This week Noah tells the story of how Altispeed built a solar system for a remote camera for a daycare. Tiny joins to discuss the value of metric and why he believes Victoria Metrics does it better.
-- During The Show --
00:55 Graphics Cards
When do you update graphics cards
Watching prices, trying to buy
Bought 5060ti
Quadro P6000 Sold in 2 Min
What is driving the cost?
Over Time
"Unplugging"
Mature Leaders
High Intensity/Surge Seasons
Talking through movies
16:05 Solar Camera System
Camera's on a playground
Trenching and conduit
Hanging wire from utility poles
Shed with no power or network
Solar powered camera setup
Greentech Renewables (https://www.greentechrenewables.com)
Noah's Battery Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKNJ5ZBP?)
LiTime (https://www.litime.com/products/litime-12v-100ah-lithium-lifepo4-battery)
Unifi SunMax SolarPoint Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Sunmax-SolarPoint/dp/B0965KBVFM/)
Trouble shooting, lay it out first
Nano Beams 5AC
Axis Camera
Industrial 24v Switch Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BWN147HZ?)
Enphase System
Metrics, data nerds
Victoria Metrics (https://victoriametrics.com/)
Victoria Metrics Docs (https://docs.victoriametrics.com/guides/)
Grafana (https://grafana.com/)
Solar Cable Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09BYGJGTB?)
MC4 Crimper Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKTFRSZ4?)
HQST Solar (https://hqsolarpower.com/)
SOK Battery (https://www.us.sokbattery.com/)
Victron Charge Controllers (https://www.victronenergy.com/solar-charge-controllers)
48:30 Sustainability
ANS 424 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/424)
Reproduce-ability
Minimalism
Access Control System
News Wire
Deluge 2.2.0 - deluge.readthedocs.io (https://deluge.readthedocs.io/en/deluge-2.2.0/)
OpenZFS 2.3.2 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.3.2-Released)
Bleachbit 500 - bleachbit.org (https://www.bleachbit.org/news/bleachbit-500)
Thunderbird 138.0 - Thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/138.0/releasenotes/)
Firefox 138.0 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/138.0/releasenotes/)
QBittorrent 5.1.0 - qbittorrent.org (https://www.qbittorrent.org/news)
Redis Open Source Again - thenewsstack.io (https://thenewstack.io/redis-is-open-source-again/)
Tails 6.15 - torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-6_15/)
4MLinux 48.0 - 4mlinux-releases.blogspot.com (https://4mlinux-releases.blogspot.com/2025/04/4mlinux-480-stable-released.html)
Commodore OS 3 - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/06/commodore_os_3/)
AnduinOS - zdnet.com (https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-windows-11-like-linux-distribution-is-aimed-squarely-at-developers/)
Malicious Go Modules - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/malicious-go-modules-deliver-disk.html)
AI Threat Defense - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/rsac-2025-cisco-and-meta-put-open-source-ai-at-the-heart-of-enterprise-threat-defense/)
Meta's AI Model Goes to Space - fb.com (https://about.fb.com/news/2025/04/space-llama-metas-open-source-ai-model-heading-into-orbit/)
Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-V2 - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/nvidia-launches-fully-open-source-transcription-ai-model-parakeet-tdt-0-6b-v2-on-hugging-face/)
LTXV-13B - siliconangle.com (https://siliconangle.com/2025/05/06/lightricks-shakes-ai-video-creation-powerful-open-source-model/)
Linux Inside MS Excel - tomshardware.com (https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/developer-gets-linux-running-inside-microsoft-excel-mostly-for-fun)
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53:52
Ask Noah Show 439
This week we dig into "Nixbook", a Linux distro designed to make old laptops into Chromebooks. Noah fell down the Nix rabbit hole, and of course we answer your questions.
