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Fedora 34 Beta is out with Gnome 40. This is a major rework of Gnome and the payoff was worth the wait! -- During The Show -- -- 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/225) 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] as

Apple has rejected important updates to the ProtonVPN iOS app. This decision compromises the ability of the people of Myanmar to preserve their human rights by submitting information to the UN. We discuss a FOSS IT inventory and asset system, and a Raspberry Pi based tablet! -- During The Show -- 00:30 Accounting Software - Greg GNU Cash (https://gnucash.org/) FOSS Every Dollar (https://www.everydollar.com/) Put out by Dave Ramsey Web App/Service Freemium KMyMoney (https://kmymoney.org) From the KDE Project FOSS Good UI HomeBank (http://homebank.free.fr/en/index.php) Recomendation from the chat room 06:50 Questions around Peertube - Charlie OVH (https://www.ovh.com/world/) subsidized by Canadian government VPS Sizing Network Bandwidth Disk Size CPU/RAM Peertube Docs Install (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/install-any-os) Activity Pub (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api-activitypub) Docs Home (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/) DNS Use your registrar's DNS Setup individual A records SSL/TLS Buy a cert Use LetsEncry

A federal grand jury today returned an indictment against the Chief Executive Officer and an associate of the Canada-based firm Sky Global on charges that they knowingly and intentionally participated in a criminal enterprise that facilitated the transnational importation and distribution of narcotics through the sale and service of encrypted communications devices. System 76 has a new professional desktop, the Linux Foundation has a new open source signing tool that could make secure software supply chains universal. -- During The Show -- 00:30 LumoSQL - Dan Youtube Link 1 (https://youtu.be/CMJ0OMYtIGk) Youtube Link 2 (Https://LumoSQL.org/src/lumosql) Youtube Link 3 (https://youtu.be/uyyqtPA5sS4) 02:00 Listener Responds to SSH Questions - Roger man ssh_config Cyberciti Article (https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/create-ssh-config-file-on-linux-unix/) 03:00 Off Site Backup suggestion? - Alex Rsync Snapshots Bluray Archive Disks (https://www.amazon.com/Archival-Verbatim-M-Disc-Inkjet-Printable/dp/B01B99WWXI/ref=

Major tech companies are buying electronic components made from minerals mined by children, and forced labor. Ryan DasGeek joins the Ask Noah Show to discuss what's happening in the tech industry and how you can vote against it with your wallet. -- During The Show -- 01:15 Good SSH Connection Manager? - Jamie Use a centralized jump host for logging/authentication (SSSD&FreeIPA) Use Putty (https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/) Integrate with KeepassXC (https://keepassxc.org/) Teleport (https://goteleport.com/) 06:30 Possible to forward broadcasts between VLANs PFSense? Becareful to not create broadcast storms/loops UDP-Proxy (http://www.vttoth.com/CMS/index.php/technical-notes/63#Appendix) 10:45 Router recommendation? - Larry Unifi USG Requires controller/Cloudkey If controller goes offline you can't manage your network Netgate SG-1100 (https://shop.netgate.com/products/1100-pfsense) + PFsense (https://www.pfsense.org/)/OpnSense (https://opnsense.org/) 15:00 Firewalld/UFW & Apparmor/SELinux Debi

The Blackbird Secure Desktop is a POEWR9 system, a fully open source modern POWER9 workstation without any proprietary code. Plasma mobile has a new update out, we talk bluetooth headsets, VoIP phone systems, and a one handed keyboard! -- During The Show -- 01:00 nVidia shield and blocking google DNS - Zack Try setting up DNS on your router Run PFSense/OpnSense in a VM, use that to block DNS requests to Google, pass on legit requests to a PiHole 05:15 VOIP Recommendations for Home Phone? - Dennis Use a Trunk Provider Voxtelesys Hosted Option (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah/221) Self host a 3CX PBX (https://www.3cx.com/) FreePBX (https://www.freepbx.org/) Asterisk (https://www.asterisk.org/) #### 12:45 Caller - George Best Slide show App? Make Video in KdenLIVE (https://kdenlive.org/en/) LibreOffice Impress (https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/impress/) HedgeDoc Slideshow mode Antenna for TV? Apmlified Digital Antenna (https://www.amazon.com/Latest-Amplified-Digital-Antenna-65-80/dp/B07FVLXHYV/ref=sr_1_3?d

