Ask Noah Show 481

This week Noah gives an update on the Chinesium access controller, Steve has a problem with 7.1 audio and works out a solution with Noah, and of course your feedback!

-- During The Show --

00:48 Intro

• Weather

• Snark

02:08 Game Server Access - David

• Proxy

• Wireguard

• Nebula

• Tailscale

• Put Linux on the Sophos

• Dynamic DNS

• Name Cheap

• Port Forwarding

• Swap the drive

• Docs.sophos.com

11:20 Static One Liners - Dominick

• Bunch of helpful tools and one liners

• Github Link

• Scope creep

13:53 Cat6 or 6a - Ted

• Always pull the latest

• Vertical Cable

• Fiber vs Ethernet

• Down sides of fiber (conduit)

• OCC Fiber

• DZ Cable

23:50 News Wire

• Firefox 148.0 - firefox.com

• Thunderbird 148 - thunderbird.net

• Postgres 18.3 - postgresql.org

• SciTE 5.6 - scintilla.org

• Dbeaver 26 - dbeaver.io

• GNU Groff 1.24 - lwn.net

• GNU Octave v11 - octave.org

• Shotcut 26.2 - shotcut.org

• Ardour 9.2 - ardour.org

• Calibre 9.4 - manual.calibre-ebook.com

• Linux EOL Dates Getting Pushed Back - social.kernel.org

• React Foundation - prnewswire.com

• GNU Hurd Kernel 64 bit - guix.gnu.org

• Mabox Linux 26.02 - lwn.net

• 4MLinux 50.1 - 4mlinux.com

• Omarchy 3.4 - github.com

• TheSSS 51.0 - 4mlinux.blogspot.com

• AV Linux 25.1 - heise.de

• Archbang 0103 - archbang.org

• PorteusX 2.6 - github.com

• Aeryn OS 2026.02 - phoronix.com

• BunsenLabs Carbon - bunsenlabs.org

• Tails 7.5 - tails.net

• Qwen3.5-Medium Performance - venturebeat.com

• Kali Linux & AI - linkedin.com

25:30 Steve's Audio Problems

• Loud sound effects, quiet speech

• Steve's approach

• Easy Effects

• Browser plugins

• Looking online

• Asking AI

• Tune the receiver

• Applying the solution multiple places

• Sound isolation

• Aurdor

• Carla

• Compressor

• x42 plugins

• Real time Kernel

• Easier than it looks

• Write in with your solutions!

• Kodi Plugins and settings

• Reddit

• Vero V

50:50 Access Control Update

• TM Dallas controller arrived

• Downsides/limitations

• Reader was "hot garbage"

54:07 Scale

• Scale is going on!

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