Episode 501
Ask Noah Show 501
August 25th, 2026
53 mins 54 secs
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Check out the second installment of our new segment "Steve Scale" as Steve digs into the Ovens family distro. What is BootC and why does he use it? LG is pushing ads to your monitor, and we introduce you to CachyOS.
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00:48 Tech Updates
- Oven's standard public build
- Upstream BootC breakage & recovery
- Static vs Rolling
- Best way forward
- A/B Scheme
- Method of recovery
- Container Registry
- Container layers
- Noah's new technology phases
- Would Steve move away from Arch?
- How work load changes workstation requirements
- Flameshot
29:30 BootC - Adam
- Not public yet
- Docs Site
- Let Steve know what you are looking for
- Balancing privacy and openness
- Securely sanitizing PII from docs
- Documentation pipeline
- The other side of documentation
- Tell us if you want to hear about documentation
41:20 News Wire
Rhythmbox 3.5 - gitlab.gnome.org
FFmpeg 9.0 - ffmpeg.org
OpenLDAP 2.7 - openldap.org
Mesa 26.2 - torproject.org
GCC 16.2 - phoronix.com
IceWM 4.1 - phoronix.com
Gnome 50.4 - discourse.gnome.org
Tails 7.10.1 - torproject.org
DietPi 10.6 - dietpi.com
Spark Model - cnbc.com
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning - cnbc.com
CloudFlare Vibe-Coding Platform - arstechnica.com
42:38 LG Monitor Ads
- MS Update installs LG bloatware ads
- Monitor prices dropped
- Known affected models
- 34GX900A-B
- 45GX950-B.AEU
- 32GS95UE-B
- 39GX950B
- 27GP83B-B
- 27GN800
- 32GS95UE-B
- 27GN850-B
- Linux was unaffected
- Possible on Linux with proprietary software
- ArsTechnica
47:50 CachyOS
- Gentoo meets Arch
- Targeted towards modern hardware
- LTO and BOLT
- Advantage of custom Linux Kernel
- Kernel scheduler
- Zen 4 optimization
- Hyperland
- My Linux for Work GitHub
- 9 to 5 Linux
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