The Gnome team is revamping multi-monitor support. Firefox 86 is released and features Total Cookie Protection to make cross site tracking more difficult increasing user privacy. Kodi 19 has landed with a lot of new features around metadata and a better music interface. -- During The Show -- How to rename USB Audio interface? - Steve pacmd update-sink-proplist alsa_output.usb-c-Media_electronics_inc._USB-Audio_Device-00.analog-stereo.2 device.description=What-We-Call-It-Now Self Hosted Music - Sloth56 Ampache (http://ampache.org/) Funkwhale (https://funkwhale.audio/) Self host or managed services - Mike Good Email providers ProtonMail (https://protonmail.com/) Tutuanotoa (https://tutanota.com/) Fastmail (https://www.fastmail.com/) 18:15 RHCSA Training - Adam Getting to ask questions is good Classes can create community In person training is best Udemy Course Link (https://www.udemy.com/course/red-hat-certified-system-administrator-rhcsa-8-boot-camp/) VTC (https://vtc.com/) is almost as good as official Re

The Gnome design team conducted a research project to better understand their users. The results were surprising! We'll give you an update about the Vero 4K, a FOSS app to track your GPS history. -- During The Show -- 01:15 IT War/Disaster Stories Call Out Got IT horror stories, let us know! We want to do an episode on them Email live@asknoahshow.com 02:00 Jon caller Emailed about Noah's soft spot for Red Hat Latest thoughts on System76 PopOS! Home Lab/Docker Questions 12:40 Vircadia VR Responds to Episode - Vadim FOSDEM Talk (https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/vircadia/) 13:50 Building an Online Presence - Joel Don't buy lifetime services/domain names - Not sustainable business model register4less.com Don't buy a domain in your real name A records - mail.mydomain.com nextcloud.mydomain.com etc.mydomain.comment Redirects mydomain.com/server1 mydomain.com/server2 Start with a web server, lessons learned apply everywhere 21:00 User responds for MS SQL - Richard rdiff-backup - like rsync with history Other

Have you ever dreamed of having a virtual enviorment that can simulate the real world in, have meetings in, and connect with others in. Firefox has new protections for supercookies, ubuntu has a new installer out, and CloudLinux has a beta out of AlmaLinux. -- During The Show -- Red Hat License - Jon RedHat exists to make a profit, and they need to RedHat spends money to support open source that they could take home/pocket RedHat handled the release poorly and cut the release cycle short RedHat has been a good friend of the community The new model makes more sense, but was poorly communicated 11:00 Element vs Rocket - cheskel Element/Matrix Pros: Decentralized Federated Integrated with other services (Bridges & Widgets) End to End Encryption 15:00 Pick of the Week Funkwhale (https://funkwhale.audio/#get-started) Decentralized Selfhosted Spotify Makes music social again Why host your own? Because of things like this (https://www.compsmag.com/news/technology/spotify-patents-technology-to-recommend-songs-based-o

With all the changes Google is making there's never been a better time to to self host your own stuff! This week we dive into replacing Google Photos! -- During The Show -- 00:45 Minutes In Email 1 - Setting up Federated service instance - Brian What decentralized services could you support using a $5 Droplet or similar virtual server? It is never be set and forget Built in backups are good but don't rely on them What can run on a $5 DO Droplet No - Peertube needs more resources Yes - Mastodon can run, might want more resources Sorta - Matrix could but really should have more resources Yes - Tor relay works really well Yes - VPN node works really well Best practice to run each service on its own VPS 06:50 Minutes In Email 2 - USB WiFi 5 or 6 Dongle? - Cory Edimax MU-MIMO-EW (https://www.amazon.com/Edimax-Adapter-Supports-MU-MIMO-EW-7822ULC/dp/B01MY7PL10/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=Edimax+AC+wireless&qid=1611698824&sr=8-4) Plugable WiFi Adapter (https://www.amazon.com/Plugable-Wireless-802-11n-Network-RTL8188