-- During The Show --
00:50 Generosity
Experiencing generosity
A bunch of computers about to flood the market
03:50 Mike Kelly (Olympia Mike)
Used laptop during Covid19
Became known for used laptops
Company gifts used laptops
Closing the technical divide
Updates
Package Confusion
NixOS
Olympia Mike's nixbook (https://github.com/mkellyxp/nixbook)
How to help out
Powerwashing
13:15 Noah's Nixbook Experience
Give Noah a toy and remove distractions for 5+ hours
Throw out everything you know
Where NixOS fits
Rollback functionality
Going to drive Nixbook till hitting a roadblock
Can't live in a flatpak world
Ansible is the hammer that hits the most nails
How long to get up and running on Nix
Have to adopt the "nix way"
NixOS Flakes (https://nixos-and-flakes.thiscute.world/introduction/)
Nix Language (https://nix.dev/tutorials/nix-language)
31:25 News Wire
Nginx 1.28.0 - unit.nginx.org (https://unit.nginx.org/news/2022/unit-1.28.0-released/)
GCC 15.1 - devclass.com (https://devclass.com/2025/04/28/gnu-compiler-collection-15-1-released-cobol-support-improved-rust-compatibility-concerns/)
Cosmic Alpha.7 - blog.system76.com (https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-7-never-been-beta)
QEMU 10.0 - qemu.org (https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/10.0)
Chainguard $356M Raised - bankinfosecurity.com (https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/chainguard-raises-356m-to-protect-open-source-supply-chain-a-28075)
Open Source 5G/6G Software - breakingdefense.com (https://breakingdefense.com/2025/04/pentagon-seeks-open-source-software-for-5g-6g-networks/)
Crux 3.8 - crux.nu (https://crux.nu/Main/ReleaseNotes3-8)
Archcraft Prime ISO - wiki.archcraft.io (https://wiki.archcraft.io/news/49-news-release)
4mLinux 48.0 Stable - 4mlinux.com (https://4mlinux.com/index.php?page=home)
Openmandriva 6.0 - wiki.openmandriva.org (https://wiki.openmandriva.org/en/distribution/releases/omlx60/new)
Kali Linux Warning - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/linux/kali-linux-warns-of-update-failures-after-losing-repo-signing-key/)
Attack of the Vsock - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/critical-linux-kernel-flaw/)
ARES Robot Data Platform - a16z.com (https://a16z.com/ares-an-open-source-platform-for-robot-data/)
Qwen3 - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/alibaba-launches-open-source-qwen3-model-that-surpasses-openai-o1-and-deepseek-r1/)
33:00 Community
How your self branding and its effects
Noah's experience with a young man
Noah's negative experience
People remember how you make them feel and that reflects on communities
There is what is said and what is received
How to deliver messages
Dinner example
41:20 OsmAnd - Richard
Garmin Device
Waze
OsmAnd (https://osmand.net/)
Fdroid OsmAnd (https://f-droid.org/packages/net.osmand.plus/)
45:28 Drive Rotation Off site backup - Kevin
The back up plan you understand is the best
Not doing anything un-usual
A few concerns
Hardware cycling
HDD destruction
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53:53
Episode 438: Ask Noah Show 438
-- During The Show --
00:48 Intro
Missing Steve
01:55 Auto Updates? - Charlie
Installing Linux on a Pixelbook Go
Desktop vs laptop
Being in the moment
Noah's laptop strategy
PineTab 2 (https://pine64.com/product/pinetab2-10-1-8gb-128gb-linux-tablet-with-detached-backlit-keyboard/)
Google hardware
Re-purposing Google hardware
Github.com (https://github.com/yusefnapora/pixelbook-linux)
Auto updates, EndlessOS
13:02 FreePBX - Zack
What to consider when backing up
Bash and FW Console
Sleuth's Solution
Backups are specific to the data type
Use the built in backup and export functions
22:35 News Wire
MySQL 9.3 - dev.myssql.com (https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/9.3/en/)
Peazip 10.4 - github.com (https://github.com/peazip/PeaZip/releases/)
Gnome 48.1 - discourse.gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-47-6-released/28414)
Gnome 48.1 - discourse.gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-48-1-released/28424)
LXQT 2.2.0 - lxqt-project.org (https://lxqt-project.org/release/2025/04/17/release-lxqt-2-2-0/)
Ubuntu 25.04 - canonical.com (https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-25-04-plucky-puffin)
Fedora 42 - fedoramagazine.org (https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-42/)
Manjaro 25 manjaro.org (https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-25-0-zetar-released/177008)
NX App Hub - x.com (https://x.com/Nitrux_NX/status/1912102771458711737)
Easy OS 5.9 - bkhome.org (https://bkhome.org/news/202504/easyos-kirkstone-series-maintenance-release-59.html)
XorDDos - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/experts-uncover-new-xorddos-controller.html)
BPFDoor - securityweek.com (https://www.securityweek.com/enhanced-version-of-bpfdoor-linux-backdoor-seen-in-the-wild/)
23:34 Steve's Backup and ZFS Adventures
Data should be in 3 places
New server
Running data and power
Existing data sets
Encrypting the data
Snapshots
Block Cloning
Nesting and inheriting encryption attributes
What would you do differently if you could start over
Take-a-ways
How long until you "trust" the new backup system?
43:50 OpenWrt One
OpenWrt One (https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one)
Great build quality
Multiple ways to power
WiFi off by default
Has a console port
Really impressed
48:28 Switching to Cloud
Companies moving to Azure to avoid Redmond markups
Companies starting to re-consider moving to cloud
Windows still entrenched
3 People running thousands of VMs and containers
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53:48
Ask Noah Show 437
This week we dig into how you can host your own 5G and Ubuntu's new certification program!
