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Open source voice assistant software-maker Mycroft disappointed thousands when it announced Friday it will not be sending its Linux-based smart speaker to any more people who backed the product on Kickstarter and Indiegogo, we talk SCALE 20X, and of course your questions! -- During The Show -- 01:30 Ilan & SCALE 2023 March 9-12 @ Pasadena Convention Center Keynote by Arun Gupta What's at SCALE for you! Discount Code "Noah" 10:45 Tiny Asks - Office Chair recommendation Steve's chair hunt Herman Miller - Aeron / Embody Steelcase Ikea Chair (https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/markus-office-chair-vissle-dark-gray-90289172/) Stealth Chair (https://stealthchair.com/products/stealth-pro-chair-midnight-black-large-size-seat?variant=36551583662229) 17:30 OatWalker Asks - Non-Techie Matrix Message Decryption Description Ratchet Protocol OLM and Megolm Youtube Link (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSeVHiN1dJE) Blog Post (https://blog.jabberhead.tk/2019/03/10/a-look-at-matrix-orgs-olm-megolm-encryption-protocol/) 20:50 Soft Sk

Matt is on a mission to teach 21st Century skills like coding, design, digital art and management. This involves three pillars: First, Endless Studios is a youth game making studio that teaches the skills of Silicon Valley through the power of games. Teens love games. They lean into that. The second two pillars are about ensuring that everyone can have it. Device affordability and internet access prevent billions of people from being equal citizens of the world. Endless is harnessing the power of clever financing and storage to solve these problems. The Endless dream is one in which the whole world is empowered. In which every kid is a creator. -- During The Show -- 01:10 Value for Value - Chris Boosts and Value for Value are complicated 05:05 Missing the point of Podcasting 2.0 - Jordan Not every podcast has the same aim Not all new tech is relevant Not clear cut 08:30 Home Assistant For Security? - Jeremy Home Assistant Bazeion Sensor Steve's Solution Honeywell Vista 20P Alarm Relay (https://alarmrelay.com

Jellyfin is the volunteer-built media solution that puts you in control of your media. Stream to any device from your own server, with no strings attached. Your media, your server, your way. Jellyfin joins the Ask Noah Show and we discuss their project! -- During The Show -- 00:50 ZFS & Ubuntu - Bhikhu ZFSBootMenu (https://docs.zfsbootmenu.org/en/latest/) Pepperminty Wiki (https://peppermint.mooncarrot.space/) ZFS support will continue ZSys is being deprecated Cattle not pets Snapshots are great 05:30 Getting Into Linux (Again) Volunteer for an open source project Altispeed origin story episode (ANS 267) (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/267) People are looking for talent 07:30 VLAN Server Access - Mike Gateway of last resort 11:15 HiveH from ChatRoom SG330 and XG330 essentially the same Converted WatchGuard XTM5 box to OPNSense 13:21 News Wire SCaLE 20x Linux Journal (https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/socal-linux-expo-back-20th-anniversary) LF Energy Conferences HPC Wire (https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wi

The EFF has filed an Amicus Brief challenging the constitutionality of geofence warrants. PikaOS is a distro that sets the stage for gaming on Linux, and Plasma Mobile has some updates! -- During The Show -- 01:30 Boost Discussions Feedback - Chris Agree with value for value Good instructions On Going Costs The show is to serve the audience Sponsors/Ads Relationships are more valuable than a check 17:50 Nextcloud Server - Micah Will need to be tuned for large files Use 2 servers Biggest difference between used and new is power draw Flash the HBA into TI mode Noah's large file experience VPN in Tailscale 29:20 News Wire Wine 8.0 Wine HQ (https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.0) Gnome 44 Alpha Debug Point News (https://debugpointnews.com/gnome-44-alpha/) OMG Linux (https://www.omglinux.com/gnome-44-release-date/) Plasma Mobile 23.01 Plasma Mobile (https://plasma-mobile.org/2023/01/30/january-blog-post/) Escuelas Linux 8.0 9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/escuelas-linux-8-0-educational-distro-celebrates-25-years-

