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  • 53 minutes 52 seconds
    Ask Noah Show 415

    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.

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    02:30 Helping a Non-techy friend - Sleuth

    • The plan
      • Locked down second hand Android device
      • Ting Flex plan
      • Tracar
    • JMP.Chat Sim Plan
    • Mint Mobile
    • Steer people away from sms/calls
      • Matrix
      • Telegram
      • etc

    08:47 News Wire

    09:58 Tim Flink - Senior Quality Engineer - Red Hat

    • Where should you start with AI?
    • PyTorch
    • Orders of magnitude faster on a GPU
    • VRAM is the biggest factor
    • How is Fedora using AI?
    • OpenQA
    • RocM and PyTorch
    • Efforts around packaging
    • Why are you focusing on RocM?
    • Where is a good place to help out?
    • AI/ML SIG
    • Containers coming
    • What does open source mean to you?

    22:28 Kubuntu and Docker Broken - Michael Fisher

    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
    • 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

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    13 November 2024, 2:00 am
  • 53 minutes 58 seconds
    Ask Noah Show 414

    This week on Ask Noah we dig into Cosmic desktop and talk about what to do when self hosting goes wrong!

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    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
    • Limit the bandwidth
    • Total data vs Total Bandwidth
    • Synology is not open source
    • Just install an OS and packages

    30:55 Zed Editor

    • Website
    • 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

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    6 November 2024, 2:00 am
  • 55 minutes 14 seconds
    Episode 413: Ask Noah Show 413 | Contributing to Ubuntu

    This week Robie Basak joins Noah from the Ubuntu Summit and gives an introduction on how to get started contributing to Ubuntu.

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    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

    21:14 News Wire

    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

    43:40 Fedora 41

    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
    • therecord.media

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    30 October 2024, 2:00 am
  • 53 minutes 51 seconds
    Episode 412: Ask Noah Show 412

    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?

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    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

    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
    • US law allows you to backup content you own

    43:45 Caller Sleuth

    • How do you separate and backup data at Red Hat
    • OADP
    • Depends on the technology

    46:46 On Call Article

    • Register Article
    • 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?

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    23 October 2024, 1:00 am
  • 53 minutes 51 seconds
    Ask Noah Show 411

    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.

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    01:07 Caller

    • Would you still go with lutron?
    • ZWave kit GE & Brighton
    • How Noah looks at automation
    • Lutron RA2
    • Zwave and Home Assistant
    • Industrial system design
    • Shelly Pro
    • Orbit Panels

    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

    13:25 Thoughts on AXIS Q9307-LV? - Jeremy

    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

    23:12 News Wire

    25:18 Instand

    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

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    16 October 2024, 1:00 am
  • 56 minutes 54 seconds
    Ask Noah Show 410

    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.

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    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

    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
    • InvenTree

    23:50 News Wire

    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

    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

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    9 October 2024, 1:00 am
  • 54 minutes 31 seconds
    Episode 409: Ask Noah Show 409

    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!

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    01:35 Notes with sync? - Jou Jou

    09:12 Listener Reacts To Distros - Aaron

    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

    18:55 Arch Flatpak Issue

    • Installed Arch, ran the ansible, restored backups
    • Flatpak installs failed
    • Github Issue
    • 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 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)

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    2 October 2024, 1:00 am
  • 53 minutes 20 seconds
    Ask Noah Show 408 | Distro Hopping

    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.

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    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
    • Arch is the nerd safety OS
    • Lots of distros, what's missing

    44:00 News Wire

    46:00 Continuing Camera Discussion - CantankerousAdmin

    • Axis A1001
    • Honeywell's was horrible
    • Newer Axis requires windows
    • Lenels is the big dog
      • Only for large installs
      • Requires windows
      • Haven't responded to sales inquires
    • Kerisys is the underdog
      • Requires windows

    49:58 Smart Thermostats & Panels - Rob

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    25 September 2024, 1:00 am
  • 53 minutes 51 seconds
    Ask Noah Show 407

    AUDIO THIS WEEK HAD A SAMPLE RATE ISSUE. SORRY FOR IN INCONVENIENCE.

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    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

    17:55 Immich

    • Developer scratches his own itch
    • Immich better than google photos now
    • Google data pull
    • GitHub Script * 7z x \*.zip
    • Roadmap
      • Private/Locked photos
      • In app editing
      • Auto stacking
    • Funding
    • Foodo
    • Steve's current photo solution
    • Immich backup methods
      • Forground
      • Background
      • Manual sync button
    • Sharing/Collaboration
    • Infinite scrolling
    • Social aspect
    • Deletion issue
    • Requires inputting the port

    37:00 FCC and 900Mhz

    • Meshtastic
    • LoRa
    • Chirp Spread Spectrum
    • Only good for long range small packets of data
    • Rx/Tx Wattage
    • NextNav wants to buy the spectrum
    • LoRa enables lots of possibilities
    • Lilygo T Deck Plus
    • Rokland blog post
    • Licensing the frequency stifles innovation
    • Could hamper emergency response
    • Having open frequencies democratizes communication
    • LoRa FCC Guide
    • Opposition_Letter
    • FCC Paths to LoRa Certification
      • FCC Part 15.247 - Digital Modulation
      • FCC Part 15.247 - Frequency Hopping Spread-Spectrum (FHSS)
      • FCC Part 15.249 - All Other Transmission in the 900MHz range
    • FCC Part 15.247(b)(3)
    • Problematic spectrum impact

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    18 September 2024, 1:00 am
  • 53 minutes 51 seconds
    Ask Noah Show 406

    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!

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    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
    • 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

    • 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

    33:53 Hoptodesk

    • Comparison to Team Viewer
    • Hoptodesk
    • Free & Open Source
    • Cross platform
    • E2E Encryption
    • Can self host the server
    • Wayland is not officially supported

    38:05 EmuDeck

    • ArsTechnica
    • 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
    • I don't like WiFi for automation
    • Steve's experience

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    4 September 2024, 1:00 am
  • 53 minutes 52 seconds
    Ask Noah Show 405 | Method Not Allowed

    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.

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    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

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    • Being told no is unappealing
    • Being able to fix things
    • Are you controlling the box or is the box controlling you?

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