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Post by eric_h »

dpark wrote: post #62
colanderman wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nitpick, I assume by "race condition" you mean "used lots of CPU". This is a common colloquial conflation, but race conditions [1] (which are not generally identifiable without aid of a debugger and the application's source code) and high CPU usage are unrelated concepts. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_condition

That's not a nitpick. These are entirely different things and calling high CPU usage a "race condition" is really confusing and misleading. Do people actually do that? Where did that come from?

> Where did that come from?

Maybe because it makes your machine's fans sound like a race car?

Honestly this is the first I've heard of this usage as well.

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Post by FussyZeus »

izacus wrote: post #18
FussyZeus wrote: post #16

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I will never understand the idea in Microsoft that having UPnP running or being willing to open all kinds of jacked up ports is an acceptable user experience. UPnP is nice to have but it's difficult to find a router that has it, and even so, I've used Google Hangouts and Facetime over my network with zero issues, what makes Skype so star spangled awesome that it needs forwarded ports?

Huh, I've never seen a router (this includes ISP provided DOCSIS/DSL/FTTH units) without UPnP support. It seems very well supported?

At the time I found my Buffalo N300, it was pretty few and far between (at least for consumer grade hardware, probably more widely found on enterprise).

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Post by FussyZeus »

will4274 wrote: post #17
FussyZeus wrote: post #16

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I will never understand the idea in Microsoft that having UPnP running or being willing to open all kinds of jacked up ports is an acceptable user experience. UPnP is nice to have but it's difficult to find a router that has it, and even so, I've used Google Hangouts and Facetime over my network with zero issues, what makes Skype so star spangled awesome that it needs forwarded ports?

Every router I've bought in the last decade has had UPnP, and I don't look for it. Citation needed on the "difficult to find"

I've owned eight or so over the years, 2 of them had it, one of which was the most recent one I bought explicitly for it. YMMV

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Post by RUG3Y »

baldfat wrote: post #57
stryk wrote: post #55

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What reliable alternatives would you suggest?

This will sound crazy but with the Discord or Twitch App are rock solid, but they are gamer focus and also they are electron apps (I have mostly positive experience with electron apps myself, VS Code and RStudio). I do like mumble and ran my own server for years, but client wise it is not as easy.

I was introduced to the Twitch app through some gaming friends and I was surprised at how solid it is. It's actually really good.

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Post by badminton1 »

Well, apparently I won't be able to call landlines anymore with it (e.g: my family abroad). This was the last piece of Microsoft software I was using, but you know what? fuck it...

   ~ sudo dpkg --remove skype
   Removing skype ...
I am removing it from my phone too.

Microsoft <3 Linux, yeah right.

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Post by plexicle »

colanderman wrote: post #38
mediaserf wrote: post #26

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Due to instability and memory/race condition issues with the new sykpe app, I've been using Pidgin and the skypeweb plugin: https://github.com/EionRobb/skype4pidgin/tree/master/skypewe... This works well for me since most of my skype traffic is chats, but I have to load the new skype app for calls.

Nitpick, I assume by "race condition" you mean "used lots of CPU". This is a common colloquial conflation, but race conditions [1] (which are not generally identifiable without aid of a debugger and the application's source code) and high CPU usage are unrelated concepts. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_condition

What are you going on about here? I have never once heard someone confuse "race condition" with "high CPU usage."

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Post by kentt »

Can anyone suggest a Linux video calling app that auto answers calls. That is from a headless server. I use mine as a baby monitor and Skype has a great feature where you can allow it to auto answer from know callers (only myself). It seems to already be broken with newest Android app.

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Post by [deleted] »

kentt wrote: post #77

Can anyone suggest a Linux video calling app that auto answers calls. That is from a headless server. I use mine as a baby monitor and Skype has a great feature where you can allow it to auto answer from know callers (only myself). It seems to already be broken with newest Android app.

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Post by pvsnp »

emptythought wrote: post #68
bonzini wrote: post #66

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That's probably Skype for Business, aka Lync though. Weren't they actually separate code bases?

If they are, it's still incredibly terrible. An enormous list of common glitches could be written about it, that just never get patched For one, it tends to split group convos into random tabs at random intervals, black hole messages, crash randomly and silently and you don't notice until someone says you're offline(the window will still open! it's just hung), etc etc.

Clearly they must be using Lync or Skype to coordinate fixing them too -- just can't find the right tab to resume the conversations.

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Post by imron »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #41
hawski wrote: post #37

I was wondering what to use for video calls with my father. He has a mobile core 2 duo machine (one of Dell's micro desktop PCs). Skype stopped working as stated in the title. I went with Facebook Messenger on Firefox, but video from his camera is very jerky. It looks like it hangs for a 1s every 1.5s. For me it's an indication of a performance problem - video is converted to a WebRTC friendly format and it's slow. I…

I want a dedicated hand-held that does video, and can lock the screen while maintaining video input and output. I have a 16 month old kid; she has grandparents who are in various stages of decline, from "knees and back hurt a little" to "fairly advanced Alzheimers", and with various levels of computer expertise at the best of times. I want to send each of them a tablet that someone configures once to be on wifi, and…

> and can lock the screen while maintaining video input and output.

Although not quite what you're looking for, I wrote a program for macOS and Windows [0] that locks keyboard and mouse input, specifically so I could have my kids in front of my computer for video calls without worrying about them hitting keys and messing things up.

0: https://www.imralsoftware.com/kamlock

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