Episode 475
Ask Noah Show 475
January 13th, 2026
54 mins 24 secs
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What is the role of tape backup in 2026? Should ZFS be used on tape? Steve takes us back to his days at IMAX and gives us some things to think about when using tape. We answer your questions, take your feedback
-- During The Show --
00:50 Immich - Greg
- Immich feedback
- Round 1 deployment recap
- Round 2 deployment recap
- Latest breakage
- Things Steve likes about Immich
- Ente experience
- Rising tide, iron sharpens iron
- Everyone hits problems sometimes
11:50 General Show Feedback - Pete
- Thank You feedback
- Buying Expedition 33
- Noah purchased Expedition 33
- "Little Noah" and budget
- Using external disks for games
16:28 News Wire
Curl 8.18 - curl.se
Doxygen 1.16 - doxygen.nl
Windowmaker Live 13.3 - wmlive.sourceforge.net
Budgie 10.10 - buddiesofbudgie.org
Pentoo 2026.0 - pentoo.ch
Nitrix 5.1 - nxos.org
Debian 13.3 - debian.org
Linux Mint 22.3 - linuxmint.com
Bose Open Sources Speakers - designboom.com
UAT-7290 - thehackernews.com
GoBruteforcer - darkreading.com
VoidLink - thehackernews.com
NousCoder-14B - venturebeat.com
Razer AI Kit - techpowerup.com
17:55 Caller
- Btrfs Assistant
- Restoring btrfs snapshots
- Base vs incremental snapshots
- Framework Knowledge Base
23:00 Music Production on Linux
- Started with misconception everything is for Windows and Mac
- Not many instruments are being made
- Hybrid pianos
- Stage pianos
- Pianoteq
- Virtual instruments
- Hammer graded controllers
- Semi weighted keys
- Synth Keys
- Akai Professional MPK Mini Plus Amazon
- VST3
- MT Powerdrum
- Tal Base Line 101
36:50 Tape Backup
- Slow but reliable and cheap
- Tar command
- Data velocity
- Burn rate
- How to use tape
- Tools for data tapes
- Failure domain
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