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This week Noah and Steve work on Steve's house, a new automated lock system goes in, some new structured wiring goes in, and we talk about automating your Christmas tree.

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00:48 Intro

• Happy Christmas
• Kids and presents
• Quests at Steve's
• Steve's Christmas tree
• Steve on a Mac

16:20 Feedback

• You start the conversation
• Send in an email
  • success stories
  • problems you can't solve
  • suggest a topic

18:00 Switch Bot

• A room to keep dogs and kids out of
• Why Switch Bot?
• Gold tier certified by Home Assistant
• Value of talking with others
• How to evaluate "the line"
• The "delta"
• Gratitude

36:17 Structured Wiring

• 2 Recessed outlets with Ethernet
• 2 Projector rooms
• The Smart Home Hookup
• The Smart Home Hookup Youtube
• Playing D&D with the family
• Lay of the land
• Running Cat6
• SDI Video/Audio
• Belden Cables
• Vertical Cables
• HDMI Decimators
• Keystones

55:57 News Wire

• Darktable 5.4 - darktable.org

• Kdenlive 25.12 - kdenlive.org

• OpenShot 3.4 - openshot.org

• OpenZFS 2.4 - github.com

• GNUCash 5.14 - gnucash.org

• Nvidia Linux 590.48 - phoronix.com

• Linux 6.17 EOL - 9to5linux.com

• RELIANOID 7.8.0 - relianoid.com

• SparkyLinux 2025.12 - sparkylinux.org

• Easy OS Excalibur 7.1 - puppylinux.com

• Emmabuntus Debian Edition 6 - emmabuntus.org

• Solaris 11.4 - blogs.oracle.com

• FreeBSD 15.0 - freebsd.org

• Rust CVE in Linux - itsfoss.com

• Senate Intel Chair - cyberscoop.com

• Beavertail Malware - scworld.com

• Open-Source Protein Co-Folding Model - nvidia.com

• Bloom - siliconangle.com

• CUGA - infoq.com

• Nemotron AI Models - finance.yahoo.com

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