This week a special guest joins The Ask Noah Show to discuss how approachable and easy Framework is making the purchase and maintnece of a modular laptop. Matthew Miller joins the program and we talk Fedora! -- During The Show -- 00:30 LFNW Conference is re-scheduled (early next year) All other activities still going on 02:30 Framework Laptop Impressions First impressions Saw them in the wild Watched other manufactures make parts 06:05 Framework Owner Interview 13 years old House rules Previous ...
Oct 18, 2023•56 min
This week we dig into single board computers, has the Raspberry Pi lost it's way? The new Pi 5 is out but is it too expensive? Intel sold the NUC line to Asus, and of course we take your feedback, answer your questions. -- 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/358) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (...
Oct 11, 2023•54 min
This week Noah and Steve dig into the BEST way to automate presence detection in home assistant. We answer your questions, and Francis Chow joins the program to chat about in vehicle operating systems! -- 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/357) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtele...
Oct 04, 2023•54 min
This week Noah and Steve dig into motion detectors for Home Assistant, some exciting new features for Matrix 2.0 that have landed, and of course your questions! -- During The Show -- Enjoying Tech Personal bleeding over to professional Communication Skills 04:36 Cloning SSDs - Kris Why did snapshots not work? Immutable OS Automate environment rebuild Ansible Snowflakes Work out of VMs Clonezilla 16:19 Can you save Ring locally? - HJ Ring warrant-less access Do Not Buy Ring Axis A8105 (https://ww...
Sep 27, 2023•58 min
What if you could purchase a computer built like a Mac but run a free and open source operating system on it that you can't break, would you buy one? Steve and Noah discuss the Malibal, and an immutable distro with Flatpaks that "just works" -- During The Show -- 00:58 Intro Steve's Nvidea Issue trouble shooting process root cause = it's dirty why dig for the root cause Good News! Axia fixed our board! 06:50 Google Ad Policy - Ahmed Google ads used for phishing Google ads placement confusing Why...
Sep 20, 2023•54 min
Google makes the news this week in one of the largest cases in history over meaningful competition. Do we need the regulation to stop Google? Ubuntu will start allowing you to use a TPM chip for encryption, plus your livestreaming, ZFS, and VPN questions are answered! -- During The Show -- 02:00 Matrix Server Digital Ocean was too expensive Registrations closed Registrations to reopen soon Geek Lab.ninja Live Stream/Chat (https://live.minddripone.com/) 04:22 Live Streaming Baseball? - Matt Bring...
Sep 13, 2023•54 min
This week we dig into your feedback, and EG Nadhan, the Global Chief Architect Leader, CTO joins the program and we discuss current and future roles of RH Chief Architect. -- During The Show -- 01:40 Noah Triple Failure Power Surge Nothing is working Switch Died - Replaced Cable Modem dead - ISPs Problem Backup failed half way through Check lists and Run Book (QRH) 09:00 Steve's Ask of the Audience How to keep smart watch connected to phone Bluetooth repeater/extender? Other wearable device? 13:...
Sep 06, 2023•1 hr
-- During The Show -- 00:58 Intro Viral videos YouTube Profiling Rich Men North of Richmond - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Men_North_of_Richmond) 04:17 Chat Programs, Kid access etc - Semantic Scholar Beeper Kids on platforms Affects of 'screens' Kids & Technology 12:12 Just thanks - Entransic Thanks for the show! 12:30 Soldering Iron? - Charlie Soldering irons peak Pinecil (https://pine64.com/product/pinecil-smart-mini-portable-soldering-iron/) Can take a while to get TS100...
Aug 30, 2023•55 min
This week Noah and Steve take you down the journey of two open source guys using open source day in and day out for their lives. Is it perfect? No there are rough edges, but why do they make those choices? What's the appeal to freedom and stability? -- During The Show -- 01:10 Caller - Johnathan Arkansa Display video streams rpisurv (https://github.com/SvenVD/rpisurv) 05:45 Beginner Distro? - Walking Penguin Everyone faces different paper cuts Arch Linux - high learning curve, Powerful Endless O...
