The Blackbird Secure Desktop is a POEWR9 system, a fully open source modern POWER9 workstation without any proprietary code. Plasma mobile has a new update out, we talk bluetooth headsets, VoIP phone systems, and a one handed keyboard!
-- During The Show --
01:00 nVidia shield and blocking google DNS - Zack
- Try setting up DNS on your router
- Run PFSense/OpnSense in a VM, use that to block DNS requests to Google, pass on legit requests to a PiHole
05:15 VOIP Recommendations for Home Phone? - Dennis
- Use a Trunk Provider
- Voxtelesys Hosted Option
- Self host a 3CX PBX
- FreePBX
- Asterisk #### 12:45 Caller - George
- Best Slide show App?
- Make Video in KdenLIVE
- LibreOffice Impress
- HedgeDoc Slideshow mode
- Antenna for TV?
- Apmlified Digital Antenna
User Feedback - Ben
- Solution for nerve damage in one hand
- Use a one handed keyboard
- Twiddler Keyboard
18:15 Bluetooth headphones? - Graeme
- Best Bluetooth headphones for both calls and music
- Check out Steelseries
- Sony WH1000xm4
21:15 Pick of the Week
- Loving Memory GitHub
- Built on GitHub Pages
- Doesn't require any web expertise
24:00 Tech of the Week
- Cactus Chat
- Embed Anywhere
- Privacy Respecting
- Highly Compatible
- Decentralized
30:00 Blackbird
- OS News Article about Blackbird
- Power9 is fully open source unlike Intel/ARM
- Basic Blackbird Bundle $1,733
- Blackbird has a BMC running OpenBMC
- GameCube, Wii, Xbox 360 all use PowerPC-based processors
- Power1 was released in 1990
- Fedora and OpenSuse both support Power9
49:00 Plasma Mobile
- Plasma Mobile Blog Post
- Pinephone + Jumpdrive is awesome
- Plasma Mobile is almost Daily Driver
- New Features
- Welcome/Setup Screen
- Modified Home Screen
- Groundwork for future features
- Plasma Dialer improvements
- DTMF & USSD Requests work now
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