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What if you could purchase a computer built like a Mac but run a free and open source operating system on it that you can't break, would you buy one? Steve and Noah discuss the Malibal, and an immutable distro with Flatpaks that "just works" -- During The Show -- 00:58 Intro Steve's Nvidea Issue trouble shooting process root cause = it's dirty why dig for the root cause Good News! Axia fixed our board! 06:50 Google Ad Policy - Ahmed Google ads used for phishing Google ads placement confusing Why google don't clearly label ads 12:05 TPM & Drive Encryption On Fedora - Tiny Clevis SystemD Cryptenroll Fedora TPM Blog Post Fedora Security Keys Blog Post 15:09 Linux Mint Issues - penguin prince Maybe re-seat things? 15:55 Current Grafana Setup - Tiny Current Usage Network CPU RAM Disk Matrix database Added to Ansible Grafana can be more than graphs 21:00 News Wire Fedora KDE Plasma 6 Dropping X11 - 9 to 5 Linux Linux 6.7 Drops Itanium IA-64 - Phoronix ReiserFS Removed From Default Kernel - Phoronix Tails 5.17.1 - Tails Real-Time Linux on AWS - The News Stack Delayed Module Signature Verification - Phoronix OpenSUSE Seeks LEAP Replacement - ZDNet OpenSource.com Reborn - Open SOurce Watch Intel FPGA & RISC-V - The Register OpenSSL 1.1.1 is EOL - The News Stack Earth Lusca & SprySOCKS backdoor - Bleeping Computer NCurses Flaw - The Hacker News CISA Announcement - CISA.gov VC Bill Gurley - Fortune.com 6.1.14 Kernel in Scratch - MIT.edu 23:00 OpenSuse Aeon "It Just Works" Linux MicroOS & Gnome as immmutable base Software via FlatPak and distrobox Good for some users What problem does this solve? Purpose Driven OpenSuse Aeon All Systems GO Talk 34:30 Penguin Prince Calls Adding a Page to WordPress Issue Page refuses to go live 38:55 The US Assembled Linux Laptop You Haven't Heard Of Malibal Final Assembly in the US Expensive Making a powerful sleek computer Most have graphics cards Optimus Manager Coreboot Commitment to sustainability Barrel Power vs Type-C charging Dell's commitment to Linux System76 Framework Laptops 51:36 NextCloud Hub 6 They have to have email Mail in a Box LInux Today Linux UnPlugged 528 52:25 LFNW Moved to Next Year Had to move the date Will still have things to do -- 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 • Ask Noah Show © CC-BY-ND 2021 •Special Guest: JT Pennington.Support Ask Noah Show

Google makes the news this week in one of the largest cases in history over meaningful competition. Do we need the regulation to stop Google? Ubuntu will start allowing you to use a TPM chip for encryption, plus your livestreaming, ZFS, and VPN questions are answered! -- During The Show -- 02:00 Matrix Server Digital Ocean was too expensive Registrations closed Registrations to reopen soon Geek Lab.ninja Live Stream/Chat 04:22 Live Streaming Baseball? - Matt Bring everything Laptop Camera Internet Access Ubiquity Nano Beam Extremely line of sight Scale Engine VDO.ninja OwnCast Laptop+C920 STI Run away from Logitech Mevo 15:15 ZFS Questions - Tim Noah's mini server ZFS is easy on Ubuntu Setup ZFS on some old drives Put your data on something you understand Setup ZFS on virtual machines Don't use virtual drives with ZFS in production Steve's laptop abuse Noah's laptop VMs Install ZFS on Ubuntu sudo apt install zfsutils-linux To discover an existing ZFS pool sudo zpool import Import an Existing Pool By Name sudo zpool import POOLNAME Load The Key for An Encrypted Pool sudo zfs load-key -r POOLNAME Mount all available Pools sudo zfs mount -a Unmount an Encrypted ZFS Dataset sudo zfs unmount pool/dataset Unload ZFS Key from Encryption sudo zfs unload-key -r pool/dataset To unmount the ZFS pool sudo zfs unmount -a To create a striped pool sudo zpool create pool-name /dev/sdb /dev/sdc To create a mirrored pool sudo zpool create -m /mnt/zfs/pool pool-name mirror /dev/sdb /dev/sdc Create an Encrypted ZFS Dataset sudo zfs create -o encryption=on -o keylocation=prompt -o keyformat=passphrase pool/dataset Load ZFS Encryption Key sudo zfs load-key -r pool/dataset Destroy a Pool (Be Careful!) sudo zfs destroy -r system/pool sudo zpool destroy pool-name 29:05 Wireguard Distinguishing Connections? - Khayalethu Networking principles don't allow for this Gateway of last resort (router) Steve's PiHole usage 35:35 Bot Question Sleuth Passing folders into ProxMox VMs 9P protocol/driver NFS will use more network traffic Data profiles 39:44 News Wire Linux 6.6 RC - lkml.org Linux desktop rises above 3% - Gaming on Linux Tails 5.17 - Tails Linux Mint Debian 6 Beta - Linux Mint LibreOffice 7.6 1.5M Downloads - Document Foundation LibreOffice Update - Document Foundation Alpha Centauri Remake - Gaming on Linux Open Source VR Port of Prey - Phone Arena TUXEDO Computers 3rd Gen Aura - 9 to 5 Linux AtlasVPN Flaw - Cyber News Blueshell Malware Spike - GB Hackers LLaMA 2 Outflanked by Falcon Large - Decrypt.co 41:38 Linux FDE backed by TPM Ubuntu has been using Passphrase+LUKS Ubuntu introducing optional TPM encryption Linux Today Ubuntu 46:03 Google Anti-Competition Google is paying to make Google the default No one is 'forced to make Google default' Best outcome, force the user to choose Google 'enhanced ad privacy' AP News -- 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: JT Pennington.Support Ask Noah Show

