LOOOOL not mine! Optical sensor's feed is cut by the doohickey, all you'll get is "no camera."
Enjoy looking at the sticky side of some blue tape.
Still think the slide cover on my laptop is one of the most practical features I've ever seen
Yeah my corpo laptop actually came with it. It's standard on all our renewed devices now. I was pleasantly surprised. Apparently the CTO deemed it so.
They'd just be looking at the palm rest for me. Laptop is closed and under the monitor stand, having it open just makes Window's show how well it does desktop scaling.
You can adjust that scaling.
Haha
Drag a window into or out of it
or sometimes even just near it
Then tell me that's a solution
I’ve previously used this wonderful piece of software, which doesn’t really improve that situation much, IIRC, but does make it easy for mouse movement to line up super nicely by using DPI-aware scaling:
Not perfect, but very nice.
I'm more referring to how Windows makes a very jarring experience of resizing windows for different display scaling settings.
The fact that that is a button is insane.
It's not actually an option, thank goodness.
yet
Lol got me good.
One of them (Zoom I think) at least used to be able to pop up a request for attendees to turn on their mics. I was glad to see it required permission, and I was not glad to see the host must have clicked that request.
I once saw a university thesis defence back during lockdown, one old guy professor was doing a Donald Duck impression and was wearing nothing below the belt thinking that the camera won't pick it up anyway.
Then he got up to get something... and the thing flopped into view.
What thing? Why are you being so vague? WHAT ARE YOU HIDING FROM US???
Penis
Dude. At least our on some boxers.
The last two Dell laptops my work provided me with have little sliders that physically cover the camera. I use them all the time while working from home.
I once had someone keep talking on a video call as they took a piss. It was not only audible but incredibly loud.
Just today, I recorded a video to provide training and just uploaded it.
What I didn't realize was that five minutes in, my microphone picked up my sweet child screaming about how she stepped in cat vomit and now theres cat vomit all over the house.
Yeah I'm not doing two takes and wtf microphone, why are you picking up sounds that far away?
I'm preparing to be mocked once people watch that video.
Meanwhile I've forgotten to turn off my music playing on speakers nearby my PC and apologized about my music once I realized only to get "what music?" in response. I'm not sure what sorcery went into this mic design, but it's great!
Edit: Also, use an audio editor to record that so you can splice different takes together. It allows you to get each part perfect rather than having to decide at some point that it's good enough because you have to record the whole thing in one take.
Power point has a slide record mode that lets you redo individual slides, too. It was essential when I had to get a presentation to fit into a 3 minute timeslot while I tend to ramble.
I not only mute but say something that invites a reaction on the way to the bathroom to make sure that it is indeed muted.
not only mute but say something that invites a reaction
Hadn't thought of doing this. Good advice.
A friend of mine once attended a university lecture where the prof briefly ducked out to the loo... and neglected to turn off their wireless microphone, which was still connected to the classroom speakers.
We usually just do audio in our meetings, but I always leave my headphones in my office if I have to go to the bathroom. I don't care if I'm muted or not.
I bring my headphones, audio on, and then put my mic close to my toilet so they can hear my opinion of their ideas.
We all rebel in our own ways
I love having hardware switches on the frame.work 16's camera and mic
Joke is on you; my camera is uninstalled, I am "computer illiterate", and I would rather install a toe trigger on my shotgun than work anywhere where I would have to do virtual meetings with a camera enabled.
Flashback to when I watched a naked dude go take a dump while broadcasted to the entire company all hands zoom, like 400+ people.
What do you rate the experience as?
1 = poor, 10 = enjoyable
Definitely a 10, we all rode that high for a while.
Fuckin legend
They'll have a great view of the electrical tape I put over the camera lens the day the laptop was issued to me.
I 3d printed a clip. Bonus, it's red, so I know what laptop is mine at a distance
Which video conferencing platforms give the host the ability to remotely turn on other people's cameras?
The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities... some consider to be unnatural.
Edit: unfortunately it's fake.
Unfortunately?
That would be such a massive privacy issue that I don't think any video conferencing software would ever implement that.
It's probably fake, but if this bothers you then you should probably already have a physical cover for your camera.
Lol and how many of them have webcam privacy sliders or tape over the webcam
Ha, I turn it off for your protection. Do you have any idea what I look like in the morning?
Try it mofo, my laptop has a hardware off switch for mic+webcam
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