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helios@social.ggbox.fr 2 weeks ago
PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I opened my email and it fucking defaulted to Copilot? Like, bitch I clicked my email. Not your half baked AI bullshit.
green_goglin@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
perfection
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I have Java on my machine. So I wrote a small program that moves the mouse one pixel every minute. Forever green.
devaly@ani.social 2 weeks ago
I went the other route: I set to away until 2030. Now they don’t know if I’m really away or not.
CorrenteAlternata@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
You are a fucking master mind! I wonder what other secret knowledge you possess, and I’m serious.
northendtrooper@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
powershell script that toggles the scrolllock key every 3 minutes.
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Powershell is locked down on our machines via AD policy. I used to run a tool from the Windows Store, but they locked that down too. They didn’t come for the JVM yet.
saltesc@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I just use teams-for-linux which has auto-online built-in.
bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Auto-online? 😯 I’m very curious: how do you know it has that? It hasn’t been working that great for me, Microsoft won’t always sign it in.
tyler@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Much less resource intensive on your dev machine to just use an esp32 and write a program to pretend to be a mouse and wiggle itself. Benefit is it is completely undetectable on every platform as well.
Dojan@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
For me it’d be better to just run the stupid Teams app on my work phone, but that’s always been a hassle because it locks itself and then I don’t always get the notifications. My primary work laptop only has 16 gigs of RAM, and having Teams eagerly gobble up a significant portion of that is highly frustrating.
There’s been several occasions where I’ve been building or debugging something, RAM being tight, and the OOM killer correctly deduces that Teams has to go. Makes me laugh every time I finally check back on Teams and realise it’s been dead for a while.
Crescent@fedinsfw.app 2 weeks ago
I wrote in another comment too: A friend’s company scans every USB device. He got in trouble for plugging in his private USB stick once. Are you sure this is undetectable?
fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
That sadly doesn’t work for my workstation, the VDI still locks after 5 mins and I need to 2 factor authenticate again. So I bought a physical mouse Jiggler for 7ish euros and I’m happy again.
I got roasted by friends calling me lazy because of it, fast forward 3 months and half of them asked me where I bought it. Now most of them have it, including several of my colleagues.
For the computer it’s an actual mouse since the input is external, so it just works. I’m always green baby ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )
HrabiaVulpes@europe.pub 2 weeks ago
Set up a solo meeting with yourself. During meeting it doesn’t change the status at all, so after you join that solo meeting in the morning set yourself to available and you will be available whole day.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
That is a very Microsoft kind of behavior
NABDad@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is also the way to put a real meeting your in on hold.
It makes it look like you got interrupted and had to step away.
da9l@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I’m going to give you a mega useful tip.
You need to create a group. You can kick the user later and say it was an accident. Then you start a meet inside of that group. You can be the only one in the call. Change your status from Busy to available again on top. Just leave yourself muted inside of that Teams call. Your Teams will never go inactive and neither will your laptop.
bangupjobasusual@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If anyone is wondering yes, it can see that you were in a meeting by yourself all day
ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I just always have mine set to show away. Management stops noticing when you are yellow in meetings regularly.
LePoisson@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
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.
Grilipper54@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I open notepad and shut the laptop lid halfway on the enter key. Always green, always working.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is a good tip. I haven’t used it in a while but you can also log into it from web interfaces so i think it was possible to shutdown the desktop app and log into it from other places where it didn’t have the same kind of access.
Telemachus93@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I’m so glad we use Matrix at work. Our IT department even tells us explicitly not to use Teams if we can avoid it.
eclipse7@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
Hire me please xD
diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Let me guess, you signed an NDA and can’t tell us where.
Telemachus93@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I’m trying not to dox myself, but it’s a university in Germany. :D
Sineljora@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
How is matrix as a discord/teams replacement for work?
Telemachus93@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
It really depends on what you actually need, how much setup the IT department can manage and how well the change is communicated and managed, I guess.
We use it (i.e. the Element client) mostly for chatting and another open source solution (BigBlueButton) for online meetings, but voice and video calls are possible directly with Element. Matrix lacks the out of the box office product integration for collaborating on presentations, spreadsheets or text files that Teams has. It can be extended via widgets though, which includes at least etherpad and afaik there are options for nextcloud (which has collabora) integration as well, so with a bit of setup, even that could be emulated.
