Ask Noah Show 500

We're back!! After a brief hiatus we're live from the Tamarack Tap Room in Woodbury MN! We celebrate and record the 500th episode of the Ask Noah Show. We talk about what's gone well, and where we think we can improve. After 235 episodes, Steve finally gets his own segment! This is an episode you don't want to miss. -- During The Show -- 00:25 Intro Live from the Taproom Why the Taproom Tell us what you want the show to be! 02:00 Monitors How big is too big Multi monitor or Ultrawide Linking monitors Display port over thunderbolt 06:30 Steve Scale How tech functions large scale Ovens data center IPMI boards HP ProLiant Servers Gen9 Supermicro boards Work lab is off most of the time Virtualization Deciding what goes where Containers What is in the home lab Immich Ente Dashboards Mealie Logging Semaphore UI HashiCorp Vault Home Assistant Frigate SmokePing Local container registery Wiki.js User facing vs "backend" Don't enjoy changing workflows Silverblue and BootC Scratching an itch Planning vs get started Why do you do it? 25:55 Jeremy Positivity Steve and Noah's positivity We need you to be critical We need feedback 29:45 News Wire Thunderbird ESR 132 - thunderbird.net Firefox ESR 132 - firefox.com GNU Nano 9.2 - nano-editor.org Shotcut 26.8 - shotcut.org OBS Studio 32.2 - obsproject.com Network Manager 1.58 networkmanager.dev Cosmic Epoch 1.4 - phoronix.com Gnome 50.3 - gnome.org MocaccinoOS 26.08 - mocaccino.org 4mLinux 52.0 - 4mlinux-releases.blogspot.com AerynOS 2026.08 - aerynos.com Tails 7.10 - torproject.org MiniMax H3 - minimax.io 30:50 Desktop or Laptop Why desktop Building the workstation into the desk Graphics card with Thunderbolt dock Cable management Separating the desk from the computer Accessing things over the internet Minddripone.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 Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard 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 Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies