This week Matt Hicks the CEO and President of Red Hat joins the Ask Noah Show to talk about AI! We answer your questions about how to get a voice point-to-point link, plus we'll tell you what we're thinking for SELF.

-- During The Show --

00:50 SELF Announcements

• Ironing out meetup details
• AMA session
• War stories
• Steve's talks
• Retro installs

04:00 Landline to Wireless? - JM

• Bell S60900
• DECT
• EnGenius Long Range
• NewEgg link
• VOIP
  • Base
  • Phone
  • Point to Point Link

10:20 News Wire

• Dillo 3.1 - Dillo Git Hub

• RHEL 9.4 - Unix Sysadmin

• Alma and Rocky 9.4 - Alma Linux - Rocky Linux

• Fedora Asahi 40 - Ars Technica

• Manjaro 24 - Manjaro

• KDE Framworks 6.2 - KDE

• Linux 6.9 - lkml.org

• Linux Libre 6.9 - FSFLA

• Linux on Amazon Devices - OMG Ubuntu

• Granite AI Models - Forbes

• Romanian LLM - The Recursive

11:35 Matt Hicks Interview

• Matt Hicks - Red Hat CEO
• How does Red Hat stay on top of new technologies?
• Future of AI?
• 90s Linux mindset?
• AIX
• Service aspect, solving customer problems
• Making the software work for the customer
• People want on prem
• Involving open source community
• Open source and AI
• How does Red Hat stay competitive with massive AI models?
  • IBM and AI
  • Know where you get your data from
  • Small highly trained models
• Matt Hick's geek projects
  • Door Bell
• Matt Hick's Daily Driver
  • Fedora 40
  • Dell laptop

29:38 KeePassXC

• Debian developer removed functionality from KeePassXC
• Debian developer refused to restore functionality
• KeePassXC developer pushed people to use FlatPak
• We trust distro maintainers
  • We don't want to do it our selves
  • Largely thankless job
• Functionality is necessary in today's age
• It's a package not a plugin
• Talk to the software developer first?
• Why not have a separate "secure" package?
• At some point you have to allow user choice
• What does "stable" mean?
• Noah's Flatpak Remmina
• Flatpak themeing
• Linux IAC
• Debian.org

45:00 Endless OS 6

• Based on Debian 12
• Gnome 43
• Pipewire audio
• Endless OS offline for Noah's kid
• Endless OS is opinionated
• 9 to 5 Linux
• System 76 and Pop! OS

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