This week we talk about Bolt graphics, a new graphics start up that is working on a graphics card with upgrade-able memory for a competitive price. A software developer has released an open source alternative firmware for the Nest v1 and v2 thermostats, and of course your questions! -- During The Show -- 00:45 Intro Dakota's weather 01:51 Email! - William Listener recommends porkbun (https://porkbun.com/) Mailbox.org (https://mailbox.org/en/) Simple Login (https://simplelogin.io/) DuckDuckGo Email Alias (https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/email-protection/duck-addresses) Proton's built in features Reasons for protecting privacy Privacy.com (https://www.privacy.com/) 11:25 Data Science & Self Hosting - Annon Value based approach Consenting data collection Tool vs Pillar A job can be a tool Get a job in a different field hadoop Nextcloud Anti Virus Network Protection Medical Science Red Hat data sciences 22:15 News Wire LXQT 2.3 - lxqt-project.org (https://lxqt-project.org/release/2025/11/05/release-lxqt-2-3-0) Calibre 8.14 - newwin.net (https://www.neowin.net/software/calibre-8140) MKVtoolnix - mkvtoolnix.download (https://mkvtoolnix.download/windows/releases/96.0) Curly COMrades - darkreading.com (https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint-security/pro-russian-hackers-linux-vms-hide-windows) Porteux 2.4 - distrowatch.com (https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12628) MXLinux 25 - mxlinux.org (https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-25-infinity-isos-now-available) Devuan 6.0 - serverhost.com (https://serverhost.com/blog/devuan-gnu-linux-6-0-launches-a-systemd-free-distro-based-on-debian-13-trixie) IncusOS - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Incus-IncusOS-Announced) NVIDIA AI Stack - hpcwire.com (https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/ciq-integrates-full-nvidia-ai-stack-into-rocky-linux-for-faster-deployment-and-scaling) Omnilingual ASR - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/meta-returns-to-open-source-ai-with-omnilingual-asr-models-that-can) Kimi K2 Thinking - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/moonshots-kimi-k2-thinking-emerges-as-leading-open-source-ai-outperforming) Drax - prnewswire.com (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aiola-unveils-drax-an-open-source-speech-model-with-state-of-the-art-accuracy-and-up-to-5O-faster-than-models-from-direct-competitors-302607278.html) Linux Desktop 5% - webpronews.com (https://www.webpronews.com/linux-breaks-5-desktop-share-in-u-s-signaling-open-source-surge-against-windows-and-macos) 23:50 Jill Mueller - Bolt Graphics Bolt Graphics Key differences Build of the card Why did you come to Ubuntu Summit? 27:25 Antonio Salvemini - Ray Tracing Bolt Graphics Ray Tracing vs Raster Why start with FPGA? Next steps Current Stage Available 2027 Bolt Graphics (https://bolt.graphics/) Untapped markets Upgradeable GPU 34:34 No Longer Evil Thermostat Google EOLs Nest Thermostats Gen 1 and Gen 2 No Longer Evil (https://nolongerevil.com/) FULU Foundation (https://fulu.org/our-story) "Feature Complete" AXIS A1001 Good piece of hardware Reservations Connects to "No Longer Evil Server" Server planned to be open sourced Centralite Perl HA Thermostat (Zigbee) (https://www.amazon.com/Centralite-Thermostat-Xfinity-Comcast-Centrallite/dp/B01LXD3EBN) Needs to be repaired 1 or 2 times a year Temperature Sensors Govee H5075 (https://us.govee.com/products/govee-bluetooth-hygrometer-thermometer-h5075) IoT Maintenance Why temperature sensors ESP32 receive blue-tooth and send to Home Assistant -- 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/466) 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) Special Guests: Antonio Salvemini and Jill Mueller.
