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This week it's a recap of Linuxfest Northwest! We circle back to creating your own ISO, and we'll touch on the recent events in the Nix Community have resulted in Jonathan Ringer no longer be fulfilling the role of release manager. -- During The Show -- 00:48 Steve's Camera Experiences Axis PTZ camera died Factory reset Replaced with Riolink camera Be aware of what you are buying 08:00 Arcolinux for Building ISOs - Wiggy Automate logins Selenium (https://www.selenium.dev/) Kwallet Arcolinux (https://arcolinux.com/) 13:20 Home Assistant ESP32 ESP32 devices falling off the network Trouble shooting Solution #### 19:32 Tempest Weather Station Tempest Weather Station (https://shop.tempest.earth/products/tempest) Can find other local stations 20:57 Fixing Dad's House Overview of nightmare Shelly Pro 4 PM (https://www.shelly.com/en/products/shop/shelly-pro-4-pm) ZigBee Network Scene Controller (https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Control-Transmitter-Requires-Compatible/dp/B099KDS3W9) ZWave Network Scene Controller (htt

-- During The Show -- 00:50 10 Year Hardware Plan - Caller Extended warranty support from hardware company Offer your own extended support Cold Shelf 3-5 years seems acceptable Tolerance for business continuity 06:08 NFS Moral of the story Trouble shooting process Inner workings of NFS R and W size 11:55 UI for Building ISO - A Typical ISO building process OpenSUSE Build Service (https://build.opensuse.org/) EaseUS Utility (https://www.easeus.com/backup-utility/create-an-iso-image-from-your-operating-system.html) Very time consuming Image the system 15:14 Networking for Libvirt - Carey Cockpit macvtap Red Hat Doc (https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/virtualization_deployment_and_administration_guide/sect-virtual_networking-directly_attaching_to_physical_interface) Arch Wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Macvtap) Do you need VMs to talk to the Host? 18:30 Self Hosted Email Feedback - Michael Biggest challenge DKIM DMARC SPF Reverse Lookups Noah is not in the "host

-- During The Show -- 00:50 MIDI MIDI a better mouse trap Pitch bending Special snowflake Firewire hardware Motu UltraLite AVB (https://motu.com/products/avb/ultralite-avb) Ardour (https://ardour.org/) Musicians please send in feedback! 11:25 News Wire Dynebolic is Back - ZDnet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/dynebolic-is-a-portable-linux-distribution-that-can-be-used-without-installation/) OpenSSL 3.3 - OpenSSL (https://www.openssl.org/news/openssl-3.3-notes.html) OpenTTD - OpenTTD (https://www.openttd.org/news/2024/04/13/openttd-14-0) Ardour - Ardour (https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html) KDE Frameworks 6.1.0 - KDE (https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/6/6.1.0/) Descent 3 MIT Licensed - Gaming on Linux (https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/descent-3-has-been-made-open-source/) - Github (https://github.com/kevinbentley/Descent3) Opentofu vs Hashicorps - Opentofu (https://opentofu.org/blog/our-response-to-hashicorps-cease-and-desist/) Huggingface Updated - Venture Beat (https://venturebeat.com/ai/hugging-face

This week Noah and Steve give you the latest on open source mobile operating systems. Windows is pushing people to Linux by way of charging them $244 per year for updates in the third year. -- During The Show -- 01:20 Hardware Protectli (https://protectli.com/) $170 Chinesium Device (https://www.newegg.com/p/22Z-007C-009Y8?Item=9SIAK3UJNH8968) Lenovo Thunderbolt Dock (https://www.amazon.com/ZoomSpeed-Universal-Thunder-40B00300US-DisplayPort/dp/B0B1T7PPGZ) CalDigit Thunderbolt Dock (https://www.caldigit.com/thunderbolt-station-4/) 09:19 Graphene OS - Craig GrapheneOS Moving away from phones JMP.Chat (https://jmp.chat/) Conversations (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.siacs.conversations/) Gajim (https://gajim.org/) Linphone (https://linphone.org/) JMP.Chat phone service LineageOS (https://lineageos.org/) PostmarketOS (https://postmarketos.org/) SailfishOS (https://sailfishos.org/) Titan M chip Had pretty good luck on ebay NitroKey/NitroPhone (https://shop.nitrokey.com/shop?&search=nitrophone) 25:55 NixOS Thou

