Episode 227: Feedback Frenzy!

April 13th, 2021  |  56 mins 21 secs

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This episode is all about questions. Networking, home automation, problems booting, we have it all this week as we dig through the email inbox and take your phone calls!

Episode 226: Networking Basics with Steve Ovens

April 6th, 2021  |  59 mins 26 secs

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Everyone uses a network to access the internet, but how well do you understand the network you use? In this episode Steve Ovens joins us to give a basic network overview as well as answer questions you sent in!

Episode 225: Fedora 34 Initial Impressions

March 30th, 2021  |  56 mins 19 secs

Fedora 34 Beta is out with Gnome 40. This is a major rework of Gnome and the payoff was worth the wait!

Episode 224: Fighting for Human Rights with Tech

March 23rd, 2021  |  56 mins 21 secs

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Apple has rejected important updates to the ProtonVPN iOS app. This decision compromises the ability of the people of Myanmar to preserve their human rights by submitting information to the UN. We discuss a FOSS IT inventory and asset system, and a Raspberry Pi based tablet!

Episode 223: Arrested over Encryption

March 16th, 2021  |  56 mins 21 secs

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A federal grand jury today returned an indictment against the Chief Executive Officer and an associate of the Canada-based firm Sky Global on charges that they knowingly and intentionally participated in a criminal enterprise that facilitated the transnational importation and distribution of narcotics through the sale and service of encrypted communications devices. System 76 has a new professional desktop, the Linux Foundation has a new open source signing tool that could make secure software supply chains universal.

Episode 222: Child Labor in Big Tech

March 9th, 2021  |  56 mins 21 secs

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Major tech companies are buying electronic components made from minerals mined by children, and forced labor. Ryan DasGeek joins the Ask Noah Show to discuss what's happening in the tech industry and how you can vote against it with your wallet.

Episode 221: Blackbird Secure Desktop

March 2nd, 2021  |  56 mins 21 secs

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The Blackbird Secure Desktop is a POEWR9 system, a fully open source modern POWER9 workstation without any proprietary code. Plasma mobile has a new update out, we talk bluetooth headsets, VoIP phone systems, and a one handed keyboard!

Episode 220: Multi-Monitor in Gnome 40

February 23rd, 2021  |  56 mins 21 secs

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The Gnome team is revamping multi-monitor support. Firefox 86 is released and features Total Cookie Protection to make cross site tracking more difficult increasing user privacy. Kodi 19 has landed with a lot of new features around metadata and a better music interface.

Episode 219: Studying Gnome Users

February 16th, 2021  |  56 mins 21 secs

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The Gnome design team conducted a research project to better understand their users. The results were surprising! We'll give you an update about the Vero 4K, a FOSS app to track your GPS history.

Episode 218: VR in the Metaverse

February 2nd, 2021  |  56 mins 21 secs

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Have you ever dreamed of having a virtual enviorment that can simulate the real world in, have meetings in, and connect with others in. Firefox has new protections for supercookies, ubuntu has a new installer out, and CloudLinux has a beta out of AlmaLinux.

Episode 217: Self Hosting Photos

January 27th, 2021  |  56 mins 18 secs

With all the changes Google is making there's never been a better time to to self host your own stuff! This week we dive into replacing Google Photos!

Episode 216: Red Hat's New Deal

January 19th, 2021  |  58 mins 9 secs

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RedHat is expanding the developer program making it easier than ever to access RHEL! Now individuals can run 16 RHEL servers under this new program. Brian Exelbierd joins us this hour to discuss this new program and how it addresses many of the concerns raised in the transition from CentOS to CentOS Stream.

Episode 215: Self-Hosting Your Platform

January 12th, 2021  |  56 mins 22 secs

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Self-hosting has always been a good idea but when your platform doesn't want to serve you, we have some self-hosted options that will. A Reddit user has Linux booting on an iPhone 7, a man was quoted $50K to run fiber to his house, so he built his own fiber ISP!

Episode 214: New Year New Releases

January 5th, 2021  |  56 mins 21 secs

We're kicking off 2021 with a bang! The KDE team has announced a new focus on Wayland and fingerprint readers. Cawbird 1.3 a native twitter client for Linux has a new release with improved video uploading and replies, and Matrix will power FOSDEM this year!

Episode 213: Rocky Linux with Greg Kurtzer

December 29th, 2020  |  56 mins 20 secs

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Greg Kurtzer executive director of Rocky Linux a bug for bug RedHat distribution joins us this hour to tell the story of CentOS and what his vision for Rocky Linux is!

Episode 212: Software for the Holidays

December 27th, 2020  |  56 mins 21 secs

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Gnome 40 has a major redesign, a new version of Kdenlive is out adding some much desired pro features, Matrix has some exciting announcments and we discuss the Solar Winds backdoor and give you some alternatives. If this is the time of the year you want to tinker with new projects we have a few in store!