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You can also install and run Zoom in FlatPak which secures your computer by running the executable in BubbleWrap. If you know what you're doing, you can also sandbox it directly.
Flatpak is handy, but given their history, if I can run it in the browser, I'll leave it there. I don't want it, even in a sandbox. Check out these CVEs: * https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-49457 * https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-22844
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The advantage of Zoom was that it just worked. No more spending the first 10 minutes of a call making sure everyone is online and can see/hear you. Or at least greatly improved.
Most of the issues people had was authorizing their webcam/microhpone on their browser, it was no different/better with Zoom than any other service. And other services also had their own easy to install app (I think Jitsi only dropped the desktop app fairly recently). I think the only thing really easier with Zoom was remembering the name. I think the brand constitutes 99% of its success.
[1] https://www.ft.com/content/98635c63-b4ab-49a3-9c18-1de6819d6...
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You can still. There's a small dark pattern to discourage it, though. You go to the URL for the call, click the button to launch the app, and when that fails, you see a small link to do the call in the Web browser.
I already have Zoom installed on the work computer but for some reason it has started doing this weird thing where every time I click a Zoom meeting link in Google Calendar, Google Chrome downloads a copy of the Zoom installer at the same time as it opens the already installed Zoom. I didn’t notice until I already had six recently downloaded copies of the installer in the Downloads folder. No idea why this happens. B…
Reminds me of the saying "Pessimists are often right. Optimists are often rich."
As a pessimist who's often right, and not rich, this resonates. But how can this be true? Surely you get rich by being right?
You can run zoom in the browser. At least you could some years ago. Encryption is relevant depending on what you're doing but not everything needs to be super secret. A common practice is to email or use secure file shares while on the call to maintain that security.
You can still. There's a small dark pattern to discourage it, though. You go to the URL for the call, click the button to launch the app, and when that fails, you see a small link to do the call in the Web browser.
Do you recall back in the day when zoom used to Root kit your computer?
I found a zoom daemon running on my kid's MacBook a year after uninstalling it. Turns out uninstall didn't kill background processes, needed a reboot to flush it away.
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As a pessimist who's often right, and not rich, this resonates. But how can this be true? Surely you get rich by being right?
Pessimists are just as often wrong too! Clearly the person you're replying to is an "optimist". :) To be clear, I don't think there's a strong correlation between being rich and being a pessimist/optimist. And to your original point, being right cannot possibly be biased towards optimism or pessimism. Any apparent correlation is more of a reflection on what everyone else thinks... and they are wrong! Cheers to being…
Perhaps there is something to the saying ignorance is bliss.
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The advantage of Zoom was that it just worked. No more spending the first 10 minutes of a call making sure everyone is online and can see/hear you. Or at least greatly improved.
Most of the issues people had was authorizing their webcam/microhpone on their browser, it was no different/better with Zoom than any other service. And other services also had their own easy to install app (I think Jitsi only dropped the desktop app fairly recently). I think the only thing really easier with Zoom was remembering the name. I think the brand constitutes 99% of its success.
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Pessimists are just as often wrong too! Clearly the person you're replying to is an "optimist". :) To be clear, I don't think there's a strong correlation between being rich and being a pessimist/optimist. And to your original point, being right cannot possibly be biased towards optimism or pessimism. Any apparent correlation is more of a reflection on what everyone else thinks... and they are wrong! Cheers to being…
I remember reading that slightly depressed people tend to have a more accurate world view. Perhaps there is something to the saying ignorance is bliss.
I also think depressed people would regress to the average if they weren't depressed. It's not a sustainable way to think harder and open your eyes to the world around you.