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by mirimir 2294 days ago
> He would end up at 8am sitting in his home office in the laundry room in a full suit and tie ready for for the day, while I'm still in my sweatpants until after noon.

Given that changing faces real time in video is doable now, wouldn't it be trivial to fake business dress? Or even (Dog forbid) shaving.

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I read it as he was doing it to get himself into “work mode”. Video processing isn’t a substitute for that.
Unless you mess up the webcam’s angle, you don’t really need to wear pants (aka Donald Duck’s outfit).
real-time, not really. but it's pretty easy to be business casual or more from just the waist up.