Aug 23, 2023•1 hr 12 min
This week CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE have formed OpenELA, we dig into the Libera chat / Matrix bridge issues, and we discuss choosing the problems you want to solve. -- During The Show -- 00:58 Pre-Show Steve's dead hardware Noah's type-C charger upgrade Noah's portable rack 06:40 Home Assistant - Curt Run on a re-purposed thin client Parkytowers (Parkytowers.me.uk) Parkytowers Wyse D10D (https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/wyse/d/d10d/) 10:38 HASSIO Feedback on Dimmers - Chris F. ESP32 dev is employe...
Aug 16, 2023•1 hr
This week Home Assistant accidentally takes over Noah's house, and Micah Pendleton returns to dig into specifics about professional video production on Linux. -- During The Show -- 00:58 Steve's Luddite Week Amazon return with no phone Society is going to requiring phones 05:00 VLANs - Norm Steve's VLANs VLANs 10 Admin 20 Guest 30 Production/Servers 40 Critical VPN back in Write back in! 07:00 Gary from Grand Forks Home Assistant news broadcast plugin Firefox video popout 12:00 X1 Carbon Issues ...
Aug 09, 2023•54 min
This week Noah lives off of a 37Ah battery, and the Rocky Linux team joins Noah and Steve to discuss their plans going forward to maintain a clone of RHEL! -- During The Show -- Running Off Battery 37Ah battery Point of the experiment Anderson Power Pole Vanomize (https://vanomize.com/pages/shop) Powerwerx (https://powerwerx.com/solar-portable-power) LiFePO4 Battery Modular/Form Factor Yetti 1500x (https://www.rei.com/product/184367/goal-zero-yeti-1500x-portable-power-station?) Noah's Science Pr...
Aug 02, 2023•57 min
Vojtěch Pavlík the General Manager for Business-Critical Linux joins The Ask Noah Show to discuss SUSE's plans to create a hard fork of RHEL and fill the gap created by Red Hat's recent changes. -- During The Show -- 01:45 News Wire Libre Office 7.5.5 - Document Foundation (https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2023/07/20/libreoffice-7-5-5-community-available-for-download/) Qt Creator 11 - Qt Io (https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-11-released) Inkscape 1.3 - Inkscape (https://inkscape.org/doc/...
Jul 26, 2023•54 min
This week Alma has big news, Slackware hits 30 years, we give you an update on Beeper, and Noah found his new favorite Matrix client! -- During The Show -- 01:00 Audio Success Story - Ricky Yamaha TF1 Mixer No news is good news Worked great! 04:30 Adam follows up (remote desktop) - Adam Any desk no longer available via flatpak 06:25 Remote options with no monitor? - Ian Pi KVM BLI KVM (https://www.ebay.com/itm/166209691975?hash=item26b2dea147:g:7aoAAOSwInJko9ef&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4MloAfNFq...
Jul 20, 2023•54 min
This week Bradley Kuhn from Software Freedom Conservancy joins Ask Noah to discuss the Red Hat situation and what if any GPL violations there are. Read Bradley's Blog Post Here! (https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jun/23/rhel-gpl-analysis/) -- 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/344) Phone Systems for Ask Noah pr...
Jul 12, 2023•1 hr 34 min
Micah Pendleton - Owner & Producer of Caution Glass joins The Ask Noah Show to discuss professional video production on Linux! -- During The Show -- 00:45 Happy 4th of July 01:20 Old Desktops - Mike Where to donate old desktops? Check around in your community Free Geek (https://www.freegeek.org/) Reach back out to us 05:32 RLT-SDR (Ham radio) - Agustin New Hams can be obnoxious Listening is great! Remote Ham Radio (https://www.remotehamradio.com/) SDR Receivers 10:40 Remote Desktop - Adam Ru...
