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Immich provides a consistant photo experience across devices, and across family members. This week Noah and Steve give you a deep dive into Immich. We answer your questions, and give you a brief look at news from this week.
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00:52 Steve's review process
Two different review styles
It's like a BBQ Gril
02:30 OpenShift In Labs - Ole
Fine for home use
Learn how to rebuild the cluster
Treat it like an enterprise product
OpenShift can be heavy
10:00 Continuing Computerized Car Convo - James
Remote car take overs are a problem
Auto makers are more aware now
Cars are drive by wire now
13:56 Episode 414 - Max
Nano is for gentlemen
Vim is for ninjas
Automation shortcuts on iOS
Things can be hit or miss on iOS
18:30 News Wire
Gparted Live 1.7.0 - gparted.org (https://gparted.org/news.php?item=257)
Binutils 2.44 - lists.gnu.org (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2025-02/msg00001.html)
Thunderbird 134.0 - thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/134.0/releasenotes/)
Archbank 2701 - sourceforge.net (https://sourceforge.net/projects/archbang/files/ArchBang/archbang-2701-x86_64.iso/)
KaOS 2025.01 - kaosx.us (https://kaosx.us/news/2025/kaos01/)
Parrot 6.3 - parrotsec.org (https://www.parrotsec.org/blog/2025-01-31-parrot-6.3-release-notes/)
Nitrux 3.9 - nxos.org (https://nxos.org/psa/psa-nitrux-3-9-0/)
Ai2 Tulu 3 405B LLM - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/ai2-releases-tulu-3-a-fully-open-source-model-that-bests-deepseek-v3-gpt-4o-with-novel-post-training-approach/)
EU Investing 56 Million - bestofai.com (https://bestofai.com/article/the-eu-is-betting-56-million-on-open-source-ai)
Small 3 - zdnet.com (https://www.zdnet.com/article/mistral-ai-says-its-small-3-model-is-a-local-open-source-alternative-to-gpt-4o-mini/)
Oumi - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/ex-google-apple-engineers-launch-unconditionally-open-source-oumi-ai-platform-that-could-help-to-build-the-next-deepseek/)
20:18 Immich Review
Story behind Immich
Why Steve deployed Immich
Been in use for 3 months
Does what the tin says
Min of 2 CPUs and 4GB RAM
Can be resource intensive
Using containers for everything
Critical Path/Knowing how things work
Official install is via docker compose
env file
Documentation is pretty good
Impressed by Immich's development and progress
Interface is great
Great for finding pictures
Global hotspot map
Tagging
Facial and object recognition
How Immich puts files on the file system
Metadata isn't shared between users
De-duplication and stacking
Partner Sharing
Highlights old photos
Feature rich compared to google and apple photos
Strong emphasis on privacy
Good mobile app
No E2EE
Wouldn't expose this to the Internet
Hasn't overcome muscle memory
Developer's don't consider it "production ready"
Backing up
Exit strategy
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Ask Noah Show 425
This week we dig into your feedback, talk about an FPGA Playstation, and talk about Chinese AI.
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00:50 Weather
Unusual warm spell
Extreme weather gear
03:00 Photos! - Anthony
Flatbed scanner
Handheld scanner
Don't like the "scanning services"
Epson Perfection
Resolution of source material
Canon LIdi
Stay away from phones
Make sure you have enough bandwidth
11:15 ttyusb - Jason
Udev rules
Ask an LLM
13:21 Cheque printing - Micah
Use a template
Quick Books Online
16:32 Questions - Atypical
HACS (https://hacs.xyz/)
Steve pulls several things from HACS
BMC control in Home Assistant
You do over extend yourself
Can be deeply rewarding
Have a prioritizing plan
25:36 News Wire
MySQL 9.2 - mysql.com (https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/9.2/en/news-9-2-0.html)
Dovecot 2.4 - dovecot.org (https://dovecot.org/mailman3/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/UYNR6GBP25XEGFCS633SWPR4HXV3NSS3/)
Ventoy 1.1 - ventoy.net (https://ventoy.net/en/download.html)
Gnome 46.8 - discourse.gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-46-8-released/26405)
Gnome 47.3 - discourse.gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-47-3-released/26411)
Wine 10.0 - gitlab.winehq.org (https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-10.0)
Linux 6.13 - lkml.org (https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/1/19/281)
GNU Linux-Libre 6.13 - fsfla.org (https://www.fsfla.org/pipermail/linux-libre/2025-January/003569.html)
Rockoon - businesswire.com (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250128753886/en/Mirantis-Launches-Open-Source-Software-that-Streamlines-OpenStack-Management-on-Kubernetes)
Solus 4.7 - getsol.us (https://getsol.us/2025/01/26/solus-4-7-released/)
BloodyAD - helpnetsecurity.com (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/01/28/bloodyad-active-directory-privilege-escalation/)
Deepseek's New Models - hackaday.com (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/27/new-open-source-deepseek-v3-language-model-making-waves/)
CISA Alert
Power Grid PLC's put online
Massive Change in Tech Industry
Meta content moderation
Deep Seek
Hireing practices
CISA (https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/01/16/cisa-and-partners-release-call-action-close-national-software-understanding-gap)
CISA PDF (https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2025-01/joint-guidance-closing-the-software-understanding-gap-508c.pdf)
32:11 Thunderbird Notifications
Desktop notifications
Matrix included
33:42 Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5090
very expensive
Good GPU for AI/ML
New Thermal Grease
Different drivers for Quadro cards
40:30 FPGA Playstation One Emulator
Clock speed
Emulators get close enough
Today's games will not be playable in future
Industry has a cycle
ArsTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/01/new-fpga-powered-retro-console-re-creates-the-playstation-one-cd-rom-drive-optional/)
47:50 DeepSeek
DeepSeek Chinese AI
DeepSeek claims to train on a fraction of time and money
Worry is that it will over take US models
Steve uses perplexity (https://www.perplexity.ai/)
Real concern is great reduction required training resources
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Ask Noah Show 424
This week we dig into your questions, and talk about Nvidia's new AI rig.
