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Nils Buchner, a prominent member of the Ubuntu Matrix Council, dives into the exciting world of the Matrix communication platform. They discuss Canonical’s design choices in implementing Matrix and how it enhances community engagement. The chat also touches on the potential of repurposing technology to support underprivileged populations. Plus, Noah shares updates on his solar project and open-source solutions for solar energy, adding a fresh twist to the tech talk!

This week Noah tells the story of how Altispeed built a solar system for a remote camera for a daycare. Tiny joins to discuss the value of metric and why he believes Victoria Metrics does it better. -- During The Show -- 00:55 Graphics Cards When do you update graphics cards Watching prices, trying to buy Bought 5060ti Quadro P6000 Sold in 2 Min What is driving the cost? Over Time "Unplugging" Mature Leaders High Intensity/Surge Seasons Talking through movies 16:05 Solar Camera System Camera's on a playground Trenching and conduit Hanging wire from utility poles Shed with no power or network Solar powered camera setup Greentech Renewables Noah's Battery Amazon LiTime Unifi SunMax SolarPoint Amazon Trouble shooting, lay it out first Nano Beams 5AC Axis Camera Industrial 24v Switch Amazon Enphase System Metrics, data nerds Victoria Metrics Victoria Metrics Docs Grafana Solar Cable Amazon MC4 Crimper Amazon HQST Solar SOK Battery Victron Charge Controllers 48:30 Sustainability ANS 424 Reproduce-ability Minimalism Access Control System News Wire Deluge 2.2.0 - deluge.readthedocs.io OpenZFS 2.3.2 - phoronix.com Bleachbit 500 - bleachbit.org Thunderbird 138.0 - Thunderbird.net Firefox 138.0 - mozilla.org QBittorrent 5.1.0 - qbittorrent.org Redis Open Source Again - thenewsstack.io Tails 6.15 - torproject.org 4MLinux 48.0 - 4mlinux-releases.blogspot.com Commodore OS 3 - theregister.com AnduinOS - zdnet.com Malicious Go Modules - thehackernews.com AI Threat Defense - venturebeat.com Meta's AI Model Goes to Space - fb.com Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-V2 - venturebeat.com LTXV-13B - siliconangle.com Linux Inside MS Excel - tomshardware.com -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies Support Ask Noah Show

This week we dig into "Nixbook", a Linux distro designed to make old laptops into Chromebooks. Noah fell down the Nix rabbit hole, and of course we answer your questions. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Generosity Experiencing generosity A bunch of computers about to flood the market 03:50 Mike Kelly (Olympia Mike) Used laptop during Covid19 Became known for used laptops Company gifts used laptops Closing the technical divide Updates Package Confusion NixOS Olympia Mike's nixbook How to help out Powerwashing 13:15 Noah's Nixbook Experience Give Noah a toy and remove distractions for 5+ hours Throw out everything you know Where NixOS fits Rollback functionality Going to drive Nixbook till hitting a roadblock Can't live in a flatpak world Ansible is the hammer that hits the most nails How long to get up and running on Nix Have to adopt the "nix way" NixOS Flakes Nix Language 31:25 News Wire Nginx 1.28.0 - unit.nginx.org GCC 15.1 - devclass.com Cosmic Alpha.7 - blog.system76.com QEMU 10.0 - qemu.org Chainguard $356M Raised - bankinfosecurity.com Open Source 5G/6G Software - breakingdefense.com Crux 3.8 - crux.nu Archcraft Prime ISO - wiki.archcraft.io 4mLinux 48.0 Stable - 4mlinux.com Openmandriva 6.0 - wiki.openmandriva.org Kali Linux Warning - bleepingcomputer.com Attack of the Vsock - gbhackers.com ARES Robot Data Platform - a16z.com Qwen3 - venturebeat.com 33:00 Community How your self branding and its effects Noah's experience with a young man Noah's negative experience People remember how you make them feel and that reflects on communities There is what is said and what is received How to deliver messages Dinner example 41:20 OsmAnd - Richard Garmin Device Waze OsmAnd Fdroid OsmAnd 45:28 Drive Rotation Off site backup - Kevin The back up plan you understand is the best Not doing anything un-usual A few concerns Hardware cycling HDD destruction -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies Support Ask Noah Show