This podcast covers a range of interesting topics including network failures and the importance of checklists, a discussion on using a Bluetooth extender for phone and watch connectivity, integrating AXIS cameras into the Home Assistant dashboard, troubleshooting virtualization issues, extending the lifespan of hardware devices with open-source software, and updates on Linux and open-source news.

The podcast discusses topics such as viral videos, YouTube profiling, kids' access to technology, soldering irons, recent news in the Linux world, setting up routers in a network, self-hosting a blog, and the importance of self-hosting YouTube to maintain control over content.

This week Noah and Steve take you down the journey of two open source guys using open source day in and day out for their lives. Is it perfect? No there are rough edges, but why do they make those choices? What's the appeal to freedom and stability? -- During The Show -- 01:10 Caller - Johnathan Arkansa Display video streams rpisurv 05:45 Beginner Distro? - Walking Penguin Everyone faces different paper cuts Arch Linux - high learning curve, Powerful Endless OS Immutable/hard to break Immutable OSes Search/Community base Ubuntu Mate Shaves off many rough edges Made for non-techies Fedora Flatpak first Red Hat standard desktop Fedora KDE Kubuntu Rust Desk AnyDesk (proprietary, cloud based) 19:55 Linux Bat Command Cat command with extras OS Technix 20:42 News Wire Debian's Turns 30 - Debian Devuan 5.0 - Devuan OpenMandriva LX 23.08 - 9 to 5 Linux LibreOffice 7.6 - Document Foundation Wine 8.14 - Wine HQ Budgie 10.8 - Buddies of Budgie OBS 30.0 Beta - OBS Project Gnome 45 Beta - Gnome FSF & Zoom - FSF SUSE Goes Private - Tech Crunch Code Generating AI Model - The Information ONNX Script - Visual Studio Magazine 21:50 Privacy First Mobile GrapheneOS Steve's approach to technology Flashing GrapheneOS Steve's GrapheneOS experience opening the app drawer grayscale apps getting apps notifications receiving phone calls Fdroid Push towards mobile Hardware options LineageOS Noah's solution GrapheneOS JMP.Chat Bitwarden Saw or Saw blade? disposable devices large app size artificial limitations cloud dependence pollution 44:26 Beeper Beeper Steve's expectations On boarding encryption set up Bridges Target audience Noah's use case Phone numbers & privacy 59:59 Tech Experiences Python in Excel ARS Article Open source behind a pay wall Noah's Son's ansible playbook Noah's Son teaches Noah's wife 1:05:00 PinePhone and PinePhone Pro? - TwoBit Thoughts on PinePhone and PinePhone Pro? Low end android device performance PineTab2 1:08:00 Backing Up Docker Containers - sharper0746 Containers should be disposable Data should be separate from the container Used Desktops You will need to cover shipping email huckleberry582@gmail.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 Special Guest: JT Pennington.Support Ask Noah Show

This podcast episode covers various interesting topics including the formation of OpenELA by CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE, the issues with the Libera chat / Matrix bridge, choosing the problems to solve, home automation using Home Assistant, HASSIO feedback on dimmers, the forking of LXD by Suse, creating a normie-friendly wiki with good searchability using WikiJS, news updates in the open source world, the debate between Python and Rust for data analysis, data center migration and open-source cloud solutions, challenges and solutions in choosing technology, and the importance of open source technology and evaluating its value.

