global happy traveller

ahhh FSX..... I downloaded a few mods including adding 773 w GE90 engine (AC/NZ skin), changed the CR7 to UA skin and the sound of Airbus 321 to be more like AC’s (believe it was called CFM engine mod or something).

Sunny Day

I missed the last one, look forward to being back next week.

academic_daughter

Count me in. I’m going through serious travel withdrawal.

canadiancow

Does anyone know if it's possible to make the Zoom meeting start on its own, without the 40 minute limitation?

Not that I expect to be unavailable any Saturday in the foreseeable future, but I'd hate to fall asleep or something and have 15 people waiting for me to click a button.

mileageking

Maybe this page will help to setup auto start/stop Zoom meetings.
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/art...2-f9a4410549d2

canadiancow

That's for Zoom Rooms. Those are like... physical office rooms with permanent video conferencing fixtures.

I've used Zoom at work for over a year, and I've played around with what I can find. "Enable join before host" is the only thing I've found that sounds reasonable, but it's not clear to me that it will inherit my subscription unless I actually join.

mileageking

Got it. Not sure if following link, is also for zoom rooms, however talks about enabling few options that may be applicable.

https://devforum.zoom.us/t/how-to-cr...l-meeting/6384

painintheuk

No idea, but can you give permissions to the other tech-savvy moderators? If they can let people in from the waiting room, hopefully they can start it too. Testing should be pretty easy between you.

Dr. PITUK

canadiancow

My experience with using Zoom where some people have pro accounts and some do not (my employer) is that when the pro account joins, "PRO USER has become the host", and the timer goes away. Likewise, when they leave, "FREE USER is now the host", and restrictions return.

They don't want me creating a meeting for my friend Steve, giving him full benefits of my pro account, but with no intention of me actually attending. But I also haven't seen any way to deal with this for personal accounts when multiple users have pro accounts. We have multiple attendees with pro accounts, but I can't seem to pool them together so that as long as one of us is around, it still works.

meltedmarshmellow

I ideally would like to participate however I refuse to use Zoom given the security implications. I realize I'm no one here so feel free to completely ignore my tech platform comments.

canadiancow

If it makes you feel better, the vast majority of the security issues don't apply to us.

Unless you trust every other attendee, nothing stops anyone from recording the entire thing and posting it online somewhere. And since we allow everyone to join (because we're friendly and because FT rules require it), there's always some kind of risk of a random person tuning in and listening/recording.

And because of that, whether or not it's E2E encrypted isn't really relevant, since the above is a much lower hanging fruit to attack than any kind of MITM attack on the encryption.

In a business or government setting, where the attendees are all trusted, and you may have hostile foreign governments, I might agree that Zoom has issues (though they've fixed a LOT in the past few weeks). But not here.

tcook052

Is the bar set low enough for forum moderators to attend?

canadiancow

In the context of security, I have much less concern about you than about half the other people who join.

But yes, everyone's welcome, even if I weren't afraid of the consequences of breaking rule 20.

codfather

tcook052 I was hoping you'd join at some point! Looking forward to chatting with you.

tcook052

Thanks and I'll see if I can attend.

Until a precedent is set otherwise I believe Rule 20 applies only to in-person FT Do's and not online social hours such as this.