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That's bad news. Don't use Zoom.

• jrm4 1mo ago
  That's wildly impractical advice for many. Just use Firefox, or Chromium if you must.
  • Joel_Mckay 1mo ago
    Spinning up a conference host for a small office is fairly trivial =3 https://jitsi.org/downloads/ https://jitsi.org/downloads/
    • bix6 1mo ago
      Ah yes Jitsi! I have been invited to meet on Jitsi 0 times.
      • ShinyLeftPad 1mo ago
        https://meet.jit.si/humanphilosophersdisplaceround https://meet.jit.si/humanphilosophersdisplaceround first time for everything
    • jonathantf2 1mo ago
      Great, til I have a job interview and they use Zoom
      • netllama 1mo ago
        Srsly, all those neck beards who over simplify the problem with a flippant "don't use zoom", as if everyone has the luxury to skip every job interview and employer meeting that absolutely requires Zoom. I wish I could live in their world where every problem is solved by simply avoiding that problem.
        • GuestFAUniverse 1mo ago
          Use a dedicated, otherwise empty account for job interviews. Linux is multi-process, _multi-user_ since forever. No need to leave a password manager, online banking, andwhatnot accessible in the background during an interview. And yeah: stop. using. X11. For God's sake!
          • hagbard_c 1mo ago
            Just use a browser instead of some silly client, problem mostly solved. Use X11 or Wayland or whatever else you want, for God's sake. I don't remember any god ever claiming salvation lies in abandoning the most functional display server on the market so I'll just keep on using X11. If and when Wayland or some other alternative ever becomes as useful as X11 I might hop over but for now Wayland is a solution in search of a problem as far as I'm concerned.
            • Joel_Mckay 1mo ago
              It takes experience to learn why people call it the "bleeding edge". GPU acceleration is often broken in a lot of distros, and it is unkind to new users that have a panic attack dropping into a CLI shell. LightDM at least works 99% of the time, being Cross-desktop one can select a Wayland session just fine (great when it is working), or fall back to a software compositor Cinnamon Desktop when things bork after an update. =3
          • Joel_Mckay 1mo ago
            >And yeah: stop. using. X11. Fine words, until the GPU driver goes sideways in Wayland. And... I like running multi-seat headless sessions on my local LAN hosts for several reasons. =3
          • wolvoleo 1mo ago
            Wayland doesn't work stable in kde on my OS yet so I have no choice but to use X11. However software just shouldn't be trash. No need to blame the display layer for this.
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      • Insimwytim 1mo ago
        Spin up your own instance and ask them to join!
        • PorciiVorbesc 1mo ago
          Great idea, if you want to stay unemployed. How many corpo HR/recruiter types you met that will gladly bypass company policy and switch to the tools demanded by the candidate?
        • hdgvhicv 1mo ago
          As an engineer I’d be impressed and would put you up to the top of the pile Sadly I don’t run the company, and as a hiring manager that’s a great way to reduce my shortlist. We can’t have people like myself who ignore corporate policies.
    • kelnos 1mo ago
      Perhaps things have gotten better over time, but I did this 4 or 5 years ago and it was anything but trivial. I got it working, but it was a huge pain to set up.
      • Joel_Mckay 1mo ago
        The docker image build recipes should be easy to find these days. Usually it is just local networking appliance rules that cause issues for some users. Likely a great learning experience for the uninitiated. Have a great day =3
    • somat 1mo ago
      If we are doing a survey of self hosted video conferencing services I would like to propose galene. Very easy to set up, I run it on obsd(an unsupported platform) and it just works. https://galene.org/ https://galene.org/
      • Joel_Mckay 1mo ago
        Very nice option, as getting WebRTC built on pi/aarch64 with v4l camera hardware codec support was a slog through mud a few years back. =3
  • rvz 1mo ago
    Or just use Google Meet on all browsers, which is more practical to use than Zoom. Zero software to install.
    • tredre3 1mo ago
      Zoom also works on all browsers. Clearly you had a hot take, people corrected you, and now you're doubling down by suggesting, of all things, a Google product.
      • zamalek 1mo ago
        To be fair, you have to wrangle it into submission by having the app launch fail.
• uncle_kostya 1mo ago
  It's what we use at work and I'm sure it passed a security audit. How ironic.
  • samus 1mo ago
    That's very telling about the quality of the security audit.
• theshrike79 29d ago
  Still better than Teams though.