Are you looking for a small server for your home or a backup server? The HP Microserver might be an option for you! We discuss along with your feedback. -- During The Show -- 01:15 Join Via Mumble Mumble Doc (https://docs.minddripmedia.com/mumble/) Join the geeklab chat Web Browser (https://minddripone.com/) Matrix Chat Client (https://matrix.to/#/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) #Mumble with what you want to ask! Opus codec 03:13 HTML to PDF Single File (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/) Monolith (https://snapcraft.io/install/monolith/ubuntu) Arcivebox (https://archivebox.io/) Wallabag (https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag) QuickEMU (https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu) Nativefier Article (https://opensource.com/article/21/11/linux-apps-nativefier) Nativefier (https://github.com/nativefier/nativefier) httrack (http://www.httrack.com) wikijs (https://js.wiki/) 06:00 Listener Comments on SATS - James UK banks doesn't allow buying sats 07:00 Ethernet using coax? - Chris MoCA Adapters

Dr. Doug Milburn President and founder of 45 Drives joins the Ask Noah Show to talk storage with their lead storage architect Mitch Hall! -- During The Show -- 01:40 News Wire Red Hat OptaPlanner Red Hat (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-build-optaplanner-now-available-red-hat-application-foundations) Kubescape SDX Central (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/interview/cncf-accepts-kubescape-as-inaugural-open-source-security-scanner/2023/01/) Kodi 20 Nexus Liliputing (https://liliputing.com/kodi-20-nexus-media-center-adds-support-for-av1-multiple-instances-of-add-ons-and-more/) GNU Cash 5.0 9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/gnucash-5-0-accounting-software-promises-new-stock-transaction-assistant-more) Libvirt 9 Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/libvirt-9.0) Unity 7.7 Getting UnityX Tux Machines (http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/01/12/Unity_7_7_Desktop_Environment_to_Get_a_UnityX_Flavor_with_Wayla.shtml) Gnome 42.8 Ubuntu Free (https://www.ubuntufree.com/gnome-42-8-enables-atomic-mode-setting-f

This week we discuss EndlessOS and why it's the best operating system to help you learn technology! Regardless if it's your kids, your friends, or your family, EndlessOS has something for you! -- During The Show -- 45 Drives Interview Please join us live! Send your 45 Drives questions to the bot! Immutable OS' - Bhikhu Fedora Silverblue (https://getfedora.org/en/silverblue/) openSUSE MicroOS (https://get.opensuse.org/microos/) NixOS (https://nixos.org/) Guix (https://guix.gnu.org/) Bismuth (https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth) Web page archiver (PDF)? - Zane wget (https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/) with flags Blog Post (https://dheinemann.com/posts/2022-02-05-archiving-a-website-with-wget) Virtualization Manager - Adrian LibVirt (https://libvirt.org/) VirtManager (https://virt-manager.org/) Virsh (https://www.libvirt.org/manpages/virsh.html) oVirt (https://www.ovirt.org/) Proxmox (https://www.proxmox.com/en/) Gnome Boxes (https://apps.gnome.org/app/org.gnome.Boxes/) News Wire Fedora Budgie Fedora (https

This hour we talk about NY right to repair bill! We discuss The fediverse is getting attention from mainstream media, and people are leaving Twitter to join Mastadon. -- During The Show -- Steve's Mini Rant Getting Sats Supporting Creators Centralized vs Decentralized Expectations 10:28 Thinkpad T470 - Charlie Don't use non OEM batteries in thinkpads Seabios, Coreboot, Libreboot Run a ThinkPad off solar 14:30 Slideshow Creators - Bhikhu Photo Film Strip Debian Repo (https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/photofilmstrip) Imagination (https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/imagination) Netlabels (https://archive.org/details/netlabels) Ektoplazm (https://ektoplazm.com/explore) Eye of Gnome (Photos) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_GNOME) Markdown Slide Shows 19:00 Listener Responds about sleep - Friso Arch Wiki - Wake Up Triggers (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management/Wakeup_triggers) Arch Wiki - Waking From Suspend with USB (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Udev#Waking_from_suspend_with_USB_device)

