Ask Noah Show 441

Noah J. Chelliah — Tue, 13 May 2025 20:00:00 -0500

This week we dig into why and how Canonical designed and implemented Matrix. Noah gives an update to his solar project, and discovers some open source solutions for solar!

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00:48 Olympia Mike Insperation

ANS 439
Sorting out details
Please give us feedback!
Pair with homeless shelter
Pair with food bank
Technical details
Windows 10 deadline coming
Lowering friction

09:55 Solar Camera Update

Panel brings in enough power
Switch arrived, worked great
SolarPoint
- Had to RMA
- Will R&D
- Issues with SolarPoint
Renogy Charge Controller
Victron
- Push the Victron Connect App
- Victron has a commitment to open source
- Victron GX controller
- Bare wire ends
- GX software on a raspberry pi

23:20 News Wire

Calibre 8.4 - calibre-ebook.com
Nmap 7.96 - gbhackers.com
Mesa 25.1 - plamolinux.org
Linux Kernel 6.15 - theregister.com
Plamo Linux 8.2 - plamolinux.org
Rust Sudo & Ubuntu 25.10 - discourse.ubuntu.com
Deepin Desktop Removed From openSUSE Repos - opensuse.org
Fedora 42 WLS - theregister
ClickFix - bleepingcomputer.com
NordVPN Linux GUI - computerweekly.com
Fake AI Videos & Noodlophile - bleepingcomputer.com
Reachy 2 - infoq.com
OpenVision - venturebeat.com
Open WebUI - reddit.com

25:18 Minimalism

Minimum viable battle station
Tails
Reproduce-ability
Linux Fest Northwest Laptop
NixOS re-install
Can't auto mount usb drives
Dark theme

31:00 Matrix Interview

Nils Buchner
Matrix rabbit hole
Ubuntu & Matrix Chat
Ubuntu Juju setup
Other Setup methods
Where can Matrix grow/improve?
Next steps for the Ubuntu Matrix server?
Matrix clients
- Element
- Cinny
- Nheko
Matrix client matrix
Network effect
Distros installing matrix clients

43:00 Juju & Charms Interview

Merlijn Sebrechts
Juju and Charms
Abstraction
Code re-use
Where Juju and Charms work well
Knowledge needed
Making better charms

52:20 Continue Being a Petri dish

Ansible is the biggest hammer
Nix
Juju

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