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What is the role of tape backup in 2026? Should ZFS be used on tape? Steve takes us back to his days at IMAX and gives us some things to think about when using tape. We answer your questions, take your feedback -- During The Show -- 00:50 Immich - Greg Immich (https://immich.app/) feedback Round 1 deployment recap Round 2 deployment recap Latest breakage Things Steve likes about Immich Ente (https://ente.io/) experience Rising tide, iron sharpens iron Everyone hits problems sometimes 11:50 General Show Feedback - Pete Thank You feedback Buying Expedition 33 Noah purchased Expedition 33 "Little Noah" and budget Using external disks for games 16:28 News Wire Curl 8.18 - curl.se (https://curl.se/ch/) Doxygen 1.16 - doxygen.nl (https://www.doxygen.nl/manual/changelog.html) Windowmaker Live 13.3 - wmlive.sourceforge.net (https://wmlive.sourceforge.net) Budgie 10.10 - buddiesofbudgie.org (https://buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/budgie-10-10-released) Pentoo 2026.0 - pentoo.ch (https://pentoo.ch/isos/Release/Pentoo_Core_amd64_hardened/) Nitrix 5.1 - nxos.org (https://nxos.org) Debian 13.3 - debian.org (https://www.debian.org/News/2026/20260110) Linux Mint 22.3 - linuxmint.com (https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_zena.php) Bose Open Sources Speakers - designboom.com (https://www.designboom.com/technology/bose-recycles-discontinued-wireless-speakers-open-source-01-09-2026/) UAT-7290 - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/china-linked-uat-7290-targets-telecoms.html) GoBruteforcer - darkreading.com (https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/gobruteforcer-botnet-targets-50k-plus-linux-servers) VoidLink - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/new-advanced-linux-voidlink-malware.html) NousCoder-14B - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/technology/nous-researchs-nouscoder-14b-is-an-open-source-coding-model-landing-right-in) Razer AI Kit - techpowerup.com (https://www.techpowerup.com/344924/razer-intros-aikit-an-open-source-project-for-easier-local-llm-development) 17:55 Caller Btrfs Assistant (https://gitlab.com/btrfs-assistant/btrfs-assistant) Restoring btrfs snapshots Base vs incremental snapshots Framework Knowledge Base (https://knowledgebase.frame.work/en_us/fedora-system-restore-root-snapshots-using-btrfs-assistant-rkHNxajS3) 23:00 Music Production on Linux Started with misconception everything is for Windows and Mac Not many instruments are being made Hybrid pianos Stage pianos Pianoteq (https://www.modartt.com/) Virtual instruments Hammer graded controllers Semi weighted keys Synth Keys Akai Professional MPK Mini Plus Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BFBDT2D2/) VST3 MT Powerdrum (https://www.powerdrumkit.com/) Tal Base Line 101 (https://www.tal-software.com/products/tal-bassline-101) 36:50 Tape Backup Slow but reliable and cheap Tar command Data velocity Burn rate How to use tape Tools for data tapes Failure domain -- 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/475) 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)

This week we dig into how a dead hard drive took Frigate out, answer your questions, and start a new challenge for the new year. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Sticky Things and Bug reports Electric Dirt Bike Validating work Picking and offering boats Hosting in home lab 10:00 Frigate Frigate drive failure 4 TB drive died Frigate setup Swapping drives and power on hours Running drives into the ground Replacing drives Motion detection 20:06 News Wire Shotcut 25.12 - shotcut.org (https://shotcut.org/blog/new-release-25.12.30/) Ncurses 6.6 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ncurses-6.6) OpenTTD 15.0 - openttd.org (https://www.openttd.org/news/2026/01/01/openttd-15-0) QPrompt 2.0 - patreon.com (https://www.patreon.com/posts/qprompt-2-0-147192236) Mkvtoolnix 97 - mkvtoolnix.download (https://mkvtoolnix.download/windows/releases/97.0/) Privoxy 4.1 - sourceforge.net (https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/files/Sources/4.1.0%20%28stable%29/) OpenBGPD 