• Apparently it FORCES you to have BOTH a microphone and a camera enabled and accessible to the site. It actually refused to run on my desktop computer because it doesn’t have a camera, had to pull out my laptop which made me late for the meeting.

  • Apparently it ALWAYS DEFAULTS to having both the camera and microphone on the instant you connect to the call, accessible by all other participants. With no warning before you join the call.

Fuck that shit. At least Zoom, as much as I also hate it, lets you connect with no camera and/or microphone (you can just use the chat), shows you a preview of your camera before you join and lets you disable it right then and there, and makes sharing your audio an explicit action for every meeting.

    • wetpot@lemmygrad.ml
      12·
      3 years ago

      There is, at least for the camera as far as I know. Look into Virtual Camera for OBS. Also, OBS doesn’t allow you to change the name of the device, being set at OBS Virtual Camera by default, which you must change on a system level to prevent the meeting host from finding out, being done through regedit for Windows (am not sure abt Linux)

    • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.mlOP
      10·
      3 years ago

      Definitely possible. You don’t even need OBS, pretty sure there are software that will emulate a fake camera showing nothing. I didn’t have time to find one and set it up though because that would have made me super late for the meeting.