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Apr 21, 2021 • 57min
Episode 228: Fedora 34 with Matthew Miller
Matthew Miller joins the show to talk about next week's release of Fedora 34, with Gnome 40 and Pipewire there is no shortage of exciting changes coming to the distro. We take your calls, and emails and answer questions!
-- During The Show --
00:50 Multi-Hard Drive Install - M.X.U.
If you have the same make/model make sure you know your serial numbers
04:00 Sony WH-1000XM4 headsets help? - Richard
06:00 Headphone recommendation? - Chris
Frequency Range
Human Range 20-20,000 hz
Sony WH-1000XM4
Sampling rate - 44.1 khz is nearly imperceptible to the human ear
Wireless requires Encoding/Decoding which can degrade quality
CD quality is much better than mp3, FLAC and WAV can be "uncompressed"
Driver Unit Size
Generally larger driver = better sound quality
Multiple small drivers can out perform a single large driver
Passive/Isolation vs Active Noise Cancellation
Active - generates opposite wave from to cancel out noise
Passive/Isolation - Simply tries to block outside noise
1st Choice Sony WH-1000XM4
2nd Choice Bose Quiet Comfort
19:30 Gnome 40 still single thread? - Jon
Phoronix Article
21:00 Caller HDD Arrays - Mark
It depends on your use case
JBOD "just a bunch of disks"
Mirrored Array
Raid 5
Raid Cards can cause issues, Certain file systems (ZFS) want to talk to the disks directly
25:00 Education/Career Advice for a High Student
A few paths to take
Programmer
Support
System Engineer
Network Engineer
Job Shadow
Internships
Certs can be good
Red Hat Certs are good (RHCSA)
Don't rely on certs
28:45 Interview with Matt
BTRFS by default went well
Fedora 34
Currently On Schedule
Fedora Linux Schedule
Transparent Compression is enabled
Shipping with Gnome 40
Multi-Monitor in Gnome 40 needs some work still
New Spins available
Pipewire by default (Pro audio for everyone!)
SystemD OOMD on by Default
Fedora Server received lots of polish (thank you Fedora Server Team)
Fedora IOT Edition, Based on RPM OS Tree and Containers
CoreOS has 3 streams now
You can get involved with Fedora
New Fedora Logo
History Of the Fedora Logo
[Fedora Site](getfedora.org)
53:30 Another Backup question - Daniel
You want off site and automated backup
Bacula
ZFS/BTRFS Send/Receive
Check out Episode 36 of Opinion Dominion
The Opinion Dominion Ep 36
Call to Action
We will have community rooms/booths
Matrix Chat (Element) will be used again this year
SELF will be virtual this year, hosted again by yours truly!
SELF Call for Talks
SELF dates June 10-12
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Apr 14, 2021 • 56min
Episode 227: Feedback Frenzy!
This episode is all about questions. Networking, home automation, problems booting, we have it all this week as we dig through the email inbox and take your phone calls!
