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Post by Lizard on Jan 12, 2024 22:48:29 GMT
Plus people tend to get quite loud when using a headset as opposed to a phone.
My point isn't that I would rather have a desk phone (I absolutely do not want a desk phone), it's that expecting us to do everything through Teams at our desks is a terrible idea for all the reasons posted above. And, if a partial solution is Teams on our phones then give us work phones.
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Post by Dougs on Jan 13, 2024 7:34:14 GMT
Yeah, I cannot stand doing Teams calls at my desk and usually try and find a quiet corner somewhere. That's going to be more difficult the more people that are in the office more regularly though.
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Post by minimatt on Jan 16, 2024 23:14:22 GMT
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Post by Lizard on Mar 20, 2024 22:44:51 GMT
Apologies if this isn't seriously techy enough. If there's a more general tech rant thread can someone please point me to it?
Anyway, 'new' Outlook is being foisted upon us. It's full of those annoying, irrational little changes that seem customary with software updates. Today I am annoyed that I can't drag and drop attachments from emails to save them. You can drag and drop a file to attach, but not the other way. Why the fuck would they remove that feature?
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Post by š on Mar 20, 2024 22:47:57 GMT
New Outlook shouldnāt be permanent, you can toggle back to old. MS have acknowledged itās a bit shit and wonāt replace old Outlook for at least another year. Itās really a replacement for the inbuilt Mail app and they havenāt added the power user features yet.
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Post by Dougs on Mar 20, 2024 22:57:57 GMT
OT, my work have switched back to MS after 10 years with Google. Holy fuck, what a frustrating experience. Word in particular. Everything generally is a bit different and that's frustrating whilst you adjust, but going back to Word brought so many bad memories flooding back. It's so unintuitive. And I hate that IMs are not embedded with emails.
Still, the analysts like it as Excel is miles better, so it's not bot all bad.
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Post by Lizard on Mar 21, 2024 0:17:17 GMT
New Outlook shouldnāt be permanent, you can toggle back to old. MS have acknowledged itās a bit shit and wonāt replace old Outlook for at least another year. Itās really a replacement for the inbuilt Mail app and they havenāt added the power user features yet. Yeah, there's a toggle but it does nothing. I'm not techy enough to know if our IT have somehow blocked it, or if I'm being useless.
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Post by Lizard on Mar 21, 2024 0:19:08 GMT
OT, my work have switched back to MS after 10 years with Google. Holy fuck, what a frustrating experience. Word in particular. Everything generally is a bit different and that's frustrating whilst you adjust, but going back to Word brought so many bad memories flooding back. It's so unintuitive. And I hate that IMs are not embedded with emails. Still, the analysts like it as Excel is miles better, so it's not bot all bad. Word is a pain. We have to write very long reports with images, tables, footnotes etc and it always becomes a nightmare somewhere along the line. Not helped when we have contract historians with the technical abilities of a medieval peasant.
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Post by š on Mar 21, 2024 0:37:01 GMT
Your IT have probably done something. Weāve been working out the rollout plan for several months now, so Iāve been elbow deep in the deployment and Classic is still very much available. Theyāve backtracked on so much (like back porting copilot to Classic Outlook) I wouldnāt be surprised if it goes the way of ānewā OneNote and gets quietly retired a couple of years from now, at least at the enterprise level.
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Mar 21, 2024 8:11:17 GMT
OT, my work have switched back to MS after 10 years with Google. Holy fuck, what a frustrating experience. Word in particular. Everything generally is a bit different and that's frustrating whilst you adjust, but going back to Word brought so many bad memories flooding back. It's so unintuitive. And I hate that IMs are not embedded with emails. Still, the analysts like it as Excel is miles better, so it's not bot all bad. I don't know how analysts survive without Excel to be honest. The only way I can see it working is just relying on Python and or SQL but even then for simple stuff...I'm never going to work for a company that doesn't have Excel.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Mar 21, 2024 8:57:34 GMT
If the new version of outlook allows me to close it without a trillion meeting requests demanding I save them first I will love it like a son not matter how bad it is.
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Post by dfunked on Mar 21, 2024 8:58:07 GMT
We've had enough of a ballache with the half baked new Teams that they're forcing on us. I just saw the "try the new outlook" button and thanked the gods it's not my responsibility to roll that shit out.
