Episode 474
Ask Noah Show 474
January 6th, 2026
53 mins 44 secs
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This week we dig into how a dead hard drive took Frigate out, answer your questions, and start a new challenge for the new year.
-- During The Show --
00:50 Intro
- Sticky Things and Bug reports
- Electric Dirt Bike
- Validating work
- Picking and offering boats
- Hosting in home lab
10:00 Frigate
- Frigate drive failure
- 4 TB drive died
- Frigate setup
- Swapping drives and power on hours
- Running drives into the ground
- Replacing drives
- Motion detection
20:06 News Wire
Shotcut 25.12 - shotcut.org
Ncurses 6.6 - phoronix.com
OpenTTD 15.0 - openttd.org
QPrompt 2.0 - patreon.com
Mkvtoolnix 97 - mkvtoolnix.download
Privoxy 4.1 - sourceforge.net
OpenBGPD 9.0 - bsdsec.net
IceWM - debugpoint.com
Devuan 6.1 - phoronix.com
Manjaro 26.0 - manjaro.org
Qwen Text to Image - venturebeat.com
27:07 Flatpak vs Packaged Software - Pete
- New contest!
- Steve uses packaged software
- Idea behind flatpaks
- Flatpak edge cases
- Install via AUR
- AppImages
37:16 Backup GrapheneOS - Domink
- Toilet backup strategy
- Plan to come back from scratch
- Contacts VCF file
- ADB Backup Guide
- ADB Backup Caveat
45:09 KVM Switch? - Jeremy
- Now use remote software
- Barrier
- Synergy
- Deskflow
- IO Gear KVM
- Rust Desk
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