{"id":426,"date":"2023-06-15T20:37:51","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T20:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joemuscara.rocks\/blarg\/?p=426"},"modified":"2023-06-15T20:37:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T20:37:51","slug":"why-i-hate-zoom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joemuscara.rocks\/blarg\/2023\/06\/15\/why-i-hate-zoom\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Hate Zoom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It has nothing to do with virtual meetings. I&#8217;m mostly fine with those, I just wish Zoom hadn&#8217;t become the &#8220;standard&#8221; for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zoom is a terrible Mac app, and a lousy app overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It puts the window on top of all your other windows while you&#8217;re waiting for the meeting to start and the only way to get it out of the way is to minimize it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It highlights buttons in dialogs but pressing return doesn&#8217;t do anything in those dialogs, forcing you to move your cursor over and click.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t remember settings like Original Sound for Musicians or having the chat and\/or participants open across launches, even for the &#8220;same&#8221; meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re on a free account, when your time runs out, it disconnects everyone on the meeting without warning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are too many options and windows when you want to log into a meeting. On top of that, if there&#8217;s an update for Zoom, I seem to remember having to do that sometimes. These always happen when I&#8217;m late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has nothing to do with virtual meetings. I&#8217;m mostly fine with those, I just wish Zoom hadn&#8217;t become the &#8220;standard&#8221; for them. Zoom is a terrible Mac app, and a lousy app overall. It puts the window on top of all your other windows while you&#8217;re waiting for the meeting to start and the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/joemuscara.rocks\/blarg\/2023\/06\/15\/why-i-hate-zoom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why I Hate Zoom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joemuscara.rocks\/blarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joemuscara.rocks\/blarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joemuscara.rocks\/blarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joemuscara.rocks\/blarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joemuscara.rocks\/blarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/joemuscara.rocks\/blarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/joemuscara.rocks\/blarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joemuscara.rocks\/blarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joemuscara.rocks\/blarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joemuscara.rocks\/blarg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}