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Ajit Pai, the former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission joins Noah and Steve to discuss regulation at the federal level and how we best frame our laws to promote innovation and the freedom of the internet. -- During The Show -- 00:58 Noah Helps Son's Friend Buys bits at a time Went Linux vs $200 Windows Walked him through all the steps Made a recovery script 03:20 Glenn From The Geek Lab Switched away from Mail in a Box Went to Mailcow Your experience with blacklists? 04:48 Penguin From The Geek Lab Bunny CDN? Open Source going strong Open source friendly options Why you may need a CDN 06:27 Mobile Operating Systems Many devices still need android drivers Sailfish OS Incremental improvements still being made 07:50 Inventree Inventree Divides purchasing and selling Manage Suppliers BOM Management 08:58 News Wire GNU C Library 2.39 - Source Ware Helium OS Public Alpha - Helium OS OnlyOffice - Only Office LibreOffice 24.2 - Document Foundation Scribus 1.6 - Scribus Mesa 24.0 - Freedesktop.org Ubuntu 24.04 & Linux 6.8 - OMG Ubuntu KaOS Linux 2024.01 - 9 to 5 Linux Nitrux 3.3 - NXOS SUDO on Windows Server - Bleeping Computer PKL Programing Language - Tech Radar Glibc Flaw - The Hacker News GNU C v2.39 - Source Ware AI2 Full Open Source LLM - Axios.com Protect AI Integrates LLM Guard - csoonline.com Hugging Face AI Assistant Maker - Venture Beat Mistral CEO Confirms Leak - Venture Beat 10:50 Ajit Pai Interview What was your big picture of the FCC when you were appointed? Why advocate for less regulations and what were the results? Where does the line fall between FCC and elected officials? Does regulation stifle innovation? What are you views on net neutrality? Where is the line between giving authority to state and local government vs the FCC? Internet/last mile providers and internet backbone ICS in prisons Is there any reason why internet couldn't facilitate low cost communications in prisons? Can you see a time where the federal government puts in internet infrastructure? AI and robo calls and texts What can you speculate about the FCC and frameworks for licensing space stations engaged in in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (ISAM) Where do you see the future of ham radio? FCC.gov NY Times Ars Technica FCC PDF Events coming up Texas Linux Fest Linux Fest North West Scale SELF -- 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: Ajit Pai and JT Pennington.Support Ask Noah Show

This week Noah and Steve dig into alternatives to Axis for cameras. What can you buy that won't break the bank, but also has open source compatibility? Your questions go to the front of the line, and what if NextCloud had an email backend? -- During The Show -- 01:10 Steve's WiFi/SSID problem Double NAT theory MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) 03:43 Mail-in-a-box - Joe Mail-in-a-box uses Nextcloud components Office in a box Center around files or email Nextcloud conversation Roundcube Microsoft support/blocking entire yahoo domain Mail partnership Write in about self hosted email 15:15 HDMI Capture card - Fred Blackmagic Decklink HDMI No guarantee drivers will continue to be published PCI bandwidth Blackmagic Decklink Duo (SDI) Quad Bus USB Card Decimator VDO.ninja 20:17 Affordable USB DMX Controller - TwoBit DMX vs RGBW Hardware controllers DMXKing USB Adapter QLC+ MIDI control WLED WLED DMX output doc Orbs, LED Walls, Christmas lights Chat Recommendation Enttec Open DMX USB Thank You TwoBit! 27:25 News Wire Vanilla OS 2 Orchid Beta - Vanilla OS Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 - Ubports Firefox 122 Google Meet Fix - Fedora Project Ubuntu 24.04 Aiming for 6.8 Kernel - Phoronix NVIDIA 550 - Phoronix OpenWRT One - Toms Hardware Game Boy Homebrew - Gaming on Linux EU Cyber Resilience Act - Adafruit Blog White House Report - Cyber Scoop Vivante NPU - CNX Software Eco Libre Report - Eco Libre Google Cloud and Hugging Face - Data Center Dynamics New Greener AI Models - Tech Xplore Code Llama 70B - Venture Beat 29:00 Dash Boards Being more "pro" at home Dashy Only tracks web end points Beautiful UI Prometheus, Grafana Uptime Kuma Strikes a middle ground Variety of "end points" Tracks over