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This week Kenny Schmidt the Operations Manager for Altispeed Technologies joins the show! Kenny and Noah talk about the role of Linux in a commercial environment, and what a healthy view of taking work home looks like! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Show goes in cycles Linux making it's way into 01:48 Alarm Panels Reliable and robust Honeywell Vista Panel Closed contact Shellys Resistors Home Assistant integration ESP8266 Alarm Decoder .com Alarm Decoder .square.site [Eyezon](www.eyezon.com) Building a system 17:50 Kenny From Altispeed Taking your work home Love learning at home Open source vs Proprietary Garage door automation Zigbee vs Z-Wave Unicast vs Multicast POE Zigbee Adapter Amazon Rebuilding the "Schmidt Cloud" DNS Challenge Immich Immich release notes and documentation Changes to the Immich project and funding Nyquist from Bogen Kenny's Blog bitsandbolts.net 45:02 News Wire Bcachefs 1.37 - phoronix.com FFMPEG 8.1 - ffmpeg.org Blender 5.1 - blender.org Openrazer 3.12 - github.com OpenShot 35 - openshot.org KiCad - kicad.org GX Browser - gamingtrend.com AntiX 26 - antixlinux.com Fedora Asahi Remix 43 - fedoramagazine.org GlassWorm - scientificamerican.com Quantum Hardware Repository - thequantuminsider.com Post-Quantum Secure RISC-V - thequantuminsider.com Open-Source AI Wallet - bitcoinmagazine.com 46:13 Credoid Credoid Docs are written in WikiJS Mercury Boards Lifetime license Self Host-able via docker Follows all best practices and standards -- 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: Kenny Schmidt.Support Ask Noah Show

This week we dig into ripping Bluerays, best practices for DIY IP camera systems, and your questions answered! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Running your own company Not all clients are good clients Cosmic marionette Not a 9 to 5 job Diversification of Altispeed 10:25 Unlocked Bluray ripping - Caller Many drives disable ripping Steve's 4K Drive Walmart LG Bluray Drives MTHS Tech Drive Amazon 15:35 Open Source Electromagnetic Resonance Tablet - Charlie Homemade writing tablet GAOMON PD1161 Drawing Tablet Amazon Being able to see the screen Hackaday Read The Docs Gitlab 19:15 Security Camera - Tyler Be careful with specifications Levels of cameras Overview Detection Observe Recognition Identification Pulling Ethernet Vertical Cable Frigate Steve's camera/NVR setup Surveillance Station Coral NPU Stay away from Dahua and Hikvision Armcrest Amazon Riolink - Amazon 1 Amazon 2 Fosscam Amazon Axis/Used Axis Ebay 1 Ebay 2 Ebay 3 Pelco Enclosure bhphotovideo.com 51:12 News Wire Curl 8.19 - curl.se GIMP 3.2 - gimp.org Calibre 9.5 - github.com OBS Studio 32.1 - videocardz.com Qt Creator 19 - qt.io KDE Frameworks 6.24 - kde.org Marknote 1.5 - blogs.kde.org PearOS NiceCore 26.3 - pearos.xyz SparkyLinux 2026.03 - sparkylinux.org Debian Trixie 13.4 - debian.org EndeavorOS Titan - endeavoros.com CrackArmor - blog.qualys.com Leanstral - mistral.ai NemoClaw - thenewstack.io Open-Weight AI Models - wired.com -- 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 Support Ask Noah Show

