com React2Shell - thehackernews.com Nomos 1 - venturebeat.com Nemotron Model - reuters.com Quilter's AI - venturebeat.com Chatterbox Labs - redhat.com Agentic AI Group - hackernoon.com Firefox AI Browser - phoronix.com 47:47 Zynthian Open hardware device We want your feedback! Are you comfortable with software VST Zynthian.org 50:30 Family Resistant to Self Hosting - David Ovens house hold approach Watching for pain points Making responsible path easy Making irresponsible path hard Value driven decisions Supporting where your paycheck comes from -- 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 Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard 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 Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies

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 OBS 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 Tmus 3.6 - proxmox.com Snort 3.10 - github.com Dbeaver 25.3 - dbeaver.io Proxmox 4.2 Backup Server - proxmox.com Fedora Ultramarine 43 - fyralabs.com AlmaLinux 10.1 - almalinux.org Rocky Linux 10.1 - rockylinux.org KaOS 2025.11 - kaosx.us NixOS 25.11 - nixos.org Armbian 25.11 - blog.armbian.com Solus 4.8 - getsol.us 4M Linux 50.0 - 4mlinux.com AV Linux 25 - linuxmusicians.com Pardus 25 - pardus.org Linux 6.18 - phoronix.com Flux 2 - bfl.ai z-Image-Turbo - huggingface.co Deepseek 3.2 - deepseek.com Linux MCP - siliconangle.com 31:51 Plex Crackdown Forcing Plex Pass subscriptions Proprietary software controls you Are Plex users getting what they deserve? Switching to JellyFin Scanning of people's media Reason for crackdown Problem with the approach FS PBX ArsTechnica.com 41:50 Steam Machine First response is it's a "Travel Machine" SteamDeck "just works" Community experience ArsTechnica 44:42 Self Hosted Image Software Immich experience Ente experience Ente vs Immich Ente Encryption Native App Backup Where Immich came from iOS challenges Which is the winner? -- 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 Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard 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 Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies

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 Google backs down How to Geek Hiding the setting Best of both worlds Explaining walled gardens Why walled gardens are bad Bubble level app 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 PiKVM Tailscale Windows knowledge on Linux Borrowing hardware 50:50 News Wire Git 2.52 - github.blog Cmake 4.2 - cmake.org Blender 5.0 - blender.org PHP 8.5 - php.net Protondrive 1.2 - github.com Proxmox 9.1 - proxmox.com Alma Linux 9.7 - almalinux.org Finnix 251 - finnix.org Pepple Watch 100% Open Source - howtogeek.com Zork Open Source - arstechnica.com 00:52 Coming up on Ask Noah Netowrking, proxies, caching Firefox -- 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 Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard 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 Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies

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 Mealie Frigate 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 Coloring outside the lines Mobile vs Desktop Desktop UI shortcomings UX in Audacity and Penpot Where can UX designers grow? Articulating the business use case Ink & Switch 18:23 News Wire Nano 8.7 - gnu.org Thunderbird 145 - thunderbird.net Firefox 145 - firefox.com Wine 10.19 - webpronews.com Proton 10.0 - phoronix.com KDE Frameworks 6.20.0 - kde.org SparkyLinux 8.1 - sparkylinux.org Debian 13.2 - debian.org Tails 7.2 - torproject.org Nitrix 5.0 - itsfoss.com Kaspersky for Linux - tomshardware.com Avahi Logic Flaw - zeropath.com ImunifyAV Flaw - bleepingcomputer.com Akira Targets Nutanix VMs - bleepingcomputer.com Kraken Expands - cyberpress.org VibeThinker-1.5B - venturebeat.com Worry Over Chinese AI - businessinsider.com US Must Go Open Source - techbuzz.ai Linux Knowledge The "Mythical New User" People use all sorts of UI/UX today Knowledge we take for granted Teaching is the highest form of learning See one, do one, teach one Talk radio principle: Watering plants that are already there Linux and Windows architectures are different 39:50 Source Command How it works Variables Environment Variable What the source command does Getting started with source and python 48:00 Know your short comings Know what you don't know Know how to explain it simply Keeping things simple -- 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 Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard 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 Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies Special Guest: Scott Jenson.

