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This week we answer questions about remote connecting to Home Assistant, an automated way to backup and restore your GrapheneOS phone. We talk about the 3D printing laws that are coming on the books.

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00:50 Intro

Starting fresh vs fix what you have

Spaceship design

Designs need to distill down

Home Assistant

Noah's setup

12:00 Home Assistant - Kristian

Steve's remote solution

Tailscale exit nodes

Noah's remote solution

AirVPN

Learn wireguard

Effect of VPN

26:00 SeedVault Feedback - Dominik

Money Apps not transferring is a feature

Permissions not transferring is a feature

Really appriciate the feedback

SeedVault

Syncthing

31:00 Tech for vechiles - dashcam and gps tracking - Charlie

Viofo Dash Cam

Traccar

Understand dashcam need

US is legally requiring manufacture uplink

Vehicles are increasingly computerized

OpenPilot

38:00 News Wire

Curl 8.20 - curl.se

Qbittorrent 5.2 - qbittorrent.org

Calibre 9.8 - calibre-ebook.com

Shotcut 26.4 - shotcut.org

KdenLive - kdenlive.org

EasyOS 7.3 - puppylinux.com

4MLinux 51.1 - 4mlinux-releases.blogspot.com

Extix 26.5 - extonlinux.wordpress.com

EndeavourOS - endeavouros.com

GRML 2026.04 - grml.org

Linux Mint 22.3 - linuxmint.com

AerynOS 2026.05 - phoronix.com

PS5 Mod Installs Steam - 80.lv

Copy Fail - copy.fail

Ubuntu Integrated AI - techpowerup.com

Meta Abandons Llama - thenewstack.io

Cisco Tool - cisco.com

DOS 1.0 - zdnet.com microsoft.com

40:00 Steve's tip

Doing work at home

Drive nearing full alert

QDirStat

44:00 3D Printer Restrictions

New York proposed law

Cryptographically signing prints

Requiring cloud connection

Stopping tinkerers from tinkering

80% of people want an easy button

Effect on the market

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This week we talk about how Ai took out a production database, we answer questions on best home automation practices, and we talk a bit of storage cache.

-- During The Show --

00:48 Intro

Gratitude

Curiosity

02:30 Cache Drives - David

Terminology and discovery

ZIL (ZFS Intent Log)

Synchronous vs Asynchronous

SLOG

Mirror drives

ARC (Adaptive Replacement Cache)

Stored in RAM

L2ARC

Spill over from ARC

Work load dependant

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12:42 Nextcloud - Aryeh

Home Assistant SFTP Storage

Dumping to NFS share

*

0 2 * * * sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ trashbin:cleanup homeassistant_user

Nextcloud Docs

17:28 Home Automation - Tony

Home automations are personal

Lutron Training

Less is more

Bedroom automation

Eject handles/over-rides

Orbit Panels

31:00 SIP Server - Twobit

FS PBX

freePBX

34:17 News Wire

Kdenlive 26.04.0 - kdenlive.org

Midori 11.7 - github.com

Bleachbit 6.0 - bleachbit.org

QEMU 11.0 - qemu.org

LXQT 2.4 - lxqt-project.org

Firefox 150 - firfox.com

Thunderbird 150 - thunderbird.net

Ubuntu 26.04 - ubuntu.com

Fedora 44 - fedoramagazine.org

Tails 7.7 - tails.net

VECT 2.0 Destroys Files - thehackernews.com

Pack2TheRoot - securityweek.com

GoGra Backdoor - thehackernews.com

DeepSeek v4 - siliconangle.com

Kimi k2.6 - pandaily.com

Qwen3.6-27B - marktechpost.com

35:50 Discussion Segment

Cursor - AI first IDE

Opus - AI model

Agents

Cursor "modes"

Agent

Planning mode

Cursor wants to "resell AI" to you

The Register Cursor

Steve's AI automation mishap

AI can be amusing

Mythos

The Register Mythos

Metasploit

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This week Singpolyma joins us to talk about the Cheogram web app. We talk about NASA's Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System (O2O) and how it's changing the way long distance communication works!

