Brent Gervais

Nostr Workshop

April 5th, 2024  |  40 mins 42 secs

alby, chat, chrislas.com, cross-app, cross-platform, decentralized, fountain, getalby, identity, json, key, network, nostr, primal.net, private, protocol, public, real-time, relay, stream, workshop

Our Nostr workshop. We’ll help you get your Nostr identity and answer any questions.

Brunch With Brent: Tim Canham

July 10th, 2022  |  58 mins 6 secs

13 minutes to the moon, apollo 11, apollo 13, arduino, augmented reality, australia, automotive industry, aws government cloud, brent gervais, brunch with brent, cassini, community, containerization, curiosity rover, deep space network, elastic search, embedded linux, extras, f prime, flight software, fry's electronics, github, guerilla team, hardware, impostor syndrome, ingenuity, interview podcast, jet propulsion laboratory, jpl, jupiter broadcasting, linux, mars, mars helicopter, matplotlib, mentorship, mining, mining automation, nasa, ontario, open source, perseverance rover, python, raspberry pi, robotics, software, solaris, space mining, spacecraft, students, sudbury, sun microsystems, synology nas, systems engineer, the expanse, vm ware, vx works

Brent sits down with Tim Canham, Senior Software Engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. We explore topics including the hardware and software powering NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter; JPL's switch from Solaris to Linux; the open source projects, tools, and philosophy at JPL, ...and more.

Brunch with Brent: Quentin Stafford-Fraser

June 19th, 2022  |  1 hr 18 mins

adventure, alexander graham bell, austin rover, autonomous vehicles, big data, brent gervais, brunch with brent, cambridge university, camper, camper van, chambéry, community, computer scientist, computer vision, data capitalism, discomfort zone, displaylink, dog-walking lifestyle, douglas adams, dvorak, electric vehicles, entrepreneur, extras, french alps, gadget-love, hang gliding, imagination, innovation, intellectual cross-fertilisation, intellectual property, interview podcast, invention, jupiter broadcasting, learning, linux, machine learning, martin king, mentorship, motor home, ndiyo, open source, paragliding, patent economics, patent maintenance, patents, privacy, profession obsolescence, quentin stafford-fraser, quentinsf, qwerty, raspberry pi, richard dawkins, rv, scuba diving, self-driving, sherry with brent, sky diving, software programming, sparcstation, speech recognition, star trek, t9, telemarq

Brent sits down with Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser, computer scientist, serial-entrepreneur, inventor (perhaps) of the webcam, Augmented Reality Ph.D. who ran the very first web server at the University of Cambridge, among much more. We explore topics including computer science as an art-form, the origins of the Raspberry Pi and T9 predictive text, philosophies around innovation and invention, challenging the patent system, and more.

March Boost Battle

March 31st, 2022  |  1 hr 49 mins

The Unplugged team holds a live event with a special guest, your questions, and we give away a lot of Bitcoin sats!

Who Wants to be a Satoshionaire Land of the Snow Edition

February 2nd, 2022  |  25 mins 56 secs

satoshionaire, satoshis, who wants to be a millionaire

Brent's in the hot seat and plays to win 1000 Satoshis, while Wes adds a little color commentary.

Microsoft is now the Disney of Video Games

January 18th, 2022  |  44 mins 39 secs

activision blizzard, apple, coinbase nft marketplace, crypto.com hack, ethereum, gaming, intel low-voltage bitcoin mining asic, mastercard, microsoft, smartphone market, xbox game pass, youtube original content

We react to Microsoft gobbling up yet another game studio, chat about Crypto.com's recent $15M hack, the massive failure YouTube just admitted, and a few personal crew stories.

Road Trip Tech

January 13th, 2022  |  27 mins 38 secs

battery overheating, battleborn, bonded lte connections, denver, ford, jupiter broadcasting, linode, lithium, max transit, mobile podcasting, peplink, pepwave, road trip, rode procaster, rv life, rv living, salt lake city, seattle, solar, sync files with vps, syncthying, triton, v10, victron, wireguard

Our road trip machine is loaded up from solar to networking, the tech that made working, living, and recording from the road possible for 44 days and over 2,200 miles.

Road Trip Memories

January 11th, 2022  |  39 mins 3 secs

denver road trip, levi, system76

During our summer road trip to Denver we had the microphone's recording and captured some great moments.

Why Linux Will Win in 20 Years

January 4th, 2022  |  1 hr 26 mins

bitcoin, docker, endlessos, jellfin, qubesos, self-hosting, ubuntu web

It's a casual community hangout, and we spin the Wheel of Topics. From what Linux does worst, our thoughts on EndlessOS, Ubuntu Web Remix, QubesOS, Brent's adventures with JellyFin, and why Linux will ultimately dominate all operating. systems in 20 years.

