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This week Mike McGrath Vice President, Core Platforms for Red Hat joins us to give us the deep dive on Lightwell! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Iron sharpens Iron Feedback 01:50 Show Feedback - Joshua Talking fast at the end of the show Inserting tutorial style content 04:05 Lightwell Interview Mike McGrath - Vice President, Core Platforms What is Red Hat Lightwell Where Lightwell came from Illustration scenario Using AI but interfacing "Human to Human" Two tiers of Lightwell Lightwell "Network" repo Lightwell "Remediated" repo Lightwell "Undisclosed" repo How it works Does Lightwell address compliance requirements? Remediation What does using Lightwell look like? Software Bill of Materials Clearing house with SLA Details really matter Package versioning Scanner false positives based on versioning OSV.dev, Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange (VEX) data Open Source packages, scanning and remediation How often does upstream reject patches? Has Lightwell opened doors? Any notable success storie

This week Steve gives the deep dive into the reason and the how for documentation. It's an essential thing in any IT environment, it doesn't get nearly enough love so we shine a spotlight on it. -- During The Show -- 00:45 Intro Sound effects RPG Web UI Never Winter Nights Kansas City Steve and traveling 09:18 News Wire GTK 4.24 - gnome.org Shotwell 33 - gnome.org Agama Installer 24 - github.io Cosmic v1.8 https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch-1.8 Debian 13.7 Trixie - debian.org MocaccinoOS 26.09 - mocaccino.org DietPi 10.7 - dietpi.com KaOS 2026.09 - kaosx.us Ubuntu 24.04.5 - phoronix.com Sandbox Challenge - securityweek.com Lunar Exploration Model - ibm.com CUDA-Q Expands - nvidia.com 10:30 Documentation Document "why" something was done Assumption and argument What needs to be documented Reproducer - Blow it away and set it up again Document everything Why do people resist documenting Executive vs Technical Summaries Tribal knowledge Styles of documentation White papers CMA What should you

This week Noah and Steve get into a fireside chat about Ai. Where is it okay to turn it loose, and where do some guardrails need to be in place? -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Butterfly Effect movie Open AI models and weights Effect of trying to squeeze out open source 04:48 Cyclical computing - David The new topology Normal people vs home lab Long way to go Hardware costs Restricting doesn't work AI and responsibility 20:50 News Wire Audacity 4.0 - audacityteam.org Firefox 155 - firefox.com Thunderbird 155 - thunderbird.net Mir 2.29 - canonical.com Curl 8.22 - daniel.haxx.se Docker 29.8 - docs.docker.com OpenVPN 2.7.7 - openvpn.net Linux 7.1 EOL - endoflife.date Tails 7.12 - torproject.org Open Source Camera - petapixel.com Vulcan Robotics - banyanhill.com Automotive and Media Targeted - securityweek.com Abu Dhabi AI - reuters.com 22:10 AI Fireside Chat Securing the supply chain Home Lab responsibilities Transition to managed services AI security tools Passwords Steve lets AI loose on his

This week we spent time with Braden Stroot, a highly detail-oriented professional engineer who was a hardcore Mac enthusiast and recently switched to Linux. He walks us through his journey to Linux and shares the distro and environment he’s chosen to meet his high bar for perfection on the Linux desktop. -- During The Show -- 00:48 Intro Been a week Braden Stroot Engineer Recent Linux convert 01:55 Standing Desks - Byron Finishing final edits Will be up on the docs site 02:57 LLM Usage - Jeremy Will AI hamper innovation? Could allow people more "innovation time" Innovation vs modification Dealing with AI submissions 10:00 News Wire Libreoffice 26.8 - libreoffice.org Openshot 4.0 - openshot.org Kdenlive 26.08 - kdenlive.org Calibre 9.14 - calibre-ebook.com Cosmic 1.7 - phoronix.com Ardour 9.8 - ardor.org Vanilla OS 3 - vanillaos.org EndeavourOS Titan Nova - endeavouros.com Ur Project - phoronix.com Epic Games Store Linux Support - steamdeckhq.com Microduck - techcrunch.com Nvidia Buys Huggi

