Ask Noah Show

• Ask Noah Show 441

  This week we dig into why and how Canonical designed and implemented Matrix. Noah gives an update to his solar project, and discovers some open source solutions for solar! -- During The Show -- 00:48 Olympia Mike Insperation ANS 439 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/439) Sorting out details Please give us feedback! Pair with homeless shelter Pair with food bank Technical details Windows 10 deadline coming Lowering friction 09:55 Solar Camera Update Panel brings in enough power Switch arrived, worked great SolarPoint Had to RMA Will R&D Issues with SolarPoint Renogy Charge Controller Victron Push the Victron Connect App Victron has a commitment to open source Victron GX controller Bare wire ends GX software on a raspberry pi 23:20 News Wire Calibre 8.4 - calibre-ebook.com (https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new) Nmap 7.96 - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/nmap-7-96-launches/) Mesa 25.1 - plamolinux.org (https://plamolinux.org/posts/2025-05-07-plamo-8.2-released/) Linux Kernel 6.15 - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/07/linux_kernel_drops_486/) Plamo Linux 8.2 - plamolinux.org (https://plamolinux.org/posts/2025-05-07-plamo-8.2-released/) Rust Sudo & Ubuntu 25.10 - discourse.ubuntu.com (https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/adopting-sudo-rs-by-default-in-ubuntu-25-10/60583) Deepin Desktop Removed From openSUSE Repos - opensuse.org (https://security.opensuse.org/2025/05/07/deepin-desktop-removal.html) Fedora 42 WLS - theregister (https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/07/fedora_42_wsl2_official/) ClickFix - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-now-testing-clickfix-attacks-against-linux-targets/) NordVPN Linux GUI - computerweekly.com (https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Open-Source-Insider/NordVPN-goes-full-GUI-on-Linux) Fake AI Videos & Noodlophile - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-ai-video-generators-drop-new-noodlophile-infostealer-malware/) Reachy 2 - infoq.com (https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/05/huggingface-reachy-robot/) OpenVision - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/new-fully-open-source-vision-encoder-openvision-arrives-to-improve-on-openais-clip-googles-siglip/) Open WebUI - reddit.com (https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1kfhkal/open_webui_is_no_longer_open_source/) 25:18 Minimalism Minimum viable battle station Tails (https://tails.net/) Reproduce-ability Linux Fest Northwest Laptop NixOS re-install Can't auto mount usb drives Dark theme 31:00 Matrix Interview Nils Buchner Matrix rabbit hole Ubuntu & Matrix Chat Ubuntu Juju setup Other Setup methods Where can Matrix grow/improve? Next steps for the Ubuntu Matrix server? Matrix clients Element (https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/element/) Cinny (https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/cinny/) Nheko (https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/nheko/) Matrix client matrix (https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/) Network effect Distros installing matrix clients 43:00 Juju & Charms Interview Merlijn Sebrechts Juju and Charms Abstraction Code re-use Where Juju and Charms work well Knowledge needed Making better charms 52:20 Continue Being a Petri dish Ansible is the biggest hammer Nix Juju -- 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/441) 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) 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 -------------------- [email protected] • Ask Noah Show © CC-BY-ND 2025 •

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• Ask Noah Show 440

  This week Noah tells the story of how Altispeed built a solar system for a remote camera for a daycare. Tiny joins to discuss the value of metric and why he believes Victoria Metrics does it better. -- During The Show -- 00:55 Graphics Cards When do you update graphics cards Watching prices, trying to buy Bought 5060ti Quadro P6000 Sold in 2 Min What is driving the cost? Over Time "Unplugging" Mature Leaders High Intensity/Surge Seasons Talking through movies 16:05 Solar Camera System Camera's on a playground Trenching and conduit Hanging wire from utility poles Shed with no power or network Solar powered camera setup Greentech Renewables (https://www.greentechrenewables.com) Noah's Battery Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKNJ5ZBP?) LiTime (https://www.litime.com/products/litime-12v-100ah-lithium-lifepo4-battery) Unifi SunMax SolarPoint Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Sunmax-SolarPoint/dp/B0965KBVFM/) Trouble shooting, lay it out first Nano Beams 5AC Axis Camera Industrial 24v Switch Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BWN147HZ?) Enphase System Metrics, data nerds Victoria Metrics (https://victoriametrics.com/) Victoria Metrics Docs (https://docs.victoriametrics.com/guides/) Grafana (https://grafana.com/) Solar Cable Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09BYGJGTB?) MC4 Crimper Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKTFRSZ4?) HQST Solar (https://hqsolarpower.com/) SOK Battery (https://www.us.sokbattery.com/) Victron Charge Controllers (https://www.victronenergy.com/solar-charge-controllers) 48:30 Sustainability ANS 424 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/424) Reproduce-ability Minimalism Access Control System News Wire Deluge 2.2.0 - deluge.readthedocs.io (https://deluge.readthedocs.io/en/deluge-2.2.0/) OpenZFS 2.3.2 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.3.2-Released) Bleachbit 500 - bleachbit.org (https://www.bleachbit.org/news/bleachbit-500) Thunderbird 138.0 - Thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/138.0/releasenotes/) Firefox 138.0 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/138.0/releasenotes/) QBittorrent 5.1.0 - qbittorrent.org (https://www.qbittorrent.org/news) Redis Open Source Again - thenewsstack.io (https://thenewstack.io/redis-is-open-source-again/) Tails 6.15 - torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-6_15/) 4MLinux 48.0 - 4mlinux-releases.blogspot.com (https://4mlinux-releases.blogspot.com/2025/04/4mlinux-480-stable-released.html) Commodore OS 3 - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/06/commodore_os_3/) AnduinOS - zdnet.com (https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-windows-11-like-linux-distribution-is-aimed-squarely-at-developers/) Malicious Go Modules - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/malicious-go-modules-deliver-disk.html) AI Threat Defense - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/rsac-2025-cisco-and-meta-put-open-source-ai-at-the-heart-of-enterprise-threat-defense/) Meta's AI Model Goes to Space - fb.com (https://about.fb.com/news/2025/04/space-llama-metas-open-source-ai-model-heading-into-orbit/) Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-V2 - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/nvidia-launches-fully-open-source-transcription-ai-model-parakeet-tdt-0-6b-v2-on-hugging-face/) LTXV-13B - siliconangle.com (https://siliconangle.com/2025/05/06/lightricks-shakes-ai-video-creation-powerful-open-source-model/) Linux Inside MS Excel - tomshardware.com (https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/developer-gets-linux-running-inside-microsoft-excel-mostly-for-fun) -- 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/440) 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)

