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The Ask Noah Show is a weekly talk radio show where we focus on Linux and Open Source technology. We invite the community to participate live on the air 1-855-450-6624. The show airs Tuesdays at 6pm CT on asknoahshow.com and at KEQQ 88.3 FM in Grand Forks ND. It's a free call 1-855-450-NOAH so join us and start on your way to owning your operating system, your software, and technology.

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This week Robie Basak joins Noah from the Ubuntu Summit and gives an introduction on how to get started contributing to Ubuntu.

-- During The Show --

01:26 HexOS - Craig

  • Start with the Command Line
  • When is a GUI appropriate
  • Start with
    • make a ZFS pool
    • make a samba share
  • Help us understand your goal
  • What is HexOS
  • Ubuntu and ZFS
  • DKMS
  • kABI
  • Advantages of TrueNAS
    • Snapshots
    • Send/Receive
    • 1 Click Re-silvering

17:08 Questions about HDMI switch - Andy

21:14 News Wire

23:23 Robie Basak - Ubuntu Technical Council

  • What drew you to Linux?
  • Why did you decide to work for Canonical?
  • What is the Ubuntu Technical Board?
  • Difference between Ubuntu and Canonical
  • The process of granting commit rights
  • Conflict resolution
  • Cloud init
  • Unique ID
  • Ubuntu Summit
  • Range of interaction
  • Membership Board Meeting
  • Full Hour Long Meeting Recording YouTube

43:40 Fedora 41

50:30 Russian Kernel Maintainers Removed

  • Greg Kroah-Hartman removed them due to "various compliance requirements"
  • Removed developers Russian and not minor contributors
  • We live in a world where decisions are made for political reasons
  • zdnet.com
  • therecord.media

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This week Steve gives a deep dive into Widevine Encryption. We love encryption when it protects our data, but what do we do when encryption prevents us from doing the things we want to do over the internet?

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00:50

  • Which is easier kids or dogs?

01:57 Succession Planning - Steve

  • Secure vs accessible
  • Steve's plan
  • Infrastructure as code
  • Critical path continuity
  • Nix maintains old packages
  • Techie friends
  • Sleuths setup/plan
  • data separation
  • Noah's plan

20:29 News Wire

21:23 Widevine

  • Widevine is DRM created by google
  • Most major streaming services use widevine
  • CDM hardware
  • Levels of Encryption
    • L3 software based, least secure
    • L2 largely not used
    • L1 hardware supported, most secure
  • Wedding photographer
    • Photographer requires no other photos to be taken
    • Photographer goes out of business
    • Dr Phill did a show on it, got the the photos back
    • NVR recordings are going away
    • NVR prevented getting the recording off
    • Devices identify what they are
  • Industry went to STI HD not HDMI
  • Industry moving to NDI
  • OREI HDMI Splitter
  • US law allows you to backup content you own

43:45 Caller Sleuth

  • How do you separate and backup data at Red Hat
  • OADP
  • Depends on the technology

46:46 On Call Article

  • Register Article
  • Company didn't pay the bills
  • Wanted things done in a hurry
  • Required past due and current call upfront
  • Router set to factory default
  • After getting back to the office, found out colleague reset router
  • Ethical dilemma
  • Why spend more effort on a non-paying client?

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This week Noah and Steve dig into thoughts for light switches if you're starting from scratch. Do you work in a small closet that's been turned into an IT room? Noah gives you a recommendation for a small portable travel laptop stand. With under a year left to switch to Windows 11, there's a surprise at how many people have yet to upgrade. We talk about why that is.

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01:07 Caller

  • Would you still go with lutron?
  • ZWave kit GE & Brighton
  • How Noah looks at automation
  • Lutron RA2
  • Zwave and Home Assistant
  • Industrial system design
  • Shelly Pro
  • Orbit Panels

11:26 Journal Block Device not loaded - John

  • May be using a file system with out journalling
  • May be using a file system Lynis can't detect
  • GitHub Issue

13:25 Thoughts on AXIS Q9307-LV? - Jeremy

18:45 Listener Suggestions for Nextcloud Issues - Joe

  • PHP 8.3 vs 8.2
  • Disable Nextcloud Talk
  • Check compatibility of apps
  • Browser cache

20:38 New Godot fork - Charlie

23:12 News Wire

25:18 Instand

35:50 Windows 10 EOL In 1 Year

  • MS Requires TPM Chip
  • "Biggest CTRL-ALT-Delete in history"
  • People calling for extending Windows 10 Support
  • Not in the users interest
  • 3 year cycle companies shouldn't have an issue
  • Switch to Linux
  • Steve's thoughts
  • Windows 11 has half the users of Windows 10
  • Chance to make the case for desktop Linux
  • Take a minute to think
  • The Register

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This week Aaron Prisk and Jason Nucciarone join the program to talk about Ubuntu Summit 2024. We dig into your feedback and talk about the benefits of immutable operating systems.

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00:55 Intro

  • Steve's WiFi issues
  • Printer issues
  • Nextcloud issues

07:46 Arch and Mandatory Access Control - Baker

  • Why Steve chooses Arch
  • Arch doesn't enable "auditing" in the kernel
  • Other Mandatory Access Control
  • SELinux
    • Will tell you what to do
    • Don't shut it off
    • Permissive Mode
  • Arch is the most "vanilla" distro
  • Things do break in Arch, and other distros
  • Consider Arch

17:42 Printers - Rabin

20:56 Charlie Asks The Audience

  • Self Hostable Web based CRM
  • Designed for both IT professionals and tradesmen
  • Can:
    • Assign Staff
    • Assign Jobs
    • List Stock
    • Quote Job/Task
    • Invoice
    • Produce list of stock which is needed to buy as stock is low/empty
  • Easy Appointments
  • InvenTree

23:50 News Wire

25:00 Ubuntu Summit Interview

  • Arron Prisk
  • Jason Nucceroni
  • What is Ubuntu Summit
  • Renamed "Ubuntu Summit" from "Ubuntu Developer Summit"
  • Target audience for Ubuntu Summit
  • Talks about Rust
  • Matthew from Matrix
  • Matrix in Canonical
  • Getting the flavors together
  • Community Teams
  • Ubuntu Summit

45:00 Noah's Imposed Handicap

  • Build service infrastructure
  • Secure enclave
  • Valve heading a specific direction
  • SteamOS is immutable
  • Use Tails for a daily driver
    • Includes basic tools
    • Can update keys
    • Can clone itself
    • Persistent storage
  • Gnome
  • KDE Plasma
  • Everyone should have a Tails drive
  • Endless OS

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This week we dig into the Verizon outage. We'll talk about why and how you can host your own communication infrastructure, so an outage is less detrimental to your life!

-- During The Show --

01:35 Notes with sync? - Jou Jou

09:12 Listener Reacts To Distros - Aaron

15:27 Audio Issues

  • Mixer died
  • Loaner from company
  • Got the board fixed
  • Sample rate changed
  • Sample rate manually fixed and digital recorder back in production

17:48 News Wire

18:55 Arch Flatpak Issue

  • Installed Arch, ran the ansible, restored backups
  • Flatpak installs failed
  • Github Issue
  • Arch Flatpak Fix ``` flatpak remote-delete --force flathub

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

* Let's do a better job

#### 26:10 Verizon Outage

* No clear communication
* Speculation abounds
* No clear ETA for restoration of service
* Never seen people behave this badly
* Self Hosted services unaffected
* Calls and Texts via 3CX and JMP.chat
* Internal communications over Matrix
* Companies should self host their own services
* Communication is changing
* [Master Switch](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/194417/the-master-switch-by-tim-wu/)
* Steve didn't even notice the outage
* Other carriers reported issues contacting Verizon customers
* Don't be a slave to the glowing brick

#### 40:33 Thunderbird on Android

* Mozilla took over K9 Mail
* Unified Inbox
* Still in Beta
* Asking for feedback
* [Thunderbird Matrix Chat](https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#tb-android:mozilla.org)
* [Thunderbird Blog Post](https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/09/help-us-test-the-thunderbird-for-android-beta/)

#### 46:00 Reproducibility

* Combinations of packages can be problematic
* Automation can fail
* Never will be completely safe
* Automation can get you a long way  
* NixOS
* ZFS Snapshots

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We struggled again this week with audio. We appologize for any inconvinence for skipping / low pitched audio

This week Steve shares his distro hopping adventures! Noah and Steve are both skating towards the same end goal. They are going about getting there different ways.

