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Ask Noah Show 416 Nov 19, 2024

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Mike McGrath joins the program and we get an update from Red Hat. This week we dig into week 2 of Steve's Desktop Linux struggle.

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01:00 Hex OS - Craig

Self host
- Files
- Pictures
- Home Assistant
- Jellyfin
Wants a GUI
Like the idea of ZFS Snapshots
Go simple
You should know how to fix things
Cockpit

11:25 News Wire

Wordpress 6.7 - wordpress.org
Postgres 17.1 - postgresql.org
Peazip 10.1 - github.io
DigiKam 8.5 - digikam.org
Systemd 256.8 - github.com
Linux 6.12 - lwn.net
GNU-Linux 6.12 - phoronix.com
Quadruple Workqueue Concurrency - phoronix.com
Q4OS 5.7 - q4os.org
RHEL 9.5 - github.io

12:33 Mike McGrath Interview

Drama around RHEL source code
Fedora and Streams
Accelerators
How does Red Hat keep up
Xorg and Wayland
Remote Desktop on Wayland
ELS
32bit
Package Mode vs Image Mode
RHEL AI
Low power computers/systems
- Micro DNF
- UBI
OS Tree
Bootstrap/Build kit
Red Hat AI Licensing
What does open source mean to you?

33:43 Steve's Desktop Adventure

Issues with desktop going to sleep
Build on your knowledge base
NixOS
Local Flatpak Cache
Flatpak size
Ansible
Why multiple files
Outside and inside chroot
Cinnamon Desktop

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Ask Noah Show 415 Nov 12, 2024

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Tim Flink, a Senior Quality Engineer from Red Hat joins us to talk about AI on Fedora. This week Noah and Steve talk about their struggles with the Linux Desktop.

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02:30 Helping a Non-techy friend - Sleuth

The plan
- Locked down second hand Android device
- Ting Flex plan
- Tracar
JMP.Chat Sim Plan
Mint Mobile
Steer people away from sms/calls
- Matrix
- Telegram
- etc

08:47 News Wire

Calibre 7.21 - calibre-ebook.com
Cmake 3.31 - cmake.org
Curl 8.11 - curl.se
Scraperr 1.0 - github.com
LXQT 2.1 - lxqt-project.org
Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 - ubports.com
Debian 12.8 - debian.org
Torvalds 2.6% Performance Patch - theregister.com
3800% Performance Improvement - phoronix.com
CRON#TRAP Malware - thehackernews.com
AMD OLMo LLM - computerworld.com

09:58 Tim Flink - Senior Quality Engineer - Red Hat

Where should you start with AI?
PyTorch
Orders of magnitude faster on a GPU
VRAM is the biggest factor
How is Fedora using AI?
OpenQA
RocM and PyTorch
Efforts around packaging
Why are you focusing on RocM?
Where is a good place to help out?
AI/ML SIG
Containers coming
What does open source mean to you?

22:28 Kubuntu and Docker Broken - Michael Fisher

Docker Compose Pastebin
Docker Logs Pastebin
Docker internal DNS having issues

24:36 What's the deal with Linux Desktop Environments?

Steve's workflow
Static vs Dynamic approach
How close can I get to immutable with flatpaks
Software KVM
- Synergy (proprietary)
- Barrior (abandoned)
- Input Leap
3 Monitors, 2 horizontal and 1 vertical
KDE hates Steve
NVIDIA drivers
Why is it so hard to put software in hardware?
Ubuntu won't say its up to date because of Ubuntu Pro
Can't install LibreOffice on Ubuntu because of Snap
All operating systems have issues

45:20 MacOS vs EndlessOS vs Windows 10

Mac Book
- No working battery
- Disposable
- 3+ Hours just to install the OS
ThinkPad with EndlessOS
- Flatpak for Office 365
Windows
- Can't upgrade to windows 11
- Windows 11 requires online account
- Windows 11 requires TPM chip
2 People both chose the EndlessOS
Endless OS
- No forced updates
- All the icons right there
Open source
- Allows you to fix things
- Unix philosophy
- The answers are there

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Ask Noah Show 414 Nov 05, 2024

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This week on Ask Noah we dig into Cosmic desktop and talk about what to do when self hosting goes wrong!

