Ask Noah Show

Does the perfect self-hosted Google Photos replacement exist? A free and open source ChatGPT clone is available, we'll show you a site designed to help hone your IT skills, and legislation in the EU might be a threat to open source! -- During The Show -- Photo Management Kenny Schmidt from Altispeed What where you using? What prompted the move? What solutions did you consider? NextCloud Memories (https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/memories) Piwigo (https://piwigo.org/) Photo Prism (https://www.photoprism.app/) Immich (https://github.com/immich-app/immich) Made by an electrical engineer Come a long way Checks all the boxes Better than Google Photos Getting Setup 15:45 News Wire Photon OS 5.0 Github (https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/What-is-New-in-Photon-OS-5.0) GNOME 44.1 Gnome (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-44-1-released/15092/1) Open Razer 3.6 Github (https://github.com/openrazer/openrazer/releases/tag/v3.6.0) Ardour 7.4 Ardour (https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html) Nitrux 2.8 Linux IAC (https://linuxiac

This week the EARN-IT Act is Back! For the third time Senators are trying to push through the EARN-IT Act. Steve and Noah take you through this, as well as your questions! -- During The Show -- 01:15 Steve's Home Automation Sonoff Zigbee 3 Integration issues Problem Solved! Zwave fairness Hindsight recommendations 07:50 Listener Responds about journal - Bhikhu Life O Graph (https://lifeograph.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page) Jrnl (https://jrnl.sh/en/stable/) Pepys (https://lukebriggs.dev/projects/pepys/) Almanah_Diary (https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Almanah_Diary) Monkkee (https://monkkee.com/en) India App Ban (XDA) (https://www.xda-developers.com/all-chinese-apps-banned-india/) 10:11 Cookbook Application? - Jim Don't mind repeating questions Gourmand (https://github.com/GourmandRecipeManager/gourmand) Tandoor (https://docs.tandoor.dev/) 14:58 Which AP? - James Stick with U6 Pro U6 Lite ok U6 Long Range total rip off 16:50 News Wire Proton 8.0 Twitter (https://twitter.com/Plagman2/status/1648029861032890368) QEMU

This week Noah and Steve dig into the RESTRICT Act and the DATA Act! Your questions, your thoughts go to the front of the line. -- During The Show -- 01:30 Encrypted Journal? - Matt EncyptPad (https://github.com/evpo/EncryptPad/releases) Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/) Standard Notes (https://standardnotes.com/) Too tied to a service Separate the app from the encryption Vaults 10:45 Traveling Mailbox - Joey Local USPS unreliable USPS knows its a PMB 12:50 Alternative to GraphineOS - Vincent eOS (https://e.foundation/) 15:45 News Wire Deepin 20.9 BBS Deepin (https://bbs.deepin.org/en/post/255228) Firefox 112 Mozilla (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/112.0/releasenotes/) Digikam 8.0 Digikam (https://www.digikam.org/news/2023-04-16-8.0.0_release_announcement/) LXQt 1.3.0 LXQT (https://lxqt-project.org/release/2023/04/15/release-lxqt-1-3-0/) Proton 8.0 Gaming On Linux (https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/04/valve-rolls-out-proton-80-to-further-improve-steam-deck-and-linux-gaming/) FerretDB Info World (https:/

This week Google is killing some of their cloud services rendering some hardware devices useless bricks, we follow up on our Graphene discussion from last week, and of course your questions are at the front of the line! -- During The Show -- 01:14 Graphene OS - Chris Audio Issues Google Maps & Android Auto Three buckets Everyday bucket (Samsung S10) Personal device (Graphene OS) Private device Magic Earth Maps (https://www.magicearth.com/) Organic Maps (https://organicmaps.app/) Samsung flashing issues 11:05 Graphene OS - Ronald Thanks for walking the walk 11:55 Phone Tracking App? - Kevin OwnTracks (https://owntracks.org/) Location Sharing in Element Element Blog Article (https://element.io/blog/element-launches-e2ee-location-sharing/) 14:45 LoRa instead of Zigbee - Charlie Check out ESP8266, nRF24 , 433Mhz , 915Mhz, Lora and Express LRS Wireless actuator for home automation 433MHz/868MHz/915MHz (https://yewtu.be/watch?v=z2QEYJtNpEc (Radiocontrolli)) Transmitting an Alarm Signal with LoRa (600m)! Improving m

