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I have a black laptop. I put a tiny piece of black electrical tape over it.

I do lots of calls, but I've never seen a good reason to use video except perhaps with one's SO.

GitLab is a remote only company with 100+ team members. Most of my calls are with video, the nonverbal language adds to the conversation for me. It's not 90% but I prefer video to audio if possible.

I do quite a bit of remote work, but I'm the opposite. I don't find it helpful in the slightest, I'd rather see someone's screen.

I worked for a remote company and I recall only having my camera enabled for the first week or so. After that it was off pretty much permanently. I didn't notice a difference with it on or off. It didn't seem to matter and everyone else did more or less the same thing.

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