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This week we revisit the idea of self-hosting your own email server. For years both of us have been against it, with the current state of "cloud" mail providers, maybe it's time to reconsider. Noah and Steve dig into new research that suggests some concerns with kids using tech at a young age. -- During The Show -- 00:52 Steve's Question Can't load sites on WiFi AP unless on a VPN Write in! 02:00...

This week Noah and Steve talk monitoring dashboards! Get a single pane of glass for your house! A discussion about proprietary garbage, and answer your questions. -- 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 Voxtel...

This week Daniel Schäfer joins Ask Noah and we talk about the design of the Framework laptop and upcoming 16" version of the laptop. We answer your questions, and tell you about a newbie friendly terminal emulator! -- During The Show -- 01:45 Sharing Passwords - Anthony Send data/info via multiple channels Nextcloud Passphrases 07:40 Axis Camera Feedback - Dominik AXIS M3075-V Motion Detection on...

This week Noah and Steve dig back through 2023 and give you a Home Automation Year Roundup! We look at your questions throughout the year and evaluate how we would answer those questions today! -- During The Show -- Future Home Automation 5 inch tablets M5Stack Speakers Steve's 2023 Purchases Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 (Amazon) Sonoff S40 Lite Zigbee Smart Plug (Amazon) Zigbee 2 Channel Smart Relay (Amazon...

This week we dig into feedback from someone looking at a new IT job, Steve gives an update on trying to maintain a presence on a platform that doesn't want him. -- During The Show -- 00:55 Bad Hardware Day Motherboard swap PSU modular cables Fan controller magic smoke Bent CPU pins 06:48 VMs and Storage - Joe Advantages of separating OS and Data Joe's GitHub IX Systems and 45 Drives Use JBOD not R...

This week Till Kamppeter joins The Ask Noah Show and we talk about OpenPrinting. We answer your questions, and if you were hosting your Matrix instance with EMS we'll walk you through the latest announcement. -- During The Show -- Feedback about BT extension EP 351 - John Cheap phone watch Disdain for any kind of phone Kid Friendly Distro Feedback - Jeremy PFSense + pfBlockerNG Canadian Block List...

This week Noah and Steve discuss picking out a vHost and considerations for deploying it into production. -- During The Show -- 02:00 Types of AI Amount of compute required is astronomical Foundational model vs tweaking 05:55 Kid Friendly distro? - Chris Endless OS What age to give kids a computer Why give a kid a computer Why Endless OS OpenDNS Filtering 14:13 Serial Connection To Proxmox VMs - M...

This week Noah and Steve talk about their home labs and keeping on top of the projects! 03:26 News Wire Roundcube Next Cloud Merging - Phoronix Pipewire 1.0 - ZDnet GitLab MKVtoolnix 81.0 - MKVtoolnix DigiKam 8.2 - DigiKam Plasma 6 Beta Milestone - KDE Cinnamon - Its Foss Steam Survey - Phoronix Tails 5.20 - Tails Vigil LLM Scanner - Help Net Security Nous Hermes 2 Vision - Venture Beat 04:47 Beep...

This week Steve goes through his data migration story at his house. What things should you consider before moving large datasets around, and what things need to be taken into account for a solid backup plan? -- During The Show -- 01:52 Home Automation Leak Detection - Jeremy You can't really Using cameras 08:06 mmWave sensor update/comparison Seedstudio mmWave Sensor Space for other sensors Way be...

This week Simon Quigley, the release manager for Lubuntu joins Ask Noah to talk about the 24.04 release! We give you some gift ideas for the geek in your life, and of course we answers your questions. -- During The Show -- 00:55 Gratitude Gratitude is good for your health Reduces stress Can be measured in as small as a few weeks Noah's thank full for Friends willing to help For profit companies co...

This week Noah and Steve talk about migrating subnets from a smaller one, to a larger one. What things should you think about, how should you approach the problem, and tools should you know about. -- During The Show -- 01:43 MARS/MS-DMT On Linux? - Klaus Never used MARS 02:57 Using Chrome Extension of IE requirements - Glenn ANS 361 ~25:14 Min IE Tab Extension Pull things to modern Frigate 06:18 V...

Noah heads to Riga Latvia to explore the amazing work the Ubuntu community is doing! Canonical restructured the former Ubuntu Developer Summit to have a wider reach! Jon Seager the VP of Engineering joins the program to explain that effort and how Canonical is serving the broader open source ecosystem. -- During The Show -- 01:07 RTSP Latency - Joey Axis M3065 NDI Video Sony Handycams STI Video co...

