Ask Noah Show
The Ask Noah Show is a weekly talk radio show where we focus on Linux and Open Source technology. We invite the community to participate live on the air 1-855-450-6624. The show airs Tuesdays at 6pm CT on asknoahshow.com and at KEQQ 88.3 FM in Grand Forks ND. It's a free call 1-855-450-NOAH so join us and start on your way to owning your operating system, your software, and technology.
Episodes
August 5, 2025 • 53 mins
This week we talk about Proton's new 2fa app, a new kernel that has been released and of course your feedback.
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00:54 Intro
Kids carry plague
02:15 Networking - Fred
OpenWRT on Ubiquity Gear
If it's not local, You don't own it
OpenWrt One (https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one?s[]=openwrt)
05:53 Video Calls - Mike
Nextcloud
Home Assistant Voice Preview (https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/)
Sip Trip Phone (htt...
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July 29, 2025 • 65 mins
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00:50 Thank Fullness
Thank you for everyone willing to help with Steve's WiFi
OpenWRT One
02:22 Pulling Info from Cisco - Michael
Discovery GitHub (https://github.com/rikosintie/Discovery)
Never done subnets in the field
Can rent an entire Cisco lab
GNS3 (https://www.gns3.com/)
Updates are expensive
Ubuntu 4 Network Engineers GitHub (https://github.com/rikosintie/Ubuntu4NetworkEngineers)
11:01 Alternative for ...
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July 22, 2025 • 53 mins
This week Noah heads to Open Sauce in San Fransisco to explore the world's biggest celebration of makers, creators, and inventors. Steve takes us through his hardware troubleshooting steps, and we give you an update on some of the projects we're working on.
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00:00 Intro
Noah and Steve discuss VLAN trunking challenges with Cisco switches and Linux servers.
Cockpit as a persistent solution for Linux VLAN and brid...
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July 15, 2025 • 41 mins
This week Bitcoin hit a new all time high! We talk about the practical implications of getting into the BTC ecosystem. Marco Bill, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer from Red Hat joins the program.
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July 8, 2025 • 53 mins
This week we take a look at in in-vehicle OS that Red Hat is working on.
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00:50 Intro
4th of July
Mall of America
"Patriots" continue "celebrating"
02:30 Graphic Cards and Distros
Arch Linux brand new 5050TI
Just waited and problem fixed it's self
Bought a 5060TI
07:20 Certificate Management
Certificates life going to 30 days or less
Ansible AWX
Semaphore (https://semaphore.io/)
Had to fix some issues
12:35 Kub...
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July 1, 2025 • 53 mins
This week we discuss a proposal in Fedora 44 to remove support for 32 bit libraries. We address your Kubernetes questions and talk about 2-in-one laptops with touchscreens!
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00:54 Intro
VLANs on Linux
Trunk into V-Host
Not using NetPlan
Using bridges to different ports
11:23 Kubernetes - Nick
Steve and Open Shift
The disconnect
If you bring it, you are "the guy"
You need to understand what you are running
Write...
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June 28, 2025 • 53 mins
This week we ask the question, when is it okay to leverage technology you don't understand, and when should you work to acquire the underlying domain knowledge?
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00:52 Intro
Cut from the same cloth
02:12 When to Leverage Tools
Will always be jobs for deep understanding
Lets Encrypt shortening life of certs
AWX story
Why AWX
Short term damage control
Advice for someone else
You have to understand the manual proc...
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June 18, 2025 • 53 mins
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00:52 Intro
Being around people can be draining
SELF presentations
Steve helping Noah get into "hosting"
Strong personalities
No Windows "badge of honor"
New streaming and recording system
10:10 NixOS Feedback - Eloy
Vimjoyer Video YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEovNpg7J0M)
udiskie NixOS Package (https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=25.05&show=udiskie&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages...
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June 15, 2025 • 78 mins
This week we're live from SELF and we talk about being reliant on yourSELF! THE Alan Hicks joins us to talk about keeping your skills sharp and learning the base domain knowledge. Special Guest: Alan Hicks.
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June 10, 2025 • 53 mins
X11Libre is a fork of xorg, do the developers of xorg not want xorg to continue? This week Steve and Noah give you the details of what can only be described as a weird situation. SELF is coming up this weekend, Steve, Noah and executive producer JT will be there and we hope to see you!
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00:52 Intro
Two ways of traveling
Noah's airline story
Personal entertainment
Ente (https://next.ente.io/)
10:28 Self
This yea...