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• Ask Noah Show 439

  This week we dig into "Nixbook", a Linux distro designed to make old laptops into Chromebooks. Noah fell down the Nix rabbit hole, and of course we answer your questions. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Generosity Experiencing generosity A bunch of computers about to flood the market 03:50 Mike Kelly (Olympia Mike) Used laptop during Covid19 Became known for used laptops Company gifts used laptops Closing the technical divide Updates Package Confusion NixOS Olympia Mike's nixbook (https://github.com/mkellyxp/nixbook) How to help out Powerwashing 13:15 Noah's Nixbook Experience Give Noah a toy and remove distractions for 5+ hours Throw out everything you know Where NixOS fits Rollback functionality Going to drive Nixbook till hitting a roadblock Can't live in a flatpak world Ansible is the hammer that hits the most nails How long to get up and running on Nix Have to adopt the "nix way" NixOS Flakes (https://nixos-and-flakes.thiscute.world/introduction/) Nix Language (https://nix.dev/tutorials/nix-language) 31:25 News Wire Nginx 1.28.0 - unit.nginx.org (https://unit.nginx.org/news/2022/unit-1.28.0-released/) GCC 15.1 - devclass.com (https://devclass.com/2025/04/28/gnu-compiler-collection-15-1-released-cobol-support-improved-rust-compatibility-concerns/) Cosmic Alpha.7 - blog.system76.com (https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-7-never-been-beta) QEMU 10.0 - qemu.org (https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/10.0) Chainguard $356M Raised - bankinfosecurity.com (https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/chainguard-raises-356m-to-protect-open-source-supply-chain-a-28075) Open Source 5G/6G Software - breakingdefense.com (https://breakingdefense.com/2025/04/pentagon-seeks-open-source-software-for-5g-6g-networks/) Crux 3.8 - crux.nu (https://crux.nu/Main/ReleaseNotes3-8) Archcraft Prime ISO - wiki.archcraft.io (https://wiki.archcraft.io/news/49-news-release) 4mLinux 48.0 Stable - 4mlinux.com (https://4mlinux.com/index.php?page=home) Openmandriva 6.0 - wiki.openmandriva.org (https://wiki.openmandriva.org/en/distribution/releases/omlx60/new) Kali Linux Warning - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/linux/kali-linux-warns-of-update-failures-after-losing-repo-signing-key/) Attack of the Vsock - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/critical-linux-kernel-flaw/) ARES Robot Data Platform - a16z.com (https://a16z.com/ares-an-open-source-platform-for-robot-data/) Qwen3 - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/alibaba-launches-open-source-qwen3-model-that-surpasses-openai-o1-and-deepseek-r1/) 33:00 Community How your self branding and its effects Noah's experience with a young man Noah's negative experience People remember how you make them feel and that reflects on communities There is what is said and what is received How to deliver messages Dinner example 41:20 OsmAnd - Richard Garmin Device Waze OsmAnd (https://osmand.net/) Fdroid OsmAnd (https://f-droid.org/packages/net.osmand.plus/) 45:28 Drive Rotation Off site backup - Kevin The back up plan you understand is the best Not doing anything un-usual A few concerns Hardware cycling HDD destruction -- 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/439) 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)

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• Episode 438: Ask Noah Show 438

