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Mike McGrath joins the program and we get an update from Red Hat. This week we dig into week 2 of Steve's Desktop Linux struggle. -- During The Show -- 01:00 Hex OS - Craig Self host Files Pictures Home Assistant Jellyfin Wants a GUI Like the idea of ZFS Snapshots Go simple You should know how to fix things Cockpit 11:25 News Wire Wordpress 6.7 - wordpress.org (https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-6-7/) Postgres 17.1 - postgresql.org (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/17.1/) Peazip 10.1 - github.io (https://peazip.github.io/changelog.html) DigiKam 8.5 - digikam.org (https://www.digikam.org/news/2024-11-16-8.5.0_release_announcement/) Systemd 256.8 - github.com (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/tag/v256.8) Linux 6.12 - lwn.net (https://lwn.net/Articles/997958/) GNU-Linux 6.12 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Linux-Libre-6.12) Quadruple Workqueue Concurrency - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Workqueues) Q4OS 5.7 - q4os.org (https://q4os.org/blog.html) RHEL 9.5 - github.io (https://peazip.github.io/changelog.html) 12:33 Mike McGrath Interview Drama around RHEL source code Fedora and Streams Accelerators How does Red Hat keep up Xorg and Wayland Remote Desktop on Wayland ELS 32bit Package Mode vs Image Mode RHEL AI Low power computers/systems Micro DNF UBI OS Tree Bootstrap/Build kit Red Hat AI Licensing What does open source mean to you? 33:43 Steve's Desktop Adventure Issues with desktop going to sleep Build on your knowledge base NixOS Local Flatpak Cache Flatpak size Ansible Why multiple files Outside and inside chroot Cinnamon Desktop -- 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/416) 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)

Tim Flink, a Senior Quality Engineer from Red Hat joins us to talk about AI on Fedora. This week Noah and Steve talk about their struggles with the Linux Desktop. -- During The Show -- 02:30 Helping a Non-techy friend - Sleuth The plan Locked down second hand Android device Ting Flex plan Tracar (https://www.traccar.org/) JMP.Chat Sim Plan Mint Mobile Steer people away from sms/calls Matrix Telegram etc 08:47 News Wire Calibre 7.21 - calibre-ebook.com (https://download.calibre-ebook.com/7.21.0/) Cmake 3.31 - cmake.org (https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/release/3.31.html) Curl 8.11 - curl.se (https://curl.se/ch/) Scraperr 1.0 - github.com (https://github.com/jaypyles/Scraperr) LXQT 2.1 - lxqt-project.org (https://lxqt-project.org/release/2024/11/05/release-lxqt-2-1-0/) Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 - ubports.com (https://ubports.com/en/blog/ubports-news-1/post/ubuntu-touch-ota-6-focal-release-3942) Debian 12.8 - debian.org (https://www.debian.org/News/2024/20241109) Torvalds 2.6% Performance Patch - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/06/torvalds_patch_linux_performance/) 3800% Performance Improvement - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-3888.9-Performance) CRON#TRAP Malware - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2024/11/new-crontrap-malware-infects-windows-by.html) AMD OLMo LLM - computerworld.com (https://www.computerworld.com/article/3600762/amd-rolls-out-open-source-olmo-llm-to-compete-with-ai-giants.html) 09:58 Tim Flink - Senior Quality Engineer - Red Hat Where should you start with AI? PyTorch (https://pytorch.org/) Orders of magnitude faster on a GPU VRAM is the biggest factor How is Fedora using AI? OpenQA (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenQA) RocM and PyTorch Efforts around packaging Why are you focusing on RocM? Where is a good place to help out? AI/ML SIG (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/AI-ML) Containers coming What does open source mean to you? 22:28 Kubuntu and Docker Broken - Michael Fisher Docker Compose Pastebin (https://pastebin.com/EHa4sHGQ) Docker Logs Pastebin (https://pastebin.com/UWE7Ss1a) Docker internal DNS having issues 24:36 What's the deal with Linux Desktop Environments? Steve's workflow Static vs Dynamic approach How close can I get to immutable with flatpaks Software KVM Synergy (proprietary) Barrior (abandoned) Input Leap (https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap) 3 Monitors, 2 horizontal and 1 vertical KDE hates Steve NVIDIA drivers Why is it so hard to put software in hardware? Ubuntu won't say its up to date because of Ubuntu Pro Can't install LibreOffice on Ubuntu because of Snap All operating systems have issues 45:20 MacOS vs EndlessOS vs Windows 10 Mac Book No working battery Disposable 3+ Hours just to install the OS ThinkPad with EndlessOS Flatpak for Office 365 Windows Can't upgrade to windows 11 Windows 11 requires online account Windows 11 requires TPM chip 2 People both chose the EndlessOS Endless OS No forced updates All the icons right there Open source Allows you to fix things Unix philosophy The answers are there -- 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/415) 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 on Ask Noah we dig into Cosmic desktop and talk about what to do when self hosting goes wrong! -- During The Show -- 01:48 Cosmic Desktop - Dan Cosmic will be the desktop for System76 computers Built for System76 Cosmic DE still Alpha/Beta Been running Cosmic for over a month 07:38 Caller KVM/VirtManager performance Virt IO Drivers Correct ZFS block size for QCOW2 Synchronous vs Non-synchronous writes ZFS Intent Log (SLOG/ZIL) 64k Record size Turn on virtualization in UEFI Enable "write a shift" Check the cables 16:50 Cosmic Desktop - ZFS - Rob Hardware HDD Failure after re-silvering Preventing bit rot 3 disks vs 2 disks ZFS Send/Receive vs Rsync Sanoid (https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid) Limit the bandwidth Total data vs Total Bandwidth Synology is not open source Just install an OS and packages 30:55 Zed Editor Website (https://zed.dev/) Steve uses Nano not Vim or Emacs Thoughts on IDEs? VSCode and VSCodium Electron Lots of extensions Failed to get to the website AI is not appealing Written in Rust Native Linux support 37:41 Steve's Tech failures Nextcloud Collaborative Editing Fighting with Collabra Tried docker and podman Tried bare metal Tried a VM Nextcloud Deck It works Not awesome Colors not working Trello import Frigate took down Home Assistant Frigate filled /tmp and root Hard locked the server Tail Scale on IOS Doesn't work intermittently Do you enjoy fixing problems? Case by case basis Time is the most valuable thing -- 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/414) 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 Robie Basak joins Noah from the Ubuntu Summit and gives an introduction on how to get started contributing to Ubuntu. -- During The Show -- 01:26 HexOS - Craig Start with the Command Line When is a GUI appropriate Start with make a ZFS pool make a samba share Help us understand your goal What is HexOS Ubuntu and ZFS DKMS kABI Advantages of TrueNAS Snapshots Send/Receive 1 Click Re-silvering 17:08 Questions about HDMI switch - Andy Theater Receiver Decimator (https://www.amazon.com/Decimator-DMON-QUAD-SD-SDI-Multi-Viewer-Outputs/dp/B072NGFDMR) 21:14 News Wire SQLite 3.47.0 - sqlite.org (https://sqlite.org/releaselog/3_47_0.html) Peazip 10 - github.io (https://peazip.github.io) Jellyfin 10.10.0 - jellyfin.org (https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-release-10.10.0/) EasyOS 6.4 - puppylinux.com (https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=12973) Gnome 47.1 - gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-47-1-released/24670) Tor Browser 14.0 - torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-140/) AlmaLinux Kitten 10 - almalinux.org (https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-10-22-introducing-almalinux-os-kitten/) Gentoo & DTrace 2.0 - gentoo.org (https://www.gentoo.org/news/2024/10/23/DTrace-for-Gentoo.html) NASA $15.6M Grant for Open Source Tools - spaceanddefense.io (https://spaceanddefense.io/nasa-awards-15-6-million-in-open-source-software-funding/) Open Source Printable Lathe - hackaday.com (https://hackaday.com/2024/10/23/a-3d-printed-open-source-lathe/) Thelio Astra - system76.com (https://system76.com/desktops/thelio-astra) Eight Nvidia High Severity Vulnerabilities - forbes.com (https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2024/10/25/urgent-new-nvidia-security-warning-for-200-million-linux-and-windows-gamers/) OpenSSL 3.4 - github.com (https://github.com/openssl/openssl/releases/tag/openssl-3.4.0) IPS Snort v3.5 - github.com (https://github.com/snort3/snort3/releases) Parrot OS 6.2 - parrotsec.org (https://parrotsec.org/blog/2024-10-23-parrot-6.2-release-notes/) New Granite 3.0 - zdnet.com (https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-doubles-down-on-open-source-ai-with-new-granite-3-0-models/) HUGS - reuters.com (https://www.reuters.com/technology/startup-hugging-face-aims-cut-ai-costs-with-open-source-offering-2024-10-23/) SynthID Now Open Source - theverge.com (https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/23/24277873/google-artificial-intelligence-synthid-watermarking-open-source) Mochi 1 - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/video-ai-startup-genmo-launches-mochi-1-an-open-source-model-to-rival-runway-kling-and-others/) Ubuntu Turns 20 - ubuntu.com (https://ubuntu.com/20years) 23:23 Robie Basak - Ubuntu Technical Council What drew you to Linux? Why did you decide to work for Canonical? What is the Ubuntu Technical Board? Difference between Ubuntu and Canonical The process of granting commit rights Conflict resolution Cloud init Unique ID Ubuntu Summit Range of interaction Membership Board Meeting Full Hour Long Meeting Recording YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/live/pyRcIZskKNE?si=frx3zrPhUoeLrHi8) 43:40 Fedora 41 Fedora 41 available early! New DNF bootc Plasma Mobile Spin (https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-41/) Fedora Magazine (https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-41/) Minisforum v3 (https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-v3?) Steve, Fedora, hardware 50:30 Russian Kernel Maintainers Removed Greg Kroah-Hartman removed them due to "various compliance requirements" Removed developers Russian and not minor contributors We live in a world where decisions are made for political reasons zdnet.com (https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-remove-russian-maintainers-of-linux-kernel-heres-what-torvalds-says/) therecord.media (https://therecord.media/russia-separate-linux-community-kernel-maintainers-delisted) -- 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...

This week Steve gives a deep dive into Widevine Encryption. We love encryption when it protects our data, but what do we do when encryption prevents us from doing the things we want to do over the internet? -- During The Show -- 00:50 Which is easier kids or dogs? 01:57 Succession Planning - Steve Secure vs accessible Steve's plan Infrastructure as code Critical path continuity Nix maintains old packages Techie friends Sleuths setup/plan data separation Noah's plan 20:29 News Wire Solus 4.6 - getsol.us (https://getsol.us/2024/10/14/solus-4-6-released/) Sysvinit 3.11 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/SysVinit-3.11) Calibre 7.20 - calibre-ebook.com (https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new) Ardour 8.10 - ardour.org (https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html) Wine 9.20 - gitlab.winehq.org (https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-9.20) ReiserFS Removed in Linux 6.13 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-To-Drop-ReiserFS) RHEL AI 1.2 - zdnet.com (https://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hat-reveals-major-enhancements-to-red-hat-enterprise-linux-ai/) phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-RHEL-AI-1.2) New Malware Raids ATMs - arstechnica.com (https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/10/north-korean-hackers-use-newly-discovered-linux-malware-to-raid-atms/) Roundcube Webmail Exploit - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-exploit-roundcube-webmail-flaw-to-steal-email-credentials/) Critical Firefox Bug - nvd.nist.gov (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9680) 21:23 Widevine Widevine is DRM created by google Most major streaming services use widevine CDM hardware Levels of Encryption L3 software based, least secure L2 largely not used L1 hardware supported, most secure Wedding photographer Photographer requires no other photos to be taken Photographer goes out of business Dr Phill did a show on it, got the the photos back NVR recordings are going away NVR prevented getting the recording off Devices identify what they are Industry went to STI HD not HDMI Industry moving to NDI OREI HDMI Splitter (https://www.amazon.com/OREI-HDMI-Splitter-Out-Duplicate/dp/B005HXFARS) US law allows you to backup content you own 43:45 Caller Sleuth How do you separate and backup data at Red Hat OADP (https://access.redhat.com/articles/5456281) Depends on the technology 46:46 On Call Article Register Article (https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/18/on_call/) Company didn't pay the bills Wanted things done in a hurry Required past due and current call upfront Router set to factory default After getting back to the office, found out colleague reset router Ethical dilemma Why spend more effort on a non-paying client? -- 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/412) 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 and Steve dig into thoughts for light switches if you're starting from scratch. Do you work in a small closet that's been turned into an IT room? Noah gives you a recommendation for a small portable travel laptop stand. With under a year left to switch to Windows 11, there's a surprise at how many people have yet to upgrade. We talk about why that is. -- During The Show -- 01:07 Caller Would you still go with lutron? ZWave kit GE & Brighton How Noah looks at automation Lutron RA2 (https://www.lutron.com/en-US/products/pages/wholehomesystems/ra2select/overview.aspx) Zwave and Home Assistant Industrial system design Shelly Pro (https://us.shelly.com/collections/all-products?filter.p.m.custom.filter_technology=LAN&filter.v.price.gte=&filter.v.price.lte=) Orbit Panels (https://orbitpanels.com/) 11:26 Journal Block Device not loaded - John May be using a file system with out journalling May be using a file system Lynis can't detect GitHub Issue (https://github.com/CISOfy/lynis/issues/1508) 13:25 Thoughts on AXIS Q9307-LV? - Jeremy All Axis cameras work Frigate NVR & Home Assistant Synology Surveillance Station (https://www.synology.com/en-global/surveillance) ONVIF 18:45 Listener Suggestions for Nextcloud Issues - Joe PHP 8.3 vs 8.2 Disable Nextcloud Talk Check compatibility of apps Browser cache 20:38 New Godot fork - Charlie Redot GitHub (https://github.com/Redot-Engine) Website (https://www.redotengine.org/) Let's see if its successful 23:12 News Wire OpenSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 - opensuse.org (https://get.opensuse.org/leapmicro/6.0/) Leap 16 Development - opensuse.org (https://news.opensuse.org/2024/10/07/leap-16-0-prealpha/) Ubuntu 24.10 - canonical.com (https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-24-10-oracular-oriole) Tails 6.8 & 6.8.1 - torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-6-8-1/) OpenBSD 7.6 - openbsd.org (https://www.openbsd.org/76.html) KDE Turns 28 - kde.org (https://community.kde.org/28th_birthday) KDE Frameworks 6.7.0 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/6/6.7.0/) KDE Plasma 6.2 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.2.0/) Linux 6.10 EOL - endoflife.date (https://endoflife.date/linux) Qt 6.8 LTS - qt.io (https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.8-released) Python 3.13 - awakenerd.com (http://awakenerd.com/2024/10/14/python-3-13-release-an-overview-of-its-major-features/) RPM 4.20 - rpm.org (https://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.20.0) Wayland-protocols 1.38 - freedesktop.org (https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2024-October/043851.html) Distrobox 1.8 - github.com (https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/releases/tag/1.8.0) Inkscape 1.4 - inkscape.org (https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.4/?latest=1) OpenTV 1.0 - github.com (https://github.com/Fredolx/open-tv/releases/tag/v1.0.0) OpenRazer 3.9 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenRazer-3.9-Released) Pyramid Flow - Venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/new-high-quality-ai-video-generator-pyramid-flow-launches-and-its-fully-open-source/) NVLM 1.0 - infoq.com (https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/10/nvlm-nvidia-open-source/) Significant Rise in Malicious Software Components - csoonline.com (https://www.csoonline.com/article/3560646/malicious-open-source-software-packages-have-exploded-in-2024.html) 25:18 Instand Random "IT Rooms" Instand (http://www.instand.com/) Pros and Cons Traveler Guitar (https://travelerguitar.com/) 35:50 Windows 10 EOL In 1 Year MS Requires TPM Chip "Biggest CTRL-ALT-Delete in history" People calling for extending Windows 10 Support Not in the users interest 3 year cycle companies shouldn't have an issue Switch to Linux Steve's thoughts Windows 11 has half the users of Windows 10 Chance to make the case for desktop Linux Take a minute to think The Register (https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/14/final_year_windows_10/?td=rt-3a) -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from...