9.0 - bsdsec.net (https://bsdsec.net/articles/openbgpd-9-0-released) IceWM - debugpoint.com (https://www.debugpoint.com/icewm-4-0-0-features/) Devuan 6.1 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Devuan-6.1-Released) Manjaro 26.0 - manjaro.org (https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-26-0-anh-linh-released/184526) Qwen Text to Image - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/technology/open-source-qwen-image-2512-launches-to-compete-with-googles-nano-banana-pro) 27:07 Flatpak vs Packaged Software - Pete New contest! Steve uses packaged software Idea behind flatpaks Flatpak edge cases Install via AUR AppImages 37:16 Backup GrapheneOS - Domink Toilet backup strategy Plan to come back from scratch Contacts VCF file ADB Backup Guide (https://droidwin.com/how-to-create-and-restore-app-backup-via-adb-commands/) ADB Backup Caveat (https://developer.android.com/about/versions/12/behavior-changes-12#adb-backup-restrictions) 45:09 KVM Switch? - Jeremy Now use remote software Barrier (https://github.com/debauchee/barrier) Synergy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergy_%28software%29) Deskflow (https://github.com/deskflow/deskflow) IO Gear KVM (https://iogear.com/collections/cable-kvms-desktop-kvms) Rust Desk (https://rustdesk.com/) -- 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/474) 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)

This week Steve reviews Expedition 33. We take your feedback, and Steve builds a new PC and talks motherboard. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Profanity Kids language Stripping profanity and vulgarity MonkeyPlug (https://github.com/mmguero/monkeyplug) Motherboards and RAM prices ASRock ASUS 18:04 News Wire Lua 5.5 - lua.org (https://www.lua.org/manual/5.5/readme.html#changes) Ruby 4.0 - ruby-lang.org (https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/12/25/ruby-4-0-0-released/) QEMU 10.2 - wiki.qemu.org (https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/10.2) Pinta 3.1 - omgubuntu.co.uk (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/pinta-3-1-released-new-axonometric-grids) Voyager 13.2 - voyagerlive.org (https://voyagerlive.org) Nobara 43 - nobaraproject.org (https://nobaraproject.org/download.html) Porteux 2.5 - distrowatch.com (https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12688) Parrot 7.0 - parrotsec.org (https://parrotsec.org/blog/2025-12-24-parrot-7.0-release-notes/) PostmarkOS 25.12 - postmarketos.org (https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/12/23/v25.12-release/) Elementary OS 8.1 - elementary.io (https://blog.elementary.io/os-8-1-available-now/) MinIO in Maintenance Mode - infoq.com (https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/minio-s3-api-alternatives/) KawaiiGPT - opensourceforu.com (https://www.opensourceforu.com/2025/12/open-source-ai-kawaiigpt-turns-cybercrime-into-a-one-click-operation/) Z.ai - businesswire.com (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251223393714/en/Z.ai-Open-Sources-GLM-4.7-a-New-Generation-Large-Language-Model-Built-for-Real-Development-Workflows) Chatterbox Turbo - the-decoder.com (https://the-decoder.com/resemble-ai-drops-chatterbox-turbo-an-open-source-text-to-speech-model-that-clones-voices-in-five-seconds/) 18:57 Listener responds to self hosted - Josh Setup SSO PocketID (https://pocket-id.org/) Hesitant to adopt passkeys Argument for and against passkeys 26:41 Email Archiving for Privacy - Dominik Why you should archive email Plain text vs Mbox/PST imapsync GitHub (https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync) Email threat model 32:54 Expedition 33 Expedition 33 (https://www.expedition33.com/) Doesn't have an "agenda" Story of small Indie team If you apply yourself, you can succeed Awards Sales Live action adaptation Game play and Story are amazing It's a sad game Amazing music AI controversy AI vs human work Proper use of AI tools -- 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/473) 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)

