This week we dig full force into some interesting listener questions. Noah talks about an open source hardware synth, and Steve walks through some of his hardware choices to help you!
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00:50 Intro
- Weather
- Cooling IT rooms in winter
05:00 Printers, DVD ripping and more - James
- Steve has 2 brother printers
- Auto Duplexing
- Separate printer and scanner
- Large business grade units
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- All in One Brother DCP-L2640DW Amazon
- Budget Brother HL-L2460DW Amazon
- Monochrome Brother HL-6210DW Amazon
- Color Brother HL-L3280CDW Amazon
- Trouble with auto duplexing
- Stay away from Lexar
- HP printers
- Manually add the printer
- Change to Jetdirect or IP printer
- Pay attention to exact model or most similar
- When it goes wrong, it goes really wrong
- Your mileage may vary
- Canon Color Image Class LBP622Cdw Amazon
- Scanner Brother ADS-1200 Amazon
- Containers vs Codecs
- MKV vs MP4
- Avidemux
- Ripping as ISOs vs video files
- MakeMKV
- MakeMKV Docker Image
# sudo modprobe sg services: makemkv: image: ghcr.io/jlesage/makemkv:latest ports: - "5800:5800" volumes: - "./makemkv:/config:rw" - "./storage:/storage:ro" - "./output:/output:rw" security_opt: # Fix for apparmor enabled systems - apparmor:unconfined environment: - USER_ID=1000 - GROUP_ID=1000 devices: - "/dev/sr0:/dev/sr0" - "/dev/sg0:/dev/sg0" - Christmas movies
- Handbrake
- FFmpeg
- Transcoding
- Run controller at each site
- Ubiquiti Cloud Key
- Lots of problems
- OVH server
- Put basic auth in front
- Inbox Zero
- Paperless NGX
- Dump to eml file then import into special Thunderbird
45:14 News Wire
Firefox 146 - firefox.com
Thunderbird 146 - thunderbird.net
KDE Frameworks 6.12 - kde.org
Cinnamon Desktop 6.6 - itsfoss.com
Mir 2.25 - github.com
Rust 1.92 - blog.rust-lang.org
AerynOS 2025.12 - phoronix.com
Kali Linux 2025.4 - kali.org
Pop!_OS 24.04 - itsfoss.com
PearOS - pearos.xyz
MaboxLinux 2025.12 - maboxlinux.org
Papermoon - thenewstack.io
01flip Ransomware - esecurityplanet.com
React2Shell - thehackernews.com
Nomos 1 - venturebeat.com
Nemotron Model - reuters.com
Quilter's AI - venturebeat.com
Chatterbox Labs - redhat.com
Agentic AI Group - hackernoon.com
Firefox AI Browser - phoronix.com
47:47 Zynthian
- Open hardware device
- We want your feedback!
- Are you comfortable with software VST
- Zynthian.org
50:30 Family Resistant to Self Hosting - David
- Ovens house hold approach
- Watching for pain points
- Making responsible path easy
- Making irresponsible path hard
- Value driven decisions
- Supporting where your paycheck comes from
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