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Devine Lu Linvega

"We'd like to schedule a Zoom call with 100r to talk about low-bandwidth software challenges, and-"
"See, here, that's the first challenge."

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@neauoire I wonder if mumble would work for you. I've used it on horrible connections before (kb/s speed wise) with great success.

Devine Lu Linvega

@zyd We really can only do emails, our internet connection is not consistently slow, we might have 30 seconds of pretty good connection, then 3-4 minutes of no signal whatsoever, then it comes back.

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@neauoire Gotcha. I was thinking mostly when you're not actively sailing (do you call that at port? idk the correct term).

Devine Lu Linvega

@zyd we can't afford to go from port to port, we're usually anchored, which means to drop the anchor in some place protected from the wind. I don't go online much while we're underway, the signal we get when anchored varies, it depends how high the tide is, and if our wifi device(that we lift up the mast) reaches over the trees and finds some cell tower : )

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@neauoire Now I get the full picture. Yeah, I'd insist on email too. Its not even just low-bandwidth, its not-consistently-available-bandwidth (nonsensical term but ya know)

Trammell Hudson

@neauoire @zyd sitting atop the royal yard, aka the internet zone.

Two legs high above the deck and water of a sailing ship
Capital

@neauoire "This could have been a plain text email"

Devine Lu Linvega

@calutron 8-bit audio, rle compressed black and white tiles, that'd be kind of cool, gameboy camera chat.

Oook

@neauoire @calutron sounds like one of the only option unless you want to do the libcaca route.

Are there some video codecs that use dithering techniques to get low fi/bw videos?

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