Show Notes
This week Noah and Steve work on Steve's house, a new automated lock system goes in, some new structured wiring goes in, and we talk about automating your Christmas tree.
-- During The Show --
00:48 Intro
Happy Christmas
Kids and presents
Quests at Steve's
Steve's Christmas tree
Steve on a Mac
16:20 Feedback
You start the conversation
Send in an email
success stories
problems you can't solve
suggest a topic
18:00 Switch Bot
A room to keep dogs and kids out of
Why Switch Bot?
Gold tier certified by Home Assistant
Value of talking with others
How to evaluate "the line"
The "delta"
Gratitude
36:17 Structured Wiring
2 Recessed outlets with Ethernet
2 Projector rooms
The Smart Home Hookup
The Smart Home Hookup Youtube
Playing D&D with the family
Lay of the land
Running Cat6
SDI Video/Audio
Belden Cables
Vertical Cables
HDMI Decimators
Keystones
55:57 News Wire
Darktable 5.4 - darktable.org
Kdenlive 25.12 - kdenlive.org
OpenShot 3.4 - openshot.org
OpenZFS 2.4 - github.com
GNUCash 5.14 - gnucash.org
Nvidia Linux 590.48 - phoronix.com
Linux 6.17 EOL - 9to5linux.com
RELIANOID 7.8.0 - relianoid.com
SparkyLinux 2025.12 - sparkylinux.org
Easy OS Excalibur 7.1 - puppylinux.com
Emmabuntus Debian Edition 6 - emmabuntus.org
Solaris 11.4 - blogs.oracle.com
FreeBSD 15.0 - freebsd.org
Rust CVE in Linux - itsfoss.com
Senate Intel Chair - cyberscoop.com
Beavertail Malware - scworld.com
Open-Source Protein Co-Folding Model - nvidia.com
Bloom - siliconangle.com
CUGA - infoq.com
Nemotron AI Models - finance.yahoo.com
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