The Blackbird Secure Desktop is a POEWR9 system, a fully open source modern POWER9 workstation without any proprietary code. Plasma mobile has a new update out, we talk bluetooth headsets, VoIP phone systems, and a one handed keyboard! -- During The Show -- 01:00 nVidia shield and blocking google DNS - Zack Try setting up DNS on your router Run PFSense/OpnSense in a VM, use that to block DNS requests to Google, pass on legit requests to a PiHole 05:15 VOIP Recommendations for Home Phone? - Dennis Use a Trunk Provider Voxtelesys Hosted Option Self host a 3CX PBX FreePBX Asterisk #### 12:45 Caller - George Best Slide show App? Make Video in KdenLIVE LibreOffice Impress HedgeDoc Slideshow mode Antenna for TV? Apmlified Digital Antenna User Feedback - Ben Solution for nerve damage in one hand Use a one handed keyboard Twiddler Keyboard 18:15 Bluetooth headphones? - Graeme Best Bluetooth headphones for both calls and music Check out Steelseries Sony WH1000xm4 21:15 Pick of the Week Loving Memory GitHub Built on GitHub Pages Doesn't require any web expertise 24:00 Tech of the Week Cactus Chat Embed Anywhere Privacy Respecting Highly Compatible Decentralized 30:00 Blackbird OS News Article about Blackbird Power9 is fully open source unlike Intel/ARM Basic Blackbird Bundle $1,733 Blackbird has a BMC running OpenBMC GameCube, Wii, Xbox 360 all use PowerPC-based processors Power1 was released in 1990 Fedora and OpenSuse both support Power9 49:00 Plasma Mobile Plasma Mobile Blog Post Pinephone + Jumpdrive is awesome Plasma Mobile is almost Daily Driver New Features Welcome/Setup Screen Modified Home Screen Groundwork for future features Plasma Dialer improvements DTMF & USSD Requests work now -- 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

The Gnome team is revamping multi-monitor support. Firefox 86 is released and features Total Cookie Protection to make cross site tracking more difficult increasing user privacy. Kodi 19 has landed with a lot of new features around metadata and a better music interface. -- During The Show -- How to rename USB Audio interface? - Steve pacmd update-sink-proplist alsa_output.usb-c-Media_electronics_inc._USB-Audio_Device-00.analog-stereo.2 device.description=What-We-Call-It-Now Self Hosted Music - Sloth56 Ampache Funkwhale Self host or managed services - Mike Good Email providers ProtonMail Tutuanotoa Fastmail 18:15 RHCSA Training - Adam Getting to ask questions is good Classes can create community In person training is best Udemy Course Link VTC is almost as good as official RedHat training RHCSA Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Training and Exam Preparation Guide Second Edition 23:15 Linux Accessibility - Brendan Trackball + Onboard on screen keyboard 27:50 Affiliate link for register4less? - Jerremy 14.99/yr Privacy included Free email aliases Free 10MB of web hosting (no SSL) Sub Accounts for managing Customer service is beyond amazing 29:45 Pick of the Week Open IAS Game Clock (count down/up) Adjust on the fly Keyboard Bindings Set Team Logo Multiple Scoreboard Tabs Control multiple Scoreboard scoreboards through one control window. Packaged as an AppImage Cross Platform FOSS 34:20 Gadget of the Week BitBarista BitBarista: fully autonomous coffee machine built using Raspberry Pi and Bitcoin Pi Controlling the BitBarista uses Raspbian Uses Electrum for the BitCoin payments. Code is on GitHub Pays people to restock it Can even call a technician to get repairs 36:40 Multi-Monitor on Gnome 40 Gnome Blog Post Workspaces changes on primary monitor by default Supports changing workspaces on all displays Introduction of the workspaces navigator on secondary display Transitioning to Horizontal workspaces New additional shortcuts switch workspaces will be Super+Alt+←/→. Moving windows between workspaces will be Super+Alt+Shift+←/→. Super+Alt+↑ will also open the overview and then app grid Super+Alt+↓ will close them These directional keyboard shortcuts have matching touch-pad gestures: Three-finger swipes left and right will switch workspaces Three-finger swipes up and down will open the overview and app grid Gnome is doing and explaining changes in the open 44:00 Kodi 19.0 (Matrix) Kodi Article Nearly 50 developers contributed code About 5,000 commits Over 1,500 pull requests since the first release of 18.x "Leia" Over 5,500 changed files 600,000 lines of code added, changed or removed significant improvements to meta-data handling New Matrix-inspired visualization Database and meta-data improvements Many more improvements Kodi 19 replaces the old XML meta-data scrapers with Python Most new features here revolve around usability 49:50 Nextcloud Hub Nextcloud Blog Post High performance back end for Nextcloud files Wide range of performance improvements Nextcloud talk improvements Debuts message status indicators Raise hand feature Group conversation description And more! Wide Range of Groupware improvements drag’n’drop Nicer threading in Mail Syncing social media avatars in Contacts 53:00 Firefox 86 Released Mozilla Blog Post New Features Total Cookie Protection (each site gets it's own ("cookie jar") Multiple videos Picture-in-Picture Fixed Issues Reader mode now works with local HTML pages Orca and other screen reader fixes Reader View links have more color contrast various security fixes 55:00 New Platform for the Show https://parachutelive.tv/ -- 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