Malicious updates made to a Linux tool were a few weeks away from going mainstream. Noah and Steve help you understand what you need to know. -- 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 (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/383) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) 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 (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact No

What's the best way to roll central authentication? What's the best Google replacement suite? This week Noah and Steve dig into hosting questions, as always your calls go to the front of the line! -- During The Show -- 01:36 PHP, Kanban etc - Joe Nextcloud Deck Our Note Organizer (https://github.com/JoeMrCoffee/OurNoteOrganizer) 03:40 NIX Feedback - Alexander People time rank/prioritize "What problem does it solve" is a framework Effective evangelizing Making something "sticky" No bad questions 13:22 Caller Tony from Toronto Central Authentication? FreeIPA (https://www.freeipa.org/page/Main_Page) Samaba4 Distros Zentyal (https://zentyal.com/) 20:48 Grimnir from Mumble Volumio (https://volumio.com/) Locking it down SSH Samaba Home Assistant (https://www.home-assistant.io/) Adding music Separate Volumio from the PI 25:00 Nextcloud? - Craig Nextcloud (https://nextcloud.com/) is challenging on iOS Head Scale (https://headscale.net/) SpiderOak Immich (https://immich.app/) SeaFile (https://www.seafile.com/en/home/)

-- During The Show -- Scale Ubicon & NixCon Krita talk HPC (High Performance Computing) Ubuntu and Matrix What problem does Nix solve? Future adoption of Nix? Flox (https://flox.dev/) Sat night dinner Bazzite (https://bazzite.gg/) Making and keeping connections -- 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 (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/381) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) 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

Task management can be a challenge, this week Noah and Steve talk about open source tools and ideas to managing your workflow. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Noah in CA CA experience Noah is in CA for SCALE 02:00 Windows For Charity - Wayne Separate task from desire Linux is non-profit's best friend Windows doesn't want you as a customer Snowflake Windows software Remmina (https://remmina.org/) ThinLinX (https://thinlinx.com/) Convincing mode Noah's strategy 13:00 KDE - Hank Versioning 14:45 News Wire Linux Reaches 4% - Network World (https://www.networkworld.com/article/1312235/linux-hits-4-desktop-user-share.html) Zorin OS 17.1 - Zorin Blog (https://blog.zorin.com/2024/03/07/zorin-os-17.1-is-released/) Kdenlive 24.02 - Kdenlive (https://kdenlive.org/en/2024/03/kdenlive-24-02-0-released/) Neptune 17 v6 - Juno Computers (https://junocomputers.com/us/product/neptune-17-v6/) GTK Accessibility Improvements - GTK (https://blog.gtk.org/2024/03/08/accessibility-improvements-in-gtk-4-14/) LXQT Wayland Ready - Phoronix

How do you balance the stress of tech with the benefits? Noah and Steve dig through the delicate issue of work life balance. -- During The Show -- 01:00 Migrations Complete! $22/month on EMS to $50/month Self Hosted 02:30 Ajit Praise - Cory Their are cultural differences between Japan and the US Most of us want "maximum absence of coercion" People have different views of "justice" Internet going from luxury to necessity in a generation Still learning the effect of internet and technology Book recommendation The Master Switch (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/194417/the-master-switch-by-tim-wu/) Moral compasses Things are moving fast in multiple directions 12:40 Django vs PHP - Joe Batteries included approach Open Source Tech Training Overview (https://opensourcetechtrn.blogspot.com/p/open-source-tech-training-overview.html) Our Note Organizer (GitHub) (https://github.com/JoeMrCoffee/OurNoteOrganizer) 15:40 Naelr from Mumble Suggestion: iRedMail (https://www.iredmail.org/) Suggestion: MailCow (https://

