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This week we take your feedback give an update on Steve's son's server. We talk some Xsession woes, Noah gives you an update on access control and credentials, and Steve has some thoughts on Apple.

-- During The Show --

00:42 Intro

Conference season

Seasons of Life

Each conference has something different

03:15 Steve's Audio Issues - bout10bucks

Jellyfin and Kodi

MKV containers

What Steve was doing

06:22 Steve's Son's Server and other things - Norm

Steve's son and Linux

Parenting

Applying pressure

Noah's listening

Audio Books

Jupiter Broadcasting

Darknet Diaries

Steve's listening

Jupiter Broadcasting

Coder Radio

Late Night Linux

AI Fix

Smashing Security

Getting a company to open source code

Open Source community can be hostile

Gather info before hand

What is the benefit to the company

Licensing

Linux Conference Talk

21:16 Charlie's Xsession woes - Charlie

How to disable error generation into the xsession file

What is an xsession file

AI is good at parsing log files

25:41 News Wire

Postfix 3.11 - postfix.org

Handbrake 1.11 - handbrake.fr

Digikam 9.0 - digikam.org

Docker 29.3 - docker.com

SQLite 3.52 - sqlite.org

Rust 1.94 - releases.rs

GTK 4.22 - gitlab.gnome.org

KDE Plasma 6.6.2 - kde.org

Nvidia 595 Driver - phoronix.com

CIQ Kernel - yahoo.com

ZeroRISC Crypto Stack - thequantuminsider.com

Fake Laravel Packages - thehackernews.com

RELIANOID Community Edition v7.9 - relianoid.com

Austrumi 5.2 - ftp.linux.edu.lv

CachyOS March 2026 release - cachyos.org

T2 26.3 Desktop Edition - t2linux.com

Nitrux 6.0 - nxos.org

NemoClaw - cnbc.com

Google Always On Memory Agent - venturebeat.com

Database to Study Cancer - hopkinsmedicine.org

27:20 Access Control Credentials

Wiegand and OSDP

Flipper Zero

Types of credentials

TM Dallas

Proxmark3

33:55 Steve's Apple Observations

Cellphone in laptop form factor

Eats into "low end devices"

Unified memory and VRAM

Developers already targeting Mac

Cost to running Linux

Linux's answer

Developer angle

47:29 GrapheneOS & Motorola

Annouced at Mobile World Congress

Buying a Pixel to load other operating systems

Android Authority.com

Motorola News

51:00 Age Verification Built into OS

California is requiring age verification in the OS

What is expected of other operating systems

Now is the time to speak up

How it effects Linux

itsfoss.com

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This week Noah gives an update on the Chinesium access controller, Steve has a problem with 7.1 audio and works out a solution with Noah, and of course your feedback!

-- During The Show --

00:48 Intro

Weather

Snark

02:08 Game Server Access - David

Proxy

Wireguard

Nebula

Tailscale

Put Linux on the Sophos

Dynamic DNS

Name Cheap

Port Forwarding

Swap the drive

Docs.sophos.com

11:20 Static One Liners - Dominick

Bunch of helpful tools and one liners

Github Link

Scope creep

13:53 Cat6 or 6a - Ted

Always pull the latest

Vertical Cable

Fiber vs Ethernet

Down sides of fiber (conduit)

OCC Fiber

DZ Cable

23:50 News Wire

Firefox 148.0 - firefox.com

Thunderbird 148 - thunderbird.net

Postgres 18.3 - postgresql.org

SciTE 5.6 - scintilla.org

Dbeaver 26 - dbeaver.io

GNU Groff 1.24 - lwn.net

GNU Octave v11 - octave.org

Shotcut 26.2 - shotcut.org

Ardour 9.2 - ardour.org

Calibre 9.4 - manual.calibre-ebook.com

Linux EOL Dates Getting Pushed Back - social.kernel.org

React Foundation - prnewswire.com

GNU Hurd Kernel 64 bit - guix.gnu.org

Mabox Linux 26.02 - lwn.net

4MLinux 50.1 - 4mlinux.com

Omarchy 3.4 - github.com

TheSSS 51.0 - 4mlinux.blogspot.com

AV Linux 25.1 - heise.de

Archbang 0103 - archbang.org

PorteusX 2.6 - github.com

Aeryn OS 2026.02 - phoronix.com

BunsenLabs Carbon - bunsenlabs.org

Tails 7.5 - tails.net

Qwen3.5-Medium Performance - venturebeat.com

Kali Linux & AI - linkedin.com

25:30 Steve's Audio Problems

Loud sound effects, quiet speech

Steve's approach

Easy Effects

Browser plugins

Looking online

Asking AI

Tune the receiver

Applying the solution multiple places

Sound isolation

Aurdor

Carla

Compressor

x42 plugins

Real time Kernel

Easier than it looks

Write in with your solutions!

Kodi Plugins and settings

Reddit

Vero V

50:50 Access Control Update

TM Dallas controller arrived

Downsides/limitations

Reader was "hot garbage"

54:07 Scale

Scale is going on!

