doug/dmildram, former WPI dude/netops but now in Maine>

Just wanted to say .............(yea right, as I type a long windy rant)
...............the effort+result of everyone's contributions
are truly "all good" and appreciated!
yes, jitsi totally rocks from my limited-use view.
Recorded meetings are very cool!

Both my 2 piles of PICtures/jpg's , as well as the muzak/mp3's
                in my personal/(~20-40g) stash of precious/home data....
are indeed in need of a brainy front end. Hating Rhythmbox front end for mp3's
though it plays all my mp3's correctly w/o weird play/stutter,etc issues.
I know there's a slew of media players, both audio and image/video. And,
 I do love  vlc ,  yet need to learn more of its capabilities and improve my ease of use,
plus fix my command-line-launch no-go/problem I'm having.
(AUDIO only of course? I'm seeing that vlc even gets into images.....)
but will not divert into an audio whine/discuss here. FOR PICTURES:
I don't know you, for example,  Lexi who just posted/replied re: fotoxx,
but I really dug your DIY-brain story,  building from source,
= how we/dinosaurs used to do stuff until it got harder over decades :)

Back to PICS/IMAGES pursuits in detail,
fotoxx seems to be a viewer (mostly?)
for a personal stash/giant-or-smaller-album.
Can it auto-or-manually tweak/compress jpg's to save space without losing much quality?
(I'm gimp-ignorant...gimp probably does,
it's obviously a tweaker not viewer? tool,  i.e. ...one image at a time.
Tangent or not: I hated myself for continuing to use
a windows program (ACDsee, i bought a license  decades ago,
                               back when you could buy a cheap license)
...........which very quickly cropped+downsized images
greatly like 5-10x smaller. Being MB-stingy,.I got into the habit of trimming saved-pics.
Until I admitted it was too much work, cuz i  never learned to trim easily on linux ...
Hated myself cuz I'm almost done w windozeMS but for 1 or 2 things!
(last to die in my world, win7 for me ==  important for tax-filing software.

Well, i rambled too much.
Welcoming more pics/images/fotoxx feedback though.
 I'm gonna dig into fotoxxx pretty soon i think.
Since there's no recording of this week's meeting,
maybe we can be a bit noiser on the list this month!  -- doug





On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 12:55 PM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
I'd like to apologize for the online meeting failure last night.

Going forward our Jitsi game is going to have to be upped a bit. To this end, I'm putting together a wlug "go-bag" that'll have a tripod, a dedicated camera/mic and a laptop to run the whole shabang. Along with that I'm going to toss in a whole bevy of "X to HDMI" adapters as well as our own nice long HDMI cables, etc.

This will eliminate delays in dealing with the student center, allow for seamless virtual meetings, and properly record them to put up on the youtube channel.

Thanks for your understanding,
Tim.

On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 10:52 AM Keith Wright via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
Patrick McEvilly via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:

> We lost the room on the web call.  Will you guys be back on tonight?

Right.  That didn't work well.  I was on jitsi within
minutes of 7pm.  At first I thought I had technical
problems because I couldn't see or hear anybody.
A few minutes and a few named rectangles showed up,
including the all important "WLUG Meeting".

But the guest speaker was not there.  It was noisy and
hard to hear anyone who was not near the mike.  Around
7:30 there was talk of booting from a flash drive and
then "WLUG Meeting" vanished.  There were three of us
left, me and two rectangles named jstone and PMcEvilly.
We talked a bit about our computers, but didn't really
have much to say.  At 8pm the computer that runs ntpd
(NetTimePro) said it was time to move along.

This is not a gripe, it's a bug report.  Jitsi actually
seemed to work better from the public library.  This
is a bit frightening.  WPI has been teaching over
video chat for years.  We did video chat meetings
with the equipment in the student center back in
the Andy Stewart days.

Patrick McEvilly via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:

> Will you guys be back on tonight?

I'm not sure what to make of that question.
WLUG meetings are traditionally 1/month.
On the other hand, I think the jitsi room
is open all the time.

  -- Keith, Programmer in Chief,
     http://www.free-comp-shop.com/

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