Re: [110attendees] Meetecho is a resource hog

While I love modern hardware, and try (budget allowing; I’m writing this on an M1 Air) to use modern stuff, I live in a region where the Lenovo e120 referenced in this thread would be considered “still reasonably useful”.

During 2020 I have personally helped people run Zoom and access e-Learning platforms on similar and sometimes even older hardware. True, not using Win7 but Xubuntu 16 and 18 (‘cause I found  Xubuntu 20 to be too much for these boxes). I reinstalled and gave away several old systems I owned over the years that would definitely fall under the labels “e-waste” and “Core i3 from forever ago”.

Also a white, plastic Core2Duo MacBook I bought in 2008 reinstalled with Xubuntu 16 helped by oldest niece go through her first year of Law School during the pandemic. Yes, that’s a 13 year-old box, 4 years older than my own son, still doing useful work.

Here is a beautiful example of a very interesting and relevant topic for all the “diversity and inclusion” threads that sadly seems to be completely absent from the debate.

/Carlos

> On 9 Mar 2021, at 11:56, Chris Morrow <morrowc=40google.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 9:52 AM Chris Morrow <morrowc@google.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I would wager that almost all of the OP's problem is:
>>  intel 2nd generation i3, from 'forever ago'.
>> 
> 
> to be very clear the manuals for that device are copyright 2012...
> Also note:
>  "Support for Windows 7 ended on January 14, 2020. If you are still
>   using Windows 7, your PC may become more vulnerable to security risks."
> 
> as a user in the security field, I'd suggest that the OP knows full
> well that they should
> have upgraded away from win7 ~years ago and to a modem platform (and
> modem system)
> 
> good luck with your paperweight.
> 
>> yea that box is going to have problems doing anything current.
>> the WFH shift taught a bunch of folks this lesson: "If your wfh
>> machine is not a current machine you're gonna have a bad day"
>> 
>> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 9:37 AM Andrew G. Malis <agmalis@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 14% CPU on a 2017 iMac with Firefox.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Andy
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 9:10 AM Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Bob,
>>>> 
>>>> Seems to be fine on my 2018 MacBook Pro.
>>>> 
>>>> BTW, in the sessions I have been in so far, Meetecho has been working very well.
>>>> 
>>>> Bob
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Mar 9, 2021, at 5:02 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@labs.htt-consult.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Yesterday I ran Meetecho on my Lenovo e120 duo-core running Win7 and current Firefox.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The CPUs were pegged at 100% all the time and the audio was clipped.  Good thing I did not need to speak, as I don't know how it would have gone.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Today I am using my Lenovo e140 quad-core running Win10 and current Firefox.
>>>>> 
>>>>> CPUs are at 75% and audio is good.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Video was good on the e120 and is good on the e140.
>>>>> 
>>>>> BTW, I use the e120 regularly for my video meetings with Webex, Microsoft Meet, Zoom and GotoMeeting amongst others and it works fine.  All of these have specific Win apps (and why I run them on Win, not Fedora).  Well sometimes if I used one program and then needed to switch to another, I have learned to reboot, as sometimes they don't let go of audio and video...
>>>>> 
>>>>> Google Meet keeps bombing on supposed network problems.  It works fine on my e140 running Fedora 32.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Anyway, Meetecho is a hog for me.  Just not kosher....
>>>>> 
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