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> you couldn’t search your hard drive in those days

When was this the case? Not in the "1980s and 1990s"

I guess this article is only about Macs, or something. I found I didn’t know what he was talking about. Why do you have to “clear your desktop” to make a video call?

No kidding. I don't see why you'd need to clear your desktop unless you're screen sharing and have things open you really don't want the other person seeing. If you're trying to find something on the Windows desktop, Win+D once to minimize everything, then a second time to bring all your windows back.

I just have a special "sanitised" screen for screen sharing :)

Also helps because it's 1280x1024 so I'm not pushing the 4K pixels of my main screen over Teams.

> I found I didn’t know what he was talking about.

I found he didn’t know what he was talking about.

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