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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I don’t see your argument against teams.

    It sounds like:

    “It’s all together in one place, how dare they.”

    At this point I don’t even bother using the desktop version of outlook, the web app is easier for emails and my calendar is in teams.

    You act like cloud services are bad, they aren’t. If they were terrible, people would be switching away from them. They’re adding value beyond their cost and everyone knows it.

    Could Microsoft be better at some things? Sure.

    But they’re already far better than the alternative, which is a janky ass system of 30 different products from 30 different vendors.






  • I quite literally teach and consult on Teams, and have for 8 years now. I worked with Lync, Skype for Business, and Communicator before that.

    People complain about it all the time, and yet… I’ve never had any significant issues with it.

    Other than M365 outages, which impact everyone, I’ve never seen it crash. I’ve never had issues not loading. I’ve never had sound or sharing issues that couldn’t be resolved by clicking the dropdown and selecting the correct option.

    It can be a bit slow, especially loading file related stuff, but it’s not any worse than a network drive.

    Placeholder avatars in different parts of the App? Teams doesn’t even support task assignment, tasks are handled in MS Planner which is an entirely different product that just happens to be visible inside Teams if you want.

    Touch? Mac? Airpods? What the fuck are you doing? You aren’t doing real business tasks if you’re using an iPad.

    Maybe the people with problems are the ones running 10 year old hardware with a barely supported operating system?




  • Plenty of examples of people burning down capitalism/mercantilism based societies too… It’s happening right now in the US.

    Capitalism is not freedom, nor the devil. It’s just a tool. The same as communism or socialism. They each have their pros and cons.

    Look at Canada, better healthcare because… Socialism. Cheaper more functional electrical companies because… Socialism. Then they use Capitalism for other industries that work just fine.

    The economic system should really be set per-industry based on which one is likely to provide the best outcome.

    As a broad overview, In my opinion, Communism should be used for land ownership, Socialism for core necessities, and Capitalism for luxuries.