Episode 471

Ask Noah Show 471

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December 16th, 2025

58 mins 55 secs

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About this Episode

This week we dig full force into some interesting listener questions. Noah talks about an open source hardware synth, and Steve walks through some of his hardware choices to help you!

-- During The Show --

00:50 Intro

  • Weather
  • Cooling IT rooms in winter

05:00 Printers, DVD ripping and more - James

  • Steve has 2 brother printers
  • Auto Duplexing
  • Separate printer and scanner
  • Large business grade units
  • Ask Noah Show 368
  • All in One Brother DCP-L2640DW Amazon
  • Budget Brother HL-L2460DW Amazon
  • Monochrome Brother HL-6210DW Amazon
  • Color Brother HL-L3280CDW Amazon
  • Trouble with auto duplexing
  • Stay away from Lexar
  • HP printers
    • Manually add the printer
    • Change to Jetdirect or IP printer
    • Pay attention to exact model or most similar
    • When it goes wrong, it goes really wrong
  • Your mileage may vary
  • Canon Color Image Class LBP622Cdw Amazon
  • Scanner Brother ADS-1200 Amazon
  • Containers vs Codecs
  • MKV vs MP4
  • Avidemux
  • Ripping as ISOs vs video files
  • MakeMKV
  • MakeMKV Docker Image # sudo modprobe sg services: makemkv: image: ghcr.io/jlesage/makemkv:latest ports: - "5800:5800" volumes: - "./makemkv:/config:rw" - "./storage:/storage:ro" - "./output:/output:rw" security_opt: # Fix for apparmor enabled systems - apparmor:unconfined environment: - USER_ID=1000 - GROUP_ID=1000 devices: - "/dev/sr0:/dev/sr0" - "/dev/sg0:/dev/sg0"
  • Christmas movies
  • Handbrake
  • FFmpeg
  • Transcoding
  • Run controller at each site
  • Ubiquiti Cloud Key
    • Lots of problems
  • OVH server
    • Put basic auth in front
  • Inbox Zero
  • Paperless NGX
  • Dump to eml file then import into special Thunderbird

45:14 News Wire

47:47 Zynthian

  • Open hardware device
  • We want your feedback!
  • Are you comfortable with software VST
  • Zynthian.org

50:30 Family Resistant to Self Hosting - David

  • Ovens house hold approach
  • Watching for pain points
  • Making responsible path easy
  • Making irresponsible path hard
  • Value driven decisions
  • Supporting where your paycheck comes from

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