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[–] [email protected] 131 points 1 day ago (8 children)

The important bit:

Those joining from unsupported platforms will be automatically placed in audio-only mode to protect shared content.

And I presume everything except Windows 11 Teams will be considered “unsupported”.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I don't know to what extent they'll go, but yes, this and the Advanced Chat Privacy in WhatsApp are just user locking moves.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

So now my clients will have a harder time engaging with my product. Great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Stop using microsoft teams, ya dolt.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

My workplace barely groks opportunity cost on their main product, and I'm not responsible for the IT. When it breaks constantly, I say "yeah we know it breaks like this, get them to fix it."

Not my circus, I just stamp the tickets.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Good. Do me a favour and block the audio as well.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

i trust signing in through the browser on linux will be supported since that's the official way to use teams on linux

[–] [email protected] 20 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

except on firefox of course, because fuck you for even trying to protect a little bit of your privacy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I use Edge on Linux for working with Microsoft stuff on my corporate laptop. For everything else I use Firefox there. Privacy preserved, basically.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Privacy preserved, basically.

only if the browser cannot run in the background, and it cannot access any of your fikes, the DBus of your regular user's session, and other facilities

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You lock it with flatpak as much as you can. Also, don't keep it running if not needed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Also, don't keep it running if not needed.

can you enforce that with flatpak? I often see the notification that "X program is still running in the background" or something similar, but the flatpak permission settings did not seem to have such a setting

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

Read the article man

This feature will be available on Teams desktop applications (both Windows and Mac) and Teams mobile applications (both iOS and Android).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Did you even read the article.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Aahhwww, that is so sad, I run Linux and soon our entire office will.

Guess we won't be using teams then, ooaaahhhwww, so sad

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

What do you use for video calls with screen share?

My coop uses teams and I want to move them off it.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I used to be able to join teams meetings in the browser version of teams from my Linux machine. I did my last job interview this way

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

This still works, it is my only method of interaction with Teams

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There’s also the unofficial flatpak, which works rather well.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No, it sucks. The Linux app does not support screen sharing on Wayland, but it works fine in the browser

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I use Wayland at work, and haven't had any issues sharing my screen on Teams.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Ah. I haven’t switched to Wayland yet so I wasn’t aware of that issue.