Episode 476
Ask Noah Show 476
January 20th, 2026
53 mins 55 secs
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This week we dig into the hardware shortage caused by AI, answer your questions, and dig into managing ZFS via the web!
-- During The Show --
00:45 Intro
- Cheap managed POE switch
- Switch hops
05:35 Certificates - Randy
- Step CA
- XCA
- Certificate Authority
- ACME
- LDAP
- Kerberos
- Steve's use of LDAP
- LDAP with PKI link
- ACME and Domain registrars
- dot tk
- Ansible collection
19:19 Ebook Management - Jeremy
- Steve went to audio books
- Calibre
- PDF manuals folder
- Audio bookshelf
- Paperless NGX
23:50 Light Sync - Peter
- UltraStar Deluxe
- Animux
- USBD_Syncer
- Doing events
- Why Noah likes Karaoke
- Effect of "shared experiences"
- Steve's Christmas tree lights
- DMX lighting
- WLED Project
33:03 News Wire
Firefox 147 - firefox.com
Thunderbird 147 - thunderbird.net
Grub 2.14 - phoronix.com
Gnome 49.3 - discourse.gnome.org
Wine 11 - theregister.com
Q4OS 6.5 - q4os.org
Endeavour OS Genymede Neo - endeavouros.com
Tails 7.4 - torproject.org
Linux Mint 22.3 - blog.linuxmint.com
BeaglePlay PowerVR - phoronix.com
StackChan - cnx-software.com
Mentra's Smart Glasses - engadget.com
VoidLink - checkpoint.com darkreading.com csoonline.com
Boltz-1 - labmanager.com
Photoshop on Linux - videocardz.com
No Commits to MySQL Repo - devclass.com
Senate Inquiry - jdsupra.com
EU Tech Sovereignty - cybernews.com biometricupdate.com
35:03 SysAdmins & Smartphones
- Lowering friction
- Graphical vs CLI
- Webzfs
- Exposing ZFS via Web UI
- Cockpit
- Putting Webzfs into Cockpit
- Write in!
43:43 New ESP32
- ESP32-E22
- Tri-band WiFi
- What is an ESP32
- Steve's use of ESP32
- Bandwidth
- Getting started with ESP32
- linuxgizmos.com
48:05 AI Hardware Run
- RAM spikes 300%-400%
- SSD price spikes
- Fab Capacity
- Bitcoin effect
- ARS Technica
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