Gregory's ServerI complain about this all the time but I just *love* how Google Meet absolutely tanks my CPU. Opening it in Chrome instead of Firefox does improve performance slightly (which, lol thanks Google) but ugh. I am sometimes in purely informational work meetings and it would be nice to multitask while they are on topics that aren't super relevant to me. Sucks.
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@darius If you have the extra machines/tablets to do it, why not? I say go for it.  @mcc definitely video, also applies when my video is off but there is incoming video from others. I haven't tested out audio-only on both ends. @darius So this is a really really strange thing to say, but have you tried shrinking the window containing the incoming video down real real small I had a weird experience with Zoom running in Chrome where the bigger the window got the resource consumption increased geometrically, as if it were doing image postprocessing in CPU @darius Anyway, my unpopular (or possibly popular but unheeded) opinion is that videoconferencing ruins remote workplaces entirely while offering no advantages to a meeting over voice chat. video chat is like a meeting but you can only stare straight forward as if bound and gagged. in a irl meeting at least you can use your laptop but video chat takes your laptop over @darius I've used my phone before for the same, handy if you don't need to be on video  @darius Current status: laptop fan audible above the audio in the Google Meet call I'm in π© |
I'm at the point where I'm seriously considering dusting off an old laptop to just use for meetings so I can have my development machine free