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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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Ask Noah Show 476 Jan 20, 2026

Show notes

This week we dig into the hardware shortage caused by AI, answer your questions, and dig into managing ZFS via the web!

-- During The Show --

00:45 Intro

Cheap managed POE switch
Switch hops

05:35 Certificates - Randy

Step CA
XCA
Certificate Authority
ACME
LDAP
Kerberos
Steve's use of LDAP
LDAP with PKI link
ACME and Domain registrars
dot tk
Ansible collection

19:19 Ebook Management - Jeremy

Steve went to audio books
Calibre
PDF manuals folder
Audio bookshelf
Paperless NGX

23:50 Light Sync - Peter

UltraStar Deluxe
Animux
USBD_Syncer
Doing events
Why Noah likes Karaoke
Effect of "shared experiences"
Steve's Christmas tree lights
DMX lighting
WLED Project

33:03 News Wire

Firefox 147 - firefox.com
Thunderbird 147 - thunderbird.net
Grub 2.14 - phoronix.com
Gnome 49.3 - discourse.gnome.org
Wine 11 - theregister.com
Q4OS 6.5 - q4os.org
Endeavour OS Genymede Neo - endeavouros.com
Tails 7.4 - torproject.org
Linux Mint 22.3 - blog.linuxmint.com
BeaglePlay PowerVR - phoronix.com
StackChan - cnx-software.com
Mentra's Smart Glasses - engadget.com
VoidLink - checkpoint.com darkreading.com csoonline.com
Boltz-1 - labmanager.com
Photoshop on Linux - videocardz.com
No Commits to MySQL Repo - devclass.com
Senate Inquiry - jdsupra.com
EU Tech Sovereignty - cybernews.com biometricupdate.com

35:03 SysAdmins & Smartphones

Lowering friction
Graphical vs CLI
Webzfs
Exposing ZFS via Web UI
Cockpit
Putting Webzfs into Cockpit
Write in!

43:43 New ESP32

ESP32-E22
Tri-band WiFi
What is an ESP32
Steve's use of ESP32
Bandwidth
Getting started with ESP32
linuxgizmos.com

48:05 AI Hardware Run

RAM spikes 300%-400%
SSD price spikes
Fab Capacity
Bitcoin effect
ARS Technica

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Ask Noah Show 475 Jan 13, 2026

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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

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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

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Ask Noah Show 474 Jan 06, 2026

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This week we dig into how a dead hard drive took Frigate out, answer your questions, and start a new challenge for the new year.

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00:50 Intro

Sticky Things and Bug reports
Electric Dirt Bike
Validating work
Picking and offering boats
Hosting in home lab

10:00 Frigate

Frigate drive failure
4 TB drive died
Frigate setup
Swapping drives and power on hours
Running drives into the ground
Replacing drives
Motion detection

20:06 News Wire

Shotcut 25.12 - shotcut.org
Ncurses 6.6 - phoronix.com
OpenTTD 15.0 - openttd.org
QPrompt 2.0 - patreon.com
Mkvtoolnix 97 - mkvtoolnix.download
Privoxy 4.1 - sourceforge.net
OpenBGPD 9.0 - bsdsec.net
IceWM - debugpoint.com
Devuan 6.1 - phoronix.com
Manjaro 26.0 - manjaro.org
Qwen Text to Image - venturebeat.com

27:07 Flatpak vs Packaged Software - Pete

New contest!
Steve uses packaged software
Idea behind flatpaks
Flatpak edge cases
Install via AUR
AppImages

37:16 Backup GrapheneOS - Domink

Toilet backup strategy
Plan to come back from scratch
Contacts VCF file
ADB Backup Guide
ADB Backup Caveat

45:09 KVM Switch? - Jeremy

Now use remote software
Barrier
Synergy
Deskflow
IO Gear KVM
Rust Desk

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Ask Noah show 473 Dec 30, 2025

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This week Steve reviews Expedition 33. We take your feedback, and Steve builds a new PC and talks motherboard.

