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schestowitz> I've concluded my experiments with Jitsi-meet this month.  It won'tMay 19 02:56
schestowitz> install via package managers and requires major fiddling, debugging, andMay 19 02:56
schestowitz> adjustments just to get running.  The conclusion is that it is aMay 19 02:56
schestowitz> steaming pile of shit.   It's too bad that 1) jitsi is being abandonedMay 19 02:56
schestowitz> for jitsi-meet and 2) that jitsi-meet is piggy-backing on the once goodMay 19 02:56
schestowitz> name of jitsi.May 19 02:56
schestowitzjitsi itself, when I used it as communicator (the old name, SIP communicator), was similarly problematic.May 19 02:56
schestowitzMaybe someone will 'containerise' Jitsi Meet.May 19 02:56
schestowitz<rant> (FYI Jitsi-meet )May 19 02:56
schestowitz>> Microsoft is not one entity, one company, one strategy. In fact there used to be a cartoon floating around that rendered Microsoft as a bunch of business unit silos engaged in a Mexican stand-off.May 19 03:10
schestowitz> Trying to use the organisational structure against the reality. Those silos have a common mission, only some of the strategies to that mission get balkanised. What a bullshitter.May 19 03:10
schestowitzI really wanted to respond to that but then said "NO! Don't feed the BS!"May 19 03:10
schestowitzSo IIRC I never even bothered responding with the obvious reality/factsMay 19 03:10
schestowitzI also try to minimise "tweeting" (only CCs from Diaspora really)May 19 03:10
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