Calling China communist is like calling North Korea democratic.
China is essentially a dictatorship at this point, and definitely authoritarian, and it uses capitalism as its primary financial system internally and externally but exercises government control over specific aspects of most large corporations.
No there isn't, if you have to adjust the brightness digitally the camera itself is not getting enough light based on what it was designed for.
Teams does have a brightness setting, it's just a toggle rather than a slider. If that still isn't enough, then you are sitting in a pitch black room. I just tested this, with every light in my room off, including the overhead and the direct facial lighting, the teams toggle is enough to make me reasonably visible in the light from my screen alone.
I don't need the toggle on at all with an overhead light on, and the annoying shadows from the overhead room light go away with my facial lighting on.
I'm all pro-vaccine and all, but this isn't something that we commonly vaccinate against.
So how are adults that die from it willing idiots?
The only assumption I can make is that they didn't seek medical care when they were sick? That's probably more on the problems with the cost of the medical system than it is on people's individual choices.
There are settings for notifications in every single app these users have ever encountered in both their professional personal lives. The basic understand for apps by users it that notification settings exist. They may not know that there is a specific option to turn one specific type of notification on, but they should know they can turn shit off.
I've never noticed an issue with the muting thing, It's a fraction of a second when joining to pick what settings I want for that meeting which does vary so it's helpful to have.
Brightness settings for Camera.. holy shit.. Light yourself properly. Ring lights are $30 on amazon, get one and look actually professional when attending your meetings.
I literally use this tool on a daily basis, it works very well. I'm not spouting anything marketing related, only how I see and use it.
A communications platform allows you to talk to each other via text, voice, video.
A collaboration platform allows you to work on information together which includes things like document co-authoring(SharePoint and Office) and group task management(Planner), but can extend much further into things like Shared Pages (OneNote or Loop), Database-lite systems with Forms (SharePoint Lists, Power Apps), Workflows (Power Automate), and more.
I understand how people work, managers skimp on training because they think their users will understand without it, and users gripe about software because they didn't get said training.
Expecting user training is not a stretch for software. Nobody expects you to know how pivot tables or formulas work in Excel without having received training at some point, but for some reason managers don't expect the same from Teams' features.
Then people who do like it wouldn't even know it exists. It's usually better in an environment that lacks standard training for every user to enable by default, and then have the users disable if they don't want it.
Your car has ABS, but you don't have to turn it on to use it, it's on by default and users can (usually) turn it off when they don't want it.
Teams is a Communications and Collaboration tool, not strictly a communications tool. It makes certain tradeoffs in order to optimize it for it's intended use case.
Calling China communist is like calling North Korea democratic.
China is essentially a dictatorship at this point, and definitely authoritarian, and it uses capitalism as its primary financial system internally and externally but exercises government control over specific aspects of most large corporations.