Episode 221: Blackbird Secure Desktop - a podcast by Noah J. Chelliah

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 routerRun 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? - DennisUse 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 - GeorgeBest Slide show App?
Make Video in KdenLIVE (https://kdenlive.org/en/)LibreOffice Impress (https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/impress/)
HedgeDoc Slideshow modeAntenna 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 handUse a one handed keyboard
Twiddler Keyboard (https://twiddler.tekgear.com/)18:15 Bluetooth headphones? - Graeme
Best Bluetooth headphones for both calls and musicCheck 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 expertise24:00 Tech of the Week
Cactus Chat (https://cactus.chat/)Embed Anywhere
Privacy RespectingHighly Compatible
Decentralized30:00 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 processorsPower1 was released in 1990
Fedora and OpenSuse both support Power949:00 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 DriverNew Features
Welcome/Setup ScreenModified Home Screen
Groundwork for future featuresPlasma Dialer improvements
DTMF&USSD Requests work now
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