Episode 279: Civil Engineering on LINUX!

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! -- During The Show -- 01:45 Hard Drive Questions - Friso Ask Ubuntu (https://askubuntu.com/questions/637450/cannot-perform-smart-data-and-self-test-on-external-hard-drive/692892#692892) 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 Open Streetmap Forum Link 1 (https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=19465) Open Streetmap Forum Link 2 (https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=854178) Reddit Geocaching (https://old.reddit.com/r/geocaching/) OSMAnd OSMAnd (https://osmand.net/) OSMAnd Github (https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd) OSMAnd Fdroid (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.osmand.plus/) Open Streetmap Wiki Android (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Android) Open Streetmap Wiki Android App Comparison (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Android_applications) YouTube LanCache Tutorial 1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bfJdtA7GtA) YouTube LanCache Tutorial 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=427wjHRl8N4) YouTube Steam Cache Server (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djGia0DHmis) Cache can help Upgraded Network may not 20:00 User responds about GPS - Jeremy Garmin inReach Mini (https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/592606) Zoleo Satellite Communicator (https://www.zoleo.com/en-us/satellite-communicator/) Somwear (https://somewearlabs.com/product/outdoors-hotspot/) 21:20 User responds Nextcloud & location tracking - Aaron PhoneTrack Nextcloud (https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/phonetrack) PhoneTrack Fdroid Package (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.eneiluj.nextcloud.phonetrack/) GPS Tagged Photos + Nextcloud Maps (https://github.com/nextcloud/maps) 22:50 News Wire Open Source Robotics 10th Birthday (https://spectrum.ieee.org/open-robotics) Access Denied AWS Tool (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/03/25/ermetic-access-undenied-on-aws/) MangoPi Computer-on-a-module (https://liliputing.com/2022/03/lilbits-mangopis-sd-card-sized-linux-pc-supersizing-the-iphone-13-pro-max-and-intels-most-powerful-desktop-chip.html) Parrot OS 5 Released (https://www.parrotsec.io/blog/2022-03-24-parrot-5.0-press-release/) Gnome 42 Released It's Foss (https://news.itsfoss.com/gnome-42-release/) It's Foss Clear Linux (https://news.itsfoss.com/clear-linux-gnome-42/) Feren OS 2022.03 Released (https://news.itsfoss.com/feren-os-2022-03/) Debian Bullseye 11.3 Released (https://9to5linux.com/debian-gnu-linux-11-3-bullseye-released-with-83-security-updates-and-92-bug-fixes) Continued "Protestware" Fallout Wired (https://www.wired.com/story/open-source-sabotage-protestware/) Security Boulevard (https://securityboulevard.com/2022/03/the-promise-of-open-source-code-and-the-paradox-of-protestware/) Fortune (https://fortune.com/2022/03/22/what-is-protestware-russia-ukraine-sberbank-software-open-source/) Hive Ransomeware Converted to Rust (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hive-ransomware-ports-its-linux-vmware-esxi-encryptor-to-rust/) FutureAI Brian Simulator II (https://jaxenter.com/ai-brain-simulator-simon-177061.html) WiSE-FT Algorithm (https://www.marktechpost.com/2022/03/25/researchers-open-source-wise-ft-algorithm-for-fine-tuning-ai-models/) BMW Group SORDI Green Car Congress (https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/03/20220324-sordi.html) Metrologoy (https://metrology.news/bmw-publishes-largest-open-source-dataset-for-production-ai-applications/) Erik Lietz, President of Oakridge Engineering (Mondovi Wisconsin) (https://www.oakridgeeng.com) 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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTX10QlFJ6c) GitLab (https://gitlab.com/risingprismtv/single-gpu-passthrough/-/tree/master/) X1 Extreme Gen2 Future Plans -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! 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