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The only thing in the background of my camera is a lounging dog and a bunch of my son's toys.
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I want to set up a green screen mostly so I can do increasingly weird custom zoom backgrounds and see if anyone in our meetings notices.
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Mar 27, 2020 19:16
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Entropic posted:I want to set up a green screen mostly so I can do increasingly weird custom zoom backgrounds and see if anyone in our meetings notices. 
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Mar 27, 2020 20:09
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Entropic posted:I want to set up a green screen mostly so I can do increasingly weird custom zoom backgrounds and see if anyone in our meetings notices. One of my coworkers got his chromakey poo poo set up, and he has the most bizarre poo poo going on in the background. It's great. One time, he was sitting at Everest basecamp for a video test 
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Mar 27, 2020 20:09
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If your computer is good enough, you don't even need the green screen, it just does automatic background deletion. They added the option to do videos as well, so I had the matrix one day. It's kind of distracting though, so I stopped that.
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Mar 27, 2020 20:19
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Entropic posted:I want to set up a green screen mostly so I can do increasingly weird custom zoom backgrounds and see if anyone in our meetings notices. You'll probably need to press shift+D to download the original file. BlankSystemDaemon fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Mar 27, 2020 |
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Mar 27, 2020 20:54
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:Bit of levity... I got fed up constantly using a trackpad so I bought a Logi Pebble and an extended mousemat, then we started using Teams and the VOIP quality was mega garbage on my WiFi so I managed to dig out an old Nintendo Wii 10/100 ethernet dongle, then lastly I started getting a bunch of neck pain and dug out a monitor riser we still had kicking around. We do have random catchups but our team doesn't really banter all that well, personally I don't say much as I don't want to bring the mood down saying I'm miserable (although they didn't see it one of the meetings my kid decided he was done blowing bubbles in the garden then came and dumped the pot of liquid all over my shorts).
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Mar 27, 2020 21:53
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Super Slash posted:We do have random catchups but our team doesn't really banter all that well, personally I don't say much as I don't want to bring the mood down saying I'm miserable (although they didn't see it one of the meetings my kid decided he was done blowing bubbles in the garden then came and dumped the pot of liquid all over my shorts). The new Windows guy's son ran into his office to collect some workout gear, tripped over something, apologized, and fumbled his way back out of the room, while said Windows guy no-sold the whole thing as the rest of us cracked up. Meanwhile, my cat's been in a cone of shame, so he will wander in from camera right every few minutes because he's high on pain meds and just wants to be near me, and all you can see is green-and-purple triangle with a bit of floof sticking out, followed by my hand shoving him gently off screen until he tries again.  Stoney buddy.
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Mar 28, 2020 02:26
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Just hold him on screen. A cat in the cone of shame is more interesting than work stuff guaranteed.
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Mar 28, 2020 03:14
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And you can pet him while talking like some kind of supervillain.
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Mar 28, 2020 03:23
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Geemer posted:And you can pet him while talking like some kind of supervillain. I did that during one of our daily shoot-the-poo poo meetings and my coworkers said I looked like a B-movie supervillain and it felt great. 
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Mar 28, 2020 04:27
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Same but I lay mine face up and front camera is default so it's just pitch black. I attended the meeting, but I didn't have a chance to play music. It was a busy morning. When my boss asked if I was working that day, my manager said, "yes" and simultaneously I said, "no." Boss asked, "well which is it?" I graciously turned on my video and gave everyone a face full of poopy baby diaper, and confirmed verbally that I was in fact, "off today." I'll admit that it wasn't planned, my daughter just happens to have impeccable timing, but I took FULL advantage of the situation.
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Mar 28, 2020 05:28
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Kyrosiris posted:I did that during one of our daily shoot-the-poo poo meetings and my coworkers said I looked like a B-movie supervillain and it felt great. Arquinsiel posted:Just hold him on screen. A cat in the cone of shame is more interesting than work stuff guaranteed. Geemer posted:And you can pet him while talking like some kind of supervillain. Pretty much. I kept letting him get most of the way across the screen and then I'd push him back, like a side scrolling game. And felt very much like a villain in a weird Portlandia skit.
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Mar 28, 2020 06:08
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We had our first remote Webex team meeting, nobody except our boss enabled the webcam. I was ill prepared, next time I'm using FaceRig to be Doge at my desk.
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Mar 28, 2020 06:16
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hi team, i know you will appreciate this i spent the last half of this wfh week battling my internet while trying to assist people with theirs. every forty minutes give or take my direct access laptop on wifi would just lose internet. couldn't browse pages, outlook out, teams out, tray says no network, except i could continue to work in any active rdp sessions i had open at the time. this also affected my mobile on wifi, no internet. desktop machine wired? completely fine. to clear the issue i had to reboot the router. wiring my laptop seemingly extended how long i could stay connected, but i would still just drop out periodically. isp reported no faults or network issues in my area. the solution was changing my laptop's dns from automatic to 8.8.8.8.
