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Why do you use Linux? Why do you want to use Linux? This week Noah and Steve dig into their technology past and reflect on why a technologist would choose Linux and Open Source over the proprietary alternatives. -- During The Show -- 01:08 Why I Use Linux - Ryan Opened my eyes Wide open Allows me to choose how to use my computer 02:40 405 Error "Method Not Allowed" DICOM Software requires activation activation server went away Online Game Activation direct to drive companies take the game with them Memories taken Steve's Story Windows put you in a sandbox Linux is nerdy and different Unix philosophy 2 parts Linux and Open Source Reading source code Windows got better then worse 2 main professional automation systems Build systems independently then tie together Ruling things out X10 zigbee Ruled in ZWave Shellys Home Assistant update broke Orbit Panels Breaking the automation network out Shelly integration methods Steve's Parent's Setup RaspberryPi with Home Assistant ESP8266 with door sensor 42:48 News Wire Calligra 4.0 - carlschwan.eu Calibre 7.17 - calibre-ebook.com KDE Gear 24.08 - kde.org EasyOS 6.2 - notebookcheck.net Linux Desktop Share All Time High - tomshardware.com Descent 3 Open Source Engine Release - gamingonlinux.com NVIDIA 560.35.03 - phoronix.com Arch Install 2.8.3 Adds COSMIC - phoronix.com Microsoft Confirms Breaking Linux Dual Boot - bleepingcomputer.com Zen 5 Chip Runs 16% Faster - tomshardware.com NASA Awards $1.4M - science.nasa.gov Pidgin Keylogger Plugin - pidgin.im Sedexp Malware - bleepingcomputer.com AI Powered Robots - iotworldtoday.com Dracarys LLM - venturebeat All Things Open Open Source AI Definition - blog.adafruit.com Linux turned 33 on August 25th 45:45 Long Term Investment Core business software is built on open source today Being told no is unappealing Being able to fix things Are you controlling the box or is the box controlling you? -- 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

This week Steve gives a deep dive into his adventures with Frigate, an open source NVR software. -- During The Show -- 00:46 Orbit Panels Installed at home First professional install Smart home issues 03:03 Oreon Desktop The Register Distro based on Alma Linux Hard to get commercial Linux desktop right Oreon Project Company has support Focus on the desktop Has lots of extra packages/software Focus on stability 10:08 Serpent OS 9 to 5 Linux Serpent OS Alpha release Ikey Doherty 11:55 Cosmic OS 9 to 5 Linux Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha release of Cosmic Desktop Built for users System76 Cosmic Easy to switch between traditional and tiling desktops Give System76 constructive feedback Available for many distros Tool kit is available on Mac and Windows 21:33 Buying/Owning Content ARSTechnica Roku axed Redbox app You don't own anything purchased on a "service" 24:45 Sous Vide Cooker to Charge App is 10 years old Charging a subscription fee Claim is to cover hosting and downloads of the app Why not open source the app/protocol? ARSTechnica 30:13 News Wire Batocera 40 - gamingonlinux.com Deepin 23 deepin.org TAILS 6.6 - torproject.org CockroachDB Licensing Change - techcrunch.com Mesa 24.2.0 - mesa3d.org Gentoo & IA-64 Itanium - Gentoo.org OMI Joined ORGS - theregister.com Hermes 3 - siliconangle.com NeuroTrALE - extremetech.com 32:00 Frigate Make Good Mostly user error h.265 vs h.264 New release 0.14 complete rewrite of the UI User permissions exist now! Got a response on Github! 6 cameras plus a doorbell RioLink HA plugin did magic Moved from HA to Ryzen 1700 Power usage in HA vs Baremetal+GPU Network load Now up to 125 watts 5 disks 64 GB of RAM Tying into Home Assistant Open Source taking over proprietary Documentation Getting things "dialed in" Passing on "tribal knowledge" Calculating RAM usage Predicts disk usage Don't put it on the same box as Home Assistant -- 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

