BlameThePeacock @ BlameThePeacock @lemmy.ca

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Use the correct tool for the job.

If you only want a communications tool, only get a communications tool.

Don't get mad when you pay for an integrated suite of products, and then find it annoying that there are more features than you need.

If you have a m365 account, what data are you not allowed to upload that isn't already found in your e-mails? Are you not allowed to talk about that information in e-mails either? At that point, why bother having m365 at all?

This is one of the stupidest security takes that I've seen organizations take, pretending like some data is more secure on their own servers than in the M365 cloud.

Your tinfoil hat is slipping.

Microsoft does not give a shit about the data from an organization small enough that their payroll is done in Excel.

They don't have some secret database of every human and all data they've collected about each person in the world.

So you into your settings and turn that off. Yes the default is annoying, but it's literally a 30 second fix to never have it happen again.

Despite the Hype, Slack and Teams are not direct replacements for each other.

Teams is meant to be a Communications AND Collaboration platform. Slack is meant to be a Communications platform.

I suspect your wife takes advantage of those collaboration features, and therefore finds teams to be helpful in her job. Your role may not require collaboration in the same way, or maybe you other 3rd party tools for that type of collaboration and teams is just getting in your way by duplicating things you already have a process for.

This is actually a problem with a lack of presenter training, not technology.

When presenting slides, text should be formatted for mild vision impairment. When screen sharing, you should either lower the resolution of your screen, or share only a single app and make it not take up your full monitor, or boost your text size.

In your case, even if Teams allowed it go properly full screen it may be enough for your needs, but there are people who it would not be. There are people who operate "zoomed in" all the time on a PC due to their vision impairments. Catering to these people makes content accessible to everyone.

The other big part of this is colour/contrast choices, since those are also common vision impairments.

If you double click on a message it will highlight everything (including the name and emoji crap)

If you triple click it will only highlight the single line or paragraph.

1fps?

It defaults to 30fps, so if you're getting 1fps there's a different problem going on like a lack of internet bandwidth or a slow computer. This is not a fault of teams.

I deliver day-long training sessions via screenshare all the time and have no issues with people not being able to see my screen and my cursor moving around just fine.

The world population is expected (by the UN) to level off and even start declining this century.

The end of explosive population growth is critically important to stabilizing the world.

Your name isn't private information. Your photo doesn't have to be included in M365, and isn't by default in any organization I've worked with.

Your personal address also isn't in your work profile on M365, that's usually in an HR system somewhere, not kept in Active Directory. Your salary is the same, it's not stored in your M365 profile, and neither is your sick days. This simply isn't normal M365 functionality.

Microsoft also doesn't just have access to this information the way you think they do. They can't just log in with an admin account and check your current status on teams, or read your e-mails, or anything like that.

I don't hate or despise teams. It's far more useful in most normal office environments to have your communication and your collaboration occur in one tool.

I think most of the people that hate it are trying to only use it for communication, usually because they received no training on how to use the collaboration parts or an unwillingness by the organization to change the way they are doing things when they got M365 licenses.

If you still have a shared network drive while you're using Teams, your organization is doing it wrong.

If you are sending attachments in e-mails while you're using Teams, your organization is doing it wrong.

If you are sending e-mails to get things approved while you're using Teams, your organization is doing it wrong.

If you aren't using planner to co-ordinate tasks for small groups of people while you're using Teams, your organization is doing it wrong.

If your organization is paying for m365 licenses just for you to have e-mail and the desktop office suite, they're doing it wrong.

Get TRAINING

1. You can see other people's calendars in Teams, just click "schedule meeting" and use the scheduling assistant just like you would in outlook. If you're looking at calendars manually before booking meetings you're doing it wrong to start with.
2. They aren't.
3. To prevent stupid people pinning so many messages that the feature becomes useless.
4. Because the system settings are usually not what you want, most people don't leave their headset on all day and only pick it up for calls.
5. What's wrong with Ctrl+Spacebar? I use it all the time
6. Why are updates happening during your meetings? How would that even work?
7. I'll agree with this one, meet now isn't useful. Just call the person.
8. Because teams is a Communications AND Collaboration tool, if you're only using it for communication you're clearly haven't taken any sort of training on how to use it properly or you'd be using the apps all the time.
9. Never had this happen
10. I agree with this one, I hate OneDrive, it's bad data governance. Everything should live in a shared space at work.
11. If you have so many favorites that it's an issue, you're doing it wrong. See #3.
12. Because some types of organizations use this frequently, just because a feature doesn't apply to your work situation doesn't mean it doesn't apply to others.

Edit: Oof, people don't like to have it pointed out that they lack education do they?

Anything you do at work while being paid isn't yours, you're being paid for your time and effort and the company owns that. Any data collected isn't really about "you" as a person, so it's irrelevant to you in the long-term.

Reactions are notifications only by default, you can go turn those off in the settings. Easy enough.

Not compared to what we had before usb

It used to be 100% proprietary for everything

USB has worked pretty well IMO

The cons: It will only happen over my dead body.

Pro: you don't know me, maybe that's a good thing

When I eat a few dill pickles, my scalp tingles. It's mostly a pleasant sensation.

A) The wind DOES blow it around, here's a really cool map that shows the realtime winds and smog patches.

https://www.iqair.com/ca/air-quality-map?srsltid=AfmBOooOOjFW8bVODbwaAcgx3-5e81PhA5yFSSMoQ9HToPTuzinyCr-u

B) Most of the smog in an area has been recently produced by the pollution source (factory, power planet, forest fire, cars, etc) it's not building up over a very long time, usually a few days at most if the winds are really light.