Ask Noah Show

This week we ask the question, when is it okay to leverage technology you don't understand, and when should you work to acquire the underlying domain knowledge? -- During The Show -- 00:52 Intro Cut from the same cloth 02:12 When to Leverage Tools Will always be jobs for deep understanding Lets Encrypt shortening life of certs AWX story Why AWX Short term damage control Advice for someone else You...

-- During The Show -- 00:52 Intro Being around people can be draining SELF presentations Steve helping Noah get into "hosting" Strong personalities No Windows "badge of honor" New streaming and recording system 10:10 NixOS Feedback - Eloy Vimjoyer Video YouTube udiskie NixOS Package Home Manager Eloy's NixOS Config GitHub Brick wall head banging NixOS experience 17:14 UPS - Tobias Grid tie solar s...

This week we're live from SELF and we talk about being reliant on yourSELF! THE Alan Hicks joins us to talk about keeping your skills sharp and learning the base domain knowledge. Special Guest: Alan Hicks.

X11Libre is a fork of xorg, do the developers of xorg not want xorg to continue? This week Steve and Noah give you the details of what can only be described as a weird situation. SELF is coming up this weekend, Steve, Noah and executive producer JT will be there and we hope to see you! -- During The Show -- 00:52 Intro Two ways of traveling Noah's airline story Personal entertainment Ente 10:28 Se...

Akash Srivastava & Mairin “Mo” Duffy join the Ask Noah Show to talk about Red Hat's approach to AI models. -- During The Show -- 00:45 Intro Talking about christmas gifts Presentation season Christmas time 03:30 Communicating Technical Things Who are you talking to Willingness to learn Knowledge for Knowledge sake Steve's process for teaching We all compare to things we know Building vocabular...

This week Mike McGrath from Red Hat joins us and we talk about RHEL AI, quantum computing, and we get an update as to where Red Hat landed with all the licensing drama from a few years ago. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Real ID Real ID Act from 20 years ago Problems with Real ID Canadian Central Government Alternatives to Real ID Surrendering information "Be Your Real Self" Government creating probl...

This week we're live from Red Hat Summit! We talk security, evolving threats, and Steve gives an update on his journey with his new graphics card. -- During The Show -- 01:30 Vincent Danen - VP of Product Security You can secure your own data on premise Cloud you loose some control Supply chain attacks Where do you get your news? Hacker News Naked Security IBM security feed The Register AI for sec...

This week we dig into why and how Canonical designed and implemented Matrix. Noah gives an update to his solar project, and discovers some open source solutions for solar! -- During The Show -- 00:48 Olympia Mike Insperation ANS 439 Sorting out details Please give us feedback! Pair with homeless shelter Pair with food bank Technical details Windows 10 deadline coming Lowering friction 09:55 Solar...

This week Noah tells the story of how Altispeed built a solar system for a remote camera for a daycare. Tiny joins to discuss the value of metric and why he believes Victoria Metrics does it better. -- During The Show -- 00:55 Graphics Cards When do you update graphics cards Watching prices, trying to buy Bought 5060ti Quadro P6000 Sold in 2 Min What is driving the cost? Over Time "Unplugging" Mat...

This week we dig into "Nixbook", a Linux distro designed to make old laptops into Chromebooks. Noah fell down the Nix rabbit hole, and of course we answer your questions. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Generosity Experiencing generosity A bunch of computers about to flood the market 03:50 Mike Kelly (Olympia Mike) Used laptop during Covid19 Became known for used laptops Company gifts used laptops Clo...

-- During The Show -- 00:48 Intro Missing Steve 01:55 Auto Updates? - Charlie Installing Linux on a Pixelbook Go Desktop vs laptop Being in the moment Noah's laptop strategy PineTab 2 Google hardware Re-purposing Google hardware Github.com Auto updates, EndlessOS 13:02 FreePBX - Zack What to consider when backing up Bash and FW Console Sleuth's Solution Backups are specific to the data type Use th...

This week we dig into how you can host your own 5G and Ubuntu's new certification program! -- During The Show -- 00:45 Technology Another Way Cell Phone sales and inventory Market uncertainty Erasing a phone Moving to GrapheneOS Used equipment Fdroid Opportunities to move people to open source Routes to take 14:00 News Wire OpenSSH 10.0p2 - openssh.com OpenSSL 3.5 - github.com GNU Coreutils 9.7 -...

This week Steve builds a backup server, and tells us how and why! -- During The Show -- 01:13 GrapheneOS & Teams - Kevin Needed unsandboxed play services Broke on the next update This problem reported across OSes People reported needing to install "the framework" Apps stay in their sandbox Use app in a web browser 06:26 VMs - Mike Covered later in the show 07:35 searXNG - Donald More than a pr...