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June 3, 2025 • 58 mins
Akash Srivastava & Mairin “Mo” Duffy join the Ask Noah Show to talk about Red Hat's approach to AI models.
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00:45 Intro
Talking about christmas gifts
Presentation season
Christmas time
03:30 Communicating Technical Things
Who are you talking to
Willingness to learn
Knowledge for Knowledge sake
Steve's process for teaching
We all compare to things we know
Building vocabulary
How to know an idea isn't landing
Wha...
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May 27, 2025 • 53 mins
This week Mike McGrath from Red Hat joins us and we talk about RHEL AI, quantum computing, and we get an update as to where Red Hat landed with all the licensing drama from a few years ago.
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00:50 Real ID
Real ID Act from 20 years ago
Problems with Real ID
Canadian Central Government
Alternatives to Real ID
Surrendering information
"Be Your Real Self"
Government creating problems they can solve
No one wants to ...
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May 20, 2025 • 54 mins
This week we're live from Red Hat Summit! We talk security, evolving threats, and Steve gives an update on his journey with his new graphics card.
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01:30 Vincent Danen - VP of Product Security
You can secure your own data on premise
Cloud you loose some control
Supply chain attacks
Where do you get your news?
Hacker News
Naked Security
IBM security feed
The Register
AI for security
Agentic workflows
AI attack v...
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May 13, 2025 • 53 mins
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 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/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 Sol...
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May 6, 2025 • 53 mins
This week Noah tells the story of how Altispeed built a solar system for a remote camera for a daycare. Tiny joins to discuss the value of metric and why he believes Victoria Metrics does it better.
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00:55 Graphics Cards
When do you update graphics cards
Watching prices, trying to buy
Bought 5060ti
Quadro P6000 Sold in 2 Min
What is driving the cost?
Over Time
"Unplugging"
Mature Leaders
High Intensity/Surge Se...
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April 29, 2025 • 53 mins
This week we dig into "Nixbook", a Linux distro designed to make old laptops into Chromebooks. Noah fell down the Nix rabbit hole, and of course we answer your questions.
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00:50 Generosity
Experiencing generosity
A bunch of computers about to flood the market
03:50 Mike Kelly (Olympia Mike)
Used laptop during Covid19
Became known for used laptops
Company gifts used laptops
Closing the technical divide
Updates
P...
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April 22, 2025 • 53 mins
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00:48 Intro
Missing Steve
01:55 Auto Updates? - Charlie
Installing Linux on a Pixelbook Go
Desktop vs laptop
Being in the moment
Noah's laptop strategy
PineTab 2 (https://pine64.com/product/pinetab2-10-1-8gb-128gb-linux-tablet-with-detached-backlit-keyboard/)
Google hardware
Re-purposing Google hardware
Github.com (https://github.com/yusefnapora/pixelbook-linux)
Auto updates, EndlessOS
13:02 FreePBX - Zack
Wha...
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April 15, 2025 • 53 mins
This week we dig into how you can host your own 5G and Ubuntu's new certification program!
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00:45 Technology Another Way
Cell Phone sales and inventory
Market uncertainty
Erasing a phone
Moving to GrapheneOS
Used equipment
Fdroid (https://f-droid.org/)
Opportunities to move people to open source
Routes to take
14:00 News Wire
OpenSSH 10.0p2 - openssh.com (https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html)
OpenSSL 3.5 -...
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April 8, 2025 • 53 mins
This week Steve builds a backup server, and tells us how and why!
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01:13 GrapheneOS & Teams - Kevin
Needed unsandboxed play services
Broke on the next update
This problem reported across OSes (https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/all/new-ms-teams-version-not-working-getting-error-no/8a4e48a0-e97b-47f6-9ab9-4c82bc8ba768?page=1)
People reported needing to install "the framework"
Apps stay in their sa...
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April 1, 2025 • 54 mins
This week we give an update on the journey with GrapheneOS.
-- During The Show --
00:58 Intro
Cold weather
Do I shovel snow?
01:36 Thank you! - Nick
Steve knows A LOT about kubernetes
Tell us what about kubernetes do you want to learn?
2 Camps of people
How deep will Steve go
06:57 GraphenOS - Craig
Noah's experience/device
Samsung made an un-rom-able US version
Carrier's load an OS when you boot their sim card
Noah's Pixel 8a
Why ...
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