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This week we focus on your feedback! Questions about NextCloud, questions about best practices for remote storage, and of course the latest headlines from JT!

-- During The Show --

Thermostat for Garage - Jayson

Garage Heater

Inside heat control

Wireless vs hardwired

Hydro radiant heat

Home Assistant centralizes everything

Venstar T7900

WiFi issues

More Private AI? - Anon

Training data

Taking AI offline

Duck AI

techradar.com

Immich & Other things - Fey

Immich in the Oven's Household

Noah's experience with updates

Ente

Having things come back up in order

Backups vs Snapshots

Offline backups

Tape backups

3 - 2 - 1 strategy

Mail-in-a-Box

Self hosting password manager

Nextcloud Alternative - HJ

Default tuning is not great

Trouble shooting can be difficult

How Steve updates

Noah uses a playbook

Finding alternatives

Add-ons "sell" Nextcloud

News Wire

OpenTTD 15.2 - tt-forums.net

GNU Awk 5.4 - lwn.net

Pipewire 1.6 - phoronix.com

DNF 5.4 - phoronix.com

KDE Plasma 6.6 - kde.org

EasyOS 7.2 - bkhome.org

SparkyLinux 8.2 - sparkylinux.org

Xubuntu Wallpaper Contest - discourse.ubuntu.com

Gentoo Moving to Codeberg - linuxjournal.com

Cline CLI Attack - scworld.com

SecureClaw - securityweek.com helpnetsecurity.com

Buzzdetect - entomologytoday.org

AI Slop Drowning Godot - pcgamer.com

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-- During The Show --

00:48 Intro

No Steve this week

Awesome piece of hardware

01:39 News Wire

OpenVPN 2.7 - community.openvpn.net

Mesa 26.0 - mesa3d.org

KDE Frameworks 6.23 - kde.org

Gnome 49.4 - gnome.org

Vim 9.2 vim.org

GNU Linux Libre 6.19 - fsfla.org

GNU Binutils 2.46 - phoronix.com

Tinycore 17 - tinycorelinux.net

Debian 13.3 - voyagerlive.org

Pear OS 26.2 - pearos.xyz

MythTV 36 - mythtv.org

Parrot 7.1 - linuxiac.com

SSHStalker - bleepingcomputer.com

LockBit 5.0 - helpnetsecurity.com

GLM-5 - venturebeat.com

03:00 Chinesium Access Control

Access Control Disclaimer

4 components in access control

Power

Controller

Credentials and reader

Locking mechanism

Door monitors

Embedded door sensor Amazon

Use access control wiring

Honeywell genesis wire

Vertical Cable

Run everything to a central place

Avoid using cloud

Use high quality equipment

Adamsrite 7400

Securiton electromagnetic lock

ASSA ABLOY

Don't use odd credentials

MIFARE

Wiegand

Mercury Access Controllers

Access A1001

OSDP protocol

Chinesium Access ControllerAmazon

Chinesium Card reader Amazon

Leosac

41:57 Ring and Flock cut ties

"Familiar Faces"

Flock Camera's

Privacy concerns

EFF

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This week we talk music! Noah gets hands on with the Zynthian. Matrix is slowly taking over governments. The timing couldn't be better, Discord is requiring age verification.

-- During The Show --

00:50 Intro

No Steve this week

Call in!

Join the GeekLab

01:30 Fun with Linux Audio - Wayne

Helm Synth

Vital Synth

Tal NoizeMaker

Cardinal

Surge Synth

LSP Plugins

Calf Plugins

Reaper

ToneLib-GFX

kxstudio repositories

Struggle to get LV2 plugins to work

Tal baseline

MIDI

Noah's light bulb moment

Backing tracks

Cloud based

16:16 Dell HDDs - TwoBit

Never seen Dell requiring special drives

Requirements by card and drive specs

No longer using hardware raid

HBA Mode

Flashing HBA Firmware

Buy pre-flashed card

Use each drive as it's own raid array

20:16 News Wire

GCompris 26 - gcompris.net

LibreOffice 216.2 - documentfo8undation.org

Ardour - ardour.org

Calibre 9.1 - calibre-ebook.com

Peazip 10.9 - github.com

Linux 6.19 - lkml.org

Oracle Linux 7 - oracle.com

LiteBox - helpnetsecurity.com

GoogleSQL - developer-tech.com

Toyota Open Source Game Engine - techzine.eu

Open Source Chest CT Model - nature.com

21:16 Zynthian

Zynthian

No Soldering

Requires gentle "clock makers hand"

Based on a Raspberry Pi

Professional audio system

How it's built

First power up and usage

34:10 Matrix Protocol

Matrix Protocol is taking over

Digital sovereignty

The Register

Seems to solve problems

Beeper

41:45 Discord KYC

Requiring ID verification

Discords background inference model

Landscape for social media and connecting people

Noah's story of connecting

KNOX chat room

gomuks

The Register

51:20 Ring Camera's

Search Party

Ring has a history

eff.org

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