What if you could control your lights, music, and other Home Assistant things from a panel on your wall? Do you run tech at your church and need the ability to deliver controls in a way, in a location, and with a budget that's approachable for everyone? This week, Thomas Kvamme from Orbit Panels joins Noah and Steve to discuss his new in wall PoE control panels based on the Raspberry Pi, Streamdeck, and Bitfocus Companion! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Nice weather Little projects 01:45 Orbit Panels Thomas Kvamme - Owner and founder Why are you in ministry? Life before the stream deck StreamDeck Bitfocus Companion List of Bitfocus Companion Integrations Bitfocus Companion Satellite Proprietary alternatives Origin of Orbit Panels Orbit Panels Drop in replacement Design of the Orbit Panel Building an Orbit Panel How people use the Orbit Panels Home Assistant Integration Feedback on the panel Whats next? Available for sale! Use promo code LAUNCH for 10% off 45:00 News Wire Firefox 129 - mozilla.org Wine 9.15 - gitlab.winehq.org KDE Frameworks 6.5.0 - kde.org Gnome 46.4 - discourse.gnome.org PopOS! 24.04 - omgubuntu.co.uk OpenZFS 2.2.5 - github.com ZLUDA Take Down - wccftech.com DHS & White House $11M Partnership - therecord.media TUXEDO Infinity Flex 14 - tuxedocomputers.com CA AI Bill - reason.com Kernel Patch Boots Linux Faster - tomshardware.com 46:32 SimpleHelp - Brandon Tailscale/Headscale WireGuard RDP + VPN Simple Help instant support Proprietary is a place holder Mesh Central 49:09 Linphone SMS & VPN Question - Kris Google requirement is to support RCS Steve holding on 2.22.31 JMP.chat Matrix and SMS Route back to home OpenVPN TailScale WireGuard SurfShark Private Internet Access Host your own VPN on a VPS -- 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: Thomas Kvamme.Support Ask Noah Show

This week we dig into Steve's home assistant migration. We take your questions on how to get started with AI, a self hosted email horror story, and more Harbor Freight. -- During The Show -- 01:25 OpenSource AI - Craig Defining "open source AI" is hard Local Offline Generative AI on Linux - Part 1 : TextGen Local Offline Generative AI on Linux - Part 2 : ImageGen The Artifical Dominion Matrix Chat What do you want to learn? LM Studio GPT4ALL Haven't found a "safe for work" visual AI Glue cheese Stable Diffusion morality filter 10:50 Self Hosted Email Story - Yassine Noah is still gun shy on self hosted email 14:24 Security and Calendaring - Dan VPN back in 3rd party brokers Synology Surveillance Station WireGuard Punch a hole in the firewall Dangers of punching a hole CalDav Proton Mail calendar Nextcloud calendar Home Assistant calendar Radicale 28:51 Harbour Freight - Hank Snap-on feedback Mechanic vs DIY Still making hobo freight argument 31:51 Android Alternatives - Jayden Sailfish OS Ente Auth Cross-platform Better than Authy e/os or Murena 36:56 News Wire LANL Fierro - ladailypost.com Aloha Browser - accesswire.com GCC 14.2 - gnu.org GNU Binutils 2.43 - lwn.net Peazip 9.9 - peazip.github.io Firefox 129 - mozilla.org Amarok 3.1 - kde.org Azure Linux 3.0 - phoronix.com Serpent OS Pre-Alpha - serpentos.com Nitrux 3.6 - sourceforge Linux 6.9 EOL - lwn.net SLUBStick - securityweek.com DEV#POPPER - thehackernews.com TgRat - scmagazine.com RayV Lite - tomshardware DCLM on HugginFace - computerworld.com Flux - decrypt.co 39:45 Secure Boot 100s of PCs sold with 12yr old and compromised platform keys Can see the use case threat model Locking subsidized hardware Technical merits vs implementation Key management stalkware breach theregister.com 52:56 Home Assistant Migration Worried about thermals Critical Steve's kid gets clever Home Assistant notifies based on MAC address Noah's ethernet bathroom adventures Migrating Home Assistant Benchmarking Operating system choice Networking RHEL faster and more power efficient Home Assistant notifications 1:10:30 Frigate Frigate NVR Always on recording Documentation is hard NUC couldn't handle 6x 1080p Cameras GPU faster but more power hungry Challenges Still early days for Frigate -- 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

