Our list of free software for remote work
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#2Does anyone know how to maintain permanent chats in mumble?
It's wonderful software for audio but for text it's rather useless. A quick disconnection means losing everything.
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#3What do you use for back-office things, like accounting, inventory, etc?
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#4Hi,
Just wanted to say thank you for sharing this information. It will help, especially for the small shops and teams which are only now having to adopt these feature for the immediate future.
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#5Does anyone know how to maintain permanent chats in mumble? It's wonderful software for audio but for text it's rather useless. A quick disconnection means losing everything.
Don't bother, use something else like Matrix for text chat. Mumble is primarily designed for voice chat.
For reference, there is an open feature request for this, but nobody is working on it at the moment. https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble/issues/2560
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#6I'm glad to see Mastodon is gaining commercial acceptance.
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#8Not sure if we are in a tech, “like to fiddle with things” echo chamber, but I would not recommend any of these tools to a team in general (even if it was a small product team).. slack and zoom and the likes (who all have free tiers) I find much better, simpler and successful to get started with.
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#9Not sure if we are in a tech, “like to fiddle with things” echo chamber, but I would not recommend any of these tools to a team in general (even if it was a small product team).. slack and zoom and the likes (who all have free tiers) I find much better, simpler and successful to get started with.
"free software" in the freedom open source sense. Not money
Re: Our list of free software for remote work
#10Not sure if we are in a tech, “like to fiddle with things” echo chamber, but I would not recommend any of these tools to a team in general (even if it was a small product team).. slack and zoom and the likes (who all have free tiers) I find much better, simpler and successful to get started with.
> I find much better, simpler and successful to get started with.
It is a trap. Traps are especially effective and harmful in panic mode when everyone catches the first bait. In the long run, free software (not as in beer) is much better for everyone. Especially in panic it is essentiel to think thoroughly through your decisions.