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This week Noah and Steve talk about the difference between MCP and skills and why it matters! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro 02:00 Steve's AI Rabbit Hole Mumble Doc 25:18 Copy On Write - Jayson 36:32 RaidZ Questions - D UGreen NAS 43:30 Authentication - Avri Pocket-ID GitHub 45:20 MakeMKV Feedback - archer72 (KD9VMW) Hacker Public Radio 4564 46:11 AV Codecs - Atypical 47:20 Axis Door Stations - TwoBit 48:00 News Wire Peazip 11.0 - github.io GNU Nano 9.0 - nano-editor.org KDE Frameworks 6.25 - kde.org KDE Plasma 6.6.4 - kde.org OpenSSL 3.6.2 - github.com Extix 26.4 - linux.exton.net Plop Linux 26.2 - plop.at Snal Linux 1.40 - sourceforge.net PearOS Nice Core 26.4 - pearos.xyz Trisquel 12.0 - phoronix.com GLM 5.1 - venturebeat.com Ising - nvidia.com France Switches to Linux - linuxiac.com 49:16 AI in Health Care -- 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 - KernellinuxAsk Noah ShowAltispeed Technologies

This week Noah and Steve address the blueprint OpenAI CEO Sam Altman published. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Nixsys.com 09:12 Linux Tablets - Tobias 16:38 Refrigeration/Cooling - Graham 23:08 Wiki for Church - Dustin WikiJSXWikiSteve's WikiJS Patch 34:28 News Wire OpenTTD 15.3 - openttd.org Archinstall 4.0 - xda-developers.com Gnome 49.5 - gnome.org Peazip 11 - github.io Elive 3.8.50 - distrowatch.com 4mLinux 51.0 - 4mlinux.com AerynOS 2026.03 - aerynos.com Netrunner 26 - netrunner.com Omarchy 3.5 - github.com MX Linux Pushes Back - linuxjournal.com Removing 486 - tomshardware.com Meta AI - axios.com Trinity-Large-Thinking - venturebeat.com Arcee.ai Gemma 4 - ciodive.com 35:45 AI Overlords ArsTechnicaTech4Gamers.com -- 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 - KernellinuxAsk Noah ShowAltispeed Technologies

This week we focus on your feedback! Your calls go to the front of the line, your emails answered! -- During The Show -- 00:58 Intro 07:02 LDAP/PKI - Soham FreeIPAANS 476ANS 342ANS 382 14:36 Caller JMP.ChatGajimPidginXMPPUnredacted XMPPUnredacted.org 31:54 Ereaders - Gwendolyn Libra Color E-ReaderBooklore 37:48 Getting rid of facebook - Andy HugoGhost Tape Backups - DC Amanda BackupBacula 51:20 News Wire Calibre 9.6 - calibre-ebook.com FreeCad 1.1 - freecad.org QT 6.11 - wiki.qt.io Thunderbird 149 - thunderbird.net Firefox 149 - firefox.com OpenSuse Agama 19 - lwn.net Krita 5.3 - krita.org SDv Platform - wardsauto.com Pardus 25.1 - indir.pardus.org Plop Linux 26.1 - download.plop.at Kaos 2026.03 - kaosx.us Tails 7.6 - torproject.org Kali Linux 2026.1 - kali.org Sparky Linux 9 - thenewstack.io Axios Hijack - nextgov.com Cohere Voice Model - techcrunch.com Malaria Drug Discovery - healthpolicy-watch.news Midjourney Standard Pretext - venturebeat.com Brain AI - ai.meta.com -- 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 - KernellinuxAsk Noah ShowAltispeed Technologies

This week Kenny Schmidt the Operations Manager for Altispeed Technologies joins the show! Kenny and Noah talk about the role of Linux in a commercial environment, and what a healthy view of taking work home looks like! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro 01:48 Alarm Panels ShellysAlarm Decoder .comAlarm Decoder .square.sitewww.eyezon.com 17:50 Kenny From Altispeed AmazonImmichNyquist from Bogenbitsandbolts.net 45:02 News Wire Bcachefs 1.37 - phoronix.com FFMPEG 8.1 - ffmpeg.org Blender 5.1 - blender.org Openrazer 3.12 - github.com OpenShot 35 - openshot.org KiCad - kicad.org GX Browser - gamingtrend.com AntiX 26 - antixlinux.com Fedora Asahi Remix 43 - fedoramagazine.org GlassWorm - scientificamerican.com Quantum Hardware Repository - thequantuminsider.com Post-Quantum Secure RISC-V - thequantuminsider.com Open-Source AI Wallet - bitcoinmagazine.com 46:13 Credoid Credoid -- 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 - KernellinuxAsk Noah ShowAltispeed TechnologiesSpecial Guest: Kenny Schmidt.

This week we dig into ripping Bluerays, best practices for DIY IP camera systems, and your questions answered! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro 10:25 Unlocked Bluray ripping - Caller WalmartAmazon 15:35 Open Source Electromagnetic Resonance Tablet - Charlie AmazonHackadayRead The DocsGitlab 19:15 Security Camera - Tyler FrigateAmazonAmazon 1Amazon 2AmazonEbay 1Ebay 2Ebay 3bhphotovideo.com 51:12 News Wire Curl 8.19 - curl.se GIMP 3.2 - gimp.org Calibre 9.5 - github.com OBS Studio 32.1 - videocardz.com Qt Creator 19 - qt.io KDE Frameworks 6.24 - kde.org Marknote 1.5 - blogs.kde.org PearOS NiceCore 26.3 - pearos.xyz SparkyLinux 2026.03 - sparkylinux.org Debian Trixie 13.4 - debian.org EndeavorOS Titan - endeavoros.com CrackArmor - blog.qualys.com Leanstral - mistral.ai NemoClaw - thenewstack.io Open-Weight AI Models - wired.com -- 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 - KernellinuxAsk Noah ShowAltispeed Technologies

This week we take your feedback give an update on Steve's son's server. We talk some Xsession woes, Noah gives you an update on access control and credentials, and Steve has some thoughts on Apple. -- During The Show -- 00:42 Intro 03:15 Steve's Audio Issues - bout10bucks 06:22 Steve's Son's Server and other things - Norm Linux Conference Talk 21:16 Charlie's Xsession woes - Charlie 25:41 News Wire Postfix 3.11 - postfix.org Handbrake 1.11 - handbrake.fr Digikam 9.0 - digikam.org Docker 29.3 - docker.com SQLite 3.52 - sqlite.org Rust 1.94 - releases.rs GTK 4.22 - gitlab.gnome.org KDE Plasma 6.6.2 - kde.org Nvidia 595 Driver - phoronix.com CIQ Kernel - yahoo.com ZeroRISC Crypto Stack - thequantuminsider.com Fake Laravel Packages - thehackernews.com RELIANOID Community Edition v7.9 - relianoid.com Austrumi 5.2 - ftp.linux.edu.lv CachyOS March 2026 release - cachyos.org T2 26.3 Desktop Edition - t2linux.com Nitrux 6.0 - nxos.org NemoClaw - cnbc.com Google Always On Memory Agent - venturebeat.com Database to Study Cancer - hopkinsmedicine.org 27:20 Access Control Credentials WiegandOSDPProxmark3 33:55 Steve's Apple Observations 47:29 GrapheneOS & Motorola Android Authority.comMotorola News 51:00 Age Verification Built into OS itsfoss.com -- 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 - KernellinuxAsk Noah ShowAltispeed Technologies

This week Noah gives an update on the Chinesium access controller, Steve has a problem with 7.1 audio and works out a solution with Noah, and of course your feedback! -- During The Show -- 00:48 Intro 02:08 Game Server Access - David Docs.sophos.com 11:20 Static One Liners - Dominick Github Link 13:53 Cat6 or 6a - Ted Vertical CableOCC Fiber 23:50 News Wire firefox.comThunderbird 148 - thunderbird.net Postgres 18.3 - postgresql.org SciTE 5.6 - scintilla.org Dbeaver 26 - dbeaver.io GNU Groff 1.24 - lwn.net GNU Octave v11 - octave.org Shotcut 26.2 - shotcut.org Ardour 9.2 - ardour.org Calibre 9.4 - manual.calibre-ebook.com Linux EOL Dates Getting Pushed Back - social.kernel.org React Foundation - prnewswire.com GNU Hurd Kernel 64 bit - guix.gnu.org Mabox Linux 26.02 - lwn.net 4MLinux 50.1 - 4mlinux.com Omarchy 3.4 - github.com TheSSS 51.0 - 4mlinux.blogspot.com AV Linux 25.1 - heise.de Archbang 0103 - archbang.org PorteusX 2.6 - github.com Aeryn OS 2026.02 - phoronix.com BunsenLabs Carbon - bunsenlabs.org Tails 7.5 - tails.net Qwen3.5-Medium Performance - venturebeat.com Kali Linux & AI - linkedin.com 25:30 Steve's Audio Problems RedditVero V 50:50 Access Control Update 54:07 Scale -- 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 - KernellinuxAsk Noah ShowAltispeed Technologies

This week we focus on your feedback! Questions about NextCloud, questions about best practices for remote storage, and of course the latest headlines from JT! -- During The Show -- Thermostat for Garage - Jayson Venstar T7900 More Private AI? - Anon techradar.com Immich & Other things - Fey EnteMail-in-a-Box Nextcloud Alternative - HJ News Wire OpenTTD 15.2 - tt-forums.net GNU Awk 5.4 - lwn.net Pipewire 1.6 - phoronix.com DNF 5.4 - phoronix.com KDE Plasma 6.6 - kde.org EasyOS 7.2 - bkhome.org SparkyLinux 8.2 - sparkylinux.org Xubuntu Wallpaper Contest - discourse.ubuntu.com Gentoo Moving to Codeberg - linuxjournal.com Cline CLI Attack - scworld.com SecureClaw - securityweek.com helpnetsecurity.com Buzzdetect - entomologytoday.org AI Slop Drowning Godot - pcgamer.com -- 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 - KernellinuxAsk Noah ShowAltispeed Technologies

-- During The Show -- 00:48 Intro 01:39 News Wire OpenVPN 2.7 - community.openvpn.net Mesa 26.0 - mesa3d.org KDE Frameworks 6.23 - kde.org Gnome 49.4 - gnome.org Vim 9.2 vim.org GNU Linux Libre 6.19 - fsfla.org GNU Binutils 2.46 - phoronix.com Tinycore 17 - tinycorelinux.net Debian 13.3 - voyagerlive.org Pear OS 26.2 - pearos.xyz MythTV 36 - mythtv.org Parrot 7.1 - linuxiac.com SSHStalker - bleepingcomputer.com LockBit 5.0 - helpnetsecurity.com GLM-5 - venturebeat.com 03:00 Chinesium Access Control AmazonMIFAREWiegandMercury Access ControllersOSDP protocolAmazonAmazonLeosac 41:57 Ring and Flock cut ties EFF -- 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 - KernellinuxAsk Noah ShowAltispeed Technologies

This week we talk music! Noah gets hands on with the Zynthian. Matrix is slowly taking over governments. The timing couldn't be better, Discord is requiring age verification. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro GeekLab 01:30 Fun with Linux Audio - Wayne Helm SynthVital SynthTal NoizeMakerCardinalSurge SynthLSP PluginsCalf PluginsReaperToneLib-GFXkxstudio repositoriesTal baseline 16:16 Dell HDDs - TwoBit 20:16 News Wire GCompris 26 - gcompris.net LibreOffice 216.2 - documentfo8undation.org Ardour - ardour.org Calibre 9.1 - calibre-ebook.com Peazip 10.9 - github.com Linux 6.19 - lkml.org Oracle Linux 7 - oracle.com LiteBox - helpnetsecurity.com GoogleSQL - developer-tech.com Toyota Open Source Game Engine - techzine.eu Open Source Chest CT Model - nature.com 21:16 Zynthian Zynthian 34:10 Matrix Protocol The RegisterBeeper 41:45 Discord KYC gomuksThe Register 51:20 Ring Camera's eff.org -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - KernellinuxAsk Noah ShowAltispeed Technologies

This week John Terrill from Red Hat joins us to talk about branding in Open Source. Many projects don't have a unified communication strategy, but having one is important. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro 04:37 Lossless Cut AvidemuxLossless Cut WebpageLossless Cut GitHub 08:30 OmniTools OmniTools GitHub 12:43 NLSH NLSH GitHub 16:00 Xyops Xyops 18:18 News Wire Squid 7.4 - github.com Openttd 15.1 - openttd.org Rust 1.93 - rust-lang.org GNU C lwn.net Extix - linux.exton.net Liya Linux 2.5 - distrowatch.com CachyOS 2026 - cachyos.org GNU Guix 1.5 - quix.gnu.org MxLinux 25.1 - mxlinux.org Crypto Thieves in Snap Store - helpnetsecurity.com Open Source Quantum Computer - uwaterloo.ca AI Weather Models - kqed.org Banks Prefer Open-Source - finainews.com Rack-Scale AI - theasset.com OIN 2.0 - yahoo.com 19:55 Python Built-in Web Server 24:17 Proxy RCE - PSA grahamhelton.com 26:30 Matter Camera linuxgizmos.com 30:06 MS Gives Keys to FBI aardwolfsecurity.comArsTechnica 35:20 Linux Continuity theregister.com 36:40 John Terrill -- 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 - KernellinuxAsk Noah ShowAltispeed Technologies

This week we dig into the hardware shortage caused by AI, answer your questions, and dig into managing ZFS via the web! -- During The Show -- 00:45 Intro Cheap managed POE switch Switch hops 05:35 Certificates - Randy Step CA (https://smallstep.com/docs/step-ca/) XCA (https://www.hohnstaedt.de/xca/) Certificate Authority (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authority) ACME (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Certificate_Management_Environment) LDAP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol) Kerberos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_(protocol)) Steve's use of LDAP LDAP with PKI link (https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/portal/11.4/administer/linux/use-ldap-and-pki-to-secure-access-to-your-portal.htm) ACME and Domain registrars dot tk (http://www.dot.tk/en/index.html?lang=en) Ansible collection (https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible/latest/collections/community/crypto/acme_certificate_module.html) 19:19 Ebook Management - Jeremy Steve went to audio books Calibre (https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible/latest/collections/community/crypto/acme_certificate_module.html) PDF manuals folder Audio bookshelf (https://www.audiobookshelf.org/) Paperless NGX (https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/) 23:50 Light Sync - Peter UltraStar Deluxe (https://usdx.eu/) Animux (https://usdb.animux.de/) USBD_Syncer (https://github.com/bohning/usdb_syncer/releases) Doing events Why Noah likes Karaoke Effect of "shared experiences" Steve's Christmas tree lights DMX lighting WLED Project (https://kno.wled.ge/) 33:03 News Wire Firefox 147 - firefox.com (https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/147.0/releasenotes/) Thunderbird 147 - thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/147.0/releasenotes/) Grub 2.14 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/GRUB-2.14-Released) Gnome 49.3 - discourse.gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-49-3-released/33609) Wine 11 - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/15/wine_11_arrives_faster_and/) Q4OS 6.5 - q4os.org (https://www.q4os.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=5903) Endeavour OS Genymede Neo - endeavouros.com (https://endeavouros.com/news/ganymede-neo-is-out-with-core-updates-and-upstream-nvidia-changes/) Tails 7.4 - torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-7_4/) Linux Mint 22.3 - blog.linuxmint.com (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4981) BeaglePlay PowerVR - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/BeaglePlay-PowerVR-Success) StackChan - cnx-software.com (https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/13/m5stack-stackchan-is-a-cute-open-source-ai-desktop-robot/) Mentra's Smart Glasses - engadget.com (https://www.engadget.com/wearables/mentras-first-smart-glasses-are-open-source-and-come-with-their-own-app-store-150021126.html) VoidLink - checkpoint.com (https://research.checkpoint.com/2026/voidlink-the-cloud-native-malware-framework/) darkreading.com (https://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/voidlink-malware-advanced-threat-linux-systems) csoonline.com (https://www.csoonline.com/article/4117038/sophisticated-voidlink-malware-framework-targets-linux-cloud-servers.html) Boltz-1 - labmanager.com (https://www.labmanager.com/mit-researchers-release-boltz-1-an-open-source-alternative-to-alphafold-3-33385) Photoshop on Linux - videocardz.com (https://videocardz.com/newz/adobe-photoshop-can-now-install-on-linux-after-a-redditor-discovers-a-fix#disqus_thread) No Commits to MySQL Repo - devclass.com (https://devclass.com/2026/01/13/open-source-mysql-repository-has-no-commits-in-more-than-three-months/) Senate Inquiry - jdsupra.com (https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/recent-inquiry-from-senate-intelligence-2158429/) EU Tech Sovereignty - cybernews.com (https://cybernews.com/tech/europe-looks-for-ways-to-cut-cord-from-big-tech/) biometricupdate.com (https://www.biometricupdate.com/202601/eu-calls-for-input-on-open-source-as-it-looks-toward-tech-sovereignty) 35:03 SysAdmins & Smartphones Lowering friction Graphical vs CLI Webzfs...

What is the role of tape backup in 2026? Should ZFS be used on tape? Steve takes us back to his days at IMAX and gives us some things to think about when using tape. We answer your questions, take your feedback -- During The Show -- 00:50 Immich - Greg Immich (https://immich.app/) feedback Round 1 deployment recap Round 2 deployment recap Latest breakage Things Steve likes about Immich Ente (https://ente.io/) experience Rising tide, iron sharpens iron Everyone hits problems sometimes 11:50 General Show Feedback - Pete Thank You feedback Buying Expedition 33 Noah purchased Expedition 33 "Little Noah" and budget Using external disks for games 16:28 News Wire Curl 8.18 - curl.se (https://curl.se/ch/) Doxygen 1.16 - doxygen.nl (https://www.doxygen.nl/manual/changelog.html) Windowmaker Live 13.3 - wmlive.sourceforge.net (https://wmlive.sourceforge.net) Budgie 10.10 - buddiesofbudgie.org (https://buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/budgie-10-10-released) Pentoo 2026.0 - pentoo.ch (https://pentoo.ch/isos/Release/Pentoo_Core_amd64_hardened/) Nitrix 5.1 - nxos.org (https://nxos.org) Debian 13.3 - debian.org (https://www.debian.org/News/2026/20260110) Linux Mint 22.3 - linuxmint.com (https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_zena.php) Bose Open Sources Speakers - designboom.com (https://www.designboom.com/technology/bose-recycles-discontinued-wireless-speakers-open-source-01-09-2026/) UAT-7290 - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/china-linked-uat-7290-targets-telecoms.html) GoBruteforcer - darkreading.com (https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/gobruteforcer-botnet-targets-50k-plus-linux-servers) VoidLink - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/new-advanced-linux-voidlink-malware.html) NousCoder-14B - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/technology/nous-researchs-nouscoder-14b-is-an-open-source-coding-model-landing-right-in) Razer AI Kit - techpowerup.com (https://www.techpowerup.com/344924/razer-intros-aikit-an-open-source-project-for-easier-local-llm-development) 17:55 Caller Btrfs Assistant (https://gitlab.com/btrfs-assistant/btrfs-assistant) Restoring btrfs snapshots Base vs incremental snapshots Framework Knowledge Base (https://knowledgebase.frame.work/en_us/fedora-system-restore-root-snapshots-using-btrfs-assistant-rkHNxajS3) 23:00 Music Production on Linux Started with misconception everything is for Windows and Mac Not many instruments are being made Hybrid pianos Stage pianos Pianoteq (https://www.modartt.com/) Virtual instruments Hammer graded controllers Semi weighted keys Synth Keys Akai Professional MPK Mini Plus Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BFBDT2D2/) VST3 MT Powerdrum (https://www.powerdrumkit.com/) Tal Base Line 101 (https://www.tal-software.com/products/tal-bassline-101) 36:50 Tape Backup Slow but reliable and cheap Tar command Data velocity Burn rate How to use tape Tools for data tapes Failure domain -- 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/475) 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 a dead hard drive took Frigate out, answer your questions, and start a new challenge for the new year. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Sticky Things and Bug reports Electric Dirt Bike Validating work Picking and offering boats Hosting in home lab 10:00 Frigate Frigate drive failure 4 TB drive died Frigate setup Swapping drives and power on hours Running drives into the ground Replacing drives Motion detection 20:06 News Wire Shotcut 25.12 - shotcut.org (https://shotcut.org/blog/new-release-25.12.30/) Ncurses 6.6 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ncurses-6.6) OpenTTD 15.0 - openttd.org (https://www.openttd.org/news/2026/01/01/openttd-15-0) QPrompt 2.0 - patreon.com (https://www.patreon.com/posts/qprompt-2-0-147192236) Mkvtoolnix 97 - mkvtoolnix.download (https://mkvtoolnix.download/windows/releases/97.0/) Privoxy 4.1 - sourceforge.net (https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/files/Sources/4.1.0%20%28stable%29/) OpenBGPD 9.0 - bsdsec.net (https://bsdsec.net/articles/openbgpd-9-0-released) IceWM - debugpoint.com (https://www.debugpoint.com/icewm-4-0-0-features/) Devuan 6.1 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Devuan-6.1-Released) Manjaro 26.0 - manjaro.org (https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-26-0-anh-linh-released/184526) Qwen Text to Image - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/technology/open-source-qwen-image-2512-launches-to-compete-with-googles-nano-banana-pro) 27:07 Flatpak vs Packaged Software - Pete New contest! Steve uses packaged software Idea behind flatpaks Flatpak edge cases Install via AUR AppImages 37:16 Backup GrapheneOS - Domink Toilet backup strategy Plan to come back from scratch Contacts VCF file ADB Backup Guide (https://droidwin.com/how-to-create-and-restore-app-backup-via-adb-commands/) ADB Backup Caveat (https://developer.android.com/about/versions/12/behavior-changes-12#adb-backup-restrictions) 45:09 KVM Switch? - Jeremy Now use remote software Barrier (https://github.com/debauchee/barrier) Synergy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergy_%28software%29) Deskflow (https://github.com/deskflow/deskflow) IO Gear KVM (https://iogear.com/collections/cable-kvms-desktop-kvms) Rust Desk (https://rustdesk.com/) -- 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/474) 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 reviews Expedition 33. We take your feedback, and Steve builds a new PC and talks motherboard. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Profanity Kids language Stripping profanity and vulgarity MonkeyPlug (https://github.com/mmguero/monkeyplug) Motherboards and RAM prices ASRock ASUS 18:04 News Wire Lua 5.5 - lua.org (https://www.lua.org/manual/5.5/readme.html#changes) Ruby 4.0 - ruby-lang.org (https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/12/25/ruby-4-0-0-released/) QEMU 10.2 - wiki.qemu.org (https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/10.2) Pinta 3.1 - omgubuntu.co.uk (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/pinta-3-1-released-new-axonometric-grids) Voyager 13.2 - voyagerlive.org (https://voyagerlive.org) Nobara 43 - nobaraproject.org (https://nobaraproject.org/download.html) Porteux 2.5 - distrowatch.com (https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12688) Parrot 7.0 - parrotsec.org (https://parrotsec.org/blog/2025-12-24-parrot-7.0-release-notes/) PostmarkOS 25.12 - postmarketos.org (https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/12/23/v25.12-release/) Elementary OS 8.1 - elementary.io (https://blog.elementary.io/os-8-1-available-now/) MinIO in Maintenance Mode - infoq.com (https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/minio-s3-api-alternatives/) KawaiiGPT - opensourceforu.com (https://www.opensourceforu.com/2025/12/open-source-ai-kawaiigpt-turns-cybercrime-into-a-one-click-operation/) Z.ai - businesswire.com (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251223393714/en/Z.ai-Open-Sources-GLM-4.7-a-New-Generation-Large-Language-Model-Built-for-Real-Development-Workflows) Chatterbox Turbo - the-decoder.com (https://the-decoder.com/resemble-ai-drops-chatterbox-turbo-an-open-source-text-to-speech-model-that-clones-voices-in-five-seconds/) 18:57 Listener responds to self hosted - Josh Setup SSO PocketID (https://pocket-id.org/) Hesitant to adopt passkeys Argument for and against passkeys 26:41 Email Archiving for Privacy - Dominik Why you should archive email Plain text vs Mbox/PST imapsync GitHub (https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync) Email threat model 32:54 Expedition 33 Expedition 33 (https://www.expedition33.com/) Doesn't have an "agenda" Story of small Indie team If you apply yourself, you can succeed Awards Sales Live action adaptation Game play and Story are amazing It's a sad game Amazing music AI controversy AI vs human work Proper use of AI tools -- 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/473) 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 Noah and Steve work on Steve's house, a new automated lock system goes in, some new structured wiring goes in, and we talk about automating your Christmas tree. -- During The Show -- 00:48 Intro Happy Christmas Kids and presents Quests at Steve's Steve's Christmas tree Steve on a Mac 16:20 Feedback You start the conversation Send in an email success stories problems you can't solve suggest a topic 18:00 Switch Bot A room to keep dogs and kids out of Why Switch Bot? Gold tier certified by Home Assistant Value of talking with others How to evaluate "the line" The "delta" Gratitude 36:17 Structured Wiring 2 Recessed outlets with Ethernet 2 Projector rooms The Smart Home Hookup (https://www.thesmarthomehookup.com/) The Smart Home Hookup Youtube (https://www.thesmarthomehookup.com/) Playing D&D with the family Lay of the land Running Cat6 SDI Video/Audio Belden Cables (https://www.belden.com/products) Vertical Cables (https://verticalcable.com/) HDMI Decimators Keystones 55:57 News Wire Darktable 5.4 - darktable.org (https://www.darktable.org/2025/12/darktable-5.4.0-released/) Kdenlive 25.12 - kdenlive.org (https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/25.12.0/) OpenShot 3.4 - openshot.org (https://www.openshot.org/blog/2025/12/15/new_openshot_release_340/) OpenZFS 2.4 - github.com (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases) GNUCash 5.14 - gnucash.org (https://www.gnucash.org/news.phtml) Nvidia Linux 590.48 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-590.48.01-Linux) Linux 6.17 EOL - 9to5linux.com (https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-6-17-reaches-end-of-life-its-time-to-upgrade-to-linux-kernel-6-18-lts) RELIANOID 7.8.0 - relianoid.com (https://www.relianoid.com/blog/release-notes-relianoid-7-8-0-community-edition/?srsltid=AfmBOoqTXRsWaTNKQFzVEqPBJTCWcDsZ6UdJ39cTIPM4-r7CGJXQ8Ldq) SparkyLinux 2025.12 - sparkylinux.org (https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-2025-12/) Easy OS Excalibur 7.1 - puppylinux.com (https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=16128) Emmabuntus Debian Edition 6 - emmabuntus.org (https://emmabuntus.org/category/english/) Solaris 11.4 - blogs.oracle.com (https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/whats-new-in-oracle-solaris-11-4-sru-87) FreeBSD 15.0 - freebsd.org (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/relnotes/) Rust CVE in Linux - itsfoss.com (https://itsfoss.com/news/first-linux-kernel-rust-cve/) Senate Intel Chair - cyberscoop.com (https://cyberscoop.com/tom-cotton-open-source-software-foreign-influence-national-cyber-director/) Beavertail Malware - scworld.com (https://www.scworld.com/news/north-korean-beavertail-malware-sparks-attacks-across-financial-sector) Open-Source Protein Co-Folding Model - nvidia.com (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/customer-stories/mit-recursion-open-source-protein-co-folding-model/) Bloom - siliconangle.com (https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/22/anthropic-announces-bloom-open-source-tool-researchers-evaluating-ai-behavior/) CUGA - infoq.com (https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/ibm-cuga/) Nemotron AI Models - finance.yahoo.com (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-corporation-nvda-launches-family-144517323.html) -- 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/472) 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]...

This week we dig full force into some interesting listener questions. Noah talks about an open source hardware synth, and Steve walks through some of his hardware choices to help you! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Weather Cooling IT rooms in winter 05:00 Printers, DVD ripping and more - James Steve has 2 brother printers Auto Duplexing Separate printer and scanner Large business grade units Ask Noah Show 368 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/368) All in One Brother DCP-L2640DW Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CPLFTPCV) Budget Brother HL-L2460DW Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CPL2N5H6) Monochrome Brother HL-6210DW Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CGC9HPNH) Color Brother HL-L3280CDW Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFD1G1VT) Trouble with auto duplexing Stay away from Lexar HP printers Manually add the printer Change to Jetdirect or IP printer Pay attention to exact model or most similar When it goes wrong, it goes really wrong Your mileage may vary Canon Color Image Class LBP622Cdw Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QBR7JFV) Scanner Brother ADS-1200 Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WSJQWVQ) Containers vs Codecs MKV vs MP4 Avidemux (https://avidemux.sourceforge.net/) Ripping as ISOs vs video files MakeMKV (https://www.makemkv.com/) MakeMKV Docker Image (https://github.com/jlesage/docker-makemkv) ``` # sudo modprobe sg services: makemkv: image: ghcr.io/jlesage/makemkv:latest ports: "5800:5800" volumes: "./makemkv:/config:rw" "./storage:/storage:ro" "./output:/output:rw" security_opt: # Fix for apparmor enabled systems apparmor:unconfined environment: USER_ID=1000 GROUP_ID=1000 devices: "/dev/sr0:/dev/sr0" "/dev/sg0:/dev/sg0" ``` Christmas movies Handbrake (https://handbrake.fr/) FFmpeg (https://ffmpeg.org/) Transcoding Run controller at each site Ubiquiti Cloud Key (https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/uck-g2) Lots of problems OVH server Put basic auth in front Inbox Zero Paperless NGX (https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/) Dump to eml file then import into special Thunderbird 45:14 News Wire Firefox 146 - firefox.com (https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/146.0/releasenotes/) Thunderbird 146 - thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/146.0/releasenotes/) KDE Frameworks 6.12 - kde.org (https://kde.org/info/kde-frameworks-6.21.0/) Cinnamon Desktop 6.6 - itsfoss.com (https://itsfoss.com/news/cinnamon-6-6/) Mir 2.25 - github.com (https://github.com/canonical/mir/releases/tag/v2.25.0) Rust 1.92 - blog.rust-lang.org (https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/12/11/Rust-1.92.0/) AerynOS 2025.12 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/AerynOS-2025.12) Kali Linux 2025.4 - kali.org (https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2025-4-release/) Pop!_OS 24.04 - itsfoss.com (https://itsfoss.com/news/pop-os-24-04-review/) PearOS - pearos.xyz (https://pearos.xyz) MaboxLinux 2025.12 - maboxlinux.org (https://maboxlinux.org/mabox-25-12-improvements-fixes-and-gtk2-farewell/#google_vignette) Papermoon - thenewstack.io (https://thenewstack.io/papermoon-a-space-grade-linux-for-the-newspace-era/) 01flip Ransomware - esecurityplanet.com (https://www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/rust-based-01flip-ransomware-hits-windows-and-linux/) React2Shell - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/react2shell-vulnerability-actively.html) Nomos 1 - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/nous-research-just-released-nomos-1-an-open-source-ai-that-ranks-second-on) Nemotron Model - reuters.com (https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidia-unveils-new-open-source-ai-models-amid-boom-chinese-offerings-2025-12-15/) Quilter's AI - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/quilters-ai-just-designed-an-843-part-linux-computer-that-booted-on-the) Chatterbox Labs - redhat.com (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-acquire-chatterbox-labs-frequently-asked-questions) Agentic AI Group - hackernoon.com (https://hackernoon.com/linux-foundation-launches-agentic-ai-group-to-set-standards-for-autonomous-systems) Firefox AI Browser -...

This week Steve puts his Debian powered Christmas tree up. He walks us through enterprise deployment and the failures of Firefox enterprise, and Noah builds a Raspberry Pi powered piano!

This week Steve takes us through his journey with Enty and Immich. Plex makes their users pay a monthly fee, and Steam releases a new SteamBox console. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro How was your week Watching sales Smart TVs WebOS 07:21 Mac Feedback - Gregory Network Effect "Comforting Mac Feels" Pavu Control (https://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/) OBS (https://obsproject.com/) Stewardship 11:32 Mac Feedback - Patrick Pragmatic approach Steve's thoughts Treating windows like an appliance Making the FOSS path easy 18:15 Succession Planning - Dominik Suggestions Design your home so it works without automation Have a HDD with important data Have migration plan in place Struggling with massive amounts of data Steve's documentation journey Criticality 30:33 News Wire Gnome 49.2 - gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-49-2-released/32730) Tmus 3.6 - proxmox.com (https://www.proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/proxmox-backup-server-4-1) Snort 3.10 - github.com (https://github.com/snort3/snort3/releases) Dbeaver 25.3 - dbeaver.io (https://dbeaver.io/download/) Proxmox 4.2 Backup Server - proxmox.com (https://www.proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/proxmox-backup-server-4-1) Fedora Ultramarine 43 - fyralabs.com (https://blog.fyralabs.com/ultramarine-43-release/) AlmaLinux 10.1 - almalinux.org (https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-11-24-almalinux_101_release/) Rocky Linux 10.1 - rockylinux.org (https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-10-1-ga-release) KaOS 2025.11 - kaosx.us (https://kaosx.us/news/2025/kaos11/) NixOS 25.11 - nixos.org (https://nixos.org/blog/announcements/2025/nixos-2511/) Armbian 25.11 - blog.armbian.com (https://blog.armbian.com/v25-11-improving-the-base-unlocking-new-options/) Solus 4.8 - getsol.us (https://getsol.us/2025/11/29/solus-4-8-released/) 4M Linux 50.0 - 4mlinux.com (https://4mlinux.com/index.php?page=home) AV Linux 25 - linuxmusicians.com (https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=28954) Pardus 25 - pardus.org (https://pardus.org.tr/en/pardus-25-release-note/) Linux 6.18 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-Released) Flux 2 - bfl.ai (https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-2) z-Image-Turbo - huggingface.co (https://huggingface.co/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbo) Deepseek 3.2 - deepseek.com (https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news251201) Linux MCP - siliconangle.com (https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/25/suses-mcp-server-tech-preview-lays-foundation-ai-assisted-linux-infrastructure/) 31:51 Plex Crackdown Forcing Plex Pass subscriptions Proprietary software controls you Are Plex users getting what they deserve? Switching to JellyFin (https://jellyfin.org/) Scanning of people's media Reason for crackdown Problem with the approach FS PBX (https://www.fspbx.com/) ArsTechnica.com (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/plexs-crackdown-on-free-remote-streaming-access-starts-this-week/) 41:50 Steam Machine First response is it's a "Travel Machine" SteamDeck "just works" Community experience ArsTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/11/steam-deck-minus-the-screen-valve-announces-new-steam-machine-controller-hardware/) 44:42 Self Hosted Image Software Immich (https://immich.app/) experience Ente (https://ente.io/) experience Ente vs Immich Ente Encryption Native App Backup Where Immich came from iOS challenges Which is the winner? -- 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/469) 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?...

Steve gives a deep dive into some of the struggles he's working through in his house. Google has pulled back on their plans to require developer verification. -- During The Show -- 00:45 Intro Passing the show through AI Immich Breaking changes 07:54 Steve Rants Show How it came about 09:45 Google and Side loading ANS 457 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/457) Google backs down How to Geek (https://www.howtogeek.com/google-is-backing-down-android-sideloading/) Hiding the setting Best of both worlds Explaining walled gardens Why walled gardens are bad Bubble level app (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.woheller69.level/) 18:32 When is a Mac appropriate? Supporting a power user Specialty scanner Asked the AI Accidentally uninstalled mesa Trouble shooting When is a Mac appropriate? Mac's don't fix problems Mac myths "solving the problem" Network effect Apple print dialog Making the open source path easy SimpleHelp (https://simple-help.com/) PiKVM (https://pikvm.org/) Tailscale (https://tailscale.com/) Windows knowledge on Linux Borrowing hardware 50:50 News Wire Git 2.52 - github.blog (https://github.blog/open-source/git/highlights-from-git-2-52) Cmake 4.2 - cmake.org (https://cmake.org/download) Blender 5.0 - blender.org (https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/5.0) PHP 8.5 - php.net (https://www.php.net/releases/8.5/en.php) Protondrive 1.2 - github.com (https://github.com/DonnieDice/protondrive-linux/releases/tag/v1.2.0) Proxmox 9.1 - proxmox.com (https://www.proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/proxmox-virtual-environment-9-1) Alma Linux 9.7 - almalinux.org (https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-11-17-almalinux_97_release) Finnix 251 - finnix.org (https://blog.finnix.org/2025/11/17/finnix-251-released) Pepple Watch 100% Open Source - howtogeek.com (https://www.howtogeek.com/pebble-cuts-through-the-noise-and-goes-open-source) Zork Open Source - arstechnica.com (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/11/microsoft-makes-zork-i-ii-and-iii-open-source-under-mit-license) 00:52 Coming up on Ask Noah Netowrking, proxies, caching Firefox -- 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/468) 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)