My company uses Skype for business(Lync) for internal communication. Unfortunately the official software is not available for Linux which prevents me from switching to Linux on my corporate machine. I know there is a plugin for Pidgin to use Lync. I wonder if anybody tried to use it long enough to tell if it is good enough. I know that the official Mac client is much less stable then the Windows one.
Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client
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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
My daughter (who teaches math at HS) asked me to create educational videos for her kids who don't know how to work a computer. They only know phones.
Kids can't use computers. http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-co...
"She reevaluated her categorisation of me. Rather than being some faceless, keyboard tapping, socially inept, sexually inexperienced network monkey, she now saw me as a colleague. To people like her, technicians are a necessary annoyance. She'd be quite happy to ignore them all, joke about them behind their backs and snigger at them to their faces, but she knows that when she can't display her PowerPoint on the IWB she'll need a technician, and so she maintains a facade of politeness around them, while inwardly dismissing them as too geeky to interact with."
God this is some top tier incel shit.
Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client
#153I have a github repo to collect plugins that makes Pidgin a bit more up to date on all levels. Pull requests welcome:
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#154Any Digsby fans here? It was my favorite IM aggregator back in the day. You could also plug in twitter and facebook feeds to it so there was no need to login to twitter or facebook separately!
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#155Does nobody remember Pidgin? It was one of the first things a lot of people installed on their machines 15 years ago along with Firefox. We used it as an alternative client to AOL Instant Messenger and Yahoo Messenger. It used to be called GAIM.
Does not everyone still use it? I and most of my friends do. They are also responsible for my favorite bug report ever: https://bugs.gentoo.org/35890
This line cracked me up -
Not sure I expect much more out of somebody that codes for AOL software.
Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client
#156Does nobody remember Pidgin? It was one of the first things a lot of people installed on their machines 15 years ago along with Firefox. We used it as an alternative client to AOL Instant Messenger and Yahoo Messenger. It used to be called GAIM.
Remember it? I use it every day. I assumed pretty much everybody else does too. shrug That said, it is annoying how so many chat services have gone out of their way to break the ability of 3rd party clients like Pidgin to work. :-(
You assumed pretty much everyone used a desktop specific chat app that is 20 years old?
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
My daughter (who teaches math at HS) asked me to create educational videos for her kids who don't know how to work a computer. They only know phones.
Kids can't use computers. http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-co...
I re-read that piece just a week ago. It's magnificent and now even more true than eight years ago.
Spoke to friend this week, she told me she doesn't have a computer. That's increasingly common. People get by with their phones.
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#158Adium ( https://adium.im/ ) used to be the MacOSX native version (port) of Pidgin. It seems they still recommend it. However, Adium seems kind of dead? Last commit ( https://github.com/adium/adium/ ) was in 2016. I build a MacOSX app bundle for the original Pidgin long time ago ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin-macosx/ ). At that point in time, this was not so trivial, as the GTK support for native MacOSX was…
Adium is a frontend on libpurple. The frontend can be sort of happily dead if the backend - and it's plugins - are updated.
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#159We use XMPP in our workplace. We used to use Pidgin years ago but at the time it didn't support all the protocol extensions that we needed. Now we use Gajim on the desktops and Conversations on android.
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
I finally stopped using it when Google Chat[0] went away. [0] Not that Google Chat, the other one.
Google Talk* There was no product named Google Chat until recently.
What about the precursor to Google talk? You know, chat integrated into Gmail before it was branded Google Talk.
I thought it was Google Chat.