This week Aaron Prisk and Jason Nucciarone join the program to talk about Ubuntu Summit 2024. We dig into your feedback and talk about the benefits of immutable operating systems. -- During The Show -- 00:55 Intro Steve's WiFi issues Printer issues Nextcloud issues 07:46 Arch and Mandatory Access Control - Baker Why Steve chooses Arch Arch doesn't enable "auditing" in the kernel Other Mandatory Access Control SELinux Will tell you what to do Don't shut it off Permissive Mode Arch is the most "vanilla" distro Things do break in Arch, and other distros Consider Arch 17:42 Printers - Rabin Steve uses Brother printers Till Kamppeter ANS 368 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/368) Buy Brother Use IPP/IPPS 20:56 Charlie Asks The Audience Self Hostable Web based CRM Designed for both IT professionals and tradesmen Can: Assign Staff Assign Jobs List Stock Quote Job/Task Invoice Produce list of stock which is needed to buy as stock is low/empty Easy Appointments (https://easyappointments.org/) InvenTree (https://github.com/inventree/InvenTree) 23:50 News Wire AntiX 23.2 - antixlinux.com (https://antixlinux.com/antix-23-2-released/) Nitrux 3.7 - nxos.org (https://nxos.org/changelog/release-announcement-nitrux-3-7-0/) Qbittorrent 5.0 - qbittorrent.org (https://www.qbittorrent.org/news) Firefox 131 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/131.0/releasenotes/) Network Manager 1.50 - networkmanager.dev (https://networkmanager.dev/blog/networkmanager-1-50/) Ardour 8.8 - ardour.org (https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html) FWUPD 2.0 - github.com (https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/releases/tag/2.0.0) Rocky Linux from CIQ - insidehpc.com (https://insidehpc.com/2024/10/rocky-linux-from-ciq-launched/) Pine64's E-innk Tablet - howtogeek.com (https://www.howtogeek.com/pine64-pinenote-linux-tablet-returns/) Perfctl Malware - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2024/10/new-perfctl-malware-targets-linux.html) Nvidia Open Source AI Model - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/nvidia-just-dropped-a-bombshell-its-new-ai-model-is-open-massive-and-ready-to-rival-gpt-4/) 25:00 Ubuntu Summit Interview Aaron Prisk Jason Nucciarone What is Ubuntu Summit Renamed "Ubuntu Summit" from "Ubuntu Developer Summit" Target audience for Ubuntu Summit Talks about Rust Matthew from Matrix Matrix in Canonical Getting the flavors together Community Teams Ubuntu Summit (https://summit.ubuntu.com/) 45:00 Noah's Imposed Handicap Build service infrastructure Secure enclave Valve heading a specific direction SteamOS is immutable Use Tails for a daily driver Includes basic tools Can update keys Can clone itself Persistent storage Gnome KDE Plasma Everyone should have a Tails drive Endless OS -- 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/410) 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 the Verizon outage. We'll talk about why and how you can host your own communication infrastructure, so an outage is less detrimental to your life! -- During The Show -- 01:35 Notes with sync? - Jou Jou How Steve takes notes Standard Notes (https://app.standardnotes.com/) Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/) Simple Mobile Tools (https://simplemobiletools.com/) Fossify (https://www.fossify.org/apps/) Nextcloud Notes app Collabra 09:12 Listener Reacts To Distros - Aaron Issues with Ubuntu Go for Fedora Endless OS Write in with your Ubuntu issues Mind Drip One Offline Windows Setup (https://docs.minddripone.com/Windows/windows-11-offline-setup/) 15:27 Audio Issues Mixer died Loaner from company Got the board fixed Sample rate changed Sample rate manually fixed and digital recorder back in production 17:48 News Wire Firefox 131 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/131.0/releasenotes/) FFmpeg 7.1 - ffmpeg.org (https://ffmpeg.org) GnuCash 5.9 - gnucash.org (https://www.gnucash.org/news.phtml) Postgres 17.1 - postgresql (https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-17-released-2936/) Winamp Source Code - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/winamp-releases-source-code-asks-for-help-modernizing-the-player/) Liya 2.1 - notebookcheck.net (https://www.notebookcheck.net/Arch-Linux-based-Liya-2-1-rolls-out-with-the-6-11-0-1-kernel.893752.0.html) Arch and Valve Collaboration - lists.archlinux.org (https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.org/thread/RIZSKIBDSLY4S5J2E2STNP5DH4XZGJMR/) Tails and Tor Join Forces - blog.torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/tor-tails-join-forces/) Statial-B - hackaday.com (https://hackaday.com/2024/09/25/the-statial-b-open-source-adjustable-mouse/) Molmo Open Source AI Model - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/ai2s-new-molmo-open-source-ai-models-beat-gpt-4o-claude-on-some-benchmarks/) 18:55 Arch Flatpak Issue Installed Arch, ran the ansible, restored backups Flatpak installs failed Github Issue (https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/5111) Arch Flatpak Fix ``` flatpak remote-delete --force flathub flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo ``` * Let's do a better job 26:10 Verizon Outage No clear communication Speculation abounds No clear ETA for restoration of service Never seen people behave this badly Self Hosted services unaffected Calls and Texts via 3CX and JMP.chat Internal communications over Matrix Companies should self host their own services Communication is changing Master Switch (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/194417/the-master-switch-by-tim-wu/) Steve didn't even notice the outage Other carriers reported issues contacting Verizon customers Don't be a slave to the glowing brick 40:33 Thunderbird on Android Mozilla took over K9 Mail Unified Inbox Still in Beta Asking for feedback Thunderbird Matrix Chat (https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#tb-android:mozilla.org) Thunderbird Blog Post (https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/09/help-us-test-the-thunderbird-for-android-beta/) 46:00 Reproducibility Combinations of packages can be problematic Automation can fail Never will be completely safe Automation can get you a long way NixOS ZFS Snapshots -- 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/409) 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...

