Show Notes
We're back!! After a brief hiatus we're live from the Tamarack Tap Room in Woodbury MN! We celebrate and record the 500th episode of the Ask Noah Show. We talk about what's gone well, and where we think we can improve. After 235 episodes, Steve finally gets his own segment! This is an episode you don't want to miss.
-- During The Show --
00:25 Intro
Live from the Taproom
Why the Taproom
Tell us what you want the show to be!
02:00 Monitors
How big is too big
Multi monitor or Ultrawide
Linking monitors
Display port over thunderbolt
06:30 Steve Scale
How tech functions large scale
Ovens data center
IPMI boards
HP ProLiant Servers Gen9
Supermicro boards
Work lab is off most of the time
Virtualization
Deciding what goes where
Containers
What is in the home lab
Immich
Ente
Dashboards
Mealie
Logging
Semaphore UI
HashiCorp Vault
Home Assistant
Frigate
SmokePing
Local container registery
Wiki.js
User facing vs "backend"
Don't enjoy changing workflows
Silverblue and BootC
Scratching an itch
Planning vs get started
Why do you do it?
25:55 Jeremy
Positivity
Steve and Noah's positivity
We need you to be critical
We need feedback
29:45 News Wire
Thunderbird ESR 132 - thunderbird.net
Firefox ESR 132 - firefox.com
GNU Nano 9.2 - nano-editor.org
Shotcut 26.8 - shotcut.org
OBS Studio 32.2 - obsproject.com
Network Manager 1.58 networkmanager.dev
Cosmic Epoch 1.4 - phoronix.com
Gnome 50.3 - gnome.org
MocaccinoOS 26.08 - mocaccino.org
4mLinux 52.0 - 4mlinux-releases.blogspot.com
AerynOS 2026.08 - aerynos.com
Tails 7.10 - torproject.org
MiniMax H3 - minimax.io
30:50 Desktop or Laptop
Why desktop
Building the workstation into the desk
Graphics card with Thunderbolt dock
Cable management
Separating the desk from the computer
Accessing things over the internet
Minddripone.com
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