Ask Noah Show

This week we interview Avri Chen-Roth and he gives us an overview of Pocket ID! We give you the details on our upcoming Episode 500 party in the Minneapolis / St. Paul area on Tuesday August 4th 2026! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Up Coming on the Show ANS on the air 9 years Studio is all Linux Telos Axia Board Runs Linux Moved from hardware to docker Lost art of leveraging technology "Glowing Box S...

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...

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...

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...

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 PC...

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 Ne...

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 Central...

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 decre...

This week we answer questions about remote connecting to Home Assistant, an automated way to backup and restore your GrapheneOS phone. We talk about the 3D printing laws that are coming on the books. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Starting fresh vs fix what you have Spaceship design Designs need to distill down Home Assistant Noah's setup 12:00 Home Assistant - Kristian Steve's remote solution...

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 AR...

This week Singpolyma joins us to talk about the Cheogram web app. We talk about NASA's Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System (O2O) and how it's changing the way long distance communication works! -- During The Show -- 00:48 - Special Guest Singpolyam cross platform core Cheogram Web App Still considered Alpha Pretty stable Voice, Video, Text JMP.chat data only sim esim adapter Snikket Aff...

This week Noah and Steve talk about the difference between MCP and skills and why it matters! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Weather Audio Levels 02:00 Steve's AI Rabbit Hole AI may change, but is here to stay Garmin Data Tested 14 models How they performed Mumble Doc What are tokens MCP server vs skills Email is out dated Environmental cost 25:18 Copy On Write - Jayson Benefits of COW file sys...

This week Noah and Steve address the blueprint OpenAI CEO Sam Altman published. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro 486 being removed from Linux Nixsys.com Noah's early experience Drawing a living off open source Trends and walled gardens 09:12 Linux Tablets - Tobias Users experiences Steve struggles to find a use case Noah's experiences PineTab2 16:38 Refrigeration/Cooling - Graham Wildly inefficie...

This week we focus on your feedback! Your calls go to the front of the line, your emails answered! -- During The Show -- 00:58 Intro Alarm panel & Home Assistant Sensor abilities at home Plugging everything into Home Assistant People are having to confront Home Assistant 07:02 LDAP/PKI - Soham FreeIPA Feedback to ANS 476 FreeIPA ANS Content ANS 342 ANS 382 Steve's FreeIPA journey Noah's take o...

This week Kenny Schmidt the Operations Manager for Altispeed Technologies joins the show! Kenny and Noah talk about the role of Linux in a commercial environment, and what a healthy view of taking work home looks like! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Show goes in cycles Linux making it's way into 01:48 Alarm Panels Reliable and robust Honeywell Vista Panel Closed contact Shellys Resistors Home A...

This week we dig into ripping Bluerays, best practices for DIY IP camera systems, and your questions answered! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Running your own company Not all clients are good clients Cosmic marionette Not a 9 to 5 job Diversification of Altispeed 10:25 Unlocked Bluray ripping - Caller Many drives disable ripping Steve's 4K Drive Walmart LG Bluray Drives MTHS Tech Drive Amazon 1...

This week we take your feedback give an update on Steve's son's server. We talk some Xsession woes, Noah gives you an update on access control and credentials, and Steve has some thoughts on Apple. -- During The Show -- 00:42 Intro Conference season Seasons of Life Each conference has something different 03:15 Steve's Audio Issues - bout10bucks Jellyfin and Kodi MKV containers What Steve was doing...

This week Noah gives an update on the Chinesium access controller, Steve has a problem with 7.1 audio and works out a solution with Noah, and of course your feedback! -- During The Show -- 00:48 Intro Weather Snark 02:08 Game Server Access - David Proxy Wireguard Nebula Tailscale Put Linux on the Sophos Dynamic DNS Name Cheap Port Forwarding Swap the drive Docs.sophos.com 11:20 Static One Liners -...

This week we focus on your feedback! Questions about NextCloud, questions about best practices for remote storage, and of course the latest headlines from JT! -- During The Show -- Thermostat for Garage - Jayson Garage Heater Inside heat control Wireless vs hardwired Hydro radiant heat Home Assistant centralizes everything Venstar T7900 WiFi issues More Private AI? - Anon Training data Taking AI o...

-- During The Show -- 00:48 Intro No Steve this week Awesome piece of hardware 01:39 News Wire OpenVPN 2.7 - community.openvpn.net Mesa 26.0 - mesa3d.org KDE Frameworks 6.23 - kde.org Gnome 49.4 - gnome.org Vim 9.2 vim.org GNU Linux Libre 6.19 - fsfla.org GNU Binutils 2.46 - phoronix.com Tinycore 17 - tinycorelinux.net Debian 13.3 - voyagerlive.org Pear OS 26.2 - pearos.xyz MythTV 36 - mythtv.org...

This week we talk music! Noah gets hands on with the Zynthian. Matrix is slowly taking over governments. The timing couldn't be better, Discord is requiring age verification. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro No Steve this week Call in! Join the GeekLab 01:30 Fun with Linux Audio - Wayne Helm Synth Vital Synth Tal NoizeMaker Cardinal Surge Synth LSP Plugins Calf Plugins Reaper ToneLib-GFX kxstudio...

This week John Terrill from Red Hat joins us to talk about branding in Open Source. Many projects don't have a unified communication strategy, but having one is important. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Steve is in Vegas Noah "getting deals" 04:37 Lossless Cut Reached for Avidemux Avoiding re-encoding Learning a new program Lossless Cut Webpage Lossless Cut GitHub 08:30 OmniTools Small docker i...

This week we dig into the hardware shortage caused by AI, answer your questions, and dig into managing ZFS via the web! -- During The Show -- 00:45 Intro Cheap managed POE switch Switch hops 05:35 Certificates - Randy Step CA XCA Certificate Authority ACME LDAP Kerberos Steve's use of LDAP LDAP with PKI link ACME and Domain registrars dot tk Ansible collection 19:19 Ebook Management - Jeremy Steve...

What is the role of tape backup in 2026? Should ZFS be used on tape? Steve takes us back to his days at IMAX and gives us some things to think about when using tape. We answer your questions, take your feedback -- During The Show -- 00:50 Immich - Greg Immich feedback Round 1 deployment recap Round 2 deployment recap Latest breakage Things Steve likes about Immich Ente experience Rising tide, iron...

This week we dig into how a dead hard drive took Frigate out, answer your questions, and start a new challenge for the new year. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Sticky Things and Bug reports Electric Dirt Bike Validating work Picking and offering boats Hosting in home lab 10:00 Frigate Frigate drive failure 4 TB drive died Frigate setup Swapping drives and power on hours Running drives into the...