So that would of course require some setup and maintenance and if the company used Teams before, some training and help for the users as well.
timestatic@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Hope I can bring this kind of change to a company at some point. Matrix is the shit
toiletobserver@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you join a meeting with yourself only, you can manually set your status to available and it will never go to away.
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I would expect it to say that you’re “in a call”
Prancingpotato@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And you would be correct, that’s why previous comment indicated that you can then manually change your status, which will then make you appear as available. But as you are in a call, teams will no more automatically change your status to idle.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Even better! /j
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
My boss loves sending me messages saying “Are you working today?” within 3 minutes of being idle on teams at any point in the day.
Other times if i’m idle he’ll call me just to give me some busy work or try and “catch me” not paying attention or something.
In the office I can be idle on teams for hours at a time and there’s never, ever random spot checks for productivity… and we have no objectives, goals or project management (because he doesn’t think any PM principles are effective.)
Zorg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
A bad boss can really make a job suck. If it was me I’d get a mouse wiggler, apparently there’s a surprisingly many physical ‘mouse movers’ out there nowadays.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
People don’t quit jobs, they quit managers.
AbKingPro@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Back when my company was using teams I had a script that would press a button that’s not actually on my keyboard (something like F25) every minute, so my teams was always green and it was not noticeable from my point of view
Reygle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My boss bills customers for his on-site visits (technical) wherein he goes on site, plugs in his laptop, and makes me remotely do all his work remotely. I can’t wait to burn this bridge when the time is right.
nforminvasion@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The saying is true for 95% of jobs. People don’t quit bad jobs, they quit bad bosses.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
There’s a natural divot on my desk that does it for me.
But I also have my outlook calendar filled with my scheduled hours so my status shows I am always busy (working my schedules hours).
So hasn’t been a problem and it’s been years.
qarbone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That implies he is also sitting around watching Teams instead…being productive.
And at the end of the day, unless you’re working at a start-up, your business won’t fail because someone wasn’t nickle-and-dime-ing individual workers on their productivity time.
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I learned from my wife that you can start a meeting by yourself using the Meet Now button on the Teams calendar, and that will keep you flagged as Busy.
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I run teams in a PWA on Linux which doesn’t have permission to check if I’m using my computer or not so I’m always listed as away unless I’m interacting with Teams directly. I hate teams so much.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
It’s so stupid, previously you could keep it permanently “online”
ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Using team status to know if you are working or not is both rudimentary and unreliable. There are a lot of times the status is just displayed wrong, besides, if stuff is getting done, then that is a sign you are working
sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes! If you are in a work situation where your boss is doing this, find another job. Your performance should be based on outcomes, not butt and n seat time.
HrabiaVulpes@europe.pub 2 weeks ago
Tools like this also do not work with multiple screens.
python@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Use a program called Caffeine. It presses F15 every 59 seconds. Nice thing is that F15 is a largely unused button, so it doesn’t interfere in any way when you’re actually doing something on the computer (classic mouse wigglers are very annoying in that regard)
bountygiver@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
A proper wiggler should reset the timer every time you actually move your mouse so it never do it while you are using your mouse
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
And wiggle not every second too, like 1 pixel every 30 sec. That was the only thing I disliked with the cheap wigglers, they were great otherwise.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sadly, blocked by my company
pbjelly@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
You can try the physical wigglers? They’re like $20ish and can be plugged into a power source that’s not your work device if your company is particular about that too.
It’s basically a timer and a cheap motor that rotates a disc with a pattern that is meant to trick laser mice into thinking that it’s being moved across a valid surface. Some are better than others.
Other homemade solutions would be opening notepad and having a heavy object press a key, but that seems not ideal for random window pop-ups.
Signtist@bookwyr.me 2 weeks ago
Caffeine’s great. I use it to keep my computer on if I’m out doing errands so I can check my emails and whatnot with a remote desktop through my phone.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I often wondered how they did that, thanks!
