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Re: I'll pass on your zoom call

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I found a zoom daemon running on my kid's MacBook a year after uninstalling it. Turns out uninstall didn't kill background processes, needed a reboot to flush it away.

i am more impressed that the MacBook had a year uptime. The kid never rebooted it?

Kiddo didn't care to reboot it, just closed the lid when the schoolwork was done.

Most of our home machines (Intel) are never rebooted, still on High Sierra or Catalina.

Re: I'll pass on your zoom call

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Pessimists are just as often wrong too! Clearly the person you're replying to is an "optimist". :) To be clear, I don't think there's a strong correlation between being rich and being a pessimist/optimist. And to your original point, being right cannot possibly be biased towards optimism or pessimism. Any apparent correlation is more of a reflection on what everyone else thinks... and they are wrong! Cheers to being…

I remember reading that slightly depressed people tend to have a more accurate world view. Perhaps there is something to the saying ignorance is bliss.

Yes I remember reading that too and it resonated. As a slightly depressed person I can't believe the delusionally positive spin people seem to put on everything and nonetheless this seems to be a winning strategy for them. I never could explain that.

Starting with an accurate world model, no matter how dispiriting, seems to be a prerequisite for knowing the most effective action to take.

Re: I'll pass on your zoom call

#73
The browser-vs-app debate aside, the bigger issue for me is what happens once you're in the call.

Screen sharing on Zoom (or any platform) is where the real anxiety kicks in. One wrong tab, one notification, one bookmarked URL you forgot about.

I've moved to keeping a completely separate browser profile for calls - nothing in it except the meeting app. Overkill? Maybe. But it eliminates the pre-share panic entirely.

Re: I'll pass on your zoom call

#74

Do you recall back in the day when zoom used to Root kit your computer?

I found a zoom daemon running on my kid's MacBook a year after uninstalling it. Turns out uninstall didn't kill background processes, needed a reboot to flush it away.

You didn't restart the laptop for an entire year? That means you also didn't install any updates...
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