Me: I have a meeting in 20 minutes, I should get out of bed.
Also me: Thank fuck nobody bothers with cameras in meetings coz I'm often in bed.

Cameras during meetings? Who does that?

@iiii Well if you are on a TV talk-show or something...

But then he shouldn't be in bed :D

@iiii My WFH laptop doesn't even have a camera. :)

@Fast-Nop mine has an option to disable it with a bios switch. OS does not register the device at all.

But anyway, no one ever asked to use a camera, except for interviews with management.

@iiii That wouldn't fly with mine because the BIOS is locked so that people don't go there and do stupid shit.

@Fast-Nop oof

@iiii we use the new hp probooks with a slider on the webcam.

I always tell that it is broken...

If they want to see me, let's meet at the office.

@iiii you’d be surprised. Worked in a company where mr. Asshole. Pardon me, I mean the ceo, would give company wide speeches scanning for people with their camera off to call them out. And that’s when your employees just use a looping video cause you are an asshole.

@piratefox reminds me of that video of the one using a green screen and playing golf and doing other crazy stuff during 'work meetings'

@iiii extroverts...

@darksideofyay what are they doing here? 🤔

@iiii they're not, they're the bosses that force people to turn on the camera

@Grumm big oof.

The embarrassing thing is that I got in an argument with my manager once who was trying to defend the ceo stating that it would be not professional to be on camera and I just go: “what if I have any disphoria?” (Not even getting to gender disphoria, but any disphoria like scars you are embarrassed to show, hair loss etc) And they just start to be confused. And I cut them into a corner “so it is professional to have your employee feeling uneasy just cause you want to look into their eyes?” Silence falls “let’s agree to disagree”.
“Sure…😒”

Teams with my webcam on actually nukes my internet connection for some reason. (Haven't bothered to figure out why.) So if I have my webcam on in a Teams meeting, I just get a robotic voice and eventually dropping off the meeting with all my connections dropping.

I mean, it's not that a bad thing to turn the webcam on now to think about it.

@piratefox oh fuck that "agree to disagree" statement.

@iiii indeed… pretty despicable

@Grumm who cares that he is in bed. As long as he does his job.

I'm not against webcams on smaller group meetings. Some of my team members are pretty expressive with their faces. So you can see when they disagree or don't get something or want to say something.

@rEaL-jAsE Like setting the boot order so that you can boot from external media and gain access to all system files on the internal drive.

@Fast-Nop what about data encryption? It's not like there's no way of accessing data without bios

@iiii As legit user, I do have the encryption password. That doesn't mean I should be able to boot a live Linux and gain full system access on the internal disk.

@iiii Though actually, I could swap the internal disk into another computer anyway. Hmm...

@Fast-Nop exactly. Blocking bios access makes pretty little sense to me. Having physical access to the hardware defeats pretty much any type of defense except for encryption of the data or destruction of the data or hardware if it detects intrusion

@iiii Yeah, so that would leave the system time for potentially cheating with any sorts of time-limited certificates or licnses or so, given that the system time is admin-only under Windows itself.

Or disabling secure boot or TPM, that could be something.

And maybe it's also keeping people from fumbling around with the BIOS and then generating support tickets because something doesn't work.