Just 55 minutes ago as I’m typing this, I was in the middle of trying to start a therapy session with my therapist. And, the link she gave me worked, it detected my webcam and seemingly the microphone. I had done a test 30 minutes prior to make sure things were working.
And by the time therapy started, the video worked, the microphone didn’t. So I went into system settings, verified that Google Chrome was pointed directly to my headset and the webcam, no cross-interfering with mics and audio. Went into Chrome itself, verified to settings that they were set to point exactly as to where they should be, correspondingly.
This thrust me into a 15 minute infuriating experience where, rebooting the browser and rebooting the machine now seemed to have made it so the site suddenly couldn’t fucking detect the webcam and microphone. For reasons, I don’t fucking know.
We had to do our session through my phone via Google Voice.
So the point of the matter is, is that shit decided to stop fucking working for WHATEVER reason, despite it working fine previously.
Fucking garbage. I destroyed the webcam out of frustration and filed an angry ticket to the site operator about how their fucking site couldn’t be bothered to detect my equipment after that.
I can recommend Google meet for desktop calls, I use it for work and sit in a meeting all day as the team room. It’s like being in an office without being in the same room.
Also don’t use chrome, or windows. They both suck!
It can’t be helped. There are websites out there that function best on both platforms. I’ve tried Floorp and Librewolf when trying to use whatever the therapist tossed at me. Things just ended up not working out, because the sites simply can’t care about those browsers. Only Chrome works best. Firefox, they throw a fit about versions and stuff.
That’s out of my hands.