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Mar 28, 2020 09:07
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Ghostlight posted:the solution was changing my laptop's dns from automatic to 8.8.8.8. I just had to lock my phone, set it down on my lap, run my hands thru my hair, laugh loudly, and then pick the phone back up before I could make this reply.
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About 10% of the users for one office were having issues connecting to a server/application that is critical to what they do all day. I called the vendor and found out they have been getting a number of similar reports with no solution. I kept digging and discovered that the impacted users were on IPv6 from their ISP, I disabled that on the NIC, had them restart and it has been rick solid since. Couple days of troubleshoot but solution documented and I can move on with my life.
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Mar 28, 2020 18:37
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kensei posted:rick solid https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
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Mar 28, 2020 18:50
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kensei posted:About 10% of the users for one office were having issues connecting to a server/application that is critical to what they do all day. I called the vendor and found out they have been getting a number of similar reports with no solution. I kept digging and discovered that the impacted users were on IPv6 from their ISP, I disabled that on the NIC, had them restart and it has been rick solid since. Couple days of troubleshoot but solution documented and I can move on with my life. We have a number of work from home users who got hit when a poo poo tier ISP near here stopped giving out IPv4 addresses. Since the VPN we're forced to use doesn't support IPv6 (as they configured it), those users were basically told to eat poo poo and have to get a new ISP. As <Parent Company> refuses to turn on IPv6 for some unfuckibly knowable reason.
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Mar 28, 2020 19:01
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The number of network things at my job "fixed" by disabling IPv6 is not making me feel good about actually using it eventually.
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Mar 28, 2020 19:02
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Knew exactly what this was, clicked it anyway. Ghostlight posted:the solution was changing my laptop's dns from automatic to 8.8.8.8. Out of curiosity, why do you have your firewall/router/whatever's doing DHCP set to hand out the ISP's DNS servers instead of Google/OpenDNS? I didn't think anyone actually used their ISP's DNS servers.
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Mar 28, 2020 19:32
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Super Soaker Party! posted:Knew exactly what this was, clicked it anyway. With some gateways your ISP can lock those settings down and force DHCP to push their lovely DNS, or at least revert to their lovely DNS a few times a day (I've seen both). The solution, of course, is to disable DHCP on your gateway and plug it into an actual router, but not everyone wants to have a separate device, so manual DNS override is the next best thing.
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Mar 28, 2020 20:56
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LethalGeek posted:The number of network things at my job "fixed" by disabling IPv6 is not making me feel good about actually using it eventually. I obviously get that sometimes it's easier to just do the bypass, especially with something like this where being unable to access IPv6 currently means somewhere between gently caress and all to most users, but you shouldn't be worried about IPv6 itself just because something in your environment is either broken or set up wrong.
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Mar 28, 2020 22:17
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We have to disable ipv6 for DirectAccess because otherwise it doesn't work on 3 or 4 of the national ISPs. It's got to be some kind of fuckery they're doing to translate ipv6 or something because you can take the exact same machine and connect to one of the good ISPs and it works perfectly.Super Soaker Party! posted:Out of curiosity, why do you have your firewall/router/whatever's doing DHCP set to hand out the ISP's DNS servers instead of Google/OpenDNS? I didn't think anyone actually used their ISP's DNS servers.
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Shut up Meg posted:I have to say that I am impressed with our Dell laptops: the built-in camera, mike and speakers work surprisingly well for video conferencing. My office is set up like a teenage boy’s bedroom. My walls are covered with posters of my favorite bands, like Motley Crue and Winger, Lamborghinis and women in micro bikinis holding six packs of Mickey’s bigmouths. And my favorite is the three women lying on a Budweiser towel and each of them are wearing a swimsuit with part of a Budweiser label so as they are lying down their suits match the towel. It’s awesome.
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Agrikk posted:My office is set up like a teenage boy’s bedroom. My walls are covered with posters of my favorite bands, like Motley Crue and Winger, Lamborghinis and women in micro bikinis holding six packs of Mickey’s bigmouths. And my favorite is the three women lying on a Budweiser towel and each of them are wearing a swimsuit with part of a Budweiser label so as they are lying down their suits match the towel. It’s awesome. i have to respect the commitment to the "my uncle's garage" aesthetic
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Mar 30, 2020 16:00
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Man working from home is actually the best. I see what I've been missing. Other note: we finally are rolling out Teams so I can almost ditch Skype and I could not be happier.
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Mar 30, 2020 16:41
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I'm mostly listening in on our weekly Teams meeting, but I think I'm gonna use my wireless ModMic for one of them just to overshadow all the potato-quality laptop mics one day just to be smug about it. God damnit. Now you've put the idea in my head I'm wondering how I can somehow be victorious in a non battle of who has the best microphone for calls!? Somehow I'll be a better worker with $250 of headphones and modmic on my head than I would be with $30 of microsoft headset...