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01:48 Cosmic Desktop - Dan

Cosmic will be the desktop for System76 computers
Built for System76
Cosmic DE still Alpha/Beta
Been running Cosmic for over a month

07:38 Caller

KVM/VirtManager performance
Virt IO Drivers
Correct ZFS block size for QCOW2
Synchronous vs Non-synchronous writes
ZFS Intent Log (SLOG/ZIL)
64k Record size
Turn on virtualization in UEFI
Enable "write a shift"
Check the cables

16:50 Cosmic Desktop - ZFS - Rob

Hardware
HDD Failure after re-silvering
Preventing bit rot
3 disks vs 2 disks
ZFS Send/Receive vs Rsync
Sanoid
Limit the bandwidth
Total data vs Total Bandwidth
Synology is not open source
Just install an OS and packages

30:55 Zed Editor

Website
Steve uses Nano not Vim or Emacs
Thoughts on IDEs?
VSCode and VSCodium
- Electron
- Lots of extensions
Failed to get to the website
AI is not appealing
Written in Rust
Native Linux support

37:41 Steve's Tech failures

Nextcloud Collaborative Editing
- Fighting with Collabra
- Tried docker and podman
- Tried bare metal
- Tried a VM
Nextcloud Deck
- It works
- Not awesome
- Colors not working
- Trello import
Frigate took down Home Assistant
- Frigate filled /tmp and root
- Hard locked the server
Tail Scale on IOS
- Doesn't work intermittently
Do you enjoy fixing problems?
- Case by case basis
Time is the most valuable thing

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Episode 413: Ask Noah Show 413 | Contributing to Ubuntu Oct 29, 2024

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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.

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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

Theater Receiver
Decimator

21:14 News Wire

SQLite 3.47.0 - sqlite.org
Peazip 10 - github.io
Jellyfin 10.10.0 - jellyfin.org
EasyOS 6.4 - puppylinux.com
Gnome 47.1 - gnome.org
Tor Browser 14.0 - torproject.org
AlmaLinux Kitten 10 - almalinux.org
Gentoo & DTrace 2.0 - gentoo.org
NASA $15.6M Grant for Open Source Tools - spaceanddefense.io
Open Source Printable Lathe - hackaday.com
Thelio Astra - system76.com
Eight Nvidia High Severity Vulnerabilities - forbes.com
OpenSSL 3.4 - github.com
IPS Snort v3.5 - github.com
Parrot OS 6.2 - parrotsec.org
New Granite 3.0 - zdnet.com
HUGS - reuters.com
SynthID Now Open Source - theverge.com
Mochi 1 - venturebeat.com
Ubuntu Turns 20 - ubuntu.com

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

Fedora 41 available early!
New DNF
bootc
Plasma Mobile Spin
Fedora Magazine
Minisforum v3
Steve, Fedora, hardware

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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Episode 412: Ask Noah Show 412 Oct 22, 2024

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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

Solus 4.6 - getsol.us
Sysvinit 3.11 - phoronix.com
Calibre 7.20 - calibre-ebook.com
Ardour 8.10 - ardour.org
Wine 9.20 - gitlab.winehq.org
ReiserFS Removed in Linux 6.13 - phoronix.com
RHEL AI 1.2 - zdnet.com phoronix.com
New Malware Raids ATMs - arstechnica.com
Roundcube Webmail Exploit - bleepingcomputer.com
Critical Firefox Bug - nvd.nist.gov

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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Ask Noah Show 411 Oct 15, 2024

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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

All Axis cameras work
Frigate NVR & Home Assistant
Synology Surveillance Station
ONVIF

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

Redot
- GitHub
- Website
Let's see if its successful

23:12 News Wire

OpenSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 - opensuse.org
Leap 16 Development - opensuse.org
Ubuntu 24.10 - canonical.com
Tails 6.8 & 6.8.1 - torproject.org
OpenBSD 7.6 - openbsd.org
KDE Turns 28 - kde.org
KDE Frameworks 6.7.0 - kde.org
KDE Plasma 6.2 - kde.org
Linux 6.10 EOL - endoflife.date
Qt 6.8 LTS - qt.io
Python 3.13 - awakenerd.com
RPM 4.20 - rpm.org
Wayland-protocols 1.38 - freedesktop.org
Distrobox 1.8 - github.com
Inkscape 1.4 - inkscape.org
OpenTV 1.0 - github.com
OpenRazer 3.9 - phoronix.com
Pyramid Flow - Venturebeat.com
NVLM 1.0 - infoq.com
Significant Rise in Malicious Software Components - csoonline.com

25:18 Instand

Random "IT Rooms"
Instand
Pros and Cons
Traveler Guitar

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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Ask Noah Show 410 Oct 08, 2024

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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

Steve uses Brother printers
Till Kamppeter ANS 368
- Buy Brother
- Use IPP/IPPS

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

AntiX 23.2 - antixlinux.com
Nitrux 3.7 - nxos.org
Qbittorrent 5.0 - qbittorrent.org
Firefox 131 - mozilla.org
Network Manager 1.50 - networkmanager.dev
Ardour 8.8 - ardour.org
FWUPD 2.0 - github.com
Rocky Linux from CIQ - insidehpc.com
Pine64's E-innk Tablet - howtogeek.com
Perfctl Malware - thehackernews.com
Nvidia Open Source AI Model - venturebeat.com

25:00 Ubuntu Summit Interview

Aaron Prisk
Jason Nucciarone
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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Episode 409: Ask Noah Show 409 Oct 01, 2024

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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!

