New Show – Shut Your Pi Hole!
In this Weeks TechtalkRadio, Justin and Shawn are back with Andy Taylor for their first show coming back for the New Year. The guys talk about building stuff for the kids during the holidays and the dangers of bourbon and building. Shawn shares his love of Lego’s while Justin is super excited at the game show Lego Masters. Justin and Shawn tell us about The Reddit Secret Santa with some great stories of gifts given and received that has happened over the past 11 years with matched up strangers. The guys share the tales of Bill Gates and Elon Musk who participate in The Reddit Secret Santa.
The Windows 7 End of Support Date has Passed yet the Windows 10 Upgrade link was still available as of recording. Justin tell us about a Security Flaw which has the NSA involved in notifying the media to alert users of Windows 10 and Server 2016 to patch the systems immediately. Justin shares the background on this reason to patch. Shawn shares a need to know patch story about Firefox and the reason behind it as well as highlight on a new browser he is starting to use which doesn’t make Justin and Andy overjoyed called Brave.
Justin sets up a Raspberry Pi Zero to connect to Pi Hole, A Black Hole for Internet Ads. In 24 hours it has blocked 36k Query’s and over 4000 ads! The guys talk about CES2020 and coverage they followed by Dave Graveline of Into Tomorrow and Super Radio Pro Fred Jacobs. What is happening with 4k versus 8k technology? Shawn brings up a great point, It is not about the Quantity of Pixels, it is about Quality. Justin explains the differences between QLED and OLED when it comes to the new televisions. The guys talk about YouTube TV and what it represents for Cord Cutters which still want local channels. Robots were big at CES2020 and Andy shares a story about luggage that is robotic that will follow a user around. Andy talks about Waverly Labs and translation devices for understanding foreign languages.
To Wrap up this week’s show, Justin and Shawn talk about the game Escape from Tarkov and why this is such a tremendous game title from Battlestate Games.
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