Description

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

-- The Extra Credit Section --

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