Episode 478
Ask Noah Show 478
February 10th, 2026
53 mins 57 secs
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About this Episode
This week we talk music! Noah gets hands on with the Zynthian. Matrix is slowly taking over governments. The timing couldn't be better, Discord is requiring age verification.
-- During The Show --
00:50 Intro
- No Steve this week
- Call in!
- Join the GeekLab
01:30 Fun with Linux Audio - Wayne
- Helm Synth
- Vital Synth
- Tal NoizeMaker
- Cardinal
- Surge Synth
- LSP Plugins
- Calf Plugins
- Reaper
- ToneLib-GFX
- kxstudio repositories
- Struggle to get LV2 plugins to work
- Tal baseline
- MIDI
- Noah's light bulb moment
- Backing tracks
- Cloud based
16:16 Dell HDDs - TwoBit
- Never seen Dell requiring special drives
- Requirements by card and drive specs
- No longer using hardware raid
- HBA Mode
- Flashing HBA Firmware
- Buy pre-flashed card
- Use each drive as it's own raid array
20:16 News Wire
GCompris 26 - gcompris.net
LibreOffice 216.2 - documentfo8undation.org
Ardour - ardour.org
Calibre 9.1 - calibre-ebook.com
Peazip 10.9 - github.com
Linux 6.19 - lkml.org
Oracle Linux 7 - oracle.com
LiteBox - helpnetsecurity.com
GoogleSQL - developer-tech.com
Toyota Open Source Game Engine - techzine.eu
Open Source Chest CT Model - nature.com
21:16 Zynthian
- Zynthian
- No Soldering
- Requires gentle "clock makers hand"
- Based on a Raspberry Pi
- Professional audio system
- How it's built
- First power up and usage
34:10 Matrix Protocol
- Matrix Protocol is taking over
- Digital sovereignty
- The Register
- Seems to solve problems
- Beeper
41:45 Discord KYC
- Requiring ID verification
- Discords background inference model
- Landscape for social media and connecting people
- Noah's story of connecting
- KNOX chat room
- gomuks
- The Register
51:20 Ring Camera's
- Search Party
- Ring has a history
- eff.org
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