RedHat is expanding the developer program making it easier than ever to access RHEL! Now individuals can run 16 RHEL servers under this new program. Brian Exelbierd joins us this hour to discuss this new program and how it addresses many of the concerns raised in the transition from CentOS to CentOS Stream. -- During The Show -- Email 1 - Signal vs Telegram - Eddie Telegram vs Signal for messaging? Telegram client is open source and supports Linux Telegram server is closed source Signal is more secure but requires a phone number Phone numbers can reveal your real identity Moxie Marlinspike (Matthew Rosenfeld) - really particular about 3rd party clients, makes it not very inviting link (https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issuecomment-217211165) Not so great when your playing with alternative operating systems (SailfishOS PostmarketOS), Signal has to make a client, rather than just supporting an API Use Element/Matrix Setup your own server Sign up for paid hosting EMS (https://element.io/plan

Self-hosting has always been a good idea but when your platform doesn't want to serve you, we have some self-hosted options that will. A Reddit user has Linux booting on an iPhone 7, a man was quoted $50K to run fiber to his house, so he built his own fiber ISP! -- During The Show -- 00:30 Minutes In Email 1 - Feedback from EP 212 Bluetooth and Drawing Tablet - David HSP/HFP designed for phones not computers Bluetooth support on Linux is difficult due to the way blue-tooth works (uses modem commands on mobile) Possible Solutions that bypass Linux blue-tooth stack Links to the 1Mii USB Bluetooth Adapter for PC (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B083TD9VW4?pf_rd_r=EDN0TAKZ8952EWP1WGXT&pf_rd_p=5ae2c7f8-e0c6-4f35-9071-dc3240e894a8) This is Creative's version if you are looking for a more popular brand name. (https://us.creative.com/p/accessories/creative-bluetooth-audio-bt-w2-usb-transceiver) XP-PEN came up and they have a driver for Linux. It is a little bit hokey in the sense that their configuration applicati

New Year New Releases We're kicking off 2021 with a bang! The KDE team has announced a new focus on Wayland and fingerprint readers. Cawbird 1.3 a native twitter client for Linux has a new release with improved video uploading and replies, and Matrix will power FOSDEM this year! -- During The Show -- 01:45 Minutes In Email 1 - Comment on SolarWinds from Newnix 04:40 Minutes IN Caller 1 - Carl Problem: Intermittent camera and mic problems Solution 1: unplug other usb devices (bandwidth issues) Solution 2: Buy a PCIe USB 3 card Solution 3: Buy a Thinkpad with thunderbolt and a thunderbolt dock Solution 4: Make sure the camera is plugged into a matching USB port (3.0/2.0) Logitech C920 webcam (https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/webcams/c920-pro-hd-webcam.html) Logitech C930 (https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/webcams/c930e-business-webcam.html) Feedback on Backups Bareos backup (https://www.bareos.org/en/) Email 2 - LVM vs Raid from Cory OpenMediaVault (https://www.openmediavault.org/) Storage - FreeN