Brunch with Brent: Carl Richell

July 24th, 2020  |  42 mins

be bold, brunch with brent, carl richell, community, emma marshall, extras, hardware, interview podcast, jeremy soller, jupiter broadcasting, lfnw, linux, linuxfest northwest, open firmware, open source, pop!_os, spacex, system76

Brent sits down with Carl Richell, Founder and CEO of System76. We explore the people, passion, and culture behind the scenes, learn of young Carl, the early years of building a Linux-focused hardware business, how today System76 fuels a tiny piece of SpaceX, and more.

Carl's Community Ask: Be Bold.

Brunch with Brent: Philip Müller

June 19th, 2020  |  39 mins 32 secs

arch, brunch with brent, calamares, chakra, community, developer, extras, flatpak, interview podcast, jupiter broadcasting, kdemod, linux, linux unplugged, manjaro, open source, philip muller, philip müller, pi-hole, pine64, pinebook, pinephone, popey, privacy, snap, snapcraft, tuxedo, ubuntu, wimpy, xfce

Brent sits down with Philip Müller, Co-Founder and Lead Developer of Manjaro, and CEO at Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG. We explore the formation and evolution of Manjaro as a Linux distribution, the development of past and recent hardware partnerships, cross-distribution collaborations, and what's inspiring Philip in the next 5 years.

Brunch with Brent: Kyle Rankin

May 22nd, 2020  |  49 mins 3 secs

art of manliness, brogrammer, brunch with brent, community, core boot, extras, foss, four essential freedoms, free software, freenode, heads, interview podcast, jupiter broadcasting, kyle rankin, librem 15, librem 5, librem key, linux, linux journal, open source, privacy, pureos, purism, safety razor, security, social purpose corporation, surveillance capitalism, wayback machine

Brent sits down with Kyle Rankin, Chief Security Officer and Vice President at Purism and former Tech Editor and columnist at Linux Journal. We explore his 10+ years with Linux Journal, as well as Purism's culture, ideals, product design and engineering philosophies, and more.

Brunch with Brent: Sri Ramkrishna

April 21st, 2020  |  34 mins 38 secs

apps community, brunch with brent, chaoss, community, extras, flatpak, gnome, interview podcast, itrenew, jupiter broadcasting, kde, kubernetes, linux, linux app summit, open compute project, open source, snap, sri, sri ramkrishna

Brent sits down with Sri Ramkrishna, seasoned GNOME community member, founder of Linux App Summit, and Principle Ecosystems Engineer at ITRenew. We discuss his experiences in the GNOME community since 1998, the value of building relationships across communities, the increasing importance of non-technical roles in open source projects, and more.

Brunch with Brent: Daniel Foré

April 3rd, 2020  |  53 mins 8 secs

app centre, brunch with brent, community, daniel foré, design, desire paths, diversity, elementary os, extras, flatpak, gentoo, gnome, guadec, interview podcast, jupiter broadcasting, korora, lfnw, linux, linuxfest northwest, open source, software development, ubuntu, user error

Brent sits down with Daniel Foré, founder of elementary OS and co-host of User Error. We explore his early years in design and software, formative aspects of Ubuntu and Gentoo, the philosophies and history of elementary OS, and more.

Brunch with Brent: Aleix Pol

March 27th, 2020  |  44 mins 11 secs

akademy, aleix pol, barcelona free software, blue systems, brunch with brent, bug tracking, community, developer, extras, gnome, guadec, interview podcast, jupiter broadcasting, kde, kde e.v., linux, linux app summit, open source, software development

Brent sits down with Aleix Pol, president of KDE e.V., KDE software developer, co-founder of Linux App Summit and Barcelona Free Software. We discuss his longstanding collaborations within the KDE community, developer sponsorships in open source business models, and more.

Brunch with Brent: Stuart Langridge

March 20th, 2020  |  57 mins 51 secs

8-bit, alexa, amazon, bad voltage, bash, brunch with brent, canonical, chrislas cast, community, crab bucket, echo, email, extras, final mile, gmail, interview podcast, jupiter broadcasting, linux, mycroft, neal stephenson, open source, patrick rothfuss, search engine, snow crash, stuart langridge, superhuman, terminal, terry pratchett, text, unseen academicals, ux, voice assistant

Brent sits down with Stuart Langridge, co-host of Bad Voltage, for an exploration of open source's "final mile", the text and language interface as a UX opportunity, terminals vs. search engines, Darwinian processes and crab-bucketism in software development, and more.