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This week we talk about alternative ways to remote into your PC. Eric the IT guy joins us to talk about BootC, and we celebrate Linux' 35 birthday!

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00:48 Intro

Being a perfectionist

PLA 3D printing

06:00 Remoting in - David

Archiving 35mm photos and 8mm film

Mainframes

Sunshine and Moonlight over Tailscale

Cyclical trends

Convergence device

Interface to the "mainframe"

"Hack" steam streaming

15:41 BootC Interview

EricTheItGuy - Eric Hendricks

What is bootc

Why bootc?

Roll back and reproduce-ability

Updates

Troubleshooting

Initial experience

What you should know first

Mind shift

Local bootc

Advantages of bootc

Getting started

Installing the desktop

Eric's bootc pitch

41:30 Happy Birthday Linux

Linux turns 35 years old

Impact of Linux on Steve

Impact of Linux on Eric

Impact of Linux on Noah

The world runs Linux

9 to 5 Linux

49:24 Struggling with "Good Enough"

Building bridges

Loosing sight of the MVP

Steve's example

Eric's example

Being good stewards

Write in!

News Wire

KDE Gear 26.08 has been released

Filezilla 3.71 is now available

RPM 6.1 is out

Rust 1.98 has been released

COSMIC Desktop 1.6 is now available

Thunderbird 154 is out

Firefox 154 is also out

The GNU Linux-libre 7.2-gnu has been released

The tails team has announced the availability of Tails 7.11

Garuda Linux has pushed out its latest release

Slackware based Porteux 2.8 is now out

OpenAI Open Sources Codex Harness Framework

TrueFoundry's open source AI agent harness TrueForge boasts 30%-75% cheaper task completion than Claude Managed Agents

AT&T is Using Open Source Models to Curb Anthropic Bills

A New Nonprofit Aims to Build Open-Source Software for the ARM Industry

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This week we talk about when is it appropriate to fix problems, and when is it scope creep. Plus, the second installment of our new SteveScale segment!

-- During The Show --

00:45 Intro

Rabbit holes

02:30 Comodore phone - Charlie

Flip phone

Sailfish OS

Commodore Phone

04:37 Cameras - Tyler

Agara (AQARA?) Hub

Camera flood light combo

AQARA to homekit

Honeywell Vista 20P Panel

Eyezon EVL4(https://www.eyezon.com/envisalink_evl4_smart_alarm_dsc_honeywell_no_monthly_fees.html)

Silicon Lab CP210

Alarm Relay

12:50 News Wire

Postgres 18.6 - postgresql.org

GIMP 3.4 - phoronix.com

Rsync 3.5 - lwn.net

QEMU 11.1 - phoronix.com

Linux 7.2 - phoronix.com

KDE Frameworks 6.29 - kde.org

Linux Mint HWE 22.3 - linuxmint.com

Sparklinux 8.4 - sparkylinux.org

Manjaro 26.1 - daily.dev

Meta Glimmer 30b - huggingface.co

LTX 2.5 - huggingface.co

Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B - huggingface.co

DeepSeek-V4-Pro - huggingface.co

Qwen3.8-27B - huggingface.co

Debian Turns 33 - bits.debian.org

14:35 Church Tech

Church "Tech Booth"

Stripped everything down

Built a tech both

Traced and labeled all the lines

Plugged everything back in

Re-Configured the mixer

Beringer XR18 with X Air Edit

FreeShow

OBS

Streamdeck with BitFocus Companion

Angry Audio interface

21:30 Oven's Data Center

Let us know if you want to hear about storage and backup

Laying down infrastructure

Local git Forgejo

GitHub vs GitLab vs Others

Secret Management

Ansible Vault

KeePass

Hashicorp Vault

OpenBao

Running into problems

RLIMIT_MEMLOCK

Docker registry

Comfy UI

MiniMax H3

Thunder Compute

Fish Audio

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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

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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

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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

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