-- During The Show -- 00:48 Intro Missing Steve 01:55 Auto Updates? - Charlie Installing Linux on a Pixelbook Go Desktop vs laptop Being in the moment Noah's laptop strategy PineTab 2 Google hardware Re-purposing Google hardware Github.com Auto updates, EndlessOS 13:02 FreePBX - Zack What to consider when backing up Bash and FW Console Sleuth's Solution Backups are specific to the data type Use the built in backup and export functions 22:35 News Wire MySQL 9.3 - dev.myssql.com Peazip 10.4 - github.com Gnome 48.1 - discourse.gnome.org Gnome 48.1 - discourse.gnome.org LXQT 2.2.0 - lxqt-project.org Ubuntu 25.04 - canonical.com Fedora 42 - fedoramagazine.org Manjaro 25 manjaro.org NX App Hub - x.com Easy OS 5.9 - bkhome.org XorDDos - thehackernews.com BPFDoor - securityweek.com 23:34 Steve's Backup and ZFS Adventures Data should be in 3 places New server Running data and power Existing data sets Encrypting the data Snapshots Block Cloning Nesting and inheriting encryption attributes What would you do differently if you could start over Take-a-ways How long until you "trust" the new backup system? 43:50 OpenWrt One OpenWrt One Great build quality Multiple ways to power WiFi off by default Has a console port Really impressed 48:28 Switching to Cloud Companies moving to Azure to avoid Redmond markups Companies starting to re-consider moving to cloud Windows still entrenched 3 People running thousands of VMs and containers -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies Support Ask Noah Show

This week we dig into how you can host your own 5G and Ubuntu's new certification program! -- During The Show -- 00:45 Technology Another Way Cell Phone sales and inventory Market uncertainty Erasing a phone Moving to GrapheneOS Used equipment Fdroid Opportunities to move people to open source Routes to take 14:00 News Wire OpenSSH 10.0p2 - openssh.com OpenSSL 3.5 - github.com GNU Coreutils 9.7 - gnu.org Pinta 3.0 - pinta-project.com OpenELA Leapp - techzine.eu Linux Mint OEM Support - linuxmint.com Asahi Linux Roadblock - appleinsider.com Proxmox VW 8.4 - proxmox.com Archbang 0904 - sourceforge.net Feren OS 2025.03 - feren-os.com Pardus 23.4 - pardus.org SparkyLinux - sparkylinux.org MX 26.3 - mxlinux.org Particle OS - itsfoss.com Malware "Patches" - darkreading.com Slopsquatting - theregister.com Luminary Cloud and Honda's AI Model - engineering.com 15:50 Canonical Certifications Adriana Frick's Story Why Adriana left tech BGP What did the creation process look like? Defining standards Making it measurable Proving skills How did you learn what employers want Mauricio Buschinelli's Story Verifying completion of a task What does the test look like Easter Eggs through out As close to real as possible Care about outcomes Accessibility Testing A lot more coming 41:00 5G Cellphone companies want to be at the tower 5G Hardware Entire stack is open source Provisioning Sim Cards Roaming Charmed Ether SD Core 50:00 FCC Licensing Not a walk in the park FCC starting to require receiver registration Spectrum is crowded -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies Support Ask Noah Show

This week Steve builds a backup server, and tells us how and why! -- During The Show -- 01:13 GrapheneOS & Teams - Kevin Needed unsandboxed play services Broke on the next update This problem reported across OSes People reported needing to install "the framework" Apps stay in their sandbox Use app in a web browser 06:26 VMs - Mike Covered later in the show 07:35 searXNG - Donald More than a proxy Better results than other search engines 10:00 News Wire Curl 8.13 - curl.se GnuCash 5.11 - gnucash.org GNU Nano 8.4 - lists.gnu.org Apt 3.0 - debian.org Thunderbird 137 - thunderbird.net Firefox 137 - mozilla.org KDE Plasma 6.3.4 - kde.org Rust 1.86 - releases.rs Qt 6.9 - wiki.qt.io Nvidia PhysX and Flow - wccftech.com Outlaw Malware - thehackernews.com Open Source Malware Index - infoworld.com ProteuX 2.0 - github.com New Fedora Project Lead Jef Spaleta - fedoramagazine.org 11:30 Interview Jon Segar VP of Engineering at Ubuntu uutils coreutils Licenses Growing the Ubuntu Community Feature parity & rough edges Default in 25.10 build Memory safe languages Moving people's cheese 23:00 Steve's Off Site Backup Backup server in an out building What's the most important thing Swim lanes Breaking things down Nextcloud island Containers vs VMs Nginx vs Apache Managing and backing up data Storage, NFS vs Direct Block access Sanoid Supermicro motherboards iDrac, IPMI, PiKVM SOC vs standard system backup server considerations Moving Home Assistant from dev to prod -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies Special Guest: Jon Seager.Support Ask Noah Show

