I have way fewer video calls than many people and yet I have still found myself hesitating before doing something like clipping my nails or changing my clothes in view of the computer, making *sure* I'm not on camera.
@mindspillage for a lot of years I used to cover the webcam with a piece of black tape or a small post it, but several month ago I got some webcam cover: it's just a little slider. You may want to look at them.
There are some projects ready to 3D print like this one:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2754874
but I never tried to print one.
There are some projects ready to 3D print like this one:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2754874
but I never tried to print one.
@eriol @mindspillage why do you cover the webcam at all?
@sneak I do because I prefer to have control and sometime I'm a bit distracted: sometime when a join an only audio call on jitsi using the browser I just press OK on the dialog to allow microphone and the webcam of my laptop and it starts to stream. So I see the black video stream and I turn off the video sharing.
The effort to put a cover on the laptop webcam is extremely low and cheap so I'm used to do it.
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The effort to put a cover on the laptop webcam is extremely low and cheap so I'm used to do it.
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@eriol @mindspillage ahh that makes sense. i always thought it was a "omg scary hackers might see me" thing, as if faces were secret. i do a lot of video calls and a minor amount of public speaking, it never made much sense to me. thanks for explaining