Week one is in the books on GrapheneOS. Noah gives the deep dive on his experience and moves the needle on Steve's skepticism. -- During The Show -- 01:30 Home Assistant on Immutable OS? - Panzer Steve likes Coreos Appliance approach Spouse factor (KISS) Ziggbee 07:55 Shout out for Heads OS - Charlie HeadsOS (https://heads.dyne.org/) 08:50 User responds to listener / SMS 2 factor? - Joey PiHole Block List (https://github.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/blob/master/SmartTV.txt) SMS 2FA & JMP.Chat 10:50 Router Questions - Vladimir Ubiquity Gear limited Controller must be online UniFi U6 Netgate Devices Protectli (https://protectli.com/) Fanless Case is a heat sync Sophos SG210/SG180/SG115 off ebay Fixable Noise 18:50 News Wire GNU Cash 5.0 Its Foss (https://news.itsfoss.com/gnucash-5-0-release/) OBS Studio 29.1 Beta OBS Project (https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/obs-studio-29-1-beta.165547/) Ubuntu Cinnamon Ubuntu Cinnamon (https://ubuntucinnamon.org) Blender 3.5 Blender (https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Referenc

This week we dig into immutable operating systems An OS where core parts of the system are locked down to prevent unwanted changes and corruption from third-party applications or a faulty update. -- During The Show -- 01:30 Caller Opening up a Minecraft server to the internet? TailScale Minecraft Servers are targets Fail2Ban SSHGuard TincVPN Bridge Mode PFSense Network Setup OwnTracks (https://owntracks.org/) 11:44 Firewall a smart TV? - Bhikhu Not really DDWRT, OpenWRT 14:30 Audacity? - Cory Summary Result Tenacity (https://tenacityaudio.org/) 19:40 News Wire New SUSE CEO Open Source Watch (https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/linux-power-suse-appoints-new-ceo-dirkpeter-van-leeuwen) RegataOS 23 Regataos (https://www.regataos.com) OpenMandriva LX 23.03 9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/openmandriva-lx-23-03-released-with-linux-6-2-mesa-23-and-kde-plasma-5-27) BlendOS Its Foss (https://news.itsfoss.com/blendos/) Porteus Kiosk 5.5 Porteus Kiosk (https://porteus-kiosk.org/news.html#230327) CBL-Mariner Updates

SCALE 2023 is a wrap and it was a blast! We introduce you to some new voices on the Linux scene as well as get an update from the projects you know and love! -- During The Show -- Parental Control of Internet - Cory OpenDNS Filtering is hard Kids have no expectation of privacy Don't trade in your "parent card" OpenSource Public Wishlist? - Dominik Next Cloud Deck Chritsmas Community (https://github.com/Wingysam/Christmas-Community) Backing up in PopOS! - Kevin Luks Encryption (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Unified_Key_Setup) VeraCrypt (https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html) Clonezilla (https://clonezilla.org/) Noah's strategy Continuing Nextcloud Journey - Micah Fast interconnect between files and server Install then mount NFS Tiny From the Bot AdGuard home News Wire Tails 5.11 Techaint (https://techaint.com/2023/03/21/anonymizing-linux-tails-5-11-compresses-memory/) Trisquel 11 OMG Linux (https://www.omglinux.com/trisquel-11-linux-distro/) SystemRescue 10 9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/arch-linux-

In this episode Noah and Steve dive into error prevention, and really organizational problem prevention! Having a plan to deal with problems in an organization is essential for organizational growth. -- During The Show -- 01:23 VPNs - Eddy Setup a firewall on the PiVPN 05:00 Tool To Install Software - Bhikhu SryRMS (https://github.com/hakerdefo/sryrms) Cuda Text (https://cudatext.github.io/index.html) 07:20 Package Manager - Daniel The idea of universal packaging Snap & Flatpak advantages 13:08 Suggestion for Dictation - Aaron Nerd Dictation (https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation) 14:09 News Wire CURL's Birthday Daniel Haxx (https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/03/10/curl-25-years-online-celebration/) Open Chat Kit Mark Tech Post (https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/03/12/together-releases-the-first-open-source-chatgpt-alternative-called-openchatkit/) BlueStar Linux 5.27.2 Source Forge (https://sourceforge.net/projects/bluestarlinux/files/distro/) Linux 6.4 & Old Config Options Phoronix (https://www.phoronix

