• Apparently it FORCES you to have BOTH a microphone and a camera enabled and accessible to the site. It actually refused to run on my desktop computer because it doesn’t have a camera, had to pull out my laptop which made me late for the meeting.

  • Apparently it ALWAYS DEFAULTS to having both the camera and microphone on the instant you connect to the call, accessible by all other participants. With no warning before you join the call.

Fuck that shit. At least Zoom, as much as I also hate it, lets you connect with no camera and/or microphone (you can just use the chat), shows you a preview of your camera before you join and lets you disable it right then and there, and makes sharing your audio an explicit action for every meeting.

  • @bashrc
    7•2 years ago

    I always liked the laptops with the little slider over the camera, but you can improvise with suitably positioned piece of cardboard. The microphone is harder to block, but if you can locate it then something sound absorbent taped over it will render it not very useful to Mr Z.

    • krolden
      7•2 years ago

      I just disable it in the bios (and cover it with tape)

        • krolden
          6•2 years ago

          It won’t work at all if there’s no camera detected? I thought you just have to allow access in your browser. Sorry I guess I skipped that bullet point lol.

          Anyway yeah probably best to work up a virtual camera device or something.

          Fuck Facebook.