Episode 469
Ask Noah Show | 469
December 2nd, 2025
1 hr 10 mins 55 secs
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This week Steve takes us through his journey with Enty and Immich. Plex makes their users pay a monthly fee, and Steam releases a new SteamBox console.
-- During The Show --
00:50 Intro
- How was your week
- Watching sales
- Smart TVs
- WebOS
07:21 Mac Feedback - Gregory
- Network Effect
- "Comforting Mac Feels"
- Pavu Control
- OBS
- Stewardship
11:32 Mac Feedback - Patrick
- Pragmatic approach
- Steve's thoughts
- Treating windows like an appliance
- Making the FOSS path easy
18:15 Succession Planning - Dominik
- Suggestions
- Design your home so it works without automation
- Have a HDD with important data
- Have migration plan in place
- Struggling with massive amounts of data
- Steve's documentation journey
- Criticality
30:33 News Wire
Gnome 49.2 - gnome.org
Tmus 3.6 - proxmox.com
Snort 3.10 - github.com
Dbeaver 25.3 - dbeaver.io
Proxmox 4.2 Backup Server - proxmox.com
Fedora Ultramarine 43 - fyralabs.com
AlmaLinux 10.1 - almalinux.org
Rocky Linux 10.1 - rockylinux.org
KaOS 2025.11 - kaosx.us
NixOS 25.11 - nixos.org
Armbian 25.11 - blog.armbian.com
Solus 4.8 - getsol.us
4M Linux 50.0 - 4mlinux.com
AV Linux 25 - linuxmusicians.com
Pardus 25 - pardus.org
Linux 6.18 - phoronix.com
Flux 2 - bfl.ai
z-Image-Turbo - huggingface.co
Deepseek 3.2 - deepseek.com
Linux MCP - siliconangle.com
31:51 Plex Crackdown
- Forcing Plex Pass subscriptions
- Proprietary software controls you
- Are Plex users getting what they deserve?
- Switching to JellyFin
- Scanning of people's media
- Reason for crackdown
- Problem with the approach
- FS PBX
- ArsTechnica.com
41:50 Steam Machine
- First response is it's a "Travel Machine"
- SteamDeck "just works"
- Community experience
- ArsTechnica
44:42 Self Hosted Image Software
- Immich experience
- Ente experience
- Ente vs Immich
- Ente Encryption
- Native App
- Backup
- Where Immich came from
- iOS challenges
- Which is the winner?
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