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Not long ago I dialed into a 100+ person, 3+ hour long quarterly planning type call. It was a video call, but I had to be in the car for part of the time so I d
by subpixel 5y ago
Not long ago I dialed into a 100+ person, 3+ hour long quarterly planning type call. It was a video call, but I had to be in the car for part of the time so I dialed in.
After sitting through over an hour, including the part I thought was essential to my team, I jumped off the call and proceeded to explain the shit show to my fellow passengers for 15m or so.
When I got to my destination and pulled out my phone I discovered _I had never hung up_ - I was on the line the whole time. I had said some things that you should never say about your employer within their earshot and expect to remain in their employ.
After some nauseating minutes I realized I had been saved by the auto-mute feature. When a call has over x participants, everyone is muted until they take their mic off of mute.
I am much more careful now about these things, bc I don't expect to get that lucky again.
- ketzo 5y agoHoly shit, I cannot imagine the stomach drop when you pulled that phone out. This is one of my biggest anxieties. Sheesh.
- hu3 5y agoI love Discord for some usecases but a while ago I pressed the mute button to talk to my brother sitting next to me and my discord friend made a joke about what I said while muted. I double-checked Discord and the mic icon was displaying as muted but I could still talk to my friend regardless.
- systemvoltage 5y agoYes, be careful. You were lucky. Also, bloated apps lie to you and UIs are buggy, what you see in the UI may not be the case. I now disabled screensharing in MacOS privacy settings for all apps unless I am explicitly sharing.
- alana314 5y agoBut then when you need to use it you have to restart the app, right?
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