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Nov 27, 2024 • 54min
Episode 417: Ask Noah Show 417
This week Noah and Steve outline where you should leverage automation and rely on it, and when it's good to have a backup plan.
-- During The Show --
02:00 Podcasting 2.0
Podcasting is changing
Thank you
05:00 Retro Tink
RetroTink designed for retro gaming
06:22 Luanti
Mine Test Blog
$2.5B paid for Minecraft
celeron55 took on the challenge of making a similar game
MineTest took over in Noah's house
MineTest expanded way beyond just a Minecraft clone
Luanti
Voxel Libre
16:00 When to Automate
A different way to tackle the problem
Automation vs by hand
Nix
Maintaining old versions
Learning something new vs using what you know
Shifting paradigms
38:30 Windows S Mode
People have tremendous patience for MS but not Open Source
Windows S mode only allows software from the MS Store
Requires purchasing a key
43:30 Microsoft 360 Outage
Service announcement delayed
No one at Microsoft to communicate with
45:00 Windows Server Update Mistake
Upgrade flagged as security update
No license check
48:00 Windows Thin Client
Box connects to cloud desktop
MS pushing people off Windows 10
Things are moving to cloud services
ArsTechnica
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Nov 20, 2024 • 54min
Ask Noah Show 416
Mike McGrath joins the program and we get an update from Red Hat. This week we dig into week 2 of Steve's Desktop Linux struggle.
-- During The Show --
01:00 Hex OS - Craig
Self host
Files
Pictures
Home Assistant
Jellyfin
Wants a GUI
Like the idea of ZFS Snapshots
Go simple
You should know how to fix things
Cockpit
11:25 News Wire
Wordpress 6.7 - wordpress.org
Postgres 17.1 - postgresql.org
Peazip 10.1 - github.io
DigiKam 8.5 - digikam.org
Systemd 256.8 - github.com
Linux 6.12 - lwn.net
GNU-Linux 6.12 - phoronix.com
Quadruple Workqueue Concurrency - phoronix.com
Q4OS 5.7 - q4os.org
RHEL 9.5 - github.io
12:33 Mike McGrath Interview
Drama around RHEL source code
Fedora and Streams
Accelerators
How does Red Hat keep up
Xorg and Wayland
Remote Desktop on Wayland
ELS
32bit
Package Mode vs Image Mode
RHEL AI
Low power computers/systems
Micro DNF
UBI
OS Tree
Bootstrap/Build kit
Red Hat AI Licensing
What does open source mean to you?
33:43 Steve's Desktop Adventure
Issues with desktop going to sleep
Build on your knowledge base
NixOS
Local Flatpak Cache
Flatpak size
Ansible
Why multiple files
Outside and inside chroot
Cinnamon Desktop
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Nov 13, 2024 • 54min
Ask Noah Show 415
Tim Flink, a Senior Quality Engineer from Red Hat joins us to talk about AI on Fedora. This week Noah and Steve talk about their struggles with the Linux Desktop.
-- During The Show --
02:30 Helping a Non-techy friend - Sleuth
The plan
Locked down second hand Android device
Ting Flex plan
Tracar
JMP.Chat Sim Plan
Mint Mobile
Steer people away from sms/calls
Matrix
Telegram
etc
08:47 News Wire
Calibre 7.21 - calibre-ebook.com
Cmake 3.31 - cmake.org
Curl 8.11 - curl.se
Scraperr 1.0 - github.com
LXQT 2.1 - lxqt-project.org
Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 - ubports.com
Debian 12.8 - debian.org
Torvalds 2.6% Performance Patch - theregister.com
3800% Performance Improvement - phoronix.com
CRON#TRAP Malware - thehackernews.com
AMD OLMo LLM - computerworld.com
09:58 Tim Flink - Senior Quality Engineer - Red Hat
Where should you start with AI?
PyTorch
Orders of magnitude faster on a GPU
VRAM is the biggest factor
How is Fedora using AI?
OpenQA
RocM and PyTorch
Efforts around packaging
Why are you focusing on RocM?
Where is a good place to help out?
AI/ML SIG
Containers coming
What does open source mean to you?
