Ask Noah Show 441

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! -- During The Show -- 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 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 (https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new) Nmap 7.96 - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/nmap-7-96-launches/) Mesa 25.1 - plamolinux.org (https://plamolinux.org/posts/2025-05-07-plamo-8.2-released/) Linux Kernel 6.15 - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/07/linux_kernel_drops_486/) Plamo Linux 8.2 - plamolinux.org (https://plamolinux.org/posts/2025-05-07-plamo-8.2-released/) Rust Sudo & Ubuntu 25.10 - discourse.ubuntu.com (https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/adopting-sudo-rs-by-default-in-ubuntu-25-10/60583) Deepin Desktop Removed From openSUSE Repos - opensuse.org (https://security.opensuse.org/2025/05/07/deepin-desktop-removal.html) Fedora 42 WLS - theregister (https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/07/fedora_42_wsl2_official/) ClickFix - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-now-testing-clickfix-attacks-against-linux-targets/) NordVPN Linux GUI - computerweekly.com (https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Open-Source-Insider/NordVPN-goes-full-GUI-on-Linux) Fake AI Videos & Noodlophile - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-ai-video-generators-drop-new-noodlophile-infostealer-malware/) Reachy 2 - infoq.com (https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/05/huggingface-reachy-robot/) OpenVision - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/new-fully-open-source-vision-encoder-openvision-arrives-to-improve-on-openais-clip-googles-siglip/) Open WebUI - reddit.com (https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1kfhkal/open_webui_is_no_longer_open_source/) 25:18 Minimalism Minimum viable battle station Tails (https://tails.net/) 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 (https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/element/) Cinny (https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/cinny/) Nheko (https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/nheko/) Matrix client matrix (https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/) 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 -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/441) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed) Show Notes & Podcast Download available at http://podcast.asknoahshow.com Support us on Patreon ------------- https://www.patreon.com/linuxdelta --- Connect with us! --- On Twitter ------------------------ https://twitter.com/asknoahshow On Facebook ----------------------- https://www.facebook.com/asknoahshow Email The Show -------------------- [e-mail] • Ask Noah Show © CC-BY-ND 2025 •