That would be quite ironic, yes.
There was a post somewhere about doing a show with Bryan muted… maybe they decided to put that in action and not tell anyone.
Though he was around for the LibreOffice segment, I would guess they just recorded them in separate sessions and had scheduling conflicts. Since it’s a prerecorded show they don’t have to stick to a specific schedule.
I think the show sounds fine as it is now.
Ah, ok. I haven’t listened to any substantial amount of this week’s podcast yet; I was going by the beginning of the intro and the discussion on IRC.
It’s good to hear that Bryan is on part of the show (although it’s still a little weird that his partial absence was unacknowledged by the team so far).
Given:
- The absence of Bryan from most of the show
- The lack of the usual banter when a team member is absent.
3 .The absence of Stuart from the only segment where Bryan is present - The final link where Jono says the three of them will be back in 2 weeks.
Is it fair to assume that Stuart and Brian have finally fallen-out big time and Bryan has chucked his toys out of the Pram?
Might [this][1] have something to do with it?
EDIT: Jono passive-affirmatively liked this post. Conspiracy confirmed. Maybe.
[1]: 1x40: Zero-Dollar Energy ““with @bryanlunduke muted””
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My only doubt about the conspiracy is that, in Jono and Aq’s past shows, they were very forthcoming about people leaving.
Is this the thread to show support for “Stereo - recording/s” to be used ?
If it is - I’m in favour of them 
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My rockbox was low there for a while, oh well.
This Powerwall thing… I have a theory.
As is widely known, the electricity grids run at near capacity. The peak tends to be in the early evening as people get home, turn on the TV, maybe use air con… What about when they all buy electric cars?? The grid will not take it! Not to mention the need to have a large feed if you want a fast charge.
Or, with this wall mounted battery, it charges during the day in the “trough” of the daily usage. You then arrive home and plug in… 30 minutes later you have a full charge from a high amperage feed without increasing the demand on the grid at all.
Jono and Jeremy are right: this makes no sense as a cost saver. It helps the grid smooth out usage, but that doesn’t have a good enough draw for the home owner… You either need to be generating, or you use it essentially as a capacitor for a fast discharge later.
I’d also be interested what happens during a power outage… Does it feed into the grid? Do you suddenly power the street? What about fire fighters etc who are trying to isolate supply?
Lots of questions, but I guess these will be answered when it’s available to install 
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Regarding @bryanlunduke’s comment about wanting LibreOffice for Android? If you’re willing to accept Apache Open Office… it’s there… search for AndroOpenOffice.
The downside? It starts an X server, and runs AOO in that. The font packs and dictionaries are separate and it’s not an awesome experience.
But… if you want it, it is there.
@jonobacon, @sil and @jeremy, it would have been nice to nod to the fact that @bryanlunduke wasn’t going to be there for 3/4 of the show. It was only after it ran that I remembered that he said he was going off to a measles party or something, and would be offline until they rescusitated him (or something like that… and I don’t mean my spelling issues - typing this in Firefox for Android, and I’ve not got around to asking it to spellcheck for me)
Anyway… </waffle>
Zeetings sounds pointless tbh. Something @sil said “At least it’s not an iOS app” or something I don’t agree with. If you could just install an app and have the polls automatically pushed from the presenter to audience without having to type in a URL that would be a lot better. Where you could ask people to vote on their phones mid speech and it would just work at the touch of a button with 0 demands on the audience members, especially if it actually became successful and in a few years you could just assume everyone had it. It’s a far harder goal to obtain but I’m not convinced that Zeetings actually adds anything over having the presentation on Google Docs + having a strawpoll in there somewhere - or the mentioned legacy biological interaction methodologies.
Libreoffice… Online office suites are just more convenient for most people. I don’t think the libreoffice team are the people to produce the next generation of opensource office suites. I don’t know if I have ever even met someone who would have the first idea how to even start working on openoffice, meanwhile I’m positively beating back Android/iOS, CoffeeScript and node.js developers with a broom like its some form of zombie apocalypse.
Libreoffice trying to shift the few developers they have towards this way of working is stupid imo, just make the best desktop suite you can and let HipsterOffice.io.irony fight Google and Microsoft when something like that exists - hopefully with a product with innovative usage of all the new web technologies and presumably involving Docker in there somewhere; not just doggedly pursuing MS office like open/libreoffice always has.
Don’t really care about the audio. It’s not an FPS game or something I don’t need surround sound to react some someone creeping up behind me. Lugradio was fine with mono, Bad voltage is fine with stereo. If some listeners have a halfway decent reason to prefer mono do it in mono, don’t really care. Also based on the last hour long bad voltage and a random lugradio episode which were usually half an hour or so longer than bad voltage; the lugradio episode is half the size and sounds fine to me really and I assume there’s plenty of compression etc on the lugradio file which wouldn’t be needed with modern internet connections.
Perhaps an argument could be made for non native english speakers preferring stereo, maybe that helps them understand when you talk over each other like on Lugradio - you had endless hatemail from people who found it difficult to understand when you talked over each other but as a native english speaker it was never challenging to understand really. Also you don’t talk over each other at all really on bad voltage.
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@bryanlunduke please convince the other presenters to allow you rant for the entire next episode about the Ubuntu Snappy stuff, cheers.
A lot of this audio stuff is making sense considering I usually listen to podcasts with just one earphone in…
It may be more useful to, instead of choosing the audio setup that works best for the most people, create a designated player that allows anyone to customize the audio setup.
In this case, that would mean recording in stereo and adding a “mono audio” switch on the site.
That would be a suggestion for this project 
About stereo: It is OK now, but noticeable. IMHO, it can be a real problem for some mobile listening scenarios. How about reducing the stereo effect by half for the next show, and also test yourself how it sounds with only one earbud?
OK, let me clarify this. I was on vacation, hence the delay.
@bryanlunduke has been traveling recently. At the last minute on our previous recording Bryan said that networking issues were going to mean he couldn’t join. Sadly, this happens from time to time with all of us - just the nature of how we record the show.
So, we recorded the show without @bryanlunduke, but were always hoping his connection would mean he could dial in at some point if his connection restored. Sadly this was not to be.
The LibreOffice segment was actually a segment from a few weeks back that we kept in the can (well more specifically, I am an idiot and left it out of the edit), hence we kept it for the show.
Now, this is where it gets nafarious.
@sil, @jeremy, and I thought it could be funny to just not mention @bryanlunduke and see if anyone freaked out about it. This is why I said “gleesome threesome” in the intro and why we deliberately mentioned the three of us a few times in the intro/outro.
Our social engineering seemed to work. 
To be quite clear: @bryanlunduke is still very much part of the team, there has been no falling out: just three arseholes playing a joke on the very people that support our show.
…probably another reason to stop listening.
“Four arseholes. For arseholes.”
That could be the new Bad Voltage strap line
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I thought you were an American these days
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As to mobile office, wouldn’t Canonical’s Convergence plan address this in that, one could use a desktop program? Also, could not one run Libre Office on a Microsoft Surface tablet or another running Windows?
Ok, for the later question, I know it is probably considered heresy here. Is that a stake being set up and the gathering of wood I hear?
Yep. But in both of those cases you’re running a desktop app on a touch screen, and the app isn’t designed to be controlled with touches. It’ll work, but it’s wildly unpleasant to use. There are certainly some people who think that this is fine and don’t have a problem with using it, but it’s not any approach which ordinary people in general will find pleasant!
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