Thanks, that was interesting, to say the least. It made me try again with
Jitsi, and it does work more than well once the basics are clear, and the
expectations of "pllug and play" are gone.
To clarify, it's not as simple as installing Skype and run it, but not much
harder ONCE you know what to do:
- don't get Jitsi from the repo because it's too old
- create an XMPP account from Jitsi (you can think of it as some kind of
email account, using Magic Banana's explanantion)
- do the same thing on the other computer.
From there, even desktop sharing works quite well (though I advise you to
wait for the desktop sharing to connect, I mean wait for the remote screen to
be displayed before allowing remote control). Goodbye Teamviewer and Skype.
Man, I even want to try it at work.
Back to the talk: I found interesting/surprising that he defended proprietary
software (in a limited way I assume). Also, everything about libre hardware
and infrastructures was definitely interesting.