This week Steve returns and we dig into your feedback! Kenny joins the program and shares his horror story in the continuing saga of buying and owning tools that you can rely on, authy is going away for GrapheneOS users, what's the best way to handle 2fa on GrapheneOS? -- During The Show -- 01:00 Steve's Crowdstrike Fall Out Waited 10+ hours at the airport Stream of ppl to wait with Steve's restraunt tangent Too much homogeneous systems Windows 3.1 meme Lost sight of critical paths 08:40 Netbox Feedback - bloominstrong Excited about the product Struggle to get things in Struggle to get things out Always plan how to get things out 11:35 Why I Use Linux - Jeremey Free Secure Flexible 12:20 decloudus.com - Jason 2 versions of the S10 Noah's phone plan GrapheneOS requires a chip in Pixels Noah's Dad on GrapheneOS Authy on GrapheneOS Bitwarden 2FA Dark open island 22:55 Caller Chris from Canada Moving from MBR to UEFI Linux Mint backup tool Cowboy approach Install apps Transfer home directory When to use the latest release Keeping computers synced? Nextcloud Seafile Syncthing 34:12 News Wire Deepin 20.9 - Deepin Vanilla OS 2 - VanillaOS Linux Mint 22 - Linux Mint Wine 9.14 - WineHQ IDE Qt Creator 14.0 - QT Git 2.46 - GitHub SysVInit - GitHub TinyWatch S3 - CNX Software White House on AI - ABC News NIST AI Safety Platform - SC Magazine 35:10 "Hobo Freight" Kenny Schmidt 3 tools broke Glad some tools where cheap Repeat tools Impact of breakage on the job Watch the warranties Wouldn't buy a second time More caution at harbor freight Dead blow hammer LubeLogger Keeps the economy going -- 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

Podcast discusses the Crowdstrike outage affecting 8.5 million Windows machines. Topics include open source solutions, preventing catastrophes, Linux crash restoration, System76's Cosmic DE alpha release, and the importance of backup plans and open source software.

This week Dan Noal Director, Product Management at Red Hat for In Vehicle OS joins us to tell you why your car needs and operating system, and why Red Hat is ready to meet that need. Chris Wright the CTO of Red Hat joins the program to discuss Red Hat's strategy for AI. -- 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

This week Mauro Gaspari and Lukas Märdian join us to give us a deep dive into using Netplan on an Ubuntu vHost. We give you a self hosted way to track your car's maintenance, and a suite of tools to use if you work in production or in live performances! -- During The Show -- 00:40 Cosmic Desktop Started with Elementary OS External displays Cosmic is a complete remake Cosmic splits the difference i3 shortcuts Releasing this fall 07:30 3CX vs Asterisk - jisbetterthanj 3CX 20 stamps out all open source clients Have you opened Asterisk to the internet? Write in about your open source VOIP experiences 10:18 Steve VPN Split VPN issues Guide followed 12:00 Vehicle Regulations Legislation requiring things Manufactures making it harder to work on vehicles Advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology Automatic Shutoff Technology (HR 3684 Section 24205) LubeLogger LubeLogger YouTube Video 19:51 News Wire New Gnome Font - OMG Linux Firefox 128 - Mozilla Finnix 126 - Finnix Cmake 3.30 - Cmake.org GnuCash 5.8 - GnuCash OpenSSH Vulnerability - Marc.info Eldorado Ransomware - Tha Hacker News Gogs Flaws - The Hacker News Hot Plugging RAM - Toms Hardware Monocle - Help Net Security Multi-Token Prediction Models - Silicon Angle RTX Remix Rest API - Toms Hardware 21:35 NetPlan Mauro Gaspari Lukas Märdian - NetPlan Maintainer Bridging libvirt with NetPlan Special thanks to Lukas Märdian Danilo Egea Gondolfo Robert Krátký 3 Scenerios Single host, single NIC with bridge Single host, single NIC, with VLANs and bridges Single host, multiple NICs, with bonding, VLANs, and bridges NetPlan Why it exists What it is Where and how is it used Canonical Open Documentation Academy You can contribute with out knowing code or command line 40:00 Stage Hacks Stage Hacks.com VDO Ninja Tally Arbiter OnTime StageTimer.io Dicaffine NDI streamer for Linux HX and restreaming via RTMP Donations welcome DeckRack mounting hardware for Stream Decks Docs site Exploring the network Sound reference Cabling and more Production has unique technology challenges -- 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 Guests: Lukas Märdian and Mauro Gaspari.Support Ask Noah Show

Why do you use Linux and what problems do you run into? Both Noah and Steve make a value based decision when approaching tech, this week we dig deeper into why we choose to run Linux on the desktop. Could you power a 12v light, or 100 watt Ham Radio with a USB-C battery pack? Noah will tell you how doing so gave him light in his garage. Buckle your seat-belt, it's a packed show! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Deepin Desktop Why do we run what we run Ownership of skills and resources 3 Categories Disposable Service Owned Linux is the only OS that allows you to own your computer Main stream wants "IT as a service" Why are you using Linux? 08:50 Alternative Phone OS - Don ATT installed apps GrapheneOS Used to rough edges App issues SeLinux ANS 368 GrapheneOS privacy features LineageOS 15:38 ProxMox and OPNSense Passing the NIC solves the problem 16:39 Protecting Hard drives (encryption?) - Markus LUKS Key can be separated from the drive Layered encryption ZFS encryption GPG 20:23 Generating Your Own Power - Jim Pedal power Favorite feedback yet 22:22 Generating Your Own Power - Jim Dry contact 2 ways Shellys work CHECK YOUR MANUAL Typical wiring 27:30 Steve's Home Automation failure What do you do when critical automations fail 2.4 GHz WiFi keeps dropping Reach out to community/someone smarter Have a "fallback" Everything operates independently Home Assistant "stitches it all together" 31:30 News Wire Debian 12.6 - Debian Plasma 6.1 on Endeavor OS - EndeavorOS Leap Micro 6.0 - openSUSE Pipewire 1.2 - freedesktop.org OpenShot 3.2 OpenShot Wine 9.12 - WineHQ.org WSL2 Upgraded to Linux 6.6 - Phoronix SSHD Vulnerability - Developer-Tech.com CocoaPods Vulnerability - PC Mag Memory Unsafe Code - Tech Republic Ladybird Browser - Ladybird 33:22 Owning USB-C Power Noah's garage light M4 LEDs Designed to be left on High quality chips 10-30v USA Warranty INIU Powerbank 12v trigger 38:08 Supreme Court Decision Texas and Florida laws challenged Art Gallery comparison Supreme Court You are either responsible or not Moderation Violation of law vs Editorial Write in, what do you think? Network effect The Register 49:30 Chevron Case 40 year precedent reversed The Register 51:40 Element X Sign in via QR code Biggest PITA & Blessing True E2EE -- 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

-- During The Show -- 01:20 Pocket 386 IBM compatible system It's a toy Classic vs today's games Electrical components in power systems ARSTechnica Aliexpress 06:15 Tor Browser 13.5 VPN camp vs Tor Camp FBI drops cases rather than reveal methods Fingerprinting EFF Cover your tracks Letter boxing Using Tor EFF SSD 9 to 5 Linux 13:30 Tails Amnesic Incognito Live system 6.4 Highlights random cryptographic seed switch to HTTPS for repos updates to Tor and Thunderbird Noah's tor laptop 9 to 5 Linux 16:30 SIP & 3CX SIP and Astrisk 3CX dropping SIP/STUN support SIP only needs user name password server SIP gets blocked 3CX Tunneling in app SBC Supported phones Fanvil (Cheap Chinese) Yaelink (Cheap Chinese) Snom (German) Cisco and Polycom are the biggest Businesses already have phones ISPs are the biggest competitor Limited support phones Gigaset Grandstream Polycom Cyberdata Proprietary is a place holder Phone network is "un-ownable" Grandstream UCM ATA in ATA out FreePBX under the hood DTEC WiFi Phone Grandstream WP825(https://www.amazon.com/Grandstream-WP825-IP-Phone-Bluetooth/dp/B0BJKP1H8F) RSSI Beep Grandstream FXO Gateway Vodia VitalPBX Yaestar FreePBX Refreshed UI All options available Paid commercial modules Admin module Any SIP trunk (including JMP.chat) SIP on Mobile Linphone Bria Google Play Apple Store Voxtelesys 46:30 News Wire Emacs 29.4 - GNU.org Plasma 6.1 - KDE.org Darktable - Darktabnle Tor Browser 13.5 - Tor Project Openshot 3.2 - Phoronix Monochrome TV Mode - Phoronix Intel Battlemage - Phoronix MLinux 45.1 - 4MLinux Tails 6.4 - [Tails](htps://tails.net/news/version_6.4/) Rafel RAT - The Hacker News Patched Ollama Vulnerability - The Register Chameleon AI modles - Toms Guide 1.5 NPU Driver - Phoronix Apple Open-Source Models - Apple Insider Mozilla AI - Mozilla MoonIndex - Phys.org 49:00 KDE 6 Plasma Desktop Kubuntu standard issue at Altispeed Polished out of the box Explicit Sync New remote desktop X2GO -- 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