Episode 417: Ask Noah Show 417

This week Noah and Steve outline where you should leverage automation and rely on it, and when it's good to have a backup plan. -- During The Show -- 02:00 Podcasting 2.0 Podcasting is changing Thank you 05:00 Retro Tink RetroTink designed for retro gaming 06:22 Luanti Mine Test Blog (https://blog.minetest.net/2024/10/13/Introducing-Our-New-Name/) $2.5B paid for Minecraft celeron55 took on the challenge of making a similar game MineTest took over in Noah's house MineTest expanded way beyond just a Minecraft clone Luanti (https://www.luanti.org/) Voxel Libre (https://github.com/VoxeLibre/VoxeLibre) 16:00 When to Automate A different way to tackle the problem Automation vs by hand Nix Maintaining old versions Learning something new vs using what you know Shifting paradigms 38:30 Windows S Mode People have tremendous patience for MS but not Open Source Windows S mode only allows software from the MS Store Requires purchasing a key 43:30 Microsoft 360 Outage Service announcement delayed No one at Microsoft to communicate with 45:00 Windows Server Update Mistake Upgrade flagged as security update No license check 48:00 Windows Thin Client Box connects to cloud desktop MS pushing people off Windows 10 Things are moving to cloud services ArsTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/11/microsoft-builds-a-349-mini-desktop-but-only-for-accessing-windows-in-the-cloud/) -- 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/417) 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)