Ask Noah Show 484 | Linux in a Commercial Environment

About this episode

Noah and guest Kenny Schmidt discuss the role of Linux in commercial settings and the implications of taking work home.

This week Kenny Schmidt the Operations Manager for Altispeed Technologies joins the show! Kenny and Noah talk about the role of Linux in a commercial environment, and what a healthy view of taking work home looks like! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Show goes in cycles Linux making it's way into 01:48 Alarm Panels Reliable and robust Honeywell Vista Panel Closed contact Shellys Resistors Home Assistant integration ESP8266 Alarm Decoder .com Alarm Decoder .square.site [Eyezon]( www.eyezon.com ) Building a system 17:50 Kenny From Altispeed Taking your work home Love learning at home Open source vs Proprietary Garage door automation Zigbee vs Z-Wave Unicast vs Multicast POE Zigbee Adapter Amazon Rebuilding the "Schmidt Cloud" DNS Challenge Immich Immich release notes and documentation Changes to the Immich project and funding Nyquist from Bogen Kenny's Blog bitsandbolts.net 45:02 News Wire Bcachefs 1.37 - phoronix.com FFMPEG 8.1 - ffmpeg.org Blender 5.1 - blender.org Openrazer 3.12 - github.com OpenShot 35 - openshot.org KiCad - kicad.org GX Browser - gamingtrend.com AntiX 26 - antixlinux.com Fedora Asahi Remix 43 - fedoramagazine.org GlassWorm - scientificamerican.com…

People in this episode

Host: Noah J. Chelliah

Guest: Kenny Schmidt

Topics covered

• Linux in commercial environments
• Open source vs Proprietary
• Home automation
• Technology news
• Work-life balance

Keywords

• Linux
• commercial environment
• home automation
• open source
• technology news
• work-life balance
• Zigbee
• Z-Wave

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Altispeed Technologies, Honeywell, Immich, Bogen, Phoronix, FFMPEG, Blender, Openrazer, OpenShot, KiCad

Products: Zigbee, Z-Wave, POE Zigbee Adapter, Credoid, WikiJS, Mercury Boards

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