• Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    The important bit:

    Those joining from unsupported platforms will be automatically placed in audio-only mode to protect shared content.

    And I presume everything except Windows 11 Teams will be considered “unsupported”.

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    My company is transitioning to teams. Most of our engineering is on Linux.

    Can Microsoft please hurry up and break teams so we can’t transition?

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        I have a Linux work laptop which they let us have but we still have to use the MS crap. Fortunately most of it is accessible through the browser but a lot of the Office apps are broken, or missing features on web.

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      Don’t worry, teams is always somewhere between 10%-30% broken, always something n doesn’t work, there are always a bunch of people that can’t get in the meeting, that can’t share screens all of the sudden because fuck you, that’s why

      Teams is the absolute worst and not a day goes by without people shitting on it, and we’re only using it because most of our customers do but internally we will switch to something open source soon, because I get to make that decision 😎

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        I have looked but I just couldn’t find an open source alternative that supported Teams core features like showing an error every time I login.

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        you know, sometimes I wonder if Matrix could be used in a business setting, and worry about its rough edges and buggy features of Element. but you know what! it would probably be fine! not worse than teams, and at least they don’t want to fuck you over!

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      Those joining from unsupported platforms will be automatically placed in audio-only mode to protect shared content.

      I think this has gone and done it for you

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      OK, I’m really curious on what programs your engineers use then. Engineering has been one of the use-cases for me, that made it basically impossible to switch to Linux full-time. If you know, please tell me.

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          Thx for the answer, that makes sense. I’m more in the mechanical sector now and don’t have much to do with silicon design.

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          I see. Using the browser app certainly doesn’t sound like the optimal solution, but if it works fine, then that’s great. Unfortunately that’s not feasible for my case.

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    I hate stuff like this because screen grabs during meetings or lectures is my favorite way to take notes.

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      Nooooo. If you do that, you won’t be paying for Teams Premium which has built in support for screen recording. Think of the revenue lost 😭😭

      Edit: I should add /s incase people think I’m a Microsoft shill

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    now that all the performance, reliability, and usability issues are solved in Teams, it’s great to see all that energy going into this useful feature that is surely not possible to circumvent in any way.

    /s

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      Or just use the smartphone camera that almost everyone is going to have anyhow…

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        Recording a 1h meeting with a smartphone sounds like a nightmare.

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          1hr? Maybe just wear an action camera, if you can sit well in front of the screen during whole meeting. (j/k)

          EDIT: For smartphone, get a selfie stand if you have place to set it up, do not try to hold the phone with your hand for 1 hour.

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          Doesn’t matter for the “problem” they are trying to solve. Nobody interested in the “sensitive” information of another company will complain about picture quality if the information is readable enough.

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      Are you stupid? Next week they will sell an add on that let’s you recall the whole meeting. You need to start thinking outside the box if you’re gonna make it in scummy corporate sales.

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    This is why they require a TPM, your motherboard will be DRM against you owning the operating system and it will only run signed software.

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    This is so you can then use their super cool and completely accurate AI summary tool that will be coming soon.

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    There are going to be fifty different bypasses up on github by the end of the week. This makes me want to join a corpo and record their precious meetings

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    Gonna be difficult to block screen capture when I have a phone in my hand with a camera that can be record what I see.

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      Don’t be so bold. Microsoft is investing in military AI applications. So don’t be surprised when your computer slaps that camera right out of your hands and punches you in the face. /j (or not, idk, things are looking bad)

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        There are some autonomous cars with lidar out there where the lidar is so powerful it can wreck a camera close up, but is still safe for eyes.

        Switch up FaceID to use a more powerful laser which will wreck the phones camera, and start making webcams for non macs that are required to have this in them for Teams to work.

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    So many commenters here and at the article get a hard on to bash MS for anything.

    MS won’t make this a requirement, nor will they make using the Teams app a requirement. This isnt some backhanded way to get people to switch from Linux to windows.

    This is MS responding to an enterprise feature request.

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      The reflexive hate for M$ is not irrational fan-boys bashing a rival, but bitterness over prolonged and profound annoyance, suffering, and downright abuse experienced through using the products produced by that dogshit company.

      I switched because I wanted software that didn’t hate me and my values.

      What’s irrational is the Stockholm-syndrome Windows user who thinks it’s normal and right to run software that spies, advertises, and generally treats users like a resource to be exploited.

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      The moment a certain company is mentioned in an article, lemmy will go rabid, it doesn’t really matter what the article is about. I am a Linux nerd and if MS crashed and burned tomorrow I wouldn’t exactly shed a tear but the knee jerk reactions are pretty weird to observe.

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      Yeah, commented on the sister thread of this over on the technology subreddit that this wouldnt be a default on feature, and probably be either something the meeting owner has to enable (or tenant admins set to enabled in a policy) or it will be part of sensitivity labels or DLP policies.

      Instant downvote.

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        I think it’s more that average users aren’t accustomed to seeing Linux be a larger part of discussions here than on corporate platforms.