This week we talk about some home assistant updates, the ability to stick markdown docs together, and as always your questions and feedback! -- During The Show -- Intro Noah's LFNW experience NextCloud Fedora on Macs Voice on Home Assistant Talk Home Assistant Voice on Home Assistant Talk Selfhosted 108 YouTube Home Assistant Blog Zigbee adventures Z-Wave, ESP32, Shelly Fireplace Chicken Coop 18:1...

This week Senator Kevin Cramer joins The Ask Noah Show and we discuss net neutrality! It's a more complicated and nuanced issue than most people give it credit for. Our access to the internet these days is like running water. -- During The Show -- 01:50 Senator Kevin Cramer Interview Common Carrier - treat all traffic equally Net Neutrality - ISPs must treat all traffic equally History 1934 Title...

This week a special guest joins The Ask Noah Show to discuss how approachable and easy Framework is making the purchase and maintnece of a modular laptop. Matthew Miller joins the program and we talk Fedora! -- During The Show -- 00:30 LFNW Conference is re-scheduled (early next year) All other activities still going on 02:30 Framework Laptop Impressions First impressions Saw them in the wild Watc...

This week we dig into single board computers, has the Raspberry Pi lost it's way? The new Pi 5 is out but is it too expensive? Intel sold the NUC line to Asus, and of course we take your feedback, answer your questions. -- 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 Podcas...

This week Noah and Steve dig into the BEST way to automate presence detection in home assistant. We answer your questions, and Francis Chow joins the program to chat about in vehicle operating systems! -- 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...

This week Noah and Steve dig into motion detectors for Home Assistant, some exciting new features for Matrix 2.0 that have landed, and of course your questions! -- During The Show -- Enjoying Tech Personal bleeding over to professional Communication Skills 04:36 Cloning SSDs - Kris Why did snapshots not work? Immutable OS Automate environment rebuild Ansible Snowflakes Work out of VMs Clonezilla 1...

What if you could purchase a computer built like a Mac but run a free and open source operating system on it that you can't break, would you buy one? Steve and Noah discuss the Malibal, and an immutable distro with Flatpaks that "just works" -- During The Show -- 00:58 Intro Steve's Nvidea Issue trouble shooting process root cause = it's dirty why dig for the root cause Good News! Axia fixed our b...

Google makes the news this week in one of the largest cases in history over meaningful competition. Do we need the regulation to stop Google? Ubuntu will start allowing you to use a TPM chip for encryption, plus your livestreaming, ZFS, and VPN questions are answered! -- During The Show -- 02:00 Matrix Server Digital Ocean was too expensive Registrations closed Registrations to reopen soon Geek La...

This week we dig into your feedback, and EG Nadhan, the Global Chief Architect Leader, CTO joins the program and we discuss current and future roles of RH Chief Architect. -- During The Show -- 01:40 Noah Triple Failure Power Surge Nothing is working Switch Died - Replaced Cable Modem dead - ISPs Problem Backup failed half way through Check lists and Run Book (QRH) 09:00 Steve's Ask of the Audienc...

-- During The Show -- 00:58 Intro Viral videos YouTube Profiling Rich Men North of Richmond - Wikipedia 04:17 Chat Programs, Kid access etc - Semantic Scholar Beeper Kids on platforms Affects of 'screens' Kids & Technology 12:12 Just thanks - Entransic Thanks for the show! 12:30 Soldering Iron? - Charlie Soldering irons peak Pinecil Can take a while to get TS100 and TS101 Runs off 12v Adjustab...

This week Noah and Steve take you down the journey of two open source guys using open source day in and day out for their lives. Is it perfect? No there are rough edges, but why do they make those choices? What's the appeal to freedom and stability? -- During The Show -- 01:10 Caller - Johnathan Arkansa Display video streams rpisurv 05:45 Beginner Distro? - Walking Penguin Everyone faces different...

This week CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE have formed OpenELA, we dig into the Libera chat / Matrix bridge issues, and we discuss choosing the problems you want to solve. -- During The Show -- 00:58 Pre-Show Steve's dead hardware Noah's type-C charger upgrade Noah's portable rack 06:40 Home Assistant - Curt Run on a re-purposed thin client [Parkytowers](Parkytowers.me.uk) Parkytowers Wyse D10D 10:38 HASSIO...

This week Home Assistant accidentally takes over Noah's house, and Micah Pendleton returns to dig into specifics about professional video production on Linux. -- During The Show -- 00:58 Steve's Luddite Week Amazon return with no phone Society is going to requiring phones 05:00 VLANs - Norm Steve's VLANs VLANs 10 Admin 20 Guest 30 Production/Servers 40 Critical VPN back in Write back in! 07:00 Gar...