-- During The Show --

00:50 Intro

Profanity
Kids language
Stripping profanity and vulgarity
MonkeyPlug
Motherboards and RAM prices
ASRock
ASUS

18:04 News Wire

Lua 5.5 - lua.org
Ruby 4.0 - ruby-lang.org
QEMU 10.2 - wiki.qemu.org
Pinta 3.1 - omgubuntu.co.uk
Voyager 13.2 - voyagerlive.org
Nobara 43 - nobaraproject.org
Porteux 2.5 - distrowatch.com
Parrot 7.0 - parrotsec.org
PostmarkOS 25.12 - postmarketos.org
Elementary OS 8.1 - elementary.io
MinIO in Maintenance Mode - infoq.com
KawaiiGPT - opensourceforu.com
Z.ai - businesswire.com
Chatterbox Turbo - the-decoder.com

18:57 Listener responds to self hosted - Josh

Setup SSO
PocketID
Hesitant to adopt passkeys
Argument for and against passkeys

26:41 Email Archiving for Privacy - Dominik

Why you should archive email
Plain text vs Mbox/PST
imapsync GitHub
Email threat model

32:54 Expedition 33

Expedition 33
Doesn't have an "agenda"
Story of small Indie team
If you apply yourself, you can succeed
Awards
Sales
Live action adaptation
Game play and Story are amazing
It's a sad game
Amazing music
AI controversy
AI vs human work
Proper use of AI tools

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Ask Noah Show 472 Dec 23, 2025

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This week Noah and Steve work on Steve's house, a new automated lock system goes in, some new structured wiring goes in, and we talk about automating your Christmas tree.

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00:48 Intro

Happy Christmas
Kids and presents
Quests at Steve's
Steve's Christmas tree
Steve on a Mac

16:20 Feedback

You start the conversation
Send in an email
- success stories
- problems you can't solve
- suggest a topic

18:00 Switch Bot

A room to keep dogs and kids out of
Why Switch Bot?
Gold tier certified by Home Assistant
Value of talking with others
How to evaluate "the line"
The "delta"
Gratitude

36:17 Structured Wiring

2 Recessed outlets with Ethernet
2 Projector rooms
The Smart Home Hookup
The Smart Home Hookup Youtube
Playing D&D with the family
Lay of the land
Running Cat6
SDI Video/Audio
Belden Cables
Vertical Cables
HDMI Decimators
Keystones

55:57 News Wire

Darktable 5.4 - darktable.org
Kdenlive 25.12 - kdenlive.org
OpenShot 3.4 - openshot.org
OpenZFS 2.4 - github.com
GNUCash 5.14 - gnucash.org
Nvidia Linux 590.48 - phoronix.com
Linux 6.17 EOL - 9to5linux.com
RELIANOID 7.8.0 - relianoid.com
SparkyLinux 2025.12 - sparkylinux.org
Easy OS Excalibur 7.1 - puppylinux.com
Emmabuntus Debian Edition 6 - emmabuntus.org
Solaris 11.4 - blogs.oracle.com
FreeBSD 15.0 - freebsd.org
Rust CVE in Linux - itsfoss.com
Senate Intel Chair - cyberscoop.com
Beavertail Malware - scworld.com
Open-Source Protein Co-Folding Model - nvidia.com
Bloom - siliconangle.com
CUGA - infoq.com
Nemotron AI Models - finance.yahoo.com

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Ask Noah Show 471 Dec 16, 2025

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This week we dig full force into some interesting listener questions. Noah talks about an open source hardware synth, and Steve walks through some of his hardware choices to help you!

