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Comment Main reason for choice: battery life (Score 1) 92

I work away from home and cannot plug in my laptop while working. I have tried Chrome (and IE) and I lose 4 hours of battery life compared to Safari. So, the choice is simple for me. Either I don't have a laptop for half my day or I use Safari - it's a no brainer. I tried using Brave for 5 days and every day the same result, and I was scrambling to find a plug (which isn't an option with my work because I'm constantly moving).

Comment Re: Only tried Jitsi, a very bad experience (Score 1) 59

Why are you using the demo server then?

Of course a free open-source project that doesn't sell away your privacy or tries to defraud you (aka advertisement) can't suddenly scale up a thousandfold!

Because: How much money did you pay exactly?

If you're in a business, install jitsi-meet on your server, and be done with it. Get an actual private experience for free. What kind of show are you running that you don't have an admin for that?

I didn't say I was using their demo server. It was running on AWS (Amazon EC2) with the latest version of Jitsi and with more than sufficient resources allocated, and the guy administering it has 30 year's experience of server administration. When there were issues he was asked to check the server status and there were no problems, it was just a software issue. I don't know why the choice of server would make the mobile app crash and close unexpectedly and the call quality vary so much. Often video was fine but the audio just cut out completely and all we could see was the participant's mouth moving. Other times the video would be flakey and the audio fine. It was on a data centre in the same country as all the recipients.

Comment Only tried Jitsi, a very bad experience (Score 1) 59

I was convinced to try and find an open source solution to video conferencing but had to give up. Jitsi was extremely unreliable and embarrassing for my business. Customers hated it, and it barely worked 50% of the time. It would have audio that cut out half way through a call, video that barely worked and jittered/failed all the time, and a mobile app that crashes regularly. After spending 2 weeks with bugs, crashes and unreliable audio/video I gave up and went back to using Adobe Connect, which has been working 100% of the time with zero issues (as it should do for the price!).

Comment Unfortunately, it's as alive as every before (Score 1) 519

I agree that it is not an ideal language, especially regarding licensing, but there is no way Java is "dead". In the enterprise, SAP HANA, Oracle Cloud and Hadoop all use Java. Android development and the huge range of other devices that run Android depend on Java. It's also being deployed on lots of IoT devices. Also, universities still teach it to students (although Python is getting more popular in this space, especially in data science).

Comment Not the case for everyone (Score 1) 308

I personally have only added people that Iâ(TM)ve met in reality and Iâ(TM)ve yet to receive a single spam message. I have managed to use it to keep in touch with people who have got me substantial amounts of work and I use it to improve my reputation through publishing articles with a lot of success.

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