Ask Noah Show

Noah J. Chelliah
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The Ask Noah Show is a weekly talk radio show where we focus on Linux and Open Source technology. We invite the community to participate live on the air 1-855-450-6624. The show airs Tuesdays at 6pm CT on asknoahshow.com and at KEQQ 88.3 FM in Grand Forks ND. It's a free call 1-855-450-NOAH so join us and start on your way to owning your operating system, your software, and technology.

  1. 2D AGO

    Ask Noah Show 472

    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] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

    59 min

  2. DEC 17

    Ask Noah Show 471

    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 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-New-CEO-AI) 47:47 Zynthian Open hardware device We want your feedback! Are you comfortable with software VST Zynthian.org (https://zynthian.org/) 50:30 Family Resistant to Self Hosting - David Ovens house hold approach Watching for pain points Making responsible path easy Making irresponsible path hard Value driven decisions Supporting where your paycheck comes from -- 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/471) 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)

    59 min

  3. DEC 10

    Episode 470: Ask Noah Show 470

    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!

    54 min

  4. DEC 3

    Ask Noah Show 469

    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? 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)

    1h 11m

  5. NOV 26

    Ask Noah Show 468

    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)

    54 min

  6. NOV 19

    Episode 467: Ask Noah Show 467

    This week Steve and Noah talk about the things you didn't know you knew about Linux. Scott Jenson joins the program to talk about principals of UX/UI design. -- During The Show -- 00:52 Self Hosting After Death - Michael Steve's thought process Important things Home Assistant (https://www.home-assistant.io/) Mealie (https://docs.mealie.io/) Frigate (https://frigate.video/) Steve's plan Draw.io LLMs No desire to be trained Open Source Documentation Noah's plan Self hosted vs Cloud Techie Friends 12:21 Scott Jenson - UX/UI Design Product Strategist For Home Assistant and Mastodon Scott's Website (https://jenson.org/) Coloring outside the lines Mobile vs Desktop Desktop UI shortcomings UX in Audacity and Penpot (https://penpot.app/) Where can UX designers grow? Articulating the business use case Ink & Switch (https://www.inkandswitch.com/) 18:23 News Wire Nano 8.7 - gnu.org (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2025-11/msg00002.html) Thunderbird 145 - thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/145.0/releasenotes) Firefox 145 - firefox.com (https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/145.0/releasenotes) Wine 10.19 - webpronews.com (https://www.webpronews.com/wine-10-19-ushers-in-linuxs-next-leap-for-windows-app-mastery) Proton 10.0 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Proton-10.0-3-Released) KDE Frameworks 6.20.0 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/6/6.20.0) SparkyLinux 8.1 - sparkylinux.org (https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-8-1) Debian 13.2 - debian.org (https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20251115) Tails 7.2 - torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-7_2) Nitrix 5.0 - itsfoss.com (https://itsfoss.com/news/nitrux-5-release) Kaspersky for Linux - tomshardware.com (https://www.tomshardware.com/software/antivirus/banned-russian-antivirus-maker-kaspersky-rolls-out-new-products-basic-plan-for-linux-starts-at-usd59-99-a-year) Avahi Logic Flaw - zeropath.com (https://zeropath.com/blog/avahi-simple-protocol-server-dos-cve-2025-59529) ImunifyAV Flaw - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/rce-flaw-in-imunifyav-puts-millions-of-linux-hosted-sites-at-risk) Akira Targets Nutanix VMs - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-warns-of-akira-ransomware-linux-encryptor-targeting-nutanix-vms) Kraken Expands - cyberpress.org (https://cyberpress.org/kraken-ransomware) VibeThinker-1.5B - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/weibos-new-open-source-ai-model-vibethinker-1-5b-outperforms-deepseek-r1-on) Worry Over Chinese AI - businessinsider.com (https://www.businessinsider.com/eric-schmidt-worried-governments-use-chinese-ai-open-source-models-2025-11) US Must Go Open Source - techbuzz.ai (https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/databricks-co-founder-us-must-go-open-source-to-beat-china-in-ai) Linux Knowledge The "Mythical New User" People use all sorts of UI/UX today Knowledge we take for granted Teaching is the highest form of learning See one, do one, teach one Talk radio principle: Watering plants that are already there Linux and Windows architectures are different 39:50 Source Command How it works Variables Environment Variable What the source command does Getting started with source and python 48:00 Know your short comings Know what you don't know Know how to explain it simply Keeping things simple -- 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/467) 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: Scott Jenson.

    54 min

  7. NOV 12

    Episode 466: Ask Noah Show 466

    This week we talk about Bolt graphics, a new graphics start up that is working on a graphics card with upgrade-able memory for a competitive price. A software developer has released an open source alternative firmware for the Nest v1 and v2 thermostats, and of course your questions! -- During The Show -- 00:45 Intro Dakota's weather 01:51 Email! - William Listener recommends porkbun (https://porkbun.com/) Mailbox.org (https://mailbox.org/en/) Simple Login (https://simplelogin.io/) DuckDuckGo Email Alias (https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/email-protection/duck-addresses) Proton's built in features Reasons for protecting privacy Privacy.com (https://www.privacy.com/) 11:25 Data Science & Self Hosting - Annon Value based approach Consenting data collection Tool vs Pillar A job can be a tool Get a job in a different field hadoop Nextcloud Anti Virus Network Protection Medical Science Red Hat data sciences 22:15 News Wire LXQT 2.3 - lxqt-project.org (https://lxqt-project.org/release/2025/11/05/release-lxqt-2-3-0) Calibre 8.14 - newwin.net (https://www.neowin.net/software/calibre-8140) MKVtoolnix - mkvtoolnix.download (https://mkvtoolnix.download/windows/releases/96.0) Curly COMrades - darkreading.com (https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint-security/pro-russian-hackers-linux-vms-hide-windows) Porteux 2.4 - distrowatch.com (https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12628) MXLinux 25 - mxlinux.org (https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-25-infinity-isos-now-available) Devuan 6.0 - serverhost.com (https://serverhost.com/blog/devuan-gnu-linux-6-0-launches-a-systemd-free-distro-based-on-debian-13-trixie) IncusOS - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Incus-IncusOS-Announced) NVIDIA AI Stack - hpcwire.com (https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/ciq-integrates-full-nvidia-ai-stack-into-rocky-linux-for-faster-deployment-and-scaling) Omnilingual ASR - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/meta-returns-to-open-source-ai-with-omnilingual-asr-models-that-can) Kimi K2 Thinking - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/moonshots-kimi-k2-thinking-emerges-as-leading-open-source-ai-outperforming) Drax - prnewswire.com (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aiola-unveils-drax-an-open-source-speech-model-with-state-of-the-art-accuracy-and-up-to-5O-faster-than-models-from-direct-competitors-302607278.html) Linux Desktop 5% - webpronews.com (https://www.webpronews.com/linux-breaks-5-desktop-share-in-u-s-signaling-open-source-surge-against-windows-and-macos) 23:50 Jill Mueller - Bolt Graphics Bolt Graphics Key differences Build of the card Why did you come to Ubuntu Summit? 27:25 Antonio Salvemini - Ray Tracing Bolt Graphics Ray Tracing vs Raster Why start with FPGA? Next steps Current Stage Available 2027 Bolt Graphics (https://bolt.graphics/) Untapped markets Upgradeable GPU 34:34 No Longer Evil Thermostat Google EOLs Nest Thermostats Gen 1 and Gen 2 No Longer Evil (https://nolongerevil.com/) FULU Foundation (https://fulu.org/our-story) "Feature Complete" AXIS A1001 Good piece of hardware Reservations Connects to "No Longer Evil Server" Server planned to be open sourced Centralite Perl HA Thermostat (Zigbee) (https://www.amazon.com/Centralite-Thermostat-Xfinity-Comcast-Centrallite/dp/B01LXD3EBN) Needs to be repaired 1 or 2 times a year Temperature Sensors Govee H5075 (https://us.govee.com/products/govee-bluetooth-hygrometer-thermometer-h5075) IoT Maintenance Why temperature sensors ESP32 receive blue-tooth and send to Home Assistant -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/466) 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 Guests: Antonio Salvemini and Jill Mueller.

    54 min

  8. NOV 5

    Episode 465: Ask Noah Show 465

    This week Steve describes what happens when you put Ai in a vacuum cleaner, give it a task, then break the charger. We catch up on your feedback questions, and of course the weekly news! -- During The Show -- 00:48 Intro Choosing what to say yes to 01:43 Cell Phone Fail Over - Brandon Redundant Internet MaxxKonnect (https://maxxkonnect.com/) ISP Negotiation 08:44 IPFire - Frederick PFSense just works Network effect OpenWRT UI/UX Design Steve's migration to OPNSense Tracking online devices 17:40 Converstaion about FastMail - Josh Steve's experience Noah's experience 22:22 Paul Reflects on discussions - Paul Struggle with value of 11 inch framework 23:28 MP3 Audio Processing - Bob Compression Dynamic Range FFMPEG ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -filter:a loudnorm output.mp4 27:55 Question about TrueNas, Frigate and Tailscale - Chris TrueNAS "X Factor" Use Ubuntu vs TrueNAS Cockpit networking Tailscale known bug 38:23 News Wire Exim 4.99 - exim.org (https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20251028.114149.3bf19800.en.html) Squid 7.3 - github.com (https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/releases) Shotcut 25.10 - shotcut.org (https://shotcut.org/blog/new-release-25.10.31) Kodi 21.3 - github.com (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/releases/tag/21.3-Omega) TorBrowser 15 - torproject.com (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-150) Rust 1.91 - releases.rs (https://releases.rs/docs/1.91.0) Qt Creator 18 - qt.io (https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-18-released) TheSSS 50 - sourceforge.net (https://sourceforge.net/projects/thesss) AerynOS 2025.10 - aerynos.com (https://aerynos.com/blog/2025/10/31) Fedora 43 - docs.fedoraproject.org (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/releases/f43) CISA Warning - forbes.com (https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/11/02/ongoing-ransomware-attacks-exploit-linux-vulnerability-cisa-warns) Malicious NPM Packages - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/10/10-npm-packages-caught-stealing.html) Granite 4.0 Nano - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/ibms-open-source-granite-4-0-nano-ai-models-are-small-enough-to-run-locally) Proximity Scanner - helpnetsecurity.com (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/29/proximity-open-source-mcp-security-scanner) Linux Gaming Passes 3% - gamingonlinux.com (https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/linux-gamers-on-steam-finally-cross-over-the-3-mark) 40:00 LLMs show a “highly unreliable” capacity to describe their own internal processes Would you trust a pidgin with a task What are we learning about AI trustworthiness Putting AI in robots AI and Jobs AI hallucinations Increasing percentage of hallucinations Tricking AI models ArsTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/llms-show-a-highly-unreliable-capacity-to-describe-their-own-internal-processes/) -- 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/465) 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)

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    Noah J. Chelliah
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2025
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