I've been hearing if you haven't already ordered a PI 5 then you won't get one until the 3rd production batch. Unless you can find a store that bought for their own stock and they haven't sold out yet. 

Also, the PI 5 specs are a mix of good and bad. Good performance, bad cooling, and lack of hardware decoding for a bunch of video types. 

On Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 2:17 PM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:

I hear you on the "no agenda" issue. I want to get back to having a defined topic and actually doing a presentation and then moving onto the general conversation. I think many people when they don't see we have a topic, decide not to come.

I'm proposing for the next meeting that I do a talk on the useability of the pi5. I'm going to buy one as soon as it comes out and start mucking with it. 

I'm actually thinking what I might try to do is make it my daily driver at home and see how that goes.

Do people like that idea, think it's terrible? Let me know.

Thanks,

Tim.

On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 12:09 PM Joshua Stone <joshua.gage.stone@gmail.com> wrote:

I didn't notice much of a performance issue with last night's meeting. If anything, the meetings are hard to follow from Jitsi now that most people are joining the meetings in-person but there isn't an agenda or some other signifier for what the topic is.

The open-ended conversation format is fine, but doesn't always translate well for anyone joining virtually.

One of the nice things about Jitsi Meet is that you can screenshare a slideshow for people to follow, but that doesn't seem to be leveraged.

That being said, I would be all for a self-hosted Jitsi! Joining a meeting would be really convenient if it was as simple as clicking on:

https://meet.wlug.org

- Josh

On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 11:19 AM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:

Last night it was brought to my attention that Jitsi has decided to become more "zoom" like.

That sucks. Moreover, and I've noticed this as well, their free instance's performance is all over the place.. some meetings the performance is spot on, other meetings, like last night, it was not so great.

There should be zero barriers to people joining the meeting.

To this end, I'm going to explore what it's going to take to stand up my own Jitsi instance. Likely hosted in some cloud provider with possibly a nice DNS entry.

Thanks,

Tim.

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