This week Noah and Steve celebrate some open source wins, answer your open source questions, and talk about the Linux and open source news of the week! -- During The Show -- 01:13 Creating Training Content - Jeremy Clients will not send you questions ahead of time Customization is work Traditional training Custom corporate training Business models 08:32 Running Docker as non-root - Joshua What putting your user in the docker group does Depends on what you are trying to achieve Passing the docker socket into a container Running daemons as root Mandatory Access Control Podman 13:50 Security Camera Recommendations - Kevin Reolink POE Axis Product Selector (https://www.axis.com/support/tools/product-selector) Axis Lens Calculator (https://www.axis.com/support/tools/lens-calculator) 18:15 HVAC Auotmation - Kevin DIY Johnson Controls (https://www.johnsoncontrols.com/) Very expensive Very proprietary Honeywell RedLINK 22:47 Manjaro Question - Chris Launch application from the command line Write in if you can help! 2

This week Simon Quigley, and Rick Timmis from Kubuntu join the Ask Noah Show to talk about the issues surrounding Kubuntu and what the path looks like going forward. -- During The Show -- 01:18 Ajit Pai Feedback - Chris The question is "when to regulate" Purpose of govt is to protect people Bad situations exist Internet is becoming essential 05:58 Self Hosting Email - Jon Dealing with black lists stinks Security is a moving target Project like Nextcloud incorporates email Down time responsibility Noah is NOT in the "go host your own email boat" Simon's Cisco link (https://blogs.cisco.com/security/february-1-2024-a-date-all-email-senders-should-care-about) Email security requirements 13:34 FrePBX and Firewalls - Austin Sangomakb Knowledge Base (https://sangomakb.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FP/pages/12124292/Asterisk+and+FreePBX+Deployment+Questionnaire) FreePBX has evolved Don't expose anything you don't have to Noah's home setup Voxtelesys & 3CX 17:15 Long Term Backups? - Charlie Don't store long term data on

How do you setup an IP camera doorbell to call your phone? Can Windows decrypt gpg files and should you store those on a network share? It's a packed episode with your questions and our answers! -- During The Show -- 01:50 Noah's Cloud Experience Paramount attaches to google account Google locks out account Experience was terrible even when it was working Artificial barriers encourage piracy Google continues to charge card after closing account 07:20 Nextcloud Issues - David Apple shuts down 3rd party sync iPhone automation to fire the Nextcloud app Add CardDav/CalDav account Contact sync guide (https://docs.minddripone.com/how-to/nextcloud-ios-contact-sync/) Check "pathing" Report the issue to container maintainer What the Nextcloud all in one container does Pulls down other containers "black box" 15:54 Encrypted files help - Joshua Master source of truth Attackers target samaba shares PGPtool (https://pgptool.github.io/) ZFS encrypted volume and manually load/unload key Encrypted containers Veracrypt (https

Ajit Pai, the former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission joins Noah and Steve to discuss regulation at the federal level and how we best frame our laws to promote innovation and the freedom of the internet. -- During The Show -- 00:58 Noah Helps Son's Friend Buys bits at a time Went Linux vs $200 Windows Walked him through all the steps Made a recovery script 03:20 Glenn From The Geek Lab Switched away from Mail in a Box Went to Mailcow Your experience with blacklists? 04:48 Penguin From The Geek Lab Bunny CDN? Open Source going strong Open source friendly options Why you may need a CDN 06:27 Mobile Operating Systems Many devices still need android drivers Sailfish OS Incremental improvements still being made 07:50 Inventree Inventree (https://inventree.org/) Divides purchasing and selling Manage Suppliers BOM Management 08:58 News Wire GNU C Library 2.39 - Source Ware (https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2024-January/154363.html) Helium OS Public Alpha - Helium OS (https://www.heliumos.