Greg Kurtzer executive director of Rocky Linux a bug for bug RedHat distribution joins us this hour to tell the story of CentOS and what his vision for Rocky Linux is! -- During The Show -- Greg Kurtzer - Executive Director of Rocky Linux, a bug for bug red hat compatible distro Greg's history Centos history Rocky Linux (https://rockylinux.org/) now and future Currently collaborating on Slack, It will be moving to Mattermost There is a google doc (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfEXnqD1sNHz9cslkMNOk6krUtDdSCYbxL68TTsn7uGZnoSFQ/viewform) for developers who want to help, please be patient lots of responses to go through Release will be available Q2 2020 Current state of the project (https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/community-update-december-2020/1157) 36:00 minutes in Walt Caller One What Protections are in place to protect Rocky Linux from corporate interests 44:00 minutes in Email 1 Unifi Access Points and NVRs 1) Unifi Access Points Nano HD (https://unifi-nanohd.ui.com/) i UAP-AC Pro (https://www.u

Gnome 40 has a major redesign, a new version of Kdenlive is out adding some much desired pro features, Matrix has some exciting announcments and we discuss the Solar Winds backdoor and give you some alternatives. If this is the time of the year you want to tinker with new projects we have a few in store! -- During The Show -- 00:45 Request for feedback 01:55 Email 1 - How to back up BTRFS to the cloud rsync BTRFS send/recive https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/btrfs-sendreceive-helps-you-move-your-data 04:55 Email 2 - Smart devices cloudfree.shop https://cloudfree.shop/ homeassistant https://www.home-assistant.io/ lutron radiora https://www.lutron.com/en-US/Products/Pages/WholeHomeSystems/RadioRA2/Overview.aspx 12:00 Are Vlans Good enough? (continued from email 2) 14:40 Email 3 - Bitcoin Don't invest, considered unstable Mining is fun not pratical https://www.coinbase.com/ https://www.blockchain.com/explorer ALternative crypto currencys https://ethereum.org/en/ https://www.getmonero.org/ 23:48 Email 4 - Bluetoot

GeekLab Gift Guide RedHat may have replaced CentOS Linux with CentOS stream but Gregory Kurtzer has launched his own replacement based as CentOS was on the RHEL source code. We help you pick out tech gifts for that geek in your life! -- During The Show -- Troubleshooting Trackpads sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-synaptics Copying Video from Firewire https://bergs.biz/blog/2017/01/26/capture-minidv-tapes-via-firewire/ Gift #5 - Stainless Steel Small Openable Pill (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CX5QFYU/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) Gift #4 - Aventree TC417 (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07JJCZ3WL/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) Gift #3 - Yubikey (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07HBDX2CM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) Gift #2 - HiFi Audio Stereo Amplifier (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071JN7GXN/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) Gift #1 - Briggs and Riley BackPack

CentOS is dead long live Centos Stream! CentOS Stream is a way of getting newer packages out to the community so developers have the latest and greatest, but this comes at the cost of the previous goals of CentOS. Does this increase the security of RedHat's free offering? -- 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/210) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #AskNoahShow on Freenode! -- 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! A

The Pinephone might be the best $200 you can spend on a project for yourself or with your family. Now it's easier than ever to flash new operating systems to the phone. OpenZFS 2.0 has been released, a new version of Wireguard has been released for Windows, and the KDE Edition of the Pinephone is now available. -- 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/209) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our interactive chatroom #geeklab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix or join in your web browser Geeklab.ninja (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 an

A proposal has been put forward to use PipeWire by default in Fedora. Neal Gompa Fedora contributor joins us to discuss! A new release of KStarts 3.5.0. Lemmy.ml, a decentralized alternative to Reddit enabled federation and Comcast rolls out a 1.2TB data caps to the rest of their subscribers as of next year. -- 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! Recover your Windows 10 Product Key From Linux sudo strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/208) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #AskNoahShow on Freenode! -- 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

YouTube-DL is back on GitHub! GitHub has started a legal defense fund, and Plasma mobile has been released! -- 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/207) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #AskNoahShow on Freenode! -- 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 S

Certificates issued by Let's Encrypt will soon be signed solely by their own root certificate. It's problematic because of the lack of Android updates. Apple has released two ARM based Macs, there's a potential replacement for SCP and a stellar release of Gimp with support for Hi-DPI -- 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/206) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #AskNoahShow on Freenode! -- 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 N