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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 Email volunteers@minddripmedia.com with your skill set and contact details -- 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: Matthew Miller.Support Ask Noah Show
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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 -- 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
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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 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 Email volunteers@minddripmedia.com with your skill set and contact details -- 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
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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! -- During The Show -- -- 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
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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 -- 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
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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 Email volunteers@minddripmedia.com with your skill set and contact details -- 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
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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 -- 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
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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 -- 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
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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/ -- 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
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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. -- 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

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