22:28 Kubuntu and Docker Broken - Michael Fisher
Docker Compose Pastebin
Docker Logs Pastebin
Docker internal DNS having issues
24:36 What's the deal with Linux Desktop Environments?
Steve's workflow
Static vs Dynamic approach
How close can I get to immutable with flatpaks
Software KVM
Synergy (proprietary)
Barrior (abandoned)
Input Leap
3 Monitors, 2 horizontal and 1 vertical
KDE hates Steve
NVIDIA drivers
Why is it so hard to put software in hardware?
Ubuntu won't say its up to date because of Ubuntu Pro
Can't install LibreOffice on Ubuntu because of Snap
All operating systems have issues
45:20 MacOS vs EndlessOS vs Windows 10
Mac Book
No working battery
Disposable
3+ Hours just to install the OS
ThinkPad with EndlessOS
Flatpak for Office 365
Windows
Can't upgrade to windows 11
Windows 11 requires online account
Windows 11 requires TPM chip
2 People both chose the EndlessOS
Endless OS
No forced updates
All the icons right there
Open source
Allows you to fix things
Unix philosophy
The answers are there
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Nov 6, 2024 • 54min
Ask Noah Show 414
This week on Ask Noah we dig into Cosmic desktop and talk about what to do when self hosting goes wrong!
-- During The Show --
01:48 Cosmic Desktop - Dan
Cosmic will be the desktop for System76 computers
Built for System76
Cosmic DE still Alpha/Beta
Been running Cosmic for over a month
07:38 Caller
KVM/VirtManager performance
Virt IO Drivers
Correct ZFS block size for QCOW2
Synchronous vs Non-synchronous writes
ZFS Intent Log (SLOG/ZIL)
64k Record size
Turn on virtualization in UEFI
Enable "write a shift"
Check the cables
16:50 Cosmic Desktop - ZFS - Rob
Hardware
HDD Failure after re-silvering
Preventing bit rot
3 disks vs 2 disks
ZFS Send/Receive vs Rsync
Sanoid
Limit the bandwidth
Total data vs Total Bandwidth
Synology is not open source
Just install an OS and packages
30:55 Zed Editor
Website
Steve uses Nano not Vim or Emacs
Thoughts on IDEs?
VSCode and VSCodium
Electron
Lots of extensions
Failed to get to the website
AI is not appealing
Written in Rust
Native Linux support
37:41 Steve's Tech failures
Nextcloud Collaborative Editing
Fighting with Collabra
Tried docker and podman
Tried bare metal
Tried a VM
Nextcloud Deck
It works
Not awesome
Colors not working
Trello import
Frigate took down Home Assistant
Frigate filled /tmp and root
Hard locked the server
Tail Scale on IOS
Doesn't work intermittently
Do you enjoy fixing problems?
Case by case basis
Time is the most valuable thing
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Oct 30, 2024 • 55min
Episode 413: Ask Noah Show 413 | Contributing to Ubuntu
This week Robie Basak joins Noah from the Ubuntu Summit and gives an introduction on how to get started contributing to Ubuntu.
-- During The Show --
01:26 HexOS - Craig
Start with the Command Line
When is a GUI appropriate
Start with
make a ZFS pool
make a samba share
Help us understand your goal
What is HexOS
Ubuntu and ZFS
DKMS
kABI
Advantages of TrueNAS
Snapshots
Send/Receive
1 Click Re-silvering
17:08 Questions about HDMI switch - Andy
Theater Receiver
Decimator
21:14 News Wire
SQLite 3.47.0 - sqlite.org
Peazip 10 - github.io
Jellyfin 10.10.0 - jellyfin.org
EasyOS 6.4 - puppylinux.com
Gnome 47.1 - gnome.org
Tor Browser 14.0 - torproject.org
AlmaLinux Kitten 10 - almalinux.org
Gentoo & DTrace 2.0 - gentoo.org
NASA $15.6M Grant for Open Source Tools - spaceanddefense.io
Open Source Printable Lathe - hackaday.com
Thelio Astra - system76.com
Eight Nvidia High Severity Vulnerabilities - forbes.com
OpenSSL 3.4 - github.com
IPS Snort v3.5 - github.com
Parrot OS 6.2 - parrotsec.org
New Granite 3.0 - zdnet.com
HUGS - reuters.com
SynthID Now Open Source - theverge.com
Mochi 1 - venturebeat.com
Ubuntu Turns 20 - ubuntu.com
23:23 Robie Basak - Ubuntu Technical Council
What drew you to Linux?
