I just put a weight on the ctrl key when I’m away or fucking around on my phone.
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Rooster326@programming.dev 9 hours ago
Get a USB mouse jiggler. There are hundreds of them.
They are undetectable because they are just another USB Mouse.
These other solutions are so annoying. Yes let me spend the mental energy to wedge keys downs or setup fake meetings every single time I have to take a shit.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 7 hours ago
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
It’s always interesting hearing from people that this works, because I could be working solid for 2 hours straight but not actually put my cursor in the Teams application and so it thinks I’m away
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 6 hours ago
I have had that happen in the past but not recently. I would think having teams be the active window while holding the key down would have the same effect though.
Beangut@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
??
Stack of coins on the arrow key, works wonders.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
It’s important not to plug in a USB device like that into your work PC. IT can likely see what devices are used on any system.
Instead use a physical mouse mover device that only requires power, like a USB cord plugged into a wall charger instead of the PC.
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 hours ago
Doesn’t it show up as a mouse though ? That is what I see in Windows. I have 2 mice
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 minutes ago
It likely has a distinctive vendor ID and product ID that it provides to the OS.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 57 minutes ago
Not the physical mover, no. If you plug a mouse jiggler thing into your work PC and it shows up as 2 mice, then IT can see the abnormality of that anyway because we don’t use 2 mice normally.