[sf-lug] Next SF-LUG meeting, Sunday, Jan. 3rd, 2021, 11am-1pm

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Bobbie Sellers (bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com):

> Then let me put my oar in only to say I have used no other browser to
> do the Monthly meeting on Jit.si than Firefox and so far I have had
> zero problems except shortened attention span but that is a local
> phenomenon.  Nothing to do with Firefox.

The (social far, far more than technical) problem arose a few months
into the pandemic when LUGs started using Jitsi Meet more intensively,
and the usual LUG idiocy immediately arose when member X had a poorly
described technical problem and many observers walked away thinking
'Well, we obviously cannot use this technology, because X had some
problem he/she could not understand and didn't detail;'  Sometimes,
member X says the problem was with 'Firefox' -- no version number stated
-- and the problem description was 'it didn't work'.  Which of course is
totally impossible to investigate when thus stated.

Member X might have turned out to be running an ancient version of
Firefox with zero WebRTC support, but of course you have to pry that
version information out of him/her before it's possible to make
progress.  More credible users have been known to report that specific
_recent_ releases of Firefox work OK except have high CPU load.

Personally, I just go mostly with what the Jitsi Meet developers say,
which is that Chromium-based browsers are best and known-good, and that 
others might give satisfactory results or might not.

-- 
Cheers,              "Like looking both ways before crossing the street, and 
Rick Moen            then getting hit by a submarine."  -- Clarke Smith, age 9, 
rick at linuxmafia.com  winner of Washington Post's contest for best description
McQ! (4x80)          of the year 2020 in a single word or phrase.