Re: Lies! Why do you print these lies!
Agreed on the mute button moving. Plus, mute is one place on Teams, another place in Skype, somewhere else in Zoom, and who knows where in Google meets. One or more of those let's you use your spacebar to temporarily unmute. Or, if I'm in a conference room, I'll dial in using the nice batphone instead of the tinny little speaker and microphone in my laptop, then we need to look at the phone for a mute cue. Added hilarity if multiple people are in the room and one has control over the button.
Final wrinkle is the Crestron room videoconferencing system. That has a tablet with nice controls for the camera and call settings. Mute is actually a physical button that looks like a power button.
Zoom is really good about reminding me that I'm on mute when I cough during a call. If I'm actually talking on mute I'm usually focused on another screen or on a notebook, so I don't see it.
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