This week we dig into your questions, and talk about Nvidia's new AI rig.

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00:56 George From NYC

• Used computers for a church
• Lenovo laptops and Thinkcenters
• Dell Optiplex
• Ebay
• Made in the last 4 years
• Make sure they have TPM 2.0

04:50 Noah's new toy

• Flipper Zero
• Electronic multi-tool
• Had to legitimately bypass access control
• Read and emulate RFID and NFC
• Lots of Apps

08:58 HVAC - Ziggy

• Zigbee timer system?
• Wouldn't put the timer on device
• Steve's solution
• Why timers?

14:20 Battery Pack - Erik

• Anderson Power Pole
• Deep Cycle SLA
• INIU
• 100w Type C Dewalt Battery Adapter
• Offical Dewalt USB C Adapter
• 83w 12v USB Outlet

21:40 NFS vs S3 for Home Lab - Brendan

• Recoverability
• Added complexity
• Would lean away from S3/Minio
• Hard to recover broken S3 file system
• It's ok to play with technology

28:21 Nextcloud Office - IK

• All-In-One master container
• Steve's attempt
• Not all Docker containers are official

33:52 News Wire

• Dillo 3.2 - github.io

• OpenZFS 2.3 - github.com

• Rsync 3.4 - samba.org

• Linux Mint 22.1 - linuxmint.com

• Rhino Linux 2025.1 - rhinolinux.org

• TuxCare Now Offering EOL MS Support - fossforce.com

• Merit Systems Trying to Fund Open Source Devs - cnbc.com

• MiniMax Models - scmp.com

35:00 Ebook 2 Audio Book

• Ebook2Audiobook
• Uses "local AI"
• Many types of text input
• Runs on CPU or GPU
• Surprised at the quality
• Steve's kid's apprenticeship
• Society has developed an aversion to anything "hard"
• Teaching the value of work and learning

42:00 Getting Started with AI

• What is AI?
• Math coprocessors
• CPUs are "generalist" processors
• GPUs are "specialized" processors
• CUDA Cores
• NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip
• 3 Classes of GPUs
• Design software story
• Project Digits
• LMStudio.at
• GPT4All
• TecMint.com

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