  -- During The Show -- 00:48 Intro Missing Steve 01:55 Auto Updates? - Charlie Installing Linux on a Pixelbook Go Desktop vs laptop Being in the moment Noah's laptop strategy PineTab 2 (https://pine64.com/product/pinetab2-10-1-8gb-128gb-linux-tablet-with-detached-backlit-keyboard/) Google hardware Re-purposing Google hardware Github.com (https://github.com/yusefnapora/pixelbook-linux) Auto updates, EndlessOS 13:02 FreePBX - Zack What to consider when backing up Bash and FW Console Sleuth's Solution Backups are specific to the data type Use the built in backup and export functions 22:35 News Wire MySQL 9.3 - dev.myssql.com (https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/9.3/en/) Peazip 10.4 - github.com (https://github.com/peazip/PeaZip/releases/) Gnome 48.1 - discourse.gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-47-6-released/28414) Gnome 48.1 - discourse.gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-48-1-released/28424) LXQT 2.2.0 - lxqt-project.org (https://lxqt-project.org/release/2025/04/17/release-lxqt-2-2-0/) Ubuntu 25.04 - canonical.com (https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-25-04-plucky-puffin) Fedora 42 - fedoramagazine.org (https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-42/) Manjaro 25 manjaro.org (https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-25-0-zetar-released/177008) NX App Hub - x.com (https://x.com/Nitrux_NX/status/1912102771458711737) Easy OS 5.9 - bkhome.org (https://bkhome.org/news/202504/easyos-kirkstone-series-maintenance-release-59.html) XorDDos - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/experts-uncover-new-xorddos-controller.html) BPFDoor - securityweek.com (https://www.securityweek.com/enhanced-version-of-bpfdoor-linux-backdoor-seen-in-the-wild/) 23:34 Steve's Backup and ZFS Adventures Data should be in 3 places New server Running data and power Existing data sets Encrypting the data Snapshots Block Cloning Nesting and inheriting encryption attributes What would you do differently if you could start over Take-a-ways How long until you "trust" the new backup system? 43:50 OpenWrt One OpenWrt One (https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one) Great build quality Multiple ways to power WiFi off by default Has a console port Really impressed 48:28 Switching to Cloud Companies moving to Azure to avoid Redmond markups Companies starting to re-consider moving to cloud Windows still entrenched 3 People running thousands of VMs and containers -- 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/438) 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)

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• Ask Noah Show 437

  This week we dig into how you can host your own 5G and Ubuntu's new certification program! -- During The Show -- 00:45 Technology Another Way Cell Phone sales and inventory Market uncertainty Erasing a phone Moving to GrapheneOS Used equipment Fdroid (https://f-droid.org/) Opportunities to move people to open source Routes to take 14:00 News Wire OpenSSH 10.0p2 - openssh.com (https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html) OpenSSL 3.5 - github.com (https://github.com/openssl/openssl/releases) GNU Coreutils 9.7 - gnu.org (https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html) Pinta 3.0 - pinta-project.com (https://www.pinta-project.com/releases/3-0.html) OpenELA Leapp - techzine.eu (https://www.techzine.eu/news/devops/130476/openela-introduces-leapp-project-for-in-place-upgrades-of-enterprise-linux/) Linux Mint OEM Support - linuxmint.com (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4825) Asahi Linux Roadblock - appleinsider.com (https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/04/08/asahi-linux-m4-support-hits-a-roadblock-because-of-apple-silicon-changes) Proxmox VW 8.4 - proxmox.com (https://www.proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/proxmox-virtual-environment-8-4) Archbang 0904 - sourceforge.net (https://sourceforge.net/projects/archbang/files/ArchBang/archbang-0904-x86_64.iso/download) Feren OS 2025.03 - feren-os.com (https://medium.com/feren-os/feren-os-2025-03-minor-rebase-update-for-feren-os-f82ce0a47a52) Pardus 23.4 - pardus.org (https://pardus.org.tr/en/pardus-23-4-changelog/) SparkyLinux - sparkylinux.org (https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-7-7/) MX 26.3 - mxlinux.org (https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-23-6-now-available/) Particle OS - itsfoss.com (https://news.itsfoss.com/systemd-particle-os/) Malware "Patches" - darkreading.com (https://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/open-source-poisoned-patches-infect-local-software) Slopsquatting - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/) Luminary Cloud and Honda's AI Model - engineering.com (https://www.engineering.com/luminary-cloud-releases-open-source-physics-ai-model-with-honda-nvidia/) 15:50 Canonical Certifications Adriana Frick's Story Why Adriana left tech BGP What did the creation process look like? Defining standards Making it measurable Proving skills How did you learn what employers want Mauricio Buschinelli's Story Verifying completion of a task What does the test look like Easter Eggs through out As close to real as possible Care about outcomes Accessibility Testing (https://ubuntu.com/credentials) A lot more coming 41:00 5G Cellphone companies want to be at the tower 5G Hardware Entire stack is open source Provisioning Sim Cards Roaming Charmed Ether SD Core 50:00 FCC Licensing Not a walk in the park FCC starting to require receiver registration Spectrum is crowded -- 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/437) 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)

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