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This week on Ask Noah we dig into Cosmic desktop and talk about what to do when self hosting goes wrong! -- During The Show -- 01:48 Cosmic Desktop - Dan Cosmic will be the desktop for System76 computers Built for System76 Cosmic DE still Alpha/Beta Been running Cosmic for over a month 07:38 Caller KVM/VirtManager performance Virt IO Drivers Correct ZFS block size for QCOW2 Synchronous vs Non-synchronous writes ZFS Intent Log (SLOG/ZIL) 64k Record size Turn on virtualization in UEFI Enable "write a shift" Check the cables 16:50 Cosmic Desktop - ZFS - Rob Hardware HDD Failure after re-silvering Preventing bit rot 3 disks vs 2 disks ZFS Send/Receive vs Rsync Sanoid (https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid) Limit the bandwidth Total data vs Total Bandwidth Synology is not open source Just install an OS and packages 30:55 Zed Editor Website (https://zed.dev/) Steve uses Nano not Vim or Emacs Thoughts on IDEs? VSCode and VSCodium Electron Lots of extensions Failed to get to the website AI is not appealing Written i

This week Robie Basak joins Noah from the Ubuntu Summit and gives an introduction on how to get started contributing to Ubuntu. -- During The Show -- 01:26 HexOS - Craig Start with the Command Line When is a GUI appropriate Start with make a ZFS pool make a samba share Help us understand your goal What is HexOS Ubuntu and ZFS DKMS kABI Advantages of TrueNAS Snapshots Send/Receive 1 Click Re-silvering 17:08 Questions about HDMI switch - Andy Theater Receiver Decimator (https://www.amazon.com/Decimator-DMON-QUAD-SD-SDI-Multi-Viewer-Outputs/dp/B072NGFDMR) 21:14 News Wire SQLite 3.47.0 - sqlite.org (https://sqlite.org/releaselog/3_47_0.html) Peazip 10 - github.io (https://peazip.github.io) Jellyfin 10.10.0 - jellyfin.org (https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-release-10.10.0/) EasyOS 6.4 - puppylinux.com (https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=12973) Gnome 47.1 - gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-47-1-released/24670) Tor Browser 14.0 - torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-b

This week Steve gives a deep dive into Widevine Encryption. We love encryption when it protects our data, but what do we do when encryption prevents us from doing the things we want to do over the internet? -- During The Show -- 00:50 Which is easier kids or dogs? 01:57 Succession Planning - Steve Secure vs accessible Steve's plan Infrastructure as code Critical path continuity Nix maintains old packages Techie friends Sleuths setup/plan data separation Noah's plan 20:29 News Wire Solus 4.6 - getsol.us (https://getsol.us/2024/10/14/solus-4-6-released/) Sysvinit 3.11 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/SysVinit-3.11) Calibre 7.20 - calibre-ebook.com (https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new) Ardour 8.10 - ardour.org (https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html) Wine 9.20 - gitlab.winehq.org (https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-9.20) ReiserFS Removed in Linux 6.13 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-To-Drop-ReiserFS) RHEL AI 1.2 - zdnet.com (https://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hat-r

This week Noah and Steve dig into thoughts for light switches if you're starting from scratch. Do you work in a small closet that's been turned into an IT room? Noah gives you a recommendation for a small portable travel laptop stand. With under a year left to switch to Windows 11, there's a surprise at how many people have yet to upgrade. We talk about why that is. -- During The Show -- 01:07 Caller Would you still go with lutron? ZWave kit GE & Brighton How Noah looks at automation Lutron RA2 (https://www.lutron.com/en-US/products/pages/wholehomesystems/ra2select/overview.aspx) Zwave and Home Assistant Industrial system design Shelly Pro (https://us.shelly.com/collections/all-products?filter.p.m.custom.filter_technology=LAN&filter.v.price.gte=&filter.v.price.lte=) Orbit Panels (https://orbitpanels.com/) 11:26 Journal Block Device not loaded - John May be using a file system with out journalling May be using a file system Lynis can't detect GitHub Issue (https://github.com/CISOfy/lynis/issues/1508) 13:25 Tho