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01:35 Notes with sync? - Jou Jou

How Steve takes notes
Standard Notes
Joplin
Simple Mobile Tools
Fossify
Nextcloud Notes app
Collabra

09:12 Listener Reacts To Distros - Aaron

Issues with Ubuntu
Go for Fedora
Endless OS
Write in with your Ubuntu issues
Mind Drip One Offline Windows Setup

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

Firefox 131 - mozilla.org
FFmpeg 7.1 - ffmpeg.org
GnuCash 5.9 - gnucash.org
Postgres 17.1 - postgresql
Winamp Source Code - bleepingcomputer.com
Liya 2.1 - notebookcheck.net
Arch and Valve Collaboration - lists.archlinux.org
Tails and Tor Join Forces - blog.torproject.org
Statial-B - hackaday.com
Molmo Open Source AI Model - venturebeat.com

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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Ask Noah Show 408 | Distro Hopping Sep 24, 2024

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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.

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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

SparkyLinux 7.5 - sparkylinux.org
ZorinOS 17.2 - zorin.com
MXLinux 23.4 - mxlinux.org
Linux Libre 6.11 - lwn.net
Real-time Linux Officially Mainline - arstechnica.com
Gnome 47 - release.gnome.org
Gnome 46.5 - discourse.gnome.org
Open Source Maintainers Unpaid - cybersecuritydive.com
NSF Initiative - new.nsf.gov
Citrine Sleet Poisons PyPI - darkreading.com
Void Editor - voideditor.org omgubuntu.co.uk
Alibaba AI Models - cnbc.com
Mark Zuckerberg's Goal - businessinsider.com

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

Leviton Load Centers
SPAN Panel
Honeywell RedLINK

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Ask Noah Show 407 Sep 17, 2024

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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

AlmaLinux Certification SIG - almalinux.org
Wine 9.17 - gitlab.winehq.org
Samba 4.21 - samba.org
Rust 1.81 - blog.rust-lang.org
GNU Nano 8.2 - lists.gnu.org
Firefox 130 - mozilla.org
QEMU 9.1 - qemu.org
Peropesis 2.7 - peropesis.org
RLXOS 2.0 - rlxos.dev
Q4OS Released - q4os.org
Rust Kernel Support for MIPS - phoronix.com
Linux in Automotive - globenewswire.com
MX Linux 23.4 - mxlinux.org
Tails 6.7 - torproject.org
EasyOS 6.3 - bkhome.org
Virtualbox 7.1 - virtualbox.org
KDE 6.2 - kde.org
KDE Frameworks 6.6 - kde.org
Shotcut 24.09 - shotcut.com
Ardour 8.7 - ardour.org
White House Working Group - govciomedia.com
Tidelift Study - businesswire.com
OpenSearch Foundation - techcrunch
Hedera - cointelegraph.com
Linux 6.11 - phoronix.com
MNT Reform Next - arstechnica.com
Juno Tab 3 - colocrossing.com
Oracle Weblogic Exploited - thehackernews.com
Advanced materials AI Model - aibusiness.com
LightEval - venturebeat.com
RHEL AI - businesswire.com

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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01:00 Hex OS - Craig

11:25 News Wire

12:33 Mike McGrath Interview

33:43 Steve's Desktop Adventure

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02:30 Helping a Non-techy friend - Sleuth

08:47 News Wire

09:58 Tim Flink - Senior Quality Engineer - Red Hat

22:28 Kubuntu and Docker Broken - Michael Fisher

24:36 What's the deal with Linux Desktop Environments?

45:20 MacOS vs EndlessOS vs Windows 10

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01:48 Cosmic Desktop - Dan

07:38 Caller

16:50 Cosmic Desktop - ZFS - Rob

30:55 Zed Editor

37:41 Steve's Tech failures

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01:26 HexOS - Craig

17:08 Questions about HDMI switch - Andy

21:14 News Wire

23:23 Robie Basak - Ubuntu Technical Council

43:40 Fedora 41

50:30 Russian Kernel Maintainers Removed

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01:57 Succession Planning - Steve

20:29 News Wire

21:23 Widevine

43:45 Caller Sleuth

46:46 On Call Article

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01:07 Caller

11:26 Journal Block Device not loaded - John

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

18:45 Listener Suggestions for Nextcloud Issues - Joe

20:38 New Godot fork - Charlie

23:12 News Wire

25:18 Instand

35:50 Windows 10 EOL In 1 Year

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00:55 Intro

07:46 Arch and Mandatory Access Control - Baker

17:42 Printers - Rabin

20:56 Charlie Asks The Audience

23:50 News Wire

25:00 Ubuntu Summit Interview

45:00 Noah's Imposed Handicap

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01:35 Notes with sync? - Jou Jou

09:12 Listener Reacts To Distros - Aaron

15:27 Audio Issues

17:48 News Wire

18:55 Arch Flatpak Issue

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00:45 Steve's Distro Hopping

44:00 News Wire

46:00 Continuing Camera Discussion - CantankerousAdmin

49:58 Smart Thermostats & Panels - Rob

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