Jul 05, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Mike McGrath joins the Ask Noah Show to discuss the changes Red Hat is making in how they make their source code available. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Arch Keyring Fix - Bloominstrong at the bottom of /etc/pacman.conf Include "SigLevel = Optional TrustAll" under core and extra Update the keyring -Sy archlinux-keyring Confirm each new key Remove "SigLevel = Optional TrustALL" run pacman -Syu 03:05 Church Streaming - John Wired vs WiFi video OpenLP (https://openlp.org/) WimpysWorld OBS Portable (...
Jun 28, 2023•58 min
Singpolyma from JMP.chat joins Ask Noah to discuss the public launch of JMP.chat! -- During The Show -- 01:40 JMP.Chat 6 Years in Beta Lots of work Always over delivered Singpolyma from JMP.Chat The history of JMP.Chat Why is JMP.Chat for geeks? De-coupling number from a device Financial model Beta Price Extension Pricing Porting Multi Account Cheogram App Desktop Apps Movim (https://mov.im/login) Gajim (https://gajim.org/) Dino (https://dino.im/) Beagle (Mac) (https://beagle.im/) Snikket (https...
Jun 21, 2023•54 min
This week we dig into professional video capture, a new NextCloud alternative, and SSH key pairs! -- During The Show -- 00:30 Support the show Sound board repair cost ANS is an investment Phone call & Mumble best Email and Chat bot Multiple points of view are great 06:45 Steve's Home Assistant Experience Network attached storage 10:05 Help with key pairs - Emmanuel Add the SSH key to your key file Gravitational Teleport (https://github.com/gravitational/teleport) Hardware token (SoloKey, Onl...
Jun 16, 2023•54 min
This week we're live from SELF! We talk about the conference and the PineTab2! -- During The Show -- 00:45 SELF SELF is special Community is special Live Coverage Everyone is back Join us on Matrix 04:48 Distro Chooser Container Technology Trading pain points Distro Chooser (https://distrochooser.de/) About section FAQ section Reviews/Feedback 13:32 News Wire InkScape v1.3 Beta InkScape (https://inkscape.org/news/2023/05/30/inkscape-reveals-tools-organizing-efficiently-beta/) Immutable Ubuntu De...
Jun 14, 2023•54 min
Matt Hicks the CEO of Red Hat joins the Ask Noah Show to discuss his hands on approach in his leadership role! -- During The Show -- 00:45 SELF SELF is special Community is special Live Coverage Everyone is back Join us on Matrix 04:48 Distro Chooser Container Technology Trading pain points Distro Chooser (https://distrochooser.de/) About section FAQ section Reviews/Feedback 13:32 News Wire InkScape v1.3 Beta InkScape (https://inkscape.org/news/2023/05/30/inkscape-reveals-tools-organizing-effici...
Jun 07, 2023•46 min
This week Lamine Lachhab the Chief technical officer for the Scottish government joins the Ask Noah Show and we discuss open source and open data with the Scottish government. -- During The Show -- Last Week Electrical storm took out the studio Telos (https://www.telosalliance.com/) was amazing! Sorry about last week 01:50 Secure Phone and Apps - Larry Unplugged Up Phone (https://www.unplugged.com/upphone/) Great website Say the right things No details Start with GrapheneOS (https://grapheneos.o...
May 31, 2023•54 min
This week we dig into the Asus Ally. We'll tell you about an awesome all-in-one content production studio that works FLAWLESS on Linux, and of course your questions go to the front of the line! -- During The Show -- 03:30 Self Hosted IMAP backup - Sebastián Steve would call Noah Mail spooler Local Thunderbird 08:53 General Feedback - DJ Americas Mailbox for friendly CMRA/PMB privacy/opsec 11:42 News Wire FreeSpire 9.5 FreeSpire (https://www.freespire.net/2023/05/freespire-95-released.html) TinyC...