-- During The Show --
Garage Door Notifications - Shawn
Modern doors have open/closed status
Standalone door sensor & tie into access/security system
Vista 20P panel
Chalk board pictures - Reed
Q: Photo Camera for chalkboard
A: Document camera
A: Okio Document Camera
A: FFMPEG one liner
ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -i /dev/v4l/by-id/usb-0c45_USB_camera-video-index0 -vframes 1 test.jpeg
Chromebook Feedback - Charliebrownau
All Chromebook Users should:
Backup ChromeOS install
Backup data to usb storage
Learn how to open chromebook and change write protect tab
Download Mrchromebook firmware (forked from Coreboot/seabios)
Download GalliumOS
GalliumOS
EndeavorOS
MrChromebox
Caller Joey
Q: How to share photos with out app or password
A: Piwigo
A: Seafile
Q: Industrial Z-Wave Temp Sensor + Home Assistant
A: Leviton Switches
A: Lutron Switches
A: [Global Industrial Thermostat]
A: Digiten Wireless Temperature Controlled Thermostat
Docking Stations - Roger
System76 Support Link
Debugging Desktop Crashes - Lucas
Check the logs (journalctl)
Press Caps Lock key - See if the light toggles
Take out all extra componets, reintroduce one by one
Ultimate Boot disc
Memtest86
First Gen Ryzen CPU have a known issue, check/RMA
https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/deck
Small Business - Jeremy
Running your own company means lots of bosses instead of one
Cold Calling doesn't work
Spend time networking
Give Free Samples
Focus on serving the customer well
You can't purchase trust - Keep your word no matter what
Book Thu Shalt Prosper
IT Management - Shawn
Knowlegebase
Wiki
Github/Gitlab
osTicket Knowlegebase
Device Tracking/Monitoring
SnipeIT
LibreNMS
Zabbix
Ticket System
osTicket
NextCloud with Decks
Pick of the Week
Airline Managment Game
Competely Free
Open Source
No Ads
New world comeing in Version 2
Friendly Game Community
Over 7000 players
Developer Wanted a more realistic game
Version 2 Video
Brave is Blocking FLoC
Android Police Article
Search Engine Journal Article
FloC is bad for privacy
Chrome version 89 on is affected
EFF Link
AM I Flocked .org
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Apr 7, 2021 • 59min
Episode 226: Networking Basics with Steve Ovens
Everyone uses a network to access the internet, but how well do you understand the network you use? In this episode Steve Ovens joins us to give a basic network overview as well as answer questions you sent in!
-- During The Show --
02:00 Setting up Network Segment
Reverse Proxy - Cameron
Nginx Reverse Proxy
Kernel networking Issue - James
BCM4354 WiFi Card
RPM Fusion Link from Conan Kudo
Should we all use IPV6
IPV6 is only being deployed in Telcos
Short Answer No
How to Wireguard into my network?
10:50 FireJail
FireJail
Sandboxes applications using native Linux Kernel features
Open Source
Requires 3.x+ Kernel
Bubblewrap Alternative to FireJail
Steve Ovens Talks/Articles
Linux Namespaces
Mount Namespaces
Building Container Namespaces
Cgroups Part One
14:00 Gadget of the week
Orico Tool-Free USB 3.0 Enclosure
18:00 Networking Segment
Caller Scooter
Q: Sync Photos between Apple and Android Devices?
A: Nextcloud Agent
A: Piwigo
Q: Where can I find the Multipass app
A: I will look into this
A: Last resort chrome app
Caller Tony
Q: Rsync/backup advice
A: Rsync
A: ZFS send/receive
A: Bacula
A: SpiderOak
Q: Monitoring backups
A: Librenms
A: Site visits/manual
What is an IP address
What is my IP
Type what is my IP in duckduckgo.com
What is a Default Gateway
Usually your router
What is Bridge Mode
All traffic gets passed through
What is a MAC Address
Unique hardware address
Never changes
Added to all packets
What is a Subnet Mask
How many computer are in a IP Range
Class C Networks have 254 usable addresses
How to separate large networks
Use Subnets (no security)
Use VLans
Trouble Shooting
Ping default gateway
Check DNS
DNS
Phone Book for the internet
Translates Domain Names to IP addresses
Slower but Private DNS - Quad9, OpenDNS
Faster but not Private - Google
Static vs Dynamic IP addresses
Dynamic is DHCP
Reserve static address in DHCP server
Wireguard YouTube Tutorial
Call to Action
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Matrix Chat (Element) will be used again this year
SELF will be virtual this year, hosted again by yours truly!
SELF Call for Talks
SELF dates June 10-12
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Mar 31, 2021 • 56min
Episode 225: Fedora 34 Initial Impressions
Fedora 34 Beta is out with Gnome 40. This is a major rework of Gnome and the payoff was worth the wait!