Have you ever thought of an object you'd like to have but for one reason or the other it didn't exist? It's easier now than ever to get into 3D printing! We give you our take on the SteamDeck and we talk funding for Matrix! -- During The Show -- 01:20 Note taking suggestion - Bhikhu Turtl App (https://turtlapp.com/) Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/) Sustainable technology is important 05:30 Wifi for Old Homes - Norm AP "zero hand off" is critical Steve - a few powerful APs Noah - Lots of low power AP Unifi U6 Unifi ACPro Place AP every 20db drop of signal approximately every 50ft RSSI 13:10 Wifi mesh? - Jeremy Mesh does not perform well 15:15 Thoughts On Flight Tracking - anon ADS-B transceivers are required on all planes Inexpensive hardware can receive ADS-B data Flight Radar 24 Making data available 20:00 Brandon Follows up RE: Firefox for multiple clients - Brandon Multi Account Containers (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/) 21:20 Cory Follows up X270 Battery - Cory OE

It's Christmas time! This hour Noah and Steve dig through their favorite gift ideas for your geek! -- During The Show -- 01:15 Intro Dakota's weather is Cold 02:00 Listener Responds to Email Backup - Griffon Fetchmail Procmail Blog Post (https://easierbuntu.blogspot.com/2011/09/managing-your-email-with-fetchmail.html?m=1) Linux.com Link (https://www.linux.com/news/process-your-email-procmail/) 04:20 Lenovo X270 issue - Cory Unplugging the charger causes throttling External battery causing issues Linux vs Windows BIOS switch Try another external battery Noticed throttling at 30% battery 09:30 Synology on AMD? - Jeremy DS1621+ (Ryzen V1500B) (https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS1621+) DS1621XS+ (Xeon D1527) (https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS1621xs+) AMD does have an answer to quick sync 12:00 Listener Response FF profiles - Peter Firefox Docs (https://docs.telemetry.mozilla.org/concepts/profile/profile_creation.html) Shortcuts with the profile name Profiles could cause issues Multi Account Contai

This hour we dig into Apple's encryption plan, a new version of KdenLive is out, Tor Bundled for Ukraine, and a new open source platform connects those in need with resources in their area. -- During The Show -- 00:45 Dakota's Weather Roads are ice rinks 02:15 2 Questions: IR Remote & Waking From Sleep - Gary IR Remote $150 or less buy used Used URC 450 Remote RF Base Mouse/Keyboard Waking up computer Different levels of sleep Reach out to System76 08:05 Email Management? - Heath Filter email as it comes in 11:40 Managing Multiple Online Accounts - Brandon Podman run per client podman run -d \ --name=client1-browser \ --security-opt seccomp=unconfined `#optional` \ -e PUID=1000 \ -e PGID=1000 \ -p 3000:3000 \ -v /path/to/config:/config \ --shm-size="1gb" \ --restart unless-stopped \ lscr.io/linuxserver/firefox:latest Multi Account Containers (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers) Noah's System 20:26 Minetest Feedback - Heidi Mine Test Liberapay (https://liberapay.com/celeron55/)

Do you purchase technology with the expectation that it's consumable or disposable? Noah and Steve talk about considerations to make sure you get the best bang for your buck! -- During The Show -- 01:26 Laptop suggestion? - Bri Apple is not an option Struggle to recommend HP Dell is great! Latitude Line Noah's Dell Latitude 7330 Buy second hand Dell Latitude 7490 (https://www.ebay.com/itm/384872907927?epid=10056615806&hash=item599c368497:g:VbgAAOSw0Stic-1w&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAA4MQVH%2Bv6uzEFBd6EZb%2B97zb9ecLMT0wwjtblim1kNmuacpeemZqobIMAKqjVSFF7EaaZbt2viDWGqmeCVDmfjc4p6ZnAXB%2FprhAt6IFX3xrSqo1F8uBS3bydbVBefVOXBJ8cg9lMrAmhj2Yw00JAMll8Sa183yMRRSTcFvVoXYScAFVDh7ja5w1b8fpAMr%2F7vu%2BWibTB9ygjKyWmGee7j3NvEAAYb5TLHgbl%2FsTdM%2FVJwc0JcdYfhntlTjy2s6fqFFOawvP%2Ft%2B8g1Ovw8zqIrnxAJPzP3zGEdpxq%2Bf9febzo%7Ctkp%3ABFBMyrXenZ1h#readMoreDesc) Reach out to System76 07:40 Sip phone recommendation? - Charlie Fanvil X3U Yealink maybe better than Grandstream UniFi Switches TP Link Switches 12:20 Network Jitters? - Andy What are ji