We struggled again this week with audio. We appologize for any inconvinence for skipping / low pitched audio This week Steve shares his distro hopping adventures! Noah and Steve are both skating towards the same end goal. They are going about getting there different ways. -- During The Show -- 00:45 Steve's Distro Hopping Steve's distro journey Deepin Desktop vs Deepin Distro Deepin Desktop mix of Gnome and KDE Commercial vs Steve's desktop implementations Unique monitor setup What Noah wants in a computer Reinstall with the niceties Pop!_OS & Cosmic experience Deepin is Chinese Arch & Deepin DE KDE experience KDE can always recover Latte-Dock (https://github.com/KDE/latte-dock) Arch is the nerd safety OS Lots of distros, what's missing 44:00 News Wire SparkyLinux 7.5 - sparkylinux.org (https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-7-5/) ZorinOS 17.2 - zorin.com (https://blog.zorin.com/2024/09/19/zorin-os-17.2-has-landed/) MXLinux 23.4 - mxlinux.org (https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-23-4-libretto-now-available/) Linux Libre 6.11 - lwn.net (https://lwn.net/Articles/990533/) Real-time Linux Officially Mainline - arstechnica.com (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/real-time-linux-is-officially-part-of-the-kernel-after-decades-of-debate/) Gnome 47 - release.gnome.org (https://release.gnome.org/47/) Gnome 46.5 - discourse.gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-46-5-released/23429) Open Source Maintainers Unpaid - cybersecuritydive.com (https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/open-source-maintainers-unpaid-xz-utils/727216/) NSF Initiative - new.nsf.gov (https://new.nsf.gov/tip/updates/nsf-launches-new-initiative-safeguard-open-source-ecosystems) Citrine Sleet Poisons PyPI - darkreading.com (https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/citrine-sleet-poisons-pypi-packages-mac-linux-malware) Void Editor - voideditor.org (https://voideditor.com) omgubuntu.co.uk (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/09/void-editor-open-source-cusor-alternative) Alibaba AI Models - cnbc.com (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/19/alibaba-launches-over-100-new-ai-models-releases-text-to-video-generation.html) Mark Zuckerberg's Goal - businessinsider.com (https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-open-source-ai-platforms-future-competition-apple-llama-2024-9) 46:00 Continuing Camera Discussion - CantankerousAdmin Axis A1001 (https://www.ebay.com/itm/186693503722?) Honeywell's was horrible Newer Axis requires windows Lenels (https://www.lenels2.com/en/security-solutions/access-control/) is the big dog Only for large installs Requires windows Haven't responded to sales inquires Kerisys (https://leviton.com/products/residential/load-centers) is the underdog Requires windows 49:58 Smart Thermostats & Panels - Rob Leviton Load Centers (https://leviton.com/products/residential/load-centers) SPAN Panel (https://www.span.io/panel) Honeywell RedLINK -- 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/408) 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)

AUDIO THIS WEEK HAD A SAMPLE RATE ISSUE. SORRY FOR IN INCONVENIENCE. -- During The Show -- 00:52 Steve's WiFi We think its fixed! Noah brought lots of gear Replaced some hardware 02:41 Recovery after power surge - David Cattle not Pets Steve's Nextcloud experience Noah's laptop approach 09:43 Communications App Upheaval - Charlie There is a war on encrypted messaging Courts are making decisions 12:45 Listener Responses To Listener (cameras in home) - Chris UniFi Wave Pico system 13:51 News Wire AlmaLinux Certification SIG - almalinux.org (https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-09-10-announcing-new-certification-sig/) Wine 9.17 - gitlab.winehq.org (https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-9.17) Samba 4.21 - samba.org (https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.21.0.html) Rust 1.81 - blog.rust-lang.org (https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/09/05/Rust-1.81.0.html) GNU Nano 8.2 - lists.gnu.org (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2024-09/msg00001.html) Firefox 130 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/130.0/releasenotes/) QEMU 9.1 - qemu.org (https://www.qemu.org/2024/09/03/qemu-9-1-0/) Peropesis 2.7 - peropesis.org (https://peropesis.org) RLXOS 2.0 - rlxos.dev (https://blog.rlxos.dev/introducing-rlxos-20-sankalpa) Q4OS Released - q4os.org (https://q4os.org/blog.html) Rust Kernel Support for MIPS - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Linux-Kernel-MIPS-Patches) Linux in Automotive - globenewswire.com (https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/09/10/2943456/0/en/Eclipse-Foundation-Releases-Landmark-Report-on-Open-Source-Software-in-Automotive-Design.html) MX Linux 23.4 - mxlinux.org (https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-23-4-libretto-now-available/) Tails 6.7 - torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-67/) EasyOS 6.3 - bkhome.org (https://www.bkhome.org/news/202409/easyos-scarthgap-series-version-63-released.html) Virtualbox 7.1 - virtualbox.org (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.1) KDE 6.2 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.1.90/) KDE Frameworks 6.6 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/6/6.6.0/) Shotcut 24.09 - shotcut.com (https://shotcut.com/blog/new-release-240913/) Ardour 8.7 - ardour.org (https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html) White House Working Group - govciomedia.com (https://govciomedia.com/feds-prioritize-open-source-software-security-initiatives/) Tidelift Study - businesswire.com (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240917030299/en/Tidelift-Study-Reveals-Paid-Open-Source-Maintainers-Do-Significantly-More-Critical-Security-and-Maintenance-Work-Than-Unpaid-Maintainers) OpenSearch Foundation - techcrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/16/aws-brings-opensearch-under-the-linux-foundation-umbrella/) Hedera - cointelegraph.com (https://cointelegraph.com/news/hedera-linux-foundation-hiero-decentralized-trust) Linux 6.11 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11) MNT Reform Next - arstechnica.com (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/all-open-source-mnt-reform-laptop-is-getting-a-sequel-with-a-refined-design/) Juno Tab 3 - colocrossing.com (https://www.colocrossing.com/blog/introducing-the-juno-tab-3-a-699-linux-tablet-equipped-with-ubuntu-24-04-lts/) Oracle Weblogic Exploited - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2024/09/new-linux-malware-campaign-exploits.html) Advanced materials AI Model - aibusiness.com (https://aibusiness.com/nlp/new-open-source-ai-model-for-advanced-material-design-unveiled) LightEval - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/lighteval-hugging-faces-open-source-solution-to-ais-accountability-problem/) RHEL AI - businesswire.com (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240905544240/en/Red-Hat-Enterprise-Linux-AI-Now-Generally-Available-for-Enterprise-AI-Innovation-in-Production) 17:55 Immich Developer scratches his own itch Immich better than google photos now Google data pull GitHub Script (https://gist.github.com/chabala/22ed01d7acf9ee0de9e3d867133f83fb) * 7z x \*.zip Roadmap...

