Episode 499

Ask Noah Show 499

July 28th, 2026

58 mins 18 secs

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About this Episode

Join us next week for the recording of episode of 500. We'll be live from the Tamarack Tap Room at 6pm next Tuesday Aug 4th. This week we talk about Steve building a custom distro for his house with BootC!

-- During The Show --

00:45 Intro

  • Time snark
  • Lots done in the studio

01:55

  • Tamark Taproom in Woodbury MN
  • Big Thank You to the venue
  • Aug 4 17:30
  • Uncomfortable Man hugs available

03:25 Oven's Project

  • Lots of computers in the Oven's house
  • Outgrown imutable OS
  • NixOS was considered
  • Looked to sharpen both home and industry skills
  • Wide domain knowledge
  • BootC and Fedora CoreOS
  • Printer drivers
  • Testing and working out the bugs
  • The process
  • Special snowflake computer
  • What is BootC
  • Automating the process
  • SilverBlue issues
  • Zero touch config
  • Problems
  • Picking a distro
  • Encryption
  • "Day 2"
  • Staging machine
  • Take-aways

36:55 News Wire

39:35 Noah's Framwork

  • Noah's change in mindset
  • Buying new doesn't save much
  • 13 Pro on the way
  • Many but not all new parts interchangeable with original Framework 13
  • Screen aspect ratio
  • Framework has been consistant
  • LPCAMM2 RAM
  • Life of laptops

51:10 Activist Charged with Felony

  • CBP Agent entered Duress code into GrapheneOS phone
  • Wiped the encryption key, effectively wiping the device
  • Activist charged with a Felony
  • Successfully thwarted the government
  • Question to the audiance
  • ArsTechnica
  • The Guardian

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