Episode 228: Fedora 34 with Matthew Miller - a podcast by Noah J. Chelliah

Matthew Miller joins the show to talk about next week's release of Fedora 34, with Gnome 40 and Pipewire there is no shortage of exciting changes coming to the distro. We take your calls, and emails and answer questions!
-- During The Show --00:50 Multi-Hard Drive Install - M.X.U.
If you have the same make/model make sure you know your serial numbers04:00 Sony WH-1000XM4 headsets help? - Richard
06:00 Headphone recommendation? - ChrisFrequency Range
Human Range 20-20,000 hzSony WH-1000XM4
Sampling rate - 44.1 khz is nearly imperceptible to the human earWireless requires Encoding/Decoding which can degrade quality
CD quality is much better than mp3, FLAC and WAV can be "uncompressed"Driver Unit Size
Generally larger driver = better sound qualityMultiple small drivers can out perform a single large driver
Passive/Isolation vs Active Noise CancellationActive - generates opposite wave from to cancel out noise
Passive/Isolation - Simply tries to block outside noise1st Choice Sony WH-1000XM4 (https://www.sony.com/electronics/headband-headphones/wh-1000xm4)
2nd Choice Bose Quiet Comfort (https://www.amazon.com/Bose-QuietComfort-Wireless-Headphones-Cancelling/dp/B0756CYWWD/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=bose+noise+cancelling+headphones&qid=1618957183&sr=8-3)
19:30 Gnome 40 still single thread? - JonPhoronix Article (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-40-Separate-Input-Thread)
21:00 Caller HDD Arrays - MarkIt depends on your use case
JBOD "just a bunch of disks"Mirrored Array
Raid 5Raid Cards can cause issues, Certain file systems (ZFS) want to talk to the disks directly
25:00 Education/Career Advice for a High StudentA few paths to take
ProgrammerSupport
System EngineerNetwork Engineer
Job ShadowInternships
Certs can be goodRed Hat Certs are good (RHCSA (https://www.redhat.com/en/services/certification/rhcsa))
Don't rely on certs28:45 Interview with Matt
BTRFS by default went wellFedora 34
Currently On ScheduleFedora Linux Schedule (https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-34/f-34-all-tasks.html)
Transparent Compression is enabled
Shipping with Gnome 40Multi-Monitor in Gnome 40 needs some work still
New Spins availablePipewire by default (Pro audio for everyone!)
SystemD OOMD on by DefaultFedora Server received lots of polish (thank you Fedora Server Team)
Fedora IOT Edition, Based on RPM OS Tree and ContainersCoreOS has 3 streams now
You can get involved with FedoraNew Fedora Logo
History Of the Fedora Logo (https://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2019/01/09/which-new-fedora-logo-design-do-you-prefer/)Fedora Site (getfedora.org)
53:30 Another Backup question - DanielYou want off site and automated backup
Bacula (https://www.bacula.org/)ZFS/BTRFS Send/Receive
Check out Episode 36 of Opinion DominionThe Opinion Dominion Ep 36 (https://www.theopiniondominion.org/36)
Call to ActionWe will have community rooms/booths
Matrix Chat (Element) will be used again this yearSELF will be virtual this year, hosted again by yours truly!
SELF Call for Talks (https://southeastlinuxfest.org/?nltr=MTE7MTIzMjtodHRwczovL2Zvcm1zLmdsZS9IeHoxNTRuS1NybkJXUkc0QTs7YmNmYmE5YmY2M2NmMDA5ODg5NWI3Y2ZlYjUzOGRkMzQ%3D)SELF dates June 10-12
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