Episode 438

Ask Noah Show 438

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April 22nd, 2025

53 mins 48 secs

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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
  • Google hardware
  • Re-purposing Google hardware
  • Github.com
  • 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

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
  • 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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