This week we dig into your questions, and talk about Nvidia's new AI rig. -- During The Show -- 00:56 George From NYC Used computers for a church Lenovo laptops and Thinkcenters Dell Optiplex Ebay Made in the last 4 years Make sure they have TPM 2.0 04:50 Noah's new toy Flipper Zero (https://flipperzero.one/) Electronic multi-tool Had to legitimately bypass access control Read and emulate RFID and NFC Lots of Apps 08:58 HVAC - Ziggy Zigbee timer system? Wouldn't put the timer on device Steve's solution Why timers? 14:20 Battery Pack - Erik Anderson Power Pole Deep Cycle SLA INIU 100w Type C Dewalt Battery Adapter (https://www.amazon.com/Converter-Battery-Adapter-Regulator-Terminal/dp/B0CQJDGQDB) Offical Dewalt USB C Adapter (https://www.dewalt.com/product/dcb094k/20v-maxflexvolt-5-amp-usb-charging-kit?tid=577811) 83w 12v USB Outlet (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B1DHNLDS?ref=fed_asin_title) 21:40 NFS vs S3 for Home Lab - Brendan Recoverability Added complexity Would lean away from S3/Minio Hard to recover broken S3 file system It's ok to play with technology 28:21 Nextcloud Office - IK All-In-One master container Steve's attempt Not all Docker containers are official 33:52 News Wire Dillo 3.2 - github.io (https://dillo-browser.github.io/release/3.2.0/) OpenZFS 2.3 - github.com (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases) Rsync 3.4 - samba.org (https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.4.0) Linux Mint 22.1 - linuxmint.com (https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_xia.php) Rhino Linux 2025.1 - rhinolinux.org (https://blog.rhinolinux.org/news-17) TuxCare Now Offering EOL MS Support - fossforce.com (https://fossforce.com/2025/01/tuxcare-stops-microsoft-from-killing-net-6-0/) Merit Systems Trying to Fund Open Source Devs - cnbc.com (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/16/merit-systems-raises-10-million-from-a16z-blockchain-capital.html) MiniMax Models - scmp.com (https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3294900/chinese-ai-start-minimax-releases-low-cost-open-source-models-rival-top-chatbots) 35:00 Ebook 2 Audio Book Ebook2Audiobook (https://github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook/blob/main/README.md) Uses "local AI" Many types of text input Runs on CPU or GPU Surprised at the quality Steve's kid's apprenticeship Society has developed an aversion to anything "hard" Teaching the value of work and learning 42:00 Getting Started with AI What is AI? Math coprocessors CPUs are "generalist" processors GPUs are "specialized" processors CUDA Cores NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip (https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/project-digits/) 3 Classes of GPUs Design software story Project Digits (https://newsroom.arm.com/blog/arm-nvidia-project-digits-high-performance-ai) LMStudio.at (https://lmstudio.ai/) GPT4All (https://docs.gpt4all.io/) TecMint.com (https://www.tecmint.com/ai-for-linux-users/) -- 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/424) 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)
