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This week we talk about Proton's new 2fa app, a new kernel that has been released and of course your feedback. -- During The Show -- 00:54 Intro Kids carry plague 02:15 Networking - Fred OpenWRT on Ubiquity Gear If it's not local, You don't own it OpenWrt One (https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one?s[]=openwrt) 05:53 Video Calls - Mike Nextcloud Home Assistant Voice Preview (https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/) Sip Trip Phone (https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/sip_trip_phone) 12:29 Networking - Charlie UniFi Blog Post (https://blog.ui.com/article/introducing-unifi-os-server) How Noah thinks it through Steve's approach Closed source is a place holder This is a good thing 17:45 Continuing Cisco Conversation - Michael Podcast (https://pca.st/episode/82676b1b-49b5-4155-b462-8b9d81ff6197) Juniper JCNIA Repo (https://github.com/rikosintie/JNCIA) Juniper DevOps Repo (https://github.com/rikosintie/Juniper-DevOps) DevNet Associate Certification (https://github.com/rikosintie/DevNetAssoc) CookBooks (https://github.com/rikosintie/CookBook) Cisco EEM (https://github.com/rikosintie/Cisco-EEM) 20:15 News Wire Shotbut 245.07 - shotcut.org (https://shotcut.org/blog/new-release-250726) Linux 6.16 - kernelnewbies.org (https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.16) GNU Linux-Libre 6.16 - lwn.net (https://lwn.net/Articles/1031540) Fractal 5 Pro - hackaday.com (https://hackaday.com/2025/08/04/open-source-5-axis-printer-has-its-own-slicer) Sonatype's Findings - sonatype.com (https://www.sonatype.com/blog/sonatype-uncovers-global-espionage-campaign-in-open-source-ecosystems) Plague Backdoor - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/08/new-plague-pam-backdoor-exposes.html) UNC2891 Bank Heist - group-ib.com (https://www.group-ib.com/blog/unc2891-bank-heist) Auto-Color Backdoor - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/07/hackers-exploit-sap-vulnerability-to.html) Recent Fedora Outage - fedoraproject.org (https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/for-your-information-ddos-affecting-most-of-the-fedoraproject-org-services/161568/4) Open AI Models - openai.com (https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-oss) Meta Won't Open Source "superintelligence" AI Models - techcrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/30/zuckerberg-says-meta-likely-wont-open-source-all-of-its-superintelligence-ai-models) pcmag.com (https://www.pcmag.com/news/zuckerberg-walks-back-open-source-ai-pledge-citing-safety-risk) Cogito v2 - artificialintelligence-news.com (https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/news/deep-cogito-v2-open-source-ai-hones-its-reasoning-skills) Agntcy Framework - forbes.com (https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2025/07/29/the-agntcy-framework-for-agentic-ai-moves-to-the-linux-foundation) 22:29 Steve and Self Hosted AI Started with AI to learn Asked AI to make show notes Using AI to look for past gift recommendations Download script Beautiful Soup (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_Soup_(HTML_parser)) Notebook LM Whisper UI/Fast Whisper Ethical AI issues AI makes people lazy Making content "for AI" 44:15 Linux Kernel 6.16 BTRFS Bug LUP 626 (https://linuxunplugged.com/626) Intel Trusted Domain Extensions 9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-6-16-officially-released-this-is-whats-new) 46:46 Proton Authenticator App linuxiac.com (https://linuxiac.com/proton-launches-free-open-source-authenticator-app/) Proton Authenticator App is open source Encrypted sync No Ads or Tracking Direct import/export Push notifications Ente Auth (https://ente.io/auth/) -- 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 (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/454) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for...

-- During The Show -- 00:50 Thank Fullness Thank you for everyone willing to help with Steve's WiFi OpenWRT One 02:22 Pulling Info from Cisco - Michael Discovery GitHub (https://github.com/rikosintie/Discovery) Never done subnets in the field Can rent an entire Cisco lab GNS3 (https://www.gns3.com/) Updates are expensive Ubuntu 4 Network Engineers GitHub (https://github.com/rikosintie/Ubuntu4NetworkEngineers) 11:01 Alternative for Find My Device - Charlie FMD Android (https://gitlab.com/fmd-foss/fmd-android) Noah and Steve's use case 13:57 Sharing Important Information - Brian Noah's first experience with cordless phones The porting story JMP.chat (https://jmp.chat/) 21:49 Proclaim (software) Alternatives? - Jason FreeShow (https://freeshow.app/) Ubuntu Studio Broadcast appliance ansible playbook (https://gitlab.com/altispeed/public/ansible/templates/playbooks/streaming-deploy) OpenLP (https://openlp.org/) 28:15 Notification Priorities - Tiny Everything is a room Palm 100 (https://www.gsmarena.com/palm_phone_pvg100-9290.php) Current Setup Future setup Sleuth's Bot (https://gitlab.com/sleuth56/matrix-community-manager) 35:56 News Wire Shotcut 25.07 - shotcut.org (https://www.shotcut.org/blog/new-release-250726) Thunderbird 141 - thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/141.0/releasenotes) Firefox 141 - firefox.com (https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/141.0/releasenotes) IP Fire 2.29 - ipfire.org (https://www.ipfire.org/downloads/ipfire-2.29-core196) GitHub Calls for Public Funding - techhq.com (https://techhq.com/news/github-open-source-should-be-taxpayer-funded-more-despite-microsoft-profits) AUR Malware - itsfoss.com (https://news.itsfoss.com/arch-linux-chaos-rat) Koske Malware - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-koske-linux-malware-hides-in-cute-panda-images) Gunra Linux Variants - trendmicro.com (https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/25/g/gunra-ransomware-linux-variant.html) Zhipu GLM-4.5 - reuters.com (https://www.reuters.com/technology/chinas-ai-startup-zhipu-releases-open-source-model-glm-45-2025-07-28) Hunyuan World Model 1.0 - the-decoder.com (https://the-decoder.com/tencent-releases-hunyuan-world-model-1-0-as-an-open-source-ai-for-3d-scene-generation) Wan 2.2 - itbrief.asia (https://itbrief.asia/story/alibaba-unveils-wan2-2-open-source-suite-for-ai-video-creation) Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/programming-development/qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct-launches-and-it-might-be-the-best-coding-model-yet) Cisco AI Agent - networkworld.com (https://www.networkworld.com/article/4029803/cisco-donates-ai-agent-tech-to-linux-foundation.html) 37:50 Red Hat and AI Myriam Fentanes Guiterrez - Principal Product Manager Adam Bellusci - Senior Principal Product Manager AI's effect on Red Hat Openness Navigating openness of AI models Using AI models What is RHEL AI What does Foundation Model Platform mean? What is RHEL AI focused on? How are offerings evolving with AI RHEL 10 AI integration Adoption curve AI Ops -- 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 (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/450) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) 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 (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah -...

This week Noah heads to Open Sauce in San Fransisco to explore the world's biggest celebration of makers, creators, and inventors. Steve takes us through his hardware troubleshooting steps, and we give you an update on some of the projects we're working on. -- The Extra Credit Section -- https://opensauce.com/badge-25/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiJAq53knwc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O9E8xRazTc https://github.com/manufacturedmotion/hexapod https://www.unitree.com/g1 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 (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/449) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) 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 (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

This week Bitcoin hit a new all time high! We talk about the practical implications of getting into the BTC ecosystem. Marco Bill, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer from Red Hat joins the program. -- 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 (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/449) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) 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 (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

This week we take a look at in in-vehicle OS that Red Hat is working on. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro 4th of July Mall of America "Patriots" continue "celebrating" 02:30 Graphic Cards and Distros Arch Linux brand new 5050TI Just waited and problem fixed it's self Bought a 5060TI 07:20 Certificate Management Certificates life going to 30 days or less Ansible AWX Semaphore (https://semaphore.io/) Had to fix some issues 12:35 Kubernetes - Nick Need to know how it works, Thanks! Not understanding technology creates problems Framework - David Laptop sizes Power requirements Steam deck 20:12 News Wire GNU Cash 5.12 - gnucash.org (https://www.gnucash.org/download.phtml) GNU Bash - omgubuntu.co.uk (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/bash-5-3-new-features) PERL 5.42 - perl.org (https://perldoc.perl.org/perldelta) DigiKam 8.7 - difikam.org (https://www.digikam.org/news/2025-06-30-8.7.0_release_announcement/) Geany 2.1 - geany.org (https://www.geany.org/news/geany-21-is-out/) Amarok 3.3 - nerds.xyz (https://nerds.xyz/2025/07/amarok-3-3-brings-big-changes-to-the-beloved-linux-music-player/) 4MLinux 48.1 - 4mlinux.com (https://4mlinux.com/index.php?page=home) ExTiX 25.7 - distrowatch.com (https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12489) Berry Linux 1.42 - berry-lab.net (https://berry-lab.net/eberry.html) Rhino Linux 2025.03 - rhinolinux.org (https://blog.rhinolinux.org/news-22) Malicious Packages Surge - itpro.com (https://www.itpro.com/security/malware/developers-face-a-torrent-of-malware-threats-as-malicious-open-source-packages-surge-188-percent) Sudo Command Line Utility Vulnerabilities - techradar.com (https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/several-major-linux-distros-hit-by-serious-sudo-security-flaws) SSH Targeted - cyberpress.org (https://cyberpress.org/cybercriminals-exploit-linux-ssh-servers/) Skywork Models - prnewswire.com (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/skywork-reward-v2-leading-the-new-milestone-for-open-source-reward-models-302498377.html) MCP Toolbox - marktechpost.com (https://www.marktechpost.com/2025/07/07/google-ai-just-open-sourced-a-mcp-toolbox-to-let-ai-agents-query-databases-safely-and-efficiently/) 22:40 Francis Chow - VP & GM of In-Vehicle Operating System and Edge In vehicle OS progress Safety Standard "Software enabled vehicle" vs "software defined vehicle" Do manufactures want software defined vehicles? What is the advantage of consolidating? How does Red Hat plan to help with security? Declarative systems Safety islands Vehicle domains CI/CD Challenges Red Hat's influence on Open Source Red Hat partners Are auto makers seeing the benefit of open source? 47:00 Open Nebula Where would you steer people for virtualization Sometimes you need a minimal setup Opportunity to land people on open source KVM underpins most virtualization -- 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 (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/449) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) 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 (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

This week we discuss a proposal in Fedora 44 to remove support for 32 bit libraries. We address your Kubernetes questions and talk about 2-in-one laptops with touchscreens! -- During The Show -- 00:54 Intro VLANs on Linux Trunk into V-Host Not using NetPlan Using bridges to different ports 11:23 Kubernetes - Nick Steve and Open Shift The disconnect If you bring it, you are "the guy" You need to understand what you are running Write back in! As nerds we need to pull back the covers 21:00 How Noah got started with Linux Got it working Company paid to train Noah 22:42 News Wire xfsprogs - lwn.net (https://lwn.net/Articles/1026870/) Cryptsetup 2.8 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cryptsetup-2.8-Released) Docker 28.3 - docs.docker.com (https://docs.docker.com/engine/release-notes/28/) Rust 1.88 - releases.rs (https://releases.rs/docs/1.88.0/) Mir 2.21 - app.daily.dev (https://app.daily.dev/posts/mir-2-21-released-with-cursor-scaling-mouse-keys-support-dj8rkcvxb) Firefox ESR 140 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/140.0/releasenotes/) Jonathan Bryce To Lead CNCF - thenewstack.io (https://thenewstack.io/linux-foundation-appoints-jonathan-bryce-to-lead-cncf/) Refresh OS 2.5 - refreshos.org (https://refreshos.org/download_refreshos_2-5.html) TheSSS 49 - sourceforge.net (https://sourceforge.net/projects/thesss/) Tails 6.17 - torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-6_17/) Oracle 10 - blogs.oracle.com (https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/oracle-linux-10-now-generally-available) Fedora May Drop 32-bit packages - tomshardware.com (https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/fedora-linux-ponders-dropping-32-bit-packages-could-force-bazzite-to-shut-down-according-to-its-creator) Berkely Humanoid Robot - fox.com (https://www.foxnews.com/tech/berkeley-launches-lightweight-open-source-humanoid-robot) DeviceLayout.jl Open Source - amazon.com (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/quantum-computing/design-quantum-integrated-circuits-with-open-source-software-devicelayout-jl-from-aws/) A2A Protocol Project - campustechnology.com (https://campustechnology.com/articles/2025/06/24/linux-foundation-to-host-protocol-for-ai-agent-interoperability.aspx) Gemini CLI - blog.google (https://blog.google/technology/developers/introducing-gemini-cli-open-source-ai-agent/) Google has announced Gemini CLI: an open-source CLI AI agent GitHub Copilot - visualstudiomagazine.com (https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2025/06/30/vs-code-goes-transparent-as-open-source-ai-editor.aspx) Ernie 4.5 - techtarget.com (https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/news/366626838/Baidu-makes-foundation-model-Ernie-45-open-source) 24:34 Touch Laptop/Tablet - Aryeh HP ProBook CTC Solutions Donates Laptops Writing scripts for 2in1 PineTab2 29:15 Gift Buying - Carey Geek buying gift guide before Black Friday/Cyber Monday Noah is already making a list Seagate Iron Wolf Pro Backblaze survey Recertified MDD Drives Treat drives like cattle Drive warranty 37:25 Liberux Nexx Phone Liberux (https://liberux.net/) Nexx Indiegogo (https://liberux.net/) Open Source and Crowdfunding done right Noah doesn't crowd fund hardware PinePhone Pro comes close Liberux Nexx Hardware kill switches Replaceable eMMC, RAM, Cellular Built for Linux Steve needs an MP3 player 46:20 Fedora 44 and 32 bit 32 bit required for games and older software 32 bit vs TPM 2.0 Removing 32 bit could kill projects like Bazzite Canonical tried this and back tracked We may get 32 bit emulators How long will 32 bit stick around fedoraprojet.org (https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f44-change-proposal-drop-i686-support-system-wide/156324/303) tomshardware.com (https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/fedora-linux-ponders-dropping-32-bit-packages-could-force-bazzite-to-shut-down-according-to-its-creator) -- 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...

This week we ask the question, when is it okay to leverage technology you don't understand, and when should you work to acquire the underlying domain knowledge? -- During The Show -- 00:52 Intro Cut from the same cloth 02:12 When to Leverage Tools Will always be jobs for deep understanding Lets Encrypt shortening life of certs AWX story Why AWX Short term damage control Advice for someone else You have to understand the manual process Is it still possible to dig down? Clicking through UI skill set How much time do you spend down the rabbit hole 23:09 News Wire Open ZFS 2.3.3 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.3.3) Open ZFS 2.2.8 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.2.8-Released) Darktable 5.2 - darktable.org (https://www.darktable.org/2025/06/darktable-5.2.0-released/) QtCreator 17 - qt.io (https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-17-released) Nano 8.5 - gnu.org (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2025-06/msg00003.html) MKVToolNix 93.0 - mkvtoolnix.download (https://mkvtoolnix.download/windows/releases/93.0/) Linux 6.14 EOL - endoflife.date (https://endoflife.date/linux) Plasma 6.4 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.4.0/) KDE Frameworks 6.15 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/6/6.15.0/) IceWM 3.8 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/IceWM-3.8-Released) Sway 1.15 - github.com (https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.11) WSL 2.6 Open Source - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-WSL-2.6-Open-Source) PostmarketOS 25.06 - postmarketos.org (https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/06/22/v25.06-release/) Rocky Linux 10.0 - rockylinux.org (https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-10-0-ga-release) Kali Linux 2025.02 - kali.org (https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2025-2-release/) Amazon Linux 2023 FIPS 140-3 - aws.amazon.com (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/amazon-linux-2023-achieves-fips-140-3-validation/) PAM & Udisks Flaws - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/06/new-linux-flaws-enable-full-root-access.html) Mistral 3.2 - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/mistral-just-updated-its-open-source-small-model-from-3-1-to-3-2-heres-why/) MiniMax M1 - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/17/minimax_m1_model_chinese_llm/) 24:40 AI vs Privacy Users don't want sensitive data retained Claims order creates "mass surveillance program" If it's on the internet, it's public Expectation of using AI Will this change the way people use these tools Responsibility is on the professional Approaching 50/50 AI/Human internet data Data mining and model training ARSTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/judge-rejects-claim-that-forcing-openai-to-keep-chatgpt-logs-is-mass-surveillance/) 41:00 Framework 12 inch Laptop Designed to be repaired Framework presenter pulled off the keyboard live 13 inch vs 15 inch laptops Touch screen 2 in 1 Productivity on the plane Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-laptop-12) -- 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 (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/447) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) 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 (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show...

-- During The Show -- 00:52 Intro Being around people can be draining SELF presentations Steve helping Noah get into "hosting" Strong personalities No Windows "badge of honor" New streaming and recording system 10:10 NixOS Feedback - Eloy Vimjoyer Video YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEovNpg7J0M) udiskie NixOS Package (https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=25.05&show=udiskie&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=udiskie) Home Manager Eloy's NixOS Config GitHub (https://github.com/egara/nixos-config) Brick wall head banging NixOS experience 17:14 UPS - Tobias Grid tie solar systems Smaller UPS causing breaker to flip Chicken UPS UPS may not be needed PDU with "protected" power switch Not all UPS will solve power surges APC "800lbs Gorilla" Consider the cost and ability to replace UPS battery CyberPower 15A Rackmount PDU Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/CyberPower-CPS1215RM-Basic-Outlets-Rackmount/dp/B00077IG3O) APC Line Interactive CDW (https://www.cdw.com/product/apc-smart-ups-1500va-lcd-2u-rackmount-120v-with-l5-15p/3039069?) CyberPower PFC Sinewave 2000VA Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/CyberPower-OR2200PFCRT2U-Sinewave-System-Outlets/dp/B003OJAHW0) Tripp Lite 1500VA Rack Mount Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Tripp-Lite-Battery-Rack-Mount-SMART1500LCD/dp/B000DZRY9C) Somerset Power Systems (https://www.somersetpowersystems.com/shop/eaton-9395-825-model-825-kva-480-volt-ups) Debian Wiki apcupsd (https://wiki.debian.org/apcupsd) GitHub apcupsd (https://wiki.debian.org/apcupsd) GitHub Network UPS Tools (NUT) (https://github.com/networkupstools/nut) Arch Wiki APC UPS (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/APC_UPS) 31:00 OPNsense - Samuel Beelink Protectli (https://protectli.com/) Coreboot Build Quality Native OPNSense support AESNI Offloading Hunsun storage and fans garbage Used Sophos Get a model with sata drive 110 and above models Swap the fans and drive ODROID H4 (https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h4/) Zima boards (https://www.zimaspace.com/) 39:19 Windows 10 EOL Windows 11 requires TPM 2.0 Secure Boot Supported CPU Mind Drip Media gave away laptops Half loaded with EndlessOS Half loaded with "Nixbook" Recipient of generosity Remote desktop #### 46:46 Cinnamon Desktop Can be stripped down Steve's primary desktop #### 48:55 Recycle laptops locally Reach out to local companies Homeless shelters need computers Windows 11 is an opportunity -- 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 (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/446) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) 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 (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

This week we're live from SELF and we talk about being reliant on yourSELF! THE Alan Hicks joins us to talk about keeping your skills sharp and learning the base domain knowledge. Special Guest: Alan Hicks.

X11Libre is a fork of xorg, do the developers of xorg not want xorg to continue? This week Steve and Noah give you the details of what can only be described as a weird situation. SELF is coming up this weekend, Steve, Noah and executive producer JT will be there and we hope to see you! -- During The Show -- 00:52 Intro Two ways of traveling Noah's airline story Personal entertainment Ente (https://next.ente.io/) 10:28 Self This year is "retro year" old tech could be loaded anything requiring sign in can't be used retro swap Free admission Free HAM radio test Free HAM cram session Lan Party GPG Signing party HAM Radio Meshtastic 22:22 XLibre Project to continue the Xorg display server Xorg developed over several decades Xorg server client model Wayland comes in less developement in Xorg, more in Wayland Freedesktop.org Lots of merge requests closed People running RHEL just take what comes down the pipe Cool that they are improving not just keeping it alive theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/xlibre_new_xorg_fork/?td=rt-3a) Github (https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver) Lunduke YouTube Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujJCyXfWpOo) Fedora Project Wiki (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/X11Libre) 36:06 News Wire Snapd 2.69 - github.com (https://github.com/canonical/snapd/releases) Sway 1.11 - github.com (https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases) PeerTube 7.2 - joinpeertube.org (https://joinpeertube.org/news/release-7.2) RockyLinux 9.6 - rockylinux.org (https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-9-6-ga-release) Linux Mint 20 EOL - news.itsfoss.com (https://news.itsfoss.com/linux-mint-20-eol/) Open Source Supply Chain Attacks - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/06/malicious-pypi-npm-and-ruby-packages.html) Chaos RAT - scworld.com (https://www.scworld.com/news/open-source-chaos-rat-used-in-recent-attacks-targeting-linux) Kali AI - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/kali-gpt-revolutionizing/) Dots.llm1 - compterworld.com (https://www.computerworld.com/article/4004272/rednote-joins-chinas-open-source-ai-wave-with-the-launch-of-dots-llm1.html) Boltz-2 - nasdaq.com (https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/mit-and-recursion-unveil-boltz-2-revolutionary-open-source-biomolecular-co-folding-model) ChatGPT Used to Disable SecureBoot - tomshardware.com (https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-used-to-disable-secureboot-in-locked-down-device-modded-bios-reflash-facilitated-fresh-windows-and-linux-installs) 37:25 Warp Terminal Foss Force (https://fossforce.com/2025/06/warp-takes-your-terminal-to-light-speed-and-beyond/) It is closed source Uses AI How does Warp stack up against the new RHEL AI? RHEL AI will probly run on the local machine Where it may make sense What is the target audiance? 43:22 Ereader for Music - Steven Tablets? Convertible laptops? Noah bought the PineTab2 for this purpose Nashville Number System SongbookPro (https://songbook-pro.com/) Tabbed PDF viewer Trying proton 51:07 Run OPNsense - Kevin You can't install anything else on netgate appliances Used Sophos with sata drives -- 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 (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/445) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) 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 (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at]...

Akash Srivastava & Mairin “Mo” Duffy join the Ask Noah Show to talk about Red Hat's approach to AI models. -- During The Show -- 00:45 Intro Talking about christmas gifts Presentation season Christmas time 03:30 Communicating Technical Things Who are you talking to Willingness to learn Knowledge for Knowledge sake Steve's process for teaching We all compare to things we know Building vocabulary How to know an idea isn't landing What do you aim for time wise 10:28 Red Hat Granite Models Small Language Model Language and Code Model Indemnify the Model What is an Open Source Model? Models are not software Weights Why smaller models for enterprise use? Tuning models Why monolithic vs agentic AI? Is it better to train your own model? Beam search and inference time scaling Why InstructLab? InstructLab safety rails HuggingFace, InstructLab, formats AI in general use -- 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 (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/444) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) 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 (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

This week Mike McGrath from Red Hat joins us and we talk about RHEL AI, quantum computing, and we get an update as to where Red Hat landed with all the licensing drama from a few years ago. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Real ID Real ID Act from 20 years ago Problems with Real ID Canadian Central Government Alternatives to Real ID Surrendering information "Be Your Real Self" Government creating problems they can solve No one wants to admit they are wrong EFF.org (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/security-theater-realized-and-flying-without-real-id) 12:57 News Wire Firefox 139 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/139.0/releasenotes/) Firefox shutting down Pocket - mozilla.org (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket) Linux 6.15 - kernelnewbies.org (https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.15) Most of WSL Open Source - zdnet.com (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-finally-open-sources-most-of-windows-subsystem-for-linux/) NixOS 25.05 - nixos.org (https://nixos.org/blog/announcements/2025/nixos-2505/) RHEL 10 - redhat.com (https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux-10) AlmaLinux 9.6 - almalinux.org (https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-05-20-almalinux_96_release/) Fedora Removes X11 - pagure.io (https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3408) Karton - blogs.kde.org (https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/18/gsoc-2025-project-intro-developing-karton-the-kde-virtual-machine-manager/) SMB Server Zero Day - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/linux-kernel-zero-day-smb-vulnerability/) Devstral - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/mistral-ai-launches-devstral-powerful-new-open-source-swe-agent-model-that-runs-on-laptops/) LlamaFirewall - helpnetsecurity.com (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/05/26/llamafirewall-open-source-framework-detect-mitigate-ai-centric-security-risks/) Woodpecker - siliconangle.com (https://siliconangle.com/2025/05/21/operant-ai-launches-woodpecker-bring-open-source-red-teaming-ai-cloud-environments/) 14:25 Mike McGrath - VP of Software engineering Have things calmed down? Red Hat and Communities RHEL 10 RHEL Lightspeed Mike McGrath's background Lightspeed vs Search Engine CentOS Stream SIGs & community Upstream and CentOS Stream RHEL AI RHEL AI "developer license" How is AI effecting RHEL? Is the OS a "bootloader" for AI? Agentic AI Post Quantum attacks 39:33 OPNSense What Steve and Noah run at home Netgate/PFSense have done shady things ycombinator.com (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36489192) reddit.com (https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/ssk8zj/til_in_2017_pfsense_netgate_had_to_hand_over/) PFSense Requires an account to download Can't virtualize Can't between CE and Appliance Starts at ~$1000 Many devices failed, soldered in Netgate hardware doesn't meet PFSense Standards Zero Support No update cadence Can't reliably automate PFSense OPNSense Fork of PFSense Much nicer interface DHCP backend switching Always moving forward Hardware device doesn't have weird VLAN bonding Newegg (https://www.newegg.com/p/22Z-007C-003M8?Item=9SIAK3UGAF5164) Up date cadence Shop and kids router changed over Steve's attempt to migrate -- 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 (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/443) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) 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...

This week we're live from Red Hat Summit! We talk security, evolving threats, and Steve gives an update on his journey with his new graphics card. -- During The Show -- 01:30 Vincent Danen - VP of Product Security You can secure your own data on premise Cloud you loose some control Supply chain attacks Where do you get your news? Hacker News Naked Security IBM security feed The Register AI for security Agentic workflows AI attack vectors "Slop squatting" Sanitizing AI input Guard rails 23:48 News Wire Calibre 8.4 - calibre-ebook.com (https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new) Nmap 7.96 - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/nmap-7-96-launches/) Mesa 25.1 - plamolinux.org (https://plamolinux.org/posts/2025-05-07-plamo-8.2-released/) Linux Kernel 6.15 - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/07/linux_kernel_drops_486/) Plamo Linux 8.2 - plamolinux.org (https://plamolinux.org/posts/2025-05-07-plamo-8.2-released/) Rust Sudo & Ubuntu 25.10 - discourse.ubuntu.com (https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/adopting-sudo-rs-by-default-in-ubuntu-25-10/60583) Deepin Desktop Removed From openSUSE Repos - opensuse.org (https://security.opensuse.org/2025/05/07/deepin-desktop-removal.html) Fedora 42 WLS - theregister (https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/07/fedora_42_wsl2_official/) ClickFix - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-now-testing-clickfix-attacks-against-linux-targets/) NordVPN Linux GUI - computerweekly.com (https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Open-Source-Insider/NordVPN-goes-full-GUI-on-Linux) Fake AI Videos & Noodlophile - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-ai-video-generators-drop-new-noodlophile-infostealer-malware/) Reachy 2 - infoq.com (https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/05/huggingface-reachy-robot/) OpenVision - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/new-fully-open-source-vision-encoder-openvision-arrives-to-improve-on-openais-clip-googles-siglip/) Open WebUI - reddit.com (https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1kfhkal/open_webui_is_no_longer_open_source/) 26:00 Steve's GPU Travels Swapped the graphics card Custom Arch install GPU requires beta drivers ZFS on root and boot menu beta drivers require newer kernel DKMS Nvidia drivers Flatpaks are broken Picking the problem you want to solve What would you change? 36:48 Flatpak Problems Flatpaks use drivers Some launched some didn't Can't find some files on the system 42:50 Solar Panels - Tony Solar on a vehicle is great! Product vs system 12v vs 24v Jackery Inverter vs Micro Inverters Brands for a "product solution" Anker EcoFlow Make sure to get a LFP (LifePO4) model HQST PV Panels (https://hqsolarpower.com/products/solar-panels/) Monocrystalline 9BB or 10BB HQST MPPT Charge Controller (https://hqsolarpower.com/20a-mppt-solar-charge-controller-with-parallel-charging-bluetooth) 20 amp, consider the 60 amp LiTime (https://www.litime.com/) Pick a "Self Heating" SOK Battery (https://www.us.sokbattery.com/) Metal case batteries can be "rebuilt/repaired" Brands to consider Victron Epoch Battries (https://www.epochbatteries.com/collections/rv-van-camper-lithium-batteries) Renogy (https://www.renogy.com/) Brands listed above Brands to avoid GoalZero Any "Chineseium" 48:50 Cassette Tape Restoration - William Professional Services Local University Reach out to Noah/Altispeed -- 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 (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/442) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed...

This week we dig into why and how Canonical designed and implemented Matrix. Noah gives an update to his solar project, and discovers some open source solutions for solar! -- During The Show -- 00:48 Olympia Mike Insperation ANS 439 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/439) Sorting out details Please give us feedback! Pair with homeless shelter Pair with food bank Technical details Windows 10 deadline coming Lowering friction 09:55 Solar Camera Update Panel brings in enough power Switch arrived, worked great SolarPoint Had to RMA Will R&D Issues with SolarPoint Renogy Charge Controller Victron Push the Victron Connect App Victron has a commitment to open source Victron GX controller Bare wire ends GX software on a raspberry pi 23:20 News Wire Calibre 8.4 - calibre-ebook.com (https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new) Nmap 7.96 - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/nmap-7-96-launches/) Mesa 25.1 - plamolinux.org (https://plamolinux.org/posts/2025-05-07-plamo-8.2-released/) Linux Kernel 6.15 - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/07/linux_kernel_drops_486/) Plamo Linux 8.2 - plamolinux.org (https://plamolinux.org/posts/2025-05-07-plamo-8.2-released/) Rust Sudo & Ubuntu 25.10 - discourse.ubuntu.com (https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/adopting-sudo-rs-by-default-in-ubuntu-25-10/60583) Deepin Desktop Removed From openSUSE Repos - opensuse.org (https://security.opensuse.org/2025/05/07/deepin-desktop-removal.html) Fedora 42 WLS - theregister (https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/07/fedora_42_wsl2_official/) ClickFix - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-now-testing-clickfix-attacks-against-linux-targets/) NordVPN Linux GUI - computerweekly.com (https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Open-Source-Insider/NordVPN-goes-full-GUI-on-Linux) Fake AI Videos & Noodlophile - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-ai-video-generators-drop-new-noodlophile-infostealer-malware/) Reachy 2 - infoq.com (https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/05/huggingface-reachy-robot/) OpenVision - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/new-fully-open-source-vision-encoder-openvision-arrives-to-improve-on-openais-clip-googles-siglip/) Open WebUI - reddit.com (https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1kfhkal/open_webui_is_no_longer_open_source/) 25:18 Minimalism Minimum viable battle station Tails (https://tails.net/) Reproduce-ability Linux Fest Northwest Laptop NixOS re-install Can't auto mount usb drives Dark theme 31:00 Matrix Interview Nils Buchner Matrix rabbit hole Ubuntu & Matrix Chat Ubuntu Juju setup Other Setup methods Where can Matrix grow/improve? Next steps for the Ubuntu Matrix server? Matrix clients Element (https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/element/) Cinny (https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/cinny/) Nheko (https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/nheko/) Matrix client matrix (https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/) Network effect Distros installing matrix clients 43:00 Juju & Charms Interview Merlijn Sebrechts Juju and Charms Abstraction Code re-use Where Juju and Charms work well Knowledge needed Making better charms 52:20 Continue Being a Petri dish Ansible is the biggest hammer Nix Juju -- 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 (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/441) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) 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...

This week Noah tells the story of how Altispeed built a solar system for a remote camera for a daycare. Tiny joins to discuss the value of metric and why he believes Victoria Metrics does it better. -- During The Show -- 00:55 Graphics Cards When do you update graphics cards Watching prices, trying to buy Bought 5060ti Quadro P6000 Sold in 2 Min What is driving the cost? Over Time "Unplugging" Mature Leaders High Intensity/Surge Seasons Talking through movies 16:05 Solar Camera System Camera's on a playground Trenching and conduit Hanging wire from utility poles Shed with no power or network Solar powered camera setup Greentech Renewables (https://www.greentechrenewables.com) Noah's Battery Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKNJ5ZBP?) LiTime (https://www.litime.com/products/litime-12v-100ah-lithium-lifepo4-battery) Unifi SunMax SolarPoint Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Sunmax-SolarPoint/dp/B0965KBVFM/) Trouble shooting, lay it out first Nano Beams 5AC Axis Camera Industrial 24v Switch Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BWN147HZ?) Enphase System Metrics, data nerds Victoria Metrics (https://victoriametrics.com/) Victoria Metrics Docs (https://docs.victoriametrics.com/guides/) Grafana (https://grafana.com/) Solar Cable Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09BYGJGTB?) MC4 Crimper Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKTFRSZ4?) HQST Solar (https://hqsolarpower.com/) SOK Battery (https://www.us.sokbattery.com/) Victron Charge Controllers (https://www.victronenergy.com/solar-charge-controllers) 48:30 Sustainability ANS 424 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/424) Reproduce-ability Minimalism Access Control System News Wire Deluge 2.2.0 - deluge.readthedocs.io (https://deluge.readthedocs.io/en/deluge-2.2.0/) OpenZFS 2.3.2 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.3.2-Released) Bleachbit 500 - bleachbit.org (https://www.bleachbit.org/news/bleachbit-500) Thunderbird 138.0 - Thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/138.0/releasenotes/) Firefox 138.0 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/138.0/releasenotes/) QBittorrent 5.1.0 - qbittorrent.org (https://www.qbittorrent.org/news) Redis Open Source Again - thenewsstack.io (https://thenewstack.io/redis-is-open-source-again/) Tails 6.15 - torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-6_15/) 4MLinux 48.0 - 4mlinux-releases.blogspot.com (https://4mlinux-releases.blogspot.com/2025/04/4mlinux-480-stable-released.html) Commodore OS 3 - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/06/commodore_os_3/) AnduinOS - zdnet.com (https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-windows-11-like-linux-distribution-is-aimed-squarely-at-developers/) Malicious Go Modules - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/malicious-go-modules-deliver-disk.html) AI Threat Defense - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/rsac-2025-cisco-and-meta-put-open-source-ai-at-the-heart-of-enterprise-threat-defense/) Meta's AI Model Goes to Space - fb.com (https://about.fb.com/news/2025/04/space-llama-metas-open-source-ai-model-heading-into-orbit/) Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-V2 - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/nvidia-launches-fully-open-source-transcription-ai-model-parakeet-tdt-0-6b-v2-on-hugging-face/) LTXV-13B - siliconangle.com (https://siliconangle.com/2025/05/06/lightricks-shakes-ai-video-creation-powerful-open-source-model/) Linux Inside MS Excel - tomshardware.com (https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/developer-gets-linux-running-inside-microsoft-excel-mostly-for-fun) -- 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 (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/440) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the...

This week we dig into "Nixbook", a Linux distro designed to make old laptops into Chromebooks. Noah fell down the Nix rabbit hole, and of course we answer your questions. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Generosity Experiencing generosity A bunch of computers about to flood the market 03:50 Mike Kelly (Olympia Mike) Used laptop during Covid19 Became known for used laptops Company gifts used laptops Closing the technical divide Updates Package Confusion NixOS Olympia Mike's nixbook (https://github.com/mkellyxp/nixbook) How to help out Powerwashing 13:15 Noah's Nixbook Experience Give Noah a toy and remove distractions for 5+ hours Throw out everything you know Where NixOS fits Rollback functionality Going to drive Nixbook till hitting a roadblock Can't live in a flatpak world Ansible is the hammer that hits the most nails How long to get up and running on Nix Have to adopt the "nix way" NixOS Flakes (https://nixos-and-flakes.thiscute.world/introduction/) Nix Language (https://nix.dev/tutorials/nix-language) 31:25 News Wire Nginx 1.28.0 - unit.nginx.org (https://unit.nginx.org/news/2022/unit-1.28.0-released/) GCC 15.1 - devclass.com (https://devclass.com/2025/04/28/gnu-compiler-collection-15-1-released-cobol-support-improved-rust-compatibility-concerns/) Cosmic Alpha.7 - blog.system76.com (https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-7-never-been-beta) QEMU 10.0 - qemu.org (https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/10.0) Chainguard $356M Raised - bankinfosecurity.com (https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/chainguard-raises-356m-to-protect-open-source-supply-chain-a-28075) Open Source 5G/6G Software - breakingdefense.com (https://breakingdefense.com/2025/04/pentagon-seeks-open-source-software-for-5g-6g-networks/) Crux 3.8 - crux.nu (https://crux.nu/Main/ReleaseNotes3-8) Archcraft Prime ISO - wiki.archcraft.io (https://wiki.archcraft.io/news/49-news-release) 4mLinux 48.0 Stable - 4mlinux.com (https://4mlinux.com/index.php?page=home) Openmandriva 6.0 - wiki.openmandriva.org (https://wiki.openmandriva.org/en/distribution/releases/omlx60/new) Kali Linux Warning - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/linux/kali-linux-warns-of-update-failures-after-losing-repo-signing-key/) Attack of the Vsock - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/critical-linux-kernel-flaw/) ARES Robot Data Platform - a16z.com (https://a16z.com/ares-an-open-source-platform-for-robot-data/) Qwen3 - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/alibaba-launches-open-source-qwen3-model-that-surpasses-openai-o1-and-deepseek-r1/) 33:00 Community How your self branding and its effects Noah's experience with a young man Noah's negative experience People remember how you make them feel and that reflects on communities There is what is said and what is received How to deliver messages Dinner example 41:20 OsmAnd - Richard Garmin Device Waze OsmAnd (https://osmand.net/) Fdroid OsmAnd (https://f-droid.org/packages/net.osmand.plus/) 45:28 Drive Rotation Off site backup - Kevin The back up plan you understand is the best Not doing anything un-usual A few concerns Hardware cycling HDD destruction -- 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 (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/439) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) 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 (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at]...

-- During The Show -- 00:48 Intro Missing Steve 01:55 Auto Updates? - Charlie Installing Linux on a Pixelbook Go Desktop vs laptop Being in the moment Noah's laptop strategy PineTab 2 (https://pine64.com/product/pinetab2-10-1-8gb-128gb-linux-tablet-with-detached-backlit-keyboard/) Google hardware Re-purposing Google hardware Github.com (https://github.com/yusefnapora/pixelbook-linux) Auto updates, EndlessOS 13:02 FreePBX - Zack What to consider when backing up Bash and FW Console Sleuth's Solution Backups are specific to the data type Use the built in backup and export functions 22:35 News Wire MySQL 9.3 - dev.myssql.com (https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/9.3/en/) Peazip 10.4 - github.com (https://github.com/peazip/PeaZip/releases/) Gnome 48.1 - discourse.gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-47-6-released/28414) Gnome 48.1 - discourse.gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-48-1-released/28424) LXQT 2.2.0 - lxqt-project.org (https://lxqt-project.org/release/2025/04/17/release-lxqt-2-2-0/) Ubuntu 25.04 - canonical.com (https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-25-04-plucky-puffin) Fedora 42 - fedoramagazine.org (https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-42/) Manjaro 25 manjaro.org (https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-25-0-zetar-released/177008) NX App Hub - x.com (https://x.com/Nitrux_NX/status/1912102771458711737) Easy OS 5.9 - bkhome.org (https://bkhome.org/news/202504/easyos-kirkstone-series-maintenance-release-59.html) XorDDos - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/experts-uncover-new-xorddos-controller.html) BPFDoor - securityweek.com (https://www.securityweek.com/enhanced-version-of-bpfdoor-linux-backdoor-seen-in-the-wild/) 23:34 Steve's Backup and ZFS Adventures Data should be in 3 places New server Running data and power Existing data sets Encrypting the data Snapshots Block Cloning Nesting and inheriting encryption attributes What would you do differently if you could start over Take-a-ways How long until you "trust" the new backup system? 43:50 OpenWrt One OpenWrt One (https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one) Great build quality Multiple ways to power WiFi off by default Has a console port Really impressed 48:28 Switching to Cloud Companies moving to Azure to avoid Redmond markups Companies starting to re-consider moving to cloud Windows still entrenched 3 People running thousands of VMs and containers -- 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 (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/438) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) 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 (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

This week we dig into how you can host your own 5G and Ubuntu's new certification program! -- During The Show -- 00:45 Technology Another Way Cell Phone sales and inventory Market uncertainty Erasing a phone Moving to GrapheneOS Used equipment Fdroid (https://f-droid.org/) Opportunities to move people to open source Routes to take 14:00 News Wire OpenSSH 10.0p2 - openssh.com (https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html) OpenSSL 3.5 - github.com (https://github.com/openssl/openssl/releases) GNU Coreutils 9.7 - gnu.org (https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html) Pinta 3.0 - pinta-project.com (https://www.pinta-project.com/releases/3-0.html) OpenELA Leapp - techzine.eu (https://www.techzine.eu/news/devops/130476/openela-introduces-leapp-project-for-in-place-upgrades-of-enterprise-linux/) Linux Mint OEM Support - linuxmint.com (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4825) Asahi Linux Roadblock - appleinsider.com (https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/04/08/asahi-linux-m4-support-hits-a-roadblock-because-of-apple-silicon-changes) Proxmox VW 8.4 - proxmox.com (https://www.proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/proxmox-virtual-environment-8-4) Archbang 0904 - sourceforge.net (https://sourceforge.net/projects/archbang/files/ArchBang/archbang-0904-x86_64.iso/download) Feren OS 2025.03 - feren-os.com (https://medium.com/feren-os/feren-os-2025-03-minor-rebase-update-for-feren-os-f82ce0a47a52) Pardus 23.4 - pardus.org (https://pardus.org.tr/en/pardus-23-4-changelog/) SparkyLinux - sparkylinux.org (https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-7-7/) MX 26.3 - mxlinux.org (https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-23-6-now-available/) Particle OS - itsfoss.com (https://news.itsfoss.com/systemd-particle-os/) Malware "Patches" - darkreading.com (https://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/open-source-poisoned-patches-infect-local-software) Slopsquatting - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/) Luminary Cloud and Honda's AI Model - engineering.com (https://www.engineering.com/luminary-cloud-releases-open-source-physics-ai-model-with-honda-nvidia/) 15:50 Canonical Certifications Adriana Frick's Story Why Adriana left tech BGP What did the creation process look like? Defining standards Making it measurable Proving skills How did you learn what employers want Mauricio Buschinelli's Story Verifying completion of a task What does the test look like Easter Eggs through out As close to real as possible Care about outcomes Accessibility Testing (https://ubuntu.com/credentials) A lot more coming 41:00 5G Cellphone companies want to be at the tower 5G Hardware Entire stack is open source Provisioning Sim Cards Roaming Charmed Ether SD Core 50:00 FCC Licensing Not a walk in the park FCC starting to require receiver registration Spectrum is crowded -- 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 (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/437) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) 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 (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

This week Steve builds a backup server, and tells us how and why! -- During The Show -- 01:13 GrapheneOS & Teams - Kevin Needed unsandboxed play services Broke on the next update This problem reported across OSes (https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/all/new-ms-teams-version-not-working-getting-error-no/8a4e48a0-e97b-47f6-9ab9-4c82bc8ba768?page=1) People reported needing to install "the framework" Apps stay in their sandbox Use app in a web browser 06:26 VMs - Mike Covered later in the show 07:35 searXNG - Donald More than a proxy Better results than other search engines 10:00 News Wire Curl 8.13 - curl.se (https://curl.se/ch/) GnuCash 5.11 - gnucash.org (https://www.gnucash.org/download.phtml) GNU Nano 8.4 - lists.gnu.org (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2025-04/msg00001.html) Apt 3.0 - debian.org (https://tracker.debian.org/news/1635519/accepted-apt-300-source-into-unstable/) Thunderbird 137 - thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/137.0/releasenotes/) Firefox 137 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/137.0/releasenotes/) KDE Plasma 6.3.4 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.3.4/) Rust 1.86 - releases.rs (https://releases.rs/docs/1.86.0/) Qt 6.9 - wiki.qt.io (https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_6.9_Release) Nvidia PhysX and Flow - wccftech.com (https://wccftech.com/nvidia-physx-and-flow-are-now-fully-open-source/) Outlaw Malware - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/outlaw-group-uses-ssh-brute-force-to.html) Open Source Malware Index - infoworld.com (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3953841/sonatype-warns-of-18000-open-source-malware-packages.html) ProteuX 2.0 - github.com (https://github.com/porteux/porteux/releases/tag/v2.0) New Fedora Project Lead Jef Spaleta - fedoramagazine.org (https://fedoramagazine.org/introducing-fedora-project-leader-jef-spaleta/) 11:30 Interview Jon Segar VP of Engineering at Ubuntu uutils coreutils Licenses Growing the Ubuntu Community Feature parity & rough edges Default in 25.10 build Memory safe languages Moving people's cheese 23:00 Steve's Off Site Backup Backup server in an out building What's the most important thing Swim lanes Breaking things down Nextcloud island Containers vs VMs Nginx vs Apache Managing and backing up data Storage, NFS vs Direct Block access Sanoid (https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid) Supermicro motherboards iDrac, IPMI, PiKVM SOC vs standard system backup server considerations Moving Home Assistant from dev to prod -- 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 (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/436) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) 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 (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed) Special Guest: Jon Seager.

This week we give an update on the journey with GrapheneOS. -- During The Show -- 00:58 Intro Cold weather Do I shovel snow? 01:36 Thank you! - Nick Steve knows A LOT about kubernetes Tell us what about kubernetes do you want to learn? 2 Camps of people How deep will Steve go 06:57 GraphenOS - Craig Noah's experience/device Samsung made an un-rom-able US version Carrier's load an OS when you boot their sim card Noah's Pixel 8a Why no financial apps Inherent insecurities in phones Niche vs common target Phones can "walk off" Rouge Pixel, video file, audio file, etc Even normal people with a stock phone struggle Pixel 6A as a work phone Being attached to "glowing bricks" Authenticator apps WiFi only/no sim Google Account requires logging in on a stock device Navigation Here WeGo Maps Notifications Micro-g Persistent Notification Browsers Firefox Vandium Be prepared for hiccups Nitro Phone Make sure the bootloader is unlocked Naomi Brockwell TV Block Phone Tracking (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPnFJ8PeSsY) Naomi Brockwell TV Main Site (https://www.nbtv.media) Vehicle Tracking 50:45 Linux Wins! - Dan Combat Studies Group (https://combatstudiesgroup.blogspot.com/) Re-purposing computers for re-use 52:35 News Wire XZ Utils 5.8.0 - github.com (https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/releases/tag/v5.8.0) Shotcut 25.03 - shotcut.org (https://www.shotcut.org/blog/new-release-250329/) Android Development Going Private - arstechnica.com (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/google-makes-android-development-private-will-continue-open-source-releases/) Kaos 2025.03 - kaosx.us (https://kaosx.us/news/2025/kaos03/) Zorin 17.3 - zorin.com (https://blog.zorin.com/2025/03/26/zorin-os-17.3-is-here/) Linux Lite 7.4 - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/linux-lite-7-4-final-released/) Q4OS 5.8 - q4os.org (https://www.q4os.org/blog.html#news250327) EU-OS - linuxjournal.com (https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/eu-os-bold-step-toward-digital-sovereignty-europe) OpenAI Open Weight Model - wired.com (https://www.wired.com/story/openai-sam-altman-announce-open-source-model/) -- 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 (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/435) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) 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 (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)