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Episode 466: Ask Noah Show 466

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Show Notes

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

Mailbox.org

Simple Login

DuckDuckGo Email Alias

Proton's built in features

Reasons for protecting privacy

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

Calibre 8.14 - newwin.net

MKVtoolnix - mkvtoolnix.download

Curly COMrades - darkreading.com

Porteux 2.4 - distrowatch.com

MXLinux 25 - mxlinux.org

Devuan 6.0 - serverhost.com

IncusOS - phoronix.com

NVIDIA AI Stack - hpcwire.com

Omnilingual ASR - venturebeat.com

Kimi K2 Thinking - venturebeat.com

Drax - prnewswire.com

Linux Desktop 5% - webpronews.com

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

Untapped markets

Upgradeable GPU

34:34 No Longer Evil Thermostat

Google EOLs Nest Thermostats Gen 1 and Gen 2

No Longer Evil

FULU Foundation

"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)

Needs to be repaired 1 or 2 times a year

Temperature Sensors

Govee H5075

IoT Maintenance

Why temperature sensors

ESP32 receive blue-tooth and send to Home Assistant

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