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Re: Our list of free software for remote work

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Post by RMPR »

cycloptic wrote: post #5
ShorsHammer wrote: post #2

Does 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

The developers fully embrace the "do one thing and do it well" philosophy.

Re: Our list of free software for remote work

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Post by RMPR »

Polylactic_acid wrote: post #12
john61 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Especially zoom which is insecure spyware. Not long ago there was an exploit that allowed any website to grab your webcam feed from zoom. Even if you had uninstalled zoom because the app leaves behind a web server service listening on localhost so the malicious website can just reinstall zoom and grab your webcam.

Actually the iOS app send your data to Facebook even if you don't have a Facebook account. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22693792) Pretty rogue behaviour imho.

Re: Our list of free software for remote work

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Post by socceroos »

lmm wrote: post #31
wiradikusuma wrote: post #13

Is the best, free (not necessarily open source), email desktop client still Thunderbird?

I've been happiest with KMail, FWIW.

Yeah, I'll second this. Thunderbird was missing many features, Evolution was always slow, KMail was featureful and fast.

Re: Our list of free software for remote work

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Post by LeoTinnitus »

nicolaslem wrote: post #41
LeoTinnitus wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gnucash or Kmymoney. I used to hate gnucash but I have basically become an accountant with my own life. For businesses it can definitely be used for minimal crm tracking and invoices.

I love Gnucash but I am not sure that it is the best tool for remote/distributed work since it cannot be used by multiple users concurrently without corrupting data.

I understand the allure of it, but why would you want multiple people manipulating an accounting like file at the same time? That seems like something complicated enough that you wouldn't want multiple people in it at once.

Re: Our list of free software for remote work

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Post by LeoTinnitus »

zdkl wrote: post #45
LeoTinnitus wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's like Twitter to me when it first launched. What honestly is the allure of it? It's really just real time Twitter with chat functions but I am probably really naive to it's uses

My very personal opinion is that the allure is mostly to people with PR/Marketing/Comm tendencies. It's basically crack for individuals or roles who thrive on attention & engagement with others (or the illusion of it, if we're going to be cynical).

But thats every social media site. Mastodon feels more like a techy or "in the know" journalist oriented of a site...and apparently hookers too.

Re: Our list of free software for remote work

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Post by obituary_latte »

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.

We’re about to roll out remote work for our small office using chromebooks and chrome’s Remote Desktop. I’ve had success using chrome Remote Desktop personally, so hopefully it works as well for my users.

Re: Our list of free software for remote work

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Post by catacombs »

l0b0 wrote: post #16
wiradikusuma wrote: post #13

Is the best, free (not necessarily open source), email desktop client still Thunderbird?

If you don't need a calendar, PGP support or [censored list of broken features so that the trolls don't descend], then it's certainly one of the most popular ones. But how would you even quantify "best"? I personally migrated to Evolution at a particularly frustrating moment relatively recently, and it's been less painful for a lot of things. It has built-in calendar and PGP support, which certainly help. Unfortunate…

Thunderbird supports email encryption.

Re: Our list of free software for remote work

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Post by eitland »

KajMagnus wrote: post #42

There's also Talkyard, https://www.talkyard.io — sort of a cross between Slack and StackOverflow and Discourse. It's open source, I'm developing it.

It seems to be hugged to death at the moment so I cannot read it but it seems like a great idea.

I cannot see how Stack Overflow still has no real competition after all they've done to encourage people to find other solutions :-/

Re: Our list of free software for remote work

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Post by aidenn0 »

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 have no recommendations that are free-as-in-speech.

NoMachine[1] is free-as-in-beer[2] and it works nearly flawlessly across linux/windows/mac.

1: https://www.nomachine.com/

2: It's freemium with the following note: "If you need to create virtual Linux desktops on demand, want to limit the logins to SSH, or are using NIS, Kerberos or other enterprise functionalities, you need one of the NoMachine Enterprise products you can download"

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