Episode 221: Blackbird Secure Desktop

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 (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah/221) Self host a 3CX PBX (https://www.3cx.com/) FreePBX (https://www.freepbx.org/) Asterisk (https://www.asterisk.org/) #### 12:45 Caller - George Best Slide show App? Make Video in KdenLIVE (https://kdenlive.org/en/) LibreOffice Impress (https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/impress/) HedgeDoc Slideshow mode Antenna for TV? Apmlified Digital Antenna (https://www.amazon.com/Latest-Amplified-Digital-Antenna-65-80/dp/B07FVLXHYV/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=HD+Antenna&qid=1614730714&sr=8-3) User Feedback - Ben Solution for nerve damage in one hand Use a one handed keyboard Twiddler Keyboard (https://twiddler.tekgear.com/) 18:15 Bluetooth headphones? - Graeme Best Bluetooth headphones for both calls and music Check out Steelseries (https://steelseries.com/gaming-headsets) Sony WH1000xm4 (https://www.sony.com/electronics/headband-headphones/wh-1000xm4) 21:15 Pick of the Week Loving Memory GitHub (https://github.com/Coderior/lovingmemory/) Built on GitHub Pages Doesn't require any web expertise 24:00 Tech of the Week Cactus Chat (https://cactus.chat/) Embed Anywhere Privacy Respecting Highly Compatible Decentralized 30:00 Blackbird OS News Article about Blackbird (https://www.osnews.com/story/133093/review-blackbird-secure-desktop-a-fully-open-source-modern-power9-workstation-without-any-proprietary-code/) Power9 is fully open source unlike Intel/ARM Basic Blackbird Bundle $1,733 (https://www.raptorcs.com/content/BK1B01/intro.html) 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 (https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2021/03/01/plasma-mobile-update-february.html) 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 -- 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/221) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- 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)