This week we give an update on the journey with GrapheneOS. -- During The Show -- 00:58 Intro Cold weather Do I shovel snow? 01:36 Thank you! - Nick Steve knows A LOT about kubernetes Tell us what about kubernetes do you want to learn? 2 Camps of people How deep will Steve go 06:57 GraphenOS - Craig Noah's experience/device Samsung made an un-rom-able US version Carrier's load an OS when you boot their sim card Noah's Pixel 8a Why no financial apps Inherent insecurities in phones Niche vs common target Phones can "walk off" Rouge Pixel, video file, audio file, etc Even normal people with a stock phone struggle Pixel 6A as a work phone Being attached to "glowing bricks" Authenticator apps WiFi only/no sim Google Account requires logging in on a stock device Navigation Here WeGo Maps Notifications Micro-g Persistent Notification Browsers Firefox Vandium Be prepared for hiccups Nitro Phone Make sure the bootloader is unlocked Naomi Brockwell TV Block Phone Tracking Naomi Brockwell TV Main Site Vehicle Tracking 50:45 Linux Wins! - Dan Combat Studies Group Re-purposing computers for re-use 52:35 News Wire XZ Utils 5.8.0 - github.com Shotcut 25.03 - shotcut.org Android Development Going Private - arstechnica.com Kaos 2025.03 - kaosx.us Zorin 17.3 - zorin.com Linux Lite 7.4 - gbhackers.com Q4OS 5.8 - q4os.org EU-OS - linuxjournal.com OpenAI Open Weight Model - wired.com -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies Support Ask Noah Show

This week Steve and Noah give you tips on hosting your first home server. -- During The Show -- 00:58 Intro Minimum Viable Battle Station Pelican 1620 Cases XREAL Air 2 Ergonomics 09:52 Home Server Questions - Dan Noah's first homelab Pick an OS with low churn, long term OS Generational upgrades Experiment in VMs Starting with a VM host Starting with a file server Don't put 30 drives in one box Noah's vs Steve's approach Do it, Document it, Blow it away, Do it again Know the thing before you automate Low level tech roles being handed to other business people Playbooks Ansible Steve's OpenAudible-TO-AudioBookShelf 48:06 Kubernetes - Jeremy Kube Dev Lab Steve's K8s Labs 50:32 News Wire Calibre 8.0 - calibre-ebook.com Linux 6.14 - lkml.org Gnome 48 - gnome.org Blender 4.4 - blender.org Zulip 10 - zulip.com EndeavorOS Mercury Neo - endeavouros.com Finnis 125 - finnix.org Serpent OS Rebranded to AerynOS - fossforce.com Rocky Linux Security - fossforce.com Chimera Linux Drops RISC-V - theregister.com Albabat Ransomware - infosecurity-magazine.com Hornet Security Module - phoronix.com 3 AI Projects Donated to Linux Foundation - thenewstack.io Trend Micro Open Source - prnewswire.com Hugging Face Blueprint - venturebeat.com AlexNet Open Source - spectrum.ieee.org Open Source Worth 8.8 Trillion - heise.de hbs.edu 52:15 Private Search Engine? - Atypical Kernel SearXNG -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies Support Ask Noah Show