The Gnome design team conducted a research project to better understand their users. The results were surprising! We'll give you an update about the Vero 4K, a FOSS app to track your GPS history. -- During The Show -- 01:15 IT War/Disaster Stories Call Out Got IT horror stories, let us know! We want to do an episode on them Email live@asknoahshow.com 02:00 Jon caller Emailed about Noah's soft spot for Red Hat Latest thoughts on System76 PopOS! Home Lab/Docker Questions 12:40 Vircadia VR Responds to Episode - Vadim FOSDEM Talk 13:50 Building an Online Presence - Joel Don't buy lifetime services/domain names - Not sustainable business model register4less.com Don't buy a domain in your real name A records - mail.mydomain.com nextcloud.mydomain.com etc.mydomain.comment Redirects mydomain.com/server1 mydomain.com/server2 Start with a web server, lessons learned apply everywhere 21:00 User responds for MS SQL - Richard rdiff-backup - like rsync with history Other backup utilities backuppc veaam (closed source) redic (with rclone) restic Send in your backup solutions! 23:00 Pick of the Week - Zombie Tracker GPS Lightweight Linux+KDE equivalent to Garmin's "Basecamp" Manages collections of GPS tracks Local Data Charting, Graphing, Advanced sorting and querying Live GPS via GPSD 26:10 Gadget of the Week Blackmagic Decklink Duo SDI is the professional version of HDMI HDMI without copy protection Make your own cables with RG-6+quad shielded+BNC ends, use them as SDI cables. Works with Linux, you do need to install the driver, but FLAWLESS as compared to USB devices Much higher quality / capacity You will need to convert HDMI to SDI 31:00 Gnome 40 - UX Changes The Research Gnome Blog Post 40:00 Vero 4K Update Very well packaged system Incredible UI - Couldn't believe it was Kodi underneath Both RF and IR functionality Includes wall mounting plate Doesn't stream Blu-rays over WiFi Plays DVD rips just fine Vero 4K 47:30 Plasma New app launcher Breeze Twilight - Hybrid Theme Plasma Firewall settings page (ufw and firewalld) More effort put into Wayland support in Kwin 49:50 Pine Updates -- 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 #AskNoahShow on Freenode! -- 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

Have you ever dreamed of having a virtual enviorment that can simulate the real world in, have meetings in, and connect with others in. Firefox has new protections for supercookies, ubuntu has a new installer out, and CloudLinux has a beta out of AlmaLinux. -- During The Show -- Red Hat License - Jon RedHat exists to make a profit, and they need to RedHat spends money to support open source that they could take home/pocket RedHat handled the release poorly and cut the release cycle short RedHat has been a good friend of the community The new model makes more sense, but was poorly communicated 11:00 Element vs Rocket - cheskel Element/Matrix Pros: Decentralized Federated Integrated with other services (Bridges & Widgets) End to End Encryption 15:00 Pick of the Week Funkwhale Decentralized Selfhosted Spotify Makes music social again Why host your own? Because of things like this 17:00 Gadget of the Week Mihai's Blog post White Noise Machine based on a raspberry pi Uses OMX Player My Noise on Google Play Noice App 20:00 Firefox Cracks Down on Supercookies Firefox Blog Post](https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/01/26/supercookie-protections/) Firefox 85 implements network partitioning Different image cache for each site Firefox 85 also partitions pooled connections, pre-fetch connections, pre-connect connections, speculative connections, and TLS session identifiers 26:00 New Ubuntu Installer Ubiquity is getting hard to maintain Subiquity Github Uses Curtin and Flutter Flutter is controlled by Google, this could be a problem long term Why a snap? 29:00 GitLab Subscription Model GitLab Blog Post GitLab is phasing out the Bronze/Starter tier Special Offers for people transitioning GitLab Free tier gained over 450 features this year and continues to gain more 32:00 Element Suspended from Play Store Google suspended Element in the Play Store without notifying the developers Google said it was due to abusive content somewhere on Matrix Reddit Post Matrix Team responded quickly and openly to resolve the issue Matrix Team went above and beyond and implemented community suggestions Having multiple clients is an advantage to the Matrix Protocol 35:00 Ctrl IQ Ars Technica artical Greg founded a new start up company called Ctrl IQ Greg was interviewed on Ask Noah EP 213 36:00 CloudLinux Launches AlmaLinux AlmaLinux Blog Post First RHEL 8 respin available for download Download AlmaLinux 37:00 Open Source VR Metaverse Vircadia Site An Introduction to Vircadia Vircadia™ is an open-source 3D interface and server foundation Ecosystem of open source metaverse applications Open Source VR/Virtual World Far more than entertainment, lots of potential Download Vircadia -- 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 #AskNoahShow on Freenode! -- 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

With all the changes Google is making there's never been a better time to to self host your own stuff! This week we dive into replacing Google Photos! -- During The Show -- 00:45 Minutes In Email 1 - Setting up Federated service instance - Brian What decentralized services could you support using a $5 Droplet or similar virtual server? It is never be set and forget Built in backups are good but don't rely on them What can run on a $5 DO Droplet No - Peertube needs more resources Yes - Mastodon can run, might want more resources Sorta - Matrix could but really should have more resources Yes - Tor relay works really well Yes - VPN node works really well Best practice to run each service on its own VPS 06:50 Minutes In Email 2 - USB WiFi 5 or 6 Dongle? - Cory Edimax MU-MIMO-EW Plugable WiFi Adapter All Plugable gear is great 08:55 Minutes In Email 3 - Suggestion for Chat programs - Charlie XMPP Best Prior to matrix XMPP Functionality is dependant on add-ons XMPP Slow or a battery hog Delta Chat - chat over email back-end Luke Smith has good video on his peertube server explaining how to setup a email server over at Link 1 bitchute link PS If anyone is looking for cheap VPS providers, I recommend checking out Low End Box Community forum 13:00 Minutes In Email 4 - Linux Jobs? - Matt Focus on skills not certs Be willing to work for less or free If you want to go the route of certifications RedHat RHCSA Linux Essentials (010-160) USD 120.00 LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 (101-500, 102-500, 201-450, 202-450) USD 200.00 https://www.lpi.org/our-certifications/lpic-1-overview 18:15 Minutes In Pick of the Week Beeperhq All your chats in one place Uses matrix on the back-end 21:30 Minutes In Gadget of the Week Deskreen Use any device with web browser as second screen for your computer (using Display Dummy Plug) Works accross WiFi or LAN Supports multiple screen sharing sessions to as many devices as you want Supports changing picture quality while sharing a screen. Picture auto quality change supported. (for performance boost while watching youtube video for example) End-to-end encryption Dark mode UI support! Available for Windows / Mac / Linux 24:30 Minutes In Kickstarter for Solo Key V2 Solo Key v2 Reversible connector for both USB-A and USB-C Touch buttons NFC Firmware Upgrades Supports advanced authentication, PIV (FIPS 201) Each device comes with both a P256 and Ed25519 attestation certificate 30:15 Minutes In Mobian Community Edition Mobian Blog Post Posh gnome UX for phones (Originally developed for Purism Libre 5) Setup Process allows you to set your user password and setup full disk encryption Pine64 Store 33:15 Minutes In Beagle Five Opensource/No patents Single Board Computer Source code for it is available under a BSD license Built around a dual-core 1.5 GHz StarFive SiFive U74 processor with 2MB L2 cache A neural engine for hardware-accelerated computing video decoder/encoder able to handle 4K 60 FPS video decoding. HDMI out port (30fps 1080p) 4 regular USB 3.0 ports ethernet audio microSD card slot USB Type-C port for power Integrated Wi-Fi 2.4GHz b/g/n Bluetooth 4.2 40-pin GPIO connector 2 MIPI-CSI connectors (camera connector) MIPI-DSI connector (display connector) Only the $149 8GB model (sans GPU) is available right now You currently have to sign up for the chance to buy the BeagleV OMG Ubuntu blog post 35:50 Minutes In JingOS JingOS JingOS Github UX designed for tablets JingOS is based on Ubuntu 20.04, KDE v5.75, Plasma Mobile 5.20 They will replace the framework from Plasma Mobile to JDE(Jing Desktop Environment) later this year. Trackpad Gestures Full Function Desktop Apps 37:55 Minutes In Main Segment Microsoft switched their edge browser to be based on Chrome Current browser market share: Chrome = 69.28% Edge = 7.75% Safari = 19% Firefox = 03% Samsung = 03% Opera = 02% One company controlling this much of the browser market is bad Google is discontinuing API access Nothing changes for you if you don't sign in now Google is holding firm and is misleading in their marketing announcements Firefox, Vivaldi, Opera and others have their own sync systems Google is killing unlimited google photos Awesome Selfhosted Best model is Free Trial>Paid Hosting or Self Hosted PiwiGo checks all the boxes [Piwigo Software Project](piwigo.org) [Piwigo Service Provider](piwigo.com) 1yr / €39 / $47 / yr Unlimited Storage Photos Only No Ads Give you a custom domain Business Plans 50G / €45 All file types €250 / 1TB From the Piwigo privacy policy: "Piwigo.com business model relies on subscriptions from clients. Personal data we store (such as email address in order to contact you or IP address for technical reason) are never used outside the hosting service operations. Your data are never sold or exchanged with any partner. Never." Multiple accounts in one application Extentions System 53:00 Minutes In Caller - Jared Thompson Reuters Workpapers CS Needs SQL server Error messages keep changing Maybe help getting SQL going on Linux -- 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 #AskNoahShow on Freenode! -- 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. 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RedHat is expanding the developer program making it easier than ever to access RHEL! Now individuals can run 16 RHEL servers under this new program. Brian Exelbierd joins us this hour to discuss this new program and how it addresses many of the concerns raised in the transition from CentOS to CentOS Stream. -- During The Show -- Email 1 - Signal vs Telegram - Eddie Telegram vs Signal for messaging? Telegram client is open source and supports Linux Telegram server is closed source Signal is more secure but requires a phone number Phone numbers can reveal your real identity Moxie Marlinspike (Matthew Rosenfeld) - really particular about 3rd party clients, makes it not very inviting link Not so great when your playing with alternative operating systems (SailfishOS PostmarketOS), Signal has to make a client, rather than just supporting an API Use Element/Matrix Setup your own server Sign up for paid hosting EMS Sign up for free on a community server like Linux Delta Minutes In 07:50 Run Matrix on CoreOS https://fedoramagazine.org/deploy-your-own-matrix-server-on-fedora-coreos/ With Fedora CoreOS, you get all the benefits of Fedora (podman, cgroups v2, SELinux) packaged in a minimal automatically updating system thanks to rpm-ostree. Running a Matrix service requires the following software: Synapse: a Matrix server PostgreSQL: a database Nginx: a web server Let’s Encrypt: a certificate provider Element: a Matrix web client Minutes In 09:30 Email 2 - How to Stream a Live Event without YT - M.X.U. streamyard Open Broadcaster Software OBS Setting up your own CDN is impractical Setup an RTMP server with Nginx Community based CDN Scale Engine Instant Trial Minutes In 15:50 Email 3 - User Responds to James' Question - Landon Deja Dupe Only backs up working files not the entire OS Incremental Backups and Multiple file versions Similar to Mac TimeMachine Minutes In 18:40 Email 4 - Please Expand on Self Hosting without Net Neutrality - Will Owning your own server doesn't fix getting online Decentralized infrastructure make taking people offline hard Minutes In 22:10 Email 5 - Which Episode for Parental Control? - Lucas Life360 Life360 is partnered with Arity (analytic company) link CA Do not sell No longer used or recommended Check out OwnTracks Uses MQTT, lightweight, and you can self host Minutes In 25:15 Pick of the Week MMORPG_Tycoon_2 It's a Single Player MMO / Building an MMO Independent Game shop https://www.vectorstorm.com.au/ Early Access, expect bugs Developer is very active in the community and wants feedback Massively addicting Minutes In 28:10 Gadget of the Week OSMC Vero 4K FLIRC IR receiver OSMC project is a rock solid Kodi platform OSMC Vero 4K Minutes In 31:35 RedHat Interview Guest: Brian Excelbeard Moving to CentOS Stream brings more transparency and opportunity for involvement IBM was not even in the room for the discussion New programs are in the work for cloud workloads beyond today's announcement RedHat is reducing friction for getting official RHEL by integrating other account systems Expanding the personal free options, more than just RHEL Making it easier for enterprise customers to get their employees enrolled in developer accounts Have a unique use case problem? email Brian directly centos-questions@redhat.com Official Announcement -- 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 #AskNoahShow on Freenode! -- 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

Self-hosting has always been a good idea but when your platform doesn't want to serve you, we have some self-hosted options that will. A Reddit user has Linux booting on an iPhone 7, a man was quoted $50K to run fiber to his house, so he built his own fiber ISP! -- During The Show -- 00:30 Minutes In Email 1 - Feedback from EP 212 Bluetooth and Drawing Tablet - David HSP/HFP designed for phones not computers Bluetooth support on Linux is difficult due to the way blue-tooth works (uses modem commands on mobile) Possible Solutions that bypass Linux blue-tooth stack Links to the 1Mii USB Bluetooth Adapter for PC This is Creative's version if you are looking for a more popular brand name. XP-PEN came up and they have a driver for Linux. It is a little bit hokey in the sense that their configuration application needs to be running in order for it to work. It does not always survive suspend/resume, but it is easy to launch again. Their non-display models also have good support for left-hand versus right-hand drawing When used as a display, there is no left-hand mode because it relies on dm to configure the display We purchased an xp-pen innovator 16 It is a 1080p 15.6 inch matte screen with hardware buttons connected via HDMI and 2 USB ports XP-PEN seems like a good company Link to first photo made with the tablet 06:00 Minutes In Email 2 - VPN Recommendation? - Ira What is the best VPN company? private internet access They have a track history of NOT turning over user data, they get called into court they say we'd love to comply but we don't have the documents. affiliate link 08:30 Minutes In Email 3 - Matrix Support Spreading - Charliebrownau Mind.com is supporting Matrix Protocol link [Mind.com](mind.com) is an alternative to Facebook and other big social networks 09:20 Minutes In Email 4 - Censorship - Rob What are your thoughts on Mozzila's blog post 11:15 Minutes in Pick of the Week MediaCMS Fully featured open source video and media CMS Built mostly using the modern stack Django + React and includes a REST API No federation 14:00 Minutes In Gadget of the Week Dell's new thunderbolt dock Dell WD19TB Built in thunderbolt cable Additional rear facing thunderbolt pass-through port 2x Display Ports 1x HDMI 2x Rear USB 1x Front Facing USB Dell's USB C dock Dell WD15 17:00 Minutes In News Guy by the name of Daniel Rodriguez managed to boot Linux with Gnome on an iPhone 7 YouTube Video Reddit write up Phone that was given to him by his grandparents as a junk device, He saved it from the landfill! Prerequisites writable directory available over nfs, including dhcp server on local network Checkra1n 0.10.2-beta Kernel fork for h9x/A10 Project sandcastle utilities EITHER arm64 cross compiler or an arm64 native device. I used a rpi4 on 20.04 <-- way helpful to be able to chroot and setup, otherwise you'd have to use qemu-user Bridge setup script/udev rules 21:00 Minutes In Jared Mauch Built his Own ISP Jared Mauch didn’t have good broadband—so he built his own fiber ISP Arstechnica link AT&T's advertised plans for his neighborhood topped out at a measly 1.5Mbps Eventually switched to a WISP that delivered about 50Mbps Comcast told him it would charge $50,000 to extend its cable network to his house Mauch built his own ISP (buried the fiber for 10,000) As of early January, Mauch has 30 homes and 10 homes to hookup Large corporate Business are not afraid of government and government regulations ISPs are going to learn, do it or get replaced Starlink is becoming a thing, Amazon satellite internet is coming 27:30 Minutes In Main Segment De-platforming / Self hosting Violence is wrong, Full stop Gate keeping in the broadcast industry changed when the internet became a thing Groups and People were banned from twitter so they moved to Parler Amazon kicked Parler off its hosting services Google and Apple kicked the Parler app off their platforms Mozzila blog post Community discussion (sorry to much to summarize listen to the episode) Honorable Mention TeamSpeak 5 is going to be switching to the Matrix protocol for chat Will not federate Mumble is a better option -- 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! 