Canonical has issued an official edict: the approved Ubuntu remixes must remove Flatpak support as of the next release. Ring video doorbell informed a customer they were required to release footage to a police department with a signed warrant. All the footage from that customers account was sent to the police. -- During The Show -- 01:37 Audio to text transcription - Dennis Mozzila Deep Speech (https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech) Kaldi (https://kaldi-asr.org/) There are others 04:29 Responding to Ep 305 Banking Issue - Nate May be ASN reputation May be IP block reputation Noah's work a round 12:00 Variety of Questions - John Rust Desk Any Desk Poor Man's VPN Simple Help Chrome Remote Desktop Low voltage can't kill you Stud finders tell you about AC power Start with a coat hanger Use samba Log into the web interface Do Not use email Huragok Asked - Display Camera Feeds Rpisurv (https://github.com/SvenVD/rpisurv) Blue Iris 27:16 News Wire Armbian 23.02 Armbian (https://www.armbian.com/newsflash/armbian-23-0

Open source voice assistant software-maker Mycroft disappointed thousands when it announced Friday it will not be sending its Linux-based smart speaker to any more people who backed the product on Kickstarter and Indiegogo, we talk SCALE 20X, and of course your questions! -- During The Show -- 01:30 Ilan & SCALE 2023 March 9-12 @ Pasadena Convention Center Keynote by Arun Gupta What's at SCALE for you! Discount Code "Noah" 10:45 Tiny Asks - Office Chair recommendation Steve's chair hunt Herman Miller - Aeron / Embody Steelcase Ikea Chair (https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/markus-office-chair-vissle-dark-gray-90289172/) Stealth Chair (https://stealthchair.com/products/stealth-pro-chair-midnight-black-large-size-seat?variant=36551583662229) 17:30 OatWalker Asks - Non-Techie Matrix Message Decryption Description Ratchet Protocol OLM and Megolm Youtube Link (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSeVHiN1dJE) Blog Post (https://blog.jabberhead.tk/2019/03/10/a-look-at-matrix-orgs-olm-megolm-encryption-protocol/) 20:50 Soft Sk

Matt is on a mission to teach 21st Century skills like coding, design, digital art and management. This involves three pillars: First, Endless Studios is a youth game making studio that teaches the skills of Silicon Valley through the power of games. Teens love games. They lean into that. The second two pillars are about ensuring that everyone can have it. Device affordability and internet access prevent billions of people from being equal citizens of the world. Endless is harnessing the power of clever financing and storage to solve these problems. The Endless dream is one in which the whole world is empowered. In which every kid is a creator. -- During The Show -- 01:10 Value for Value - Chris Boosts and Value for Value are complicated 05:05 Missing the point of Podcasting 2.0 - Jordan Not every podcast has the same aim Not all new tech is relevant Not clear cut 08:30 Home Assistant For Security? - Jeremy Home Assistant Bazeion Sensor Steve's Solution Honeywell Vista 20P Alarm Relay (https://alarmrelay.com

Jellyfin is the volunteer-built media solution that puts you in control of your media. Stream to any device from your own server, with no strings attached. Your media, your server, your way. Jellyfin joins the Ask Noah Show and we discuss their project! -- During The Show -- 00:50 ZFS & Ubuntu - Bhikhu ZFSBootMenu (https://docs.zfsbootmenu.org/en/latest/) Pepperminty Wiki (https://peppermint.mooncarrot.space/) ZFS support will continue ZSys is being deprecated Cattle not pets Snapshots are great 05:30 Getting Into Linux (Again) Volunteer for an open source project Altispeed origin story episode (ANS 267) (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/267) People are looking for talent 07:30 VLAN Server Access - Mike Gateway of last resort 11:15 HiveH from ChatRoom SG330 and XG330 essentially the same Converted WatchGuard XTM5 box to OPNSense 13:21 News Wire SCaLE 20x Linux Journal (https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/socal-linux-expo-back-20th-anniversary) LF Energy Conferences HPC Wire (https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wi

