Bro couldn’t even clean his room in 3 days.

People make mistakes, that’s why we automate things. If a system relies on a human not making mistakes it is doomed to fail eventually.

Saving manually should be a feature, but autoaave should be on by default these days, unless 30+ years of people losing work due to not hitting “save” manually has taught us nothing.

Crashes happen. Errors happen. Pets and children happen. Any major document editor should be able to auto save and replay a very long history of actions.

Improve the system, because you can’t improve people with a code patch.

No. Some of us were already there.

Lifetime Microsoft expert here, I have had machines with Linux in one flavour or another for 15+ years at least.

But for ease of use I just keep coming back to Windows… Because I know it backwards and upside down.

The structure of it makes sense to me. And I have ADHD so I have a terrible working memory and Linux relies FAR too much on command console to do anything effective.

But Linux is hands-down the better system to get away from Microsoft’s enshitification of Windows. But I personally like Windows better.

So I will always run both. But if I need to be really productive, Windows Desktop it is. If I need a server, Linux every time. (Unless it’s MS SQL or a website).

As the owner of a .info domain, I know this pain all too well.

Fxtwitter.com

They’re fixing most of this nonsense.

YouTube music is actually very good.

But you need a subscription… And unless you also use a lot of YouTube and would benefit from a lack of ads it’s not very good value.

Our MAM policy would not allow this.

Frankly it’s BS.

Teams, when used within a single Org, works great. For 3rd party interaction, or working for multiple Orgs I would highly recommend almost any other product.

The intra-org integration with SharePoint and document management/data retention is very good.

But nonsense like what OP is experiencing is why even I, as the senior MS Support SysAdmin at my employer, refuse to use Microsoft Office products on my personal Android phone.

If they want/need me to do that, they can give me a dedicated phone just for that purpose. MS MAM is never touching my personal equipment in a million years.

OP is stuck between a rock and a crap place.

Because I have a family subscription. YT and YT music for the whole family, means my kids are ad free and managed. I use the heck out of it and can afford it.

I don’t pay for Spotify, and with the price hike Disney + is about to get the eye patch treatment.

But I really do use the heck out of YT, so for me it’s worth it.

But if you don’t see the value, do what you gotta do.

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Space Invaders

I had computers from a young age.

ASM coding on a Microbee running CP/M OS was where I started somewhere around 1986.

But I grew up as they did and have a deep understanding of how they work.

I’m a Senior SysAdmin/Systems Architect these days.

I still have a @hotmail.com email address that is just my name. No numbers or anything.

To address the whooshing sound…
Smells like Teen Spirit:
“I feel stupid, and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us”

AFAICT Gen X should really just be split into Boomers and early millennials.

I’m a late gen X (1978) and do not associate with boomers at all.

We’re basically millennials before the internet.

Used to live by Sennheiser headphones

Then I discovered ANC headphones. Then my phone lost its headphone jack.

Until Sennheiser have an ANC BT headphone option to rival Bose or Sony, they have lost that market segment.

It’s all about the phrasing.

Other things that suffer from this have been listed in memes.

“Butt dial.” Vs. “Booty call”

And

“Forgive me father, for I have sinned.” Vs. “Sorry Daddy, I’ve been a bad girl.”

Fair.

We use the sign interpreter feature in Teams and it’s really good. The live captions struggles a bit with the Aussie accent though.

But mostly it’s the SharePoint/OneDrive/Outlook/m365 integration I find useful. If I was on Linus or macOS, I suspect I would feel differently.

OneDrive on Mac is ass.

At work Teams has been great.

Zoom is too bare-bomes.

The I hacked it together at 3am feel of the zoom interface makes me actively hate the damn thing.

Like teams feels like a communication application. Zoom feels like a hobby project.

Now… Let’s see what 1000 years of cosmic radiation does to the data.

Boss said stop coming in late.
I said I’m trying but my body hasn’t cooperated with this start time for the last 30 years, I don’t see why it will start now.
Boss said would starting and finishing later work?

For the last 5 years I’ve been starting at 9:30 and finishing at 6. And I haven’t been late due to me as a person since.

Public transport problems happen occasionally, but it was that simple for them to get a full day out of me reliably.