Jitsi is an excellent free and open source alternative.

And that is useless if you have meetings with people that "have standardized" on Zoom, and that hold some sort of leverage over you, like clients/customers.

Just send a meeting link and it works in any browser.

I'm pleasantly surprised at how often someone will use jitsi when the alternative is not communicating with me in such a fashion.

Can’t see enjoying my time on this Earth putting up with that sort of burnout.

I found Clients / Customers don't care, I just send them a meetings link and they find themselves shocked in that it just works.

If they moan say it's Zoom but the corporate version.

Self-hosting my own Jitsi and it's faultless and the way to go.

I don't understand why people are still using Google search generally. It's so bad nowadays.

I'll consider it when zfs in in tree.

Governments lie all the time. This is not new.

New to me is that judges openly confirm and accept it.

Isn't that what the safe drinking water act is for?

They're still used today for cellular modems

Yep. And not your grandpa's AT command set - it's been extended to support HTTP.

https://computer.rip/2026-04-26-voice-modems.html

> Modem vendors continue to build on AT. If you look at LTE modems made for IoT applications, for example, it's common for them to provide a complete HTTP implementation (and sometimes MQTT, and sometimes some kind of proprietary message broker protocol) accessible via AT commands. That means you can implement an IoT device without a network stack at all, deferring all network operations to the modem itself. With a JSON-over-HTTP backend, for example, you might send AT commands with JSON payloads over the serial control channel and then get JSON back. You never interact with the network at all, the modem is a completely self-contained system. At the extreme, you might implement your entire device using exclusively the modem. This is a common approach for telematics devices like GPS trackers: they consist of nothing but a cellular modem, the telemetry application is built for the modem using an SDK from its vendor, and you interact with it using AT commands. IoT-class modems frequently provide GPIO and user flash for just this purpose.

> I don't even know if it's possible to torrent on a phone.

Very possible for over a decade.

There's lots of US sports content. That's all I use it for.

Capital One Arena is the current name for where the Washington Capitals play at home so that's an example that kind of works.

> table saws don't rip, cut, or mill stock

They actually do all of that

Not for you! You have to actually know how to do that, and physically push the stock through the blade. If you know zero about a table saw, you're more likely to turn a piece of wood into a projectile than to cross-cut it accurately. Again: not something you can say about a coding agent.

The saw does them for you but it doesn't operate itself. Perhaps I read it too literally.

you missed the "for you"