This week Home Assistant accidentally takes over Noah's house, and Micah Pendleton returns to dig into specifics about professional video production on Linux. -- During The Show -- 00:58 Steve's Luddite Week Amazon return with no phone Society is going to requiring phones 05:00 VLANs - Norm Steve's VLANs VLANs 10 Admin 20 Guest 30 Production/Servers 40 Critical VPN back in Write back in! 07:00 Gary from Grand Forks Home Assistant news broadcast plugin Firefox video popout 12:00 X1 Carbon Issues - JJ4884 Set "Linux option" in UEFI Noah's is 6th Gen X1 Carbon 14:00 News Wire Asahi Linux's Flagshiop Distro - ARS Technica Rhino Linux 1.0 - Rhino Linux Zorin OS 16.3 - ZDnet Nitrix 2.9.1 - nxos.org CBL-Mariner 2.0 - Phoronix Vulkan Driver Merged - Gaming On Linux CORE-V MCU DevKit - CNX Software Reptile Root Kit - The Hacker News IBM & NASA AI Model - News Room IBM 15:28 Noah's HASSIO Adventure Automate around something Security Lights Home Controller (Home Assistant) X10 horrible experience Lutron RadioRA System behind training course learned other things during the course Home Assistant accidentally promoted to production Upgrading HASSIO extremely smooth Rebuilt light scenes in Home Assistant What is the best "dimmer"? What is the best way to run Home Assistant? In a VM In wall screens? No mics or camera's 5" Low res touch screen Pi's, Nucs, POE Hat? Best LED Controller Shelly? Depends on the desired protocol Tasmota vs ESPHome? ESP32 vs ESP8266 vs others like RP2040? 30:15 Special Guest Micah Pendleton How would you build Caution Glass Studio differently? What Distro did you standardize on? Kubuntu PopOS How would you capture live video? ATEM Mini DeckLink STI and HDMI capture HDMI outdoors is a nightmare Not all STI camera's are the same HDMI to STI converter Inkscape replaces Adobe Illustrator Best Camera under $500 Go used Sony A6400 No reason to upgrade today Best Camera under $1000 Still consider used Black Magic Pocket 4K Shoots Braw (Black Magic Raw) Great lens mount Best Camera under $10,000 Black Magic URSA Mini Pro 4.6K G2 Original Ursa Mini doesn't support BRAW What doesn't work well under Linux Awareness is the problem DaVinci Resolve issues Plugins What specs do you look for? Asus TUF Book Dedicated GPU -- 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: JT Pennington.Support Ask Noah Show

This week Noah lives off of a 37Ah battery, and the Rocky Linux team joins Noah and Steve to discuss their plans going forward to maintain a clone of RHEL! -- During The Show -- Running Off Battery 37Ah battery Point of the experiment Anderson Power Pole Vanomize Powerwerx LiFePO4 Battery Modular/Form Factor Yetti 1500x Noah's Science Project Case Battery Inverter Battery Charger US Power Sockets PowerPole Panel Mount Redarc Inverter Remote Switch GemCoo 63W USB C Car Charger Socket Toggle Switch AC Socket Inlet 08:40 Camera Suggestions? - David Installing Wine 2K or 4K Camera? Axis M2035 4k Axis Camera P3248 Trail Camera 14:00 Linux Joke Why does NASA use Linux? You can't open "windows" in space 14:20 Marlin Updates New features 15:45 Simple login Email alias Sub addresses in Proton Proton Mail Post 20:18 News Wire Real-Time Ubuntu - Silicon Angle Disabling AMD fTPM - Fagenwasanni OpenMedia Vault 6.5 - Source Forge New GNOME Window Management Dev - Gnome CIQ Ascender - Zdnet - CIQ NGINX Subscription - Tahawul Tech Open Source Cooling Chamber - Archinect Pixel Pump PnP Tool - Hack a Day Castmill 2.0 - Digital Signage Today Call to Protect Open Source AI Innovation - Venture Beat New release of BloodHound - Csoonline Abyss Locker Linux Encryptor - Bleeping Computer Akira Ransomware Expands to Linux - GB Hackers Severe Ubuntu Vulnerabilities - The Hacker News - Wiz FBI Warning - PC Mag 23:15 Rocky Linux Interview Louis Abel - Release Engineer and Lead for Rocky Linux, RESF Vice Chair Neil Hanlon - Infrastructure Lead for the RESF / Rocky Linux Rocky's initial response Did you have any idea this was coming? What is Rocky's value add? What makes Rocky stand out? How do you plan to acquire RHEL source code? What about becoming a Red Hat customer to obtain source code? Do you plan to tell people where you get the source code Why not engage with Red Hat through Stream? Plan going forward if RH prevents you from obtaining RHEL source code? Effect of Suse's fork Any interest in adopting the SUSE fork? -- 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: JT Pennington.Support Ask Noah Show