-- During The Show --

00:45 Steve's Distro Hopping

  • Steve's distro journey
  • Deepin Desktop vs Deepin Distro
  • Deepin Desktop mix of Gnome and KDE
  • Commercial vs Steve's desktop implementations
  • Unique monitor setup
  • What Noah wants in a computer
  • Reinstall with the niceties
  • Pop!_OS & Cosmic experience
  • Deepin is Chinese
  • Arch & Deepin DE
  • KDE experience
  • KDE can always recover
  • Latte-Dock
  • Arch is the nerd safety OS
  • Lots of distros, what's missing

44:00 News Wire

46:00 Continuing Camera Discussion - CantankerousAdmin

  • Axis A1001
  • Honeywell's was horrible
  • Newer Axis requires windows
  • Lenels is the big dog
    • Only for large installs
    • Requires windows
    • Haven't responded to sales inquires
  • Kerisys is the underdog
    • Requires windows

49:58 Smart Thermostats & Panels - Rob

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AUDIO THIS WEEK HAD A SAMPLE RATE ISSUE. SORRY FOR IN INCONVENIENCE.

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00:52 Steve's WiFi

  • We think its fixed!
  • Noah brought lots of gear
  • Replaced some hardware

02:41 Recovery after power surge - David

  • Cattle not Pets
  • Steve's Nextcloud experience
  • Noah's laptop approach

09:43 Communications App Upheaval - Charlie

  • There is a war on encrypted messaging
  • Courts are making decisions

12:45 Listener Responses To Listener (cameras in home) - Chris

  • UniFi Wave Pico system

13:51 News Wire

17:55 Immich

  • Developer scratches his own itch
  • Immich better than google photos now
  • Google data pull
  • GitHub Script * 7z x \*.zip
  • Roadmap
    • Private/Locked photos
    • In app editing
    • Auto stacking
  • Funding
  • Foodo
  • Steve's current photo solution
  • Immich backup methods
    • Forground
    • Background
    • Manual sync button
  • Sharing/Collaboration
  • Infinite scrolling
  • Social aspect
  • Deletion issue
  • Requires inputting the port

37:00 FCC and 900Mhz

  • Meshtastic
  • LoRa
  • Chirp Spread Spectrum
  • Only good for long range small packets of data
  • Rx/Tx Wattage
  • NextNav wants to buy the spectrum
  • LoRa enables lots of possibilities
  • Lilygo T Deck Plus
  • Rokland blog post
  • Licensing the frequency stifles innovation
  • Could hamper emergency response
  • Having open frequencies democratizes communication
  • LoRa FCC Guide
  • Opposition_Letter
  • FCC Paths to LoRa Certification
    • FCC Part 15.247 - Digital Modulation
    • FCC Part 15.247 - Frequency Hopping Spread-Spectrum (FHSS)
    • FCC Part 15.249 - All Other Transmission in the 900MHz range
  • FCC Part 15.247(b)(3)
  • Problematic spectrum impact

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This week we dig back into home automation, we talk a bit about choosing cameras for a large camera system, and of course we answer your questions!

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00:52 Intro

  • Home automation
  • Weekend of learning

03:48 Monitoring Remote Location (Cameras) - Rob

  • Powerline adapters might work
  • Ubiquiti Nano Beam
  • Synology Surveillance Station
  • Frigate
  • Do not put the NVR on the internet
  • Privacy
  • File server upload
  • Home Assistant events

17:18 Camera Systems for Tribal Lands - William

  • NDAA compliant cameras and NVRs
  • ReoLink NVR banned
  • ReoLink Cameras depends - bad idea
  • NDAA compliant brands
    • 360 Vision Technology (360 VTL)
    • Avigilon
    • Axis Communications
    • BCD International
    • Commend
    • FLIR
    • Geutebrück
    • iryx
    • JCI/Tyco Security
    • Mobotix
    • Pelco
    • Rhombus Systems
    • Seek Thermal
    • Solink
    • Vaion/Ava
    • WatchGuard
  • Main 3 NVR in use
    • Exac Vision
    • Avigilon
    • Milestone
  • NDAA conversation

  • Noah's favorites

    • Axis
    • FLIR #### 25:09 Charlie Finds e-ink android - Charlie

  • Boox Palma

  • Why a camera?