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Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies Support Ask Noah ShowLinks:iPhone 7 booting Ubuntu 20.04 (to GUI) - YouTube — Daniel Rodriguez SUCCESS: iPhone 7 booting Ubuntu 20.04 to full gnome-shell desktop GUI : linuxAmazon.com: 1Mii USB Bluetooth Adapter for PC Bluetooth 5.0 Audio Transmitter, Dual Link USB Audio Adapter with APTX Low Latency, Bluetooth Dongle for PC, PS4, Headphone, Speaker (Only for Audio): ElectronicsGitHub - mediacms-io/mediacms: MediaCMS is a modern, fully featured open source video and media CMS, written in Python/Django and React, featuring a REST API.

New Year New Releases We're kicking off 2021 with a bang! The KDE team has announced a new focus on Wayland and fingerprint readers. Cawbird 1.3 a native twitter client for Linux has a new release with improved video uploading and replies, and Matrix will power FOSDEM this year! -- During The Show -- 01:45 Minutes In Email 1 - Comment on SolarWinds from Newnix 04:40 Minutes IN Caller 1 - Carl Problem: Intermittent camera and mic problems Solution 1: unplug other usb devices (bandwidth issues) Solution 2: Buy a PCIe USB 3 card Solution 3: Buy a Thinkpad with thunderbolt and a thunderbolt dock Solution 4: Make sure the camera is plugged into a matching USB port (3.0/2.0) Logitech C920 webcam Logitech C930 Feedback on Backups Bareos backup Email 2 - LVM vs Raid from Cory OpenMediaVault Storage - FreeNAS Unraid BTRFS is good for low power devices, less overhead than ZFS RAID 1 or RAID 10 are better options in most cases, and using RAID 10 + Btrfs compression will give you similar space availability to RAID 6 RAID is not a backup 19:00 Minutes In Email 3 - Old Smartphones as Cameras from M. X. U. Geovision Cameras Axis Cameras Synology LiveCam From the Community Droidcam 23:55 Minutes In Pick of the Week KDE Itinerary is a digital travel assistant with a priority on protecting your privacy. Timeline view of a unified travel itinerary with automatic trip grouping. Supports train, bus and flight bookings as well as hotel, restaurant, event and rental car reservations. Automatic booking data extraction from various input formats, performed locally on your device. Real-time delay and platform change information for trains. Selection of alternative train connections on unbound tickets or on missed connections. Local ground transportation navigation between elements of your itinerary. 26:27 Minutes In Gadget of the Week (03:00) [12:00] Maingear Vector 2 Gaming Laptop Pros Starting at $1349 0.78” thick and 4.16 lbs i7-1075OH NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 16GB / 1TB NVME 4 Cell Battery - 4000 mAh 1080p 144hz Being a gaming laptop Cons No Thunderbolt only USB C Can't be powered over USB C Degraded power when unplugged 30:00 Minutes In KDE Roadmap KDE has plans for 2021 - and they're pretty cool Fingerprint support throughout the KDE Plasma experience Login Lock Screen KAuth and Polkit. Focus on Wayland - aiming for serious, concentrated Wayland work continuing through 2021 Devs plan to improve the look and feel of Plasma’s default Breeze theme — expect something “super modern and awesome” KDE devs will replace the celebrated Kickoff app launcher with a newer, fresher replacement. 32:44 Minutes In Cawbird 1.3 Released Cawbird is free, open source software compatible with most modern Linux distros https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/01/cawbird-1-3-released-for-linux-distros Improved DM Support Video Uploading You can now see media shared in direct messages Links and hashtags sent in messages are ‘clickable’ It’s possible to delete DMs, load older DMs, and send images as DMs in Cawbird Cawbird 1.3 supports video uploads to tweets (one video per tweet) Improved upload handling of animated and non-animated GIFs More accessible approach to loading ‘replied to’ tweets 33:37 Minutes In FOSDEM Online Via Matrix EMS - Offical Matrix Hosting https://matrix.org/blog/2021/01/04/taking-fosdem-online-via-matrix Started with Matrix over SELF / Wanted the ability to connect with people in a free and open source decentralized client, found Matrix, got sucked in. 2021 - Altispeed officially switched to EMS Matrix instance Public Roadmap / Can buy feature deveopment / entire sales staff to handle feature requests Jitsi - Feature we didn't think we'd use and end up using it daily now Matrix team are in active contact with the Jitsi team making BOTH Jitsi AND Matrix better. FOSDEM will have its own dedicated Matrix server at fosdem.org (hosted by EMS along with a ton of Jitsi’s) acting as the social backbone for the event Official bridges will be provided to IRC and XMPP (and most other chat systems), giving as much openness and choice as possible - if folks want to participate via Freenode and XMPP they can! FOSDEM has spent a lot of time improving widgets recently: these give the ability to embed arbitrary webapps into chatrooms - letting you add livestreams, video conferences, schedules, Q&A dashboards etc, augmenting a plain old chatroom into a much richer virtual experience that can