This week we dig back into home automation, we talk a bit about choosing cameras for a large camera system, and of course we answer your questions! -- During The Show -- 00:52 Intro Home automation Weekend of learning 03:48 Monitoring Remote Location (Cameras) - Rob Powerline adapters might work Ubiquiti Nano Beam Synology Surveillance Station (https://www.synology.com/en-global/surveillance) Frigate Do not put the NVR on the internet Privacy File server upload Home Assistant events 17:18 Camera Systems for Tribal Lands - William NDAA compliant cameras and NVRs ReoLink NVR banned ReoLink Cameras depends - bad idea NDAA compliant brands 360 Vision Technology (360 VTL) Avigilon Axis Communications BCD International Commend FLIR Geutebrück iryx JCI/Tyco Security Mobotix Pelco Rhombus Systems Seek Thermal Solink Vaion/Ava WatchGuard Main 3 NVR in use Exac Vision Avigilon Milestone NDAA conversation Noah's favorites Axis FLIR #### 25:09 Charlie Finds e-ink android - Charlie Boox Palma (https://shop.boox.com/products/palma) Why a camera? Nice for reading Lineage or Graphene will NOT work 27:57 ESPDevices for Light Switches - Avri Shelly's are ESP32 devices Devices can talk to each other 30:00 Beaming podcasts to Volumio and Roku - Tiny Pulse Audio Write in! 31:40 News Wire 4M Linux 46 - opensourcefeed.org (https://www.opensourcefeed.org/4mlinux-46-release/) Debain Bookwork 12.7 - debian.org (https://www.debian.org/News/2024/20240831) Porteus 1.6 - porteus.org (https://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?t=11426) Rhino Linux 2nd Release - itsfoss.com (https://news.itsfoss.com/rhino-linux-2024-2-release/) GNU Screen 5 - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/03/gnu_screen_5/) Wireshark 4.4 - wireshark.org (https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-4.4.0) Bugzilla releases - bugzilla.org (https://www.bugzilla.org/blog/2024/09/03/release-of-bugzilla-5.2-5.0.4.1-and-4.4.14/) Armbian 24.8 - armbian.com (https://www.armbian.com/newsflash/armbian-24-8-yelt/) Elasticsearch and Kibana licensing - businesswire.com (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240829537786/en/Elastic-Announces-Open-Source-License-for-Elasticsearch-and-Kibana-Source-Code) Xe2 Linux Support - wccftech.com (https://wccftech.com/intel-push-out-xe2-graphics-enablement-linux-6-12-kernel/) Cicada3301 - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2024/09/new-rust-based-ransomware-cicada3301.html) New Phi-3.5 AI Models - infoq.com (https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/08/microsoft-phi-3-5/) Open-Source, EU AI Act Compliant LLMs - techzine.eu (https://www.techzine.eu/blogs/privacy-compliance/123863/aleph-alphas-open-source-llms-fully-comply-with-the-ai-act/) View on Why AI Models Should be Open and Free for All - businessinsider.com (https://www.businessinsider.com/anima-anandkumar-ai-climate-change-open-source-caltech-nvidia-2024-8) 33:53 Hoptodesk Comparison to Team Viewer Hoptodesk (https://www.hoptodesk.com/) Free & Open Source Cross platform E2E Encryption Can self host the server Wayland is not officially supported 38:05 EmuDeck ArsTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/08/emudeck-machines-pack-popular-emulation-suite-in-linux-powered-plug-and-play-pc/) Seeking funding Already been doing this on the steamdeck For retro games Drawing unwanted attention Powered by Bazzite 41:05 Home Automation Zwave Great for nerds/tinkering Not for professional installs RadioRA 2 Licensed dedicated frequency Central planning Never had a failure Designed to be integrated Orbit Panels and Shelly Pro Line Game changer 100% reliable People don't want a wall of dimmers Seeed Studio mmWave Sensor (https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/mmwave_human_detection_kit/) I don't like WiFi for automation Steve's experience -- 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/406) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by...

Why do you use Linux? Why do you want to use Linux? This week Noah and Steve dig into their technology past and reflect on why a technologist would choose Linux and Open Source over the proprietary alternatives. -- During The Show -- 01:08 Why I Use Linux - Ryan Opened my eyes Wide open Allows me to choose how to use my computer 02:40 405 Error "Method Not Allowed" DICOM Software requires activation activation server went away Online Game Activation direct to drive companies take the game with them Memories taken Steve's Story Windows put you in a sandbox Linux is nerdy and different Unix philosophy 2 parts Linux and Open Source Reading source code Windows got better then worse 2 main professional automation systems Build systems independently then tie together Ruling things out X10 zigbee Ruled in ZWave Shellys Home Assistant update broke Orbit Panels Breaking the automation network out Shelly integration methods Steve's Parent's Setup RaspberryPi with Home Assistant ESP8266 with door sensor 42:48 News Wire Calligra 4.0 - carlschwan.eu (https://carlschwan.eu/2024/08/27/calligra-office-4.0-is-out/) Calibre 7.17 - calibre-ebook.com (https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new) KDE Gear 24.08 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/gear/24.08.0/) EasyOS 6.2 - notebookcheck.net (https://www.notebookcheck.net/Puppy-Linux-successor-EasyOS-gets-updated-to-version-6-2.877341.0.html) Linux Desktop Share All Time High - tomshardware.com (https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-market-share-approaching-45-for-first-time-could-hit-5-by-1q25) Descent 3 Open Source Engine Release - gamingonlinux.com (https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/descent-3-open-source-project-gets-a-first-release/) NVIDIA 560.35.03 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-560.35.03-Linux-Driver) Arch Install 2.8.3 Adds COSMIC - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-Archinstall-2.8.3) Microsoft Confirms Breaking Linux Dual Boot - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-confirms-august-updates-break-linux-boot-in-dual-boot-systems/) Zen 5 Chip Runs 16% Faster - tomshardware.com (https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/ryzen-9-9950x-runs-16-faster-on-an-intel-optimized-linux-distro) NASA Awards $1.4M - science.nasa.gov (https://science.nasa.gov/open-science/funding-winners-open-source/) Pidgin Keylogger Plugin - pidgin.im (https://pidgin.im/posts/2024-08-malicious-plugin/) Sedexp Malware - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/stealthy-sedexp-linux-malware-evaded-detection-for-two-years/) AI Powered Robots - iotworldtoday.com (https://www.iotworldtoday.com/robotics/open-source-ai-platform-releases-guide-for-low-cost-robotics) Dracarys LLM - venturebeat (https://venturebeat.com/ai/open-source-dracarys-models-ignite-generative-ai-fired-coding/) All Things Open Open Source AI Definition - blog.adafruit.com (https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/08/22/there-is-a-new-draft-of-the-open-source-ai-definition-from-the-open-source-initiative/) Linux turned 33 on August 25th 45:45 Long Term Investment Core business software is built on open source today Being told no is unappealing Being able to fix things Are you controlling the box or is the box controlling you? -- 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/405) 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...

This week Steve gives a deep dive into his adventures with Frigate, an open source NVR software. -- During The Show -- 00:46 Orbit Panels Installed at home First professional install Smart home issues 03:03 Oreon Desktop The Register (https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/20/oreon_lime_desktop_almalinux/) Distro based on Alma Linux Hard to get commercial Linux desktop right Oreon Project (https://oreonproject.org/) Company has support Focus on the desktop Has lots of extra packages/software Focus on stability 10:08 Serpent OS 9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/serpent-os-gears-up-for-alpha-release-enables-framework-13-and-flathub-support) Serpent OS Alpha release Ikey Doherty 11:55 Cosmic OS 9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/system76-launches-pop_os-24-04-lts-with-cosmic-alpha-desktop-environment) Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha release of Cosmic Desktop Built for users System76 Cosmic (https://system76.com/cosmic) Easy to switch between traditional and tiling desktops Give System76 constructive feedback Available for many distros Tool kit is available on Mac and Windows 21:33 Buying/Owning Content ARSTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/redbox-app-starts-going-away-removing-purchased-content-from-owners/) Roku axed Redbox app You don't own anything purchased on a "service" 24:45 Sous Vide Cooker to Charge App is 10 years old Charging a subscription fee Claim is to cover hosting and downloads of the app Why not open source the app/protocol? ARSTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/smart-sous-vide-cooker-to-start-charging-2-month-for-10-year-old-companion-app/) 30:13 News Wire Batocera 40 - gamingonlinux.com (https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/retro-gaming-linux-distribution-batocera-40-released/) Deepin 23 deepin.org (https://www.deepin.org/en/deepin-23-is-officially-released/) TAILS 6.6 - torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-66/) CockroachDB Licensing Change - techcrunch.com (https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/15/cockroach-labs-shakes-up-its-licensing-to-force-bigger-companies-to-pay/) Mesa 24.2.0 - mesa3d.org (https://docs.mesa3d.org/relnotes/24.2.0.html) Gentoo & IA-64 Itanium - Gentoo.org (https://www.gentoo.org/news/2024/08/14/Gentoo-drops-IA-64-support.html) OMI Joined ORGS - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/13/open_model_initiative_linux_foundation/) Hermes 3 - siliconangle.com (https://siliconangle.com/2024/08/15/hermes-3-super-creative-version-open-source-llama-3-1-llm-struggles-inner-conflict/) NeuroTrALE - extremetech.com (https://www.extremetech.com/science/mit-scientists-detangle-the-brain-with-new-open-source-ai) 32:00 Frigate Make Good Mostly user error h.265 vs h.264 New release 0.14 complete rewrite of the UI User permissions exist now! Got a response on Github! 6 cameras plus a doorbell RioLink HA plugin did magic Moved from HA to Ryzen 1700 Power usage in HA vs Baremetal+GPU Network load Now up to 125 watts 5 disks 64 GB of RAM Tying into Home Assistant Open Source taking over proprietary Documentation Getting things "dialed in" Passing on "tribal knowledge" Calculating RAM usage Predicts disk usage Don't put it on the same box as 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 (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/404) 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!...

What if you could control your lights, music, and other Home Assistant things from a panel on your wall? Do you run tech at your church and need the ability to deliver controls in a way, in a location, and with a budget that's approachable for everyone? This week, Thomas Kvamme from Orbit Panels joins Noah and Steve to discuss his new in wall PoE control panels based on the Raspberry Pi, Streamdeck, and Bitfocus Companion! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Nice weather Little projects 01:45 Orbit Panels Thomas Kvamme - Owner and founder Why are you in ministry? Life before the stream deck StreamDeck (https://www.elgato.com/us/en/s/welcome-to-stream-deck) Bitfocus Companion (https://bitfocus.io/companion) List of Bitfocus Companion Integrations (https://bitfocus.io/connections) Bitfocus Companion Satellite (https://bitfocus.io/companion-satellite) Proprietary alternatives Origin of Orbit Panels Orbit Panels (https://orbitpanels.com/) Drop in replacement Design of the Orbit Panel Building an Orbit Panel How people use the Orbit Panels Home Assistant Integration Feedback on the panel Whats next? Available for sale! Use promo code LAUNCH for 10% off 45:00 News Wire Firefox 129 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/129.0/releasenotes/) Wine 9.15 - gitlab.winehq.org (https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-9.15) KDE Frameworks 6.5.0 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/6/6.5.0/) Gnome 46.4 - discourse.gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-46-4-released/22718) PopOS! 24.04 - omgubuntu.co.uk (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/07/pop_os-24-04-alpha-with-cosmic-drops-on-august-8) OpenZFS 2.2.5 - github.com (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases) ZLUDA Take Down - wccftech.com (https://wccftech.com/zluda-open-source-library-nvidia-cuda-on-amd-gpus-taken-down-amid-legal-concerns/) DHS & White House $11M Partnership - therecord.media (https://therecord.media/open-source-software-security-white-house-dhs-11million-funding) TUXEDO Infinity Flex 14 - tuxedocomputers.com (https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-InfinityFlex-14-Gen1) CA AI Bill - reason.com (https://reason.com/2024/08/13/californias-ai-bill-threatens-to-derail-open-source-innovation/) Kernel Patch Boots Linux Faster - tomshardware.com (https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-boot-time-reduced-by-0035-seconds-thanks-to-a-one-line-kernel-patch) 46:32 SimpleHelp - Brandon Tailscale/Headscale WireGuard RDP + VPN Simple Help instant support Proprietary is a place holder Mesh Central (https://github.com/Ylianst/MeshCentral) 49:09 Linphone SMS & VPN Question - Kris Google requirement is to support RCS Steve holding on 2.22.31 JMP.chat (https://jmp.chat/) Matrix and SMS Route back to home OpenVPN TailScale WireGuard SurfShark Private Internet Access (https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/) Host your own VPN on a VPS -- 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/403) 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: Thomas Kvamme.

This week we dig into Steve's home assistant migration. We take your questions on how to get started with AI, a self hosted email horror story, and more Harbor Freight. -- During The Show -- 01:25 OpenSource AI - Craig Defining "open source AI" is hard Local Offline Generative AI on Linux - Part 1 : TextGen (https://peertube.tv/w/48EvS3Y1gJz5c9vHiZF8Ya) Local Offline Generative AI on Linux - Part 2 : ImageGen (https://peertube.tv/w/ko1LUdcrZqLmEQZkyy3cN2) The Artifical Dominion Matrix Chat (https://matrix.to/#/#TheArtificalDominion:matrix.org) What do you want to learn? LM Studio (https://lmstudio.ai/) GPT4ALL (https://flathub.org/apps/io.gpt4all.gpt4all) Haven't found a "safe for work" visual AI Glue cheese Stable Diffusion morality filter 10:50 Self Hosted Email Story - Yassine Noah is still gun shy on self hosted email 14:24 Security and Calendaring - Dan VPN back in 3rd party brokers Synology Surveillance Station (https://www.synology.com/en-global/surveillance) WireGuard Punch a hole in the firewall Dangers of punching a hole CalDav (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalDAV) Proton Mail calendar Nextcloud calendar Home Assistant calendar Radicale (https://radicale.org/v3.html) 28:51 Harbour Freight - Hank Snap-on feedback Mechanic vs DIY Still making hobo freight argument 31:51 Android Alternatives - Jayden Sailfish OS (https://sailfishos.org/) Ente Auth (https://github.com/ente-io/ente/blob/main/auth/README.md) Cross-platform Better than Authy e/os or Murena (https://murena.com/) 36:56 News Wire LANL Fierro - ladailypost.com (https://ladailypost.com/lanl-new-open-source-code-fierro-improves-safety-and-performance-of-manufactured-parts/) Aloha Browser - accesswire.com (https://www.accesswire.com/894895/aloha-a-privacy-first-browser-goes-open-source) GCC 14.2 - gnu.org (https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-14/) GNU Binutils 2.43 - lwn.net (https://lwn.net/Articles/984539/) Peazip 9.9 - peazip.github.io (https://peazip.github.io/changelog.html) Firefox 129 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/129.0/releasenotes/) Amarok 3.1 - kde.org (https://blogs.kde.org/2024/08/02/amarok-3.1-tricks-of-the-light-released/) Azure Linux 3.0 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Azure-Linux-3.0-GA) Serpent OS Pre-Alpha - serpentos.com (https://serpentos.com/blog/2024/08/01/serpent-os-prealpha0-released/) Nitrux 3.6 - sourceforge (https://sourceforge.net/projects/nitruxos/files/Release/ISO/) Linux 6.9 EOL - lwn.net (https://lwn.net/Articles/983790/) SLUBStick - securityweek.com (https://www.securityweek.com/new-slubstick-attack-makes-linux-kernel-vulnerabilities-more-dangerous/) DEV#POPPER - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2024/07/north-korea-linked-malware-targets.html) TgRat - scmagazine.com (https://www.scmagazine.com/brief/updated-tgrat-trojan-sets-sights-on-linux-servers) RayV Lite - tomshardware (https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/hackers-hope-to-democratize-laser-based-processor-hacking-dollar500-rayv-lite-relies-on-3d-printing-a-laser-pen-and-a-raspberry-pi-to-bring-costs-down) DCLM on HugginFace - computerworld.com (https://www.computerworld.com/article/3475866/apple-ships-truly-open-source-ai-models.html) Flux - decrypt.co (https://decrypt.co/242822/flux-ai-image-generator-review-midjourney-sd3-auraflow) 39:45 Secure Boot 100s of PCs sold with 12yr old and compromised platform keys Can see the use case threat model Locking subsidized hardware Technical merits vs implementation Key management stalkware breach theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/29/infosec_roundup/?td=rt-3a) 52:56 Home Assistant Migration Worried about thermals Critical Steve's kid gets clever Home Assistant notifies based on MAC address Noah's ethernet bathroom adventures Migrating Home Assistant Benchmarking Operating system choice Networking RHEL faster and more power efficient Home Assistant notifications 1:10:30 Frigate Frigate NVR (https://frigate.video/) Always on recording Documentation is...

