Episode 219: Studying Gnome Users

The Gnome design team conducted a research project to better understand their users. The results were surprising! We'll give you an update about the Vero 4K, a FOSS app to track your GPS history. -- During The Show -- 01:15 IT War/Disaster Stories Call Out Got IT horror stories, let us know! We want to do an episode on them Email live@asknoahshow.com 02:00 Jon caller Emailed about Noah's soft spot for Red Hat Latest thoughts on System76 PopOS! Home Lab/Docker Questions 12:40 Vircadia VR Responds to Episode - Vadim FOSDEM Talk (https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/vircadia/) 13:50 Building an Online Presence - Joel Don't buy lifetime services/domain names - Not sustainable business model register4less.com Don't buy a domain in your real name A records - mail.mydomain.com nextcloud.mydomain.com etc.mydomain.comment Redirects mydomain.com/server1 mydomain.com/server2 Start with a web server, lessons learned apply everywhere 21:00 User responds for MS SQL - Richard rdiff-backup - like rsync with history Other backup utilities backuppc veaam (closed source) redic (with rclone) restic Send in your backup solutions! 23:00 Pick of the Week - Zombie Tracker GPS Lightweight Linux+KDE equivalent to Garmin's "Basecamp" Manages collections of GPS tracks Local Data Charting, Graphing, Advanced sorting and querying Live GPS via GPSD (https://gpsd.gitlab.io/gpsd/) 26:10 Gadget of the Week Blackmagic Decklink Duo (https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1247779-REG/blackmagic_design_bdlkduo2_decklink_duo_2.html) SDI is the professional version of HDMI HDMI without copy protection Make your own cables with RG-6+quad shielded+BNC ends, use them as SDI cables. Works with Linux, you do need to install the driver, but FLAWLESS as compared to USB devices Much higher quality / capacity You will need to convert HDMI to SDI 31:00 Gnome 40 - UX Changes The Research Gnome Blog Post (https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2021/02/15/shell-ux-changes-the-research/) 40:00 Vero 4K Update Very well packaged system Incredible UI - Couldn't believe it was Kodi underneath Both RF and IR functionality Includes wall mounting plate Doesn't stream Blu-rays over WiFi Plays DVD rips just fine Vero 4K (https://osmc.tv/vero/) 47:30 Plasma New app launcher Breeze Twilight - Hybrid Theme Plasma Firewall settings page (ufw and firewalld) More effort put into Wayland support in Kwin 49:50 Pine Updates -- 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! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/219) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #AskNoahShow on Freenode! -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)