hopefully capture the semantics and requirements of an event like FOSDE Attendees can lurk as read-only guests in devrooms without needing to set up accounts (or they can of course use their existing Matrix/IRC/XMPP accounts) Every devroom and track will have its own chatroom, where the audience can hang out and view the livestream of that particular devroom (using the normal FOSDEM video livestream system). There will also be a ‘backstage’ room per track for coordination between the devroom organisers and the speakers. The talks themselves will be prerecorded to minimise risk of disaster, but each talk will have a question & answer session at the end which will be a live Jitsi broadcast from the speaker and a host who will relay questions from the devroom. Each talk will have a dedicated room too, where after the official talk slot the audience can pop in and chat to the speaker more informally if they’re available (by text and/or by moderated jitsi). During the talk, this room will act as the ‘stage’ for the speaker & host to watch the livestream and conduct the question & answer session. Every stand will also have its own chatroom and optional jitsi+livestream, as will BOFs or other adhoc events, so folks can get involved both by chat and video There’ll also be a set of official support, social etc rooms - and of course folks can always create their own! FOSDEM Matrix bot, responsible for orchestrating the hundreds of required rooms, setting up the right widgets and permissions, setting up bridges to IRC & XMPP, and keeping everything in sync with the official live FOSDEM schedule. Call for help Folks on XMPP often complain that the Bifröst Matrix<->XMPP bridge doesn’t support MAMs - meaning that if XMPP users lose connection, they lose scrollback. We’re not going to have time to fix this ourselves in time, so this would be a great time for XMPP folks who grok xmpp.js to come get involved and help to ensure the best possible XMPP experience! It’d be really nice to be able to render nice schedule widgets for each devroom, and embed the overall schedule in the support rooms etc. The current HTML schedules https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/day/saturday/ and https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/room/vcollab/ don’t exactly fit - if someone could write a thing which renders them at (say) 2:5 aspect ratio so they can fit nicely down the side of a chatroom then that could be awesome! While we’ll bridge all the official rooms over to Freenode, it’d be even nicer if people could just hop straight into any room on the FOSDEM server (or beyond) via IRC - effectively exposing the whole thing as an IRC network for those who prefer IRC. We have a project to do this: matrix-ircd, but it almost certainly needs more love and polish before it could be used for something as big as this. If you like Rust and know Matrix, please jump in and get involved! If you just want to follow along or help out, then we’ve created a general room for discussion over at #fosdem-matrix:fosdem.org. It’d be awesome to have as many useful bots & widgets as possible to help things along. Sign up for element on Linux Delta 44:50 Minutes In LG Smart TVs Are Sending Your Data Home LG Smart Ad, analyses users favourite programs, online behaviour, search keywords and other information to offer relevant ads to target audiences. http://doctorbeet.blogspot.com/2013/11/lg-smart-tvs-logging-usb-filenames-and.html There is an option in the system settings called "Collection of watching info:" which is set ON by default This setting requires the user to scroll down to see it and, unlike most other settings, contains no "balloon help" to describe what it does It turns out that viewing information (such as file names) appears to be being sent regardless of whether this option is set to On or Off This information appears to be sent back unencrypted and in the clear to LG every time you change channel Domains to Block ad.lgappstv.com yumenetworks.com smartclip.net smartclip.com llnwd.net smartshare.lgtvsdp.com ibis.lgappstv.com 51:00 Minutes In FinCEN Proposes New Cryptocurrency Law The regulation, proposed by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), would require financial institutions (like Square) to collect personal information about the parties involved in cryptocurrency transactions. You can read a deep-dive on them here, but the more important requirement is for financial institutions to collect the name and physical address of both parties of any large transaction they’re involved in. Jack Dorsey is not happy about new crypto currency law Dorsey argues the regulation could end up driving customers “to use non-custodial wallets or services outside the U.S. to transfer their assets more easily,” leading to FinCEN having “less visibility into the universe of cryptocurrency transactions than it has today.” Put simply, if people have to provide private information to a bank in order to make a transaction, they’ll avoid using the bank — something the CEO describes as a perverse incentive. Deep Dive Link -- 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! 