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Re:Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat by andai on Sunday June 27, 2021 @02:05PM (#27653729)
Does it still badger you about certificate generation on first launch?

I used it with my friend in 2015 as a sort of galactic walkie-talkie on our phones -- he was in another country but we'd just walk around outside and talk to each other. It felt pretty futuristic at the time.

After a few minutes of continuous audio transmission though there would be a significant buildup of latency, so we developed the habit of saying "pineapple" to each other to measure the lag. Best record was 12 seconds.

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Re:Mumble: Open-Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat by j1elo on Sunday June 27, 2021 @06:26PM (#27656053)
Yes it does. Or it did circa 2019 when I last logged in for the first time.

Nice to see you had been having fun with it. Skype however had been there since a lot earlier, right? I guess that having to exolicitly "call" your friends removed a bit of that "walkie-talkie" feeling, but still...

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