This week Noah and Steve work on Steve's house, a new automated lock system goes in, some new structured wiring goes in, and we talk about automating your Christmas tree. -- During The Show -- 00:48 Intro Happy Christmas Kids and presents Quests at Steve's Steve's Christmas tree Steve on a Mac 16:20 Feedback You start the conversation Send in an email success stories problems you can't solve suggest a topic 18:00 Switch Bot A room to keep dogs and kids out of Why Switch Bot? Gold tier certified by Home Assistant Value of talking with others How to evaluate "the line" The "delta" Gratitude 36:17 Structured Wiring 2 Recessed outlets with Ethernet 2 Projector rooms The Smart Home Hookup (https://www.thesmarthomehookup.com/) The Smart Home Hookup Youtube (https://www.thesmarthomehookup.com/) Playing D&D with the family Lay of the land Running Cat6 SDI Video/Audio Belden Cables (https://www.belden.com/products) Vertical Cables (https://verticalcable.com/) HDMI Decimators Keystones 55:57 News Wire Darktable 5.4 - darktable.org (https://www.darktable.org/2025/12/darktable-5.4.0-released/) Kdenlive 25.12 - kdenlive.org (https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/25.12.0/) OpenShot 3.4 - openshot.org (https://www.openshot.org/blog/2025/12/15/new_openshot_release_340/) OpenZFS 2.4 - github.com (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases) GNUCash 5.14 - gnucash.org (https://www.gnucash.org/news.phtml) Nvidia Linux 590.48 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-590.48.01-Linux) Linux 6.17 EOL - 9to5linux.com (https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-6-17-reaches-end-of-life-its-time-to-upgrade-to-linux-kernel-6-18-lts) RELIANOID 7.8.0 - relianoid.com (https://www.relianoid.com/blog/release-notes-relianoid-7-8-0-community-edition/?srsltid=AfmBOoqTXRsWaTNKQFzVEqPBJTCWcDsZ6UdJ39cTIPM4-r7CGJXQ8Ldq) SparkyLinux 2025.12 - sparkylinux.org (https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-2025-12/) Easy OS Excalibur 7.1 - puppylinux.com (https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=16128) Emmabuntus Debian Edition 6 - emmabuntus.org (https://emmabuntus.org/category/english/) Solaris 11.4 - blogs.oracle.com (https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/whats-new-in-oracle-solaris-11-4-sru-87) FreeBSD 15.0 - freebsd.org (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/relnotes/) Rust CVE in Linux - itsfoss.com (https://itsfoss.com/news/first-linux-kernel-rust-cve/) Senate Intel Chair - cyberscoop.com (https://cyberscoop.com/tom-cotton-open-source-software-foreign-influence-national-cyber-director/) Beavertail Malware - scworld.com (https://www.scworld.com/news/north-korean-beavertail-malware-sparks-attacks-across-financial-sector) Open-Source Protein Co-Folding Model - nvidia.com (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/customer-stories/mit-recursion-open-source-protein-co-folding-model/) Bloom - siliconangle.com (https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/22/anthropic-announces-bloom-open-source-tool-researchers-evaluating-ai-behavior/) CUGA - infoq.com (https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/ibm-cuga/) Nemotron AI Models - finance.yahoo.com (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-corporation-nvda-launches-family-144517323.html) -- 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/472) 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)

This week we dig full force into some interesting listener questions. Noah talks about an open source hardware synth, and Steve walks through some of his hardware choices to help you! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Weather Cooling IT rooms in winter 05:00 Printers, DVD ripping and more - James Steve has 2 brother printers Auto Duplexing Separate printer and scanner Large business grade units Ask Noah Show 368 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/368) All in One Brother DCP-L2640DW Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CPLFTPCV) Budget Brother HL-L2460DW Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CPL2N5H6) Monochrome Brother HL-6210DW Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CGC9HPNH) Color Brother HL-L3280CDW Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFD1G1VT) Trouble with auto duplexing Stay away from Lexar HP printers Manually add the printer Change to Jetdirect or IP printer Pay attention to exact model or most similar When it goes wrong, it goes really wrong Your mileage may vary Canon Color Image Class LBP622Cdw Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QBR7JFV) Scanner Brother ADS-1200 Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WSJQWVQ) Containers vs Codecs MKV vs MP4 Avidemux (https://avidemux.sourceforge.net/) Ripping as ISOs vs video files MakeMKV (https://www.makemkv.com/) MakeMKV Docker Image (https://github.com/jlesage/docker-makemkv) ``` # sudo modprobe sg services: makemkv: image: ghcr.io/jlesage/makemkv:latest ports: "5800:5800" volumes: "./makemkv:/config:rw" "./storage:/storage:ro" "./output:/output:rw" security_opt: # Fix for apparmor enabled systems apparmor:unconfined environment: USER_ID=1000 GROUP_ID=1000 devices: "/dev/sr0:/dev/sr0" "/dev/sg0:/dev/sg0" ``` Christmas movies Handbrake (https://handbrake.fr/) FFmpeg (https://ffmpeg.org/) Transcoding Run controller at each site Ubiquiti Cloud Key (https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/uck-g2) Lots of problems OVH server Put basic auth in front Inbox Zero Paperless NGX (https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/) Dump to eml file then import into special Thunderbird 45:14 News Wire Firefox 146 - firefox.com (https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/146.0/releasenotes/) Thunderbird 146 - thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/146.0/releasenotes/) KDE Frameworks 6.12 - kde.org (https://kde.org/info/kde-frameworks-6.21.0/) Cinnamon Desktop 6.6 - itsfoss.com (https://itsfoss.com/news/cinnamon-6-6/) Mir 2.25 - github.com (https://github.com/canonical/mir/releases/tag/v2.25.0) Rust 1.92 - blog.rust-lang.org (https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/12/11/Rust-1.92.0/) AerynOS 2025.12 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/AerynOS-2025.12) Kali Linux 2025.4 - kali.org (https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2025-4-release/) Pop!_OS 24.04 - itsfoss.com (https://itsfoss.com/news/pop-os-24-04-review/) PearOS - pearos.xyz (https://pearos.xyz) MaboxLinux 2025.12 - maboxlinux.org (https://maboxlinux.org/mabox-25-12-improvements-fixes-and-gtk2-farewell/#google_vignette) Papermoon - thenewstack.io (https://thenewstack.io/papermoon-a-space-grade-linux-for-the-newspace-era/) 01flip Ransomware - esecurityplanet.com (https://www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/rust-based-01flip-ransomware-hits-windows-and-linux/) React2Shell - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/react2shell-vulnerability-actively.html) Nomos 1 - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/nous-research-just-released-nomos-1-an-open-source-ai-that-ranks-second-on) Nemotron Model - reuters.com (https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidia-unveils-new-open-source-ai-models-amid-boom-chinese-offerings-2025-12-15/) Quilter's AI - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/quilters-ai-just-designed-an-843-part-linux-computer-that-booted-on-the) Chatterbox Labs - redhat.com (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-acquire-chatterbox-labs-frequently-asked-questions) Agentic AI Group - hackernoon.com (https://hackernoon.com/linux-foundation-launches-agentic-ai-group-to-set-standards-for-autonomous-systems) Firefox AI Browser - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-New-CEO-AI) 47:47 Zynthian Open hardware device We want your feedback! Are you comfortable with software VST Zynthian.org (https://zynthian.org/) 50:30 Family Resistant to Self Hosting - David Ovens house hold approach Watching for pain points Making responsible path easy Making irresponsible path hard Value driven decisions Supporting where your paycheck comes from -- 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/471) 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? 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