Show Notes
This week we dig full force into some interesting listener questions. Noah talks about an open source hardware synth, and Steve walks through some of his hardware choices to help you!
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00:50 Intro
Weather
Cooling IT rooms in winter
05:00 Printers, DVD ripping and more - James
Steve has 2 brother printers
Auto Duplexing
Separate printer and scanner
Large business grade units
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All in One Brother DCP-L2640DW Amazon
Budget Brother HL-L2460DW Amazon
Monochrome Brother HL-6210DW Amazon
Color Brother HL-L3280CDW Amazon
Trouble with auto duplexing
Stay away from Lexar
HP printers
Manually add the printer
Change to Jetdirect or IP printer
Pay attention to exact model or most similar
When it goes wrong, it goes really wrong
Your mileage may vary
Canon Color Image Class LBP622Cdw Amazon
Scanner Brother ADS-1200 Amazon
Containers vs Codecs
MKV vs MP4
Avidemux
Ripping as ISOs vs video files
MakeMKV
MakeMKV Docker Image
# sudo modprobe sg services: makemkv: image: ghcr.io/jlesage/makemkv:latest ports: - "5800:5800" volumes: - "./makemkv:/config:rw" - "./storage:/storage:ro" - "./output:/output:rw" security_opt: # Fix for apparmor enabled systems - apparmor:unconfined environment: - USER_ID=1000 - GROUP_ID=1000 devices: - "/dev/sr0:/dev/sr0" - "/dev/sg0:/dev/sg0"
Christmas movies
Handbrake
FFmpeg
Transcoding
Run controller at each site
Ubiquiti Cloud Key
Lots of problems
OVH server
Put basic auth in front
Inbox Zero
Paperless NGX
Dump to eml file then import into special Thunderbird
45:14 News Wire
Firefox 146 - firefox.com
Thunderbird 146 - thunderbird.net
KDE Frameworks 6.12 - kde.org
Cinnamon Desktop 6.6 - itsfoss.com
Mir 2.25 - github.com
Rust 1.92 - blog.rust-lang.org
AerynOS 2025.12 - phoronix.com
Kali Linux 2025.4 - kali.org
Pop!_OS 24.04 - itsfoss.com
PearOS - pearos.xyz
MaboxLinux 2025.12 - maboxlinux.org
Papermoon - thenewstack.io
01flip Ransomware - esecurityplanet.com
React2Shell - thehackernews.com
Nomos 1 - venturebeat.com
Nemotron Model - reuters.com
Quilter's AI - venturebeat.com
Chatterbox Labs - redhat.com
Agentic AI Group - hackernoon.com
Firefox AI Browser - phoronix.com
47:47 Zynthian
Open hardware device
We want your feedback!
Are you comfortable with software VST
Zynthian.org
50:30 Family Resistant to Self Hosting - David
Ovens house hold approach
Watching for pain points
Making responsible path easy
Making irresponsible path hard
Value driven decisions
Supporting where your paycheck comes from
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