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
This week we dig into the major story that a developer has created a clean room version of the Adobe Creative Cloud! We give some career advice to a long time teacher, and we talk about the effects of ai in software development.
-- During The Show --
00:50 Intro
- We want to be your Linux IT Guys
- If you want deeper dives write in!
- Please send your feed back and questions, or call in
04:04 Career -...
This week Steve gives us a deep dive into performance tuning, and we talk about how your body's memory functions.
-- During The Show --
00:50 Intro
- Subsisting greeting variables
- Accessible memory
- Strength of memory
- Reading and writing builds "Accessible memory"
- Teaching builds "Strength of memory"
- Go look up "space repetition"
- Reader come home book
- YouTube if you check their sources
17:55 News ...
This week Steve gives a brief overview into human factors that lead to distraction, Steve finally finds a use for KDE and we talk IP cameras and NVRs!
-- During The Show --
00:50 distractions
- Human minds work kinda like RAM
- Learning how to learn
- Computers are terrible for learning
- Short term memory slots
- Long term memory slots
- Noah's method
- Typing vs writing
- Always outliers
- Minimizing distractions
- Non-cons...
This week Mike McGrath Vice President, Core Platforms for Red Hat joins us to give us the deep dive on Lightwell!
-- During The Show --
00:50 Intro
- Iron sharpens Iron
- Feedback
01:50 Show Feedback - Joshua
- Talking fast at the end of the show
- Inserting tutorial style content
04:05 Lightwell Interview
- Mike McGrath - Vice President, Core Platforms
- What is Red Hat Lig...
This week Steve gives the deep dive into the reason and the how for documentation. It's an essential thing in any IT environment, it doesn't get nearly enough love so we shine a spotlight on it.
-- During The Show --
00:45 Intro
- Sound effects
- RPG Web UI
- Never Winter Nights
- Kansas City
- Steve and traveling
09:18 News Wire
This week Noah and Steve get into a fireside chat about Ai. Where is it okay to turn it loose, and where do some guardrails need to be in place?
-- During The Show --
00:50 Intro
- Butterfly Effect movie
- Open AI models and weights
- Effect of trying to squeeze out open source
04:48 Cyclical computing - David
- The new topology
- Normal people vs home lab
- Long way to go
- Hardware costs
- Restrict...
This week we spent time with Braden Stroot, a highly detail-oriented professional engineer who was a hardcore Mac enthusiast and recently switched to Linux. He walks us through his journey to Linux and shares the distro and environment he’s chosen to meet his high bar for perfection on the Linux desktop.
-- During The Show --
00:48 Intro
- Been a week
- Braden Stroot
- Engineer
- Recent Linux convert ...
This week we talk about alternative ways to remote into your PC. Eric the IT guy joins us to talk about BootC, and we celebrate Linux' 35 birthday!
-- During The Show --
00:48 Intro
- Being a perfectionist
- PLA 3D printing
06:00 Remoting in - David
This week we talk about when is it appropriate to fix problems, and when is it scope creep. Plus, the second installment of our new SteveScale segment!
-- During The Show --
00:45 Intro
- Rabbit holes
02:30 Comodore phone - Charlie
- Flip phone
- Sailfish OS
- Commodore Phone
04:37 Cameras - Tyler
- Agara (AQARA?) Hub
- Camera flood light combo
- AQARA to homekit
- Honeywell Vis...
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.
-- During The Show --
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
- ...
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 wa...
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
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...
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 e...
This week we are live from SELF! THE Alan Hicks joins the program and we talk Ai!
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This week Noah and Steve talk about why they'll be at Southeast Linuxfest. Noah introduces everyone to the Ai embedded in his rental car, and the boys finally find a Z-Wave thermostat!
-- During The Show --
00:50 Intro
- When AI can be good
- Conversing with AI
- Varying AI model quality
- Creativity and AI
- Prompt engineering
- Write into the show about AI
- Accelerator for people already have a base skill
...
This week Mike McGrath from Red Hat joins us to talk about using Red Hat to talk about the relationship RHEL and their up-streams.
-- During The Show --
00:45 Intro
- IT at home
- Wrangling home "data center"
- Noah's old strategy
- Shoe makers kids have no shoes
- Snowballing tech
- Backups - pull vs push
- Making things modular
11:10 Interesting Tech - Carey
- TRMNL
- Mecha Comet
- GPD Micro PC 2
- Value...
This week Sathish Balakrishnan from Red Hat joins us to talk about using Ansible as the trusted execution layer for automation. Jef Spaleta joins to give us an update on Fedora! It's a packed episode.
-- During The Show --
00:50 ReCaptcha
- Going to require Google Services Framework or iOS >16.4
- DeGoogled phones will fail
- Where we are headed
- No one spoke up
- FDroid
- Keep Android Open
- ReClaim the Net
This week Sachin Mullick, Senior Manager, Product Management, joins the program and we talk about OpenShift Virtualization.
-- During The Show --
00:50 Intro
- Sad trombone button
- Plex Lifetime Pass Price Hike ArsTechnica
- What is Plex is
- JellyFin
14:00 Thermostats - Marc
- Docs Site
- There isn't a great solution
- There is a market
- Older Venstar T7900
- Older Honeywell Redlink
- Shelly
- Build you...
Noah and Steve are at Red Hat Summit 2026! We talk to Stefanie Chiras to talk about her new role as Senior Vice President of the AI Innovation Hub. She leads Red Hat's strategy for engaging with and catalyzing regional AI ecosystems.
-- During The Show --
00:50 Intro
- Live from Summit in Georgia
- Interviews
02:30 Lets Encrypt Changes - Charlie
- Certificate's going to 45 Days
- Window is l...
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