When using linux, everything is "more seamless" than Zoom. This company hates linux users, everything is broken and requires root user to even start.
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#12Why is there only a login for Google?
They should use WorkOS SSO ;)
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#13The gif under 'Talk Seamlessly' made me laugh :) Looks great, I aim to give it a try.
Haha, that's a real use case!
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#14We use Zoom and it's great for ad-hoc video calls or screen sharing and commenting.
But last week we were wondering what would be a good remote alternative to sitting around at our desks and asking a quick question to the room. You know what works really well? Teamspeak. I hadn't used teamspeak in ages, but the simple fact that you can set a global push-to-talk button makes it perfect. Ask a quick question to someone in the room, they answer, if it becomes an actual convo you switch to a zoom call to not bother anyone else.
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#15Not sure if this app supports it or not, but it would be very useful with a 5 second warning before being thrown into a video call. I could see all kinds of embarrassing moments happening otherwise.
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#16Why is there only a login for Google?
Sorry, I'll try to add multiple authentications soon.
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#17There is Jitsi ( https://jitsi.org and https://meet.jit.si ) which does not need any login - this is really seamless.
Jitsi shows a warning when using Firefox and recommends using Chrome or Chromium. Why? No, thanks.
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#18Not sure if this app supports it or not, but it would be very useful with a 5 second warning before being thrown into a video call. I could see all kinds of embarrassing moments happening otherwise.
It would be better to not have video running by default. People can drop in to talk over audio and request to switch over audio if necessary.
I honestly prefer the push to talk approach for audio too. It is always better to have explicit user consent at every audio and/or video session. Accidents happen.
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#19BTW about the "vs Zoom" part - Zoom does have a personal room url and a configuration option to open meeting on entry
Hmm. Zoom is useful, I love it. This time, I wanna solve a problem that my clients want to see if I can call or not right now.
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#20There is Jitsi ( https://jitsi.org and https://meet.jit.si ) which does not need any login - this is really seamless.
I've tried the following in the last few weeks (and several more, but I forget the names): jitsi, cisco jabber, cisco webex, google hangouts, google meet.
Jitsi is definitely the best that I've tried. Jabber is OK, webex is a complete joke, the google ones are OK.
The failure mode for a lot of these services seems to be crappy centralized routing infrastructure. I have way more than enough bandwidth to support like 10x bidirectional 1080p60 streams at, say, 10mbps each, but no service even comes close to that.
I assume that people are working on doing this in a P2P way, but it's hard for some reason.