What cheeses me off

[Pushka]

Trying to setup a wise account, do you think I can get the selfy/video to their acceptable standard, not on your nelly, gave up after about 20 attempts.

Try on a different device from memory.

 

[RooFlyer]

Not so much cheeses me off ( but it does) but office unprofessionalism.

Yesterday, had my car serviced. Place isn’t near anything, so I took my laptop to do some work in the reception area ( nice, with tables, coffee etc). Three people on the “service area” counter. My God. I eventually had to leave, such was the noise. Very loud personal conversations, cackling etc. I mean, nice for people to enjoy their workplace but this just went on and on. The business should be able to reduce headcount by two quite easily.

And then today. I went to see my former GP at a new place. Walk in to the reception office and there is what I gathered to be the practice nurse and I think her army husband discussing something that he’d walked in with - an allergic reaction. So there was an informal examination going on - there, right in the reception office. The receptionist who apparently knew the husband chipped in with a number of funny one liners and suggestions. Squeals, guffaws … All at the tops of their voices.

 

[prozac]

I hate Bill Gates!!! Half way through a business email MS shuts down my laptop for some unscheduled update. My email response is now gone and I have 5 minutes of my life I will not get back whilst everything froze. Should be in gaol.

 

[DejaBrew]

I hate Bill Gates!!! Half way through a business email MS shuts down my laptop for some unscheduled update. My email response is now gone and I have 5 minutes of my life I will not get back whilst everything froze. Should be in gaol.

Bill hasn't been involved with Microsoft since March 2020. Satya Nadella is in charge these days.

 

[TheRealTMA]

I hate Bill Gates!!! Half way through a business email MS shuts down my laptop for some unscheduled update. My email response is now gone and I have 5 minutes of my life I will not get back whilst everything froze. Should be in gaol.

Turn off the updates. Then update manually periodically.

 

[prozac]

Bill hasn't been involved with Microsoft since March 2020. Satya Nadella is in charge these days.

I am angry...work with me!

 

[DejaBrew]

I am angry...work with me!

Oh trust me, I absolutely empathise with your predicament!

 

[markis10]

Bill hasn't been involved with Microsoft since March 2020. Satya Nadella is in charge these days.

I had lunch with Bill in Melbourne a few weeks ago, (not on the same table), while he has no executive appointments at MS, he is still a technology advisor to Satya and other C level staff and has a few shares.

 

[DejaBrew]

I had lunch with Bill in Melbourne a few weeks ago, (not on the same table), while he has no executive appointments at MS, he is still a technology advisor to Satya and other C level staff and has a few shares.

Perhaps I should have been more specific that he hasn’t held a Board or Management position with MS since then (rather than having completely divested himself of any and all contact or pecuniary interest with MS or its leadership).

 

[prozac]

Perhaps I should have been more specific that he hasn’t held a Board or Management position with MS since then (rather than having completely divested himself of any and all contact or pecuniary interest with MS or its leadership).

Was this before or after the antibiotics?

 

[TheRealTMA]

Was this before or after the antibiotics?

Bill got out before the fall into garbage OSs. Before windows 8 after which they all hung their head in shame then proceeded to get even worse. W10 was acceptable but Windows development now has been taken over by “designers” (people from the 3rd Ark in Douglas Adam’s terms) rather than programmers and now lots of garbage AISlop I’d being introduced. Simple example, designers stuffed the start Jeni and vetoed a movable task bar and other things that had been present in earlier versions. It just keeps getting worse and that keep making silly changes but not fixing existing problems and annoying aspects, plus introducing more Telemetry to steal person behaviour and promote advertising to users.