Episode 467: Ask Noah Show 467

Noah J. Chelliah — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:00:00 -0600

This week Steve and Noah talk about the things you didn't know you knew about Linux. Scott Jenson joins the program to talk about principals of UX/UI design.

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00:52 Self Hosting After Death - Michael

Steve's thought process
Important things
Steve's plan
- Draw.io
- LLMs
No desire to be trained
Open Source
Documentation
Noah's plan
Self hosted vs Cloud
Techie Friends

12:21 Scott Jenson - UX/UI Design

Product Strategist For Home Assistant and Mastodon
Scott's Website
Coloring outside the lines
Mobile vs Desktop
Desktop UI shortcomings
UX in Audacity and Penpot
Where can UX designers grow?
Articulating the business use case
Ink & Switch

18:23 News Wire

Nano 8.7 - gnu.org
Thunderbird 145 - thunderbird.net
Firefox 145 - firefox.com
Wine 10.19 - webpronews.com
Proton 10.0 - phoronix.com
KDE Frameworks 6.20.0 - kde.org
SparkyLinux 8.1 - sparkylinux.org
Debian 13.2 - debian.org
Tails 7.2 - torproject.org
Nitrix 5.0 - itsfoss.com
Kaspersky for Linux - tomshardware.com
Avahi Logic Flaw - zeropath.com
ImunifyAV Flaw - bleepingcomputer.com
Akira Targets Nutanix VMs - bleepingcomputer.com
Kraken Expands - cyberpress.org
VibeThinker-1.5B - venturebeat.com
Worry Over Chinese AI - businessinsider.com
US Must Go Open Source - techbuzz.ai

Linux Knowledge

The "Mythical New User"
People use all sorts of UI/UX today
Knowledge we take for granted
Teaching is the highest form of learning
See one, do one, teach one
Talk radio principle: Watering plants that are already there
Linux and Windows architectures are different

39:50 Source Command

How it works
Variables
Environment Variable
What the source command does
Getting started with source and python

48:00 Know your short comings

Know what you don't know
Know how to explain it simply
Keeping things simple

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