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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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We're back!! After a brief hiatus we're live from the Tamarack Tap Room in Woodbury MN! We celebrate and record the 500th episode of the Ask Noah Show. We talk about what's gone well, and where we think we can improve. After 235 episodes, Steve finally gets his own segment! This is an episode you don't want to miss.

-- During The Show --

00:25 Intro

Live from the Taproom

Why the Taproom

Tell us what you want the show to be!

02:00 Monitors

How big is too big

Multi monitor or Ultrawide

Linking monitors

Display port over thunderbolt

06:30 Steve Scale

How tech functions large scale

Ovens data center

IPMI boards

HP ProLiant Servers Gen9

Supermicro boards

Work lab is off most of the time

Virtualization

Deciding what goes where

Containers

What is in the home lab

Immich

Ente

Dashboards

Mealie

Logging

Semaphore UI

HashiCorp Vault

Home Assistant

Frigate

SmokePing

Local container registery

Wiki.js

User facing vs "backend"

Don't enjoy changing workflows

Silverblue and BootC

Scratching an itch

Planning vs get started

Why do you do it?

25:55 Jeremy

Positivity

Steve and Noah's positivity

We need you to be critical

We need feedback

29:45 News Wire

Thunderbird ESR 132 - thunderbird.net

Firefox ESR 132 - firefox.com

GNU Nano 9.2 - nano-editor.org

Shotcut 26.8 - shotcut.org

OBS Studio 32.2 - obsproject.com

Network Manager 1.58 networkmanager.dev

Cosmic Epoch 1.4 - phoronix.com

Gnome 50.3 - gnome.org

MocaccinoOS 26.08 - mocaccino.org

4mLinux 52.0 - 4mlinux-releases.blogspot.com

AerynOS 2026.08 - aerynos.com

Tails 7.10 - torproject.org

MiniMax H3 - minimax.io

30:50 Desktop or Laptop

Why desktop

Building the workstation into the desk

Graphics card with Thunderbolt dock

Cable management

Separating the desk from the computer

Accessing things over the internet

Minddripone.com

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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

Peazip 11.2 - github.io

Proton 11 - steamdeckhq.com

KDE Frameworks 6.28 - kde.org

Calibre 9.11 - calibre-ebook.com

TMUX 3.7 - github.com

GNU Nano 9.1 - nano-editor.org

GNU Cash 5.16 - github.com

Shotcut - 26.6 - shotcut.org

Arm64 Live Kernel Patching - ubuntu.com

Cosmic Epoch 1.1 - phoronix.com

7.0 Kernel EOL - eosl.date

KaOS 2026.06 - kaosx.us

Parrot OS 7.3 - parrotsec.org

Mageia 10.0 - mageia.org

Ultramarine 44 - blog.fyralabs.com

Gnoppix 26.7 - forum.gnoppix.org

4mLinux 51.2 - 4mlinux-releases.blogspot.com

Porteux 2.6 linuxjournal.com

CachyOS June 2026 linuxjournal.com

Hannah Montana Linux ReMaster - tomshardware.com

Ubuntu 25.10 - discourse.ubuntu.com

Debian 13.6 - debian.org

Azure Linux 4.0 - zdnet.com

Bad Epoll - securityweek.com

Januscape - thehackernews.com

Tencent hy3 - the-decoder.com

Z.Ai GLM-5.2 - counterpointresearch.com

Leanstral 1.5 - the-decoder.com

Github's License Tool - helpnetsecurity.com

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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This week we interview Avri Chen-Roth and he gives us an overview of Pocket ID! We give you the details on our upcoming Episode 500 party in the Minneapolis / St.Paul area on Tuesday August 4th 2026!

-- During The Show --

00:50 Up Coming on the Show

ANS on the air 9 years

Studio is all Linux

Telos Axia Board

Runs Linux

Moved from hardware to docker

Lost art of leveraging technology

"Glowing Box Stores"

Growing the show

Episode 500 in MN St Paul

Show is taking a pause

12:22 Avri Chen-Roth Interview

PocketID and OpenID Connect

Home lab authentication problem

Commercial solutions largely PAAS

LDAP and Active Directory

OpenID Connect

Apps don't save credentials

New open source standard

Compatible with large service providers

Passkeys

Storing passkeys

Why PocketID?

Setting up PocketID

On boarding PocketID

Converting existing accounts to PocketID

Groups

OAuth 2.0

WebAuthn

LDAP Sync

41:10 Retired Phone Computing

What to do with old cellphones

Using old phones for cluster compute

Thermal runaway

Major challenge is distributing the load

Getting Linux on the phones

research.google

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This week the boys are back at home and talk about the latest changes with coming down the line with Roku. Your questions as always go to the front of the line.

-- During The Show --

00:50 Intro

AI doesn't make less work

Multitasking

03:50 Reolink Wifi Door Bell - Mike

Facial Recognition

08:45 Door Bells - John

10BASE-T1L

Omnitron-Systems Link

Need them at both ends

11:10 Cameras and things - xhat

Block cameras at the firewall

Updates via Home Assistant

13:00 Feedback

Please write in!

Rising tide lifts all boats

Email or call in

14:06 Roku Story

Cheap and ubiquitous

Fox bought out Roku

22 Billion

Noah's friend joining the 21st century

Nvidia Shield

OSMC Vero

Mini PC with LibreELEC

Boxy amazon

newsroom.roku.com

archive.ph

31:50 Fedora Silverblue

Portable laptop

Switching OSTrees

Budgie Desktop

Tweaking Fedora Atomic

Domain knowledge transfer

Leveraging automation

Replacing EndlessOS

Variety of OS

ZFS Boot manager

BMC IPMI

PiKVM

ASROCK Motherboards

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