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I have Java on my machine. So I wrote a small program that moves the mouse one pixel every minute. Forever green.
I went the other route: I set to away until 2030. Now they don't know if I'm really away or not.
You are a fucking master mind! I wonder what other secret knowledge you possess, and I'm serious.
A buddy of mine at work refuses to ever accept or decline invites - even 1-on-1s with his boss.
That way it's always a surprise if they are going to show up.
I know a guy like that. It's infuriating because it's a waste of time. Just decline for fucks sake! At least I can tell the PM that we tried unsuccessfully to schedule and that we have to delay and I can play some video games!
If I schedule a meeting and someone doesn't accept that invite I just assume they're not showing up and act accordingly. Might send them a ping a few minutes before hand but if they're a stakeholder and needed for the meeting and choose to ignore the invite(s)/email ... That meeting gonna get cancelled or rescheduled.
Not that that very often happens but I'd just start bothering said guy about it with pings or email follow ups until they get the picture. Or just cancel the meeting(s) if no response 24 hours before scheduled. Something like that.
Not even to be petty or annoying just because they should be accepting or declining for the simple fact that everyone else has schedules to keep too. Obviously this advice may be bad or not applicable but yeah that sucks.
Unfortunately my PM will say "let's meet and see if X joins otherwise we end earlier". Which means wasting a lot of time. Because X won't join, the PM will start talking about irrelevant stuff, and if we're lucky we waste 15 minutes, or more.
I just hate this PM.
What you say is reasonable and is also how I would have handled it. But in this project I have no power and the PM is...just not very good at it.
That sadly doesn't work for my workstation, the VDI still locks after 5 mins and I need to 2 factor authenticate again. So I bought a physical mouse Jiggler for 7ish euros and I'm happy again.
I got roasted by friends calling me lazy because of it, fast forward 3 months and half of them asked me where I bought it. Now most of them have it, including several of my colleagues.
For the computer it's an actual mouse since the input is external, so it just works. I'm always green baby ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )
powershell script that toggles the scrolllock key every 3 minutes.
Powershell is locked down on our machines via AD policy. I used to run a tool from the Windows Store, but they locked that down too. They didn't come for the JVM yet.
If you have Excel you can use VBA to send keycodes too. :-)
I was in a similar situation so I bought a usb mouse wiggler, shows up like a standard usb mouse once plugged in and costs like nothing on AliExpress.
It really baffled me though, shut down all tools, on a developer machine, why?
I used to hate it too but once you realize how clueless most devs are it becomes more and more understandable.
I just use teams-for-linux which has auto-online built-in.
Auto-online? 😯 I'm very curious: how do you know it has that? It hasn't been working that great for me, Microsoft won't always sign it in.
Much less resource intensive on your dev machine to just use an esp32 and write a program to pretend to be a mouse and wiggle itself. Benefit is it is completely undetectable on every platform as well.
For me it'd be better to just run the stupid Teams app on my work phone, but that's always been a hassle because it locks itself and then I don't always get the notifications. My primary work laptop only has 16 gigs of RAM, and having Teams eagerly gobble up a significant portion of that is highly frustrating.
There's been several occasions where I've been building or debugging something, RAM being tight, and the OOM killer correctly deduces that Teams has to go. Makes me laugh every time I finally check back on Teams and realise it's been dead for a while.
The whole "two minute timeout" is a stupid thing anyway. A non-trivial portion of my job is to read and write documentation. That takes time, and you will sit "idle" for a few minutes while reading and processing. My Windows machine would kill the BT connection to my mouse and keyboard, which would sometimes require re-pairing to get working again. For the longest time I thought the problem was the mouse and keyboard, but those problems vanished once I got a Linux dev machine.
I fucking hate everything Microsoft.