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00:56 George From NYC
Used computers for a church
Lenovo laptops and Thinkcenters
Dell Optiplex
Ebay
Made in the last 4 years
Make sure they have TPM 2.0
04:50 Noah's new toy
Flipper Zero (https://flipperzero.one/)
Electronic multi-tool
Had to legitimately bypass access control
Read and emulate RFID and NFC
Lots of Apps
08:58 HVAC - Ziggy
Zigbee timer system?
Wouldn't put the timer on device
Steve's solution
Why timers?
14:20 Battery Pack - Erik
Anderson Power Pole
Deep Cycle SLA
INIU
100w Type C Dewalt Battery Adapter (https://www.amazon.com/Converter-Battery-Adapter-Regulator-Terminal/dp/B0CQJDGQDB)
Offical Dewalt USB C Adapter (https://www.dewalt.com/product/dcb094k/20v-maxflexvolt-5-amp-usb-charging-kit?tid=577811)
83w 12v USB Outlet (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B1DHNLDS?ref=fed_asin_title)
21:40 NFS vs S3 for Home Lab - Brendan
Recoverability
Added complexity
Would lean away from S3/Minio
Hard to recover broken S3 file system
It's ok to play with technology
28:21 Nextcloud Office - IK
All-In-One master container
Steve's attempt
Not all Docker containers are official
33:52 News Wire
Dillo 3.2 - github.io (https://dillo-browser.github.io/release/3.2.0/)
OpenZFS 2.3 - github.com (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases)
Rsync 3.4 - samba.org (https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.4.0)
Linux Mint 22.1 - linuxmint.com (https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_xia.php)
Rhino Linux 2025.1 - rhinolinux.org (https://blog.rhinolinux.org/news-17)
TuxCare Now Offering EOL MS Support - fossforce.com (https://fossforce.com/2025/01/tuxcare-stops-microsoft-from-killing-net-6-0/)
Merit Systems Trying to Fund Open Source Devs - cnbc.com (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/16/merit-systems-raises-10-million-from-a16z-blockchain-capital.html)
MiniMax Models - scmp.com (https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3294900/chinese-ai-start-minimax-releases-low-cost-open-source-models-rival-top-chatbots)
35:00 Ebook 2 Audio Book
Ebook2Audiobook (https://github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook/blob/main/README.md)
Uses "local AI"
Many types of text input
Runs on CPU or GPU
Surprised at the quality
Steve's kid's apprenticeship
Society has developed an aversion to anything "hard"
Teaching the value of work and learning
42:00 Getting Started with AI
What is AI?
Math coprocessors
CPUs are "generalist" processors
GPUs are "specialized" processors
CUDA Cores
NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip (https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/project-digits/)
3 Classes of GPUs
Design software story
Project Digits (https://newsroom.arm.com/blog/arm-nvidia-project-digits-high-performance-ai)
LMStudio.at (https://lmstudio.ai/)
GPT4All (https://docs.gpt4all.io/)
TecMint.com (https://www.tecmint.com/ai-for-linux-users/)
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Ask Noah Show 423
This week we get an update from the Ovens Data Center. Steve migrates a box from Ubuntu to Red Hat, and of course we answer your questions!
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00:50 Intro
Deadly cold weather
Oven's data center update
Spending "cloud money" on local media
05:55 Custom RHEL ISO
ISO build system
Red Hatters building all kinds of custom ISOs
Why a custom ISO
Red Hat Doc (https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/composing_a_customized_rhel_system_image/index)
Why switch to RHEL
Professional Linux support
Mixed environment?
