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Re:Ask HN: Best Video Call Solution for Elderly by dgorges on Monday June 22, 2020 @05:20AM (#23598521)
This sounds like a great setup. Never heard of PineTab before - is the CPU powerful enough for live video encoding?
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Re:Ask HN: Best Video Call Solution for Elderly by camehere2saydis on Monday June 22, 2020 @06:08AM (#23598701)
May be a little too underpowered actually.

There was a recent forum thread with users claiming the Pinebook Pro is somewhat usable with Jitsi Meet; and the Pinebook Pro has a more powerful CPU in it than the Pinebook which has the same chip as the Pinetab.

Maybe going with a refurbished Surface or similar would be a better option; talking to an elderly relative is an use case that hardly calls for open hardware.

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