  • Nice for reading

  • Lineage or Graphene will NOT work

27:57 ESPDevices for Light Switches - Avri

  • Shelly's are ESP32 devices
  • Devices can talk to each other

30:00 Beaming podcasts to Volumio and Roku - Tiny

  • Pulse Audio
  • Write in!

31:40 News Wire

33:53 Hoptodesk

  • Comparison to Team Viewer
  • Hoptodesk
  • Free & Open Source
  • Cross platform
  • E2E Encryption
  • Can self host the server
  • Wayland is not officially supported

38:05 EmuDeck

  • ArsTechnica
  • Seeking funding
  • Already been doing this on the steamdeck
  • For retro games
  • Drawing unwanted attention
  • Powered by Bazzite

41:05 Home Automation

  • Zwave
    • Great for nerds/tinkering
    • Not for professional installs
  • RadioRA 2
    • Licensed dedicated frequency
    • Central planning
    • Never had a failure
    • Designed to be integrated
  • Orbit Panels and Shelly Pro Line
    • Game changer
    • 100% reliable
  • People don't want a wall of dimmers
  • Seeed Studio mmWave Sensor
  • I don't like WiFi for automation
  • Steve's experience

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Why do you use Linux? Why do you want to use Linux? This week Noah and Steve dig into their technology past and reflect on why a technologist would choose Linux and Open Source over the proprietary alternatives.

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01:08 Why I Use Linux - Ryan

  • Opened my eyes
  • Wide open
  • Allows me to choose how to use my computer

02:40 405 Error "Method Not Allowed"

  • DICOM Software
    • requires activation
    • activation server went away
  • Online Game Activation
    • direct to drive
    • companies take the game with them
  • Memories taken
  • Steve's Story
    • Windows put you in a sandbox
    • Linux is nerdy and different
    • Unix philosophy
    • 2 parts Linux and Open Source
    • Reading source code
  • Windows got better then worse
  • 2 main professional automation systems
  • Build systems independently then tie together
  • Ruling things out
    • X10
    • zigbee
  • Ruled in
    • ZWave
    • Shellys
  • Home Assistant update broke Orbit Panels
  • Breaking the automation network out
  • Shelly integration methods
  • Steve's Parent's Setup
    • RaspberryPi with Home Assistant
    • ESP8266 with door sensor

42:48 News Wire

45:45 Long Term Investment

  • Core business software is built on open source today
  • Being told no is unappealing
  • Being able to fix things
  • Are you controlling the box or is the box controlling you?

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This week Steve gives a deep dive into his adventures with Frigate, an open source NVR software.

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00:46 Orbit Panels

  • Installed at home
  • First professional install
  • Smart home issues

03:03 Oreon Desktop

  • The Register
  • Distro based on Alma Linux
  • Hard to get commercial Linux desktop right
  • Oreon Project
  • Company has support
  • Focus on the desktop
  • Has lots of extra packages/software
  • Focus on stability

10:08 Serpent OS

11:55 Cosmic OS

  • 9 to 5 Linux
  • Pop!_OS 24.04
  • Alpha release of Cosmic Desktop
  • Built for users
  • System76 Cosmic
  • Easy to switch between traditional and tiling desktops
  • Give System76 constructive feedback
  • Available for many distros
  • Tool kit is available on Mac and Windows

21:33 Buying/Owning Content

  • ARSTechnica
  • Roku axed Redbox app
  • You don't own anything purchased on a "service"

24:45 Sous Vide Cooker to Charge

  • App is 10 years old
  • Charging a subscription fee
  • Claim is to cover hosting and downloads of the app
  • Why not open source the app/protocol?
  • ARSTechnica

30:13 News Wire

32:00 Frigate Make Good

  • Mostly user error
  • h.265 vs h.264
  • New release 0.14
    • complete rewrite of the UI
    • User permissions exist now!
  • Got a response on Github!
  • 6 cameras plus a doorbell
  • RioLink HA plugin did magic
  • Moved from HA to Ryzen 1700
  • Power usage in HA vs Baremetal+GPU
  • Network load
  • Now up to
    • 125 watts
    • 5 disks
    • 64 GB of RAM
  • Tying into Home Assistant
  • Open Source taking over proprietary
  • Documentation
  • Getting things "dialed in"
  • Passing on "tribal knowledge"
  • Calculating RAM usage
  • Predicts disk usage
  • Don't put it on the same box as Home Assistant

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