time Layout Settings stored in SQlite file Has an API Use case Setup 38:27 Alternative Cameras Axis Great Expensive Hard to find mounts RioLink Lots of conflicting information Depends on the model Steve bought ReoLink E1 Outdoor Pro Home Assistant auto detected ReoLink Lots of sensors Has "tracking" and "motion detection" Home Assistant can update firmware Has FTP setting RioLink (Amazon) RioLink PiPy API Get a POE based camera You get what you pay for Do Not buy these cameras! Hikvision/Dahua - The Intercept Eufy - Ars Technica Ring - EFF Used Axis is cheaper anyway Get cameras that follow a standard (ONVIF) ONVIF Conformant Products GeoVision (Amazon) Camera longevity -- 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 we revisit the idea of self-hosting your own email server. For years both of us have been against it, with the current state of "cloud" mail providers, maybe it's time to reconsider. Noah and Steve dig into new research that suggests some concerns with kids using tech at a young age. -- During The Show -- 00:52 Steve's Question Can't load sites on WiFi AP unless on a VPN Write in! 02:00 Noah on Hosted Email Hosted O365 Client filed ticket Entire yahoo.com email domain not working Microsoft doesn't know how to fix it Wed 2pm - Today (Tues) a little back and forth Still not solved Got a slew of useless troubleshooting links Noah can't fix the problem Mail in a box 08:37 New OSS Firmware for Zigbee - Charlie Open source Zigbee firmware GitHub CNX-Software Article May enable open source firmware on new devices 11:40 Vulnerability Scanners - Steve OpenSCAP Clair Wazuh Wazuh Vulnerability Detection Doc Wazuh Open SCAP how it works Doc Ethical Hacking steps MetaSploit Lynis 19:15 Ubuntu Pro? - Mike Paying for things identifies you Responsible disclosure Ubuntu Pro reduces vulnerability time Free for 5 machines Ubuntu Membership 25:18 Blocking websites & Can you recommend linux? - David Sophos XG for Home Noah recommends sophos HARDWARE not software Elementary OS, Debian, etc Go with the spin of your favorite desktop How to install MS Windows with out account Elementary OS is polished Arch Linux, to dig in 33:38 News Wire KVIrc 5.2 - KVIrc Firefox 122 - Mozilla Proton 8.0 5th Patch - GitHub Fish 3.7.0 - GitHub Pulse Audio 17 - Freedesktop.org Wine 9.0 - Wine HQ - Gaming on Linux Bazzite v2.2 - Gaming on Linux Sparky 2024.01 - Sparky Linux AV Linux 23.1 - Band Shed Linux Mint 21.3 Edge ISO - Linux Mint MX Linux 23.2 - MX Linux BPF Updates - The News Stack Multiple Severe AI Vulnerabilities - Security Week Facebook AGI - Forbes 35:10 Noah's Experience Gives kids ride home Explains budgeting Offers hardware on hand Build's Ryzen tower Windows vs Linux Installs Linux Sad state of affairs Get to kids before indoctrination The Epoch Times Article Depression in teens Getting worse Steve's discussion with a young person Effect of COVID Screen vs in person Screens and psychological disorders 48:28 Firefox Releases DEB Mozilla Blog Post DEB gets faster updates than snaps Hard to move architectures Hard to find all edge cases 9 to 5 Linux 51:42 CSA Open Letter From Matrix Lots of companies signed Matrix Blog Post 52:52 AV Linux Real cool Music Nerds write in! -- 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: JT Pennington.Support Ask Noah Show

This week Noah and Steve talk monitoring dashboards! Get a single pane of glass for your house! A discussion about proprietary garbage, and answer your questions. -- 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: JT Pennington.Support Ask Noah Show

This week Daniel Schäfer joins Ask Noah and we talk about the design of the Framework laptop and upcoming 16" version of the laptop. We answer your questions, and tell you about a newbie friendly terminal emulator! -- During The Show -- 01:45 Sharing Passwords - Anthony Send data/info via multiple channels Nextcloud Passphrases 07:40 Axis Camera Feedback - Dominik AXIS M3075-V Motion Detection on camera No need for proprietary software 11:16 Pi Hole Problems - Anthony Blocked or not, same amount of traffic Windows on separate/guest network Try a debloat script 15:00 controld for dns - Mohammad [Controld](controld.com) Steps Get subscription from controld.com In controld.com, define a device with your desired settings, and then add DoH providers to the block list Set up dnsdist as DNS forwarder Configure DHCP to point devices to dnsdist Configure NAT on the Mikrotik to redirect all UDP/TCP DNS requests to dnsdist Configure the firewall to block the known DoH IPs 19:54 Zwave Power up - Tiny Normally shows up quickly Interrogation takes time Pair close to the controller Battery devices may go to sleep Network remaps/self heals every ~ 1.5 days 22:40 Video over WiFi Don't do video over WiFi STI NDI Bandwidth 1.5 Mbps min 3 Mbps for SD 5 Mbps for 1080p 25 Mbps for 4K 26:00 Station Broadcast System Streaming box Ubuntu OBS Quad STI Card Quad USB Bus Streams to Owncast Embedded Matrix chat Repeat-ability Making it an appliance Move assets on to a web end point Linux Admin way Ansible pull and systemd timers Custom flatpak Bitfocus stream deck 39:30 OBS Pull Request Github pull request lots of back and forth Should have been closed due to OBS COC Is OBS playing gatekeeper? OBS is not blocking Kick Write or call in! 44:00 News Wire Solus Linux 4.5 - GetSol MKVtoolnix 82 - MKVtoolnix Calibre - Calibre Vim 9.1 - Vim Firewalld 2.1 - Firewalld CmdlineGL - Nrdvana Linux Mint 21.3 - Phoronix Linux 6.7 - OMG Ubuntu GNU Linux-libre 6.7 - Lists GNU Rust Toolchain, Linux 6.8 - Phoronix x86-64-v3 RHEL 10 - Phoronix Thelio and AMD Threadrippers - How to Geek 45:15 Framework Laptop Interview Daniel Schäfer How did the Framework come about? How did you get involved? Laptop dis-assembly Hardware kill switches 14" vs 16" What work is left on the 16"? USB-C Expansion protocol 3rd party products Published expansion card spec 51:48 Gen-Z Terminal Emulator Waveterm Start with basics, work your way up Installer is a zip file -- 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 Noah and Steve dig back through 2023 and give you a Home Automation Year Roundup! We look at your questions throughout the year and evaluate how we would answer those questions today! -- During The Show -- Future Home Automation 5 inch tablets M5Stack Speakers Steve's 2023 Purchases Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 (Amazon) Sonoff S40 Lite Zigbee Smart Plug (Amazon) Zigbee 2 Channel Smart Relay (Amazon) Eco-Worthy Linear Actuator (Amazon) Aqara Door Sensor (Cloud Free) Aqara Temperature Sensor (Cloud Free) WiFi vs Zigbee High Availability GHome Smart WO2 Smart Outlet (Amazon) Shelly Plus 1 (Shelly) Shelly Plus 1PM (Shelly) Shelly Plus 1 Mini (Shelly) No longer flashing shelly devices Shelly Plus Addon (Amazon) 50ft 360 LED Waterproof Rope Light (Amazon) WS2811 LED strings (Amazon) seedstudio mmWave sensor (Aamzon) ATOM Echo Smart Speaker (M5 Stack Speaker) Voice control Ring Contact Sensors (Amazon) Updates 21:25 Noah's 2023 Experiences Started with X10, very bad Lutron, reliable HASSIO new "source of truth" Integration wins Axis front door camera GridCards 5 inch touch screen (Amazon) Instant (proprietary) vs Delayed (open standard) reaction Better way of doing things (Node-RED) Direct connection vs intermediary 34:20 Steve's 2023 Experiences Axis PTZ camera ONVIF LED lighting flashing Tiny tweaks, big wins Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 controller ZHA to Zigbee2MQTT Zigbee in general Cloud Free smart plugs Plastic sprinkler timer Shelly warranty service Amazon Seller Yantech Amazon Seller Xiaxuanke 45:20 Commercial Home Assistant Spouse approval factor vs Commercial 47:15 2024 Projects Motion sensors in switches just work Power monitoring in the box Noah's Dad's house Scene switch suggestions - write in! Expanding Volumio 53:40 Zigbee/Zwave Question: - Zac Local devices on registered frequency - best way Zigbee & ZWave Advantages of Wifi 57:20 Light Automation: John Inadvertently resetting Noah's can lights Each light on it's own dimmer Control with home assistant Past answer Sensing switches 1:01:30 Garage Detector/Leak Sensor - Shawn Automates the lights Past answer Honeywell magnet sensor Pressure switch 1:04:30 Smart Thermostats - Ryan Centralite Pearl thermostat Venstar Thermostat Honeywell Redlink system Past answer 1:08:51 Smart Door Locks - Eddie Axis A1001 R10 mini reader MiFare 2 Standard New system no longer has web UI Axis 8105 Past answer 1:13:40 Replace Home Security System with Home Assistant - Jeremy Home Assistant has Haven't used it Alarm relay Honeywell security system -- 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: JT Pennington.Support Ask Noah Show

This week we dig into feedback from someone looking at a new IT job, Steve gives an update on trying to maintain a presence on a platform that doesn't want him. -- During The Show -- 00:55 Bad Hardware Day Motherboard swap PSU modular cables Fan controller magic smoke Bent CPU pins 06:48 VMs and Storage - Joe Advantages of separating OS and Data Joe's GitHub IX Systems and 45 Drives Use JBOD not Raid ZFS needs direct access HA (High Availability) 15:40 VM Storage Question - Rod iSCSI ZVols as block devices QCow2 file Dedicated disks 9p driver virtio drivers Nothing wrong with NFS ifnotify 22:53 Printer Questions - Eddie Good experience with HP Printer Tools/Jet Direct Mostly moved away from LPD/LPR IPP is where things are headed Immutable distros only support IPP For best results go through add printer dialog 28:15 Comments From New IT Person - Joshua Start with pain points Start with your pain points Document existing infrastructure Find a way to say yes Prepare for the opportunity "You are the expert" Yes but.... What is motivating people 41:22 Choosing Platforms Locked out from Linkedin Emailed code, Linkedin errored out Required phone and government ID Issues with this approach Phone numbers Beeper + Linkedin 49:13 Beeper Gives up on iMessage One last go ARS Technica Beeper Blog Post [Beeper Bridge](github.com/beeper/imessage) The Verge -- 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: JT Pennington.Support Ask Noah Show

This week Till Kamppeter joins The Ask Noah Show and we talk about OpenPrinting. We answer your questions, and if you were hosting your Matrix instance with EMS we'll walk you through the latest announcement. -- During The Show -- Feedback about BT extension EP 351 - John Cheap phone watch Disdain for any kind of phone Kid Friendly Distro Feedback - Jeremy PFSense + pfBlockerNG Canadian Block Lists GitHub Will this work with DNS over TLS? Null out IPs Linux Smart Phones - Sandro Linux is coming to the mobile game 10 years late Some of the "Linux Mobile OSes" use an Android shim to talk to the hardware GrapheneOS has been great A few small issues Current hardware is under powered DBs for Home Lab - Sandro Pass the vdev directly into the VM OpenWRT Home Router - elguaje3ero OpenWRT Sophos XG135 Ebay Link News Wire Qubes OS 4.2 - Linux IAC Fedora Asahi Linux 39 - Asahi Linux Manjaro 23.1 - Manjaro PostmarketOS 23.12 - Debug Point News Calameres 3.3 - Calamares Shotcut 23.12 - Shotcut Ardour 8.2 - Ardour Peazip 9.6 - Peazip Github GNU Cash 5.5.5 - GNU Cash Gnome 44.7 - Discourse Gnome.org Firefox 121 - OMG Ubuntu MS Windows AI Studio - The Register NKAbuse Malware - Dark Reading SSH MitM Terrapin SSH attack Requires either ChaCha20-Poly1305 or CBC-EtM Targets Binary Packet Protocol ARS Technica Article EMS Discontinuing Hosting EMS did a great job Per user is not cost effective Offering a reduced min user business subscription Billed for a year, cut short Early adopter tax Element Starter Your own server No support Up to 200 users ??? Opens up hosting to more people Black Lists Element One Beeper iMessage whack-a-mole Better story than slack, discord, etc Element Announcement Blog Post Matrix Governing Board Blog Post Beeper iMessage (The Register) Fedora Asahi Presentation experience Script turns Mac into Linux machine Audio disabled Flawless Apple engineers changed the firmware 9 to 5 Linux Firefox 121 Wayland by default Picture in Picture 9 to 5 Linux PostmarketOS Postmarket OS 23.12 New chrome books supported New single board computers supported Encryption supported Additional safety checks 9 to 5 Linux Debug Point News Interview with Till Kamppeter Leads the OpenPrinting project LPD PostScript Printers PCL printers Ghostscript magicfilter LPR Command CUPS - early 2000s Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) 2.0 IPP Print dialog Raster Formats (driverless printing) Apple raster Printer Working Group PCLM How driver-less printing works Choosing a printer firmware tricks subscription models Brother printers -- 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: JT Pennington and Till Kamppeter.Support Ask Noah Show

This week Noah and Steve discuss picking out a vHost and considerations for deploying it into production. -- During The Show -- 02:00 Types of AI Amount of compute required is astronomical Foundational model vs tweaking 05:55 Kid Friendly distro? - Chris Endless OS What age to give kids a computer Why give a kid a computer Why Endless OS OpenDNS Filtering 14:13 Serial Connection To Proxmox VMs - Michael Client Setting Host Setting Enable the serial console Proxmox Wiki 17:15 pfSense blocking active connections - Bradly Stateful firewalls don't break active connections/sessions 21:00 News Wire EXT4 Corruption Bug - LWN Gnome 45.2 - Gnome Libreoffice 7.6.4 - Libreoffice Jellyfin Android TV App - Jellyfin Jellyfin Roku App - Jellyfin Debian 12.4 - Debian Alpine Linux 3.19 - Alpine Linux Linux 6.8 Dropping Old Graphics Drivers - Phoronix NSA & ESF Recommended Practices - NSA OpenZeppelin Vulnerability - Bleeping Computer Bluetooth Authentication Bypass - Silicon Angle Krasue RAT - The Hacker News Automatic LLM AI Jail Break - Robust Intelligence EU AI Act - Reuters Purple Llama - Info World Apple Open Sources AI Tools - The Stack Systemd 255 - The Verge - Phoronix 24:00 Beeper Mini First impression, really cool but will only work till Apple notices Android users clearly want modern features 3 days after release, it all came to a halt Apple's FUD statement Beeper mini enabled security for non Apple users Apple's response reduces security and privacy Apple's response protects the iMessage lock-in effect Issue with other "encrypted apps" Focus of Beeper Beeper cloud uses its own cloud server Give beeper mini a review Beeper blog post 37:45 vHost Hardware What is a vHost What does Steve consider network drives RAM CPU Lots of compute nodes vs a few large nodes Stage 1 - is it viable $1k-50k quotes Started with 2 vdevs with 3 drives Stay under 85% Stage 2 Scale up DELL EMC POWEREDGE R7425 8 BAY LFF SERVER 2x AMD EPYC 7451 H330 3 PCI RISER RPS DELL PowerEdge R6525 1U Server 2 x AMD EPYC 7542 2.9Ghz CPU 256 GB No HDD Can save a lot buying used Local vs Central storage Data centralized qcow2 on vHost 2 vdevs 2 disks per vdev Dell EMC KTN-STL3 drive shelf 15 disks in 2U Requires LSI SAS9200-8e NetApp DS4246 24 disks in 4U Requires LSI SAS9200-8e QSFP SFF-8436 Mini SAS SFF-8088 Cable Don't store Nextcloud data on OS qcow2 disk There will always be a single point of failure Change ZFS settings based on data being stored Easiest way to get a vHost up and running KVM vs "appliance OS" Bridging vs MAC vTap RAM is likely your biggest constraint Ubuntu libvirt doc -- 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: JT Pennington.Support Ask Noah Show

This week Noah and Steve talk about their home labs and keeping on top of the projects! 03:26 News Wire Roundcube Next Cloud Merging - Phoronix Pipewire 1.0 - ZDnet GitLab MKVtoolnix 81.0 - MKVtoolnix DigiKam 8.2 - DigiKam Plasma 6 Beta Milestone - KDE Cinnamon - Its Foss Steam Survey - Phoronix Tails 5.20 - Tails Vigil LLM Scanner - Help Net Security Nous Hermes 2 Vision - Venture Beat 04:47 Beeper Mini 16 year old reverse engineered iMessage Prototype works Not a man in the middle Code is open source Requires Apple to playing nice Still questions UK regulations Gray area The Verge 12:48 NextCloud Critical app Calendar Proton Mail Picture Sync Hardware upgrades NextCloud Memories Zotac and Brix computers up for grabs email in with how you will use them Normal users excited about features Collaborative editing DavX5 Guide for syncing iPhones Roundcube Email hosting Benifit of nextcloud vs major hosting providers 31:39 Plex to JellyFin Plex does strange things blocking entire IP ranges blocking hosting providers sharing watch history gathers a lot of data trying to be Buying media First impressions Not the best iOS experience Nice features Cord Cutters News 40:54 Choosing a vHost We learn every war Centralization/decentralized tech cycle Containers Why virtual machines don't have, don't want a "pipeline" easy logic easy recovery Single points of failure 52:00 Next week Hardware considerations Write in with your questions! -- 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: JT Pennington.Support Ask Noah Show