Episode 418: Ask Noah Show 418

This week we dig into the VMware situation that's leading to companies across the companies dumping VMware. -- During The Show -- 01:11 lacucaracha123456 - Pixel Screen Repair Screen repairs require heatguns and prying them apart Check Batteries Plus Check ebay for repair services 03:48 DNS - Aryeh Enabled and working fine for Steve Hairpin NAT Tiny from the GeekLab says: "Blocky and Adguard Home support DOH and DOT" 07:55 User Response Windows S - Michael Windows Support Link (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/switching-out-of-s-mode-in-windows-4f56d9be-99ec-6983-119f-031bfb28a307) Only seems to work if Windows 10 key is in the motherboard Level of friction Microsoft is placing in front of users 11:25 Photos/Backups on a VPS? - Charlie Crunch Bits (https://crunchbits.com/) Spider Oak (https://spideroak.com/) More value in spending "streaming money" on storage encrypt locally GPG VeraCrypt CryFS Kopia (https://kopia.io/) BorgBackup ZFS send and receive 25:25 News Wire Rust 1.83 - rust-lang.org (https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/11/28/Rust-1.83.0.html) Handbrake 1.9 - handbrake.fr (https://handbrake.fr/news.php?article=56) Firefox 133 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/133.0/releasenotes/) Cinnamon 6.4 - omgubuntu.co.uk (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/cinnamon-6-4-desktop-new-features-theme) Tails 6.10 - torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-6-10/) NixOS 24.11 - nixos.org (https://nixos.org/blog/announcements/2024/nixos-2411/) Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Touch-OTA-7-Focal) Ubuntu UEFI Bootkit - securityweek.com (https://www.securityweek.com/eset-flags-prototype-uefi-bootkit-targeting-linux/) 26:10 VMWare vs Open Source Steve's interpretation of Oracle buying VMWare Stages Start up Growth Extract 300%-1000% price hike OpenNebula (https://opennebula.io/) Proxmox (https://www.proxmox.com/en/) KubeVirt (https://kubevirt.io/) ArsTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/12/company-claims-1000-percent-price-hike-drove-it-from-vmware-to-open-source-rival/) 39:33 The Linux Experience Nvidia and Intel Arc A7070 i90 driver vs XE driver Steve's Ansible playbook Getting Started With Linux (https://docs.minddripone.com/getting-started-with-linux/) Needs to be shareable reproducible sustainable You quickly arrive at Open Source Being good stewards of technology Hardware 16GB Ram 512GB Storage i5 or better 5-7 years or newer Used Hardware ThinkPad T480 Dell Latitude 7410 Dell Latitude 7330 New Hardware System76 Framework Tuxedo Computers Star Labs Try Before You Buy EndlessOS Tails Make it Home Linux Mint Ubuntu Fedora OpenSuse EndlessOS Power User Distros Arch NixOS Make it Endless -- 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/418) 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)