This week we talk about alternative ways to remote into your PC. Eric the IT guy joins us to talk about BootC, and we celebrate Linux' 35 birthday! -- During The Show -- 00:48 Intro Being a perfectionist PLA 3D printing 06:00 Remoting in - David Archiving 35mm photos and 8mm film Mainframes Sunshine and Moonlight over Tailscale Cyclical trends Convergence device Interface to the "mainframe" "Hack" steam streaming 15:41 BootC Interview EricTheItGuy - Eric Hendricks What is bootc Why bootc? Roll back and reproduce-ability Updates Troubleshooting Initial experience What you should know first Mind shift Local bootc Advantages of bootc Getting started Installing the desktop Eric's bootc pitch 41:30 Happy Birthday Linux Linux turns 35 years old Impact of Linux on Steve Impact of Linux on Eric Impact of Linux on Noah The world runs Linux 9 to 5 Linux 49:24 Struggling with "Good Enough" Building bridges Loosing sight of the MVP Steve's example Eric's example Being good stewards Write in! News W

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

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" St

We're back!! After a brief hiatus we're live from the Tamarack Tap Room in Woodbury MN! We celebrate and record the 500th episode of the Ask Noah Show. We talk about what's gone well, and where we think we can improve. After 235 episodes, Steve finally gets his own segment! This is an episode you don't want to miss. -- During The Show -- 00:25 Intro Live from the Taproom Why the Taproom Tell us what you want the show to be! 02:00 Monitors How big is too big Multi monitor or Ultrawide Linking monitors Display port over thunderbolt 06:30 Steve Scale How tech functions large scale Ovens data center IPMI boards HP ProLiant Servers Gen9 Supermicro boards Work lab is off most of the time Virtualization Deciding what goes where Containers What is in the home lab Immich Ente Dashboards Mealie Logging Semaphore UI HashiCorp Vault Home Assistant Frigate SmokePing Local container registery Wiki.js User facing vs "backend" Don't enjoy changing workflows Silverblue and BootC Scratching an itch Planning v

Join us next week for the recording of episode of 500. We'll be live from the Tamarack Tap Room at 6pm next Tuesday Aug 4th. This week we talk about Steve building a custom distro for his house with BootC! -- During The Show -- 00:45 Intro Time snark Lots done in the studio 01:55 Tamark Taproom in Woodbury MN Big Thank You to the venue Aug 4 17:30 Uncomfortable Man hugs available 03:25 Oven's Project Lots of computers in the Oven's house Outgrown imutable OS NixOS was considered Looked to sharpen both home and industry skills Wide domain knowledge BootC and Fedora CoreOS Printer drivers Testing and working out the bugs The process Special snowflake computer What is BootC Automating the process SilverBlue issues Zero touch config Problems Picking a distro Encryption "Day 2" Staging machine Take-aways 36:55 News Wire Peazip 11.2 - github.io Proton 11 - steamdeckhq.com KDE Frameworks 6.28 - kde.org Calibre 9.11 - calibre-ebook.com TMUX 3.7 - github.com GNU Nano 9.1 - nano-editor.org GNU Cash 5.16

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 Stores" Growing the show Episode 500 in MN St Paul Show is taking a pause 12:22 Avri Chen-Roth Interview PocketID and OpenID Connect Home lab authentication problem Commercial solutions largely PAAS LDAP and Active Directory OpenID Connect Apps don't save credentials New open source standard Compatible with large service providers Passkeys Storing passkeys Why PocketID? Setting up PocketID On boarding PocketID Converting existing accounts to PocketID Groups OAuth 2.0 WebAuthn LDAP Sync 41:10 Retired Phone Computing What to do with old cellphones Using old phones for cluster compute Thermal runaway Major

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 --

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

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 c

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

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 Pr

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 Op

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 Tailscale exit nodes Noah's remote solution AirVPN Learn wireguard Effect of VPN 26:00 SeedVault Feedback - Dominik Money Apps not transferring is a feature Permissions not transferring is a feature Really appriciate the feedback SeedVault Syncthing 31:00 Tech for vechiles - dashcam and gps tracking - Charlie Viofo Dash Cam Traccar Understand dashcam need US is legally requiring manufacture uplink Vehicles are increasingly computerized OpenPilot 38:00 News Wire Curl 8.20 - curl.se Qbittorrent 5.2 - qbittorrent.org Calibre 9.8 - calibre-ebook.com Shotcut 26.4 - shotcut.org KdenLive - kd

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.

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 Affect of Google forcing developer registration JMP.Chat 10:38 Comprehension debt Creating prompts Spec driven developing Most people don't read the code No person understands how the code works Peer review vs AI Amazon outages When to use AI code Re-implementing AI code AI summary Rating your understanding RAID log 24:30 Linux Router - Connor VyOS OpenWRT PFSense is out Look for things with an API PFSenseible GitHub Site to Site in medical Dicom Why not to use pfSense OPNsense 35:30 JMP.chat - Aaron Cheogram Web App Webapp Manager GitHub 36:15 System Fails to boot -Advait Can't r