This week Steve returns and we dig into your feedback! Kenny joins the program and shares his horror story in the continuing saga of buying and owning tools that you can rely on, authy is going away for GrapheneOS users, what's the best way to handle 2fa on GrapheneOS? -- During The Show -- 01:00 Steve's Crowdstrike Fall Out Waited 10+ hours at the airport Stream of ppl to wait with Steve's restraunt tangent Too much homogeneous systems Windows 3.1 meme Lost sight of critical paths 08:40 Netbox Feedback - bloominstrong Excited about the product Struggle to get things in Struggle to get things out Always plan how to get things out 11:35 Why I Use Linux - Jeremey Free Secure Flexible 12:20 decloudus.com - Jason 2 versions of the S10 Noah's phone plan GrapheneOS requires a chip in Pixels Noah's Dad on GrapheneOS Authy on GrapheneOS Bitwarden 2FA Dark open island 22:55 Caller Chris from Canada Moving from MBR to UEFI Linux Mint backup tool Cowboy approach Install apps Transfer home directory When to use the latest release Keeping computers synced? Nextcloud (https://nextcloud.com/) Seafile (https://www.seafile.com/) Syncthing (https://syncthing.net/) 34:12 News Wire Deepin 20.9 - Deepin (https://www.deepin.org/en/deepin-20-9-is-officially-released/) Vanilla OS 2 - VanillaOS (https://vanillaos.org/blog/article/2024-07-28/vanilla-os-2-orchid---stable-release) Linux Mint 22 - Linux Mint (https://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=316) Wine 9.14 - WineHQ (https://www.winehq.org/news/2024072801) IDE Qt Creator 14.0 - QT (https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-14-released) Git 2.46 - GitHub (https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/RelNotes/2.46.0.txt) SysVInit - GitHub (https://github.com/slicer69/sysvinit/releases/tag/3.10) TinyWatch S3 - CNX Software (https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/07/25/tinywatch-s3-is-an-open-source-customizable-smartwatch-powered-by-esp32-s3-soc/) White House on AI - ABC News (https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/white-house-restrict-open-source-artificial-intelligence-now-112389860) NIST AI Safety Platform - SC Magazine (https://www.scmagazine.com/news/nist-releases-open-source-platform-for-ai-safety-testing) 35:10 "Hobo Freight" Kenny Schmidt 3 tools broke Glad some tools where cheap Repeat tools Impact of breakage on the job Watch the warranties Wouldn't buy a second time More caution at harbor freight Dead blow hammer LubeLogger (https://lubelogger.com/) Keeps the economy going -- 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/401) 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 takes you through what happened with the Crowdstrike incident, and how you could prevent a similar catastrophe with free and open source software. System76 announces a release date for Cosmic DE alpha. The Immich team is. -- During The Show -- Crowd Strike Outage Caused by defective update Affected all Windows computers 8.5 Million Windows machines rendered unusable Flights grounded Entire health care sectors shut down Kernel vs User mode WHQL Certification Crowd Strike had a WHQL Certification Anti-virus Extended Detection and Response (XDR) and/or anticipated threat detection Channel Files Microsoft could have provided an API EU requires Microsoft to provide the same access Windows No checks on the channel file Crowd Strike Falcon set as "boot-start driver" April 21st 2010 McAfee deleted svchost.exe George Kurtz CEO at both McAfee and Crowd Strike during the incidents Handing off risk/PCI We understand less and less Understand your critical paths and have a back up Hair shop "crash kit" Cold spare emergency laptops/servers Test on small set up machines then deploy Don't push to prod on Friday Keeping up to date is the best defense Have a roll back plan USE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE Linux Crash Restoration (The Register) (https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/21/crowdstrike_linux_crashes_restoration_tools/) SystemD Automatic Boot Assessment Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-Auto-Boot-Assessment) Wazuh Post (https://wazuh.com/blog/crowdstrike-bsod-incident-and-how-wazuh-avoids-similar-risks/) LibreNMS (https://www.librenms.org/) CISA.gov (https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/07/19/widespread-it-outage-due-crowdstrike-update) Tech Crunch (https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/19/what-we-know-about-crowdstrikes-update-fail-thats-causing-global-outages-and-travel-chaos/) 38:18 News Wire Linux Mint 22 - ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-mint-22-is-official-heres-whats-new-and-how-to-try-it-for-yourself/) OpenMandriva 24.07 - OpenMandriva.org (https://www.openmandriva.org/en/news/article/openmandriva-rome-24-07-released) KaOS Linux 2024.07 - kaosx.us (https://kaosx.us/news/2024/kaos07/) EXT4 Optimizations - Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-EXT4) Open Source GPU Drivers - ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/nvidia-finally-open-sources-some-of-its-gpu-drivers-how-to-tell-whats-under-your-hood/) Switzerland Requires Open Source - ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/switzerland-now-requires-all-government-software-to-be-open-source/) AI Model Rivaling OpenAI and Google - Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/23/meta-new-ai-llama-open/) Groq's Llama AI Tops Leader Board - Venturebeat (https://venturebeat.com/ai/groq-open-source-llama-ai-model-tops-leaderboard-outperforming-gpt-4o-and-claude-in-function-calling/) 39:25 System76 Cosmic Alpha Release August 8th What other company is focused on the Linux desktop? System76 decided to make their own desktop, Cosmic Constant friction if forking another DE Clean slate approach System76 survey System76 has been dog fooding Modular design Enabling "desktop experiences" Try Cosmic and give polite productive feedback System76 Transmission Log EP 10 (https://system76.transistor.fm/10) 48:52 Immich New License Individual $24.99 Server $99.99 Immich came from a developer who wanted to replace Google Photos Experience is better than Google Photos now FUTO (https://futo.org/) grant allows full time development Go fund open source -- 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/400) 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...

