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who would win
Submitted 1 day ago by not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to [deleted]
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stoy@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Odo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Apparently a spoon left on your laptop trackpad can trick Teams into thinking you’re still there and never marking you as “away”.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2 hours ago
Lmaooooo
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Lol, I got one of those cheap mouse wigglers (mini usb plug, shows up as a Bluetooth mouse), I’d actually pay good money for one that only wiggles every now and then and not twice a second.
stoy@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Ah, I just tend to put my mouse upside down as the LED lighting in my room cause the mouse to move erratically.
CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social 23 hours ago
So can something heavy that depresses one of the directional keys.
Or at least that used to work, been a few years since I tried it.
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 1 day ago
Here you go my friend
lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Thanks for educating all the fork pilled people out there
Sendaris@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I assume you rest/wedge a spoon on your keyboard to hold down a key so Teams won’t mark you as away?
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Afaik Teams user activity went AI at the end of last year.
Also
xdotool mousemove $(echo $(( ${RANDOM} % 800 ))) $(echo $(( ${RANDOM} % 600 )))
python@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t like having the mouse actually wiggle for teams to stay active. Makes it really annoying to jump back in when you get an impromptu call and have to fiddle with things to get the wiggler back off.
There’s a program called caffeine that instead simulates a button like F15 (so one that’s unlikely to show up on a real keyboard or be mapped to do anything) being pressed once a minute, so you can just set the program to run and it will never interfere with you actually using the computer.ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 1 day ago
I’m a fan of scroll lock, not too useful but powershell is more than happy to turn it on and then back off 200ms later at random intervals… All while showing me a countdown to quitting time and a day counter until I’m out the door.
vatlark@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah caffeine has been around a long time. I’m sure these simple solutions won’t last much longer. They will us AI to monitor the actions are meaningful so people will use AI to make the actions look meaningful and so on…
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
Yes, Caffeine is staple, I’ve been using it for decades (under windows too)!
Vupware@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
If you understandably don’t want to tamper with scripts or installations on your work computer, pull up your own chat, as if you were going to send yourself a message, then select the text box, then put something heavy on your down arrow key. Congrats, you’re now indefinitely free.
maturelemontree@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
Nice, whatcha packing in that box?
dafta@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
What?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I stand by the belief that management that needs this level of surveillance software needs to be in trouble as well. Management should have reasonable expectations and expect you to achieve them in a reasonable amount of time.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
For me teams fails to track activity outside the chromium window because I haven’t enabled the permission for the web app to see activity outside teams…
This causes me to go “away” when I’m not actively using teams, but honestly don’t care enough. People still write to me and I answer when I got time
luftruessel@feddit.org 1 day ago
I don’t want to install it, so when I accidentally close it, it’s just silence for me. Really started to embrace the focus time I get from that.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
But cousin, why a spoon? Why not an axe or a knife?
lastunusedusername2@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
Because it hurts more
ickplant@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I am so happy I decided to change careers and left corporate hell to start my own business. I never have to make sure my mouse moves ever again.
Ruusunmarja@sopuli.xyz 22 hours ago
What’s your plan to make it sustainable?
ickplant@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
So far it’s done well for the past 5 years, but it is harder now to find clients because the economy sucks and everyone is struggling (I’m a psychotherapist in the US). I have to plan for periods of drought, and make sure I keep up with marketing and networking.
Honestly, in my field, once you get a good reputation, you will be OK. It’s hard starting out, and I got lucky because I started out during COVID. Tons of demand back then, and some of those clients are still with me. Now I get referrals from clients and fellow therapists because I am established.
gegil@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
This isnt even a comparison. Obviously spoony boy would win.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 1 day ago
Oh my god, I love spooning my team!
raven@piefed.world 1 day ago
I am voting for the spoony boy!
affenlehrer@feddit.org 1 day ago
Looong ago I enjoyed watching “the spoony one” on YouTube
wewbull@feddit.uk 13 minutes ago
Boss on Teams: Why are you off-line?
Me: I’m not. I’m talking to you.
Boss: Oh…
My cares about tracking vanished in that moment.