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Re:You’re muted – or are you? Videoconferencing apps may lis... by quantified on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @02:46PM (#31018565)
It is, just most people don’t care. And you can’t buy a little shutter for your laptop mic like you can for the camera.
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Re:You’re muted – or are you? Videoconferencing apps may lis... by necovek on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @03:39PM (#31019240)
You can control your microphone in your OS settings. While we are still on PulseAudio, check out pavucontrol for Linux systems. I am sure there are equivalent tools for Windows or MacOS.

There are also laptops with hardware microphone switches (eg. https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/ or https://frame.work/).

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Re:You’re muted – or are you? Videoconferencing apps may lis... by izacus on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @03:57PM (#31019493)
You can easily buy a microphone with a physical mute switch though.
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Re:You’re muted – or are you? Videoconferencing apps may lis... by quantified on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @05:01PM (#31020209)
Yes, more addons for the employer-supplied Mac. I miss my Thinkpads
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