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Ask Noah Show 484 | Linux in a Commercial Environment

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Show Notes

This week Kenny Schmidt the Operations Manager for Altispeed Technologies joins the show! Kenny and Noah talk about the role of Linux in a commercial environment, and what a healthy view of taking work home looks like!

-- During The Show --

00:50 Intro

Show goes in cycles

Linux making it's way into

01:48 Alarm Panels

Reliable and robust

Honeywell Vista Panel

Closed contact

Shellys

Resistors

Home Assistant integration

ESP8266

Alarm Decoder .com

Alarm Decoder .square.site

[Eyezon](www.eyezon.com)

Building a system

17:50 Kenny From Altispeed

Taking your work home

Love learning at home

Open source vs Proprietary

Garage door automation

Zigbee vs Z-Wave

Unicast vs Multicast

POE Zigbee Adapter Amazon

Rebuilding the "Schmidt Cloud"

DNS Challenge

Immich

Immich release notes and documentation

Changes to the Immich project and funding

Nyquist from Bogen

Kenny's Blog bitsandbolts.net

45:02 News Wire

Bcachefs 1.37 - phoronix.com

FFMPEG 8.1 - ffmpeg.org

Blender 5.1 - blender.org

Openrazer 3.12 - github.com

OpenShot 35 - openshot.org

KiCad - kicad.org

GX Browser - gamingtrend.com

AntiX 26 - antixlinux.com

Fedora Asahi Remix 43 - fedoramagazine.org

GlassWorm - scientificamerican.com

Quantum Hardware Repository - thequantuminsider.com

Post-Quantum Secure RISC-V - thequantuminsider.com

Open-Source AI Wallet - bitcoinmagazine.com

46:13 Credoid

Credoid

Docs are written in WikiJS

Mercury Boards

Lifetime license

Self Host-able via docker

Follows all best practices and standards

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