Episode 436

Ask Noah Show 436

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April 8th, 2025

53 mins 57 secs

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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
  • 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

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
  • Supermicro motherboards
  • iDrac, IPMI, PiKVM
  • SOC vs standard system
  • backup server considerations
  • Moving Home Assistant from dev to prod

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