Zink@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
One of the beautiful things about being able to run Linux at work and use Teams in a browser is that my status is decoupled from what I’m doing on my machine. Obviously if I’m in a meeting or chatting with somebody through Teams my status will reflect that.
I bet my most productive days have me away/idle for hours on end, lol.
themaninblack@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes. I wrote a script to make me green even though my employer doesn’t give a shit because I want the peace of mind even though I’m in your situation.
This micromanagement via surveillance is counterproductive any way you slice it. The peace of mind script makes me more valuable to my employer even though it might be inconsequential.
Bentham’s panopticon.
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 weeks 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.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 weeks ago
Doesn’t it show up as a mouse though ? That is what I see in Windows. I have 2 mice
Tinks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m so glad my company a) has a “nobody wants teams” stance and even recommends against it to our clients, and b) doesn’t give a fuck if I go idle for hours because they hired me to do a job and if it’s getting done they’re happy.
Micromanaging culture needs to die. Fire employees who don’t do the job and be done with it.
Endmaker@ani.social 2 weeks ago
What I did was to set it to “Away” permanently
PM_ME_YOUR_ZOD_RUNES@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Unlike many others in this thread, I can’t download any programs on my work laptop. I just don’t have permissions.
So I found a much lower tech way of staying green. I go to the chat with yourself chat. Then I put a 3 pound weight on the backspace button. This keeps me green forever.
With my old work laptop, I was able to press backspace then wedge a set of tweezers in the key to hold it down.
Whatever works lol.
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m so glad that I don’t know enough about teams to know what most of this means.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
- physical mouse “jiggler” (mine is a turntable) that isn’t connected to the work device
- physical key presser on a switch to press ESC every few seconds for when I’m pooping (this way the software shows both m n k activity)
I’ve even so far as to write a bash script that monitors the userdata folder that stores the JSON to activity and overwrite it with plausible but fake random activity data and screenshots, then name the process the same as the software so it’s virtually undetectable- logs will show “Productivity Software Name” writing to its userdata directory at the same time the actual software is writing to it.
BreadOven@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
- Open notepad
- Place calculator on spacebar all it’s activated
- …?
- Profit
myster0n@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Sometimes Teams doesn’t even know if you’re online during a video call
20cello@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And slightly wet
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I’ll go one step further and hope their both sides of their pillow are warm from fresh piss. What a totally asshole decision.
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
With a mouse jiggler, you can control your status manually, even from your phone while you’re in bed. Away at five, Busy at nine, Available when I’m actually at the keyboard only if necessary.
bloooooort@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Why does it matter?
- a solo freelancer
Limonene@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I was getting marked as “away” in Microsoft Teams every day, even though I was working. I just wasn’t using Microsoft Teams, so it marked me as idle.
I wrote this Autohotkey script after my boss started complaining. It clicks on Teams every 2 minutes:
global running := 0 ^+1:: { global running := 1 while running == 1 { CoordMode("Mouse", "Screen") oldx := 0 oldy := 0 MouseGetPos(&oldx, &oldy) prev_active := WinActive("A") Try { WinActivate("ahk_class TeamsWebView") } Catch TargetError as e { } CoordMode("Mouse", "Window") Send("{Click 80 40 Left}") Try { WinActivate("ahk_id " prev_active) } Catch TargetError as e { } CoordMode("Mouse", "Screen") MouseMove(oldx, oldy, 0) sleep(115000) } } ^+2:: { global running := 0 }
It has the side effect of preventing my computer from entering screensaver/lock screen when I really am away.
13igTyme@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Just set the status to something other than active. If it says buy or away 100% of the time, even while on a call, then any crazy manager that’s monitoring it will start to think it’s bugged.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Wow we are all slaves. :( I type this between my Teams meetings.
jystfact@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
If start a chat with yourself click the message textbox and hold down the left shift key the teams will think that your typing and it never changes the status. You don’t need to make any changes to your system or install anything with this. Just place a heavy object on the shift key.
daellat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It also eats up to 1,5gb of ram sitting idle as a chat program. So yeah it’s not running unless I need it and then it gets to shut down again. Luckily we don’t use it as our primary chat tool.