Episode 459
Ask Noah Show 459
September 16th, 2025
53 mins 54 secs
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This week Noah and Steve talk about a brand new virtualization front end of KDE. They dig into the new law that governs ISP bulk contracts, and dig into the cooling efficiency of data centers.
-- During The Show --
00:52 Intro
- Un-usual weather
- Noah's air conditioner problems
- Electricity cost and AI
- Electricity cost and crypt mining
10:45 KDE Karton
- Native Virtual Machine Manager
- Libvirt
- VirtManager
- Cockpit
- Open Shift & Kubernetes
- linuxiac.com
25:45 Jonathan Riddell Leaves KDE
- Jonathan's Blog Post
- Linux IAC Article
- KDE on the Steam Deck
- KDE and the start of Ubuntu
- Nokia
- Different priorities from current KDE maintainers
31:09 News Wire
Freetype 2.14 - freetype.org
Curl 8.16 - curl.se
Samba 4.23 - samba.org
Hyprland 0.51 - hypr.land
MKVToolNix - bunkus.org
Godot 4.5 - phoronix.com
Q4OS 6.1 - q4os.org
PuppyLinux BookwormPup 10.0.12 - puppylinux.org
SpecFive Strike - linuxgizmos.com
Yurei Ransomware - industrialcyber.co
CHILLYHELL and ZynorRAT - thehackernews.com
AI Driven Cyber Crime - webpronews.com
OS AI Director Departs - zdnet.com
Qwen3-Next - nvidia.com
K2 Think - sqmagazine.co.uk
RustGPT - webpronews.com
Vaultgemma - research.google
AI Stable Coin Protocol - cointelegraph.com
32-bit Firefox Phased Out - mozilla.org
33:38 QWhisper
- GitHub
- Dragon Natural Speaking
- Whisper for transcription
- Hardware requirements
38:28 CA Bill Snubs Cable Lobby
- Forces rental companies to allow competition
- ISP Agreements
- Best of both worlds
- Internet has become a human right
- Common carrier infrastructure
- ArsTechnica
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