[sf-perl] The SF Perl Raku Study Group, 02/09 at 1pm PST

[David Christensen]

On 2/5/25 12:06, Joseph Brenner wrote:
> ... The Raku Study Group
> 
> February 9, 2025  1pm in California, 9pm in the UK


On 2/9/25 13:02, Joseph Brenner wrote:
> Zoom won't let me get into the meeting unless I upgrade first. 
> Excellent.


On 2/9/25 13:21, Joseph Brenner wrote:
> And after the install, the new zoom was grindingly slow and hanging 
> up my entire system.   Trying a full restart.


On 2/9/25 13:27, Bruce Gray wrote:
> Thanks for keeping us informed.


On 2/9/25 13:39, Joseph Brenner wrote:
> Sure.   Currently, trying to use zoom makes my system totally 
> unusable.  I'm trying a few drastic measures that could take some 
> time.
> 
> Feel free to talk amongst yourselves, or just call this one a 
> bust... I have no idea when I'll be able to join the meeting.


I would say "put Zoom into a VM after you have fixed your machine", but
Zoom is going to need access to the camera and microphone; and I have
never done so with my hypervisor of choice (VirtualBox from Oracle
package servers).


STFW for "VirtualBox Zoom appliance" produces scarce few hits:

https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=virtualbox%20zoom%20appliance

https://www.gilesorr.com/blog/zoom-in-virtualbox-debian.html


Searching zoom.com for "site:zoom.com virtualbox" does not produce
anything obvious:

https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=site%3Azoom.com%20virtualbox


A Zoom Virtualbox appliance would be useful.  Perhaps searching and/or
posting on the Zoom community site could produce positive results.


If and when your machine is stable, consider taking an image of the
system drive.  I do this before updating Debian (e.g. monthly) and/or as
needed (e.g. before and/or after major system changes).


David