This week Noah and Steve dig into alternatives to Axis for cameras. What can you buy that won't break the bank, but also has open source compatibility? Your questions go to the front of the line, and what if NextCloud had an email backend? -- During The Show -- 01:10 Steve's WiFi/SSID problem Double NAT theory MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) 03:43 Mail-in-a-box - Joe Mail-in-a-box uses Nextcloud components Office in a box Center around files or email Nextcloud conversation Roundcube (https://roundcube.net/news/2023/11/30/nextcloud-the-new-home-for-roundcube) Microsoft support/blocking entire yahoo domain Mail partnership Write in about self hosted email 15:15 HDMI Capture card - Fred Blackmagic Decklink HDMI (https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1464918-REG/blackmagic_design_bdlkdvqdhdmi4k_decklink_quad_hdmi_recorder.html) No guarantee drivers will continue to be published PCI bandwidth Blackmagic Decklink Duo (SDI) (https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1247779-REG/blackmagic_design_bdlkduo2_decklink_duo_

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 Noah on Hosted Email Hosted O365 Client filed ticket Entire yahoo.com email domain not working Microsoft doesn't know how to fix it Wed 2pm - Today (Tues) a little back and forth Still not solved Got a slew of useless troubleshooting links Noah can't fix the problem Mail in a box 08:37 New OSS Firmware for Zigbee - Charlie Open source Zigbee firmware GitHub (https://github.com/ffenix113/zigbee_home) CNX-Software Article (https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/01/22/zigbee-home-esphome-like-firmware-project-for-zigbee-devices/#comments) May enable open source firmware on new devices 11:40 Vulnerability Scanners - Steve Ope

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 (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/372) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) 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 (http://www.altis

This week Daniel Schaefer 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 camera No need for proprietary software 11:16 Pi Hole Problems - Anthony Blocked or not, same amount of traffic Windows on separate/guest network Try a debloat script 15:00 controld for dns - Mohammad Controld (controld.com) Steps Get subscription from controld.com In controld.com, define a device with your desired settings, and then add DoH providers to the block list Set up dnsdist as DNS forwarder Configure DHCP to point devices to dnsdist Configure NAT on the Mikrotik to redirect all UDP/TCP DNS requests to dnsdist Configure the firewall to block the known DoH IPs 19:54 Zwave Power up - Tiny Normally shows up qu

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) (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09KXTCMSC) Sonoff S40 Lite Zigbee Smart Plug (Amazon) (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09LV53X62) Zigbee 2 Channel Smart Relay (Amazon) (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B979N75C) Eco-Worthy Linear Actuator (Amazon) (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NM8H5PA) Aqara Door Sensor (Cloud Free) (https://cloudfree.shop/product/aqara-door-and-window-sensors/) Aqara Temperature Sensor (Cloud Free) (https://cloudfree.shop/product/aqara-temperature-and-humidity-sensor/) WiFi vs Zigbee High Availability GHome Smart WO2 Smart Outlet (Amazon) (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09JZBJPS4) Shelly Plus 1 (Shelly) (https://www.shelly.com/en-us/products/shop/shelly-p

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 (https://github.com/JoeMrCoffee/NextCloudDockerCompose) IX Systems and 45 Drives Use JBOD not Raid ZFS needs direct access HA (High Availability) 15:40 VM Storage Question - Rod iSCSI ZVols as block devices QCow2 file Dedicated disks 9p driver (https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9p) virtio drivers Nothing wrong with NFS ifnotify 22:53 Printer Questions - Eddie Good experience with HP Printer Tools/Jet Direct Mostly moved away from LPD/LPR IPP is where things are headed Immutable distros only support IPP For best results go through add printer dialog 28:15 Comments From New IT Person - Joshua Start with pain points Start with your pain points Document ex

This week Till Kamppeter joins The Ask Noah Show and we talk about open printing. 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 Lists GitHub (https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts) Will this work with DNS over TLS? Null out IPs Linux Smart Phones - Sandro Linux is coming to the mobile game 10 years late Some of the "Linux Mobile OSes" use an Android shim to talk to the hardware GrapheneOS has been great A few small issues Current hardware is under powered DBs for Home Lab - Sandro Pass the vdev directly into the VM OpenWRT Home Router - elguaje3ero OpenWRT (https://openwrt.org/toh/start) Sophos XG135 Ebay Link (https://www.ebay.com/itm/186136266565) News Wire Qubes OS 4.2 - Linux IAC (https://linuxiac.com/qubes-os-4-2-0-rolls-out-with-dom0-rebas