Upgraded on Friday and now notice that the screensaver cuts in during Teams calls if idle when it never used to. Anyone else seeing this?
On 16.02.26 18:40, Chris wrote:
Upgraded on Friday and now notice that the screensaver cuts in during Teams >> calls if idle when it never used to. Anyone else seeing this?
No. I'll never use such $Microsoft$-crap in my private domain.
There are Apple-solutions or even better FOSS.
On 2026-02-17, J||rg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> wrote:
On 16.02.26 18:40, Chris wrote:
Upgraded on Friday and now notice that the screensaver cuts in during Teams >>> calls if idle when it never used to. Anyone else seeing this?
No. I'll never use such $Microsoft$-crap in my private domain.
There are Apple-solutions or even better FOSS.
Yes but in the corporate world some users don't have a choice!
On 17.02.26 09:49, Alan B wrote:
On 2026-02-17, J||rg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> wrote:
On 16.02.26 18:40, Chris wrote:
Upgraded on Friday and now notice that the screensaver cuts in during Teams
calls if idle when it never used to. Anyone else seeing this?
No. I'll never use such $Microsoft$-crap in my private domain.
There are Apple-solutions or even better FOSS.
Yes but in the corporate world some users don't have a choice!
That's exactly why I wrote private domain.
If a company uses Teams so be it, it has to live with it and pay for it.
But nevertheless there are some privacy issues to be considered at the employee level.
On 2026-02-17, J||rg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> wrote:
On 16.02.26 18:40, Chris wrote:
Upgraded on Friday and now notice that the screensaver cuts in during Teams >>> calls if idle when it never used to. Anyone else seeing this?
No. I'll never use such $Microsoft$-crap in my private domain.
There are Apple-solutions or even better FOSS.
Yes but in the corporate world some users don't have a choice!
Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
On 2026-02-17, J%rg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> wrote:
On 16.02.26 18:40, Chris wrote:
Upgraded on Friday and now notice that the screensaver cuts in during Teams
calls if idle when it never used to. Anyone else seeing this?
No. I'll never use such $Microsoft$-crap in my private domain.
There are Apple-solutions or even better FOSS.
Yes but in the corporate world some users don't have a choice!
Exactly. In the working world MS 365 tooling is pretty much ubiquitous.
I have literally never had a Facetime call for work.
Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
On 2026-02-17, J||rg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> wrote:
On 16.02.26 18:40, Chris wrote:
Upgraded on Friday and now notice that the screensaver cuts in during Teams
calls if idle when it never used to. Anyone else seeing this?
No. I'll never use such $Microsoft$-crap in my private domain.
There are Apple-solutions or even better FOSS.
Yes but in the corporate world some users don't have a choice!
Exactly. In the working world MS 365 tooling is pretty much ubiquitous.
I have literally never had a Facetime call for work.
On 17/02/2026 13:33, Chris wrote:
Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
On 2026-02-17, J||rg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> wrote:
On 16.02.26 18:40, Chris wrote:
Upgraded on Friday and now notice that the screensaver cuts in during Teams
calls if idle when it never used to. Anyone else seeing this?
No. I'll never use such $Microsoft$-crap in my private domain.
There are Apple-solutions or even better FOSS.
Yes but in the corporate world some users don't have a choice!
Exactly. In the working world MS 365 tooling is pretty much ubiquitous.
Only partly, and only if you're a MS shop, and many places are not.
Zoom's massively popular and very good. Google Meet is still popular.
I have literally never had a Facetime call for work.
Ditto.
In my experience zoom is on the wane with Teams taking over. Several orgs have moved away from Zoom. Might be a reaction to their desire to train AI
on meeting data. I'm seeing Teams > Zoom >> Google>> Amazon Chime.
ItrCOs all for exactly the same rCLNice Windows license yourCOve got there, shame if something were to happen to itrCY situation in larger firms alongside rCLWerCOre already paying for M365 so why do we need anotherrCY. Throw in the fact it reinstalls itself every second Tuesday even on consumer gear (god I how hate the intrusion of work terminology into the real world) and yourCOve got the standard monopolistic tactic that worked for them so well in the past.
