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Episode 501: Ask Noah Show 501

Check out the second installment of our new segment "Steve Scale" as Steve digs into the Ovens family distro. What is BootC and why does he use it? LG is pushing ads to your monitor, and we introduce you to CachyOS. -- During The Show -- 00:48 Tech Updates Oven's standard public build Upstream BootC breakage & recovery Static vs Rolling Best way forward A/B Scheme Method of recovery Container Registry Container layers Noah's new technology phases Would Steve move away from Arch? How work load changes workstation requirements Flameshot 29:30 BootC - Adam Not public yet Docs Site Let Steve know what you are looking for Balancing privacy and openness Securely sanitizing PII from docs Documentation pipeline The other side of documentation Tell us if you want to hear about documentation 41:20 News Wire Rhythmbox 3.5 - gitlab.gnome.org FFmpeg 9.0 - ffmpeg.org OpenLDAP 2.7 - openldap.org Mesa 26.2 - torproject.org GCC 16.2 - phoronix.com IceWM 4.1 - phoronix.com Gnome 50.4 - discourse.gnome.org Tails 7.10.1 - torproject.org DietPi 10.6 - dietpi.com Spark Model - cnbc.com Nemotron 3.5 Lightning - cnbc.com CloudFlare Vibe-Coding Platform - arstechnica.com 42:38 LG Monitor Ads MS Update installs LG bloatware ads Monitor prices dropped Known affected models 34GX900A-B 45GX950-B.AEU 32GS95UE-B 39GX950B 27GP83B-B 27GN800 32GS95UE-B 27GN850-B Linux was unaffected Possible on Linux with proprietary software ArsTechnica 47:50 CachyOS Gentoo meets Arch Targeted towards modern hardware LTO and BOLT Advantage of custom Linux Kernel Kernel scheduler Zen 4 optimization Hyperland My Linux for Work GitHub 9 to 5 Linux -- 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

Ask Noah Show 500

We're back!! After a brief hiatus we're live from the Tamarack Tap Room in Woodbury MN! We celebrate and record the 500th episode of the Ask Noah Show. We talk about what's gone well, and where we think we can improve. After 235 episodes, Steve finally gets his own segment! This is an episode you don't want to miss. -- During The Show -- 00:25 Intro Live from the Taproom Why the Taproom Tell us what you want the show to be! 02:00 Monitors How big is too big Multi monitor or Ultrawide Linking monitors Display port over thunderbolt 06:30 Steve Scale How tech functions large scale Ovens data center IPMI boards HP ProLiant Servers Gen9 Supermicro boards Work lab is off most of the time Virtualization Deciding what goes where Containers What is in the home lab Immich Ente Dashboards Mealie Logging Semaphore UI HashiCorp Vault Home Assistant Frigate SmokePing Local container registery Wiki.js User facing vs "backend" Don't enjoy changing workflows Silverblue and BootC Scratching an itch Planning vs get started Why do you do it? 25:55 Jeremy Positivity Steve and Noah's positivity We need you to be critical We need feedback 29:45 News Wire Thunderbird ESR 132 - thunderbird.net Firefox ESR 132 - firefox.com GNU Nano 9.2 - nano-editor.org Shotcut 26.8 - shotcut.org OBS Studio 32.2 - obsproject.com Network Manager 1.58 networkmanager.dev Cosmic Epoch 1.4 - phoronix.com Gnome 50.3 - gnome.org MocaccinoOS 26.08 - mocaccino.org 4mLinux 52.0 - 4mlinux-releases.blogspot.com AerynOS 2026.08 - aerynos.com Tails 7.10 - torproject.org MiniMax H3 - minimax.io 30:50 Desktop or Laptop Why desktop Building the workstation into the desk Graphics card with Thunderbolt dock Cable management Separating the desk from the computer Accessing things over the internet Minddripone.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