Vojtěch Pavlík the General Manager for Business-Critical Linux joins The Ask Noah Show to discuss SUSE's plans to create a hard fork of RHEL and fill the gap created by Red Hat's recent changes. -- During The Show -- 01:45 News Wire Libre Office 7.5.5 - Document Foundation Qt Creator 11 - Qt Io Inkscape 1.3 - Inkscape Neptune 8.0 - Neptune OS Debian 12.1 - Debian Debian RISC-V Support - Debian CIQ Partner Program - CIQ Mesa Performance boosts - WCCF Tech GeForce RTX 40 GPUs Support - WCCF Tech Meta llama 2 Catch - Facebook 03:05 SUSE Interview Vojtěch Pavlík - General Manager for Business-Critical Linux Red Hat's changes What has SUSE decided to do? SUSE's competitive edge OpenSUSE LEAP Live Patching Confidential Compute SUSE's $10M spend on RHEL SUSE Liberty EU location advantages? Why fork RHEL vs putting $10M into SLE? ISV certifications Is SUSE's RHEL fork competition for SLE? Open Build Service's role 29:32 Setting Up Remote Backup - Tom Tailscale Tinc OpenVPN Fail2ban Backup Strategy? Bandwidth Rsync ZFS Send 34:08 Linux Accessibility - Scout Applications need to add support niche of a niche Vinux Project (Discontinued) Sonar (Discontinued) DistroWatch KDE window rules 39:25 NFS - Jose SystemD auto mount Steve's FSTAB options nfs noauto,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.device-timeout=10,timeo=05,nofail 0 0 43:02 Web Site Builders - Walking Penguin Stay on top of wordpress updates Hugo 47:10 Podcast Hosting - Walking Penguin Buzzsprout then go to Blubrry Fireside Podcasting 2.0 Office Hours 22 51:00 Logos vs Crosswire - Walking Penguin Logos has everything expensive cloudbased Crosswire/Xiphos side by side comparisons bookmarks What Noah uses -- 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: JT Pennington.Support Ask Noah Show

This week Alma has big news, Slackware hits 30 years, we give you an update on Beeper, and Noah found his new favorite Matrix client! -- During The Show -- 01:00 Audio Success Story - Ricky Yamaha TF1 Mixer No news is good news Worked great! 04:30 Adam follows up (remote desktop) - Adam Any desk no longer available via flatpak 06:25 Remote options with no monitor? - Ian Pi KVM BLI KVM 10:20 News Wire Slackware Turns 30 - IT Pro Linux Mint 21.2 - Linux Mint Linux 6.3 EOL - lkml.iu.edu ARC GPU Improvments - Phoronix Estonia and Open Voice Network - PR News Wire DIA & IC Personnel - Meritalk BeagleBone RISC-V SBC - Beagleboard AnalogLamb RISC-v Boards - Hackster.io AntiKythera Mechanism - Hackaday - Instructables BPFDoor Enhancements - GB Hackers Fake PoC installs Malware - The Hacker News PyLoose Malware - Bleeping Computer AVrecon Malware - Bleeping Computer Ghostscript Vulnerability - Bleeping Computer Meta Releaseing AI Model - Zdnet 12:45 Beeper Latest updates fix disconnects White Glove setup and support Wider network 17:11 Element X Sliding sync Sudo IDs 19:00 Gomuks No notifications Regular or Bold Ctrl+k tab complete teaches you matrix commands 23:03 Alma Drops Bug for Bug focus ABI compatibility Could allow Alma to add value Who is the target for RHEL clones Rocky, Suse, Oracle, Alma Enterprise vs Community Path of least resistance RHEL target market The Register 39:55 Red Hat Insights Brett Midwood Knowlege base applied to collected metrics IBM Xforce threat intelligence Edge computing SeLinux & Insights Insights and being proactive Open Source and Insights Insights providing fixes Security Advocacy Insights Value Proposition -- 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: JT Pennington.Support Ask Noah Show