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This week Steve takes us through his journey with Enty and Immich. Plex makes their users pay a monthly fee, and Steam releases a new SteamBox console. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro How was your week Watching sales Smart TVs WebOS 07:21 Mac Feedback - Gregory Network Effect "Comforting Mac Feels" Pavu Control OBS Stewardship 11:32 Mac Feedback - Patrick Pragmatic approach Steve's thoughts Treating windows like an appliance Making the FOSS path easy 18:15 Succession Planning - Dominik Suggestions Design your home so it works without automation Have a HDD with important data Have migration plan in place Struggling with massive amounts of data Steve's documentation journey Criticality 30:33 News Wire Gnome 49.2 - gnome.org Tmus 3.6 - proxmox.com Snort 3.10 - github.com Dbeaver 25.3 - dbeaver.io Proxmox 4.2 Backup Server - proxmox.com Fedora Ultramarine 43 - fyralabs.com AlmaLinux 10.1 - almalinux.org Rocky Linux 10.1 - rockylinux.org KaOS 2025.11 - kaosx.us NixOS 25.11 - nixos.org Armbian 25.11 - blog.armbian.com Solus 4.8 - getsol.us 4M Linux 50.0 - 4mlinux.com AV Linux 25 - linuxmusicians.com Pardus 25 - pardus.org Linux 6.18 - phoronix.com Flux 2 - bfl.ai z-Image-Turbo - huggingface.co Deepseek 3.2 - deepseek.com Linux MCP - siliconangle.com 31:51 Plex Crackdown Forcing Plex Pass subscriptions Proprietary software controls you Are Plex users getting what they deserve? Switching to JellyFin Scanning of people's media Reason for crackdown Problem with the approach FS PBX ArsTechnica.com 41:50 Steam Machine First response is it's a "Travel Machine" SteamDeck "just works" Community experience ArsTechnica 44:42 Self Hosted Image Software Immich experience Ente experience Ente vs Immich Ente Encryption Native App Backup Where Immich came from iOS challenges Which is the winner? -- 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

Steve gives a deep dive into some of the struggles he's working through in his house. Google has pulled back on their plans to require developer verification. -- During The Show -- 00:45 Intro Passing the show through AI Immich Breaking changes 07:54 Steve Rants Show How it came about 09:45 Google and Side loading ANS 457 Google backs down How to Geek Hiding the setting Best of both worlds Explaining walled gardens Why walled gardens are bad Bubble level app 18:32 When is a Mac appropriate? Supporting a power user Specialty scanner Asked the AI Accidentally uninstalled mesa Trouble shooting When is a Mac appropriate? Mac's don't fix problems Mac myths "solving the problem" Network effect Apple print dialog Making the open source path easy SimpleHelp PiKVM Tailscale Windows knowledge on Linux Borrowing hardware 50:50 News Wire Git 2.52 - github.blog Cmake 4.2 - cmake.org Blender 5.0 - blender.org PHP 8.5 - php.net Protondrive 1.2 - github.com Proxmox 9.1 - proxmox.com Alma Linux 9.7 - almalinux.org Finnix 251 - finnix.org Pepple Watch 100% Open Source - howtogeek.com Zork Open Source - arstechnica.com 00:52 Coming up on Ask Noah Netowrking, proxies, caching Firefox -- 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 talk about the things you didn't know you knew about Linux. Scott Jenson joins the program to talk about principals of UX/UI design. -- During The Show -- 00:52 Self Hosting After Death - Michael Steve's thought process Important things Home Assistant Mealie Frigate Steve's plan Draw.io LLMs No desire to be trained Open Source Documentation Noah's plan Self hosted vs Cloud Techie Friends 12:21 Scott Jenson - UX/UI Design Product Strategist For Home Assistant and Mastodon Scott's Website Coloring outside the lines Mobile vs Desktop Desktop UI shortcomings UX in Audacity and Penpot Where can UX