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This week we talk about when is it appropriate to fix problems, and when is it scope creep. Plus, the second installment of our new SteveScale segment! -- During The Show -- 00:45 Intro Rabbit holes 02:30 Comodore phone - Charlie Flip phone Sailfish OS Commodore Phone 04:37 Cameras - Tyler Agara (AQARA?) Hub Camera flood light combo AQARA to homekit Honeywell Vista 20P Panel Eyezon EVL4(https://www.eyezon.com/envisalink_evl4_smart_alarm_dsc_honeywell_no_monthly_fees.html) Silicon Lab CP210 Alarm Relay 12:50 News Wire Postgres 18.6 - postgresql.org GIMP 3.4 - phoronix.com Rsync 3.5 - lwn.net QEMU 11.1 - phoronix.com Linux 7.2 - phoronix.com KDE Frameworks 6.29 - kde.org Linux Mint HWE 22.3 - linuxmint.com Sparklinux 8.4 - sparkylinux.org Manjaro 26.1 - daily.dev Meta Glimmer 30b - huggingface.co LTX 2.5 - huggingface.co Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B - huggingface.co DeepSeek-V4-Pro - huggingface.co Qwen3.8-27B - huggingface.co Debian Turns 33 - bits.debian.org 14:35 Church Tech Church "Tech Booth" Stripped everything down Built a tech both Traced and labeled all the lines Plugged everything back in Re-Configured the mixer Beringer XR18 with X Air Edit FreeShow OBS Streamdeck with BitFocus Companion Angry Audio interface 21:30 Oven's Data Center Let us know if you want to hear about storage and backup Laying down infrastructure Local git Forgejo GitHub vs GitLab vs Others Secret Management Ansible Vault KeePass Hashicorp Vault OpenBao Running into problems RLIMIT_MEMLOCK Docker registry Comfy UI MiniMax H3 Thunder Compute Fish Audio -- 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

Check out the second installment of our new segment "Steve Scale" as Steve digs into the Ovens family distro. What is BootC and why does he use it? LG is pushing ads to your monitor, and we introduce you to CachyOS. -- During The Show -- 00:48 Tech Updates Oven's standard public build Upstream BootC breakage & recovery Static vs Rolling Best way forward A/B Scheme Method of recovery Container Registry Container layers Noah's new technology phases Would Steve move away from Arch? How work load changes workstation requirements Flameshot 29:30 BootC - Adam Not public yet Docs Site Let Steve know what you are looking for Balancing privacy and openness Securely sanitizing PII from docs Documentation pipeline The other side of documentation Tell us if you want to hear about documentation 41:20 News Wire Rhythmbox 3.5 - gitlab.gnome.org FFmpeg 9.0 - ffmpeg.org OpenLDAP 2.7 - openldap.org Mesa 26.2 - torproject.org GCC 16.2 - phoronix.com IceWM 4.1 - phoronix.com Gnome 50.4 - discourse.gnome.org Tails 7.10.1 - torproject.org DietPi 10.6 - dietpi.com Spark Model - cnbc.com Nemotron 3.5 Lightning - cnbc.com CloudFlare Vibe-Coding Platform - arstechnica.com 42:38 LG Monitor Ads MS Update installs LG bloatware ads Monitor prices dropped Known affected models 34GX900A-B 45GX950-B.AEU 32GS95UE-B 39GX950B 27GP83B-B 27GN800 32GS95UE-B 27GN850-B Linux was unaffected Possible on Linux with proprietary software ArsTechnica 47:50 CachyOS Gentoo meets Arch Targeted towards modern hardware LTO and BOLT Advantage of custom Linux Kernel Kernel scheduler Zen 4 optimization Hyperland My Linux for Work GitHub 9 to 5 Linux -- 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

This week the boys are back at home and talk about the latest changes with coming down the line with Roku. Your questions as always go to the front of the line. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro AI doesn't make less work Multitasking 03:50 Reolink Wifi Door Bell - Mike Facial Recognition 08:45 Door Bells - John 10BASE-T1L Omnitron-Systems Link Need them at both ends 11:10 Cameras and things - xhat Block cameras at the firewall Updates via Home Assistant 13:00 Feedback Please write in! Rising tide lifts all boats Email or call in 14:06 Roku Story Cheap and ubiquitous Fox bought out Roku 22 Billion Noah's friend joining the 21st century Nvidia Shield OSMC Vero Mini PC with LibreELEC Boxy amazon newsroom.roku.com archive.ph 31:50 Fedora Silverblue Portable laptop Switching OSTrees Budgie Desktop Tweaking Fedora Atomic Domain knowledge transfer Leveraging automation Replacing EndlessOS Variety of OS ZFS Boot manager BMC IPMI PiKVM ASROCK Motherboards -- 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

This week we are live from SELF! THE Alan Hicks joins the program and we talk 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 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 Special Guest: Alan Hicks.

