this post was submitted on 28 May 2025
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (3 children)

If you have any key depressed, for any reason, including but not limited to having taped a key (eg. ctrl) down, Teams will register you as "available", rather than "away".

[–] FizzyOrange 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I don't understand. Why would I tape ctrl down?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So you can walk away from your desk, I assume.

Note that the trick doesn’t work on Linux, or at least hasn’t for me. My presence just doesn’t work and I’m always yellow lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Microsoft still pretending Linux doesn't exist I see.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Thank you for this information

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

But it also balances that by not automatically changing your status on random even if it should. Including setting status to 'busy' when you're on another meeting, showing you offline when you're available and so on. On our team the availability status is pretty much useless and we rely on chat responses on what the current actual status might be.