-- During The Show --

00:50 Intro

Weather
Cooling IT rooms in winter

05:00 Printers, DVD ripping and more - James

Steve has 2 brother printers
Auto Duplexing
Separate printer and scanner
Large business grade units
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All in One Brother DCP-L2640DW Amazon
Budget Brother HL-L2460DW Amazon
Monochrome Brother HL-6210DW Amazon
Color Brother HL-L3280CDW Amazon
Trouble with auto duplexing
Stay away from Lexar
HP printers
- Manually add the printer
- Change to Jetdirect or IP printer
- Pay attention to exact model or most similar
- When it goes wrong, it goes really wrong
Your mileage may vary
Canon Color Image Class LBP622Cdw Amazon
Scanner Brother ADS-1200 Amazon
Containers vs Codecs
MKV vs MP4
Avidemux
Ripping as ISOs vs video files
MakeMKV
MakeMKV Docker Image # sudo modprobe sg services: makemkv: image: ghcr.io/jlesage/makemkv:latest ports: - "5800:5800" volumes: - "./makemkv:/config:rw" - "./storage:/storage:ro" - "./output:/output:rw" security_opt: # Fix for apparmor enabled systems - apparmor:unconfined environment: - USER_ID=1000 - GROUP_ID=1000 devices: - "/dev/sr0:/dev/sr0" - "/dev/sg0:/dev/sg0"
Christmas movies
Handbrake
FFmpeg
Transcoding
Run controller at each site
Ubiquiti Cloud Key
- Lots of problems
OVH server
- Put basic auth in front
Inbox Zero
Paperless NGX
Dump to eml file then import into special Thunderbird

45:14 News Wire

Firefox 146 - firefox.com
Thunderbird 146 - thunderbird.net
KDE Frameworks 6.12 - kde.org
Cinnamon Desktop 6.6 - itsfoss.com
Mir 2.25 - github.com
Rust 1.92 - blog.rust-lang.org
AerynOS 2025.12 - phoronix.com
Kali Linux 2025.4 - kali.org
Pop!_OS 24.04 - itsfoss.com
PearOS - pearos.xyz
MaboxLinux 2025.12 - maboxlinux.org
Papermoon - thenewstack.io
01flip Ransomware - esecurityplanet.com
React2Shell - thehackernews.com
Nomos 1 - venturebeat.com
Nemotron Model - reuters.com
Quilter's AI - venturebeat.com
Chatterbox Labs - redhat.com
Agentic AI Group - hackernoon.com
Firefox AI Browser - phoronix.com

47:47 Zynthian

Open hardware device
We want your feedback!
Are you comfortable with software VST
Zynthian.org

50:30 Family Resistant to Self Hosting - David

Ovens house hold approach
Watching for pain points
Making responsible path easy
Making irresponsible path hard
Value driven decisions
Supporting where your paycheck comes from

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Episode 470: Ask Noah Show 470 Dec 09, 2025

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This week Steve puts his Debian powered Christmas tree up. He walks us through enterprise deployment and the failures of Firefox enterprise, and Noah builds a Raspberry Pi powered piano!

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Ask Noah Show 469 Dec 02, 2025

Show notes

This week Steve takes us through his journey with Enty and Immich. Plex makes their users pay a monthly fee, and Steam releases a new SteamBox console.

-- During The Show --

00:50 Intro

How was your week
Watching sales
Smart TVs
WebOS

07:21 Mac Feedback - Gregory

Network Effect
"Comforting Mac Feels"
Pavu Control
OBS
Stewardship

11:32 Mac Feedback - Patrick

Pragmatic approach
Steve's thoughts
Treating windows like an appliance
Making the FOSS path easy

18:15 Succession Planning - Dominik

Suggestions
- Design your home so it works without automation
- Have a HDD with important data
- Have migration plan in place
Struggling with massive amounts of data
Steve's documentation journey
Criticality

30:33 News Wire

Gnome 49.2 - gnome.org
Tmus 3.6 - proxmox.com
Snort 3.10 - github.com
Dbeaver 25.3 - dbeaver.io
Proxmox 4.2 Backup Server - proxmox.com
Fedora Ultramarine 43 - fyralabs.com
AlmaLinux 10.1 - almalinux.org
Rocky Linux 10.1 - rockylinux.org
KaOS 2025.11 - kaosx.us
NixOS 25.11 - nixos.org
Armbian 25.11 - blog.armbian.com
Solus 4.8 - getsol.us
4M Linux 50.0 - 4mlinux.com
AV Linux 25 - linuxmusicians.com
Pardus 25 - pardus.org
Linux 6.18 - phoronix.com
Flux 2 - bfl.ai
z-Image-Turbo - huggingface.co
Deepseek 3.2 - deepseek.com
Linux MCP - siliconangle.com