-- During The Show --

00:48 - Special Guest

Singpolyam

cross platform core

Cheogram Web App

Still considered Alpha

Pretty stable

Voice, Video, Text

JMP.chat data only sim

esim adapter

Snikket

Affect of Google forcing developer registration

JMP.Chat

10:38 Comprehension debt

Creating prompts

Spec driven developing

Most people don't read the code

No person understands how the code works

Peer review vs AI

Amazon outages

When to use AI code

Re-implementing AI code

AI summary

Rating your understanding

RAID log

24:30 Linux Router - Connor

VyOS

OpenWRT

PFSense is out

Look for things with an API

PFSenseible GitHub

Site to Site in medical

Dicom

Why not to use pfSense

OPNsense

35:30 JMP.chat - Aaron

Cheogram Web App

Webapp Manager GitHub

36:15 System Fails to boot -Advait

Can't remember the last time it happened

Noah doesn't fix systems

Reinstall plus ansible

41:12 News Wire

Nginx 1.30 - nginx.org

OpenSSL 4.0 - github.com

Gnome 50.1 - gnome.org

KDE Gear 26.04 - kde.org

Mir 2.26 - ubuntu.com

Linux 7.1 - theregister.com

Zorin OS 18.1 - blog.zorin.com

Solus 4.9 - getsol.us

Cachy OS has 7.0 Kernel - xda-developers.com

Thunderbolt AI Client - phoronix.com

Cal Closeing Source Code - zdnet.com

42:25 Sleuth's Feedback

VyOS

Uses a JSON config file

Have the system make backups

Supports podman containers

System failing to boot

Your data is still there

Boot from a live distro

45:30 Artemis II Mission

Crew Module

ESM - European Service Module

Radio waves

O2O communications

1 watt of power

focused beam, sensitive receiver

260 MbPs

TechSpot

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This week Noah and Steve talk about the difference between MCP and skills and why it matters!

-- During The Show --

00:50 Intro

Weather

Audio Levels

02:00 Steve's AI Rabbit Hole

AI may change, but is here to stay

Garmin Data

Tested 14 models

How they performed

Mumble Doc

What are tokens

MCP server vs skills

Email is out dated

Environmental cost

25:18 Copy On Write - Jayson

Benefits of COW file systems

Compression

Steve is not a ZFS "expert"

Block size

SSD vs HDD for databases

Avoid COW inside VM

36:32 RaidZ Questions - D

Mirrored Pairs

Use SSD/Solid State

UGreen NAS

43:30 Authentication - Avri

Pocket-ID GitHub

Open Source SSO

45:20 MakeMKV Feedback - archer72 (KD9VMW)

MakeMKV Error

Hacker Public Radio 4564

46:11 AV Codecs - Atypical

How do you add AV codecs into EndlessOS?

Flatpak with codecs

47:20 Axis Door Stations - TwoBit

They are great, everything is standard

48:00 News Wire

Peazip 11.0 - github.io

GNU Nano 9.0 - nano-editor.org

KDE Frameworks 6.25 - kde.org

KDE Plasma 6.6.4 - kde.org

OpenSSL 3.6.2 - github.com

Extix 26.4 - linux.exton.net

Plop Linux 26.2 - plop.at

Snal Linux 1.40 - sourceforge.net

PearOS Nice Core 26.4 - pearos.xyz

Trisquel 12.0 - phoronix.com

GLM 5.1 - venturebeat.com

Ising - nvidia.com

France Switches to Linux - linuxiac.com

49:16 AI in Health Care

Class Action Law Suit over AI transcription

Who can be subpoenaed?

Informed consent

Epic Everywhere

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This week Noah and Steve address the blueprint OpenAI CEO Sam Altman published.

-- During The Show --

00:50 Intro

486 being removed from Linux

Nixsys.com

Noah's early experience

Drawing a living off open source

Trends and walled gardens

09:12 Linux Tablets - Tobias

Users experiences

Steve struggles to find a use case

Noah's experiences

PineTab2

16:38 Refrigeration/Cooling - Graham

Wildly inefficient heating

Boiler plants

23:08 Wiki for Church - Dustin

WikiJS

XWiki

Markdown

WYSIWYG

Where to start

Steve's WikiJS Patch

34:28 News Wire

OpenTTD 15.3 - openttd.org

Archinstall 4.0 - xda-developers.com

Gnome 49.5 - gnome.org

Peazip 11 - github.io

Elive 3.8.50 - distrowatch.com

4mLinux 51.0 - 4mlinux.com

AerynOS 2026.03 - aerynos.com

Netrunner 26 - netrunner.com

Omarchy 3.5 - github.com

MX Linux Pushes Back - linuxjournal.com

Removing 486 - tomshardware.com

Meta AI - axios.com

Trinity-Large-Thinking - venturebeat.com Arcee.ai

Gemma 4 - ciodive.com

35:45 AI Overlords

Sam Altman's white paper

How useful AI will be for the average person

Spend commitments

90% of AI failing in enterprise

Robots building robots

Robot tax

Containment playbooks for dangerous AI

Economic survival from robots

General Super AI (AI Singularity)

ArsTechnica

Tech4Gamers.com

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