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Greg Kurtzer executive director of Rocky Linux a bug for bug RedHat distribution joins us this hour to tell the story of CentOS and what his vision for Rocky Linux is! -- During The Show -- Greg Kurtzer - Executive Director of Rocky Linux, a bug for bug red hat compatible distro Greg's history Centos history Rocky Linux now and future Currently collaborating on Slack, It will be moving to Mattermost There is a google doc for developers who want to help, please be patient lots of responses to go through Release will be available Q2 2020 Current state of the project 36:00 minutes in Walt Caller One What Protections are in place to protect Rocky Linux from corporate interests 44:00 minutes in Email 1 Unifi Access Points and NVRs 1) Unifi Access Points Nano HD i UAP-AC Pro UAP-AP-HD 47:00 minutes in 2) What security NVR solution do you recommend? Use the Synology selector tool Synology FS6400 Axis Cameras Geovision cameras Also take a look at motioneye and motioneyeos More of a DIY approach but free and flexible 51:00 minutes in Pick of the Week Snapdrop: local file sharing in your browser. Inspired by Apple's Airdrop. Underneath the hood Vanilla HTML5 / ES6 / CSS3 frontend WebRTC / WebSockets NodeJS backend Progressive Web App 51:45 minutes in Gadget of the Week Playstation 5 Controller DualSense™ Wireless PS5 Controller The DualSense wireless controller for PS5 offers immersive haptic feedback2, dynamic adaptive triggers2 and a built-in microphone, all integrated into an iconic design. Feel physically responsive feedback to your in-game actions with dual actuators which replace traditional rumble motors. In your hands, these dynamic vibrations can simulate the feeling of everything from environments to the recoil of different weapons Experience varying levels of force and tension as you interact with your in-game gear and environments. From pulling back an increasingly tight bowstring to hitting the brakes on a speeding car, feel physically connected to your on-screen actions. Available from Sony for $69.99 Linux driver support [From Roderick Colenbrander](roderick.colenbrander@sony.com) Supported in linux *DualSense in both Bluetooth and USB modes *LEDs *Touchpad *Motion Sensors *Rumble Not supported yet *Adaptive Triggers *VCM based Haptics These features require a large amount of data and complex data structures. It is not clear how to expose these. The current Evdev and FF frameworks are too limiting. We hope to have a dialog on how to expose these over time in a generic way. Companies are starting to get it - make a good controller, make the code open so everyone can use it, people will buy your controller. 54:00 minutes in XFCE 4.16 has been Released! https://www.xfce.org/about/tour416 The Settings Manager itself received a visual refresh of its filter box *which can now be hidden permanently *Search capabilities of the filter box were improved by searching the descriptive 'Comments' part of each dialog's launcher Default Applications is a new dialog represents a merger between the previously available 'Mime Settings' and the 'Preferred Applications' dialogs. Added fractional scaling based on the RandR extension of X11 Added more default keyboard shortcuts out of the box (Examples: for window tiling or to open Thunar) xfce4-panel The panel received quite a few noteworthy updates *Animation for autohide and intellihide *New 'Status Tray' plugin that combines both legacy Systray item support with modern StatusNotifier item support *Dark mode support *Launchers showing additional actions on right-click *Window buttons offering to Launch a new instance XFCE Power Managment was cleaned up The settings dialog of the power manager was cleaned up and shows either 'on battery' or 'plugged in' settings as opposed to both in a huge table. [DarkTable](darktable.org) - 3.4 Encore! https://www.darktable.org/2020/12/darktable-3-4/ Best professional photography tools out there This is the second major release of 2020 5,500 commits in 2020! Many of the computationally-intensive image processing algorithms have been updated to be faster and more scaleable when running on the CPU. Improved operations to a number of the tools Releasing the first version of the new user manual, now split into a separate project named “dtdocs”. We have completely reorganised and rewritten the manual into a more maintainable structure using Markdown. This project has involved new content as well as a significant overhaul of the text, making it much easier to read for native English speakers In addition, filmic RGB version 4 now works with OpenCL and highlight reconstruction is now significantly faster with OpenCL-enabled hardware. New Module: Color Calibration Tone Equalizer Improvements Export Print Sizes Map View Changes The global color picker module UI has been overhauled It is now possible to automatically hide the header buttons on processing modules in the darkroom Hovering your mouse over the header of a processing module now displays a tool tip providing detailed in-app documentation. Many users have requested customization of module groups, and now that feature is here! Processing modules in the darkroom can now be assigned to user-defined module groups. This replaces the previous “favorites” group and the “more modules” module with a tool that allows you to create your own module groups and presets based on your work flow. Feedback https://www.synology.com/en-us/support/nvr_selector Pick of the Week https://snapdrop.net/ Gadget of the Week https://lore.kernel.org/linux-input/20201219062336.72568-1-roderick@gaikai.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 #AskNoahShow on Freenode! -- 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! 