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 Mailbox.org Simple Login DuckDuckGo Email Alias Proton's built in features Reasons for protecting privacy 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 Calibre 8.14 - newwin.net MKVtoolnix - mkvtoolnix.download Curly COMrades - darkreading.com Porteux 2.4 - distrowatch.com MXLinux 25 - mxlinux.org Devuan 6.0 - serverhost.com IncusOS - phoronix.com NVIDIA AI Stack - hpcwire.com Omnilingual ASR - venturebeat.com Kimi K2 Thinking - venturebeat.com Drax - prnewswire.com Linux Desktop 5% - webpronews.com 23:50 Jill Mueller - Bolt Graphics Bolt Graphics Key differences Build of the card Why did you come to Ubuntu Summit? 27:25 Antonio Salvemini - Ray Tracing Bolt Graphics Ray Tracing vs Raster Why start with FPGA? Next steps Current Stage Available 2027 Bolt Graphics Untapped markets Upgradeable GPU 34:34 No Longer Evil Thermostat Google EOLs Nest Thermostats Gen 1 and Gen 2 No Longer Evil FULU Foundation "Feature Complete" AXIS A1001 Good piece of hardware Reservations Connects to "No Longer Evil Server" Server planned to be open sourced Centralite Perl HA Thermostat (Zigbee) Needs to be repaired 1 or 2 times a year Temperature Sensors Govee H5075 IoT Maintenance Why temperature sensors ESP32 receive blue-tooth and send to Home Assistant -- 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 Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard 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 Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies Special Guests: Antonio Salvemini and Jill Mueller.

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 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 Squid 7.3 - github.com Shotcut 25.10 - shotcut.org Kodi 21.3 - github.com TorBrowser 15 - torproject.com Rust 1.91 - releases.rs Qt Creator 18 - qt.io TheSSS 50 - sourceforge.net AerynOS 2025.10 - aerynos.com Fedora 43 - docs.fedoraproject.org CISA Warning - forbes.com Malicious NPM Packages - thehackernews.com Granite 4.0 Nano - venturebeat.com Proximity Scanner - helpnetsecurity.com Linux Gaming Passes 3% - gamingonlinux.com 40:00 LLMs show a “highly unreliable” capacity to describe their own internal processes Would you trust a pidgin with a task What are we learning about AI trustworthiness Putting AI in robots AI and Jobs AI hallucinations Increasing percentage of hallucinations Tricking AI models ArsTechnica -- 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 Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard 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 Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies

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 Calibre 8.13 - calibre-ebook.com Squid Proxy 7.2 - github.com Less 685 - greenwoodsoftware.com Digikam 8.8 - digikam.org Gnome 49.1 - gnome.org Thunderbird 144 - thunderbird.net Firefox 144 - firefox.com Zorin OS 18 - zorin.com Tails 7.1 - torproject.org Q3 Malware Index - eweek.com LinkPro Root Kit - thehackernews.com Operation Zero Disco - cyberpress.org F5 Hacked - thehackernews.com EdenSpark - gamingonlinux.com Project CodeGuard - siliconangle.com Coral in SL2610 SoCs - cnx-software.com AI and Cerebral Palsy - globenewswire.com Mysql 9.5.0 - mysql.com SuperTuxKart 1.5 - supertuxkart.net KDE Plasma 6.5 - kde.org Fedora 43 - phoronix.com Zorin saw 300,000 Downloads - reddit.com Qilin Malware - trendmicro.com Lightricks LTX-2 - prnewswire.com MiniMax-M2 - venturebeat.com IBM Mellea - app.daily.dev 90% of Games Run on Linux - tomshardware.com boilingsteam.com 42:55 F5 Breach Claims Nation State Level Attack Effect of Breach Disclosure laws If you can get the info off your system, do so F5 Competitors MetalLB HA Proxy theregister.com 51:05 Proxmox Backup Server DHCP? - David Tiny From the community Proxmox Virtual Enviornment Proxmox Backup Server Use the tailscale IP or DNS Name Proxmox docs -- 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 Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard 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 Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies Special Guest: Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément.

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 Wireshark 4.6 - wireshark.org KDE Frameworks 6.19 - kde.org Qt 6.10 - qt.io 6.16 - kernelnewbies.org NordVPN - techradar.com T2 25.10 - level1techs.com Ubuntu 25.10 - canonical.com Linux Mint LMDE 7 - phoronix.com Winux W10EOL - betanews.com Nezha Gh0st RAT - thehackernews.com Secure Boot Bypass - bleepingcomputer.com ksmbd File System Vulnerability - cyberpress.org Kali Linux 2025.3 Gemini CLI - linkedin.com React Foundation - techzine.eu 11:45 OpenShift vs. Kubernetes Operators - Tiny OpenShift Helm Chart Operators OKD 20:30 Email - JJ_4884 Proton Mail Email aliases Zero inbox Kanban swim lanes Why Steve manages things Fastmail Mail in a Box 46:20 Analog Audio Recordings Saving cassette audio Will you be able to open things in the future? Quality Dual head tape deck -- 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 Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard 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 Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies