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Noah J. Chelliah
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Ask Noah Show

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. 1 DAY AGO

    Ask Noah Show 416

    Mike McGrath joins the program and we get an update from Red Hat. This week we dig into week 2 of Steve's Desktop Linux struggle. -- During The Show -- 01:00 Hex OS - Craig Self host Files Pictures Home Assistant Jellyfin Wants a GUI Like the idea of ZFS Snapshots Go simple You should know how to fix things Cockpit 11:25 News Wire Wordpress 6.7 - wordpress.org Postgres 17.1 - postgresql.org Peazip 10.1 - github.io DigiKam 8.5 - digikam.org Systemd 256.8 - github.com Linux 6.12 - lwn.net GNU-Linux 6.12 - phoronix.com Quadruple Workqueue Concurrency - phoronix.com Q4OS 5.7 - q4os.org RHEL 9.5 - github.io 12:33 Mike McGrath Interview Drama around RHEL source code Fedora and Streams Accelerators How does Red Hat keep up Xorg and Wayland Remote Desktop on Wayland ELS 32bit Package Mode vs Image Mode RHEL AI Low power computers/systems Micro DNF UBI OS Tree Bootstrap/Build kit Red Hat AI Licensing What does open source mean to you? 33:43 Steve's Desktop Adventure Issues with desktop going to sleep Build on your knowledge base NixOS Local Flatpak Cache Flatpak size Ansible Why multiple files Outside and inside chroot Cinnamon Desktop -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies Support Ask Noah Show

    54 min

  2. NOV 13

    Ask Noah Show 415

    Tim Flink, a Senior Quality Engineer from Red Hat joins us to talk about AI on Fedora. This week Noah and Steve talk about their struggles with the Linux Desktop. -- During The Show -- 02:30 Helping a Non-techy friend - Sleuth The plan Locked down second hand Android device Ting Flex plan Tracar JMP.Chat Sim Plan Mint Mobile Steer people away from sms/calls Matrix Telegram etc 08:47 News Wire Calibre 7.21 - calibre-ebook.com Cmake 3.31 - cmake.org Curl 8.11 - curl.se Scraperr 1.0 - github.com LXQT 2.1 - lxqt-project.org Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 - ubports.com Debian 12.8 - debian.org Torvalds 2.6% Performance Patch - theregister.com 3800% Performance Improvement - phoronix.com CRON#TRAP Malware - thehackernews.com AMD OLMo LLM - computerworld.com 09:58 Tim Flink - Senior Quality Engineer - Red Hat Where should you start with AI? PyTorch Orders of magnitude faster on a GPU VRAM is the biggest factor How is Fedora using AI? OpenQA RocM and PyTorch Efforts around packaging Why are you focusing on RocM? Where is a good place to help out? AI/ML SIG Containers coming What does open source mean to you? 22:28 Kubuntu and Docker Broken - Michael Fisher Docker Compose Pastebin Docker Logs Pastebin Docker internal DNS having issues 24:36 What's the deal with Linux Desktop Environments? Steve's workflow Static vs Dynamic approach How close can I get to immutable with flatpaks Software KVM Synergy (proprietary) Barrior (abandoned) Input Leap 3 Monitors, 2 horizontal and 1 vertical KDE hates Steve NVIDIA drivers Why is it so hard to put software in hardware? Ubuntu won't say its up to date because of Ubuntu Pro Can't install LibreOffice on Ubuntu because of Snap All operating systems have issues 45:20 MacOS vs EndlessOS vs Windows 10 Mac Book No working battery Disposable 3+ Hours just to install the OS ThinkPad with EndlessOS Flatpak for Office 365 Windows Can't upgrade to windows 11 Windows 11 requires online account Windows 11 requires TPM chip 2 People both chose the EndlessOS Endless OS No forced updates All the icons right there Open source Allows you to fix things Unix philosophy The answers are there -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies YouTube Show Notes & Podcast Download available at http://podcast.asknoahshow.com Support us on Patreon ------------- https://www.patreon.com/linuxdelta --- Connect with us! --- On Twitter ------------------------ https://twitter.com/asknoahshow On Facebook ----------------------- https://www.facebook.com/asknoahshow Email The Show -------------------- live@asknoahshow.com • Ask Noah Show © CC-BY-ND 2021 • Support Ask Noah Show

    54 min

  3. NOV 6

    Ask Noah Show 414

    This week on Ask Noah we dig into Cosmic desktop and talk about what to do when self hosting goes wrong! -- During The Show -- 01:48 Cosmic Desktop - Dan Cosmic will be the desktop for System76 computers Built for System76 Cosmic DE still Alpha/Beta Been running Cosmic for over a month 07:38 Caller KVM/VirtManager performance Virt IO Drivers Correct ZFS block size for QCOW2 Synchronous vs Non-synchronous writes ZFS Intent Log (SLOG/ZIL) 64k Record size Turn on virtualization in UEFI Enable "write a shift" Check the cables 16:50 Cosmic Desktop - ZFS - Rob Hardware HDD Failure after re-silvering Preventing bit rot 3 disks vs 2 disks ZFS Send/Receive vs Rsync Sanoid Limit the bandwidth Total data vs Total Bandwidth Synology is not open source Just install an OS and packages 30:55 Zed Editor Website Steve uses Nano not Vim or Emacs Thoughts on IDEs? VSCode and VSCodium Electron Lots of extensions Failed to get to the website AI is not appealing Written in Rust Native Linux support 37:41 Steve's Tech failures Nextcloud Collaborative Editing Fighting with Collabra Tried docker and podman Tried bare metal Tried a VM Nextcloud Deck It works Not awesome Colors not working Trello import Frigate took down Home Assistant Frigate filled /tmp and root Hard locked the server Tail Scale on IOS Doesn't work intermittently Do you enjoy fixing problems? Case by case basis Time is the most valuable thing -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies Support Ask Noah Show

    54 min

  4. OCT 30

    Episode 413: Ask Noah Show 413 | Contributing to Ubuntu

    This week Robie Basak joins Noah from the Ubuntu Summit and gives an introduction on how to get started contributing to Ubuntu. -- During The Show -- 01:26 HexOS - Craig Start with the Command Line When is a GUI appropriate Start with make a ZFS pool make a samba share Help us understand your goal What is HexOS Ubuntu and ZFS DKMS kABI Advantages of TrueNAS Snapshots Send/Receive 1 Click Re-silvering 17:08 Questions about HDMI switch - Andy Theater Receiver Decimator 21:14 News Wire SQLite 3.47.0 - sqlite.org Peazip 10 - github.io Jellyfin 10.10.0 - jellyfin.org EasyOS 6.4 - puppylinux.com Gnome 47.1 - gnome.org Tor Browser 14.0 - torproject.org AlmaLinux Kitten 10 - almalinux.org Gentoo & DTrace 2.0 - gentoo.org NASA $15.6M Grant for Open Source Tools - spaceanddefense.io Open Source Printable Lathe - hackaday.com Thelio Astra - system76.com Eight Nvidia High Severity Vulnerabilities - forbes.com OpenSSL 3.4 - github.com IPS Snort v3.5 - github.com Parrot OS 6.2 - parrotsec.org New Granite 3.0 - zdnet.com HUGS - reuters.com SynthID Now Open Source - theverge.com Mochi 1 - venturebeat.com Ubuntu Turns 20 - ubuntu.com 23:23 Robie Basak - Ubuntu Technical Council What drew you to Linux? Why did you decide to work for Canonical? What is the Ubuntu Technical Board? Difference between Ubuntu and Canonical The process of granting commit rights Conflict resolution Cloud init Unique ID Ubuntu Summit Range of interaction Membership Board Meeting Full Hour Long Meeting Recording YouTube 43:40 Fedora 41 Fedora 41 available early! New DNF bootc Plasma Mobile Spin Fedora Magazine Minisforum v3 Steve, Fedora, hardware 50:30 Russian Kernel Maintainers Removed Greg Kroah-Hartman removed them due to "various compliance requirements" Removed developers Russian and not minor contributors We live in a world where decisions are made for political reasons zdnet.com therecord.media -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies Support Ask Noah Show

    55 min

  5. OCT 23

    Episode 412: Ask Noah Show 412

    This week Steve gives a deep dive into Widevine Encryption. We love encryption when it protects our data, but what do we do when encryption prevents us from doing the things we want to do over the internet? -- During The Show -- 00:50 Which is easier kids or dogs? 01:57 Succession Planning - Steve Secure vs accessible Steve's plan Infrastructure as code Critical path continuity Nix maintains old packages Techie friends Sleuths setup/plan data separation Noah's plan 20:29 News Wire Solus 4.6 - getsol.us Sysvinit 3.11 - phoronix.com Calibre 7.20 - calibre-ebook.com Ardour 8.10 - ardour.org Wine 9.20 - gitlab.winehq.org ReiserFS Removed in Linux 6.13 - phoronix.com RHEL AI 1.2 - zdnet.com phoronix.com New Malware Raids ATMs - arstechnica.com Roundcube Webmail Exploit - bleepingcomputer.com Critical Firefox Bug - nvd.nist.gov 21:23 Widevine Widevine is DRM created by google Most major streaming services use widevine CDM hardware Levels of Encryption L3 software based, least secure L2 largely not used L1 hardware supported, most secure Wedding photographer Photographer requires no other photos to be taken Photographer goes out of business Dr Phill did a show on it, got the the photos back NVR recordings are going away NVR prevented getting the recording off Devices identify what they are Industry went to STI HD not HDMI Industry moving to NDI OREI HDMI Splitter US law allows you to backup content you own 43:45 Caller Sleuth How do you separate and backup data at Red Hat OADP Depends on the technology 46:46 On Call Article Register Article Company didn't pay the bills Wanted things done in a hurry Required past due and current call upfront Router set to factory default After getting back to the office, found out colleague reset router Ethical dilemma Why spend more effort on a non-paying client? -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies Support Ask Noah Show

    54 min

  6. OCT 16

    Ask Noah Show 411

    This week Noah and Steve dig into thoughts for light switches if you're starting from scratch. Do you work in a small closet that's been turned into an IT room? Noah gives you a recommendation for a small portable travel laptop stand. With under a year left to switch to Windows 11, there's a surprise at how many people have yet to upgrade. We talk about why that is. -- During The Show -- 01:07 Caller Would you still go with lutron? ZWave kit GE & Brighton How Noah looks at automation Lutron RA2 Zwave and Home Assistant Industrial system design Shelly Pro Orbit Panels 11:26 Journal Block Device not loaded - John May be using a file system with out journalling May be using a file system Lynis can't detect GitHub Issue 13:25 Thoughts on AXIS Q9307-LV? - Jeremy All Axis cameras work Frigate NVR & Home Assistant Synology Surveillance Station ONVIF 18:45 Listener Suggestions for Nextcloud Issues - Joe PHP 8.3 vs 8.2 Disable Nextcloud Talk Check compatibility of apps Browser cache 20:38 New Godot fork - Charlie Redot GitHub Website Let's see if its successful 23:12 News Wire OpenSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 - opensuse.org Leap 16 Development - opensuse.org Ubuntu 24.10 - canonical.com Tails 6.8 & 6.8.1 - torproject.org OpenBSD 7.6 - openbsd.org KDE Turns 28 - kde.org KDE Frameworks 6.7.0 - kde.org KDE Plasma 6.2 - kde.org Linux 6.10 EOL - endoflife.date Qt 6.8 LTS - qt.io Python 3.13 - awakenerd.com RPM 4.20 - rpm.org Wayland-protocols 1.38 - freedesktop.org Distrobox 1.8 - github.com Inkscape 1.4 - inkscape.org OpenTV 1.0 - github.com OpenRazer 3.9 - phoronix.com Pyramid Flow - Venturebeat.com NVLM 1.0 - infoq.com Significant Rise in Malicious Software Components - csoonline.com 25:18 Instand Random "IT Rooms" Instand Pros and Cons Traveler Guitar 35:50 Windows 10 EOL In 1 Year MS Requires TPM Chip "Biggest CTRL-ALT-Delete in history" People calling for extending Windows 10 Support Not in the users interest 3 year cycle companies shouldn't have an issue Switch to Linux Steve's thoughts Windows 11 has half the users of Windows 10 Chance to make the case for desktop Linux Take a minute to think The Register -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies Support Ask Noah Show

    54 min

  7. OCT 9

    Ask Noah Show 410

    This week Aaron Prisk and Jason Nucciarone join the program to talk about Ubuntu Summit 2024. We dig into your feedback and talk about the benefits of immutable operating systems. -- During The Show -- 00:55 Intro Steve's WiFi issues Printer issues Nextcloud issues 07:46 Arch and Mandatory Access Control - Baker Why Steve chooses Arch Arch doesn't enable "auditing" in the kernel Other Mandatory Access Control SELinux Will tell you what to do Don't shut it off Permissive Mode Arch is the most "vanilla" distro Things do break in Arch, and other distros Consider Arch 17:42 Printers - Rabin Steve uses Brother printers Till Kamppeter ANS 368 Buy Brother Use IPP/IPPS 20:56 Charlie Asks The Audience Self Hostable Web based CRM Designed for both IT professionals and tradesmen Can: Assign Staff Assign Jobs List Stock Quote Job/Task Invoice Produce list of stock which is needed to buy as stock is low/empty Easy Appointments InvenTree 23:50 News Wire AntiX 23.2 - antixlinux.com Nitrux 3.7 - nxos.org Qbittorrent 5.0 - qbittorrent.org Firefox 131 - mozilla.org Network Manager 1.50 - networkmanager.dev Ardour 8.8 - ardour.org FWUPD 2.0 - github.com Rocky Linux from CIQ - insidehpc.com Pine64's E-innk Tablet - howtogeek.com Perfctl Malware - thehackernews.com Nvidia Open Source AI Model - venturebeat.com 25:00 Ubuntu Summit Interview Aaron Prisk Jason Nucciarone What is Ubuntu Summit Renamed "Ubuntu Summit" from "Ubuntu Developer Summit" Target audience for Ubuntu Summit Talks about Rust Matthew from Matrix Matrix in Canonical Getting the flavors together Community Teams Ubuntu Summit 45:00 Noah's Imposed Handicap Build service infrastructure Secure enclave Valve heading a specific direction SteamOS is immutable Use Tails for a daily driver Includes basic tools Can update keys Can clone itself Persistent storage Gnome KDE Plasma Everyone should have a Tails drive Endless OS -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies Support Ask Noah Show

    57 min

  8. OCT 2

    Episode 409: Ask Noah Show 409

    This week we dig into the Verizon outage. We'll talk about why and how you can host your own communication infrastructure, so an outage is less detrimental to your life! -- During The Show -- 01:35 Notes with sync? - Jou Jou How Steve takes notes Standard Notes Joplin Simple Mobile Tools Fossify Nextcloud Notes app Collabra 09:12 Listener Reacts To Distros - Aaron Issues with Ubuntu Go for Fedora Endless OS Write in with your Ubuntu issues Mind Drip One Offline Windows Setup 15:27 Audio Issues Mixer died Loaner from company Got the board fixed Sample rate changed Sample rate manually fixed and digital recorder back in production 17:48 News Wire Firefox 131 - mozilla.org FFmpeg 7.1 - ffmpeg.org GnuCash 5.9 - gnucash.org Postgres 17.1 - postgresql Winamp Source Code - bleepingcomputer.com Liya 2.1 - notebookcheck.net Arch and Valve Collaboration - lists.archlinux.org Tails and Tor Join Forces - blog.torproject.org Statial-B - hackaday.com Molmo Open Source AI Model - venturebeat.com 18:55 Arch Flatpak Issue Installed Arch, ran the ansible, restored backups Flatpak installs failed Github Issue Arch Flatpak Fix ``` flatpak remote-delete --force flathub flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo * Let's do a better job #### 26:10 Verizon Outage * No clear communication * Speculation abounds * No clear ETA for restoration of service * Never seen people behave this badly * Self Hosted services unaffected * Calls and Texts via 3CX and JMP.chat * Internal communications over Matrix * Companies should self host their own services * Communication is changing * [Master Switch](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/194417/the-master-switch-by-tim-wu/) * Steve didn't even notice the outage * Other carriers reported issues contacting Verizon customers * Don't be a slave to the glowing brick #### 40:33 Thunderbird on Android * Mozilla took over K9 Mail * Unified Inbox * Still in Beta * Asking for feedback * [Thunderbird Matrix Chat](https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#tb-android:mozilla.org) * [Thunderbird Blog Post](https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/09/help-us-test-the-thunderbird-for-android-beta/) #### 46:00 Reproducibility * Combinations of packages can be problematic * Automation can fail * Never will be completely safe * Automation can get you a long way * NixOS * ZFS Snapshots ###**-- 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/409) [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) Support Ask Noah Show

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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.

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  • Creator
    Noah J. Chelliah
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2024
  • Episodes
    414
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2024 CC-BY-ND
  • Show Website
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