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Yes, all of them. Wear headphones.
+1 And usually, the one person in the meeting not using headphones does not feel the problem: he can speak all the time and be heard correctly, while the others cannot interrupt him while he is speaking
GitLab offers a nice course about transitioning to remote work. One of the items in their guidelines about online meeting is not having hybrid meetings. This is, all those attending must attend from their own device rather than the meeting room one (see Jabra) precisely for the reasons this feature tries to address.
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Meeting recordings are available in Google Apps Script. Autosharing can be easily solved by simple Google Apps Script. I scan my personal calendar and share recording to Slack channel when I detect group meeting with recording available. Mail me, so I can arrange something for you. Autorecording - yeah, this is missing. There is paid Chrome Extension which do that, but I have never tested it.
I record all meetings locally regardless of the tool with OBS. But that is only useful to me as I don't ask for authorization and not sharing them. It is only because I know my mind will sometimes drift and I want to be able to replay part of the meeting. Having said that, so many people don't record meeting I or someone else can't attend. This is annoying. It should be automatized so that if you miss part or all of…
My memory is not great. I'm starting to have more calls with clients and it would be great to have a record rather than trying to take notes and conduct a conversation at the same time.
> It should be automatized so that if you miss part or all of a meeting you can still watch the record as long as you were invited
People generally don't like knowing that everything they say is being recorded
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Using Firefox you can use the PIP mode to put the presentation wherever you want at any size.
Oh, really? I didn't realize I could detach the presentation element, thanks!
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/picture-in-picture-...
Meet and Google Docs are perfect Google products. I'm disapponted when people send me Zoom meetings or want to meet on Slack. Google Meet is a 10x better experience.
Docs has a few big shortcomings in my experience. Like it can’t number headings and figures, and cross-reference to them.
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Is this new? I have definitely joined Meets calls from my personal laptop and I don't have a personal Google account. This includes my last job interview, and, well, I got the job. Perhaps it's meeting specific, or organization specific?
I read that if you have a business account then this limitation doesn't exist - but I've never had anyone send me a link that worked without a login
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Most adults can’t hear > 18kHz. Related, there are devices you can buy to repel teenagers: https://www.today.com/news/controversial-mosquito-sonic-devi...
Yeah I'm pretty sure there are plenty of adults that can hear those frequencies though. It's not like everyone reaches 18 and suddenly loses hearing. Stupid devices IMO. When they first came out I downloaded a sample audio file from the manufacturers website to see if I could hear it. I couldn't.... because they encoded it as MP3 and it was completely filtered out by the encoding! Literally an empty file.
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Most adults can’t hear > 18kHz. Related, there are devices you can buy to repel teenagers: https://www.today.com/news/controversial-mosquito-sonic-devi...
Yeah I'm pretty sure there are plenty of adults that can hear those frequencies though. It's not like everyone reaches 18 and suddenly loses hearing. Stupid devices IMO. When they first came out I downloaded a sample audio file from the manufacturers website to see if I could hear it. I couldn't.... because they encoded it as MP3 and it was completely filtered out by the encoding! Literally an empty file.
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I definitely agree, needs no installation, things just work, quality is good, has nice features like push-to-talk, etc. It's great, there are just some tiny UX niggles that could be solved very easily but haven't been, yet.
It's horrible slow on some computers/browser combos, which is my main gripe with it. Video quality is also much worse, but doesn't matter too much to me. And as with all Google stuff the UX is kinda weird and non-intuitive. What does all the different join options do? When should I use what? Why must all presentations be so small if I also want to see the presenter? Zoom is much better here.
It takes so much messing around with to actually get to the call, with meet it is one click every time.
Install the fat client, no thank you. Connect computer to audio? Why is that even a question? Zoom is living in the 2000s.
Meet, to me, is the perfect balance of functionality and simplicity (as an end user). And features like this only make that more apparent. Zoom and Teams always frustrate me, even though they're what I use far more often. It's too bad that video conferencing is largely a game of who has the most boxes checked - IT admins and A/V folk are the ones that need to be convinced, and Meet just doesn't ...meet... their needs
As an "IT admin", it's not that I need convincing. It's that the rest of Googles "office" products are absolute amateur hour and support is non-existent.