Karl Fredrik 馃 馃敎 38C3 馃摓 QFOX
Karl Fredrik 馃 馃敎 38C3 馃摓 QFOX  路  2 months ago
I use #Google meet for meetings in #Firefox, which works well most of the time.

Some meetings, I just watch a presentation, which I tend to attend from my desk. I like to pop the video feed out from the browser and put it as a separate window tile on my screen, removing the margins from the GMeet composer.

Today I found out that this doesn't work anymore. media.ccc.de works, but if I pop the GMeet feed, it just re-attaches to the GMeet composer within seconds.

Anyone else experienced this?

Karl Fredrik 馃 馃敎 38C3 馃摓 QFOX
Karl Fredrik 馃 馃敎 38C3 馃摓 QFOX  路  2 months ago
This might grind my gears more than it should, but I really don't like the days where I feel like I'm living in a @pluralistic story and the service providers slowly tug on the rug underneath me.

If this is intentional by The #Google, I -really- hope they roll it back.

The margins in the GMeet compositor takes up 800 (~66%) extra horizontal pixels, which might not seem like much on a vertical 4k monitor, but is -really- annoying.

Screenshot of a vertical 4k monitor showing a detached video from media.ccc.de on the top, Firefox with media controls beneath, Obsidian editor in the middle and Kubernetes docs on the bottom. The detached video window is scaled to show the video as full as possible, and takes up 1211 pixels vertically (~32% of the screen).
Screenshot of a vertical 4k monitor showing a detached video from media.ccc.de on the top, Firefox with media controls beneath, Obsidian editor in the middle and Kubernetes docs on the bottom. The detached video window is scaled to show the video as full as possible, and takes up 1211 pixels vertically (~32% of the screen).
Screenshot of a vertical 4k monitor showing a detached video from media.ccc.de on the top, Firefox with media controls beneath, Obsidian editor in the middle and Kubernetes docs on the bottom. The detached video window is scaled to show the video as full as possible, and takes up 1211 pixels vertically (~32% of the screen).
Screenshot of a vertical 4k monitor showing Google Meet, on the top, Obsidian editor in the middle and Kubernetes docs on the bottom. The Google Meet window is scaled to show the presentation as full as possible, and takes up 2011 pixels vertically (~52% of the screen).
Screenshot of a vertical 4k monitor showing Google Meet, on the top, Obsidian editor in the middle and Kubernetes docs on the bottom. The Google Meet window is scaled to show the presentation as full as possible, and takes up 2011 pixels vertically (~52% of the screen).
Screenshot of a vertical 4k monitor showing Google Meet, on the top, Obsidian editor in the middle and Kubernetes docs on the bottom. The Google Meet window is scaled to show the presentation as full as possible, and takes up 2011 pixels vertically (~52% of the screen).