designers grow? Articulating the business use case Ink & Switch 18:23 News Wire Nano 8.7 - gnu.org Thunderbird 145 - thunderbird.net Firefox 145 - firefox.com Wine 10.19 - webpronews.com Proton 10.0 - phoronix.com KDE Frameworks 6.20.0 - kde.org SparkyLinux 8.1 - sparkylinux.org Debian 13.2 - debian.org Tails 7.2 - torproject.org Nitrix 5.0 - itsfoss.com Kaspersky for Linux - tomshardware.com Avahi Logic Flaw - zeropath.com ImunifyAV Flaw - bleepingcomputer.com Akira Targets Nutanix VMs - bleepingcomputer.com Kraken Expands - cyberpress.org VibeThinker-1.5B - venturebeat.com Worry Over Chinese AI - businessinsider.com US Must Go Open Source - techbuzz.ai Linux Knowledge The "Mythical New User" People use all sorts of UI/UX today Knowledge we take for granted Teaching is the highest form of learning See one, do one, teach one Talk radio principle: Watering plants that are already there Linux and Windows architectures are different 39:50 Source Command How it works Variables Environment Variable What the source command does Getting started with source and python 48:00 Know your short comings Know what you don't know Know how to explain it simply Keeping things simple -- 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: Scott Jenson.Support Ask Noah Show

This week we talk about Bolt graphics, a new graphics start up that is working on a graphics card with upgrade-able memory for a competitive price. A software developer has released an open source alternative firmware for the Nest v1 and v2 thermostats, and of course your questions! -- During The Show -- 00:45 Intro Dakota's weather 01:51 Email! - William Listener recommends porkbun Mailbox.org Simple Login DuckDuckGo Email Alias Proton's built in features Reasons for protecting privacy Privacy.com 11:25 Data Science & Self Hosting - Annon Value based approach Consenting data collection Tool vs Pillar A job can be a tool Get a job in a different field hadoop Nextcloud Anti Virus Network Protection Medical Science Red Hat data sciences 22:15 News Wire LXQT 2.3 - lxqt-project.org Calibre 8.14 - newwin.net MKVtoolnix - mkvtoolnix.download Curly COMrades - darkreading.com Porteux 2.4 - distrowatch.com MXLinux 25 - mxlinux.org Devuan 6.0 - serverhost.com IncusOS - phoronix.com NVIDIA AI Stack - hpcwire.com Omnilingual ASR - venturebeat.com Kimi K2 Thinking - venturebeat.com Drax - prnewswire.com Linux Desktop 5% - webpronews.com 23:50 Jill Mueller - Bolt Graphics Bolt Graphics Key differences Build of the card Why did you come to Ubuntu Summit? 27:25 Antonio Salvemini - Ray Tracing Bolt Graphics Ray Tracing vs Raster Why start with FPGA? Next steps Current Stage Available 2027 Bolt Graphics Untapped markets Upgradeable GPU 34:34 No Longer Evil Thermostat Google EOLs Nest Thermostats Gen 1 and Gen 2 No Longer Evil FULU Foundation "Feature Complete" AXIS A1001 Good piece of hardware Reservations Connects to "No Longer Evil Server" Server planned to be open sourced Centralite Perl HA Thermostat (Zigbee) Needs to be repaired 1 or 2 times a year Temperature Sensors Govee H5075 IoT Maintenance Why temperature sensors ESP32 receive blue-tooth and send to Home Assistant -- 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 Guests: Antonio Salvemini and Jill Mueller.Support Ask Noah Show