This is the second week of our storage round table. Join the crew as they talk storage, configuration, and considerations. If you missed part one, make sure to check out https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/313. -- During The Show -- 01:41 Steve's Script Problem Thank You Thank You for all the feedback! Bash and set +x/-x 04:28 Altispeed Runbooks - Kevin ITIL Definition (https://www.techtarget.com/searchnetworking/definition/run-book) Read the Docs Runbooks (https://runbook.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) Started with non technical things Its a manual process Altispeed's Git Hub (https://gitlab.com/altispeed) 07:48 What To Do With Repurposed Hardware? - Emmanuel Old hardware is not power efficient Point of Presence Server Backup Server Lab gopher(https://labgopher.com/) 11:50 Should I Reuse Old HDDs? - Ebal Use Mirrored Zvols Back Up 14:11 Measuring Internet Speed - Keith Don't use speedtest.net Speed of Me (https://speedof.me/) Test My Net (https://testmy.net/) 17:15 ZFS Drive Health - Sleuth ZFS can be setup to aler

It's the storage round-table! Steve Ovens, Peter Dennert, Kenny Schmidt, and Patrick Emerson join Noah to talk storage! There's a wide range of ways to set storage up, a wide range of requirements and ways to implement it. What common things do we all agree on? Where do we disagree and why? -- During The Show -- 01:11 Steve's Curl Update Thank you for your replies Where do you learn about shell commands/variables 04:51 Jeremy reflects on 312 crypto - Jeremy Can't use it at stores Mining creates e-waste and raises price of GPUs Buying a cupcake was eye opening FTX happened because unethical people not crypto Crypto isn't there yet Decentralized currency is self defeating 12:42 Storage Solution for wife - Thomas Manage Storage for her Next Cloud (https://nextcloud.com/) Seafile (https://www.seafile.com/) NFS+SystemD/Samba HDD is single point of failure 14:55 Thoughts on Signal - Nomad RCS works like Signal No interest in stories 17:30 Hank emailed in a lot Thanks for all the feedback 18:35 Question about HDMI -

-- During The Show -- 00:30 Steve's Curl Issue Curl not picking up variables properly ``` myvar=RvNAQycq2KOrWaGVuaoHBwPgfEOwzPi2 curl -k -d "clientsecret=${myvar}" https://keycloak.k3s.lab/realms/myrealm/protocol/openid-connect/token |jq .idtoken) ``` 02:00 Pihole & Eero - Wyeth YouTube Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnFtWsZ8IP0&t=721s) Tutorial (https://www.derekseaman.com/2019/09/how-to-pi-hole-plus-dnscrypt-setup-on-raspberry-pi-4.html) Eero System may be the issue Get the ISP to allow your old router Email Ask Noah show for Nextcloud setup 15:20 Suggestion for Church - Charlie AM/FM Radio 16:30 Audio over IP - Brett Church Setup Noah's thoughts 18:45 Storage Question - Jeremy External storage pros/cons Better to build storage box 21:25 Ceph or ZFS? - Russel Ceph is good for racks of storage ZFS is better for single box 23:30 Vlan on PFsense worksonmybox Trouble creating VLans on PFsense Check your trunk port UniFi treats VLans strangely 25:55 Espanso Espanso (https://espanso.org/) Open Source tex

Where do you go either at work or in home to for help when you get stuck exploring new technology? Noah and Steve take you through their process. We take your calls, your questions, and look at what's happening in the FOSS world! -- During The Show -- 01:25 Caller Kevin Outdoor speakers? Outdoor Speaker 1 (https://www.amazon.com/Polk-Audio-Atrium-Outdoor-Speakers/dp/B00378KMEG) Outdoor Speaker 2 (https://www.amazon.com/Electro-Voice-EVID-4-2-Surface-Mount-Loudspeaker/dp/B0010EFJJW/) Volumio (https://volumio.com/) Switch for NDI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Device_Interface) and Dante (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_(networking)) Cisco SG Series The 3560 and 3750 are very common IGMP Snooping QOS Managed Telos Alliance audio over IP switch configuration (https://www.telosalliance.com/uploads/Axia%20Products/Support%20Documents/Tech%20Tips/cisco3560-3750-switchconfig-for-livewire-rev4-1.pdf) 11:15 How to calculate Required Bandwidth? - Bhikhu Cactus Comments (https://cactus.chat/) Goat Counter (h