Why did you decide to work for Canonical?
What is the Ubuntu Technical Board?
Difference between Ubuntu and Canonical
The process of granting commit rights
Conflict resolution
Cloud init
Unique ID
Ubuntu Summit
Range of interaction
Membership Board Meeting
Full Hour Long Meeting Recording YouTube
43:40 Fedora 41
Fedora 41 available early!
New DNF
bootc
Plasma Mobile Spin
Fedora Magazine
Minisforum v3
Steve, Fedora, hardware
50:30 Russian Kernel Maintainers Removed
Greg Kroah-Hartman removed them due to "various compliance requirements"
Removed developers Russian and not minor contributors
We live in a world where decisions are made for political reasons
zdnet.com
therecord.media
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Oct 23, 2024 • 54min
Episode 412: Ask Noah Show 412
This week Steve gives a deep dive into Widevine Encryption. We love encryption when it protects our data, but what do we do when encryption prevents us from doing the things we want to do over the internet?
-- During The Show --
00:50
Which is easier kids or dogs?
01:57 Succession Planning - Steve
Secure vs accessible
Steve's plan
Infrastructure as code
Critical path continuity
Nix maintains old packages
Techie friends
Sleuths setup/plan
data separation
Noah's plan
20:29 News Wire
Solus 4.6 - getsol.us
Sysvinit 3.11 - phoronix.com
Calibre 7.20 - calibre-ebook.com
Ardour 8.10 - ardour.org
Wine 9.20 - gitlab.winehq.org
ReiserFS Removed in Linux 6.13 - phoronix.com
RHEL AI 1.2 - zdnet.com phoronix.com
New Malware Raids ATMs - arstechnica.com
Roundcube Webmail Exploit - bleepingcomputer.com
Critical Firefox Bug - nvd.nist.gov
21:23 Widevine
Widevine is DRM created by google
Most major streaming services use widevine
CDM hardware
Levels of Encryption
L3 software based, least secure
L2 largely not used
L1 hardware supported, most secure
Wedding photographer
Photographer requires no other photos to be taken
Photographer goes out of business
Dr Phill did a show on it, got the the photos back
NVR recordings are going away
NVR prevented getting the recording off
Devices identify what they are
Industry went to STI HD not HDMI
Industry moving to NDI
OREI HDMI Splitter
US law allows you to backup content you own
43:45 Caller Sleuth
How do you separate and backup data at Red Hat
OADP
Depends on the technology
46:46 On Call Article
Register Article
Company didn't pay the bills
Wanted things done in a hurry
Required past due and current call upfront
Router set to factory default
After getting back to the office, found out colleague reset router
Ethical dilemma
Why spend more effort on a non-paying client?
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Oct 16, 2024 • 54min
Ask Noah Show 411
This week Noah and Steve dig into thoughts for light switches if you're starting from scratch. Do you work in a small closet that's been turned into an IT room? Noah gives you a recommendation for a small portable travel laptop stand. With under a year left to switch to Windows 11, there's a surprise at how many people have yet to upgrade. We talk about why that is.
-- During The Show --
01:07 Caller
Would you still go with lutron?