This week we take your feedback give an update on Steve's son's server. We talk some Xsession woes, Noah gives you an update on access control and credentials, and Steve has some thoughts on Apple. -- During The Show -- 00:42 Intro Conference season Seasons of Life Each conference has something different 03:15 Steve's Audio Issues - bout10bucks Jellyfin and Kodi MKV containers What Steve was doing 06:22 Steve's Son's Server and other things - Norm Steve's son and Linux Parenting Applying pressure Noah's listening Audio Books Jupiter Broadcasting Darknet Diaries Steve's listening Jupiter Broadcasting Coder Radio Late Night Linux AI Fix Smashing Security Getting a company to open source code Open Source community can be hostile Gather info before hand What is the benefit to the company Licensing Linux Conference Talk 21:16 Charlie's Xsession woes - Charlie How to disable error generation into the xsession file What is an xsession file AI is good at parsing log files 25:41 News Wire Postfix 3.11 - postfix.org Handbrake 1.11 - handbrake.fr Digikam 9.0 - digikam.org Docker 29.3 - docker.com SQLite 3.52 - sqlite.org Rust 1.94 - releases.rs GTK 4.22 - gitlab.gnome.org KDE Plasma 6.6.2 - kde.org Nvidia 595 Driver - phoronix.com CIQ Kernel - yahoo.com ZeroRISC Crypto Stack - thequantuminsider.com Fake Laravel Packages - thehackernews.com RELIANOID Community Edition v7.9 - relianoid.com Austrumi 5.2 - ftp.linux.edu.lv CachyOS March 2026 release - cachyos.org T2 26.3 Desktop Edition - t2linux.com Nitrux 6.0 - nxos.org NemoClaw - cnbc.com Google Always On Memory Agent - venturebeat.com Database to Study Cancer - hopkinsmedicine.org 27:20 Access Control Credentials Wiegand and OSDP Flipper Zero Types of credentials TM Dallas Proxmark3 33:55 Steve's Apple Observations Cellphone in laptop form factor Eats into "low end devices" Unified memory and VRAM Developers already targeting Mac Cost to running Linux Linux's answer Developer angle 47:29 GrapheneOS & Motorola Annouced at Mobile World Congress Buying a Pixel to load other operating systems Android Authority.com Motorola News 51:00 Age Verification Built into OS California is requiring age verification in the OS What is expected of other operating systems Now is the time to speak up How it effects Linux itsfoss.com -- 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 Support Ask Noah Show

This week Noah gives an update on the Chinesium access controller, Steve has a problem with 7.1 audio and works out a solution with Noah, and of course your feedback! -- During The Show -- 00:48 Intro Weather Snark 02:08 Game Server Access - David Proxy Wireguard Nebula Tailscale Put Linux on the Sophos Dynamic DNS Name Cheap Port Forwarding Swap the drive Docs.sophos.com 11:20 Static One Liners - Dominick Bunch of helpful tools and one liners Github Link Scope creep 13:53 Cat6 or 6a - Ted Always pull the latest Vertical Cable Fiber vs Ethernet Down sides of fiber (conduit) OCC Fiber DZ Cable 23:50 News Wire Firefox 148.0 - firefox.com Thunderbird 148 - thunderbird.net Postgres 18.3 - postgresql.org SciTE 5.6 - scintilla.org Dbeaver 26 - dbeaver.io GNU Groff 1.24 - lwn.net GNU Octave v11 - octave.org Shotcut 26.2 - shotcut.org Ardour 9.2 - ardour.org Calibre 9.4 - manual.calibre-ebook.com Linux EOL Dates Getting Pushed Back - social.kernel.org React Foundation - prnewswire.com GNU Hurd Kernel 64 bit - guix.gnu.org Mabox Linux 26.02 - lwn.net 4MLinux 50.1 - 4mlinux.com Omarchy 3.4 - github.com TheSSS 51.0 - 4mlinux.blogspot.com AV Linux 25.1 - heise.de Archbang 0103 - archbang.org PorteusX 2.6 - github.com Aeryn OS 2026.02 - phoronix.com BunsenLabs Carbon - bunsenlabs.org Tails 7.5 - tails.net Qwen3.5-Medium Performance - venturebeat.com Kali Linux & AI - linkedin.com 25:30 Steve's Audio Problems Loud sound effects, quiet speech Steve's approach Easy Effects Browser plugins Looking online Asking AI Tune the receiver Applying the solution multiple places Sound isolation Aurdor Carla Compressor x42 plugins Real time Kernel Easier than it looks Write in with your solutions! Kodi Plugins and settings Reddit Vero V 50:50 Access Control Update TM Dallas controller arrived Downsides/limitations Reader was "hot garbage" 54:07 Scale Scale is going on! -- 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 Support Ask Noah Show

