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I am on the road to developing a nervous tick around people in my house trying to talk to me while I'm sharing my screen in a meeting. The mute button goes away from the screen, and the touch bar, and I just freeze up trying to recall where to find it. Is there a handy solution for this or am I just screwed?
Get a microphone with a physical mute button, or see if you can configure “push to talk”.
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I am on the road to developing a nervous tick around people in my house trying to talk to me while I'm sharing my screen in a meeting. The mute button goes away from the screen, and the touch bar, and I just freeze up trying to recall where to find it. Is there a handy solution for this or am I just screwed?
You're hosed if you're switching focus away from Zoom (i.e. presenting). The keyboard shortcuts (Alt-A or holding-space-to-unmute) only work when Zoom is in focus I have 2 monitors, and drag the zoom controls to the non-presenting screen Getting a headset with a physical mic is probably your best bet Side note: noise-cancelling headphones are way more useful than you'd think. I delayed for 5 months before buying them…
This article is paywalled, which makes it difficult to read more than a few paragraphs.
Very annoying, but there is a relatively quick workaround for those that don't know: On Chrome, Inspect the page and go to settings, then click 'Disable JavaScript'. Reload with Inspect open and you should be able to bypass most paywalls.
The list of companies announcing permanent remote work policy changes grows by the week. The hope for a quick return to normal continues to fade into 2021. On-site will certainly make a big comeback at some point and the Economist will no doubt write about it breathlessly. But things have changed and the future is not going to look like the past. The economy will redistribute prices and labor and there will eventuall…
It's looking more and more like this deadly virus is going to be part of our lives for months or years to come, if not decades. So, instead of ignoring reality and trying in vain to get back to this idealized "ISO standard normal," maybe we are going to have to change our definition of normal. We're going to have to normalize things like WFH, wearing masks, social distancing, avoiding large indoor gatherings, instead of treating them as temporary measures. The world changes, and our concept of normal will necessarily change along with it.
I feel like most surveys on this topic are not going to be a reflection of reality. People are tired of being at home for a variety of reasons, including child-care difficulties and their inability to do much/any socializing outside the home, plus added COVID-related friction when doing normal chores like grocery trips. These stress points make people associate these unrelated negative things with "working from home"…
See my other comment linking to the original survey description and results (this was done in May, and I think even a redo now would be illustrative).
I am on the road to developing a nervous tick around people in my house trying to talk to me while I'm sharing my screen in a meeting. The mute button goes away from the screen, and the touch bar, and I just freeze up trying to recall where to find it. Is there a handy solution for this or am I just screwed?
You're hosed if you're switching focus away from Zoom (i.e. presenting). The keyboard shortcuts (Alt-A or holding-space-to-unmute) only work when Zoom is in focus I have 2 monitors, and drag the zoom controls to the non-presenting screen Getting a headset with a physical mic is probably your best bet Side note: noise-cancelling headphones are way more useful than you'd think. I delayed for 5 months before buying them…
https://www.amazon.com/Jabra-Evolve-Stereo-Professional-Comm...
For other mic-end noise cancellation, you could pay for krisp.ai, or if you have NVIDIA board, there's the free RTX voice virtual mic. Zoom to has background noise suppression you can turn on, and MS Teams will have NN-based noise cancellation in Q4.
Lots of options.
The list of companies announcing permanent remote work policy changes grows by the week. The hope for a quick return to normal continues to fade into 2021. On-site will certainly make a big comeback at some point and the Economist will no doubt write about it breathlessly. But things have changed and the future is not going to look like the past. The economy will redistribute prices and labor and there will eventuall…
This "return to normal" narrative is starting to make less and less sense to me. It presupposes that there is this one special, immutable state called Normal defined as "exactly as life was right before the pandemic", and that we have to somehow get back to precisely that state. It's looking more and more like this deadly virus is going to be part of our lives for months or years to come, if not decades. So, instead…
The list of companies announcing permanent remote work policy changes grows by the week. The hope for a quick return to normal continues to fade into 2021. On-site will certainly make a big comeback at some point and the Economist will no doubt write about it breathlessly. But things have changed and the future is not going to look like the past. The economy will redistribute prices and labor and there will eventuall…
This "return to normal" narrative is starting to make less and less sense to me. It presupposes that there is this one special, immutable state called Normal defined as "exactly as life was right before the pandemic", and that we have to somehow get back to precisely that state. It's looking more and more like this deadly virus is going to be part of our lives for months or years to come, if not decades. So, instead…
I personally miss going to conferences.
It won't be the same (no period is ever exactly the same as some period in the past), but it will have some of the same qualities as the world in 2019. That's my hope.