This week Noah and Steve talk about why they'll be at Southeast Linuxfest. Noah introduces everyone to the Ai embedded in his rental car, and the boys finally find a Z-Wave thermostat! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro When AI can be good Conversing with AI Varying AI model quality Creativity and AI Prompt engineering Write into the show about AI Accelerator for people already have a base skill 10:00 SELF and Picking Conferences Self is this Weekend Please come to SELF Really use help Wednesday New Venue Why go to SELF Conference size Watch for the ANS meetup 15:55 Door bells - Ziggy Steve would run Ethernet Why WiFi cameras are bad ReoLink Support 22:15 Thermostats - Tim RadioThermostat CT50 Honeywell T6 Pro Z-Wave Programmable Thermostat (Model TH6320ZW2007) 25:30 UL Listed UL, ETL, CE certification European way of doing things UL508A Gosund Wo1 Tuya smart outlet 30:00 AI in Cars AI built into rental Noah's AI experience AI Audio clips AI engages with you Safety concerns Possibility of latent functionality 40:20 Age Verification California's Digital Age Assurance Act Open Source getting a pass in CA and CO Privacy trade offs Pattern of freedom and contraction ItsFoss 48:00 OpenAI IPO Large evaluations Fundraising with out fundraising May be a cash out move Going public "opens the books" CNBC -- 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

This week Mike McGrath from Red Hat joins us to talk about using Red Hat to talk about the relationship RHEL and their up-streams. -- During The Show -- 00:45 Intro IT at home Wrangling home "data center" Noah's old strategy Shoe makers kids have no shoes Snowballing tech Backups - pull vs push Making things modular 11:10 Interesting Tech - Carey TRMNL Mecha Comet GPD Micro PC 2 Value of pocket PCs 22:30 Shelly Devices and UL rated - Mike UL Ratings Pay attention to what you buy Many Shelly devices are UL listed UL listed Shelly devices are ~20% more expensive "Harbor Freight" answer 28:30 Red Hat Vulnerabilities Discovered and locked down in a few hours Assume breach, change everything Has worm like functionality Bypassed 2FA Multiple persistence methods Heavily obfuscated stepsecurity.io 36:45 Interview Mike McGrath Mike McGrath - Vice President, Core Platforms RHEL AI vs OpenShift AI What did Red Hat get wrong and right over the last few years Is AI a threat to open source? Does going closed source actually solve anything? CVEs Mechanisms for community influence on RHEL What are RHEL security best practices? Quantum safe encryption Install as little as possible Image mode Project Hummingbird RHEL Forever CentOS Stream and RHEL What is an upside of CentOS Stream? -- 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 Special Guest: Mike McGrath.

This week Sathish Balakrishnan from Red Hat joins us to talk about using Ansible as the trusted execution layer for automation. Jef Spaleta joins to give us an update on Fedora! It's a packed episode. -- During The Show -- 00:50 ReCaptcha Going to require Google Services Framework or iOS >16.4 DeGoogled phones will fail Where we are headed No one spoke up FDroid Keep Android Open ReClaim the Net 09:20 Jef Spaleta Jef Spaleta Fedora Project Leader at Red Hat What is Fedora Governance Integrating New Contributors Jef's path into Linux Fedora AI Policy AI assisted workflow Future of AI and Agentic Space for enthusiasm 31:24 News Wire Midori 11.8 - astian.org Wordpress 7.0 - wordpress.org Less 702 - greenwoodsoftware.com Ardour 9.5 - ardour.org Thunderbird 151 - thunderbird.net Firefox 151 - firedfox.com DietPi 10.4 - dietpi.com Nitrix 6.1 - nxos.org Tails 7.8 - torproject.org RHEL 10.2 - redhat.com Ubuntu Core 26 - canonical.com GitHub Victim of TeamPCP - wired.com Megalodon Cyberattack - mashable.com Bumblebee - marktechpost.com MoonRay - phoronix.com 32:42 Meta E2E Messages Texas Attorney General sued Meta Could "taint" perception of other E2EE Unlikely companies will give you true privacy ArsTechnica 36:30 Sathish Balakrishnan Vice President and General Manager, Ansible Business Unit, Red Hat Benefits of Ansible Ansible as Trusted Execution Layer Balancing understanding Guide rails for AI Drag and Drop AI Ansible workflow Patching is no longer optional What do you want all new Ansible users to know? Everything must be automated 52:15 Feedback Call in! Email [email protected] Tag Marlin in the GeekLab -- 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

This week Sachin Mullick, Senior Manager, Product Management, joins the program and we talk about OpenShift Virtualization. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Sad trombone button Plex Lifetime Pass Price Hike ArsTechnica What is Plex is JellyFin 14:00 Thermostats - Marc Docs Site There isn't a great solution There is a market Older Venstar T7900 Older Honeywell Redlink Shelly Build your own Centralite Pearl Amazon 25:40 Tailscale - Feydr How do you access your LAN with no exit node? 27:11 News Wire KDE Plasma 6.6.5 - kde.org Debian 13.5 - debian.org SparkyLinux 8.3 - sparkylinux.org Age Verification Backlash - opensourceforu.com DOE Open-Source Wind Turbine - energy.gov Open Source EV - electrek.co AI & Linux Security Mailing List - theregister.com techradar.com SSH-Keysign-PWN - tuxcare.com Fragnesia - wiz.io Shai-Hulud - ox.security Mini Shai-Hulud - cyberscoop.com DirtyDecrypt - thehackernews.com OpenBSD 7.9 - openbsd.org 28:54 Sachin Mullick Interview Sachin Mullick OpenShift Product Manager VMware Broadcom Acquisition Red Hat & KVM "Click Ops" Upstream Must be willing to learn "Click Ops" vs Declarative Biggest Misconceptions VM investments and migrating to containers Are we actually modernizing? "Day 2" Home Labs What would need for a home lab? OpenShift Sandbox Red Hat Original Series Interactive Demos Training and Certification 53:00 Dory eInk Signs Won't be bricked if company goes under ArsTechnica -- 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

Noah and Steve are at Red Hat Summit 2026! We talk to Stefanie Chiras to talk about her new role as Senior Vice President of the AI Innovation Hub. She leads Red Hat's strategy for engaging with and catalyzing regional AI ecosystems. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Live from Summit in Georgia Interviews 02:30 Lets Encrypt Changes - Charlie Certificate's going to 45 Days Window is likely to decrease 05:40 Follow up on getting into system - Advait Write in with your recovery techniques What Noah used to do LiveCD and "poking" Steve's HP Elite Book UltraBooks Separating work and personal Choosing a laptop ThunderBolt Docks changed computer usage 19:30 Dell Server Problems - Frederick Maybe the drives died PERC is getting in the way Step One Flash IT mode If PERC fails you can be in big trouble 23:00 Red Hat Summit Interview Stefanie Chiras Ph.D. - Senior Vice President, AI Innovation Hub Mechanical Engineering degrees What led you where you are? Breaking down walls Open Accelerator Roll of Open Source Government Involvement Benefits to community Does code flow back to Open Source? Open Source governance 37:40 News Wire KDE Frameworks 6.26 - kde.org Mesa 26.1 - mesa3d.org Cangjie - infoq.com Mercury Modem - hamweekly.com Parrot 7.2 - parrotsec.org 3D-Printed Stethoscope - adafruit.com Copy Fail - thehackernews.com Dirty Frag - thehackernews.com Emergency Kill Switch - theregister.com PAN-OS Vulnerability - thehackersnews.com PamDOORa - thehackernews.com MoonShot AI - siliconangle.com Red Hat AI 3.4 - redhat.com Open AI Foundations - fierce-network.com 40:00 Fun Technology Playing with LLMs Fish.audio Creating audio books -- 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 • Ask Noah Show © CC-BY-ND 2021 •Special Guest: Stefanie Chiras .

This week we talk about how Ai took out a production database, we answer questions on best home automation practices, and we talk a bit of storage cache. -- During The Show -- 00:48 Intro Gratitude Curiosity 02:30 Cache Drives - David Terminology and discovery ZIL (ZFS Intent Log) Synchronous vs Asynchronous SLOG Mirror drives ARC (Adaptive Replacement Cache) Stored in RAM L2ARC Spill over from ARC Work load dependant Please join live! [Boardroom Technologies](BoardroomTechnologies.com) 12:42 Nextcloud - Aryeh Home Assistant SFTP Storage Dumping to NFS share * 0 2 * * * sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ trashbin:cleanup homeassistant_user Nextcloud Docs 17:28 Home Automation - Tony Home automations are personal Lutron Training Less is more Bedroom automation Eject handles/over-rides Orbit Panels 31:00 SIP Server - Twobit FS PBX freePBX 34:17 News Wire Kdenlive 26.04.0 - kdenlive.org Midori 11.7 - github.com Bleachbit 6.0 - bleachbit.org QEMU 11.0 - qemu.org LXQT 2.4 - lxqt-project.org Firefox 150 - firfox.com Thunderbird 150 - thunderbird.net Ubuntu 26.04 - ubuntu.com Fedora 44 - fedoramagazine.org Tails 7.7 - tails.net VECT 2.0 Destroys Files - thehackernews.com Pack2TheRoot - securityweek.com GoGra Backdoor - thehackernews.com DeepSeek v4 - siliconangle.com Kimi k2.6 - pandaily.com Qwen3.6-27B - marktechpost.com 35:50 Discussion Segment Cursor - AI first IDE Opus - AI model Agents Cursor "modes" Agent Planning mode Cursor wants to "resell AI" to you The Register Cursor Steve's AI automation mishap AI can be amusing Mythos The Register Mythos Metasploit -- 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