This week Aaron Prisk and Jason Nucciarone join the program to talk about Ubuntu Summit 2024. We dig into your feedback and talk about the benefits of immutable operating systems. -- During The Show -- 00:55 Intro Steve's WiFi issues Printer issues Nextcloud issues 07:46 Arch and Mandatory Access Control - Baker Why Steve chooses Arch Arch doesn't enable "auditing" in the kernel Other Mandatory Access Control SELinux Will tell you what to do Don't shut it off Permissive Mode Arch is the most "vanilla" distro Things do break in Arch, and other distros Consider Arch 17:42 Printers - Rabin Steve uses Brother printers Till Kamppeter ANS 368 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/368) Buy Brother Use IPP/IPPS 20:56 Charlie Asks The Audience Self Hostable Web based CRM Designed for both IT professionals and tradesmen Can: Assign Staff Assign Jobs List Stock Quote Job/Task Invoice Produce list of stock which is needed to buy as stock is low/empty Easy Appointments (https://easyappointments.org/) InvenTree (https://github.

This week we dig into the Verizon outage. We'll talk about why and how you can host your own communication infrastructure, so an outage is less detrimental to your life! -- During The Show -- 01:35 Notes with sync? - Jou Jou How Steve takes notes Standard Notes (https://app.standardnotes.com/) Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/) Simple Mobile Tools (https://simplemobiletools.com/) Fossify (https://www.fossify.org/apps/) Nextcloud Notes app Collabra 09:12 Listener Reacts To Distros - Aaron Issues with Ubuntu Go for Fedora Endless OS Write in with your Ubuntu issues Mind Drip One Offline Windows Setup (https://docs.minddripone.com/Windows/windows-11-offline-setup/) 15:27 Audio Issues Mixer died Loaner from company Got the board fixed Sample rate changed Sample rate manually fixed and digital recorder back in production 17:48 News Wire Firefox 131 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/131.0/releasenotes/) FFmpeg 7.1 - ffmpeg.org (https://ffmpeg.org) GnuCash 5.9 - gnucash.org (https://www.gnucash.org/n

We struggled again this week with audio. We appologize for any inconvinence for skipping / low pitched audio This week Steve shares his distro hopping adventures! Noah and Steve are both skating towards the same end goal. They are going about getting there different ways. -- During The Show -- 00:45 Steve's Distro Hopping Steve's distro journey Deepin Desktop vs Deepin Distro Deepin Desktop mix of Gnome and KDE Commercial vs Steve's desktop implementations Unique monitor setup What Noah wants in a computer Reinstall with the niceties Pop!_OS & Cosmic experience Deepin is Chinese Arch & Deepin DE KDE experience KDE can always recover Latte-Dock (https://github.com/KDE/latte-dock) Arch is the nerd safety OS Lots of distros, what's missing 44:00 News Wire SparkyLinux 7.5 - sparkylinux.org (https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-7-5/) ZorinOS 17.2 - zorin.com (https://blog.zorin.com/2024/09/19/zorin-os-17.2-has-landed/) MXLinux 23.4 - mxlinux.org (https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-23-4-libretto-now-available/) Linux Libre 6.11

AUDIO THIS WEEK HAD A SAMPLE RATE ISSUE. SORRY FOR IN INCONVENIENCE. -- During The Show -- 00:52 Steve's WiFi We think its fixed! Noah brought lots of gear Replaced some hardware 02:41 Recovery after power surge - David Cattle not Pets Steve's Nextcloud experience Noah's laptop approach 09:43 Communications App Upheaval - Charlie There is a war on encrypted messaging Courts are making decisions 12:45 Listener Responses To Listener (cameras in home) - Chris UniFi Wave Pico system 13:51 News Wire AlmaLinux Certification SIG - almalinux.org (https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-09-10-announcing-new-certification-sig/) Wine 9.17 - gitlab.winehq.org (https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-9.17) Samba 4.21 - samba.org (https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.21.0.html) Rust 1.81 - blog.rust-lang.org (https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/09/05/Rust-1.81.0.html) GNU Nano 8.2 - lists.gnu.org (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2024-09/msg00001.html) Firefox 130 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en

This week we dig back into home automation, we talk a bit about choosing cameras for a large camera system, and of course we answer your questions! -- During The Show -- 00:52 Intro Home automation Weekend of learning 03:48 Monitoring Remote Location (Cameras) - Rob Powerline adapters might work Ubiquiti Nano Beam Synology Surveillance Station (https://www.synology.com/en-global/surveillance) Frigate Do not put the NVR on the internet Privacy File server upload Home Assistant events 17:18 Camera Systems for Tribal Lands - William NDAA compliant cameras and NVRs ReoLink NVR banned ReoLink Cameras depends - bad idea NDAA compliant brands 360 Vision Technology (360 VTL) Avigilon Axis Communications BCD International Commend FLIR Geutebrück iryx JCI/Tyco Security Mobotix Pelco Rhombus Systems Seek Thermal Solink Vaion/Ava WatchGuard Main 3 NVR in use Exac Vision Avigilon Milestone NDAA conversation Noah's favorites Axis FLIR #### 25:09 Charlie Finds e-ink android - Charlie Boox Palma (https://shop.boox.com/produ

Why do you use Linux? Why do you want to use Linux? This week Noah and Steve dig into their technology past and reflect on why a technologist would choose Linux and Open Source over the proprietary alternatives. -- During The Show -- 01:08 Why I Use Linux - Ryan Opened my eyes Wide open Allows me to choose how to use my computer 02:40 405 Error "Method Not Allowed" DICOM Software requires activation activation server went away Online Game Activation direct to drive companies take the game with them Memories taken Steve's Story Windows put you in a sandbox Linux is nerdy and different Unix philosophy 2 parts Linux and Open Source Reading source code Windows got better then worse 2 main professional automation systems Build systems independently then tie together Ruling things out X10 zigbee Ruled in ZWave Shellys Home Assistant update broke Orbit Panels Breaking the automation network out Shelly integration methods Steve's Parent's Setup RaspberryPi with Home Assistant ESP8266 with door sensor 42:48 News Wire

This week Steve gives a deep dive into his adventures with Frigate, an open source NVR software. -- During The Show -- 00:46 Orbit Panels Installed at home First professional install Smart home issues 03:03 Oreon Desktop The Register (https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/20/oreon_lime_desktop_almalinux/) Distro based on Alma Linux Hard to get commercial Linux desktop right Oreon Project (https://oreonproject.org/) Company has support Focus on the desktop Has lots of extra packages/software Focus on stability 10:08 Serpent OS 9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/serpent-os-gears-up-for-alpha-release-enables-framework-13-and-flathub-support) Serpent OS Alpha release Ikey Doherty 11:55 Cosmic OS 9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/system76-launches-pop_os-24-04-lts-with-cosmic-alpha-desktop-environment) Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha release of Cosmic Desktop Built for users System76 Cosmic (https://system76.com/cosmic) Easy to switch between traditional and tiling desktops Give System76 constructive feedback Available for m

What if you could control your lights, music, and other Home Assistant things from a panel on your wall? Do you run tech at your church and need the ability to deliver controls in a way, in a location, and with a budget that's approachable for everyone? This week, Thomas Kvamme from Orbit Panels joins Noah and Steve to discuss his new in wall PoE control panels based on the Raspberry Pi, Streamdeck, and Bitfocus Companion! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Nice weather Little projects 01:45 Orbit Panels Thomas Kvamme - Owner and founder Why are you in ministry? Life before the stream deck StreamDeck (https://www.elgato.com/us/en/s/welcome-to-stream-deck) Bitfocus Companion (https://bitfocus.io/companion) List of Bitfocus Companion Integrations (https://bitfocus.io/connections) Bitfocus Companion Satellite (https://bitfocus.io/companion-satellite) Proprietary alternatives Origin of Orbit Panels Orbit Panels (https://orbitpanels.com/) Drop in replacement Design of the Orbit Panel Building an Orbit Panel How peo

