deweydecibel @ deweydecibel @lemmy.world

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It's more the result of there not being much demand for the entire 20 year run of Pokemon, so they didn't bother keeping them packaged together. Otherwise they'd have priced it accordingly, and the services may not have wanted it at that price.

It's like how classic Doctor Who and current Doctor Who weren't packaged together: the demand for one was diff than the other, so it made sense to let streaming services only pay for the one their customers wanted most.

Is there an easy, free method of doing this securely and privately (as in masked from the ISP) in a way that doesn't involve me having to manage the network of the person I'm sharing with?

For example, I can use Tailscale for free, but then I have to make sure my friends know how to use that, and that's a tall order. Not to mention the fact it won't work on things like Roku.

No forks? Weird it'd be abandoned if it still works.

Only mp3, not flac?

Thought Deemix was dead? I went looking for an updated version last month and couldn't find anything.

My immediate thought. People with those conditions literally spend their entire lives, or most of it, with their guts inflamed. It's only recently that they've come up with the biological medicines that can truly suppress it effectively for long periods of time.

You'd think they'd have spotted a noticable correlation by now if there was one.

No, it means it's a chain.

Something is causing the inflammation, then the inflammation causes something else. In that case you wouldn't treat the inflammation, you would treat the cause of the inflammation.

Why? if it works for them, why does it matter?

The whole point of IT is to support the other departments, not hamstring them to make our jobs easier. If they want to use that stuff, so be it.

I don't doubt it. It's just a surreal thing to think about.

Imagine leadership that gives a shit about what their employees choose to use and support them in that.

they'll use Teams to communicate throughout the day for staffing updates and to notify us of deaths

My mind touched the void for a second reading this sentence.

Having to use shitty teams throughout the day for primary communication is already miserable enough, but the idea of people using it to report deaths in the same way I might report a dead port on a switch (knowing that somebody at some point absolutely 👍'd it) is some macabre shit.

I'm going to guess they weren't the one that made the decision to only use Teams.

Certainly doesn't help that Microsoft continues to try and make Teams the only real thing that integrates properly with anything else in 365.

Yeah, I appreciate that, and it's really annoying. But it is still remarkable how Excel can pull off all of those abominations while having such a comparatively low skill floor.

Like Legos. Accessible, simple, capable of building a lot of things, but you'd obviously be better served making a house out of actual building materials.

So we're just going to pretend this is only about Taylor Swift, are we? Makes the jokes easier, I guess.

The subject being Taylor Swift just made the issue more visible than normal. It's not specifically about being upset it happened to her.

The press secretary literally said it was about women in general being the targets of abuse. All that happened here was that this got the attention of more people than normal, so the white house used that opportunity to make a statement on it.

You mean you can't understand how other people can like things you don't?

Well of course he did. The way to fight this will involve letting tech companies implement more invasive data harvesti- sorry, "verifying methods" on users.

I mean Excel specifically, not the whole suite. I don't need PowerPoint or a word processor, I'd rather it not be included in the price at all.

Also, they've made OneDrive a requirement for auto-saving on 365, not sure if that's the case for the perpetual licenses, but if so, that's a deal breaker for me. There will never be a Microsoft account associated with my Windows machine, period.

I can't tell if this is ironic or not, because it genuinely feels like Microsoft believes this when you look at the absolute disgrace "New" Outlook is.

For Microsoft, "Modern, sleek, streamlined" are just marketing terms for "We got lazy, made a less useful wed-based product, and you'll have to accept it, at the same price, while we save money on development."

When you know Excel really well, it's like Legos for data. If you've got the imagination, intuition, and patience, you can make some incredible stuff.

There are numerous reports and databases we work with from other platforms, and for nearly all of them, I just end up feeding it to Excel so I can manage it the way I like. So many of those platforms just have absolute dog shit UIs or refuse to present data in a configurable way, or straight up hide certain things for no reason.

Part of my Monday morning routine is actually exporting a CSV for a couple things that can't be connected directly to excel, hitting Get Data, and letting my custom workbooks do their thing. Watching it all update and present itself in exactly the way I want to see it is so god damn satisfying.