Florian Rivoal

Skype is shutting down in May. I've been using it to speak with my grandmother, and I am looking for an alternative, with the following features:
* can do live subtitles (in French)
* works without a phone number/sim card
* can call your contacts and be dialed (i.e. not only invite by email/calendar/url…)
* simple UI/UX (with big buttons) is far more important than feature rich.

I know various things that do some of the above, but I'm not sure what (other than Skype) does all of it.

Any help?

Just figured this out (thanks @fantasai@w3c.social for the hint): If you're a heavy user of mailing lists (like w3c's) and of Thunderbird, go into the Config Editor, and set "mailnews.headers.extraExpandedHeaders" to "Archived-At".

Now each message that is archived somewhere will let you know where, so that you can quote that and point others to it.

@blub@norden.social @Jami@mstdn.io First time I hear about it. On paper, it's perfect, and the UI great too. 100% exactly what I want. In practice:

• I'm having some connectivity issues (NAT traversal related?)
• The accuracy of the subtitles (at least for French) is not sufficient to be usable.
• I'm getting the subtitles to work on the desktop client, but not on android. I'll keep an eye on this, because if the reliability gets better, this is pure gold.

Updated my personal server from @debian@framapiaf.org 12 #bookworm to 13 #trixie, and as I expected, that went completely smoothly and without any complication. Debian always delivers.
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@Styx@piaille.fr I know and like Jitsi, but I think it's lacking:

• subtitles
• the ability to call someone and have their device ring (rather than create a meeting and send invitations by email, calendar, etc)