This week we focus on your feedback! Questions about NextCloud, questions about best practices for remote storage, and of course the latest headlines from JT! -- During The Show -- Thermostat for Garage - Jayson Garage Heater Inside heat control Wireless vs hardwired Hydro radiant heat Home Assistant centralizes everything Venstar T7900 WiFi issues More Private AI? - Anon Training data Taking AI offline Duck AI techradar.com Immich & Other things - Fey Immich in the Oven's Household Noah's experience with updates Ente Having things come back up in order Backups vs Snapshots Offline backups Tape backups 3 - 2 - 1 strategy Mail-in-a-Box Self hosting password manager Nextcloud Alternative - HJ Default tuning is not great Trouble shooting can be difficult How Steve updates Noah uses a playbook Finding alternatives Add-ons "sell" Nextcloud News Wire OpenTTD 15.2 - tt-forums.net GNU Awk 5.4 - lwn.net Pipewire 1.6 - phoronix.com DNF 5.4 - phoronix.com KDE Plasma 6.6 - kde.org EasyOS 7.2 - bkhome.org SparkyLinux 8.2 - sparkylinux.org Xubuntu Wallpaper Contest - discourse.ubuntu.com Gentoo Moving to Codeberg - linuxjournal.com Cline CLI Attack - scworld.com SecureClaw - securityweek.com helpnetsecurity.com Buzzdetect - entomologytoday.org AI Slop Drowning Godot - pcgamer.com -- 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 Support Ask Noah Show

-- During The Show -- 00:48 Intro No Steve this week Awesome piece of hardware 01:39 News Wire OpenVPN 2.7 - community.openvpn.net Mesa 26.0 - mesa3d.org KDE Frameworks 6.23 - kde.org Gnome 49.4 - gnome.org Vim 9.2 vim.org GNU Linux Libre 6.19 - fsfla.org GNU Binutils 2.46 - phoronix.com Tinycore 17 - tinycorelinux.net Debian 13.3 - voyagerlive.org Pear OS 26.2 - pearos.xyz MythTV 36 - mythtv.org Parrot 7.1 - linuxiac.com SSHStalker - bleepingcomputer.com LockBit 5.0 - helpnetsecurity.com GLM-5 - venturebeat.com 03:00 Chinesium Access Control Access Control Disclaimer 4 components in access control Power Controller Credentials and reader Locking mechanism Door monitors Embedded door sensor Amazon Use access control wiring Honeywell genesis wire Vertical Cable Run everything to a central place Avoid using cloud Use high quality equipment Adamsrite 7400 Securiton electromagnetic lock ASSA ABLOY Don't use odd credentials MIFARE Wiegand Mercury Access Controllers Access A1001 OSDP protocol Chinesium Access ControllerAmazon Chinesium Card reader Amazon Leosac 41:57 Ring and Flock cut ties "Familiar Faces" Flock Camera's Privacy concerns EFF -- 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 Support Ask Noah Show

