Putting this here so I don’t forget it next time: Required packages to build on Linux PC (with joystick output support): dnf install cmake git qt5-qttools-devel qt5-qtbase-private-devel procps-ng-devel opencv-devel libevdev-devel

TIL: “Skype For Business” is not really possible on Linux PC in 2023. There is no native built. It’s “Web App” requires a plugin that comes with an MSI installer. Not that it really matters, since it’s superseded by “Teams”. In theory.

So if you need it anyway you’re not really looking for “Skype”, that may sound similar but has nothing to do with “Skype For Business”, but for “Lync”. Did I say “Lync”? I meant “Office Communicator”. And if you do you’re in luck. There is a Pidgin plugin called “Sipe” which does that. In theory. I couldn’t get it to sign in because my “Office 365” account, that supersedes the BPOS (Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite), has no more “Office Communicator” or “Lync” or “Skype for Business”. It does have “Teams” and to add insult to injury also “Skype”.

There is however an Android app “Skype for Business” and lo and behold it’s on API Level 30 from 2020 so chances are good that it works on most recent devices (it will request all permissions though and refuse to start without). And while I still have no account for this, or the possibility to create one, since Microsoft simply redirects me to “Teams”, I can now open an invitation link in a browser which in turn opens the app again where I now get the previous unavailable option to _join as guest_.

Stay tuned if it picks up the microphone too as there is no speech indicator and no echo chamber to test this. At least video seemed to work fine.

(And hell no I will not even try that with a Google Chrome Brower EXE in Wine)

This was a triumph. Great success… 😁

Three days of BBQ and chilling out. Very tired now. Should go on vacation now 😜

Pic: Fireplace with lots of empty chairs around now that everyone is gone again.

Blogs brauchen mehr Links – Mein Plädoyer – Conterest by Sven Lennartz (drweb.de)
Links sind die Blutgefäße des Internets. Über Links organisiert sich das alles. Und wenn wir im Netz etwas brauchen, dann sind es Links.

Re: https://www.drweb.de/blogs-links-verlinken/

Naja, mehr Links schön und gut aber sorry, Twitter geht halt gar nicht mehr. Und Pingbacks? Klar ist das geil aber warte mal ab bis du Webmentions gesehen hast. Pingback mit Intend! Oder gar… ActivityPub! Wie RSS nur in toll, so mit Replies und Likes und so Zeug. 🤓

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I’ll never get tired of sitting at a fireplace in the evening. Should do this way more often. Probably the first time in 3 years.

Spent hours cleaning the terrace with a high pressure washer (and got a sun burn on top). The uncovered damage is extensive. I mean we knew 10 years ago already that we’d need new planks soon but still. Damage is especially bad where flower pots used to be but some are simply because water has no way to go. Some holes are so bad I had to cover them up with boards.

Ah well. No rest for the wicket I guess.