ZWave kit GE & Brighton
How Noah looks at automation
Lutron RA2
Zwave and Home Assistant
Industrial system design
Shelly Pro
Orbit Panels
11:26 Journal Block Device not loaded - John
May be using a file system with out journalling
May be using a file system Lynis can't detect
GitHub Issue
13:25 Thoughts on AXIS Q9307-LV? - Jeremy
All Axis cameras work
Frigate NVR & Home Assistant
Synology Surveillance Station
ONVIF
18:45 Listener Suggestions for Nextcloud Issues - Joe
PHP 8.3 vs 8.2
Disable Nextcloud Talk
Check compatibility of apps
Browser cache
20:38 New Godot fork - Charlie
Redot
GitHub
Website
Let's see if its successful
23:12 News Wire
OpenSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 - opensuse.org
Leap 16 Development - opensuse.org
Ubuntu 24.10 - canonical.com
Tails 6.8 & 6.8.1 - torproject.org
OpenBSD 7.6 - openbsd.org
KDE Turns 28 - kde.org
KDE Frameworks 6.7.0 - kde.org
KDE Plasma 6.2 - kde.org
Linux 6.10 EOL - endoflife.date
Qt 6.8 LTS - qt.io
Python 3.13 - awakenerd.com
RPM 4.20 - rpm.org
Wayland-protocols 1.38 - freedesktop.org
Distrobox 1.8 - github.com
Inkscape 1.4 - inkscape.org
OpenTV 1.0 - github.com
OpenRazer 3.9 - phoronix.com
Pyramid Flow - Venturebeat.com
NVLM 1.0 - infoq.com
Significant Rise in Malicious Software Components - csoonline.com
25:18 Instand
Random "IT Rooms"
Instand
Pros and Cons
Traveler Guitar
35:50 Windows 10 EOL In 1 Year
MS Requires TPM Chip
"Biggest CTRL-ALT-Delete in history"
People calling for extending Windows 10 Support
Not in the users interest
3 year cycle companies shouldn't have an issue
Switch to Linux
Steve's thoughts
Windows 11 has half the users of Windows 10
Chance to make the case for desktop Linux
Take a minute to think
The Register
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Oct 9, 2024 • 57min
Ask Noah Show 410
This week Aaron Prisk and Jason Nucciarone join the program to talk about Ubuntu Summit 2024. We dig into your feedback and talk about the benefits of immutable operating systems.
-- During The Show --
00:55 Intro
Steve's WiFi issues
Printer issues
Nextcloud issues
07:46 Arch and Mandatory Access Control - Baker
Why Steve chooses Arch
Arch doesn't enable "auditing" in the kernel
Other Mandatory Access Control
SELinux
Will tell you what to do
Don't shut it off
Permissive Mode
Arch is the most "vanilla" distro
Things do break in Arch, and other distros
Consider Arch
17:42 Printers - Rabin
Steve uses Brother printers
Till Kamppeter ANS 368
Buy Brother
Use IPP/IPPS
20:56 Charlie Asks The Audience
Self Hostable Web based CRM
Designed for both IT professionals and tradesmen
Can:
Assign Staff
Assign Jobs
List Stock
Quote Job/Task
Invoice
Produce list of stock which is needed to buy as stock is low/empty
Easy Appointments
InvenTree
23:50 News Wire
AntiX 23.2 - antixlinux.com
Nitrux 3.7 - nxos.org
Qbittorrent 5.0 - qbittorrent.org
Firefox 131 - mozilla.org
Network Manager 1.50 - networkmanager.dev
Ardour 8.8 - ardour.org
FWUPD 2.0 - github.com
Rocky Linux from CIQ - insidehpc.com
Pine64's E-innk Tablet - howtogeek.com
Perfctl Malware - thehackernews.com
Nvidia Open Source AI Model - venturebeat.com
25:00 Ubuntu Summit Interview
Aaron Prisk
Jason Nucciarone
What is Ubuntu Summit
Renamed "Ubuntu Summit" from "Ubuntu Developer Summit"
Target audience for Ubuntu Summit
Talks about Rust
Matthew from Matrix
Matrix in Canonical
Getting the flavors together
Community Teams
Ubuntu Summit
45:00 Noah's Imposed Handicap
Build service infrastructure
Secure enclave
Valve heading a specific direction
SteamOS is immutable
Use Tails for a daily driver
Includes basic tools
Can update keys
Can clone itself
Persistent storage
Gnome
KDE Plasma
Everyone should have a Tails drive
Endless OS
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Oct 2, 2024 • 55min
Episode 409: Ask Noah Show 409
This week we dig into the Verizon outage. We'll talk about why and how you can host your own communication infrastructure, so an outage is less detrimental to your life!
-- During The Show --
01:35 Notes with sync? - Jou Jou
How Steve takes notes
Standard Notes
Joplin
Simple Mobile Tools
Fossify
Nextcloud Notes app
Collabra
09:12 Listener Reacts To Distros - Aaron
Issues with Ubuntu
Go for Fedora
Endless OS
Write in with your Ubuntu issues
Mind Drip One Offline Windows Setup
15:27 Audio Issues
Mixer died
Loaner from company
Got the board fixed
Sample rate changed
Sample rate manually fixed and digital recorder back in production
17:48 News Wire
Firefox 131 - mozilla.org
FFmpeg 7.1 - ffmpeg.org
GnuCash 5.9 - gnucash.org
Postgres 17.1 - postgresql
Winamp Source Code - bleepingcomputer.com
Liya 2.1 - notebookcheck.net
Arch and Valve Collaboration - lists.archlinux.org
Tails and Tor Join Forces - blog.torproject.org
Statial-B - hackaday.com
Molmo Open Source AI Model - venturebeat.com
18:55 Arch Flatpak Issue
Installed Arch, ran the ansible, restored backups
Flatpak installs failed
Github Issue
Arch Flatpak Fix
```
flatpak remote-delete --force flathub
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
* Let's do a better job
#### 26:10 Verizon Outage
* No clear communication
* Speculation abounds
* No clear ETA for restoration of service
* Never seen people behave this badly
* Self Hosted services unaffected
* Calls and Texts via 3CX and JMP.chat
* Internal communications over Matrix
* Companies should self host their own services
* Communication is changing
* [Master Switch](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/194417/the-master-switch-by-tim-wu/)
* Steve didn't even notice the outage
* Other carriers reported issues contacting Verizon customers
* Don't be a slave to the glowing brick
#### 40:33 Thunderbird on Android
* Mozilla took over K9 Mail
* Unified Inbox
* Still in Beta
* Asking for feedback
* [Thunderbird Matrix Chat](https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#tb-android:mozilla.org)
* [Thunderbird Blog Post](https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/09/help-us-test-the-thunderbird-for-android-beta/)
#### 46:00 Reproducibility
* Combinations of packages can be problematic
* Automation can fail
* Never will be completely safe
* Automation can get you a long way
* NixOS
* ZFS Snapshots
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Sep 25, 2024 • 53min
Ask Noah Show 408 | Distro Hopping
We struggled again this week with audio. We appologize for any inconvinence for skipping / low pitched audio
This week Steve shares his distro hopping adventures! Noah and Steve are both skating towards the same end goal. They are going about getting there different ways.
-- During The Show --
00:45 Steve's Distro Hopping
Steve's distro journey
Deepin Desktop vs Deepin Distro
Deepin Desktop mix of Gnome and KDE
Commercial vs Steve's desktop implementations
Unique monitor setup
What Noah wants in a computer
Reinstall with the niceties
Pop!_OS & Cosmic experience
Deepin is Chinese
Arch & Deepin DE
KDE experience
KDE can always recover
Latte-Dock
Arch is the nerd safety OS
Lots of distros, what's missing
44:00 News Wire
SparkyLinux 7.5 - sparkylinux.org
ZorinOS 17.2 - zorin.com
MXLinux 23.4 - mxlinux.org
Linux Libre 6.11 - lwn.net
Real-time Linux Officially Mainline - arstechnica.com
Gnome 47 - release.gnome.org
Gnome 46.5 - discourse.gnome.org
Open Source Maintainers Unpaid - cybersecuritydive.com
NSF Initiative - new.nsf.gov
Citrine Sleet Poisons PyPI - darkreading.com
Void Editor - voideditor.org omgubuntu.co.uk
Alibaba AI Models - cnbc.com
Mark Zuckerberg's Goal - businessinsider.com
46:00 Continuing Camera Discussion - CantankerousAdmin
Axis A1001
Honeywell's was horrible
Newer Axis requires windows
Lenels is the big dog
Only for large installs
Requires windows
Haven't responded to sales inquires
Kerisys is the underdog
Requires windows
49:58 Smart Thermostats & Panels - Rob
Leviton Load Centers
SPAN Panel
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