This week we talk music! Noah gets hands on with the Zynthian. Matrix is slowly taking over governments. The timing couldn't be better, Discord is requiring age verification. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro No Steve this week Call in! Join the GeekLab 01:30 Fun with Linux Audio - Wayne Helm Synth Vital Synth Tal NoizeMaker Cardinal Surge Synth LSP Plugins Calf Plugins Reaper ToneLib-GFX kxstudio repositories Struggle to get LV2 plugins to work Tal baseline MIDI Noah's light bulb moment Backing tracks Cloud based 16:16 Dell HDDs - TwoBit Never seen Dell requiring special drives Requirements by card and drive specs No longer using hardware raid HBA Mode Flashing HBA Firmware Buy pre-flashed card Use each drive as it's own raid array 20:16 News Wire GCompris 26 - gcompris.net LibreOffice 216.2 - documentfo8undation.org Ardour - ardour.org Calibre 9.1 - calibre-ebook.com Peazip 10.9 - github.com Linux 6.19 - lkml.org Oracle Linux 7 - oracle.com LiteBox - helpnetsecurity.com GoogleSQL - developer-tech.com Toyota Open Source Game Engine - techzine.eu Open Source Chest CT Model - nature.com 21:16 Zynthian Zynthian No Soldering Requires gentle "clock makers hand" Based on a Raspberry Pi Professional audio system How it's built First power up and usage 34:10 Matrix Protocol Matrix Protocol is taking over Digital sovereignty The Register Seems to solve problems Beeper 41:45 Discord KYC Requiring ID verification Discords background inference model Landscape for social media and connecting people Noah's story of connecting KNOX chat room gomuks The Register 51:20 Ring Camera's Search Party Ring has a history eff.org -- 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 Support Ask Noah Show

John Terrill, Senior Director of Technology PR at Red Hat, shares quick tips on branding and communications for open source projects. He explains how to pick one standout capability, explain the problems you solve instead of technical details, and balance accuracy with clear messaging. He also covers working with journalists, handling negative coverage transparently, and building living communication guidelines for projects.

This week, the hosts tackle the AI-driven hardware shortage affecting RAM and GPUs, predicting price spikes lasting until 2027. They explore managing ZFS via web interfaces like Cockpit and introduce WebZFS for streamlined server management. The discussion shifts to valuable tools like Calibre for eBooks and the excitement of karaoke with light-sync projects. They also dive into automation techniques for certificate management using LDAP and Ansible. Finally, they highlight the promising new ESP32-E22 with Wi-Fi 6E capabilities.

What is the role of tape backup in 2026? Should ZFS be used on tape? Steve takes us back to his days at IMAX and gives us some things to think about when using tape. We answer your questions, take your feedback -- During The Show -- 00:50 Immich - Greg Immich feedback Round 1 deployment recap Round 2 deployment recap Latest breakage Things Steve likes about Immich Ente experience Rising tide, iron sharpens iron Everyone hits problems sometimes 11:50 General Show Feedback - Pete Thank You feedback Buying Expedition 33 Noah purchased Expedition 33 "Little Noah" and budget Using external disks for games 16:28 News Wire Curl 8.18 - curl.se Doxygen 1.16 - doxygen.nl Windowmaker Live 13.3 - wmlive.sourceforge.net Budgie 10.10 - buddiesofbudgie.org Pentoo 2026.0 - pentoo.ch Nitrix 5.1 - nxos.org Debian 13.3 - debian.org Linux Mint 22.3 - linuxmint.com Bose Open Sources Speakers - designboom.com UAT-7290 - thehackernews.com GoBruteforcer - darkreading.com VoidLink - thehackernews.com NousCoder-14B - venturebeat.com Razer AI Kit - techpowerup.com 17:55 Caller Btrfs Assistant Restoring btrfs snapshots Base vs incremental snapshots Framework Knowledge Base 23:00 Music Production on Linux Started with misconception everything is for Windows and Mac Not many instruments are being made Hybrid pianos Stage pianos Pianoteq Virtual instruments Hammer graded controllers Semi weighted keys Synth Keys Akai Professional MPK Mini Plus Amazon VST3 MT Powerdrum Tal Base Line 101 36:50 Tape Backup Slow but reliable and cheap Tar command Data velocity Burn rate How to use tape Tools for data tapes Failure domain -- 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 Support Ask Noah Show