Jitsi videoconference
Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:47:21 +0200
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A heads up for Jitsi videoconferencing.

During  covid, I  had to  find out  if my  family could  hold video
meetings  while we  were  in  lockdown. I  tested  Jitsi and  found
that  it was  ideal  for  people who  are  not  very familiar  with
computers,  as  all  you  have  to  do  is  share  a  link  to  the
Jitsi  meeting  website  and  add   a  unique  name,  for  example:
https://meet.jit.si/my_unique_name.  Since then  our weekly  family
chats have become a ritual.

If you  want to organize a  regular meeting, simply reuse  the same
name each  time, but remember  to use a name  that no one  else can
find by chance.

Jitsi has  Iphone, Android and  web clients, and it's  Open Source,
you can  host it  yourself. My experimentations  taught me  that it
requires a  lot of  bandwidth, so  I just  use 
https://meet.jit.si

On my Linux laptop, I use  the Chromium browser for Jitsi, in fact.
it's the only use I have for Chromium. I use an external microphone
as the Thinkpad X220 has a somewhat crappy one.