Episode 487
Ask Noah Show 487
April 14th, 2026
53 mins 51 secs
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About this Episode
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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