31:51 Plex Crackdown

Forcing Plex Pass subscriptions
Proprietary software controls you
Are Plex users getting what they deserve?
Switching to JellyFin
Scanning of people's media
Reason for crackdown
Problem with the approach
FS PBX
ArsTechnica.com

41:50 Steam Machine

First response is it's a "Travel Machine"
SteamDeck "just works"
Community experience
ArsTechnica

44:42 Self Hosted Image Software

Immich experience
Ente experience
Ente vs Immich
Ente Encryption
Native App
Backup
Where Immich came from
iOS challenges
Which is the winner?

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Ask Noah Show 468 Nov 25, 2025

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Steve gives a deep dive into some of the struggles he's working through in his house. Google has pulled back on their plans to require developer verification.

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00:45 Intro

Passing the show through AI
Immich
Breaking changes

07:54 Steve Rants Show

How it came about

09:45 Google and Side loading

ANS 457
Google backs down
How to Geek
Hiding the setting
Best of both worlds
Explaining walled gardens
Why walled gardens are bad
Bubble level app

18:32 When is a Mac appropriate?

Supporting a power user
Specialty scanner
Asked the AI
Accidentally uninstalled mesa
Trouble shooting
When is a Mac appropriate?
Mac's don't fix problems
Mac myths
"solving the problem"
Network effect
Apple print dialog
Making the open source path easy
SimpleHelp
PiKVM
Tailscale
Windows knowledge on Linux
Borrowing hardware

50:50 News Wire

Git 2.52 - github.blog
Cmake 4.2 - cmake.org
Blender 5.0 - blender.org
PHP 8.5 - php.net
Protondrive 1.2 - github.com
Proxmox 9.1 - proxmox.com
Alma Linux 9.7 - almalinux.org
Finnix 251 - finnix.org
Pepple Watch 100% Open Source - howtogeek.com
Zork Open Source - arstechnica.com

00:52 Coming up on Ask Noah

Netowrking, proxies, caching
Firefox

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Episode 467: Ask Noah Show 467 Nov 18, 2025

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This week Steve and Noah talk about the things you didn't know you knew about Linux. Scott Jenson joins the program to talk about principals of UX/UI design.

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00:52 Self Hosting After Death - Michael

Steve's thought process
Important things
Steve's plan
- Draw.io
- LLMs
No desire to be trained
Open Source
Documentation
Noah's plan
Self hosted vs Cloud
Techie Friends

12:21 Scott Jenson - UX/UI Design

Product Strategist For Home Assistant and Mastodon
Scott's Website
Coloring outside the lines
Mobile vs Desktop
Desktop UI shortcomings
UX in Audacity and Penpot
Where can UX designers grow?
Articulating the business use case
Ink & Switch

18:23 News Wire

Nano 8.7 - gnu.org
Thunderbird 145 - thunderbird.net
Firefox 145 - firefox.com
Wine 10.19 - webpronews.com
Proton 10.0 - phoronix.com
KDE Frameworks 6.20.0 - kde.org
SparkyLinux 8.1 - sparkylinux.org
Debian 13.2 - debian.org
Tails 7.2 - torproject.org
Nitrix 5.0 - itsfoss.com
Kaspersky for Linux - tomshardware.com
Avahi Logic Flaw - zeropath.com
ImunifyAV Flaw - bleepingcomputer.com
Akira Targets Nutanix VMs - bleepingcomputer.com
Kraken Expands - cyberpress.org
VibeThinker-1.5B - venturebeat.com
Worry Over Chinese AI - businessinsider.com
US Must Go Open Source - techbuzz.ai

Linux Knowledge

The "Mythical New User"
People use all sorts of UI/UX today
Knowledge we take for granted
Teaching is the highest form of learning
See one, do one, teach one
Talk radio principle: Watering plants that are already there
Linux and Windows architectures are different

39:50 Source Command

How it works
Variables
Environment Variable
What the source command does
Getting started with source and python

48:00 Know your short comings

Know what you don't know
Know how to explain it simply
Keeping things simple

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