This week a community resource fell offline unexpectedly. Members from all over the internet banded together to restore a community resource! -- During The Show -- 01:00 Intro Noah brought the warm weather back We need your feedback Join Geeklab Tag Marlin 04:10 Smart Watches Original pebble inventor New pebble smartwatches available for preorder ArsTechnica Steve's smartwatch use case Noah's watch Pine Time Fitness Features Eric Migicovsky doesn't stick with companies AsteroidOS BangleJS 28:32 News Wire GIMP 3.0 - gimp.org Digikam 8.6 - digikam.org Peertube 7.1 - joinpeertube.org Gstreamer 1.26 - freedesktop.org KDE Frameworks 6.12 - kde.org End of Nouveau OpenGL Driver - itsfoss.com Debian Bookworm 12.10 - debian.org Ubuntu's Rust Coreutils - ubuntu.com GitHub Actions Hack - infoworld.com Open Source OSV Scanner - gbhackers.com Linux Kernel Use-After-Free Vulnerability - gbhackers.com Kagent - thenewstack.io Tencent Open Source Model - bloomberg.com Mistral Small 3.1 - techzine.eu - venturebeat.com 29:50 Linuxrocks.online Outage Noah's travel story Awake for 30+ hours Wakes up to DMs, emails, online posts, etc Linux Rocks server is down Linux Rocks server grew organically Moved into Altispeed Egan MN data center SSH connected but then kicked you out Altispeed got pulled into it User wasn't in the libvertd group Organic way information spreads on the internet Glad to see people calm down after learning someone is in the hospital Linux Rocks is now monitored by LibreNMS Michael is donating a new server Thank you for polite and kind notification To those not so kind, please consider what you are getting for free Reddit post Everything was documented 49:45 Continuity Plan Reach out to Nerd friends Interest Old laptops show up on Noah's desk Enabling people through technology -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies Support Ask Noah Show

This week the news of an "ESP backdroor" spread around the internet like wildfire. We dig into the technical details as to what happened, and what if any, the risk is. -- During The Show -- 00:52 Intro Thank you for visiting at Scale Weather Cutting Silicon Wafers YouTube Video Sleuth - Live Ham Radio Liscnse Address requirement ARRL Privacy Private Mail Box Nomads With a Purpose Dakota Post America's Mailbox QSL Cards 09:15 HVAC follow up - Ziggy Boiler Heat Equipment Interface Module How boilers work ESP32 Pull the old thermostat Be careful making changes on the boiler Venstar Thermostats Honeywell Intrusion 21:49 Fedora on PI Boot Problems - Mark Other people report Fedora "hangs" on Raspberry Pi 4 Try it on another pi Raspberry Pi 5 27:16 News Wire Samba 4.22 - samba.org Pipewire 1.4 - gitlab.freedesktop.org Thunderbird 136 - thunderbird.net Firefox 136 - mozilla.org Ubuntu Touch OTA 8 - ubports.com ExTix 25.3 - linux.exton.net Tails 6.13 - torproject.org Garuda Linux Broadwing - opensourcefeed.org Malicious Go Packages - thehackernews.com Alibaba qwq - venturebeat.com Light-R1-32B - venturebeat.com EFF Rayhunter - eff.org 28:38 Software Freedom Conservancy Interview Denver Gingerich - Director of Compliance OpenWRT One Powered over PoE $10 of purchase price goes to OpenWRT Target audience Un-brickable Made by BananaPi 36:10 Considering OpenWRT One Steve for family? On par with any consumer router OpenWRT vs OPNSense Very well put together 39:35 ESP32 "Backdoor" The basics Wireless has to talk What the company did opcode3f Undocumented Commands 0xFC30 - Register Read 0xFC31 - Register write 0xFC32 - Set MAC Address 0xFC07 - Write Flash 0xFC08 - Read Flash 0xFC0E - Send LMP Packet (different layers of the bluetooth stack) What they are not telling you Much to do about nothing Ycombinator.com Espressif Response Dark Mentor 46:37 Vizio Lawsuit SFC filed Oct 19 2021 Vizio tried to move the lawsuit Going to trial in this year in Oct SFC became a hardware manufacture to avoid fighting these lawsuits 51:00 Steve's eBook Tinkering Started to help ChrisLAS Extending the program -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies Support Ask Noah Show