This week we dig into Steve's home assistant migration. We take your questions on how to get started with AI, a self hosted email horror story, and more Harbor Freight. -- During The Show -- 01:25 OpenSource AI - Craig Defining "open source AI" is hard Local Offline Generative AI on Linux - Part 1 : TextGen (https://peertube.tv/w/48EvS3Y1gJz5c9vHiZF8Ya) Local Offline Generative AI on Linux - Part 2 : ImageGen (https://peertube.tv/w/ko1LUdcrZqLmEQZkyy3cN2) The Artifical Dominion Matrix Chat (https://matrix.to/#/#TheArtificalDominion:matrix.org) What do you want to learn? LM Studio (https://lmstudio.ai/) GPT4ALL (https://flathub.org/apps/io.gpt4all.gpt4all) Haven't found a "safe for work" visual AI Glue cheese Stable Diffusion morality filter 10:50 Self Hosted Email Story - Yassine Noah is still gun shy on self hosted email 14:24 Security and Calendaring - Dan VPN back in 3rd party brokers Synology Surveillance Station (https://www.synology.com/en-global/surveillance) WireGuard Punch a hole in the firewall Dang

This week Steve returns and we dig into your feedback! Kenny joins the program and shares his horror story in the continuing saga of buying and owning tools that you can rely on, authy is going away for GrapheneOS users, what's the best way to handle 2fa on GrapheneOS? -- During The Show -- 01:00 Steve's Crowdstrike Fall Out Waited 10+ hours at the airport Stream of ppl to wait with Steve's restraunt tangent Too much homogeneous systems Windows 3.1 meme Lost sight of critical paths 08:40 Netbox Feedback - bloominstrong Excited about the product Struggle to get things in Struggle to get things out Always plan how to get things out 11:35 Why I Use Linux - Jeremey Free Secure Flexible 12:20 decloudus.com - Jason 2 versions of the S10 Noah's phone plan GrapheneOS requires a chip in Pixels Noah's Dad on GrapheneOS Authy on GrapheneOS Bitwarden 2FA Dark open island 22:55 Caller Chris from Canada Moving from MBR to UEFI Linux Mint backup tool Cowboy approach Install apps Transfer home directory When to use the late

This week Noah takes you through what happened with the Crowdstrike incident, and how you could prevent a similar catastrophe with free and open source software. System76 announces a release date for Cosmic DE alpha. The Immich team is. -- During The Show -- Crowd Strike Outage Caused by defective update Affected all Windows computers 8.5 Million Windows machines rendered unusable Flights grounded Entire health care sectors shut down Kernel vs User mode WHQL Certification Crowd Strike had a WHQL Certification Anti-virus Extended Detection and Response (XDR) and/or anticipated threat detection Channel Files Microsoft could have provided an API EU requires Microsoft to provide the same access Windows No checks on the channel file Crowd Strike Falcon set as "boot-start driver" April 21st 2010 McAfee deleted svchost.exe George Kurtz CEO at both McAfee and Crowd Strike during the incidents Handing off risk/PCI We understand less and less Understand your critical paths and have a back up Hair shop "crash kit" Cold

This week Dan Noal Director, Product Management at Red Hat for In Vehicle OS joins us to tell you why your car needs and operating system, and why Red Hat is ready to meet that need. Chris Wright the CTO of Red Hat joins the program to discuss Red Hat's strategy for AI. -- 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/396) 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 t

