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Hmm, I just open notepad and use a stack of coins or something similar to hold down a key to stay active if I need to.

It’s stupid we even have to care about our status on teams. Why should anyone give a fuck about your teams status as long as you’re getting to your work done properly and on time?

Although to be fair right now I’m using a client laptop so my employer basically sees me as offline all the time but I’m reachable by teams or email on my phone.

Anyways it’s just dumb. Fun trick though, I didn’t know you could do that.

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m0stlyharmless@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
There’s a tool for Windows called Caffeine that simulates pressing the F15 key, which is almost never used by any software being that most keyboards don’t have function keys that go that high.

From the webpage:

If you have problems with your PC locking or going to sleep, caffeine will keep it awake. It works by simulating a keypress once every 59 seconds, so your machine thinks you’re still working at the keyboard, so won’t lock the screen or activate the screensaver.

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- LePoisson@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I can’t install unapproved software on my work laptop, probably like most others hence I ain’t messing with that.
  
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  - nforminvasion@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    The best is to get a physical mouse jiggler
    
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    glitch1985@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Preferably one that moves your current mouse. The USB dongles all have the same hardware id and can be tracked.
    
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    MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    imgur.com/Xc5RCfG
    
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  - m0stlyharmless@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    For what it’s worth, with Caffeine, it’s a single, portable executable, so it doesn’t need to be installed in the conventional sense, but if your IT department monitors processes or whitelists what is allowed to run, this would still be a problem.
    
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- driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  What’s does F15 does? My keyboard only goes to F12
  
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  - glitch1985@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    F12 and F3
    
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  - m0stlyharmless@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It’s up to application software to define what it does. I have never seen a keyboard with function keys beyond F12 in person, but they do exist. Software is very unlikely to respond to F15, which is why Caffeine uses it to keep the system awake. Notably, the program can also instruct Windows to stay awake using its native mechanism instead (possibly insufficient for something like MS Teams) or another virtual key code of the user’s specification.
    
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    Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I do have a Mac keyboard that goes up to F16 even
    
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