Ask Noah Show 415

Tim Flink, a Senior Quality Engineer from Red Hat joins us to talk about AI on Fedora. This week Noah and Steve talk about their struggles with the Linux Desktop.

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02:30 Helping a Non-techy friend - Sleuth

• The plan
  • Locked down second hand Android device
  • Ting Flex plan
  • Tracar
• JMP.Chat Sim Plan
• Mint Mobile
• Steer people away from sms/calls
  • Matrix
  • Telegram
  • etc

08:47 News Wire

• Calibre 7.21 - calibre-ebook.com

• Cmake 3.31 - cmake.org

• Curl 8.11 - curl.se

• Scraperr 1.0 - github.com

• LXQT 2.1 - lxqt-project.org

• Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 - ubports.com

• Debian 12.8 - debian.org

• Torvalds 2.6% Performance Patch - theregister.com

• 3800% Performance Improvement - phoronix.com

• CRON#TRAP Malware - thehackernews.com

• AMD OLMo LLM - computerworld.com

09:58 Tim Flink - Senior Quality Engineer - Red Hat

• Where should you start with AI?
• PyTorch
• Orders of magnitude faster on a GPU
• VRAM is the biggest factor
• How is Fedora using AI?
• OpenQA
• RocM and PyTorch
• Efforts around packaging
• Why are you focusing on RocM?
• Where is a good place to help out?
• AI/ML SIG
• Containers coming
• What does open source mean to you?

22:28 Kubuntu and Docker Broken - Michael Fisher

• Docker Compose Pastebin
• Docker Logs Pastebin
• Docker internal DNS having issues

24:36 What's the deal with Linux Desktop Environments?

• Steve's workflow
• Static vs Dynamic approach
• How close can I get to immutable with flatpaks
• Software KVM
  • Synergy (proprietary)
  • Barrior (abandoned)
  • Input Leap
• 3 Monitors, 2 horizontal and 1 vertical
• KDE hates Steve
• NVIDIA drivers
• Why is it so hard to put software in hardware?
• Ubuntu won't say its up to date because of Ubuntu Pro
• Can't install LibreOffice on Ubuntu because of Snap
• All operating systems have issues

45:20 MacOS vs EndlessOS vs Windows 10

• Mac Book
  • No working battery
  • Disposable
  • 3+ Hours just to install the OS
• ThinkPad with EndlessOS
  • Flatpak for Office 365
• Windows
  • Can't upgrade to windows 11
  • Windows 11 requires online account
  • Windows 11 requires TPM chip
• 2 People both chose the EndlessOS
• Endless OS
  • No forced updates
  • All the icons right there
• Open source
  • Allows you to fix things
  • Unix philosophy
  • The answers are there

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