This week we talk about Bolt graphics, a new graphics start up that is working on a graphics card with upgrade-able memory for a competitive price. A software developer has released an open source alternative firmware for the Nest v1 and v2 thermostats, and of course your questions!

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00:45 Intro

• Dakota's weather

01:51 Email! - William

• Listener recommends porkbun
• Mailbox.org
• Simple Login
• DuckDuckGo Email Alias
• Proton's built in features
• Reasons for protecting privacy
• Privacy.com

11:25 Data Science & Self Hosting - Annon

• Value based approach
• Consenting data collection
• Tool vs Pillar
• A job can be a tool
• Get a job in a different field
  • hadoop
  • Nextcloud
  • Anti Virus
  • Network Protection
  • Medical Science
  • Red Hat data sciences

22:15 News Wire

• LXQT 2.3 - lxqt-project.org

• Calibre 8.14 - newwin.net

• MKVtoolnix - mkvtoolnix.download

• Curly COMrades - darkreading.com

• Porteux 2.4 - distrowatch.com

• MXLinux 25 - mxlinux.org

• Devuan 6.0 - serverhost.com

• IncusOS - phoronix.com

• NVIDIA AI Stack - hpcwire.com

• Omnilingual ASR - venturebeat.com

• Kimi K2 Thinking - venturebeat.com

• Drax - prnewswire.com

• Linux Desktop 5% - webpronews.com

23:50 Jill Mueller - Bolt Graphics

• Bolt Graphics
• Key differences
• Build of the card
• Why did you come to Ubuntu Summit?

27:25 Antonio Salvemini - Ray Tracing

• Bolt Graphics
• Ray Tracing vs Raster
• Why start with FPGA?
• Next steps
• Current Stage
• Available 2027
• Bolt Graphics
• Untapped markets
• Upgradeable GPU

34:34 No Longer Evil Thermostat

• Google EOLs Nest Thermostats Gen 1 and Gen 2
• No Longer Evil
• FULU Foundation
• "Feature Complete"
• AXIS A1001
• Good piece of hardware
• Reservations
  • Connects to "No Longer Evil Server"
  • Server planned to be open sourced
• Centralite Perl HA Thermostat (Zigbee)
  • Needs to be repaired 1 or 2 times a year
• Temperature Sensors
• Govee H5075
• IoT Maintenance
• Why temperature sensors
• ESP32 receive blue-tooth and send to Home Assistant

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