20:20 CES
POE powered TV
ArsTechnica Atricle (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/01/the-8-most-interesting-pc-monitors-from-ces-2025/)
Basecase (https://getbasecase.com/)
Crowd funding
Questions about interfaces
Powered over barrel connector
Very expensive
29:58 News Wire
Firefox 134 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/134.0/releasenotes/)
Flatpak 1.16 - github.com (https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/1.16.0)
KDE Frameworks 6.10 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/6/6.10.0/)
Tails 6.11 - blog.torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-611/)
Debian 12.9 - debian.org (https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250111)
16GB Raspberry PI 5 - raspberrypi.com (https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/16gb-raspberry-pi-5-on-sale-now-at-120/)
Nvidia Desktop AI "Super Computer" - theverge.com (https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/8/24339195/nvidia-digits-ai-supercomputer-in-person-photos-small)
Phi-4 Fully Open-Source - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/microsoft-makes-powerful-phi-4-model-fully-open-source-on-hugging-face/)
Sky-T1-32B-Preview - techcrunch.com (https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/11/researchers-open-source-sky-t1-a-reasoning-ai-model-that-can-be-trained-for-less-than-450/) zdnet.com (https://www.zdnet.com/article/450-and-19-hours-is-all-it-takes-to-rival-openais-o1-preview/)
30:55 Social Media/Decentralized Networks
Mastodon shifting to being owned by a non-profit
Creator wants users in control of Mastodon
People are choosing to embrace the open source decentralized option
Network effect is starting to weaken in favor of interoperability
ArsTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/mastodon-becomes-nonprofit-to-make-sure-its-never-ruined-by-billionaire-ceo/)
36:15 OpenZFS 2.3
Support for Linux 4.18, up to Linux 6.12 LTS
Adding new devices to existing RaidZ pool
9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/openzfs-2-3-is-out-with-linux-6-12-support-raidz-expansion-fast-dedup-and-more)
38:30 Red Hat In-Vehical OS
Standardized domains
ISO 26262 Automotive Safety Integrity Level B (ASIL-B)
thefastmode.com (https://www.thefastmode.com/technology-solutions/38950-red-hat-achieves-functional-safety-certification-for-in-vehicle-operating-system)
41:10 ZFS/QCOW2 - Carey
Double writes
ZFS doesn't support trim
Options
Snapshots
Copying a QCOW2 file can be tricky
47:54 Daughters Internet Access - Vlad
Shut off Internet access entirely
Take the device
Internet is different than technology
49:20 Politics in Software - Max
Does the project throw it in your face?
Be the bigger person
Don't tolerate treating people badly because they don't agree with you
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Ask Noah Show 422
-- During The Show --
00:50 Christmas Break
Got to dig in to personal projects
02:22 YouTube Aggressive IP Bans
YouTube starting to ban even home IPs
Pinchflat (https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat)
Feed YouTube a login cookie
Not doing anything from your own IP
GitHub Link (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/11868)
Google went to court to shut down yt-dlp
This is the next step
If you don't own it, you're SOL
Javascript is open source
15:00 News Wire
Sysvinit 3.13 - github.com (https://github.com/slicer69/sysvinit/releases/tag/3.13)
Peazip 10.2 github.com (https://github.com/peazip/PeaZip/releases/)
GE-Proton 9.22 - gamingonlinux.com (https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/ge-proton-9-22-released-with-lots-of-game-fixes-for-linux-steam-deck/)
Berry Linux 1.40 - berry-lab.net (https://berry-lab.net/changelog.html)
Pentoo Linux 2025 - pentoo.ch (https://www.pentoo.ch/downloads)
SparkyLinux - 7.6 sparkylinux.org (https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-7-6/)
Nobara v41 -nobaraproject.org (https://nobaraproject.org/category/changelog/)
Steam Survey Results- phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-December-2024)
16:20 Immich Follow-up
How to implement with out disrupting things
Remote AI processing
Putting it into production
External library
The "sanctioned way" is run it in docker
Container host inside a VM
V-Host resources
Immich tells you not to use it as a backup
The good and bad
36:30 Cabling Network - Dan
Both Noah and Steve prefer wired connections
Converting photons to/from electrons is expensive
Multi mode vs Single mode
Transceivers
Fiber Cable (https://www.amazon.com/FLYPROFiber-Fiber-Patch-Length-Options/dp/B08YV47MX9/)
SFP Switch (https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-Switch-Aggregation-Managed-USW-Aggregation/dp/B08QGD9HHG/)
PCI Card (https://www.amazon.com/Ethernet-Broadcom-BCM57810S-Controller-Interface/dp/B06X9T683K)
Noah ran Cat6 in his house
Steve's thoughts on running fiber
45:11 Fire hazard management - Jeremy
Call the fire department and get out
3-2-1 backup policy
There are different kinds of fire extinguishers
Practice using a fire extinguisher
Heat sensors
Honeywell smokes
Alarm Relay (https://alarmrelay.com/)
Home Assistant
Noah's emergency plan
Ark Fault breakers
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