<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div>Folks and Folkesses,<br></div><div><br></div><div>I will join you as soon as I can after participating of an anniversary meal from our friends at Pistachio. Least we can do to keep them in business.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I also have another engagement just before 9 as I waxed lyrical about Jitsi to my Thursday night father's club, and they've all taken to it, so I have to initiate another meeting.<br></div><div><br></div><div>To paraphrase Martin, Zoom was fine when it was just a lolly :) <br></div><div><br></div><div>J<br></div><div><br></div><div data-zbluepencil-ignore="true" style="" class="zmail_extra"><div><br></div><div id="Zm-_Id_-Sgn1">---- On Wed, 08 Apr 2020 14:57:57 +0000 <b>Martin via Nottingham <nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk></b> wrote ----<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 6px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px;"><div>Folks,<br><br>Ok, so this is just too presciently apt to not to share...<br><br>From a fortune cookie today, I didst enjoy:<br><br><br>... it is easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the<br>sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all. In other<br>words... their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their<br>superficial design flaws.<br> -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, on the products<br> of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.<br><br><br>How spooky is that?!<br><br><br>Enjoy :-)<br>Martin<br><br><br><br>On 08/04/2020 15:48, Martin via Nottingham wrote:<br><br>> For my small part, I have a fun story of having been Poettering-ed for<br>> the audio on this system... :-(<br>> <br>> <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Poettering">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Poettering</a><br>> <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PulseAudio">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PulseAudio</a><br>> <br>> After overcoming multiple obfuscations, I do now have a webcam working<br>> with audio :-) However, the story is not over :-(<br><br><br>-- <br>Nottingham mailing list<br><a target="_blank" href="mailto:Nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk">Nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br><a target="_blank" href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/nottingham">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/nottingham</a></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div class="SnapLinksContainer" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; display: none;"><div> <br></div><div class="SL_SelectionRect" style="top: 55px; left: 641px; height: 0px; width: 0px;"><div> <br></div><div class="SL_SelectionLabel"></div><div> <br></div></div><svg class="SnapLinksHighlighter" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><div>
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