This week Dan Noal Director, Product Management at Red Hat for In Vehicle OS joins us to tell you why your car needs and operating system, and why Red Hat is ready to meet that need. Chris Wright the CTO of Red Hat joins the program to discuss Red Hat's strategy for AI. -- 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/396) 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 Mauro Gaspari and Lukas Märdian join us to give us a deep dive into using Netplan on an Ubuntu vHost. We give you a self hosted way to track your car's maintenance, and a suite of tools to use if you work in production or in live performances! -- During The Show -- 00:40 Cosmic Desktop Started with Elementary OS External displays Cosmic is a complete remake Cosmic splits the difference i3 shortcuts Releasing this fall 07:30 3CX vs Asterisk - jisbetterthanj 3CX 20 stamps out all open source clients Have you opened Asterisk to the internet? Write in about your open source VOIP experiences 10:18 Steve VPN Split VPN issues Guide followed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulRgecz0UsQ) 12:00 Vehicle Regulations Legislation requiring things Manufactures making it harder to work on vehicles Advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology Automatic Shutoff Technology (HR 3684 Section 24205) LubeLogger (https://lubelogger.com/) LubeLogger YouTube Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thqo_mm7iUQ) 19:51 News Wire New Gnome Font - OMG Linux (https://www.omglinux.com/gnome-may-switch-to-inter-font/) Firefox 128 - Mozilla (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/128.0/releasenotes/) Finnix 126 - Finnix (https://blog.finnix.org/2024/07/04/finnix-126-released/) Cmake 3.30 - Cmake.org (https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/release/3.30.html) GnuCash 5.8 - GnuCash (https://www.gnucash.org/news.phtml) OpenSSH Vulnerability - Marc.info (https://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=172045570013195&w=2) Eldorado Ransomware - Tha Hacker News (https://thehackernews.com/2024/07/new-ransomware-as-service-eldorado.html) Gogs Flaws - The Hacker News (https://thehackernews.com/2024/07/critical-vulnerabilities-disclosed-in.html) Hot Plugging RAM - Toms Hardware (https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/risc-v-chips-will-support-replacing-ram-sticks-without-powering-off-the-system-hot-plugging-functionality-arriving-in-newer-flavors-of-linux) Monocle - Help Net Security (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/07/08/monocle-open-source-llm-binary-analysis-search/) Multi-Token Prediction Models - Silicon Angle (https://siliconangle.com/2024/07/04/meta-open-sources-new-multi-token-prediction-language-models/) RTX Remix Rest API - Toms Hardware (https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-rtx-remix-goes-open-source) 21:35 NetPlan Mauro Gaspari Lukas Märdian - NetPlan Maintainer Bridging libvirt with NetPlan Special thanks to Lukas Märdian Danilo Egea Gondolfo Robert Krátký 3 Scenerios Single host, single NIC with bridge (https://netplan.readthedocs.io/en/latest/single-nic-vm-host/) Single host, single NIC, with VLANs and bridges (https://netplan.readthedocs.io/en/latest/single-nic-vm-host-with-vlans/) Single host, multiple NICs, with bonding, VLANs, and bridges (https://netplan.readthedocs.io/en/latest/multi-nic-vm-host-with-bonds-and-vlans/) NetPlan Why it exists What it is Where and how is it used Canonical Open Documentation Academy (https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/about-the-open-documentation-academy/39615) You can contribute with out knowing code or command line 40:00 Stage Hacks Stage Hacks.com (https://www.stagehacks.com/) VDO Ninja (https://vdo.ninja/) Tally Arbiter (http://tallyarbiter.com/) OnTime (https://www.getontime.no/) StageTimer.io (https://stagetimer.io/) Dicaffine (https://dicaffeine.com/) NDI streamer for Linux HX and restreaming via RTMP Donations welcome DeckRack mounting hardware for Stream Decks Docs site Exploring the network Sound reference Cabling and more Production has unique technology challenges -- 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/398) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix...

Why do you use Linux and what problems do you run into? Both Noah and Steve make a value based decision when approaching tech, this week we dig deeper into why we choose to run Linux on the desktop. Could you power a 12v light, or 100 watt Ham Radio with a USB-C battery pack? Noah will tell you how doing so gave him light in his garage. Buckle your seat-belt, it's a packed show! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Deepin Desktop Why do we run what we run Ownership of skills and resources 3 Categories Disposable Service Owned Linux is the only OS that allows you to own your computer Main stream wants "IT as a service" Why are you using Linux? 08:50 Alternative Phone OS - Don ATT installed apps GrapheneOS (https://grapheneos.org/) Used to rough edges App issues SeLinux ANS 368 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/368) GrapheneOS privacy features LineageOS (https://lineageos.org/) 15:38 ProxMox and OPNSense Passing the NIC solves the problem 16:39 Protecting Hard drives (encryption?) - Markus LUKS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Unified_Key_Setup) Key can be separated from the drive Layered encryption ZFS encryption GPG 20:23 Generating Your Own Power - Jim Pedal power Favorite feedback yet 22:22 Generating Your Own Power - Jim Dry contact 2 ways Shellys work CHECK YOUR MANUAL Typical wiring 27:30 Steve's Home Automation failure What do you do when critical automations fail 2.4 GHz WiFi keeps dropping Reach out to community/someone smarter Have a "fallback" Everything operates independently Home Assistant "stitches it all together" 31:30 News Wire Debian 12.6 - Debian (https://www.debian.org/News/2024/20240629) Plasma 6.1 on Endeavor OS - EndeavorOS (https://endeavouros.com/news/our-fifth-anniversary-the-return-of-arm-and-the-endeavour-release-with-plasma-6-1-is-here/) Leap Micro 6.0 - openSUSE (https://news.opensuse.org/2024/06/25/leap-micro-60-availability/) Pipewire 1.2 - freedesktop.org (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/releases) OpenShot 3.2 OpenShot (https://www.openshot.org/blog/2024/06/24/new_openshot_release_320/) Wine 9.12 - WineHQ.org (https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-9.12) WSL2 Upgraded to Linux 6.6 - Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-WSL2-Linux-6.6-Kernel) SSHD Vulnerability - Developer-Tech.com (https://www.developer-tech.com/news/2024/jul/01/critical-openssh-vulnerability-threatens-millions-linux-systems/) CocoaPods Vulnerability - PC Mag (https://www.pcmag.com/news/flaws-in-open-source-software-exposed-almost-every-apple-device-to-hacking) Memory Unsafe Code - Tech Republic (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/open-source-projects-memory-unsafe-code-cisa/) Ladybird Browser - Ladybird (https://ladybird.org/announcement.html) 33:22 Owning USB-C Power Noah's garage light M4 LEDs (https://m4products.com/) Designed to be left on High quality chips 10-30v USA Warranty INIU Powerbank (https://www.amazon.com/INIU-27000mAh-Capacity-Powerbank-Compatible/dp/B0CB1FWNMK) 12v trigger (https://www.amazon.com/AITRIP-Charging-Trigger-Detector-Terminal/dp/B098WPSMV9) 38:08 Supreme Court Decision Texas and Florida laws challenged Art Gallery comparison Supreme Court (https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-277_d18f.pdf) You are either responsible or not Moderation Violation of law vs Editorial Write in, what do you think? Network effect The Register (https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/01/supreme_court_social_media/?td=rt-3a) 49:30 Chevron Case 40 year precedent reversed The Register (https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/01/supreme_court_social_media/?td=rt-3a) 51:40 Element X Sign in via QR code Biggest PITA & Blessing True E2EE -- 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/397) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom...