• 53 minutes 54 seconds
    Episode 501: Ask Noah Show 501

    Check out the second installment of our new segment "Steve Scale" as Steve digs into the Ovens family distro. What is BootC and why does he use it? LG is pushing ads to your monitor, and we introduce you to CachyOS.

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    00:48 Tech Updates

    • Oven's standard public build
    • Upstream BootC breakage & recovery
    • Static vs Rolling
    • Best way forward
    • A/B Scheme
    • Method of recovery
    • Container Registry
    • Container layers
    • Noah's new technology phases
    • Would Steve move away from Arch?
    • How work load changes workstation requirements
    • Flameshot

    29:30 BootC - Adam

    • Not public yet
    • Docs Site
    • Let Steve know what you are looking for
    • Balancing privacy and openness
    • Securely sanitizing PII from docs
    • Documentation pipeline
    • The other side of documentation
    • Tell us if you want to hear about documentation

    41:20 News Wire

    42:38 LG Monitor Ads

    • MS Update installs LG bloatware ads
    • Monitor prices dropped
    • Known affected models
      • 34GX900A-B
      • 45GX950-B.AEU
      • 32GS95UE-B
      • 39GX950B
      • 27GP83B-B
      • 27GN800
      • 32GS95UE-B
      • 27GN850-B
    • Linux was unaffected
    • Possible on Linux with proprietary software
    • ArsTechnica

    47:50 CachyOS

    • Gentoo meets Arch
    • Targeted towards modern hardware
    • LTO and BOLT
    • Advantage of custom Linux Kernel
    • Kernel scheduler
    • Zen 4 optimization
    • Hyperland
    • My Linux for Work GitHub
    • 9 to 5 Linux

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    26 August 2026, 12:00 am
  • 58 minutes 41 seconds
    Ask Noah Show 500

    We're back!! After a brief hiatus we're live from the Tamarack Tap Room in Woodbury MN! We celebrate and record the 500th episode of the Ask Noah Show. We talk about what's gone well, and where we think we can improve. After 235 episodes, Steve finally gets his own segment! This is an episode you don't want to miss.

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    00:25 Intro

    • Live from the Taproom
    • Why the Taproom
    • Tell us what you want the show to be!

    02:00 Monitors

    • How big is too big
    • Multi monitor or Ultrawide
    • Linking monitors
    • Display port over thunderbolt

    06:30 Steve Scale

    • How tech functions large scale
    • Ovens data center
      • IPMI boards
      • HP ProLiant Servers Gen9
      • Supermicro boards
    • Work lab is off most of the time
    • Virtualization
    • Deciding what goes where
    • Containers
    • What is in the home lab
    • User facing vs "backend"
    • Don't enjoy changing workflows
    • Silverblue and BootC
    • Scratching an itch
    • Planning vs get started
    • Why do you do it?

    25:55 Jeremy

    • Positivity
    • Steve and Noah's positivity
    • We need you to be critical
    • We need feedback

    29:45 News Wire

    30:50 Desktop or Laptop

    • Why desktop
    • Building the workstation into the desk
    • Graphics card with Thunderbolt dock
    • Cable management
    • Separating the desk from the computer
    • Accessing things over the internet
    • Minddripone.com

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    5 August 2026, 1:00 am
  • 58 minutes 18 seconds
    Ask Noah Show 499

    Join us next week for the recording of episode of 500. We'll be live from the Tamarack Tap Room at 6pm next Tuesday Aug 4th. This week we talk about Steve building a custom distro for his house with BootC!

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    00:45 Intro

    • Time snark
    • Lots done in the studio

    01:55

    • Tamark Taproom in Woodbury MN
    • Big Thank You to the venue
    • Aug 4 17:30
    • Uncomfortable Man hugs available

    03:25 Oven's Project

    • Lots of computers in the Oven's house
    • Outgrown imutable OS
    • NixOS was considered
    • Looked to sharpen both home and industry skills
    • Wide domain knowledge
    • BootC and Fedora CoreOS
    • Printer drivers
    • Testing and working out the bugs
    • The process
    • Special snowflake computer
    • What is BootC
    • Automating the process
    • SilverBlue issues
    • Zero touch config
    • Problems
    • Picking a distro
    • Encryption
    • "Day 2"
    • Staging machine
    • Take-aways

    36:55 News Wire

    39:35 Noah's Framwork

    • Noah's change in mindset
    • Buying new doesn't save much
    • 13 Pro on the way
    • Many but not all new parts interchangeable with original Framework 13
    • Screen aspect ratio
    • Framework has been consistant
    • LPCAMM2 RAM
    • Life of laptops

    51:10 Activist Charged with Felony

    • CBP Agent entered Duress code into GrapheneOS phone
    • Wiped the encryption key, effectively wiping the device
    • Activist charged with a Felony
    • Successfully thwarted the government
    • Question to the audiance
    • ArsTechnica
    • The Guardian

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    29 July 2026, 1:00 am
  • 49 minutes 56 seconds
    Ask Noah Show 498

    This week we interview Avri Chen-Roth and he gives us an overview of Pocket ID! We give you the details on our upcoming Episode 500 party in the Minneapolis / St.Paul area on Tuesday August 4th 2026!

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    00:50 Up Coming on the Show

    • ANS on the air 9 years
    • Studio is all Linux
    • Telos Axia Board
      • Runs Linux
      • Moved from hardware to docker
    • Lost art of leveraging technology
    • "Glowing Box Stores"
    • Growing the show
    • Episode 500 in MN St Paul
    • Show is taking a pause

    12:22 Avri Chen-Roth Interview

    • PocketID and OpenID Connect
    • Home lab authentication problem
    • Commercial solutions largely PAAS
    • LDAP and Active Directory
    • OpenID Connect
    • Apps don't save credentials
    • New open source standard
    • Compatible with large service providers
    • Passkeys
    • Storing passkeys
    • Why PocketID?
    • Setting up PocketID
    • On boarding PocketID
    • Converting existing accounts to PocketID
    • Groups
    • OAuth 2.0
    • WebAuthn
    • LDAP Sync

    41:10 Retired Phone Computing

    • What to do with old cellphones
    • Using old phones for cluster compute
    • Thermal runaway
    • Major challenge is distributing the load
    • Getting Linux on the phones
    • research.google

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  • 53 minutes 51 seconds
    Ask Noah Show 497

    This week the boys are back at home and talk about the latest changes with coming down the line with Roku. Your questions as always go to the front of the line.

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    00:50 Intro

    • AI doesn't make less work
    • Multitasking

    03:50 Reolink Wifi Door Bell - Mike

    • Facial Recognition

    08:45 Door Bells - John

    11:10 Cameras and things - xhat

    • Block cameras at the firewall
    • Updates via Home Assistant

    13:00 Feedback

    • Please write in!
    • Rising tide lifts all boats
    • Email or call in

    14:06 Roku Story

    31:50 Fedora Silverblue

    • Portable laptop
    • Switching OSTrees
    • Budgie Desktop
    • Tweaking Fedora Atomic
    • Domain knowledge transfer
    • Leveraging automation
    • Replacing EndlessOS
    • Variety of OS
    • ZFS Boot manager
    • BMC IPMI
    • PiKVM
    • ASROCK Motherboards

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  • 55 minutes 25 seconds
    Episode 496: Ask Noah Show 496 | Live from SELF 2026

    This week we are live from SELF! THE Alan Hicks joins the program and we talk Ai!

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    14 June 2026, 1:00 am
  • 52 minutes 51 seconds
    Ask Noah Show 495

    This week Noah and Steve talk about why they'll be at Southeast Linuxfest. Noah introduces everyone to the Ai embedded in his rental car, and the boys finally find a Z-Wave thermostat!

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    00:50 Intro

    • When AI can be good
    • Conversing with AI
    • Varying AI model quality
    • Creativity and AI
    • Prompt engineering
    • Write into the show about AI
    • Accelerator for people already have a base skill

    10:00 SELF and Picking Conferences

    • Self is this Weekend
    • Please come to SELF
    • Really use help Wednesday
    • New Venue
    • Why go to SELF
    • Conference size
    • Watch for the ANS meetup

    15:55 Door bells - Ziggy

    22:15 Thermostats - Tim

    • RadioThermostat CT50
    • Honeywell T6 Pro Z-Wave Programmable Thermostat (Model TH6320ZW2007)

    25:30 UL Listed

    • UL, ETL, CE certification
    • European way of doing things
    • UL508A
    • Gosund Wo1 Tuya smart outlet

    30:00 AI in Cars

    • AI built into rental
    • Noah's AI experience
    • AI Audio clips
    • AI engages with you
    • Safety concerns
    • Possibility of latent functionality

    40:20 Age Verification

    • California's Digital Age Assurance Act
    • Open Source getting a pass in CA and CO
    • Privacy trade offs
    • Pattern of freedom and contraction
    • ItsFoss

    48:00 OpenAI IPO

    • Large evaluations
    • Fundraising with out fundraising
    • May be a cash out move
    • Going public "opens the books"
    • CNBC

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    10 June 2026, 3:00 am
  • 1 hour 5 minutes
    Episode 494: Ask Noah Show 494

    This week Mike McGrath from Red Hat joins us to talk about using Red Hat to talk about the relationship RHEL and their up-streams.

