Bad Voltage

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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 43: Got The Om On

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge and myself present Bad Voltage, in which Bryan is sadly unavoidably absent, we discuss relationships between the Ubuntu and Kubuntu community councils, we ask you to tell us which bits you like, there are once again accusations that eating yoghurt is a bad personality trait, and:

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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 41: Second Lunch is my Favourite Lunch

Jono Bacon, Bryan Lunduke, Stuart Langridge and myself present Bad Voltage, in which hell may be slightly chillier than previously. Featuring the uses for abundant graphical power, the nature of what “cross-platform” really means, and: * 00:02:15 Google announce Google Fi, a new MVNO-style mobile network joining together wifi,

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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 39: Ambitious but Rubbish

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge and myself present Bad Voltage (without Bryan Lunduke who is currently struggling with an attack of Ebola), in which everything needs to be an order of magnitude better. Featuring flying bags of flammable liquid, 120 frames per second, and: * What needs to happen so that I

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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 38: Easy Being Green

Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge and myself present Bad Voltage, in which we decide to talk about Linux almost completely for the whole show. Featuring following the dare in the last show a great deal of OpenSuSE (or openSUSE or opensuse or possibly Open SUSE), green-coloured things, and: * If

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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 37: Spooning with Everybody

Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge and myself present Bad Voltage, in which we drone about drones, complain about governments, argue about old modem companies, and: * Why is OpenSUSE relevant, and why should we use it? Including a challenge to the three non-Bryan members of the team to try OpenSUSE

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Anova Precision Cooker Review

In the latest episode of Bad Voltage, I review the Anova Precision Cooker Sous Vide. While you should listen to the show (which includes discussion of the review), here's the review text. Anova Precision Cooker As I mentioned in my Soylent review, viewing gastronomy as merely about sustenance

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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 35: One Plug Per Segment

Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge and myself unleash all the Bad Voltage you can handle, this week featuring: * Live Voltage! The first Bad Voltage live show, on 20th February at SCALE. Come to it! Be part of the majesty! (2.13) * Jeremy reviews the Anova Sous Vide, and discusses

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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 34: Hidden Cities

Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge and myself bring you all the Bad Voltage that’s fit to print, including a special feature where three of us record with good microphones and one moron doesn’t: * We give the second half of our predictions for where technology will go in

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Soylent 1.3 Review

In the next episode of Bad Voltage, I review Soylent 1.3. I typically post the review text after an episode comes out, but as I did with the Kindle Voyage Review I’m going to post it ahead of time. Why? Well, during the show myself and the rest

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Kindle Voyage Review

In the next episode of Bad Voltage, I review the new Kindle Voyage. I typically post the review text after an episode comes out, but this time I'm going to post it ahead of time. Why? Well, during the show myself and the rest of the Bad Voltage

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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 28: Everything is Orange

Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge and myself present Bad Voltage, in which we celebrate our completed first year of the show by not actually doing anything celebratory. We also discuss: * Debian agreed to ship systemd as default and now people are talking about forking the whole distribution. The question

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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 27: Buffalo Wild Wings Dollars

Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, and myself present Bad Voltage, in which there is only one. We also discuss: * Would it be bad if the open source desktop fails to go mainstream? Is not wanting large public success just elitism? Or is this the year that we pronounce it

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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 25: On a Stick With No Fripperies

Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge and myself present Bad Voltage, in which we discuss the wonderful products of the Jimmy Dean sausage empire, have unexpected bouts of poetry, lunch each other with frippery, and also discuss: * The final installment of the Bad Voltage Reverso Debate, which, due to a

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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 24: Bunch of Sockpuppets

From the Bad Voltage site: Myself, Bryan "the Cheater" Lunduke, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we discuss operating systems, magnanimity in defeat, cheating, mendacious donations to charity, fingerprints being rubbish, how to kiss a Red Hat engineer, and: * The "reverso" debate:

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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 22: Oval Ted Bag

From the Bad Voltage site: We return to our normal places around the globe and continue to bring you tasty things for your ears. Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, myself and an inexcusable absence of Bryan Lunduke think up a new competition involving things in our houses, and also discuss: * Where’

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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 19: Fedora Murder Trial

From the Bad Voltage site: The whole team return (remarkably) to speak, weirdly, only about things beginning with the letter F. Myself, Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, with the following “F-ing” things: * Fire Phone: Amazon release a phone, and we decide whether it’s exciting

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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 16: Forgotten to be Right

From the Bad Voltage site: Myself, Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, the greatest podcast in the history of this or any other universe. In this episode: * Is the GPL still relevant in the 2010s? * We talk to Ilan Rabinovitch, co-founder of the Linux Fund credit

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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 15: Why Dear Watson

Myself, Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, : * Bryan gave his yearly “Linux Sucks” talk at LinuxFest Northwest, and the rest of us take issue with his approach, his arguments, his data sources, and his general sense of being * The XBox 360: reviewed as a TV set-top

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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 14: Cloudy Donkey Mascots

Myself, Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which the cloud shows up a lot this week, in the following ways: * Personal cloud storage: what do we use, what do we like, and what do we think? Companies, personal clouds, servers, tarsnap and Dropbox * Christian Schaller,

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Pebble Smartwatch Review

This review was originally done for Bad Voltage, but I figured it may also be of interest to my general readers. In Season 1 Episode 13 of Bad Voltage, we covered the topic of wearables. One device that came up in that episode was the Pebble watch. For those who

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Withings WS-50 Smart Body Analyzer Review

This review was originally done for Bad Voltage, but I figured it may also be of interest to my general readers. As I mentioned in the season one, episode four "Open Source Health" segment, I'm someone who makes a concerted effort to stay relatively healthy. Part

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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 11: Internet of Thugs

Myself, Stuart Langridge, The Invisible and Inaudible Ghost of Lunduke, and Jono Bacon present a new Bad Voltage, in which we discuss: * Our new series, Breaking Down The Bullshit where we delve into the current buzzwords and trends and determine if they are all hype or have substance. In this

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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 10: Midnight Throne Travels

Good Listening, Bad voltage Myself, Stuart Langridge, Bryan Lunduke, and Jono Bacon present a new Bad Voltage, in which we discuss: * Tech conferences — which ones are good, which ones are not, and why? * Desktop machines versus laptops, and a review of Stuart’s new gorgeous desktop computer from PC Specialist

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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 9: The Starting Pitstop

Myself, Stuart Langridge, Bryan Lunduke, and Jono Bacon wend their troublesome ways down the road of: * We weigh in on the upstart/systemd brouhaha in Debian and discuss what happened, why it happened, and whether it was a good thing or not. * Bryan reviews the Lenovo Miix 2 tablet and

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Google Nexus 5 Review

This review was originally done for Bad Voltage, but I figured it may also be of interest to my general readers. In this episode I'm going to review the recently released Nexus 5 phone, manufactured by LG. While the 5 in the product name is a reference to