This week Mauro Gaspari and Lukas Märdian join us to give us a deep dive into using Netplan on an Ubuntu vHost. We give you a self hosted way to track your car's maintenance, and a suite of tools to use if you work in production or in live performances! -- During The Show -- 00:40 Cosmic Desktop Started with Elementary OS External displays Cosmic is a complete remake Cosmic splits the difference i3 shortcuts Releasing this fall 07:30 3CX vs Asterisk - jisbetterthanj 3CX 20 stamps out all open source clients Have you opened Asterisk to the internet? Write in about your open source VOIP experiences 10:18 Steve VPN Split VPN issues Guide followed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulRgecz0UsQ) 12:00 Vehicle Regulations Legislation requiring things Manufactures making it harder to work on vehicles Advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology Automatic Shutoff Technology (HR 3684 Section 24205) LubeLogger (https://lubelogger.com/) LubeLogger YouTube Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thqo_mm7iUQ) 1

Why do you use Linux and what problems do you run into? Both Noah and Steve make a value based decision when approaching tech, this week we dig deeper into why we choose to run Linux on the desktop. Could you power a 12v light, or 100 watt Ham Radio with a USB-C battery pack? Noah will tell you how doing so gave him light in his garage. Buckle your seat-belt, it's a packed show! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Deepin Desktop Why do we run what we run Ownership of skills and resources 3 Categories Disposable Service Owned Linux is the only OS that allows you to own your computer Main stream wants "IT as a service" Why are you using Linux? 08:50 Alternative Phone OS - Don ATT installed apps GrapheneOS (https://grapheneos.org/) Used to rough edges App issues SeLinux ANS 368 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/368) GrapheneOS privacy features LineageOS (https://lineageos.org/) 15:38 ProxMox and OPNSense Passing the NIC solves the problem 16:39 Protecting Hard drives (encryption?) - Markus LUKS (https://en.wikipedi

-- During The Show -- 01:20 Pocket 386 IBM compatible system It's a toy Classic vs today's games Electrical components in power systems ARSTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/the-ultimate-windows-3-1-laptop-sellers-behind-book-8088-are-back-with-pocket-) Aliexpress (https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805356267711.html) 06:15 Tor Browser 13.5 VPN camp vs Tor Camp FBI drops cases rather than reveal methods Fingerprinting EFF Cover your tracks (https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/) Letter boxing Using Tor EFF SSD (https://ssd.eff.org/) 9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/tor-browser-13-5-improves-fingerprinting-protections-and-bridge-settings) 13:30 Tails Amnesic Incognito Live system 6.4 Highlights random cryptographic seed switch to HTTPS for repos updates to Tor and Thunderbird Noah's tor laptop 9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/tails-6-4-introduces-random-seed-to-strengthen-all-cryptography) 16:30 SIP & 3CX SIP and Astrisk (https://www.asterisk.org/) 3CX dropping SIP/STUN support SIP only needs u

This week we talk about network documentation and alerts! What makes a good alert? When should you tap a human on the shoulder, and what should be left to the backlog? -- During The Show -- 01:50 Music Production On Linux - William MuseScore (https://musescore.org/en) LMMS (https://lmms.io/) Audacity (https://www.audacityteam.org/) Write in if you do music on Linux! 05:45 DIY Smart Plug - Charlie Instructables (https://www.instructables.com/Plug-It-Open-Source-Smart-Plug/) TH3D Studio (https://www.th3dstudio.com/product/ezplug-open-source-wifi-smart-plug/) Enough electricity it could kill you 09:15 Thoughts from the AMA - Steve S "good enough" "Class of tool" vs "disposable" CLECs moving away from copper Convert to VOIP and ATA Cell companies not held to the same standard Right tool for the right job 17:30 Frappe.io - theendbeta Frappe.io (https://frappe.io/products) Looks cool Lots of apps Haven't used it 22:00 News Wire Perl 5.40 - Perl Doc (https://perldoc.perl.org/perldelta) Tor Browser 13.0.16 - Tor Pro