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Ask Noah Show 429

Feb 26, 2025
53:51

This week Noah and Steve describe their geek weekend. Steve teaches Noah about containers, and takes on a cool ZFS on boot project!

-- During The Show --

01:00 Steve's Trip

  • Went up North to visit Noah and Altispeed

02:22 Nextcloud on VMs - Bradly

  • Nextcloud works better on VMs
  • NFS challenges
  • Give MariaDB lots of memory
  • This is how enterprise deploys things
  • All in one falls over
  • Struggled to get real time collaboration to work
  • Pass a zvol through to the VM
  • S3 storage
  • Ceph/Gluster is complicated but most robust
  • Pass a block device not another QCOW2 file

13:52 3D printing experience - Jeremy

  • Prusa MK4S, open source friendly
  • Handheld Framework Case
  • Creality 6 SE
  • Creality Ender 3
  • Fully open vs high end 3D printers
  • Cloud dependant

22:52 AI for interviews - Avri

29:52 Forwarding SMS - PIX

32:50 Matrix Foundation

  • How Matrix and Element started
  • Matrix foundation split from Element/New Vector
  • Matrix foundation lost half their budget
  • $100,000 needed by March 31st
  • Been providing bridges and matrix.org server
  • [Donate Now](matrix.org/support)
  • Advocate or run your own server
  • $610k Needed annually
  • Blog Post
  • Matrix State of the Union YouTube

38:42 Steve's Trip

  • 3 Laptops and mango server
  • Steve leaving Fedora
  • Encrypted laptop policy
  • LUKS with ZFS on root
  • AI trouble shooting
  • Steve and containers at Altispeed
  • Steve at the Church

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