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Re: Our list of free software for remote work

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Post by williamdclt »

Softcadbury wrote: post #44

Any recommendations for some party games ? We tried https://jackbox.tv/ with some colleagues yesterday evening, that was pretty fun.

We did an online pub quizz yesterday, actually worked well!

- One general hangout, where everybody's muted except the quizz master - One hangout per team to chat - Google doc to fill in the answers (make sure everybody starts from a template, to easily count points) - Google slide for the questions

Lots of fun! I think the quizz master role is more lonely, as you don't really hear anybody (we had 2 masters, I think it helped)

Re: Our list of free software for remote work

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Post by bglusman »

Softcadbury wrote: post #44

Any recommendations for some party games ? We tried https://jackbox.tv/ with some colleagues yesterday evening, that was pretty fun.

My sister is managing a project aggregating ideas and resources around connecting midst pandemic remotely here http://bit.ly/virtualhugideas and there's a page for games https://sites.google.com/view/virtualhugs/games?authuser=0

Re: Our list of free software for remote work

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Post by ilikepi »

Softcadbury wrote: post #44

Any recommendations for some party games ? We tried https://jackbox.tv/ with some colleagues yesterday evening, that was pretty fun.

My group played the card-based Snake Oil[1] over Zoom last Friday. The game is out of print, but you can probably find it on eBay, and I believe you can find the list of cards online with some googling. We had one person virtually dealing the cards and everyone was responsible for maintaining their set. It worked very well over a virtual venue.

I think this would work reasonably well for Cards Against Humanity and Apples to Apples as well. Pictionary and Charades should also work.

[1]: https://www.snakeoilgame.com/

Re: Our list of free software for remote work

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Post by znpy »

gregoriol wrote: post #54

Why does everyone look for "free"? Doesn't anyone want to support the tools they use and that help them? There are developers, teams, people behind all of them.

I think that free in this context has to be interpreted as "free as in freedom" and not as "free as in free beer".

You can still support the authors by donating and/or buying licenses, services/consulting or support.

Re: Our list of free software for remote work

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Post by 5etho »

williamdclt wrote: post #50
Softcadbury wrote: post #44

Any recommendations for some party games ? We tried https://jackbox.tv/ with some colleagues yesterday evening, that was pretty fun.

I find that Minecraft always works, for all kind of people!

No, I passionately hate Minecraft and his looks

Re: Our list of free software for remote work

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Post by 153791098c »

gregoriol wrote: post #54

Why does everyone look for "free"? Doesn't anyone want to support the tools they use and that help them? There are developers, teams, people behind all of them.

Free as in freedom. Not price. You can ask any price for distribution of the software. You can ask any price for support. The software just has to come with the 4 essential freedoms.

Re: Our list of free software for remote work

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Post by RMPR »

catwell wrote: post #36
chemmail wrote: post #29

any recommendations on remote desktop? I was using Anydesk and now it freezes every 10 seconds on a lot of my instances the past few months. Need to move to something else.

I am an Arch Linux laptop user. Plain RDS through Remmina works great for Windows machines. When not usable, I found AnyDesk to work fine-ish (but it changes system keyboard settings, which is annoying). I can't use TeamViewer which still doesn't support Wayland.

Now I understand the grey screen under sway.
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