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Episode 467: Ask Noah Show 467

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Show Notes

This week Steve and Noah talk about the things you didn't know you knew about Linux. Scott Jenson joins the program to talk about principals of UX/UI design.

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00:52 Self Hosting After Death - Michael

Steve's thought process

Important things

Home Assistant

Mealie

Frigate

Steve's plan

Draw.io

LLMs

No desire to be trained

Open Source

Documentation

Noah's plan

Self hosted vs Cloud

Techie Friends

12:21 Scott Jenson - UX/UI Design

Product Strategist For Home Assistant and Mastodon

Scott's Website

Coloring outside the lines

Mobile vs Desktop

Desktop UI shortcomings

UX in Audacity and Penpot

Where can UX designers grow?

Articulating the business use case

Ink & Switch

18:23 News Wire

Nano 8.7 - gnu.org

Thunderbird 145 - thunderbird.net

Firefox 145 - firefox.com

Wine 10.19 - webpronews.com

Proton 10.0 - phoronix.com

KDE Frameworks 6.20.0 - kde.org

SparkyLinux 8.1 - sparkylinux.org

Debian 13.2 - debian.org

Tails 7.2 - torproject.org

Nitrix 5.0 - itsfoss.com

Kaspersky for Linux - tomshardware.com

Avahi Logic Flaw - zeropath.com

ImunifyAV Flaw - bleepingcomputer.com

Akira Targets Nutanix VMs - bleepingcomputer.com

Kraken Expands - cyberpress.org

VibeThinker-1.5B - venturebeat.com

Worry Over Chinese AI - businessinsider.com

US Must Go Open Source - techbuzz.ai

Linux Knowledge

The "Mythical New User"

People use all sorts of UI/UX today

Knowledge we take for granted

Teaching is the highest form of learning

See one, do one, teach one

Talk radio principle: Watering plants that are already there

Linux and Windows architectures are different

39:50 Source Command

How it works

Variables

Environment Variable

What the source command does

Getting started with source and python

48:00 Know your short comings

Know what you don't know

Know how to explain it simply

Keeping things simple

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