dekatron

dekatron, 10 months ago

Google Meet’s background blur and visual filters do not work on Firefox. MS Teams straight up says that Firefox is not a supported browser. These decisions might be intentional on the part of Google and Microsoft, but to the average user of these popular products, it looks like a Firefox problem.

dekatron, 10 months ago

Microsoft has been on a shameless crusade recently to make people adopt Edge. Upon launch, thier Bing AI had a rather absurd requirement to use Edge to access it.

dekatron, 10 months ago

My university forced us to switch from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 and from BigBlueButton to Teams for online classes probably because Microsoft offered them an irresistible deal. It was a really annoying and user-hostile process for everyone.

dekatron, 10 months ago

This extension blurs the entire camera feed instead of only the background, so it’s not really a solution unfortunately.

I’ve also tried a simple useragent change in Firefox, but the feature still didn’t work. That leads me to think they’re using browser features that are not available on Firefox.

Another thing I’ve noticed is that Google’s background blur implementation has better edge detection than apps like Zoom, and it handles things like curly hairstyles more gracefully.

dekatron, 10 months ago

Are you using a useragent changer?

I am still getting this:

Screenshot of Microsoft Teams on Firefox. The text says “Hmm. Your browser version isn’t supported. Quickest solution? Download the desktop app.” Below it, Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome are listed as supported broswers.

dekatron, 10 months ago

Awesome, I’ll have a look again. Last time I tried changing the useragent (it was a while ago), the whole Google Meet website had some issues and it didn’t work. Maybe the specific useragent you use also has an impact.

dekatron, 10 months ago

You’re right, I can confirm the feature does indeed work on Firefox by changing the useragent string. However, this introduces other issues such as input devices not being detected which makes normal use of Meet difficult. For now, there seems to be nothing else to do other than waiting for Google to enable this on Firefox.

dekatron, 10 months ago

I can’t believe they named their browser “Comodo Dragon” lol

dekatron, 10 months ago

a new direction for awarding that allows redditors to empower one another and create more meaningful ways to reward high-quality contributions

Lmao wut

dekatron, 10 months ago

It’s a good UX improvement imo. Previously it just didn’t show unavailable apps, leading people to install fake clones.

dekatron, 10 months ago

Using GBoard begrudgingly because there’s no better alternative for me personally. I depend on the swipe typing and gestures a lot. Personalisation is off, and I don’t use the next-word suggestions that often.

I don’t really like SwiftKey’s design or its Microsoft affiliation. I wish there was a good open-source alternative. Florisboard looks promising, but the last time I tried it, it was still lacking in features.

dekatron, 10 months ago

Same, I am yet to find a website notification that is actually useful to me.

dekatron, 10 months ago

Aside from the ads, you also have to sift through all of the crappy clones and shovelware to actually find something useful.

This was my exact experience a couple of days ago when I was trying to find a CSV viewer.

dekatron, 10 months ago

I like USB-C especially when it clicks.

dekatron, 10 months ago

I did the same exact thing as you and forgot all about it. This post made me go check my email, looks like I received my data as well!

dekatron, 10 months ago

feddit.de/instances says we are blocked. I think it’s still possible to view and interact with feddit communities from our instance, but those interactions do not propagate to the feddit server.

dekatron, 10 months ago

Creating history here.

dekatron, 10 months ago

Wow that meta profile is cringe. When did platforms start having personalities?

dekatron, 10 months ago

I use Kiwi out of necessity. The modern web is unusable without some way to block ads, cookie popups, and sticky elements. It’s especially worse on mobile because every other website wants you to use their app.

dekatron, 10 months ago

Shadowmatic is a great little puzzle game. It’s paid but the graphics and attention to detail are incredible.

dekatron, 10 months ago

First it’s the number of sign ups, then it’s the posts and likes, then it’s the number of eyeballs grabbed and the ad revenue. This kind of metric chasing that these platforms encourage is one of the reasons why they become so toxic.

dekatron, 10 months ago

“Are you always this quiet?”

“It usually takes me some time to be comfortable around new people.”

I’ve found that people are usually quite understanding and make an effort to include you in conversations if you just be honest with them instead of being snarky.

dekatron, 10 months ago

This is a great YSK and a great website. Ever since learning about the granny knot, I’ve noticed that many people around me do it unknowingly.

dekatron, 10 months ago

I’m interested in seeing how the enshittification of Threads will unfold. It’s all super neat and cozy right now with a clean UI, no ads, not many sign up nags, and such. When they build up their userbase, we’ll see how the platform devolves.

dekatron, 10 months ago

Not surprisingly, it does all the data tracking that it can for a “text-based conversation app”.

Screenshot of the Threads app’s privacy section on the App Store. It has the following text: “Data Linked to You. The following data may be collected and linked to your identity: Health & Fitness, Purchases, Financial Info, Location, Contact Info, Contacts, User Content, Search History, Browsing History, Identifiers, Usage Data, Diagnostics, Sensitive Info, Other Data”