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Heners_UK posted:God damnit. Now you've put the idea in my head I'm wondering how I can somehow be victorious in a non battle of who has the best microphone for calls!? Somehow I'll be a better worker with $250 of headphones and modmic on my head than I would be with $30 of microsoft headset... Modmic's are fantastic. You'll never need to care about mic quality when buying headphones ever again. Do iiiit! 
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Mar 30, 2020 17:57
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Modmic's are fantastic. You'll never need to care about mic quality when buying headphones ever again. Do iiiit! I'll be honest, cost aside I'm now trying to find a good set of headphones to pair them with (somewhat more subjective)... but also a USB sound card for those headphones if I go with the ModMic USB - which appears to get rave reviews. Don't know why they didn't include a 3.5mm headphone plug on the Modmic USB... Also, a ticket didn't come in nor get sent. Those of us not on the remote work frontlines, getting any poo poo done where you need to coordinate with anyone who is just isn't happening. Trying to remind myself no one is about to bite my head off because I cannot get those who are rightfully engaged in a massive WfH increase to do something for me... well not bite my head off with a reason.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Modmic's are fantastic. You'll never need to care about mic quality when buying headphones ever again. Do iiiit! I mean you don't HAVE to have a ModMic. A really good lavalier mic is like the same price (or less!) if you don't want a big ol boom stuck to your headphones. Heners_UK posted:Don't know why they didn't include a 3.5mm headphone plug on the Modmic USB... I think the answer is in the question.
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Mar 30, 2020 18:33
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I think the answer is in the question. It means that you cannot ram your newly headsetted headphones into a single usb port in one go, if you're so inclined.
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ohhh I see what you're saying... using the modmic as a DAC for the headphones. If it were as easy as "just adding a plug," I'd agree. But DAC's are complicated and you'd still need volume control and opamps and all other sorts of circuitry that would make the modmic that much more expensive. The ADC that's on the modmic is a wholly different type of function from what your headphones require.
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I was pretty excited that we got to prove how robust our WFH infrastructure was and how valuable Office 365 could be to the relatively new upper management team as we scrambled to accommodate social distancing mandates across the company. Unfortunately, despite being the one who orchestrated and oversaw pretty much the entire aforementioned process, I couldn’t prove to them that my position as a second-in-command IT manager was valuable enough to not lay off about a week later. At least my and the team’s efforts ultimately helped facilitate them breaking the news to me over a Teams video call.  Looks like 2020 is  for me whether I’m ready or not. Stay safe out there, fellow IT goons.
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Heners_UK posted:God damnit. Now you've put the idea in my head I'm wondering how I can somehow be victorious in a non battle of who has the best microphone for calls!? Somehow I'll be a better worker with $250 of headphones and modmic on my head than I would be with $30 of microsoft headset... I mean you could always go with a real microphone... There's no real REASON for me to use a C414 XLS but poo poo, why not, I've got it, I've got a good preamp for it, and really the only downside is that Teams or Zoom or whateverthefuck is going to take that beautiful audio stream and slam it into some lovely encoder at 12 bit 8 khz. (I used to work in the audio industry and have a very high standard for what is acceptable. This is actually also why I detest videoconferencing because listening to 20 people all using lovely built-in mics causes me physical pain).
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Fortis posted:I was pretty excited that we got to prove how robust our WFH infrastructure was and how valuable Office 365 could be to the relatively new upper management team as we scrambled to accommodate social distancing mandates across the company. Unfortunately, despite being the one who orchestrated and oversaw pretty much the entire aforementioned process, I couldn’t prove to them that my position as a second-in-command IT manager was valuable enough to not lay off about a week later. gently caress sake. Goondolences.
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Mar 30, 2020 20:19
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Fortis posted:I was pretty excited that we got to prove how robust our WFH infrastructure was and how valuable Office 365 could be to the relatively new upper management team as we scrambled to accommodate social distancing mandates across the company. Unfortunately, despite being the one who orchestrated and oversaw pretty much the entire aforementioned process, I couldn’t prove to them that my position as a second-in-command IT manager was valuable enough to not lay off about a week later. Oh, that sucks.
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Fortis posted:I was pretty excited that we got to prove how robust our WFH infrastructure was and how valuable Office 365 could be to the relatively new upper management team as we scrambled to accommodate social distancing mandates across the company. Unfortunately, despite being the one who orchestrated and oversaw pretty much the entire aforementioned process, I couldn’t prove to them that my position as a second-in-command IT manager was valuable enough to not lay off about a week later. If you stayed on a c-level out there somewhere might not have gotten a bonus check.
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