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Mar 24, 2021 • 56min
Episode 224: Fighting for Human Rights with Tech
Apple has rejected important updates to the ProtonVPN iOS app. This decision compromises the ability of the people of Myanmar to preserve their human rights by submitting information to the UN. We discuss a FOSS IT inventory and asset system, and a Raspberry Pi based tablet!
-- During The Show --
00:30 Accounting Software - Greg
GNU Cash
FOSS
Every Dollar
Put out by Dave Ramsey
Web App/Service
Freemium
KMyMoney
From the KDE Project
FOSS
Good UI
HomeBank
Recomendation from the chat room
06:50 Questions around Peertube - Charlie
OVH
subsidized by Canadian government
VPS Sizing
Network Bandwidth
Disk Size
CPU/RAM
Peertube Docs
Install
Activity Pub
Docs Home
DNS
Use your registrar's DNS
Setup individual A records
SSL/TLS
Buy a cert
Use LetsEncrypt
15:55 Caller John
RaspberryPi Troubleshooting
Try a Different Power Supply
Try a Different SD Card
20:55 Questions About Solar Winds - Hank
Correct, The Signing key never left their site
Solarwinds/Sunspot/StellarParticle was hard to defend against
24:30 Matrix Question - Warped
Axis p5655
Elgato Stream Deck
Canon Cameras
STI is better than HDMI
31:30 Pick of the Week
SnipeIT
Simple developer JSON REST API
Pre-defined "kits" for faster checkouts
Admin Dashboard
Recent Activity Overview
Consuables and Asset Tracking
License Management
Self Host-able
Have a cloud option
99.99% SLA
Full time in house support team
Servers across the globe
Will help you move to your own self hosted instance
38:30 Gadget of the Week
Cutiepi
BCM2711, Quad-core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.5 GHz
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4, Wireless, 2GB Lite (CM4102000)
8” IPS LCD (1280x800)
Li-Po 5000 mAh battery
WLAN 2.4 GHz, 5.0 GHz IEEE 802.11 b/g/n/ac
Bluetooth 5.0, BLE
Rear-facing camera 5MP (1080p)
I/O ports
1x USB type-A
1x USB type-C (charging and OTG)
1x Micro HDMI
1x MicroSD Card slot
Pre-orders
Now open
$200
Estimated delivery in July, 2021.
Cutiepi Github
41:40 Georgio
Where can I find slide show music
Incompetec
Square-Peach.com
Audioblocks.com Now StoryBlocks.com
45:45 News
Apple Blocks ProtonVPN App Updates
If you have an Apple device complain
53:40 Fedora 34 Beta
Fedora Magazine Article
Phoronix Article
BTRFS Transparent Compression
Replacing PulseAudio with PipeWire
Fedora Workstation includes Gnome 40
KDE Plasma uses Wayland by default
New I3 Spin, First Tiling Window Manager
Systemd-oomd on by default for all spins
Fedora Project Link
New episode of Open Source Voices out
Open Source Voices
We will have a Networking Segment on April 6th
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Mar 17, 2021 • 56min
Episode 223: Arrested over Encryption
A federal grand jury today returned an indictment against the Chief Executive Officer and an associate of the Canada-based firm Sky Global on charges that they knowingly and intentionally participated in a criminal enterprise that facilitated the transnational importation and distribution of narcotics through the sale and service of encrypted communications devices. System 76 has a new professional desktop, the Linux Foundation has a new open source signing tool that could make secure software supply chains universal.
