Erik Lietz, PE from Oakridge Engineering joins the Ask Noah Show this hour to discuss running an an engineering firm on Linux! Does it work perfectly? Does Linux leave something to be desired? We dig deep and discuss the merits of running a business on Open Source!

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01:45 Hard Drive Questions - Friso

Ask Ubuntu
No one uses SCSI or IDE today
Linux Kernel Blocks ATA Pass Through on USB Segate Drives
Noah and Steve's external drive methods

08:30 Router Firmware Question & Responding To Other Listener - Bhikhu

Try installing kio-fuse & kdenetwork-filesharing packages
Performance is not the reason for open source firmware
Open source firmware provides longer updates and more features

12:50 Thoughts on Bitcoin? - Cory

Decentralized
We agree what has value
Not controlled by government
Blockchain Tech

16:17 Charlie responds to user & Speeding up internet question - Charlie

20:00 User responds about GPS - Jeremy

21:20 User responds Nextcloud & location tracking - Aaron

22:50 News Wire

Open Source Robotics 10th Birthday
Access Denied AWS Tool
MangoPi Computer-on-a-module
Parrot OS 5 Released
Gnome 42 Released
- It's Foss
- It's Foss Clear Linux
Feren OS 2022.03 Released
Debian Bullseye 11.3 Released
Continued "Protestware" Fallout
- Wired
- Security Boulevard
- Fortune
Hive Ransomeware Converted to Rust
FutureAI Brian Simulator II
WiSE-FT Algorithm
BMW Group SORDI
- Green Car Congress
- Metrologoy

Erik Lietz, President of Oakridge Engineering (Mondovi Wisconsin)

Tell me about your Engineering Work
What is there to Engineer on a Farm?
What technology and tools are you using?
When did you get interested in open source and Linux?
What made you move your entire firm to Linux?
Roll Out Plan
How did the Roll out go?
Working through the papercuts
Talk about why you wanted everything self hosted?
GPU passthrough setup
GPU passthrough challenges
YouTube Link
GitLab
X1 Extreme Gen2
Future Plans

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