DISCLAIMER: The following includes hyperlinks. As a safety precaution,
automatically clicking on links should be avoided. For your safety,
you should make it a habit to manually type them into your browser.
Currently, known Firefox compatibility bugs cause problems for OTHERS
already in Jitsi Remote Video Conference sessions. This was a problem
of Jitsi in the past and has come back.
Monthly we host both the SLACC and the NEWLINUX sessions using Jitsi.
We recommend that you NOT join our sessions using Firefox, Iceweasle,
Safari or any Firefox based browser.
Instead of using a browser, it has been recommended to use the official
Jitsi appimage clients. Reportedly using the client consistently has
better results, with fewer connectivity, sound or video issues.
Installation instructions appear about half way down following page:
Appimage MS Windows, macOS and Linux client releases...
Mobile app clients for Apple or Android...
Also for testing of controls, hearing, screen sharing and speaking...
Joining without ear buds, earphones or headset may result in a feedback
loop with a builtin laptop microphone. Using at-least earbuds is highly
recommended. Using Ethernet is better than WiFi connectivity.
If you do not make the effort and take the time to get your connection
working correctly, you may be very disruptive. Try dropping your
connection and rejoin. That sometimes fixes issues. But, do so slowly,
as granting access to your microphone and camera too quickly is a known
current main problem in Jitsi. Also, there are often sound settings in
different browsers that may need to be changed.
Our monthly Jitsi remote sessions (not archived):
We also produce and record monthly ZOOM remote video sessions:
https://www.sluug.org/ (2nd Wednesday)
https://www.stllinux.org/ (8 days later, 3rd or 4th Thursday)
Our Presentation archives:
Be safe.
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