[worik]

> Nothing says nerds can't keep a Chromium installed as an emergency backup,

I do, now

My boss insists on Google Meet, and it will not access audio on Firefox

Every single other website does not have this problem, dark patterns indeed

[paulryanrogers]

I use Meet from Firefox desktop with audio. Are you on mobile?

[worik]

Dell laptop running Debian-12

[nicce]

Signal Desktop seems to be the best conference app these days. Give a tip.

[EasyMark]

Most people have to use what their company says to use.

[neilv]

Condolences.

IME, Google Meet isn't the worst videoconf (that might be Microsoft Teams). Each one has problems.

But what's even worse than when company/boss mandates a bad or so-so videoconf product, is when you're doing partner/customer calls, and for whatever reason, you wind up using their preferred service. So you have to keep a few/several different ones working on your devices, poorly configured, and have many first time joining difficulties at the start of possibly important meetings.

Another time you need several videoconf is when job-hunting, and so many companies want you to use something different. And it's often shitty. And the first impressions can be high-stakes, while you're trying to get their shitty proprietary thing to work, even with Chrome or as an app you put on your sacrificial videoconf device.

This is a little tricky to solve entirely with open standards, but there's a reason we started doing open standards.