On 01.03.26 22:42, Ian McCall wrote:
ItrCOs all for exactly the same rCLNice Windows license yourCOve got there, >> shame if something were to happen to itrCY situation in larger firms
alongside rCLWerCOre already paying for M365 so why do we need anotherrCY. >> Throw in the fact it reinstalls itself every second Tuesday even on consumer
gear (god I how hate the intrusion of work terminology into the real world) >> and yourCOve got the standard monopolistic tactic that worked for them so >> well in the past.
I disagree. Why in the first place are people still so stupid to spend private money for such second rate software and an OS that is is a
permanent nuisance to be extremely polite?
Again: Companies can do what they want but they should not be suprised
that in the B2C-domain people refuse to use such software that is not respecting privacy. That applies to all mentioned suppliers: Teams,
Zoom, Google and Chime (I never heard about it).
On 01.03.26 22:42, Ian McCall wrote:
ItrCOs all for exactly the same rCLNice Windows license yourCOve got there, shame if something were to happen to itrCY situation in larger firms alongside rCLWerCOre already paying for M365 so why do we need anotherrCY. Throw in the fact it reinstalls itself every second Tuesday even on consumer
gear (god I how hate the intrusion of work terminology into the real world) and yourCOve got the standard monopolistic tactic that worked for them so well in the past.
I disagree. Why in the first place are people still so stupid to spend private money for such second rate software and an OS that is is a
permanent nuisance to be extremely polite?
Again: Companies can do what they want but they should not be suprised
that in the B2C-domain people refuse to use such software that is not respecting privacy. That applies to all mentioned suppliers: Teams,
Zoom, Google and Chime (I never heard about it).
J||rg
On 2 Mar 2026, J||rg Lorenz wrote
(in article <10o3blf$11mc7$1@solani.org>):
On 01.03.26 22:42, Ian McCall wrote:
ItrCOs all for exactly the same rCLNice Windows license yourCOve got there, >>> shame if something were to happen to itrCY situation in larger firms
alongside rCLWerCOre already paying for M365 so why do we need anotherrCY. >>> Throw in the fact it reinstalls itself every second Tuesday even on consumer
gear (god I how hate the intrusion of work terminology into the real world) >>> and yourCOve got the standard monopolistic tactic that worked for them so >>> well in the past.
I disagree. Why in the first place are people still so stupid to spend
private money for such second rate software and an OS that is is a
permanent nuisance to be extremely polite?
Again: Companies can do what they want but they should not be suprised
that in the B2C-domain people refuse to use such software that is not
respecting privacy. That applies to all mentioned suppliers: Teams,
Zoom, Google and Chime (I never heard about it).
J||rg
Oh I donrCOt think werCOre disagreeing with each other - I donrCOt run Windows at all at home (not quite true: I have an install to boot into for firmware upgrades of devices that donrCOt support Macs or Windows, of which there are annoyingly many). Laptop is macOS, gaming machine is Linux (Bazzite)
OoI, I'd happily go to Linux if it could run my Steam library games. I hadn't realised that it was a thing, and this thread prompted me to look at:
https://store.steampowered.com/steamos
I know very little about Linux and the various iterations. Might the Steam created version be a good idea for my use? I use the Windows machine for very little else.
On 2 Mar 2026, RJH wrote
(in article <10o45e6$16raj$1@dont-email.me>):
OoI, I'd happily go to Linux if it could run my Steam library games. I hadn't
realised that it was a thing, and this thread prompted me to look at:
https://store.steampowered.com/steamos
I know very little about Linux and the various iterations. Might the Steam >> created version be a good idea for my use? I use the Windows machine for very
little else.
Steam one is better for hand-held. There are two main desktop ones - Bazzite and CachyOS. Of those I went with Bazzite because itrCOs immutable, i.e. you canrCOt mess up the configuration particularly. Based on Fedora Kinorite,<https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/kinoite/>, with some pre-installed gaming stuff thrown in.
If yourCOre into first person shooters, check that they donrCOt have kernel-level anti-cheat. That canrCOt work. Everything else IrCOve tried has worked with no bother, including setting up modding on games like Skyrim and Elder Scrolls Online.
Check your games here:
<https://www.protondb.com>
Running under Linux is usually as simple as right-click->Properties->rCYUse a compatibility toolrCY and pick Proton-GE. ThatrCOs it, done.
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