3vi1: 3vi1: That said: Perhaps I’m in the minority of listeners, but I don’t find the opinions on non-tech subjects to be informative or interesting. I only signed up for an account here as a last ditch effort to respectfully express the strong desire for the show to concentrate on the areas within the expertise of the hosts, rather than those topics (some of which you named) that make a lot of us think about clicking the unsubscribe button.

I appreciate your thoughts on this, @3vi1, and it is always great to hear what people do and don’t want us to discuss.

It should be noted though, that we never set out to do a show about Linux or Open Source spedcifically: in the past we have covered gaming, music, guns, atheism, and all manner of other topics. Even then, within the Open Source world we have covered Ubuntu, ElementaryOS, SuSE and others.

There is always going to be things in the show you are interested in and not interested in. We hope you stick around and keep listening and the simplest solution for bits you are not interested in is to skip the segment. This is why @sil puts the times in the show notes.

I do suggest though that you don’t skip the segments you are less interested in. One of the things I am proud of with Bad Voltage is that I think we always bring a set of perspectives, not just a single perspective. Take the vaccinations segment for example: here there were four quite different viewpoints, and the segment was peppered with data and material that each of us used to illustrate our thoughts.

Now, should people listen to us more than a doctor Hell no. But then again, should people listen to us about technology more than anyone else? Probably not.

Bad Voltage is supposed to be fun, thought-provoking, and informative, and I don’t believe we can achieve this if we only cover a narrow set of topics.

Now, to be fair, we cover Open Source topics about 90% of the time, so I think you will be happy, but I just wanted to provide some background context on why we run the show as we do.

Thanks, and I hope you keep listening, @3vi1!