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Microsoft Teams status (europe.pub)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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Post on Threads saying “Whoever decided to make Microsoft Teams status change from green to yellow after two minutes of inactivity, I hope both sides of your pillow are permanently warm.”
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[–] 20 points 3 months ago (8 children)

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.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Same with my wife. Which is why I gave her an esp32 with a program on it that makes it pretend to be a mouse. It will randomly move just like a regular mouse and the computer cannot tell it’s not actually a mouse. Just plug it in whenever you want to walk away.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I used to open a blank document and put something heavy on the spacebar, too. That was until someone unveild me the secret technique of placing a spoon on the laptop's touchpad. It changed my life.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Use a 🥄 on the touchpad.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    I tried this and it didn't work. If I rub the spoon on the touchpad, it moves the cursor. But leaving it there doesn't seem to do anything.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Interesting. Maybe you could play with the sensitivity or maybe it just doesn't work with that spoon or pad.

    When I leave it there then after settling it does not interfere, yet seems to do 'enough'. At first when I heard of this I did not think it could work but it does.

    Sometimes though teams is broken and changes status all the time then it needs a reboot and goes back to working.

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