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Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@rebased.taihou.website)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 05:19:13 JST

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moral of the story: download google chrome for free, today!

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Suzu (suzu@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 05:19:14 JST

Suzu

Dear diary

So today I had a super hyper very important company meeting/training/whatever about some privacy laws and other bullshit like that, which were conducted by some third party auditors and was obligatory for everyone to attend.

Said third party used fucking Google Meet for this obligatory meeting. For those of you who aren't aware, taking some pages from 90s Microsoft manual, Google purposefuly gimps the experience of Google Meet in Firefox. It seems Mozilla managed to work with Google to add some funcionalities to Meet in Firefox, but the experience is still gimped.
The biggest culprit is the "approval" to join meetings. If Meet detects you are on Firefox, instead of just letting you join the meeting for which you already had the link and the security code, it puts you on wait and sends a message to the host for them to approve you joining. Chrome/Chromium users don't have this problem, it auto approves.

The problem is that people are so retarded they don't even know this is a "feature", so they have no idea they have to manually approve people joining. As a result, I was stuck in a limbo, and didn't join the super important meeting.
Of course people noticed, and I was promptly asked why, oh why wasn't I in such an important meeting. To which I just replied with a blank stare and a screenshot of the waiting screen saying I was awaiting to be approved to join. So, people from my company asked the third party guys to let me in, but it seems they are really incredibly retarded, and they have absolutely no idea how to do it.
Even my direct coleagues, which are technical guys, were baffled, because according to them, "they didn't even see such screen when they joined the meeting". Which tells me they are all Chromefags. They may even be using Opera GX, for all I know. And they had no idea why I wasn't able to just join.
But I know why. And it would be a very easy fix. I could just, you know, download Chromium and join the meeting through it. But I didn't, because fuck that. If they want to use shitty tools, the least they could do was to learn how to use said shitty tools. Also, I got a one hour break where I did absolutely nothing, as I was "trying to join the meeting". As the icing of the cake, since I was not able to join due to technical reasons (that have absolutely nothing to do with me), and it was such an important subject, the faggots of the third party auditor will now have to create an offline presentation with all the info they presented in this meeting just to send it to me.

Fuck everyone, be a nigger to the system, and never compromise.