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  Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferencing with Jitsi The situation with COVID-19 affects not only the private lives of people and their families but also the business, excluding the possibility of face-to-face communication. Many individuals and companies are forced to adapt to work and communicate remotely. Thus video conferencing got a high-level demand. One of the key players in this market is Zoom video conferencing software. However, there are multiple claims regarding  Zoom security , confidentiality and data privacy. As a result, people are looking for alternatives that can be privately hosted. That’s why  Jitsi Meet  open source video conferencing tool is gaining more and more popularity, as it can be installed at the preferred local cloud provider or on-premise. Why Jitsi? The key advantages of using Jitsi video conferencing: Open-source solution provided for free and with a wide community support Installation in one click and easy setup User-friendly...

  How to build a Wall Mounted Family Calendar and Dashboard with a Raspberry Pi and cheap monitor Sponsored By I love dashboards. I love Raspberry Pis (tiny $35 computers the size of a set of playing cards). And I'm   cheap   frugal. I found a 24" old LCD at Goodwill (a local thrift shop) and bought it but it's been sitting unused in my garage. Then I stumbled on  DakBoard . The idea is simple - A wifi connected wall display for your photos, calendar, news, weather and to-do. The implementation is simple genius. It's a browser that starts up full screen (kiosk mode) and just sits there and updates occasionally. DakBoard provides the private webpage and tools to make that happen. You can certainly build this yourself with any number of open source tools. I chose  DakBoard  because it was simple, beautiful, and I was able to get the whole thing done in less than an hour. I'm sure I'll spend many hours tweaking it through. There's also the very popular  M...

How To Use Linux Screen Updated  Oct 7, 2019 • 4 min read Have you ever faced the situation where you perform a long-running task on a remote machine, and suddenly your connection drops, the SSH session is terminated, and your work is lost. Well, it has happened to all of us at some point, hasn’t it? Luckily, there is a utility called  screen  that allows us to resume the sessions. Introduction Screen or GNU Screen is a terminal multiplexer. In other words, it means that you can start a screen session and then open any number of windows (virtual terminals) inside that session. Processes running in Screen will continue to run when their window is not visible even if you get disconnected. Install Linux GNU Screen The screen package is pre-installed on most Linux distros nowadays. You can check if it is installed on your system by typing: screen --version Screen version 4.06.02 (GNU) 23-Oct-17 If you don’t have screen installed on your system, you can easily install it using...