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Show Notes

This week we dig into the hardware shortage caused by AI, answer your questions, and dig into managing ZFS via the web!

-- During The Show --

00:45 Intro

Cheap managed POE switch

Switch hops

05:35 Certificates - Randy

Step CA

XCA

Certificate Authority

ACME

LDAP

Kerberos

Steve's use of LDAP

LDAP with PKI link

ACME and Domain registrars

dot tk

Ansible collection

19:19 Ebook Management - Jeremy

Steve went to audio books

Calibre

PDF manuals folder

Audio bookshelf

Paperless NGX

23:50 Light Sync - Peter

UltraStar Deluxe

Animux

USBD_Syncer

Doing events

Why Noah likes Karaoke

Effect of "shared experiences"

Steve's Christmas tree lights

DMX lighting

WLED Project

33:03 News Wire

Firefox 147 - firefox.com

Thunderbird 147 - thunderbird.net

Grub 2.14 - phoronix.com

Gnome 49.3 - discourse.gnome.org

Wine 11 - theregister.com

Q4OS 6.5 - q4os.org

Endeavour OS Genymede Neo - endeavouros.com

Tails 7.4 - torproject.org

Linux Mint 22.3 - blog.linuxmint.com

BeaglePlay PowerVR - phoronix.com

StackChan - cnx-software.com

Mentra's Smart Glasses - engadget.com

VoidLink - checkpoint.com darkreading.com csoonline.com

Boltz-1 - labmanager.com

Photoshop on Linux - videocardz.com

No Commits to MySQL Repo - devclass.com

Senate Inquiry - jdsupra.com

EU Tech Sovereignty - cybernews.com biometricupdate.com

35:03 SysAdmins & Smartphones

Lowering friction

Graphical vs CLI

Webzfs

Exposing ZFS via Web UI

Cockpit

Putting Webzfs into Cockpit

Write in!

43:43 New ESP32

ESP32-E22

Tri-band WiFi

What is an ESP32

Steve's use of ESP32

Bandwidth

Getting started with ESP32

linuxgizmos.com

48:05 AI Hardware Run

RAM spikes 300%-400%

SSD price spikes

Fab Capacity

Bitcoin effect

ARS Technica

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