lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2017 19:26:16 EST
lnxw48a1First try of #Wire. Video called #Daddy_A, talked with him, #Little_Boy_A, #Baby_A2. Baby_A2 didn't talk or wave, but his smile almost wrapped around his head. (He's the one who was not in a people-meeting mood when I saw him in person.) #Baby_A3 was asleep. #Mama_A said hi briefly, then faded into the background. (I'll try to get her to engage more in the future. When someone marries into my family, I want to build a relationship with them as well as continue to enjoy the relationship you have with your family member.)
Just a usage aside, I don't mean to derail (I've found the history of Wire vis-a-vis that of Signal and LibreSignal and Matrix, for instance very relevant to my interests) but ...
I find the verbing of "open source" particulatly awkward given that the simple past tense verb form "freed" is both shorter and much more closely associated with liberation than its adjective form "free".
@bobjonkman @bob FOSS is a requirement for me. #Wire is not yet federated, but they claim that feature is on the way. (Another requirement: I should not be forced to rely upon a single organization's server. I should either be able to host my own server or it should be P2P and not need one.)
@lnxw48a1 @bobjonkman Wire seems like early development and without federation of servers or pure P2P it's not going to be as useful as XMPP or Matrix.
@bobjonkman @bob One thing I am looking for in all this (and which #Ring, #Tox, and #Wire seem to be providing) is integrated audio/video chats. They ( #Daddy_A and his wife ) normally want to use Skype or Facetime (neither of which I have or use), and they have Apple devices, so no #WebRTC support either.
@lnxw48a1 Is tox still alive? a friend and I used it for ages and it worked well, but as far as we could tell it was abandoned. Now we're stuck with #matrix which neither of us likes.
@tekk @lnxw48a1 tox is one of those underrated things, and last time I looked qTox is quite actively developed. The main reason why it's not more popular I think is because the mobile app sucks battery.
@bob That was the opposite of my experience back with AnTox. It was fairly battery efficient where Matrix's Riot is awful (it randomly kills itself and doesn't run in te background, eats battery heavily while in the foreground)
@tekk I also found the Riot app to be a battery hogger initially. I set Sync request timeout to 30 seconds and Delay between two sync requests to 600 seconds and after that it uses negligible battery.