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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.
All they would see is blackness since my work laptop stays closed. I have an external webcam that I plug in as needed. I also keep it angled up when not in use so, in the very best/worst case where I forgot to unplug it, you get a view of my cieling.
I love having hardware switches on the frame.work 16’s camera and mic
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
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.
Lol and how many of them have webcam privacy sliders or tape over the webcam
The fact that that is a button is insane.
It’s not actually an option, thank goodness.
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.
Lol got me good.
yet
Or is it insane that it isn’t? I think life would be way more fun with buttons like that.
Flashback to when I watched a naked dude go take a dump while broadcasted to the entire company all hands zoom, like 400+ people.
Fuckin legend
How did this happen? Did he bring his laptop into the bathroom?
He was on a phone, so it’s not like we had a clear full view, it was more like seeing some bits of hairy belly, shoulders, etc. But you could still clearly tell what was going on.
What do you rate the experience as?
1 = poor, 10 = enjoyable
How could it be anything but a 10?
No audio?
Definitely a 10, we all rode that high for a while.
Does he still work there?
Dunno if he’s still there but he wasn’t fired over it at the time!
And did he get a promotion?
Try it mofo, my laptop has a hardware off switch for mic+webcam
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.
Was it his or Duck’s?
Dude. At least our on some boxers.
What thing? Why are you being so vague? WHAT ARE YOU HIDING FROM US???
Penis
Laughs in hardware switch.
You also could use VM. From there you can toggle the device passthough
I’ve always gotten too much delay with audio/video passthrough to voice calls through a VM, personally.
Did you use the proper acceleration? Use KVM plus a virtual GPU.
It is entirely possible your hardware makes it problematic but for me it worked.
I use a USB pass through, so the VM is connected to the hardware instead of going through 12 layers of software.
Laughs in disabling kernal modual.
Edit: I really miss hardware switches works only a few have them anymore.
Laughs in electrical tape.
Laughs in blue painters tape.
Laughs in clamshell mode.
Laughs in not having a camera
Laughs in not having an electronic device.
Your carrier pigeon is doing some serious work today
Most of the newer laptops I’ve picked up some have hardware switches, but they do have a physical shutter that can be flipped over the camera which IMO is better as I can visibly see the camera is blocked
Laughs in “will you allow <website> to use your camera?” (Yes/No)
Much easier
I once had someone keep talking on a video call as they took a piss. It was not only audible but incredibly loud.
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.
goddamnit this appeared elsewhere as well but it reminds me of my favourite episode of masameer county.
“what about your cousin? he married a european woman but his genes are so strong all his kids look like monkeys. 'Grandpa! Grandpa! We love bananas! We don’t know why!”
while it blares into the function hall the two recently reconciliated families are dining in.
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.
We all rebel in our own ways
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.
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.
Mr. Boring over here
You got to live a little. Give a presentation to execs while taking a shower
All the better if you can artfully have objects placed to hide your objects.
LOOOOL not mine! Optical sensor’s feed is cut by the doohickey, all you’ll get is “no camera.”
Interestingly enough teams defaults to the OBS virtual camera on my machine 😁
Ha, I turn it off for your protection. Do you have any idea what I look like in the morning?
This is why thinkpads come with physical camera covers.
I just use part of a post-it note.
You can get a little plastic window with sticky on one side and keep it closed when you don’t intend to use the Webcam, my laptop now has one built in for the Webcam which is cool