This week we give an update on the journey with GrapheneOS. -- During The Show -- 00:58 Intro Cold weather Do I shovel snow? 01:36 Thank you! - Nick Steve knows A LOT about kubernetes Tell us what about kubernetes do you want to learn? 2 Camps of people How deep will Steve go 06:57 GraphenOS - Craig Noah's experience/device Samsung made an un-rom-able US version Carrier's load an OS when you boot...

This week Steve and Noah give you tips on hosting your first home server. -- During The Show -- 00:58 Intro Minimum Viable Battle Station Pelican 1620 Cases XREAL Air 2 Ergonomics 09:52 Home Server Questions - Dan Noah's first homelab Pick an OS with low churn, long term OS Generational upgrades Experiment in VMs Starting with a VM host Starting with a file server Don't put 30 drives in one box No...

This week a community resource fell offline unexpectedly. Members from all over the internet banded together to restore a community resource! -- During The Show -- 01:00 Intro Noah brought the warm weather back We need your feedback Join Geeklab Tag Marlin 04:10 Smart Watches Original pebble inventor New pebble smartwatches available for preorder ArsTechnica Steve's smartwatch use case Noah's watc...

This week the news of an "ESP backdroor" spread around the internet like wildfire. We dig into the technical details as to what happened, and what if any, the risk is. -- During The Show -- 00:52 Intro Thank you for visiting at Scale Weather Cutting Silicon Wafers YouTube Video Sleuth - Live Ham Radio Liscnse Address requirement ARRL Privacy Private Mail Box Nomads With a Purpose Dakota Post Ameri...

We're live from SCaLE this year, and a panel joins us to learn more about how Ubuntu is trying to reach the next generation. Dinner at SCale We're teaming up with Jupiter Broadcasting for a meetup and dinner! Come join us Saturday night! Where: El Cholo Café 300 E Colorado Blvd Suite 214 Pasadena, CA When: Saturday, March 8, 2025 7:00 PM. -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles an...

This week we dig into what it takes to get started and involved in Open Source. You can do it in your community, in your city, or in your area. If nothing like that exists in your area, join us at one of the upcoming community conferences! -- During The Show -- 00:51 Polar Vortex Polar vortex collapse Audio bookshelf python code 03:02 Steve's Immich Journey - Stephen Storage templates Asset types...

This week Noah and Steve describe their geek weekend. Steve teaches Noah about containers, and takes on a cool ZFS on boot project! -- During The Show -- 01:00 Steve's Trip Went up North to visit Noah and Altispeed 02:22 Nextcloud on VMs - Bradly Nextcloud works better on VMs NFS challenges Give MariaDB lots of memory This is how enterprise deploys things All in one falls over Struggled to get rea...

We go live from Witchia KS and learn how a NewSpring Church is using free and open source technology to advance their mission. Ilan from SCaLE joins us to discuss the upcoming conference! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Special Guest Elon from SCALE Talks for everyone at every level Live podcast panel Co-Located Events There are things for kids! SCALE wants people to help people find their next roll A...

This week Noah gives an update on EndlessOS and why it might be the default go-to operating system for new users. Ai scams are getting worse, and the Ashi lead dev stepped down. -- During The Show -- 00:50 EndlessOS Customized Gnome Installer Doesn't allow the user to hurt themselves Intuitive interface Remote Desktop RDP Reasonably Secure Last OS left on a computer 12:09 News Wire Thunderbird 135...

Immich provides a consistant photo experience across devices, and across family members. This week Noah and Steve give you a deep dive into Immich. We answer your questions, and give you a brief look at news from this week. -- During The Show -- 00:52 Steve's review process Two different review styles It's like a BBQ Gril 02:30 OpenShift In Labs - Ole Fine for home use Learn how to rebuild the clu...

This week we dig into your feedback, talk about an FPGA Playstation, and talk about Chinese AI. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Weather Unusual warm spell Extreme weather gear 03:00 Photos! - Anthony Flatbed scanner Handheld scanner Don't like the "scanning services" Epson Perfection Resolution of source material Canon LIdi Stay away from phones Make sure you have enough bandwidth 11:15 ttyusb - Jason...

This week we dig into your questions, and talk about Nvidia's new AI rig. -- During The Show -- 00:56 George From NYC Used computers for a church Lenovo laptops and Thinkcenters Dell Optiplex Ebay Made in the last 4 years Make sure they have TPM 2.0 04:50 Noah's new toy Flipper Zero Electronic multi-tool Had to legitimately bypass access control Read and emulate RFID and NFC Lots of Apps 08:58 HVA...