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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 Integ...

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 reque...

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_i...

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...

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 t...

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 do...

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...

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 no...

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 Prob...

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 now and future Currently collaborating on Slack, It will be moving to Mattermo...

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 c...

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 F...

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 p...

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 thi...

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 w...

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 Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #AskNoahShow on...

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 t...

YouTube-DL is under attack, the RIAA thought it could remove YouTube-DL's source code off of the internet, does that work? There's a new Raspberry Pi on the block, built into a keyboard! Portainer a simple UI for container management in Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes, ACI and Edge environments. Questions from the community about syncing laptops, the Pinebook pro for photograph, and the perfect laptop c...

Fedora 33 is out! We take Fedora for a test drive. There's a new project on the block that aims to make Containers easy to use for everyone! XDA has partnered to bring a new phone, the Pro1-X and shipping with Ubunut AND Linage, you're choice, and some messengers are leaking your link previews! -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode...

System76 launches the Thelio Mega. This is the world's smallest quad-GPU workstation for deep learning and scientific computing. Matrix says "no thanks" to backdoor encryption and instead suggests a different way to combat abuse. Pine64 has a new site for their store, a type-c soldering iron, and the DOJ has filed a long awaited antitrust suit against Google. -- The Extra Credit Section -- For lin...

Steve Ovens from RedHat joins to discuss CGroups! Manjaro Arm the new default on PineBook releases 20.10. We answer some self hosted photo options, remote VPN access, plus our picks! -- 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 Noa...

Matthew Miller joins the program to discuss Fedora 33! With BTRFS as the default file system, Gnome 3.38, and Fedora IoT an official Fedora Edition, this is a big release! Nextcloud Hub 20 is out and it's a game changer we discuss why! -- Feedback -- See all available block devices (disks) lsblk Let's write our ISO to the correct device by specifying the path to the ISO as well as the path to the...

We celebrate episode 200 by sharing our plans to serve the community better! Ham Radio has come a long way from tubes and dials. Alex Archer KC0REL joins us to discuss building the ideal ham shack on 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 P...

Microsoft releases Edge for Linux, the founder of ARM has starts a fund to "save ARM" from NVIDIA, and Facebook threatens to shut down it's access to the UK if the push for privacy continues. -- 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 fo...

The DLN crew joins Noah to discuss the $40B proposed deal NVIDIA and SoftBank announced a definitive agreement for NVIDIA to acquire Arm from SoftBank. Mark Shuttleworth responds to community concerns that he's not involved enough, plus the picks, your feedback, and more!. -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's...