Hi Ian, Lawrence thanks for bringing up Jami and NetHogs. Both of interest here. I had started recommending Jami to those users who used Skype in the past and do not use a mobile phone (no mobile phone no = no WhatsApp option). For those with a focus on video calls only (no large downloads involved), Jami seems to be a usable option. Michael On 7/07/25 12:34, Ian Stewart wrote:
Hi Lawrence,
Thanks for finding the NetHogs application.
When I am not using Jami, but it is still potentially operating on my computer as part of the Jami distributed network, then I see very little Jami related network traffic.
In the last few days I've been monitoring the "download" feature of Jami. My son, running Jami on his Android phone, posted two video clips to me. One was 17MB and the other was 84MB. I waited 24 hours and after that the amounts downloaded were about 10MB on each file. By "prodding" the download button I got the 17MB file to appear to "complete" downloading, but it didn't place the finished .mp4 file into my ~/Downloads folder.
I'm still experimenting with it. It seems that as the downloading is occurring it is stored off my home directory...
~/snap/jami/357/.local/share/jami/b0--16 chars--de/conversation_data/4d--40 chars--6f/3b---lots of chars---06.mp4
...and the video plays OK.
A 3.6MB .jpeg image file downloaded OK.
So Jamiseems to have a feature/bug at the moment regarding how long it takes to download large video files, ...and then you have to go fishing into hidden directories to find them.
cheers, Ian.
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