The EFF has filed an Amicus Brief challenging the constitutionality of geofence warrants. PikaOS is a distro that sets the stage for gaming on Linux, and Plasma Mobile has some updates! -- During The Show -- 01:30 Boost Discussions Feedback - Chris Agree with value for value Good instructions On Going Costs The show is to serve the audience Sponsors/Ads Relationships are more valuable than a check 17:50 Nextcloud Server - Micah Will need to be tuned for large files Use 2 servers Biggest difference between used and new is power draw Flash the HBA into TI mode Noah's large file experience VPN in Tailscale 29:20 News Wire Wine 8.0 Wine HQ (https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.0) Gnome 44 Alpha Debug Point News (https://debugpointnews.com/gnome-44-alpha/) OMG Linux (https://www.omglinux.com/gnome-44-release-date/) Plasma Mobile 23.01 Plasma Mobile (https://plasma-mobile.org/2023/01/30/january-blog-post/) Escuelas Linux 8.0 9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/escuelas-linux-8-0-educational-distro-celebrates-25-years-

Are you looking for a small server for your home or a backup server? The HP Microserver might be an option for you! We discuss along with your feedback. -- During The Show -- 01:15 Join Via Mumble Mumble Doc (https://docs.minddripmedia.com/mumble/) Join the geeklab chat Web Browser (https://minddripone.com/) Matrix Chat Client (https://matrix.to/#/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) #Mumble with what you want to ask! Opus codec 03:13 HTML to PDF Single File (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/) Monolith (https://snapcraft.io/install/monolith/ubuntu) Arcivebox (https://archivebox.io/) Wallabag (https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag) QuickEMU (https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu) Nativefier Article (https://opensource.com/article/21/11/linux-apps-nativefier) Nativefier (https://github.com/nativefier/nativefier) httrack (http://www.httrack.com) wikijs (https://js.wiki/) 06:00 Listener Comments on SATS - James UK banks doesn't allow buying sats 07:00 Ethernet using coax? - Chris MoCA Adapters

Dr. Doug Milburn President and founder of 45 Drives joins the Ask Noah Show to talk storage with their lead storage architect Mitch Hall! -- During The Show -- 01:40 News Wire Red Hat OptaPlanner Red Hat (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-build-optaplanner-now-available-red-hat-application-foundations) Kubescape SDX Central (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/interview/cncf-accepts-kubescape-as-inaugural-open-source-security-scanner/2023/01/) Kodi 20 Nexus Liliputing (https://liliputing.com/kodi-20-nexus-media-center-adds-support-for-av1-multiple-instances-of-add-ons-and-more/) GNU Cash 5.0 9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/gnucash-5-0-accounting-software-promises-new-stock-transaction-assistant-more) Libvirt 9 Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/libvirt-9.0) Unity 7.7 Getting UnityX Tux Machines (http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/01/12/Unity_7_7_Desktop_Environment_to_Get_a_UnityX_Flavor_with_Wayla.shtml) Gnome 42.8 Ubuntu Free (https://www.ubuntufree.com/gnome-42-8-enables-atomic-mode-setting-f

This week we discuss EndlessOS and why it's the best operating system to help you learn technology! Regardless if it's your kids, your friends, or your family, EndlessOS has something for you! -- During The Show -- 45 Drives Interview Please join us live! Send your 45 Drives questions to the bot! Immutable OS' - Bhikhu Fedora Silverblue (https://getfedora.org/en/silverblue/) openSUSE MicroOS (https://get.opensuse.org/microos/) NixOS (https://nixos.org/) Guix (https://guix.gnu.org/) Bismuth (https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth) Web page archiver (PDF)? - Zane wget (https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/) with flags Blog Post (https://dheinemann.com/posts/2022-02-05-archiving-a-website-with-wget) Virtualization Manager - Adrian LibVirt (https://libvirt.org/) VirtManager (https://virt-manager.org/) Virsh (https://www.libvirt.org/manpages/virsh.html) oVirt (https://www.ovirt.org/) Proxmox (https://www.proxmox.com/en/) Gnome Boxes (https://apps.gnome.org/app/org.gnome.Boxes/) News Wire Fedora Budgie Fedora (https