May 17, 2023•54 min
Passkeys are finally here to replace your passwords! What are your boundaries when choosing to support or to avoid companies? As always, your questions go to the front of the line! -- During The Show -- 01:30 ZFS Questions - DJ Drive Slot hosting ZFS.rent Niche of a niche Bare Metal Altispeed 08:20 Note Taking - Erik Standard Notes Joplin Technical debt Will the team be more effective? Evaluating/Bolting things on 17:08 NFS Stability - Jacob SystemD vs AutoFS Fstab Tuning NFS Noah's NFS Argument...
May 10, 2023•54 min
Does the perfect self-hosted Google Photos replacement exist? A free and open source ChatGPT clone is available, we'll show you a site designed to help hone your IT skills, and legislation in the EU might be a threat to open source! -- During The Show -- Photo Management Kenny Schmidt from Altispeed What where you using? What prompted the move? What solutions did you consider? NextCloud Memories (https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/memories) Piwigo (https://piwigo.org/) Photo Prism (https://www.phot...
May 04, 2023•51 min
This week the EARN-IT Act is Back! For the third time Senators are trying to push through the EARN-IT Act. Steve and Noah take you through this, as well as your questions! -- During The Show -- 01:15 Steve's Home Automation Sonoff Zigbee 3 Integration issues Problem Solved! Zwave fairness Hindsight recommendations 07:50 Listener Responds about journal - Bhikhu Life O Graph (https://lifeograph.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page) Jrnl (https://jrnl.sh/en/stable/) Pepys (https://lukebriggs.dev/projects...
Apr 26, 2023•54 min
This week Noah and Steve dig into the RESTRICT Act and the DATA Act! Your questions, your thoughts go to the front of the line. -- During The Show -- 01:30 Encrypted Journal? - Matt EncyptPad (https://github.com/evpo/EncryptPad/releases) Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/) Standard Notes (https://standardnotes.com/) Too tied to a service Separate the app from the encryption Vaults 10:45 Traveling Mailbox - Joey Local USPS unreliable USPS knows its a PMB 12:50 Alternative to GraphineOS - Vincent eOS ...
Apr 19, 2023•54 min
This week Google is killing some of their cloud services rendering some hardware devices useless bricks, we follow up on our Graphene discussion from last week, and of course your questions are at the front of the line! -- During The Show -- 01:14 Graphene OS - Chris Audio Issues Google Maps & Android Auto Three buckets Everyday bucket (Samsung S10) Personal device (Graphene OS) Private device Magic Earth Maps (https://www.magicearth.com/) Organic Maps (https://organicmaps.app/) Samsung flas...
Apr 12, 2023•54 min
Week one is in the books on GrapheneOS. Noah gives the deep dive on his experience and moves the needle on Steve's skepticism. -- During The Show -- 01:30 Home Assistant on Immutable OS? - Panzer Steve likes Coreos Appliance approach Spouse factor (KISS) Ziggbee 07:55 Shout out for Heads OS - Charlie HeadsOS (https://heads.dyne.org/) 08:50 User responds to listener / SMS 2 factor? - Joey PiHole Block List (https://github.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/blob/master/SmartTV.txt) SMS 2FA & JMP.Cha...
Apr 05, 2023•54 min
This week we dig into immutable operating systems An OS where core parts of the system are locked down to prevent unwanted changes and corruption from third-party applications or a faulty update. -- During The Show -- 01:30 Caller Opening up a Minecraft server to the internet? TailScale Minecraft Servers are targets Fail2Ban SSHGuard TincVPN Bridge Mode PFSense Network Setup OwnTracks (https://owntracks.org/) 11:44 Firewall a smart TV? - Bhikhu Not really DDWRT, OpenWRT 14:30 Audacity? - Cory Su...
Mar 29, 2023•54 min