-- During The Show --
00:45 Technology Another Way
Cell Phone sales and inventory
Market uncertainty
Erasing a phone
Moving to GrapheneOS
Used equipment
Fdroid (https://f-droid.org/)
Opportunities to move people to open source
Routes to take
14:00 News Wire
OpenSSH 10.0p2 - openssh.com (https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html)
OpenSSL 3.5 - github.com (https://github.com/openssl/openssl/releases)
GNU Coreutils 9.7 - gnu.org (https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html)
Pinta 3.0 - pinta-project.com (https://www.pinta-project.com/releases/3-0.html)
OpenELA Leapp - techzine.eu (https://www.techzine.eu/news/devops/130476/openela-introduces-leapp-project-for-in-place-upgrades-of-enterprise-linux/)
Linux Mint OEM Support - linuxmint.com (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4825)
Asahi Linux Roadblock - appleinsider.com (https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/04/08/asahi-linux-m4-support-hits-a-roadblock-because-of-apple-silicon-changes)
Proxmox VW 8.4 - proxmox.com (https://www.proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/proxmox-virtual-environment-8-4)
Archbang 0904 - sourceforge.net (https://sourceforge.net/projects/archbang/files/ArchBang/archbang-0904-x86_64.iso/download)
Feren OS 2025.03 - feren-os.com (https://medium.com/feren-os/feren-os-2025-03-minor-rebase-update-for-feren-os-f82ce0a47a52)
Pardus 23.4 - pardus.org (https://pardus.org.tr/en/pardus-23-4-changelog/)
SparkyLinux - sparkylinux.org (https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-7-7/)
MX 26.3 - mxlinux.org (https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-23-6-now-available/)
Particle OS - itsfoss.com (https://news.itsfoss.com/systemd-particle-os/)
Malware "Patches" - darkreading.com (https://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/open-source-poisoned-patches-infect-local-software)
Slopsquatting - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/)
Luminary Cloud and Honda's AI Model - engineering.com (https://www.engineering.com/luminary-cloud-releases-open-source-physics-ai-model-with-honda-nvidia/)
15:50 Canonical Certifications
Adriana Frick's Story
Why Adriana left tech
BGP
What did the creation process look like?
Defining standards
Making it measurable
Proving skills
How did you learn what employers want
Mauricio Buschinelli's Story
Verifying completion of a task
What does the test look like
Easter Eggs through out
As close to real as possible
Care about outcomes
Accessibility
Testing (https://ubuntu.com/credentials)
A lot more coming
41:00 5G
Cellphone companies want to be at the tower
5G Hardware
Entire stack is open source
Provisioning Sim Cards
Roaming
Charmed Ether SD Core
50:00 FCC Licensing
Not a walk in the park
FCC starting to require receiver registration
Spectrum is crowded
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53:52
Ask Noah Show 436
This week Steve builds a backup server, and tells us how and why!
-- During The Show --
01:13 GrapheneOS & Teams - Kevin
Needed unsandboxed play services
Broke on the next update
This problem reported across OSes (https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/all/new-ms-teams-version-not-working-getting-error-no/8a4e48a0-e97b-47f6-9ab9-4c82bc8ba768?page=1)
People reported needing to install "the framework"
Apps stay in their sandbox
Use app in a web browser
06:26 VMs - Mike
Covered later in the show
07:35 searXNG - Donald
More than a proxy
Better results than other search engines
10:00 News Wire
Curl 8.13 - curl.se (https://curl.se/ch/)
GnuCash 5.11 - gnucash.org (https://www.gnucash.org/download.phtml)
GNU Nano 8.4 - lists.gnu.org (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2025-04/msg00001.html)
Apt 3.0 - debian.org (https://tracker.debian.org/news/1635519/accepted-apt-300-source-into-unstable/)
Thunderbird 137 - thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/137.0/releasenotes/)
Firefox 137 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/137.0/releasenotes/)
KDE Plasma 6.3.4 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.3.4/)
Rust 1.86 - releases.rs (https://releases.rs/docs/1.86.0/)
Qt 6.9 - wiki.qt.io (https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_6.9_Release)
Nvidia PhysX and Flow - wccftech.com (https://wccftech.com/nvidia-physx-and-flow-are-now-fully-open-source/)
Outlaw Malware - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/outlaw-group-uses-ssh-brute-force-to.html)
Open Source Malware Index - infoworld.com (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3953841/sonatype-warns-of-18000-open-source-malware-packages.html)
ProteuX 2.0 - github.com (https://github.com/porteux/porteux/releases/tag/v2.0)
New Fedora Project Lead Jef Spaleta - fedoramagazine.org (https://fedoramagazine.org/introducing-fedora-project-leader-jef-spaleta/)
11:30 Interview Jon Segar
VP of Engineering at Ubuntu
uutils coreutils
Licenses
Growing the Ubuntu Community
Feature parity & rough edges
Default in 25.10 build
Memory safe languages
Moving people's cheese
23:00 Steve's Off Site Backup
Backup server in an out building
What's the most important thing
Swim lanes
Breaking things down
Nextcloud island
Containers vs VMs
Nginx vs Apache
Managing and backing up data
Storage, NFS vs Direct Block access
Sanoid (https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid)
Supermicro motherboards
iDrac, IPMI, PiKVM
SOC vs standard system
backup server considerations
Moving Home Assistant from dev to prod
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