This week Steve describes what happens when you put Ai in a vacuum cleaner, give it a task, then break the charger. We catch up on your feedback questions, and of course the weekly news! -- During The Show -- 00:48 Intro Choosing what to say yes to 01:43 Cell Phone Fail Over - Brandon Redundant Internet MaxxKonnect ISP Negotiation 08:44 IPFire - Frederick PFSense just works Network effect OpenWRT UI/UX Design Steve's migration to OPNSense Tracking online devices 17:40 Converstaion about FastMail - Josh Steve's experience Noah's experience 22:22 Paul Reflects on discussions - Paul Struggle with value of 11 inch framework 23:28 MP3 Audio Processing - Bob Compression Dynamic Range FFMPEG ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -filter:a loudnorm output.mp4 27:55 Question about TrueNas, Frigate and Tailscale - Chris TrueNAS "X Factor" Use Ubuntu vs TrueNAS Cockpit networking Tailscale known bug 38:23 News Wire Exim 4.99 - exim.org Squid 7.3 - github.com Shotcut 25.10 - shotcut.org Kodi 21.3 - github.com TorBrowser 15 - torproject.com Rust 1.91 - releases.rs Qt Creator 18 - qt.io TheSSS 50 - sourceforge.net AerynOS 2025.10 - aerynos.com Fedora 43 - docs.fedoraproject.org CISA Warning - forbes.com Malicious NPM Packages - thehackernews.com Granite 4.0 Nano - venturebeat.com Proximity Scanner - helpnetsecurity.com Linux Gaming Passes 3% - gamingonlinux.com 40:00 LLMs show a “highly unreliable” capacity to describe their own internal processes Would you trust a pidgin with a task What are we learning about AI trustworthiness Putting AI in robots AI and Jobs AI hallucinations Increasing percentage of hallucinations Tricking AI models ArsTechnica -- 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 Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément from Canonical joins Noah and Steve to talk about Ubuntu Summit 25.10. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Steve's TV Falling asleep to TV LG OLED 55A1 06:05 Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément What was out there Ubuntu CDs Working for Google Promotion Committees Putting on a Conference Abdula Developer Library Google to Canonical Ubuntu Summit Dreamworks MoonRay Microsoft & WSL Thinking Fast and Slow Reach out to people The Canonical Office 39:32 News Wire Peazip 10.7 - peazip.github.io Calibre 8.13 - calibre-ebook.com Squid Proxy 7.2 - github.com Less 685 - greenwoodsoftware.com Digikam 8.8 - digikam.org Gnome 49.1 - gnome.org Thunderbird 144 - thunderbird.net Firefox 144 - firefox.com Zorin OS 18 - zorin.com Tails 7.1 - torproject.org Q3 Malware Index - eweek.com LinkPro Root Kit - thehackernews.com Operation Zero Disco - cyberpress.org F5 Hacked - thehackernews.com EdenSpark - gamingonlinux.com Project CodeGuard - siliconangle.com Coral in SL2610 SoCs - cnx-software.com AI and Cerebral Palsy - globenewswire.com Mysql 9.5.0 - mysql.com SuperTuxKart 1.5 - supertuxkart.net KDE Plasma 6.5 - kde.org Fedora 43 - phoronix.com Zorin saw 300,000 Downloads - reddit.com Qilin Malware - trendmicro.com Lightricks LTX-2 - prnewswire.com MiniMax-M2 - venturebeat.com IBM Mellea - app.daily.dev 90% of Games Run on Linux - tomshardware.com boilingsteam.com 42:55 F5 Breach Claims Nation State Level Attack Effect of Breach Disclosure laws If you can get the info off your system, do so F5 Competitors MetalLB HA Proxy theregister.com 51:05 Proxmox Backup Server DHCP? - David Tiny From the community Proxmox Virtual Enviornment Proxmox Backup Server Use the tailscale IP or DNS Name Proxmox docs -- 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: Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément.Support Ask Noah Show

This week we answer your questions, then dig into OpenShift vs. Kubernetes operators, give some updated options for email hosting, and talk about the dangers of Ai. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro AI war stories Content Warning Dangers of AI AIs are sycophants 10:00 News Wire ClamAV 1.5 - gbhackers.com Wireshark 4.6 - wireshark.org KDE Frameworks 6.19 - kde.org Qt 6.10 - qt.io 6.16 - kernelnewbies.org NordVPN - techradar.com T2 25.10 - level1techs.com Ubuntu 25.10 - canonical.com Linux Mint LMDE 7 - phoronix.com Winux W10EOL - betanews.com Nezha Gh0st RAT - thehackernews.com Secure Boot Bypass - bleepingcomputer.com ksmbd File System Vulnerability - cyberpress.org Kali Linux 2025.3 Gemini CLI - linkedin.com React Foundation - techzine.eu 11:45 OpenShift vs. Kubernetes Operators - Tiny OpenShift Helm Chart Operators OKD 20:30 Email - JJ_4884 Proton Mail Email aliases Zero inbox Kanban swim lanes Why Steve manages things Fastmail Mail in a Box 46:20 Analog Audio Recordings Saving cassette audio Will you be able to open things in the future? Quality Dual head tape deck -- 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 it's all about your feedback! We answer your questions, and dig through your problems! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Hallucinating 03:45 Friso from Mumble Moving all chats to one application Matrix Server Bridges Beeper Messages not flowing Self hosting beeper bridges E2EE 12:05 Security Cameras - Dustin Used Axis cameras Reolink Camera's POE Ethernet only models Some models require Reolink app for first setup Doorbell camera Steve's "doorbell camera flow" Surveillance Station Get one drive Reduce frame rate Weeks worth of footage Axis camera 2035 or 2036 Axis P3367 Write back in! 24:04 Laptops - Dasgeek Framework 12 Framework 12 vs Framework 13 25:45 News Wire Proxmox Mail Gateway 9.0 - helpnetsecurity.com GnuCash 5.13 - gnucash.org GNU Octave 10.3 - octave.org OpenSSL 3.6 - openssl-library.org Docker 28.5 - docker.com Cairo-Dock 3.6 - phoronix.com GNU Linux Libre Kernel 6.17 - gnu.org Tinycore 16.2 - tinycorelinux.net Opensuse Leap 16 - opensuse.org Spine Endoscopic Atlas - nature.com Huawei Shrinks LLMs - venturebeat.com 4th Version of Granite AI - techrepublic.com Granite AI Earns ISO 42001 - ibm.com 27:00 Send Feedback and Questions! Newbie questions welcome Fastest way to learn is immerse yourself Experts welcome too Email in! Follow up 30:45 Linux Basics - Kevin The bell story Level of learning GUI vs CLI Learning styles Ask your Linux friends Ask a LLM SIMPLE things Get hands on using it Set your expectations Tails Linux Reproducibility Endless OS Distro Hop Fedora Ubuntu Arch Linux Tiling window manager RHCSA and other Red Hat exams Canonical Academy ANS 437 -- 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

F-Droid is going away if Google continues down the path of requiring that developers register their apps through Google. Jellyfin has a big update, and Steve joins the program from Texas and shares about what he's doing there. -- During The Show -- 00:52 Intro Steve remote from Texas Talking to a someone in the same space Advantage of Face to Face 08:15 Operese Windows 11 requires certain hardware Microsoft will play games with Windows 10 updates Windows to Linux migration tool Use case Codeberg YouTube Nixbook vs EndlessOS Immutable Distros Alloy Tailscale 21:50 News Wire GNU Coreutils 9.8 - gnu.org Postgres 18 - postgresql.org GROOT Robot Model - yahoo.com OBS Studio 32.0 - github.com RPM 6.0 - rpm.org Linux 6.17 - phoronix.com Kaosx 2025.09 - kaosx.us Kali Linux 2025.3 - kali.org NeptuneOS 9.0 - neptuneos.com MemVerge AI Memory Layer - blocksandfiles.com Song-Prep - huggingface.co 1T Parameter Model - huggingface.co CISA Sudo Vulnerability - thehackernews.com 23:05 F-Droid and Developer Registration F-Droid's stance Principles and Trust Model Older phones Google decides what can run on your phone Forcing phone use Alternative Options People clinging to proprietary solutions Historic cycle of open-closed-open F-Droid Post The Register 43:49 Jellyfin EFCore Migration RCs are up PLEASE TEST! Database migration completed DO NOT INTERRUPT on first boot Some plugins will need time to upgrade 32bit ARM deprecated Kodi as a front end to Jellyfin Pinchflat Jellyfin Hedgedoc -- 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