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Post by jeepers on Mar 21, 2024 9:20:56 GMT
After decades of doing it, itās amazing how shit MS are at software design.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Mar 21, 2024 9:23:07 GMT
We recently went all in on it. Our new Head Of got a 'single pane of glass' bee in his bonnet without realising each product was designed by a different insane person, so all of our tooling, where available, has been switched to MS.
Single Pane of Glass = Single Point of Failure so fingers crossed there is no outage ever.
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Post by askew on Apr 2, 2024 11:18:19 GMT
I had an email from a Chinese domain registrar informing me a company wished to register several TLDs using my name. They asked if this firm were affiliated to me, and I said ānoā. Now somebody from that firm has contacted me basically saying they will push the purchase through. I mean sure, if you want to buy my name (which has nothing to do with the business), go for it.
Is this some sort of elaborate scam?
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Apr 2, 2024 11:41:59 GMT
Is your email address like firstname.lastname@gmail.com? I get loads of shite through from being old enough to have got first dibs in the gmail beta.
I get all the billing and notifications for a namecheap account for a āgas monkey garageā type place in the American Deep South
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Post by Dougs on Apr 2, 2024 11:57:27 GMT
Ha, I get loads of those too, although more to my 2nd Gmail. Just ignore them for the most part. Even had one informing me of funeral details for someone. Which seemed legit but who knows.
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Post by dfunked on Apr 2, 2024 12:15:52 GMT
Hah, +1 for the random redneck garage emails!
I used a full stop when setting it up and didn't know at the time it was redundant. I've only ever used the address with the dot in, but 90% of the spam I get is for the address without a dot in it. I just ended up setting up a rule to auto delete anything sent to the dotless address.
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Post by askew on Apr 2, 2024 12:35:42 GMT
Nah, itās for my real domain (ie my portfolio etc). The registrar seemed legit. The company wishing to buy myname.com.cn does not
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Apr 2, 2024 13:15:24 GMT
OIC. Well, if itās china, if they want it they will just take it. Iām surprised you even got a warning email.
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Post by askew on Apr 2, 2024 14:18:06 GMT
Yeah, I was surprised at that. Hereās the text from both parties:
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Post by nazo on Apr 2, 2024 14:45:05 GMT
I also get loads of random red neck garage emails, delivery notifications etc. I reckon Iāve got enough personal info on some of my namesakes to commit identity fraud if I was so inclined. How do these cretins not notice they arenāt getting any confirmation emails?
If I were to delay someoneās delivery would I be committing a crime?
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Post by askew on Apr 2, 2024 15:08:38 GMT
Probably some sort of ācomputer misuseā
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Post by š on Apr 29, 2024 16:57:55 GMT
I finally caved and bought a 3D Printer. It was simultaneously easier and harder to sort than I thought. The setup was just super easy, calibration took seconds and after that itās pretty much fire and forget from the hardware level, and the print quality is really surprising, more detail than even a lot of decent mini games. From the software level itās a pain in the dick though. I get that different printers have very different configs and resins and all that, but I seriously wish it could be closer to ādownload stl, hit printā, but everything Iāve tried so far has needed tweaking and arranging and scaling. Itās not terrible, but surprised how little it seems to have progressed since I dabbled on a friendās device several years ago.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Apr 29, 2024 19:23:26 GMT
My friends wife calls it āknitting for middle aged menā. And, yeah, like collecting vinyl half the ācharmā is that itās a complete pain in the arse involving enormous amounts of fucking around to try and perfect your setup. I does seem to depend on how much youāre willing to spend, though. Iām not into mine for much money so it requires a lot of dicking around. Itās the raspberry pi ghetto printer to some of the more expensive MacBook level ones.
I am over the novelty now, though and just print things with utility like cable tidies and record stands. Iāve also given up on trying to get the perfect first layer and just lather the build plate in pritt stick.
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Post by š on May 1, 2024 15:39:39 GMT
Had my first print failure yesterday, but mostly my fault. I wanted to see how little tinkering I could get away with on some random models off thingiverse, literally just download stl and fire off. Turns out without supports and angling, it just kind of collapses.
Kind of tempted to get a filament printer now, as resin is terrific for tabletop minis, but kind of sucky for things like organizers and utility tools.
I'm sure this is a thrilling update for everyone.
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Post by dfunked on May 1, 2024 15:49:21 GMT
This is almost as riveting as someone talking about their new air fryer...
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Post by cubby on May 1, 2024 16:07:59 GMT
Make sure when downloading stl's you use protection.
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