Elon Musk is buying Twitter, but will this be a benefit for free speech or a nightmare for the internet? There's a security vulnerability in OpenSSL we'll tell you what you need to know, and of course your questions go to the front of the line! -- During The Show -- Steve's Surprise Things to be thankful for Working at Red Hat 02:14 Listener comments on file transfers - Charlie Format the HDD in exFAT Use FTP/SFTP inside a VPN gFTP instead of Filezilla Freedom Box (https://www.freedombox.org/) 04:40 Bitwarden and Email Alias - Jeremy Proton Mail Acquired Simple Login (https://simplelogin.io/blog/simplelogin-join-proton/) Contribute to Mind Drip Media Docs (https://docs.minddripmedia.com/contributing/) 07:50 Send Us Feedback and Questions Email - Email in Phone - Best Way! 1-855-450-NOAH (6624) Mumble (https://docs.minddripmedia.com/mumble/) - #Mumble in GeekLab 10:30 Is there a Google Voice alternative? - Kevin FlowRoute (https://flowroute.com/) + 3CX (https://www.3cx.com/) VoxTelsys (http://www.voxtelesys.co

-- During The Show -- Steve's and K38 04:40 Cory Clarifies File Share Use Case - Cory Created a FTP share Set up networking FTP resets every 60 seconds? FTPS and SFTP Script Kiddies ISP may be interfering 11:10 Tell Me More About Sophos - Jeremy Don't go lower than XG-135 Sophos hardware XG-210 with SFP/Expansion 15:30 Charlie Wants to Know About "Critical Thought" Availability Critical Thought Website (https://podcast.criticalthought.show/) KONX Live Stream (https://knoxradio.com/) Subscribe to Critical Thought (https://podcast.criticalthought.show/subscribe) 17:00 News Wire Graph for GUAC Info Security Magazine (https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/google-guac-improve-software/) SC Magazine (https://www.scmagazine.com/brief/third-party-risk/new-google-open-source-tool-seeks-to-bolster-software-supply-chains) WiFi Patches IT Wire (https://itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/developers-patch-five-wi-fi-bugs-which-were-in-linux-kernel-since-2019.html) OldGremlin targets Linux Computing Co UK (https:/

This episode Noah and Steve discuss building a NAS, audio room correction, Dustin writes back in to say he got his church bank access working, and what do you need to get a law office up and running? It's a packed episode! -- During The Show -- 01:00 Remote Access to OpenMediaVault - Cory Computer provides more control TailScale (https://tailscale.com/) Tinc Mesh VPN (https://tinc-vpn.org/) WireGuard (https://www.wireguard.com/) Site to Site VPN Overlay network Nebula (https://github.com/slackhq/nebula) HeadScale (https://github.com/juanfont/headscale) SyncThing (https://syncthing.net/) 12:00 Bradly from mumble DNS Issue use DIG Check your DNS Route DNS config needs to add the new VPN Client Subnet as ALLOWED 17:30 DIY Digital Room Correction with Linux - Charlie DIY Digital Room Correction (https://th0ma5w.github.io/DIY-Room-Correction/) Calibrated Measurement Microphone (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ADR2B84) Discussion Thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33053485) 19:30 Tiny from Mumble Hosted ema

This week, Noah and Steve tell you about the new Intel NUC that supports a TRIPPLE GPU Slot, a company that provides commercial support for Linux users, and the courts are divided on the scope of cell phone searches! -- During The Show -- 04:00 Rural 5G Internet - Chris User Hardware Netgear RAX45 ZTE MC8010CA Telus in Canada CGNAT Cradle Point (https://cradlepoint.com/) Peplink (https://www.peplink.com/) 07:40 Listener Responds to 305 - Greg White list "assets.adobedtm.com" 09:20 HDMI-CEC - Avri Wikipedia CEC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Control) HDMI 2.0a Ethernet over HDMI (https://thehometheaterdiy.com/hdmi-with-ethernet/) Cable companies are going to IP TV STI Cables STI HDMI Decimator (https://www.btx.com/decimator-md-lx-hdmi-sdi-converter) 15:00 Listener follows up on own hosting question - Gary A2 Hosting 16:15 ParrotSec ParrotSec (https://parrotsec.org) Multiple flavors/editions 18:30 Euro Linux Euro Linux (https://en.euro-linux.com/eurolinux/desktop/) Euro Linux Review (https: