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Episode 487: Ask Noah Show 487

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Show Notes

This week Noah and Steve talk about the difference between MCP and skills and why it matters!

-- During The Show --

00:50 Intro

Weather

Audio Levels

02:00 Steve's AI Rabbit Hole

AI may change, but is here to stay

Garmin Data

Tested 14 models

How they performed

Mumble Doc

What are tokens

MCP server vs skills

Email is out dated

Environmental cost

25:18 Copy On Write - Jayson

Benefits of COW file systems

Compression

Steve is not a ZFS "expert"

Block size

SSD vs HDD for databases

Avoid COW inside VM

36:32 RaidZ Questions - D

Mirrored Pairs

Use SSD/Solid State

UGreen NAS

43:30 Authentication - Avri

Pocket-ID GitHub

Open Source SSO

45:20 MakeMKV Feedback - archer72 (KD9VMW)

MakeMKV Error

Hacker Public Radio 4564

46:11 AV Codecs - Atypical

How do you add AV codecs into EndlessOS?

Flatpak with codecs

47:20 Axis Door Stations - TwoBit

They are great, everything is standard

48:00 News Wire

Peazip 11.0 - github.io

GNU Nano 9.0 - nano-editor.org

KDE Frameworks 6.25 - kde.org

KDE Plasma 6.6.4 - kde.org

OpenSSL 3.6.2 - github.com

Extix 26.4 - linux.exton.net

Plop Linux 26.2 - plop.at

Snal Linux 1.40 - sourceforge.net

PearOS Nice Core 26.4 - pearos.xyz

Trisquel 12.0 - phoronix.com

GLM 5.1 - venturebeat.com

Ising - nvidia.com

France Switches to Linux - linuxiac.com

49:16 AI in Health Care

Class Action Law Suit over AI transcription

Who can be subpoenaed?

Informed consent

Epic Everywhere

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