Ask Noah Show 499

Join us next week for the recording of episode of 500. We'll be live from the Tamarack Tap Room at 6pm next Tuesday Aug 4th. This week we talk about Steve building a custom distro for his house with BootC! -- During The Show -- 00:45 Intro Time snark Lots done in the studio 01:55 Tamark Taproom in Woodbury MN Big Thank You to the venue Aug 4 17:30 Uncomfortable Man hugs available 03:25 Oven's Project Lots of computers in the Oven's house Outgrown imutable OS NixOS was considered Looked to sharpen both home and industry skills Wide domain knowledge BootC and Fedora CoreOS Printer drivers Testing and working out the bugs The process Special snowflake computer What is BootC Automating the process SilverBlue issues Zero touch config Problems Picking a distro Encryption "Day 2" Staging machine Take-aways 36:55 News Wire Peazip 11.2 - github.io Proton 11 - steamdeckhq.com KDE Frameworks 6.28 - kde.org Calibre 9.11 - calibre-ebook.com TMUX 3.7 - github.com GNU Nano 9.1 - nano-editor.org GNU Cash 5.16 - github.com Shotcut - 26.6 - shotcut.org Arm64 Live Kernel Patching - ubuntu.com Cosmic Epoch 1.1 - phoronix.com 7.0 Kernel EOL - eosl.date KaOS 2026.06 - kaosx.us Parrot OS 7.3 - parrotsec.org Mageia 10.0 - mageia.org Ultramarine 44 - blog.fyralabs.com Gnoppix 26.7 - forum.gnoppix.org 4mLinux 51.2 - 4mlinux-releases.blogspot.com Porteux 2.6 linuxjournal.com CachyOS June 2026 linuxjournal.com Hannah Montana Linux ReMaster - tomshardware.com Ubuntu 25.10 - discourse.ubuntu.com Debian 13.6 - debian.org Azure Linux 4.0 - zdnet.com Bad Epoll - securityweek.com Januscape - thehackernews.com Tencent hy3 - the-decoder.com Z.Ai GLM-5.2 - counterpointresearch.com Leanstral 1.5 - the-decoder.com Github's License Tool - helpnetsecurity.com 39:35 Noah's Framwork Noah's change in mindset Buying new doesn't save much 13 Pro on the way Many but not all new parts interchangeable with original Framework 13 Screen aspect ratio Framework has been consistant LPCAMM2 RAM Life of laptops 51:10 Activist Charged with Felony CBP Agent entered Duress code into GrapheneOS phone Wiped the encryption key, effectively wiping the device Activist charged with a Felony Successfully thwarted the government Question to the audiance ArsTechnica The Guardian -- 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

Ask Noah Show 498

This week we interview Avri Chen-Roth and he gives us an overview of Pocket ID! We give you the details on our upcoming Episode 500 party in the Minneapolis / St.Paul area on Tuesday August 4th 2026! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Up Coming on the Show ANS on the air 9 years Studio is all Linux Telos Axia Board Runs Linux Moved from hardware to docker Lost art of leveraging technology "Glowing Box Stores" Growing the show Episode 500 in MN St Paul Show is taking a pause 12:22 Avri Chen-Roth Interview PocketID and OpenID Connect Home lab authentication problem Commercial solutions largely PAAS LDAP and Active Directory OpenID Connect Apps don't save credentials New open source standard Compatible with large service providers Passkeys Storing passkeys Why PocketID? Setting up PocketID On boarding PocketID Converting existing accounts to PocketID Groups OAuth 2.0 WebAuthn LDAP Sync 41:10 Retired Phone Computing What to do with old cellphones Using old phones for cluster compute Thermal runaway Major challenge is distributing the load Getting Linux on the phones research.google -- 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

Ask Noah Show 497

This week the boys are back at home and talk about the latest changes with coming down the line with Roku. Your questions as always go to the front of the line. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro AI doesn't make less work Multitasking 03:50 Reolink Wifi Door Bell - Mike Facial Recognition 08:45 Door Bells - John 10BASE-T1L Omnitron-Systems Link Need them at both ends 11:10 Cameras and things - xhat Block cameras at the firewall Updates via Home Assistant 13:00 Feedback Please write in! Rising tide lifts all boats Email or call in 14:06 Roku Story Cheap and ubiquitous Fox bought out Roku 22 Billion Noah's friend joining the 21st century Nvidia Shield OSMC Vero Mini PC with LibreELEC Boxy amazon newsroom.roku.com archive.ph 31:50 Fedora Silverblue Portable laptop Switching OSTrees Budgie Desktop Tweaking Fedora Atomic Domain knowledge transfer Leveraging automation Replacing EndlessOS Variety of OS ZFS Boot manager BMC IPMI PiKVM ASROCK Motherboards -- 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