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    00:45 Intro

    • IT at home
    • Wrangling home "data center"
    • Noah's old strategy
    • Shoe makers kids have no shoes
    • Snowballing tech
    • Backups - pull vs push
    • Making things modular

    11:10 Interesting Tech - Carey

    22:30 Shelly Devices and UL rated - Mike

    • UL Ratings
    • Pay attention to what you buy
    • Many Shelly devices are UL listed
    • UL listed Shelly devices are ~20% more expensive
    • "Harbor Freight" answer

    28:30 Red Hat Vulnerabilities

    • Discovered and locked down in a few hours
    • Assume breach, change everything
    • Has worm like functionality
    • Bypassed 2FA
    • Multiple persistence methods
    • Heavily obfuscated
    • stepsecurity.io

    36:45 Interview Mike McGrath

    • Mike McGrath - Vice President, Core Platforms
    • RHEL AI vs OpenShift AI
    • What did Red Hat get wrong and right over the last few years
    • Is AI a threat to open source?
    • Does going closed source actually solve anything?
    • CVEs
    • Mechanisms for community influence on RHEL
    • What are RHEL security best practices?
      • Quantum safe encryption
      • Install as little as possible
    • Image mode
    • Project Hummingbird
    • RHEL Forever
    • CentOS Stream and RHEL
    • What is an upside of CentOS Stream?

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  • 53 minutes 51 seconds
    Ask Noah Show 493

    This week Sathish Balakrishnan from Red Hat joins us to talk about using Ansible as the trusted execution layer for automation. Jef Spaleta joins to give us an update on Fedora! It's a packed episode.

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    00:50 ReCaptcha

    09:20 Jef Spaleta

    • Jef Spaleta
    • Fedora Project Leader at Red Hat
    • What is Fedora
    • Governance
    • Integrating
    • New Contributors
    • Jef's path into Linux
    • Fedora AI Policy
    • AI assisted workflow
    • Future of AI and Agentic
    • Space for enthusiasm

    31:24 News Wire

    32:42 Meta E2E Messages

    • Texas Attorney General sued Meta
    • Could "taint" perception of other E2EE
    • Unlikely companies will give you true privacy
    • ArsTechnica

    36:30 Sathish Balakrishnan

    • Vice President and General Manager, Ansible Business Unit, Red Hat
    • Benefits of Ansible
    • Ansible as Trusted Execution Layer
    • Balancing understanding
    • Guide rails for AI
    • Drag and Drop AI Ansible workflow
    • Patching is no longer optional
    • What do you want all new Ansible users to know?
    • Everything must be automated

    52:15 Feedback

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  • 55 minutes 17 seconds
    Ask Noah Show 492

    This week Sachin Mullick, Senior Manager, Product Management, joins the program and we talk about OpenShift Virtualization.

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    14:00 Thermostats - Marc

    25:40 Tailscale - Feydr

    • How do you access your LAN with no exit node?

    27:11 News Wire

    28:54 Sachin Mullick Interview

    53:00 Dory

    • eInk Signs
    • Won't be bricked if company goes under
    • ArsTechnica

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  • 43 minutes 46 seconds
    Ask Noah Show 491

    Noah and Steve are at Red Hat Summit 2026! We talk to Stefanie Chiras to talk about her new role as Senior Vice President of the AI Innovation Hub. She leads Red Hat's strategy for engaging with and catalyzing regional AI ecosystems.

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    00:50 Intro

    • Live from Summit in Georgia
    • Interviews

    02:30 Lets Encrypt Changes - Charlie

    • Certificate's going to 45 Days
    • Window is likely to decrease

    05:40 Follow up on getting into system - Advait

    • Write in with your recovery techniques
    • What Noah used to do
    • LiveCD and "poking"
    • Steve's HP Elite Book
    • UltraBooks
    • Separating work and personal
    • Choosing a laptop
    • ThunderBolt Docks changed computer usage

    19:30 Dell Server Problems - Frederick

    • Maybe the drives died
    • PERC is getting in the way
    • Step One
    • Flash IT mode
    • If PERC fails you can be in big trouble

    23:00 Red Hat Summit Interview

    • Stefanie Chiras Ph.D. - Senior Vice President, AI Innovation Hub
    • Mechanical Engineering degrees
    • What led you where you are?
    • Breaking down walls
    • Open Accelerator
    • Roll of Open Source
    • Government Involvement
    • Benefits to community
    • Does code flow back to Open Source?
    • Open Source governance

    37:40 News Wire

    40:00 Fun Technology

    • Playing with LLMs
    • Fish.audio
    • Creating audio books

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