This hour we talk about NY right to repair bill! We discuss The fediverse is getting attention from mainstream media, and people are leaving Twitter to join Mastadon. -- During The Show -- Steve's Mini Rant Getting Sats Supporting Creators Centralized vs Decentralized Expectations 10:28 Thinkpad T470 - Charlie Don't use non OEM batteries in thinkpads Seabios, Coreboot, Libreboot Run a ThinkPad off solar 14:30 Slideshow Creators - Bhikhu Photo Film Strip Debian Repo (https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/photofilmstrip) Imagination (https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/imagination) Netlabels (https://archive.org/details/netlabels) Ektoplazm (https://ektoplazm.com/explore) Eye of Gnome (Photos) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_GNOME) Markdown Slide Shows 19:00 Listener Responds about sleep - Friso Arch Wiki - Wake Up Triggers (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management/Wakeup_triggers) Arch Wiki - Waking From Suspend with USB (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Udev#Waking_from_suspend_with_USB_device)

Have you ever thought of an object you'd like to have but for one reason or the other it didn't exist? It's easier now than ever to get into 3D printing! We give you our take on the SteamDeck and we talk funding for Matrix! -- During The Show -- 01:20 Note taking suggestion - Bhikhu Turtl App (https://turtlapp.com/) Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/) Sustainable technology is important 05:30 Wifi for Old Homes - Norm AP "zero hand off" is critical Steve - a few powerful APs Noah - Lots of low power AP Unifi U6 Unifi ACPro Place AP every 20db drop of signal approximately every 50ft RSSI 13:10 Wifi mesh? - Jeremy Mesh does not perform well 15:15 Thoughts On Flight Tracking - anon ADS-B transceivers are required on all planes Inexpensive hardware can receive ADS-B data Flight Radar 24 Making data available 20:00 Brandon Follows up RE: Firefox for multiple clients - Brandon Multi Account Containers (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/) 21:20 Cory Follows up X270 Battery - Cory OE

It's Christmas time! This hour Noah and Steve dig through their favorite gift ideas for your geek! -- During The Show -- 01:15 Intro Dakota's weather is Cold 02:00 Listener Responds to Email Backup - Griffon Fetchmail Procmail Blog Post (https://easierbuntu.blogspot.com/2011/09/managing-your-email-with-fetchmail.html?m=1) Linux.com Link (https://www.linux.com/news/process-your-email-procmail/) 04:20 Lenovo X270 issue - Cory Unplugging the charger causes throttling External battery causing issues Linux vs Windows BIOS switch Try another external battery Noticed throttling at 30% battery 09:30 Synology on AMD? - Jeremy DS1621+ (Ryzen V1500B) (https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS1621+) DS1621XS+ (Xeon D1527) (https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS1621xs+) AMD does have an answer to quick sync 12:00 Listener Response FF profiles - Peter Firefox Docs (https://docs.telemetry.mozilla.org/concepts/profile/profile_creation.html) Shortcuts with the profile name Profiles could cause issues Multi Account Contai

This hour we dig into Apple's encryption plan, a new version of KdenLive is out, Tor Bundled for Ukraine, and a new open source platform connects those in need with resources in their area. -- During The Show -- 00:45 Dakota's Weather Roads are ice rinks 02:15 2 Questions: IR Remote & Waking From Sleep - Gary IR Remote $150 or less buy used Used URC 450 Remote RF Base Mouse/Keyboard Waking up computer Different levels of sleep Reach out to System76 08:05 Email Management? - Heath Filter email as it comes in 11:40 Managing Multiple Online Accounts - Brandon Podman run per client podman run -d \ --name=client1-browser \ --security-opt seccomp=unconfined `#optional` \ -e PUID=1000 \ -e PGID=1000 \ -p 3000:3000 \ -v /path/to/config:/config \ --shm-size="1gb" \ --restart unless-stopped \ lscr.io/linuxserver/firefox:latest Multi Account Containers (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers) Noah's System 20:26 Minetest Feedback - Heidi Mine Test Liberapay (https://liberapay.com/celeron55/)