Thursday, December 21, 2023

Why i Avoid using Zoom for Meetings

With the current friction between China and the US, these links will likely come to play an increasingly important role. After Zoom reported a 355% jump in revenue for the second quarter on Tuesday, Li’s stake gained $3.2 billion in just one day. He is now worth $32.6 billion. His venture investment firm Horizon was also an early backer of Facebook, Spotify, Apple’s digital assistant Siri, and plant-based meat manufacturer Impossible Foods. I added this as I always find it interesting to follow the money when trying to understand zoom app download who controls companies and benefits from their activities. For me it’s not only about fixing problems as they appear, but also how you fix them. There is no small amount of evidence that Zoom has issues that is has tried to downplay, and that it has appeared equally surprised(!) each and every time that they have been caught out. It. Doesn’t. Make. Any. Sense? It’s the inability to foresee abuse on platforms used for communication between people, and the guesswork in the face of it, that perhaps bothers me the most.

See the orange and yellow roads here below for example, they follow little “valleys” almost perfectly. I know it’s obvious that it should be like that, but it’s not immediately clear when looking at your usual “flat” map. One of the most useful maps, for me at least, has been the collection of maps over at Waymarked Trails. They have maps for hiking, cycling, mountain biking, and skiing, all incredibly detailed. Some artsy stuff has been done too. Someone’s taken bits of the map and turned them into old school 8-bit pieces of art that could be right at home in a NES game from the late ‘80s. Comparisons to to products such as Apple or Google Maps are the first thing that come to mind, but such comparisons, I think, are wrong, since OSM is completely different. OpenStreetMap is an open, free database of points and lines people can use freely in their own projects, while Google Maps is a commercial endeavour.

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In the Waiting Room section, click (More) next to a participant's name. 4. In the drop-down menu, click Rename. 5. Enter a new name, then click Change. The participant will receive a notification that the host renamed them, as well as what they have been renamed to. Participants can click OK or Leave Meeting. Clicking OK does not admit them. In the Name section, click on Edit. Type in your preferred display name. C. Your device might have remembered your name. In the Join Meeting window, type in Your Display Name. And check the box "Remember my name for future meetings". Participants not joining using headsets and joining using external speakers. So what happens is the built-in mic picks up audio from the external speakers causing echo from other. Unfortunately, in most cases the one causing echo will not hear the echo. Two or more participants with active audio joining from the same room (physically). If that is the case, only one device should Join Audio.

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