I always liked the laptops with the little slider over the camera, but you can improvise with suitably positioned piece of cardboard. The microphone is harder to block, but if you can locate it then something sound absorbent taped over it will render it not very useful to Mr Z.
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2022
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I just disable it in the bios (and cover it with tape)
Well then messenger call won't work
It won't work at all if there's no camera detected? I thought you just have to allow access in your browser. Sorry I guess I skipped that bullet point lol.
Anyway yeah probably best to work up a virtual camera device or something.
Fuck Facebook.
Google Meet is not much better... and also way too popular still
I hope it wasn't a business meeting. Otherwise using the Facebook platform for meetings is just dumb.
Workplace is owned by Meta and is basically Facebook Messenger for organizations. This is what the big boys use. 😎
:( that's a thing
Group meeting for a university research project. Wasn't officially sanctioned or anything, just that my group members prefer it for some reason.
just....just make sure they know you disapprove and is doing it reluctantly because is everyone vs one. That using facebook for anything serious is unacceptable for privacy and security reasons.
Having these privacy-super-criminals as a "go to" for messaging makes me feel sick.