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!
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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?
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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
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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
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53:47
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!
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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
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