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Gnome 40 has a major redesign, a new version of Kdenlive is out adding some much desired pro features, Matrix has some exciting announcments and we discuss the Solar Winds backdoor and give you some alternatives. If this is the time of the year you want to tinker with new projects we have a few in store! -- During The Show -- 00:45 Request for feedback 01:55 Email 1 - How to back up BTRFS to the cloud rsync BTRFS send/recive https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/btrfs-sendreceive-helps-you-move-your-data 04:55 Email 2 - Smart devices cloudfree.shop https://cloudfree.shop/ homeassistant https://www.home-assistant.io/ lutron radiora https://www.lutron.com/en-US/Products/Pages/WholeHomeSystems/RadioRA2/Overview.aspx 12:00 Are Vlans Good enough? (continued from email 2) 14:40 Email 3 - Bitcoin Don't invest, considered unstable Mining is fun not pratical https://www.coinbase.com/ https://www.blockchain.com/explorer ALternative crypto currencys https://ethereum.org/en/ https://www.getmonero.org/ 23:48 Email 4 - Bluetooth headphones on Linux Mic Not Working A2DP audio out only (high quality) HSP audio out and in (low quality) Check what protocols are supported by your dongle Easiest way to work around this... sudo apt-get install blueman starting from Pulseaudio v. 11.0, it's possible to automatically switch the profile whenever microphone access is requested by the application, but it's disabled by default. Find load-module module-bluetooth-policy line in /etc/pulse/default.pa Change it to load-module module-bluetooth-policy auto_switch=2 You need to reload pulseaudio module after this for the changes to take effect: pulseaudio -k pulseaudio -D Now pulseaudio will switch the device profile to HSP whenever microphone access is requested and change it back to A2DP after stream is closed. 27:29 Pick of the Week Just Perfection! https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3843/just-perfection/ This extension allows you to disable: OSD Search Dash Workspace Switcher Top Panel App gesture 28:35 Gadget of the Week Gaomon S620 $35 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07R77SNX9/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Karita https://krita.org/en/ 31:02 Gnome 40 Major Design Revamp https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/12/gnome-40-major-design-revamp GNOME 40 is due for release in March, 2021. 33:45 KdenLive https://kdenlive.org/en/2020/12/kdenlive-20-12-is-out/ Kdenlive 20.12 serves as a new stable release and a new feature release New features same track transitions subtitling tool Effects Another usability improvement is the ability to rename and add/edit the description of custom effects (by new contributor Vivek Yadav.) New Pillar Echo effect for your vertical videos. Crop by padding effect can now be keyframed. New VR 360 and 3D effects for working with 360º and 3D stereoscopic footage. New Video Equalizer for adjusting image brightness, contrast, saturation and gamma. usability Ability to enable/disable normalization of audio thumbnails from track header Ability to delete multiple tracks at once (by Pushkar Kukde) When archiving a project an option was added to archive only clips in the timeline as well as the option choose the compression method between TAR and ZIP. On the backend front the Online Resources tool was ported to qtwebengine (by Andreas Sturmlechner) and downloading wipes, render profiles, titles and wipes defaults to using https. 37:34 Solar Winds https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/12/evasive-attacker-leverages-solarwinds-supply-chain-compromises-with-sunburst-backdoor.html Managed Service Provider (MSP) management software march 2020 hack dec 2020 discoverd 47:05 Souk Flatpak App Store for Linux https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/12/souk-flatpak-app-store-for-linux Souk is co-developed by Felix Häcker, the hands behind a slate of well-made, well-designed GTK apps available for Linux desktops including Shortwave and Fragments, and Christoper Davis, with design input from Tobias Bernard. 50:10 Matrix DMA interoperability open apis bridging (telgram discord slack) Dendrite is up and running on matrix.org Dendrite is second gen Matrix server The server that will be used when they eventually roll a monolithic client server combo that you can just install and start talking ILAGS - Improved landing as a guest One of those things is threading https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/15/dendrite-2020-progress-update 55:00 cerlean https://cerulean.matrix.org https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/18/introducing-cerulean It’s (currently) a very minimal javascript app - only 2,500 lines of code. Proof of concept - not designed for production use. Microblogging platform / decentralized twitter based on Matrix. 56:06 humble bundle https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/12/the-steam-winter-sale-2020-is-now-live-plus-a-new-codemasters-humble-bundle Extra Links not covered https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/03/30/new-features-to-core/ https://www.reddit.com/gallery/kh33m8 https://twitter.com/FFmpeg/status/1340698413143224320 https://postmarketos.org/blog/2020/12/19/new-podcast/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/centos-linux-is-gone-but-its-refugees-have-alternatives/ -- 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 #AskNoahShow on Freenode! -- 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 ShowLinks:Independent Flatpak App Store — Souk is a flatpak-based app store, written with GTK4 and Rust. It's written from the ground up to be an app store that works both on desktop and on mobile devices like the PinePhone, PineTab, and Librem 5.Just Perfection - GNOME Shell Extensions — To control GNOME Shell extensions using this site you must install GNOME Shell integration that consists of two parts: browser extension and native host messaging application.LKML: Greg Kroah-Hartman: Linux 5.10.2The Steam Winter Sale 2020 is now live, plus a new Codemasters Humble Bundle | GamingOnLinux