-- During The Show --
00:30 LumoSQL - Dan
Youtube Link 1
Youtube Link 2
Youtube Link 3
02:00 Listener Responds to SSH Questions - Roger
man ssh_config
Cyberciti Article
03:00 Off Site Backup suggestion? - Alex
Rsync
Snapshots
Bluray Archive Disks
ZFS/BTRFS Send/Receive
Tarsnap
Cryptomator
13:00 Pick of the Week
Plasma Leakguard
Auto-restarts KDE Plasma if it is taking an abnormal amount of memory
16:00 Gadget of the Week
Opensource.com Article
Raspberry PI router + Modem
Requirements
Raspberry Pi
Power Cable
Computer (Preferably running Linux)
MicroSD Card (16GB or larger)
Ethernet cable
LTE Modem
SIM Card
Default IP 192.168.1.1
modemmanager to configure modems
20:55 Sigstore
Software signing through block chain
From the Linux Foundation
Functional but considered to be beta software
Tech Republic Article
27:00 System76 Thelio Mira
System76 Blog Post
Hand crafted in the USA
4th Gen AMD Ryzen CPUs
PCIe 4.0 NVMe storage
Up to 128GB RAM
Unique Cooling system
31:40 India Planning Cypto Currency ban
ArsTechnica Article
India is planning to introduce legislation banning crypto currency
Legislation would give crypto currency owners six months to liquidate
35:00 KDE Elisa Grows Up
Article Link
Music Player
Now supports AAC files
Pinephone experience is better than Zebra devices in use today
41:50 Sky Global
ArsTechnica Article
US uses RICO warrants to charge SkyGlobal Executives
US alleges SkyGlobal knowingly sold devices with strong encryption to drug dealers
47:00 Google Incognito Mode Lawsuit
Bloomberg Article
ArsTechnica Article
5 Billion Dollar Lawsuit
52:15 Fedora Workstation 34
Gnome Blog Post
NVidia driver catches up with wayland
Headless Display support (Thank You Jonas Ådahl)
Full Pipewire support
Red Hat is getting into the automotive space, Watch for related job posts
54:00 Call to Action
SELF will be virtual this year!
SELF Link
SELF dates June 10-12
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Mar 10, 2021 • 56min
Episode 222: Child Labor in Big Tech
Major tech companies are buying electronic components made from minerals mined by children, and forced labor. Ryan DasGeek joins the Ask Noah Show to discuss what's happening in the tech industry and how you can vote against it with your wallet.
-- During The Show --
01:15 Good SSH Connection Manager? - Jamie
Use a centralized jump host for logging/authentication (SSSD&FreeIPA)
Use Putty
Integrate with KeepassXC
Teleport
06:30 Possible to forward broadcasts between VLANs PFSense?
Becareful to not create broadcast storms/loops
UDP-Proxy
10:45 Router recommendation? - Larry
Unifi USG
Requires controller/Cloudkey
If controller goes offline you can't manage your network
Netgate SG-1100 + PFsense/OpnSense
15:00 Firewalld/UFW & Apparmor/SELinux
Debian/Ubuntu are not insecure, Firewall is off by default
Apple Support
Reqired Ports
RTSP 554 TCP/UDP
Airplay Digital Audio Access Protocol TCP 3689
Multicast DNS (MDNS) 5353
on Fedora
$ firewall-cmd --add-service=mdns
$ firewall-cmd --add-service=rtsp
$ firewall-cmd --add-port=3689/tcp
$ firewall-cmd --runtime-to-permanent
18:15 Caller Serial Connection Logging - Chaz
minicom
24:45 Ryan (DasGeek) Ethical Hardware Production
24.9 million ppl are victims of forced labor
Know the Chain
Import Genius
Intercept Article
DasGeek Ethics Youtube Video
DasGeek Community
More Ethical Brands
HP
Intel
Nokia
Fairphone
HP Dragonfly
HP Dragonfly on CDW
Check out other podcasts Ryan is on regularly, Destination Linux, Hardware Addics, others over at [Destination Linux Netowrk](destinationlinux.network)
52:00 FBI Breaking encryption & Lying to Congress
EFF Link
EFF Link 2
Upturn Article
Less than 24 Hours to brute force a phone
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Mar 3, 2021 • 56min
Episode 221: Blackbird Secure Desktop
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
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Feb 24, 2021 • 56min
Episode 220: Multi-Monitor in Gnome 40
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/
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Feb 17, 2021 • 56min
Episode 219: Studying Gnome Users
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.
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01:15 IT War/Disaster Stories Call Out
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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
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